Channel 9 Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. Microsoft http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/ Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/ en Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:17:24 GMT Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:17:24 GMT Rev9 Hot Apps: Krashlander, NFL Pro '12, MixTapes, Weave, Network Dashboard Hot Apps will feature 5 of the hottest apps each week for the Windows Phone 7. In this episode Laura takes a look at 5 of teh winning apps from the "Your APP here" monthly contest:

 

Please leave suggestions for hot apps that should be featured in the comments section, thanks!

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Hot-Apps/Hot-Apps-Krashlander-NFL-Pro-12-MixTapes-Weave-Network-Dashboard Hot Apps will feature 5 of the hottest apps each week for the Windows Phone 7. In this episode Laura takes a look at 5 of teh winning apps from the "Your APP here" monthly contest:KrashLander NFL Pro '12 MixTapes Weave Network Dashboard  Please leave suggestions for hot apps that should be featured in the comments section, thanks! 196 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Hot-Apps/Hot-Apps-Krashlander-NFL-Pro-12-MixTapes-Weave-Network-Dashboard Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:52:36 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Hot-Apps/Hot-Apps-Krashlander-NFL-Pro-12-MixTapes-Weave-Network-Dashboard Laura Foy Laura Foy 2 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Hot-Apps/Hot-Apps-Krashlander-NFL-Pro-12-MixTapes-Weave-Network-Dashboard/RSS Windows Phone WP7 Apps Working with Depth Data In the working with depth data Quickstart video, we'll cover:

  • An overview of how depth data represents the distance and player for every pixel
  • An overview of Default and Near Mode and what features are supported in both
  • An explanation of what distance data the Kinect returns including knowing when you are too near, too far, or the distance is unknown
  • The formulas for calculating depth and player information
  • How to visualize depth and player data, including a monochrome histogram and player colorization
  • How to use the WPF DepthViewer control to understand depth data returned from the Kinect

Resources

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/KinectQuickstart/Working-with-Depth-Data In the working with depth data Quickstart video, we'll cover:An overview of how depth data represents the distance and player for every pixel An overview of Default and Near Mode and what features are supported in both An explanation of what distance data the Kinect returns including knowing when you are too near, too far, or the distance is unknown The formulas for calculating depth and player information How to visualize depth and player data, including a monochrome histogram and player colorization How to use the WPF DepthViewer control to understand depth data returned from the Kinect ResourcesDownload the Kinect for Windows SDK Download the Quickstart slides and samples 1142 http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/KinectQuickstart/Working-with-Depth-Data Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:43:07 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/KinectQuickstart/Working-with-Depth-Data Dan Fernandez Dan Fernandez 3 http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/KinectQuickstart/Working-with-Depth-Data/RSS Clang: Defending C++ from Murphy's Million Monkeys Were we to craft a Lenox Globe of programming languages, C++ might be followed by a famous cautionary phrase: Here Be Dragons. The language can be complex and daunting to programmers who are often shouldered with the task of writing large, complex programs. Those millions of code monkeys need help to resist Murphy's siren song and navigate C++'s treacherous waters of memory corruption and concurrency bugs.
 
Clang is a C++ compiler platform that tries to address these challenges (among others) across the spectrum of development activities. It provides fantastic diagnostics, static and dynamic program analysis, advanced rewriting and refactoring functionality, and language extensibility. Together with improvements to the language in C++11 these help programmers cope with today's code and write better code tomorrow. Clang also makes it easier than ever before to evolve and evaluate new language features and extensions to make C++ itself better.
 
