Thursday, June 16, 2011

Just Released: Kinect for Windows SDK Beta

Just Released: Kinect for Windows SDK Beta

Just Released: Kinect for Windows SDK Beta

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 01:56 PM PDT

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Following the announcement made a day ago about C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism (C++ AMP), now Microsoft Research released the Kinect for Windows SDK beta: a programming toolkit for application developers that enables the academic and enthusiast communities easy access to the capabilities offered by the Microsoft Kinect device connected to computers running the Windows 7 operating system.

The Kinect for Windows SDK beta includes drivers, rich APIs for raw sensor streams and human motion tracking, installation documents, and resource materials. It provides Kinect capabilities to developers who build applications with C++, C#, or Visual Basic by using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.

This SDK includes the following features:

  • Raw sensor streams
    Access to raw data streams from the depth sensor, color camera sensor, and four-element microphone array enables developers to build upon the low-level streams that are generated by the Kinect sensor.

  • Skeletal tracking
    The capability to track the skeleton image of one or two people moving within the Kinect field of view make it easy to create gesture-driven applications.

  • Advanced audio capabilities
    Audio processing capabilities include sophisticated acoustic noise suppression and echo cancellation, beam formation to identify the current sound source, and integration with the Windows speech recognition API.

  • Sample code and documentation
    The SDK includes more than 100 pages of technical documentation. In addition to built-in help files, the documentation includes detailed walkthroughs for most samples provided with the SDK.

  • Easy installation
    The SDK installs quickly, requires no complex configuration, and the complete installer size is less than 100 MB. Developers can get up and running in just a few minutes with a standard standalone Kinect sensor unit (widely available at retail outlets).

This SDK is designed for non-commercial purposes only; a commercial version is expected to be available at a later date.

The SDK is documented and code walkthroughs are provided here. Enjoy!

Herb Sutter: Heterogeneous Computing and C++ AMP (AFDS Keynote)

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 12:02 PM PDT

Introducing C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism (C++ AMP)

We announced yesterday C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism (C++ AMP), an initiative thought to become an open standard in order to leverage the computing power of APUs like Graphic Processing Units (GPUs).

Now you can watch "Heterogeneous Parallelism at Microsoft", the keynote where Herb Sutter, Principal Architect with the Visual C++ team, introduced this technology with code and graphic demos. There's another session yet to be posted where Sr. Program Manager Daniel Moth goes deeper into the details. We'll update this post to reflect that when it happens.

 

[Watch AFDS session "Heterogeneous Parallelism at Microsoft"]

Implementing Mutually Exclusive CheckBoxes with jQuery

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 07:30 AM PDT

The ASP.NET Ajax Control Toolkit contains a control extender for making a set of ASP.NET CheckBoxes mutually exclusive [ See HERE ]. In this post I'll demonstrate implementing Mutually Exclusive CheckBoxes with jQuery. ASP.NET Checkboxes are, of course, server-side controls. If you've been following along with this series, or you using ASP.NET WebMatrix or MVC instead of [...] Read More......(read more)

Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial - 13 - What is Tombstoning?

Posted: 15 Jun 2011 10:30 AM PDT

Mobile phones have very limited resource as compared to a desktop PC and hence it is very difficult to run multiple applications simultaneously. Also, suppose if multiple resources run simultaneously, it will eat up the battery life and make your phone...( read more )...(read more)

Announcing HTML5 & CSS3 support for Visual Studio 2010 SP1

Posted: 15 Jun 2011 05:09 PM PDT

Since the last few months it feels like web standards are moving at pace that we would really like them to move. Every browser is pushing the envelope ahead including our very own IE9. For the first time it feels like web is getting the extra freedom of expression that it deserves and we want to contribute to that. ASP.NET developers have been asking for HTML5 & CSS3 support all the time and today we are super excited to announce the public availability of Visual Studio Web Standards Update which brings a ton of HTML5 & CSS3 support to Visual Studio 2010 SP1 . VS Web Standards Update is a free extension available for anyone who is using Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and it provides HTML5 & CSS3 support based on current W3C specifications...(read more)

Announcing the Web Standards Update - HTML5 Support for the Visual Studio 2010 Editor

Posted: 15 Jun 2011 04:59 PM PDT

Folks have been asking "When will VS2010 support HTML5?" I've been saying, jokingly, that the answer is "yesterday" as there's nothing keeping you from creating HTML5 in Visual Studio or ASP.NET today. However, there's no intellisense and there's lots of squiggly lines that make people uncomfortable. Combine all that with the fact that HTML5 is a moving target, and it's unclear. We've said before that the next version of Visual Studio will have better support HTML5, but what about today? Today, a rogue faction of the Web Platform and Tools team, spearheaded by Mads Kristensen , is pleased to announce the Visual Studio Web Standards Update . This adds better support for HTML5, CSS3 and new JavaScript...(read more)

Web Standards Update for Visual Studio 2010 SP1

Posted: 15 Jun 2011 01:52 PM PDT

  The Web Platform and Tools team is very pleased to announce the first Web Standards Update for Visual Studio SP1 . It updates the HTML5 intellisense and validation to reflect the latest W3C specifications and fixes some bugs bugs in the current SP1 support for HTML5. Also JavaScript intellisense it updated to reflect many of the new browser capabilities such as Geolocation and DOM storage. Finally, this update adds comprehensive CSS3 intellisense and validation based on the latest specifications from W3C. As the HTML5 and CSS3 specifications mature we will make updates available accordingly to ensure that ASP.NET web developers always have the latest standards to work with. This is at the same time an invitation to report any bugs or...(read more)

Replacing the ACT PagingBulletedList with the jQuery ListNav Plugin.

Posted: 15 Jun 2011 03:32 PM PDT

The Ajax Control Toolkit includes a control extender [ The Paging Bulleted List Control Extender ] that lets you create a list that the user can filter by clicking on an index indicator. This can be very useful, especially when your list is very large. The jQuery ListNav Plug-In lets you do this with any unordered [...] Read More......(read more)
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