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If you are an indie developer, then I totally understand the importance of reducing costs. Traveling and airfare to an event can even cost as much as a pass to a conference like Build ($250/night for hotel, $400-1,200 on airfare depending on domestic vs international, food, etc).

If I was an indie developer, I would:

• Watch the live streams and ask questions during live Q&A
• Watch all the sessions that are relevant to me
• Attend FREE Microsoft training like our 1-2 day dev camps on Windows, Phone, Azure, Web - http://www.devcamps.ms/. The best thing about these camps is that they are so many that you may not have to incur any travel costs to attend.

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For a slightly more fair comparison, you can see stats from www.vimeo.com. Now vimeo is again way bigger than us in terms of users, views, etc. Vimeo does allow downloads on most of their content so no need to factor in differences there.

Based on your previous jQuery search, searching on vimeo.com for "jQuery" or jQuery tutorial

• http://vimeo.com/6353874 - 2,500,000 views, 2 comments (0.00008% response)
• http://vimeo.com/116991 - 197,000 views, 21 comments (0.011% response) - This is a high comment count for Vimeo as the speaker is the creator of jQuery (John Resig)
• http://vimeo.com/2428228 - 30,100 views, 2 comments (0.00664% response)

Your previous assumption for C9 was

• 50,000 views, 5 comments (0.01% response)
• 50,000 views, 25 comments (0.05% response)

Compared to vimeo's stats, our engagement is inline (at our worst), or several times better.

I'm not saying we can't do better, and YouTube as a goal would be great to achieve, but we should at least compare apples-to-apples.

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Nov 15, 2012 at 1:50 PM, TonyBoySP wrote

The "high quality WMV" link is wrong... the file for the link is "Part20ImplementingTheSearchContract_Source.wmv"...

Sorry about that, the video is correct if you download it, it's just that the label is wrong. I'll see what I can do to fix that

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Nov 16, 2012 at 10:43 AM, MSPNitesh wrote

can anyone help me am getting rss.aspx not rss.xaml file. please give me solution from where i can get.  

when i  right click on rss post it shows save link as not save target as. when i downloaded this file.it's rss.aspx not rss.xaml file.

Please give solution.

What browser are you using? Saving the file as RSS.aspx is fine, you'll notice that when you open it up, is it an XML file

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3 hours ago, Paul II wrote

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You and me both! I'm a big metrics guy and it seriously confuses me how there can be that many views and such few star ratings and comments.  One of our episodes has 270,000+ views with almost no difference in comments/ratings.  I'm pretty sure the analytics are grossly exaggerated.

Thanks for throwing us under the bus Paul   The analytics for videos that were on the home page of Channel 9 during Build are incorrect. The issue was that during Build, we changed the home page of Channel 9 to have two experiences. The default one was the live player during the conference, while users could click an X to get at the "classic" Channel 9 page.

As for comments, the total # of comments is always low for online videos. It's not just Channel 9, if you look at a typical YouTube video, the total # of comments is typically less than 1/2 of 1% of the total viewers. And of course, we really don't want to emulate the quality of YouTube comments on Channel 9

Another issue with participation on Channel 9 is that unlike YouTube, Channel 9 is designed to work great offline as niners (including myself), download event videos, shows, training videos, etc. My data is a little old, but I think something like 30% of views were from downloads versus plays on the page.

Hope this helps,

-Dan

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14 hours ago, PhilMurray wrote

The creation of a Hello World application is a little meaningless. The people on Channel 9 tend to be experienced developers so an application that makes full use of data access and implements the Async / Await pattern would be more useful.

Hey Phil, this is a step-by-step series for beginners. That said, by Part 4, File Access and Pickers, you will learn how to call async/await for file IO and how to databind to properties of a file.

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53 minutes ago

Please check the link for "Senthil Kumar".

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1 day ago, Adam​Speight2008 wrote

Dan closing a deal involving huge tracts of lands. Queue the Monty Python sketch.

LOLOL! It's been so long since I saw Holy Grail...this is a good reminder I should see that again

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May 03, 2012 at 7:58 PM

The video explains how to obtain depth measurements from the depthFrame, but doesn't say what vector these measurements are along or how to convert them to world XYZ coordinates!

I looked but I see no function in the SDK for finding the XYZ values. I suppose if one knew the FOV of the depth camera an approximate function could be written. Ideal would be SDK call that checks the depth camera's firmware calibration and gives proper values.

Pointclouds are probably one of the most popular applications of the Kinect (for visuals anyway), but without this info most people are going to end up doing it the wrong way.

You can use the KinectSensor class MapDepthToSkeletonPoint method to convert a depth point to a SkeletonPoint.

A SkeletonPoint should be what you need given that it is meters from the camera

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May 27, 2012 at 6:21 PM

I see video coming from the camera, but nothing else, and the green light keeps flashing. Also the Kinect in sleep mode, meaning it's tilt down instead of raised up.

Does anyone know what's wrong?

If you see video, then the Kinect is working. Try using the samples that ship with the Kinect Developer toolkit, like Kinect Explorer. The download is available here http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/kinectforwindows/develop/developer-downloads.aspx

The "tilt down" is something you, as a developer can control. Using the Kinect Explorer sample, set the Tilt to 0 and, assuming the Kinect is on a flat table, that should give you the correct angle.

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Aug 17, 2012 at 2:49 PM

Hi Dan,

The sample code runs perfectly on my computer; however, when exiting the application, an exception happened on line 177 of KinectSkeletonViewer.xaml.cs where the line reads "ColorImagePoint colorPoint = depthFrame.MapToColorImagePoint(depthPoint.X, depthPoint.Y, this.Kinect.ColorStream.Format);".

The warning message is shown as "InvalidOperationException was unhandled
This API has returned an exception from an HRESULT: 0x80070015".

You may want to try the latest release of Kinect (1.5.2) as I think this should be fixed.

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May 18, 2012 at 7:03 AM

Dan, how can I put the depth, color and skeleton view in the same interface?

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Check out the Kinect Explorer sample that ships with the Kinect Developer Toolkit as it includes all of the WPF viewers on one Window

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