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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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
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You'd think everyone would be busy getting ready for Build and Ignite, but again this week there was a ton of great shows and news released...
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This week on Channel 9, Vlad and Nikola discuss the week's top developer news, including;...
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Are you interested in the future and the roadmap for the WPF platform? If so, this session is for you. We will take an in-depth look at our areas of investment and the new features we are working on for .NET 4.6 and future releases of the WPF Platform. We will talk about how WPF platform will...
While I've not highlighted frameworks and such recently, when Brian Lagunas reached out to me about today's news I knew I had today's post.
I've used Prism myself in a couple WPF LOB app's and found it pretty darn cool and useful. If you're building complex applications, with multiple team...
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Are you build Visual Studio extensions? Will you do me a favor? Please consider your user's DPI.
My primary machine runs at 3K (2880x1620) and since my eyes are old, the DPI is at 200%. If you're not running a High DPI machine you may be wondering what's the problem? If you are, like Scott...
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Today Friend of the Gallery is back, today with a cool control you can use in your next Kinect for Windows WPF app.
Other recent Gallery Posts for Vangos Pterneas;
Understanding the Kinect Coordinate Mapping, with a little help from Vangos Pterneas
Looking at the Kinect for Windows v2
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For the past few months we've been highlighting projects and examples that extend Visual Studio in one way or another. Well today's post is the "Mother of all Visual Studio Extensibility Post."
Why? When the examples come from the Visual Studio Product Team itself, that's hard to beat... :)...
The HP Printer Display Hack is a simple background application that periodically checks the current price of a selected stock and sends it to the display of HP (and compatible) laser printers.
IntroductionThis app is based on an old hack from back to at least 1997 that uses the HP Job control...
Fixes an issue in which WPF version 4's XpsDocument class creates an incorrect PNG image in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2. This issue occurs when the XPS file which will be converted to the PNG image contains Korean characters.
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Fixes an issue in which an ArithmeticOverflow exception occurs in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2. This issue occurs when you run a .NET Framework 4.0-based WPF application that uses the "TextFormatter.FormatLine" method.
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Fixes an issue in which an ArithmeticOverflow exception occurs when you run a .NET Framework 4.0-based WPF application. This issue occurs in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2.
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This video covers how to set up your development environment. You may find it easier to follow along by downloading the Link Removed.
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Tech giant is accused of fostering 'fear, uncertainly and doubt' by emphasising HTML5 and CSS3 for writing apps for tablets Independent developers for Microsoft's platforms are increasingly concerned about the lack of clarity from the software giant over the future direction of its programming...
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Laurent Bugnion of IdentityMine appears on the show to discuss his latest additions to the MVVM Light toolkit for both Silverlight, WPF, and Windows Phone. Laurent covers several new features, including IoC (Inversion of Control) containers, new ways to implement INotifyPropertyChanged using...
Anders wanted to hear from you to get a sense of what's on your mind with respect to C#. We asked you for questions and, as usual, you delivered -> this is your interview, Niners. Link Removed Thanks for the great questions. Special thanks to Anders for taking an hour out of his insanely busy...
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This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian are joined by the epic Scott Hanselman to discuss the week's top developer news, including:
[00:44] MVP Site - 2011 MVP Summit was this week in Redmond and thousands of MVPs were in town learning about the latest and greatest Microsoft products
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Last year the Coding4Fun/Channel 9 guys asked me to work on a few things for Link Removed. One of these items was a way to output a webcam stream to Windows Phone 7 for use with Clint's Link Removed you may have read about. I figured the easiest way to accomplish this was by using a network/IP...
Link RemovedThis week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including:
Windows Phone Blog - Terry Myerson - Windows Phone 7 RTM'd
Dave Anson - Link Removed assembly enables WPF-style layout transformations in WP7
Indy from Oz - Windows Phone 7 Listbox...
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