Through this talk I'll give some background on the Clang compiler, what it does today to make writing C++ better, and how we're using it to help shape the C++ language going forward.
]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/GoingNative-2012/Clang-Defending-C-from-Murphy-s-Million-Monkeys Were we to craft a Lenox Globe of programming languages, C++ might be followed by a famous cautionary phrase: Here Be Dragons. The language can be complex and daunting to programmers who are often shouldered with the task of writing large, complex programs. Those millions of code monkeys need help to resist Murphy's siren song and navigate C++'s treacherous waters of memory corruption and concurrency bugs. Clang is a C++ compiler platform that tries to address these challenges (among others) across the spectrum of development activities. It provides fantastic diagnostics, static and dynamic program analysis, advanced rewriting and refactoring functionality, and language extensibility. Together with improvements to the language in C++11 these help programmers cope with today's code and write better code tomorrow. Clang also makes it easier than ever before to evolve and evaluate new language features and extensions to make C++ itself better. Through this talk I'll give some background on the Clang compiler, what it does today to make writing C++ better, and how we're using it to help shape the C++ language going forward. 3657 http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/GoingNative-2012/Clang-Defending-C-from-Murphy-s-Million-Monkeys Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:36:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/GoingNative-2012/Clang-Defending-C-from-Murphy-s-Million-Monkeys Chandler Carruth Chandler Carruth 10 C++11 C++ Variadic Templates are Funadic Variadic templates are arguably the most profound change in the core language brought about by C++11. Curiously, however, the C++ community still tiptoes carefully around them: variadic templates enjoyed less coverage than features such as "auto" or lambdas. Part of the reason is that more popular features simplify expression of existing designs, which makes said features easier to understand and use.

Variadic templates, however, not only simplify design and use of advanced libraries such as Boost MPL, but also enable a host of new uses.

This talk provides a solid coverage of variadic fundamentals, including typelists, the archetypal "safe printf" mechanics, and tuple construction and access. It also discusses more advanced uses, such as structured argument lists.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/GoingNative-2012/Variadic-Templates-are-Funadic Variadic templates are arguably the most profound change in the core language brought about by C++11. Curiously, however, the C++ community still tiptoes carefully around them: variadic templates enjoyed less coverage than features such as "auto" or lambdas. Part of the reason is that more popular features simplify expression of existing designs, which makes said features easier to understand and use.Variadic templates, however, not only simplify design and use of advanced libraries such as Boost MPL, but also enable a host of new uses.This talk provides a solid coverage of variadic fundamentals, including typelists, the archetypal "safe printf" mechanics, and tuple construction and access. It also discusses more advanced uses, such as structured argument lists. 3634 http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/GoingNative-2012/Variadic-Templates-are-Funadic Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:43:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/GoingNative-2012/Variadic-Templates-are-Funadic Andrei Alexandrescu Andrei Alexandrescu 18 C++11 C++ STL11: Magic && Secrets The C++ Standard Library expanded and evolved massively between C++98/03 and C++11.  It's easy to forget the magnitude of these changes, because they happened gradually and sometimes invisibly.  Some things (like shared_ptr, regex, and function) were developed in Boost in the early 2000s, before making their way into TR1 in 2005 and then C++11.  Other things, like container move semantics, automatically improve programs without human intervention.  Sometimes I can hardly believe that programmers used to live without non-intrusive deterministically reference-counted smart pointers!  We are fortunate to live in such an advanced and enlightened age.

In this presentation, I'll explore how some of the C++11 Standard Library's magic works, including how the Standardization Committee fixed pair's constructors (I bet you think that pair is the simplest type in the world - ha! wrong!) and how I saved a million zillion bytes of memory across all the programs using VC10+'s make_shared<T>().

Oh, and I will also reveal a secret that has never been announced before.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/GoingNative-2012/STL11-Magic-Secrets The C&#43;&#43; Standard Library expanded and evolved massively between C&#43;&#43;98/03 and C&#43;&#43;11.&nbsp; It's easy to forget the magnitude of these changes, because they happened gradually and sometimes invisibly.&nbsp; Some things (like shared_ptr, regex, and function) were developed in Boost in the early 2000s, before making their way into TR1 in 2005 and then C&#43;&#43;11.&nbsp; Other things, like container move semantics, automatically improve programs without human intervention.&nbsp; Sometimes I can hardly believe that programmers used to live without non-intrusive deterministically reference-counted smart pointers!&nbsp; We are fortunate to live in such an advanced and enlightened age.In this presentation, I'll explore how some of the C&#43;&#43;11 Standard Library's magic works, including how the Standardization Committee fixed pair's constructors (I bet you think that pair is the simplest type in the world - ha! wrong!) and how I saved a million zillion bytes of memory across all the programs using VC10&#43;'s make_shared&lt;T&gt;().Oh, and I will also reveal a secret that has never been announced before. 3547 http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/GoingNative-2012/STL11-Magic-Secrets Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:44:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/GoingNative-2012/STL11-Magic-Secrets Stephan T. Lavavej Stephan T. Lavavej 8 C++11 C++ Camera Fundamentals In the Camera Fundamentals Quickstart video, you’ll learn:

