C#

Last week we highlighted Den Delimarsky's Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone 7 app. On this Metro Monday, seems fitting to pair that post up with this one. With Windows 8 and Metro a common question is, "How hard is it to re-use, re-purpose or port a Windows Phone 7 app to a Windows 8…

Today's project is a sharing of lessons learned by Carl Franklin while creating his GesturePak project (GesturePak (Beta) for the Kinect - A "no code" gesture recording and matching library) Recovering Gracefully from Loss of Skeletal Tracking (Kinect For Windows)The Kinect For Windows SDK…

Today's project was one that I just happened across and I thought kind of cool, I mean what's more fun than programming bots to hunt down a kill each other? (Answer: Playing with the source of the project that lets you program bots to hunt down and kill each other) DumbBots.NetProject DescriptionA…

The Metro interface has the potential to change how a lot of people use computers. You've already seen a little of it in the Windows Phone. More if you have downloaded the Windows 8 consumer preview. In this session, we will demonstrate how the power exposed by Metro (through live tiles, push…

For our Hardware Friday we're going to mix in some Bluetooth and WPF in our .Net Gadgeteer world... Controlling a Gadgeteer device using Bluetooth Module and 32feet.NET libraryIn this post, I’ll show how to send messages to a GHI Bluetooth module from a PC application using the 32feet .NET library.…

Today's project harkens back to days when we used to love mazes... (Okay, I still do, but that's besides the point). C# Maze Generator and SolverIntroductionThis demo creates and solves mazes using the Breadth-First and Depth-First searches. It can be very useful in demonstrating these algorithms.…

Why, hello there! We are going to pick up where we left off at the end of our Coding4Fun video. In the video we built a reaction that increments the volume level on the computer. We are going to expand from there to make a reaction that enables you to set the volume level to a specified volume. …

You all know my love-love relationship with mind control... well... I mean mind reading... um... (you know!) devices like the Emotive device. Well when I saw this project, one the melds a less expensive device with C# and and Fez .NET Gadgeteer device? Well I almost wet my pants (TMI?) Come on, how…

Our Hardware Friday post in this game theme week combines a couple of fun things, .Net Gadgeteer hardware and a RPG game (well the start of one at least). It also shows off a couple thing projects mentioned here in past posts, Gliding into a .Net Micro Framework UI design with GLIDE and Along came a…

Real-time motion capture is one of the more common requests I see for the Kinect so when I saw this... Do note that this requires a third party project, the DigitalRune Engine, but you can get a free 30 trial for it AND if you're using this non-commercially you can get a free license too. Real-Time…