Last week Microsoft held its MVP Global Summit on the Microsoft Redmond campus. 1,900+ MVP's (including your truly) descended on the campus and spent 3-6 days connecting with each other and many of the product groups. While the entire Summit was NDA, the Channel 9 team was ALL over recording a...
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Today, we released a new Windows 10 SDK Preview and the associated Windows 10 Mobile emulators (Build 10563), to be used in conjunction with Link Removed(Build 10565). The Preview SDK is a pre-release and cannot be used in a production environment. Please only install the SDK on your test...
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Link Removed, a popular toolset that Microsoft also internally uses to implement some of its imaging apps, has been updated to version 3.0. Previous versions of the SDK have already powered applications with a total of over 100 million downloads and now has support for Windows 10 UWP (Universal...
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This blog was written by Rinku Sreedhar, Senior Program Manager
In Windows 10 we added a multiple new sensor features, innovations and changes. In my previous blog, I talked about the new contextual sensing features like activity sensors, pedometers, barometer and proximity sensors. In this...
Hello. I am new to this forum. Have posted this to a Visual C++ forum too. They suggest I try a Windows forum. I have a small app created with Visual C++ running on Windows 7 Pro. It runs fine when executed from within the V++ IDE. It runs fine if I simply double-click on the .exe file. I...
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Today's commercial project shows off just how powerful the Kinect really can be...
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For the past year I’ve been developing an application called NextStage. NextStage turns the Kinect V2 into a realtime virtual production camera, by tracking retroreflective markers in a scene...
DevOps is the practice of software engineers and operations professionals working together through the software development, production, and support lifecycle. When embracing the DevOps culture, the software development lifecycle of many application development teams evolves from the waterfall...
Unified Communications Managed API (UCMA) 5.0 is a managed-code platform that developers use to build applications that provide access to and control over Microsoft’s Enhanced Presence information, instant messaging, telephone and video calls, and audio/video conferencing.
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This is a great title for a post from Dwight Goins that I've been meaning to highlight for a while...
My Kinect told me I have Dark Olive Green Skin…
Did you know the Kinect for windows v2 has the ability to determine your Skin pigmentation and your hair color? – Yes I’m telling you the...
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In Windows 10, the Chakra JavaScript engine powers Link Removed and Windows applications written in HTML/CSS/JS. However with JavaScript’s increasing popularity in beyond-the-browser scenarios, developers have been requesting to host the Chakra engine outside the browser to enable JavaScript...
Mike Taulty, long time Friend of the Kinect Gallery, has been writing up a great series of articles around Intel's RealSense camera and Visual Studio (of course ;).
Here's the current series ToC (as of the time of writing this), where you can get a good feel of everything he's covering...
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Today, I had the honor of speaking to thousands of our development partners at the Build conference about our plans to make Windows 10 the most attractive development platform ever. It is always thrilling to see so many developers excited about Microsoft – and this year, about Windows 10. If you...
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Kinect MVP Carl Franklin has done it again. He's not only released his Link Removed, but he's also released the source for it too.
As you can see, Carl is a Friend of the Gallery;
GesturePak v2.0 Public Beta
GesturePak 2.0 Alpha for the Kinect for Windows v2
KinectTools v2 with BodyViewer...
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When the Microsoft Band was first released (and sold out and is still not available online...) every dev who got one, wanted an SDK too. It took a little bit, but now, now we finally have the first preview Microsoft Bank SDK!
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The Microsoft Band SDK Preview gives developers access...
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Colin Miller announced that the .NET Micro Framework SDK v4.3 has RTW'd. This has been in beta for a while, highlighted here in Oct 2014, Visual Studio 2013, VS "14" .NET Micro Framework Support is here! but now is finally, officially RTM
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The changes to NETMF 4.3 to make it work...
Peter Daukintis, Microsoft Technical Evangelist, recently posted about Face Tracking with the Kinect for Windows v2. What was a little different is that he posted both managed and native looks...
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Since working on the virtual rail project I haven’t had much chance to carry out...
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Taking a breather from Visual Studio Extensions, today our Mobile Monday project shows you how you can build Cortana enabled projects...
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... You’ve likely already read about how Cortana will use the power of Bing to deliver personalized, natural experiences to users. What you may...
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I have an application that calls Windows API functions to display the Common
Dialog boxes (e.g. Print Dialog, File Save As..., etc.). The Common Dialog boxes
display correctly on my own network, but I have a client who is running my
application on a Windows Server 2008 R2 application server...
Windows 8 has made the most noteworthy effect in the engineering business and is picking up prompt investment of innovation clients worldwide. The excuse for why it is picking up moment notoriety is the touch board and the included characteristics that it carries on top of it. The new Windows...
Consider the following scenario: You have Windows 7 installed on your computer. You have a printer installed using an XPS printer driver. Print Pooling has been enabled for the XPS printer. You print from a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)...
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