  • How to leverage the AllFramesReady event to synchronize data between the color, depth, and skeletal frames
  • The supported resolutions for the color and depth cameras
  • How to read the color byte array from the ColorImageFrame event and how to dynamically build a Bitmapsource to display the color image
  • How to use the KinectColorViewer user control to display the Kinect’s color image simply by databinding the Kinect property to the KinectSensorChooser user control
  • How to tilt the Kinect camera and how it determines it’s current angle

Resources

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/KinectQuickstart/Camera-Fundamentals In the Camera Fundamentals Quickstart video, you’ll learn:How to leverage the AllFramesReady event to synchronize data between the color, depth, and skeletal frames The supported resolutions for the color and depth cameras How to read the color byte array from the ColorImageFrame event and how to dynamically build a Bitmapsource to display the color image How to use the KinectColorViewer user control to display the Kinect’s color image simply by databinding the Kinect property to the KinectSensorChooser user control How to tilt the Kinect camera and how it determines it’s current angle ResourcesDownload the Kinect for Windows SDK Download the Quickstart slides and samples 882 http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/KinectQuickstart/Camera-Fundamentals Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:41:07 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/KinectQuickstart/Camera-Fundamentals Dan Fernandez Dan Fernandez 3 http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/KinectQuickstart/Camera-Fundamentals/RSS Defrag: Change Pinned Sites Icons, Laptop WiFi Router, Full Path for File Microsoft tech troubleshooter extraordinaire Gov Maharaj and I help walk you through troubleshooting solutions to your tech support problems. If you have a problem you want to send us, you can use the Problem Step Recorder in Windows 7 (see this for details on how) and send us the zip file to DefragShow@microsoft.com. We will also be checking comments for problems, but the email address will let us contact you if needed.

[01:40] - Using D2D with Windows 7 on restore.
[04:36] - Closed laptop during updates, now PC hangs.
[07:38] - Are RAM cleaners helpful or unneeded?
[09:37] - Silverlight in a nutshell. [mentioned link]
[12:26] - Getting the full path for a given file.
[13:35] - Can you change the icon for a TaskBar pinned site.
[17:47] - Using a laptop as a WiFi router.
[20:09] - Showing custom wallpaper on lock screen.* [Gov notes below]
[21:35] - How to rotate screen easily.
[27:00] - Admin rights for removing icons in Start Menu.
[29:35] - Pick of the Week: Visual Studio Achievements.
[32:17] - Pick of the Week: Privacy Day [link]

