libraries

Our last Windows 10 Theme Week post, we turn to Friend of the Blog, Mike Taulty and his two recent posts about Windows 10, Sphero 2 and Raspberry PI 2 (and Windows 8.1 Lib, WinPhone and PC) Link Removed It’s been a while since I played with my Sphero device and so I thought I’d see if I could...

Dear Guys, I try to use BACKUP that comes with Windows 10. The BACKUP works well but i have some difficulties using the customization. - When i want to exclude folders from Backup, sometimes it works (the folder that i excluded appear in the list), and sometime does not appear. Question: What...

With summer coming to an end it's not too early to start queuing up projects for the kids, young and old, for Thanksgiving and Winter break. :) Phillip Trelford recently released a cool new library that is meant to help speed and simplify creating graphic apps and games. a library that is just...

Microsoft OneDrive for Business is your professional document library—the business version of the OneDrive consumer service. OneDrive for Business uses Microsoft Office 365 hosted productivity software (Microsoft SharePoint Online) to store and organize your work files in the cloud. Link Removed

Visual Studio 2015 is out and for all your Arduino makers, the Visual Micro Arduino for Visual Studio 2015 [Beta] is now out too! Link Removed This Extension requires Visual Studio C++ to be installed before projects can be created or opened Beta release of the Arduino Ide for Visual Studio...

So this isn't really hardware, but it's hardware'ish and too cool to keep in the story queue too long.. Maker.js Maker.js, a Link Removed project, is a JavaScript library for creating and sharing modular line drawings for CNC and laser cutters. Maker.js creates line drawings for two...

Kinect MVP James Ashley is back with a great example of using OpenCV v3 (which we highlighted OpenCV turns 3 and seeing Intel(R) INDE OpenCV), Emgu and the Kinect v2 to implement computer vision/facial recognition. Some of our other posts where we highlight James; Kinect 2 Unity 5 "Kinect v2...

Today's library is one I've seen asked for a number of times on different forums and comments. Best of all, you can get it free and help them flesh it out... Link Removed We are excited to share our Finger Tracking library Aiolos for Kinect v2 with you. At this time, Aiolos is still in an...

It is important to Microsoft that developers can leverage open-source software when building apps for Windows. As part of this effort we’re very pleased to announce FFmpeg support for Window 8.1, Windows Phone 8.1, and Windows 10 applications. What is FFmpeg? FFmpeg is a free, open-source...

Link Removed Link Removed So some of my library albums didnt have album art or they have an wrong or low quality one. Ive folowed the official instructions on how to add /chnage custom album art (that copy and paste job from your pc or internet pictures). It went well for most of the parts...

This add-on for Visual Studio 2015 RC contains the multibyte character set (MBCS) version of the Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) Library. Link Removed

My pictures, which should be located at "C:\Users\Jake\My Pictures" don't show up in library. I tried adding it to the library manually, but every time I do that and close the window showing which folders are included, and I click on pictures, they don't show up. Instead it shows this folder...

We've rewritten (and open sourced!) the C# and VB compilers, and exposed their functionality through APIs as the .NET Compiler Platform. But what do these APIs mean for those who aren't compiler jocks? Learn about diagnostic analyzers, a key new feature of Visual Studio 2015 that lets a NuGet...

Welcome! This document contains a set of articles that introduce the most commonly used JavaScript/frontend web development tools (libraries, task runners, frameworks…). Frontend development ecosystem is growing fast and getting complex, and we hope this brief doc will help you put the pieces...

Rich Dudley reached out to me and based on our recent Raspberry PI posts, suggested I highlight his Blinking an LED with Raspberry Pi 2 and C# Mono post. I almost immediately replied to say it was already in the queue, but double checked first. There was indeed a Raspberry PI 2 LED post in the...

I saw today's project this past Saturday from Daniel Rapp and it bumped everything else, just had to share this. First, it currently works in Chrome, yeah, yeah... I know...but use Chrome to best see this work... But it IS a Microsoft Research paper. What's also cool is that this is all driven...

Today's project is another one of those, if you need this, you really need it.... Link Removed For those interested, I have developed a library of Labview VI's to access data from the Kinect V2. It seemed that such a library was not available even though one was developed for the Kinect V1...

OneDrive for Business preview client enables you to sync your Office 365 My Site Documents library to your Mac. Link Removed

Today's project has been in my queue to be highlighted since I first saw it in September, but there was always something... Well enough of that (better late than never and all that). While this may be a niche use case, if you DO need this, this will really come in handy... Kinect Version 2...

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