Microsoft Health API – UWP Sample

A few days ago some updates to the Microsoft Band ecosystem were announced including Microsoft Band Web Tiles Preview and Microsoft Health Cloud APIs Preview for full details see this blog post. It’s also worth checking out the Microsoft Health…

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Windows Store Apps Icon Generator

Originally I developed this icon tool to help people to quickly build windows store and windows phone apps using the Web Application Template which is a tool designed to wrap web content and allow it to plug easily into native…

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Openframeworks + Kinect 4 Windows V2

OpenFrameworks I am in the process of reviewing various frameworks for visualising my Kinect windows store apps because prototyping ideas Direct3D is a bit labour intensive. My attention has turned towards Openframeworks. This is the official description: openFrameworks is an…

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Face Tracking – Kinect 4 Windows v2

Since working on the virtual rail project I haven’t had much chance to carry out much in the way of Kinect programming. That all changes now since I ordered a Kinect 4 Windows v2 as I have been hacking away…

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Semantic Zoom (Universal Apps)

Hub App This will be a bit of a deep dive into the Semantic Zoom control and it’s usage in a windows c# / xaml universal app project. Starting with something which I’m sure everyone is familiar with, that is,…

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metro app and kinect voice control

Peter Daukintis Recently I had a need to reacquaint myself with the latest Kinect SDK. v1.6 has just been released and is downloadable from here Kinect SDK. So I downloaded it and started playing around with some code and it…

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Streamsocket example c# metro

Peter Daukintis This is a very basic example of socket communication in a c# metro-style application using StreamSocket and StreamSocketListener. It mirrors the Simple StreamSocket example in msdn here http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/StreamSocket-Sample-8c573931 which is coded in c++ and javascript but no c#.…

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