* Following are Gov's First of all, create a DWORD value named OEMBackground in the HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background key, and set its value to 1 (You can delete the value if you want to restore the settings). Then, create a folder named backgrounds in the path %windir%\system32\oobe\info.
At last, copy the JPG files according to your monitor's resolution. For example,
   backgroundDefault.jpg (MUST-HAVE)
   background1024×1280.jpg
   background1280×1024.jpg
   background1024×768.jpg
   background1280×960.jpg
   background1600×1200.jpg
   background1440×900.jpg
   background1920×1200.jpg
   background1280×768.jpg
   background1360×768.jpg
All the images must be less than 256kb in size. If you are using a resolution that is not provided in the image file, system will display backgroundDefault.jpg.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/The-Defrag-Show/Defrag-Change-Pinned-Sites-Icons-Laptop-WiFi-Router-Full-Path-for-File Microsoft tech troubleshooter extraordinaire Gov Maharaj and I help walk you through troubleshooting solutions to your tech support problems. If you have a problem you want to send us, you can use the Problem Step Recorder in Windows 7 (see this for details on how) and send us the zip file to DefragShow@microsoft.com. We will also be checking comments for problems, but the email address will let us contact you if needed.[01:40] - Using D2D with Windows 7 on restore. [04:36] - Closed laptop during updates, now PC hangs. [07:38] - Are RAM cleaners helpful or unneeded? [09:37] - Silverlight in a nutshell. [mentioned link][12:26] - Getting the full path for a given file. [13:35] - Can you change the icon for a TaskBar pinned site. [17:47] - Using a laptop as a WiFi router. [20:09] - Showing custom wallpaper on lock screen.* [Gov notes below][21:35] - How to rotate screen easily. [27:00] - Admin rights for removing icons in Start Menu. [29:35] - Pick of the Week: Visual Studio Achievements. [32:17] - Pick of the Week: Privacy Day [link]* Following are Gov's First of all, create a DWORD value named OEMBackground in the HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background key, and set its value to 1 (You can delete the value if you want to restore the settings). Then, create a folder named backgrounds in the path %windir%\system32\oobe\info.At last, copy the JPG files according to your monitor's resolution. For example,&nbsp;&nbsp; backgroundDefault.jpg (MUST-HAVE)&nbsp;&nbsp; background1024×1280.jpg&nbsp;&nbsp; background1280×1024.jpg&nbsp;&nbsp; background1024×768.jpg&nbsp;&nbsp; background1280×960.jpg&nbsp;&nbsp; background1600×1200.jpg&nbsp;&nbsp; background1440×900.jpg&nbsp;&nbsp; background1920×1200.jpg&nbsp;&nbsp; background1280×768.jpg&nbsp;&nbsp; background1360×768.jpgAll the images must be less than 256kb in size. If you are using a resolution that is not provided in the image file, system will display backgroundDefault.jpg. 2178 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/The-Defrag-Show/Defrag-Change-Pinned-Sites-Icons-Laptop-WiFi-Router-Full-Path-for-File Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:57:07 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/The-Defrag-Show/Defrag-Change-Pinned-Sites-Icons-Laptop-WiFi-Router-Full-Path-for-File Larry Larsen Larry Larsen 8 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/The-Defrag-Show/Defrag-Change-Pinned-Sites-Icons-Laptop-WiFi-Router-Full-Path-for-File/RSS tech support TWC9: 4 Years of TWC9, Kinect SDK, C++, & more On our four year anniversary of This Week on Channel 9, we wanted to give a special thank you to all of our viewers for supporting and watching us over the years. Amusingly, our first show aired Feb 1, 2008 without a name and Niners Ian & ChadK suggesting the name This Week on Channel 9. Thank you all, we wouldn't be here without you.

Production Note: We know the audio is a little rough/overdriven in places and we're going to try to see if there's anything we can do post-production to fix it. Sorry about that!

To celebrate this week, Martin Woodward joins us to recap the week's news, including:

Picks of the Week!

 

 

