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The Purple Book… “Using Kinect for Windows with XNA!

http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/kinect/The-Purple-Book-Using-Kinect-for-Windows-with-XNA “Can’t get enough of Rob Miles? You love his C# Yellow Book and Windows Phone Programming Blue Book? Wish he had a free 58 page book on the Kinect, that goes from start to finish? Welcome to the Purple … Continue reading

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Kinecting to the Enterprise (No, not that Enterprise)!

http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/kinect/Kinecting-to-the-Enterprise-No-not-that-Enterprise “Today is a two for one day. Same presentation, same author, same basic topic, but for two different audiences, resulting in two different information experiences… (Think one is slide heaver and one is very code heavy and anti-slide)Rocking the … Continue reading

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Text to Speech in .Net and .Net Micro Framework, with translation too!

http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog/Text-to-Speech-in-Net-and-Net-Micro-Framework-with-translation-too “While the thought of a cube farm filled with talking computers is the stuff of nightmares for many (well for me anyway, there’s enough chatter already, and to add to it every PC verbally chatting away too? AHHHhhhh… lol), … Continue reading

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Develop for Windows Phone, with Windows Phone… TouchDevelop!

http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog/Develop-for-Windows-Phone-with-Windows-Phone-TouchDevelop “Today’s Mobile Monday post shows off a project that’s kind of meta, programming for the phone, on the phone… Think you need a PC to develop for Windows Phone? Think it would be cool to take your development environment … Continue reading

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AutoCAD and the Kinect!

http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/kinect/AutoCAD-and-the-Kinect “Kinect and AutoCAD? Yes, you sure can… Note: These samples are currently based on the Kinect for Windows Beta 2 SDK and while since the v1 release I’ve tried to avoid Beta 2 projects, there’s been some requests for … Continue reading

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Microsoft releases Robotics Developer Studio 4 with Kinect support!

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WinRumors/~3/bSSOyOHhJbs/microsoft-robotics-developer-studio-4-released-kinect-support “Microsoft’s Robotics Developer Studio 4, a freely downloadable framework for robot programming and management, has been released today. The new software will add support for Microsoft’s .NET Framework 4.0, XNA 4.0, and Silverlight 4.0. Most excitingly, will also include … Continue reading

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Student project aims to teach different cultures using Kinect and Windows Phone

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WmPowerUser/~3/ty_RVoY8FA4/ “Ro Ramtohul’s student project is to increase UK citizen’s familiarity with other cultures using a bit of technology. In his project demonstrated above users would be incentivised to learn a new culturally relevant gesture every day, e.g. bowing in … Continue reading

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Microsoft donates its ‘Mayhem’ open-source scripting application to Outercurve Foundation!

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-donates-its-mayhem-open-source-scripting-application-to-outercurve-foundation/12142 “The Microsoft Research-developed Mayhem scripting technology is the latest open-source app the Redmond company is donating to the Outercurve Foundation.”

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NoSQL Document Database – Embedding RavenDB into an ASP.NET MVC 3 Application

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/hh547101.aspx

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Fhotoroom SkyDrive, Editing and Camera EV update!

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WmPowerUser/~3/pAu06icZhGg/ “The Fhotoroom Team have been pretty busy releasing updates almost once every couple of weeks. For those who don’t already know, fhotoroom is a powerful photo editor with a social network built together. Many of their users are labeling … Continue reading

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