If you want to know more about any particular topic, make sure you watch the videos over at Microsoft Virtual Academy. The slides are also available there. Summaries for: Sessions 1-3 Sessions 4-6 Sessions 10-12 Sessions 13-14 07 – Pen and Ink (11 minutes) Summary: Pens and inking are an pretty cool aspect of Windows 10, especially…
If you’re interested in a particular demo or topic, make sure you watch all the videos over at Microsoft Virtual Academy. The slides are also available there. Sessions 1-3 Sessions 7-9 Sessions 10-12 Sessions 13-14 04 Extension SDKs (20 minutes) Summary: The Extension SDKs are a set of SDKs that allow developers to add device-specific functionality…
These are summaries of the first three episodes of the Windows 10 Preview Jumpstart series (starring Jerry Nixon and Andy Wigley. While the Jumpstart information is incredibly valuable, sometimes you just don’t have time to watch the whole thing, so I’m trying to get the information in a nice readable format. Sessions 4-6 Sessions 7-9…
Lots of little side projects I work on are data visualizations and, unlike every other person in the data visualization game, I do them in XAML because 1) I’m good at XAML 2) I enjoy porting Python, Javascript, and R to C#. But much of the data I want to visualize is something that I culled, compared,…
I recently (translation: not very recently) put up an post on circle packing in Processing and completely forgot to follow up with a port of that algorithm porting that to C#. Since then, I’ve refined my implementation of it and put up all the code. I’ve tried to abstract the actual algorithmic piece somewhat into the “shared”…
Watching the Kinect for Windows v2 Jump Start. The code that they use in the videos is for Windows 8 apps but I’m trying to build my app in WPF. The problem is that WriteableBitmap for Windows 8 is substantially different from WriteableBitmap for WPF. So here the WPF code for the first big demo… getting…
“Um… no. None of those things are valid options in Clue.” In the last few months, I’ve had the joy of playing around with the Intel Galileo board for sensor-based Internet of Things projects. First, I installed Windows onto an SD card and popped it into the Galileo board. Step-by-step guide to get started with Windows IoT…
I know this stuff, but I keep forgetting it from project to project so I figured it wouldn’t hurt anyone up here. Scenario: You want to hit an API and grab some data. Simple. The technique here is for Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 and .NET 4.5 apps and can be used in a…
I recently had a project where I needed a camera from a specific panel (the front-facing camera) in my Windows / Windows Phone app. It took me a little bit to track down all the information, so I thought I’d pull it all together here: Make sure you add the Webcam and Microphone capabilities to your…
This is based on this Processing sketch on circle packing, but since I had to update it to get it to work, I figured I’d just post my alterations on the code. In case you’re not familiar with circle packing, it is an iterative algorithm for finding the lowest stable state of a set of…