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-Feb-03-2012 On our four year anniversary of This Week on Channel 9, we wanted to give a special thank you to all of our viewers for supporting and watching us over the years. Amusingly, our first show aired Feb 1, 2008 without a name and Niners Ian &amp; ChadK suggesting the name This Week on Channel 9. Thank you all, we wouldn't be here without you.Production Note: We know the audio is a little rough/overdriven in places and we're going to try to see if there's anything we can do post-production to fix it. Sorry about that!To celebrate this week, Martin Woodward joins us to recap the week's news, including:[0:32] TWC9's 4th Anniversary! First TWC9 Show in 2008, Brian Keller and Dan Fernandez: Name this Show! [2:33]&nbsp;Kinect For Windows, [Special Edition] It's Kinect day! The Kinect For Windows SDK v1 is out! (Greg Duncan, Dan Fernandez) , Kinect for Windows Quickstart Series (Dan Fernandez), Kinect for Windows – Code Migration from Beta2 to v1.0 (C#/VB) &amp; Kinect for Windows – Details of API Changes from Beta2 to v1.0 (C#/VB) (Rob Relyea), Kinect for Windows SDK v1.0 (Download), Kinect for Windows is now Available!, Near Mode: What it is (and isn’t), Official Kinect for Windows SDK and Kinect Toolbox 1.1.1 are out! (David Catuhe) [5:11] Going Native 2012 [6:47] Real World Windows Azure Guidance: Troubleshooting Best Practices for Developing Windows Azure Applications (Avkash Chauhan, William Bellamy), http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/hh771389.aspx [8:12] The Big Dummies Guide for Windows Phone Developer Resources (Bil Simser) [8:54] Event Handler Memory Leaks, Unwiring Events, and the WeakEventManager in WPF 4.5 (Pete Brown) [10:22] An introduction to Agile development with Team Foundation Server: TFS Support for Agile practices (Giles Davies) [11:38] Debugger Canvas 1.1 is Released!(Kael Rowan), http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/devlabs/debuggercanvas, http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/A/7/5A7FB2E7-5720-4739-BDDE-28A684C5B291/Microsoft.DebuggerC 1471 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-Feb-03-2012 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:47:06 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-Feb-03-2012 Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan, Martin Woodward Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan, Martin Woodward 4 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-Feb-03-2012/RSS Day 1 Keynote - Bjarne Stroustrup: C++11 Style We know how to write bad code: litter our programs with casts, macros, pointers, naked new and deletes, and complicated control structures. Alternatively (or additionally), we could obscure every design decision in a mess of deeply nested abstractions using the latest object-oriented programming and generic programming tricks. Then, for good measure, we might complicate our algorithms with interesting special cases. Such code is incomprehensible, unmaintainable, usually inefficient, and not uncommon.

But how do we write good code? What principles, techniques, and idioms can we exploit to make it easier to produce quality code? In this presentation, I make an argument for type-rich interfaces, compact data structures, integrated resource management and error handling, and highly-structured algorithmic code. I illustrate my ideas and guidelines with a few idiomatic code examples.

I use C++11 freely. Examples include auto, general constant expressions, uniform initialization, type aliases, type safe threading, and user-defined literals. C++11 features are only just starting to appear in production compilers, so some of my suggestions are conjecture. Developing a "modern style," however, is essential if we don't want to maintain newly-written 1970s and 1980s style code in 2020.

This presentation reflects my thoughts on what "Modern C++" should mean in the 2010s: a language for programming based on light-weight abstraction with direct and efficient mapping to hardware, suitable for infrastructure code.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/GoingNative-2012/Keynote-Bjarne-Stroustrup-Cpp11-Style We know how to write bad code: litter our programs with casts, macros, pointers, naked new and deletes, and complicated control structures. Alternatively (or additionally), we could obscure every design decision in a mess of deeply nested abstractions using the latest object-oriented programming and generic programming tricks. Then, for good measure, we might complicate our algorithms with interesting special cases. Such code is incomprehensible, unmaintainable, usually inefficient, and not uncommon.But how do we write good code? What principles, techniques, and idioms can we exploit to make it easier to produce quality code? In this presentation, I make an argument for type-rich interfaces, compact data structures, integrated resource management and error handling, and highly-structured algorithmic code. I illustrate my ideas and guidelines with a few idiomatic code examples.I use C&#43;&#43;11 freely. Examples include auto, general constant expressions, uniform initialization, type aliases, type safe threading, and user-defined literals. C&#43;&#43;11 features are only just starting to appear in production compilers, so some of my suggestions are conjecture. Developing a &quot;modern style,&quot; however, is essential if we don't want to maintain newly-written 1970s and 1980s style code in 2020.This presentation reflects my thoughts on what &quot;Modern C&#43;&#43;&quot; should mean in the 2010s: a language for programming based on light-weight abstraction with direct and efficient mapping to hardware, suitable for infrastructure code. 5388 http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/GoingNative-2012/Keynote-Bjarne-Stroustrup-Cpp11-Style Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:41:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/GoingNative-2012/Keynote-Bjarne-Stroustrup-Cpp11-Style Bjarne Stroustrup Bjarne Stroustrup 38 C++11 C++ Episode 69 - SQL Azure Federations with George Huey Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure platform. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow.

