Microsoft SDKs

Kinect SDK for Windows v 1.8 Released

Microsoft has released latest version of Kinect SDK for Windows and Kinect Developer Toolkit for Windows. The Kinect for Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) enables developers to create applications that support gesture and voice recognition, using Kinect sensor technology on…
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Windows 8.1 RTM and Windows Server 2012 R2 RTM are available for MSDN/TechNet subscribers

Today, Microsoft has released the Windows 8 RTM and Windows Server 2012 R2 RTM bits for MSDN/TechNet Subscribers. As rumoured earlier final build version is  6.3.9600.16384. If you are an MSDN/TechNet Subscriber you can download the latest build from: MSDN:…
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WP8Dev– How to identify the sensors supported on your Windows Phone

This post will give you an  overview on how to identify the sensors supported on your Windows Phone. As a developer when you are developing for Windows Phone – and your application would need to interact with certain sensors in…
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Sending Mobile Push notification using C#/.NET (iOS, Android, Windows Phone 8, Windows 8 and Blackberry)

This is an update blog to my earlier blog about Sending Apple iOS Push notifications using C#. With that blog – I  introduced you to  how to send push notification using Open Source library APNSharp, by the developer John Redth. …
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Installing Windows 8 Client Hyper-V inside VMware Workstation/Fusion/ESX

Typically I used to try latest version of Windows on VMWare Player, Workstation or VirtualBox. Recently I was trying to set up a Windows Phone 8.0 development environment inside a VMWare virtual machine. I tried to enable Hyper-V platform components…
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Windows Phone SDK 8.0 Update for Windows Phone 8.0.10322–Released

Microsoft has released a new Windows Phone SDK 8.0 Update. This update for Windows Phone 8.0.10322 adds four new emulator images to an existing installation of Windows Phone SDK 8.0. This update requires Visual Studio 2012 Update 2. Using this…
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