In this episode, Wade is joined by George Huey—Principal Architect Evangelist for Microsoft—to discuss how to scale-out with SQL Azure Federations. George is the author and creator of the SQL Azure Migration Wizard and the SQL Azure Federation Data Migration Wizard.

In the news:

 

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Cloud+Cover/Episode-69-SQL-Azure-Federations-with-George-Huey Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure platform. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow.In this episode, Wade is joined by George Huey—Principal Architect Evangelist for Microsoft—to discuss how to scale-out with&nbsp;SQL Azure Federations. George is the author and creator of the SQL Azure Migration Wizard and the SQL Azure Federation Data Migration Wizard.In the news:Career vNext 8 Essential Best Practices in Windows Azure Blob Storage Using Windows Azure Access Control Service from a Node Express App How Much Overcapacity Are You Running with Today? &nbsp; 2703 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Cloud+Cover/Episode-69-SQL-Azure-Federations-with-George-Huey Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:58:19 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Cloud+Cover/Episode-69-SQL-Azure-Federations-with-George-Huey Wade Wegner Wade Wegner 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Cloud+Cover/Episode-69-SQL-Azure-Federations-with-George-Huey/RSS Cloud Computing SQL Azure Windows Azure Visual Studio Toolbox: Web Essentials and CSSCop In this episode, Mads Kristensen returns to show extensions he wrote to make Web development easier. Mads shows us what's new in the Image Optimizer and how the Web Essentials extension provides a number of features that help you write Web apps faster. He also previews a new extension: CSSCop, which is FXCop for stylesheets.

Demos:

  • Image Optimizer starts around 5:00
  • Web Essentials starts around 9:00
  • CSSCop starts around 33:45

If you missed Mads first appearance on this show, check out Episode 10 and watch Mads show the Web Standards Update for Visual Studio 2010 SP1.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox/Visual-Studio-Toolbox-Web-Essentials-and-CSSCop In this episode, Mads Kristensen returns to show extensions he wrote to make Web development easier. Mads shows us what's new in the Image Optimizer and how the Web Essentials extension provides a number of features that help you write Web apps faster. He also previews a new extension: CSSCop, which is FXCop for stylesheets.Demos:Image Optimizer starts around 5:00 Web Essentials starts around 9:00 CSSCop starts around 33:45 If you missed Mads first appearance on this show, check out Episode 10&nbsp;and watch&nbsp;Mads show the Web Standards Update for Visual Studio 2010 SP1. 2505 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox/Visual-Studio-Toolbox-Web-Essentials-and-CSSCop Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:25:05 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox/Visual-Studio-Toolbox-Web-Essentials-and-CSSCop Robert Green Robert Green 5 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox/Visual-Studio-Toolbox-Web-Essentials-and-CSSCop/RSS ASP.NET 4 CSS 3 Visual Studio 2010 [Special Edition] It's Kinect day! The Kinect For Windows SDK v1 is out! As everyone reading this blog, and those in the Kinect for Windows space, knows today is a big day. From what was a cool peripheral for the XBox 360 last year, the Kinect for Windows SDK and now dedicated Kinect for Windows hardware device, has taken the world by storm. In the last year we've seen some simply amazing ideas and projects, many highlighted here in the Kinect for Windows Gallery, from health to education, to music expression to simply just fun.

And that was all with beta software and a device meant for a gaming console.

With a fully supported, allowed for use in commercial products, dedicated device and updated SDK, today the world changes again.

Welcome to the Kinect for Windows SDK v1!

Kinect for Windows is now Available!

On January 9th, Steve Ballmer announced at CES that we would be shipping Kinect for Windows on February 1st. I am very pleased to report that today version 1.0 of our SDK and runtime were made available for download, and distribution partners in our twelve launch countries are starting to ship Kinect for Windows hardware, enabling companies to start to deploy their solutions. The suggested retail price is $249, and later this year, we will offer special academic pricing of $149 for Qualified Educational Users.

In the three months since we released Beta 2, we have made many improvements to our SDK and runtime, including:

  • Support for up to four Kinect sensors plugged into the same computer
  • Significantly improved skeletal tracking, including the ability for developers to control which user is being tracked by the sensor
  • Near Mode for the new Kinect for Windows hardware, which enables the depth camera to see objects as close as 40 centimeters in front of the device
  • Many API updates and enhancements in the managed and unmanaged runtimes
  • The latest Microsoft Speech components (V11) are now included as part of the SDK and runtime installer
  • Improved “far-talk” acoustic model that increases speech recognition accuracy
  • New and updated samples, such as Kinect Explorer, which enables developers to explore the full capabilities of the sensor and SDK, including audio beam and sound source angles, color modes, depth modes, skeletal tracking, and motor controls
  • A commercial-ready installer which can be included in an application’s set-up program, making it easy to install the Kinect for Windows runtime and driver components for end-user deployments.
  • Robustness improvements including driver stability, runtime fixes, and audio fixes

More details can be found here.

If you're like me, you want to know more about what's new... So here's a snip from the Kinect for Windows SDK v1 Release Notes;

5. Changes since the Kinect for Windows SDK Beta 2 release

  • Support for up to 4 Kinect sensors plugged into the same computer, assuming the computer is powerful enough and they are plugged in to different USB controllers so that there is enough bandwidth available. (As before, skeletal tracking can only be used on one Kinect per process. The developer can choose which Kinect sensor.)

· Skeletal Tracking

    • The Kinect for Windows Skeletal Tracking system is now tracking subjects with results equivalent to the Skeletal Tracking library available in the November 2011 Xbox 360 Development Kit.
  • The Near Mode feature is now available. It is only functional on Kinect for Windows Hardware; see the Kinect for Windows Blog post for more information.
  • Robustness improvement including driver stability, runtime and audio fixes.
  • API Updates and Enhancements
    • Many renaming changes to both the managed and native APIs for consistency and ease of development. Changes include:
      • Consolidation of managed and native runtime components into a minimal set of DLLs
      • Renaming of managed and native APIs to align with product team design guidelines
      • Renaming of headers, libs, and references assemblies
    • Significant managed API improvements:
      • Consolidation of namespaces into Microsoft.Kinect
      • Improvements to DepthData object
      • Skeleton data is now serializable
      • Audio API improvements, including the ability to connect to a specific Kinect on a computer with multiple Kinects
      • Improved error handling
    • Improved initialization APIs, including addition the Initializing state into the Status property and StatusChanged events
    • Set Tracked Skeleton API support is now available in native and managed code. Developers can use this API to lock on to 1 or 2 skeletons, among the possible 6 proposed.
    • Mapping APIs: The mapping APIs on KinectSensor that allow you to map depth pixels to color pixels have been updated for simplicity of usage, and are no longer restricted to 320x240 depth format.
    • The high-res RGB color mode of 1280x1024 has been replaced by the similar 1280x960 mode, because that is the mode supported by the official Kinect for Windows hardware.
    • Frame event improvements. Developers now receive frame events in the same order as Xbox 360, i.e. color then depth then skeleton, followed by an AllFramesReady event when all data frames are available.
    • Managed API Updates

Correct FPS for High Res Mode

ColorImageFormat.RgbResolution1280x960Fps15 to ColorImageFormat.RgbResolution1280x960Fps12

Enum Polish

Added Undefined enum value to a few Enums: ColorImageFormat, DepthImageFormat, and KinectStatus

Depth Values

DepthImageStream now defaults IsTooFarRangeEnabled to true (and removed the property).

Beyond the depth values that are returnable (800-4000 for DepthRange.Default and 400-3000 for DepthRange.Near), we also will return the following values:

DepthImageStream.TooNearDepth (for things that we know are less than the DepthImageStream.MinDepth)

DepthImageStream.TooFarDepth (for things that we know are more than the DepthImageStream.MaxDepth)

DepthImageStream.UnknownDepth (for things that we don’t know.)

Serializable Fixes for Skeleton Data

We’ve added the SerializableAttribute on Skeleton, JointCollection, Joint and SkeletonPoint

Mapping APIs

Performance improvements to the existing per pixel API.

Added a new API for doing full-frame conversions:

public void MapDepthFrameToColorFrame(DepthImageFormat depthImageFormat, short[] depthPixelData, ColorImageFormat colorImageFormat, ColorImagePoint[] colorCoordinates);

Added KinectSensor.MapSkeletonPointToColor()

public ColorImagePoint MapSkeletonPointToColor(SkeletonPoint skeletonPoint, ColorImageFormat colorImageFormat);

Misc

Renamed Skeleton.Quality to Skeleton.ClippedEdges

Changed return type of SkeletonFrame.FloorClipPlane to Tuple<int, int, int, int>.

Removed SkeletonFrame.NormalToGravity property.

· Audio & Speech

    • The Kinect SDK now includes the latest Microsoft Speech components (V11 QFE). Our runtime installer chain-installs the appropriate runtime components (32-bit speech runtime for 32-bit Windows, and both 32-bit and 64-bit speech runtimes for 64-bit Windows), plus an updated English Language pack (en-us locale) with improved recognition accuracy.
    • Updated acoustic model that improves the accuracy in the confidence numbers returned by the speech APIs
    • Kinect Speech Acoustic Model has now the same icon and similar description as the rest of the Kinect components
    • Echo cancellation will now recognize the system default speaker and attempt to cancel the noise coming from it automatically, if enabled.
    • Kinect Audio with AEC enabled now works even when no sound is coming from the speakers. Previously, this case caused problems.
    • Audio initialization has changed:
      • C++ code must call NuiInitialize before using the audio stream
      • Managed code must call KinectSensor.Start() before KinectAudioSource.Start()
      • It takes about 4 seconds after initialize is called before audio data begins to be delivered
      • Audio/Speech samples now wait for 4 seconds for Kinect device to be ready before recording audio or recognizing speech.

· Samples

    • A sample browser has been added, making it easier to find and view samples. A link to it is installed in the Start menu.
    • ShapeGame and KinectAudioDemo (via a new KinectSensorChooser component) demonstrate how to handle Kinect Status as well as inform users about erroneously trying to use a Kinect for Xbox 360 sensor.
    • The Managed Skeletal Viewer sample has been replaced by Kinect Explorer, which adds displays for audio beam angle and sound source angle/confidence, and provides additional control options for the color modes, depth modes, skeletal tracking options, and motor control. Click on “(click for settings)” at the bottom of the screen for all the bells and whistles.
    • Kinect Explorer (via an improved SkeletonViewer component) displays bones and joints differently, to better illustrate which joints are tracked with high confidence and which are not.
    • KinectAudioDemo no longer saves unrecognized utterances files in temp folder.
    • An example of AEC and Beam Forming usage has been added to the KinectAudioDemo application.
  • Redistributable Kinect for Windows Runtime package
    • There is a redist package, located in the redist subdirectory of the SDK install location. This redist is an installer exe that an application can include in its setup program, which installs the Kinect for Windows runtime and driver components.

Here's some more links and information

Last but not least, here's some of the resources and projects that have been with with us since day 0;

Today is an exciting day and I'm really looking forward to the explosion of cool and fun stuff that I'm sure will be coming to the Gallery soon!

 

Update 2/2/2012:

Since yesterday there's been a number announcements, posts and updates related to the v1 release. Here's a round for a number of them.

In the coming days and weeks I'm sure we'll be hearing about more updates, refreshed, etc, so keep an eye on you favorite project or library...

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