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metro app and kinect voice control

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Peter Daukintis Recently I had a need to reacquaint myself with the latest Kinect SDK. v1.6 has just been released and is downloadable from here Kinect SDK. ...

metro background audio c# (release preview)

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Peter Daukintis I have just updated the sample I created for this previous post metro background audio c# (consumer preview). I have re-jigged the code to wo...

Streamsocket example c# metro

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Peter Daukintis This is a very basic example of socket communication in a c# metro-style application using StreamSocket and StreamSocketListener. It mirrors ...

metro c#–simple transform using touch

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Well, this turned out to be pretty easy …… The aim was to carry out a simple image transform with touch; so pinch zoom, translate and rotate. This is how the...

wp7–JSON parsing

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Peter Daukintis I’m writing this mainly as a central place to store this code as I need to use it frequently – hopefully it will help others also. Supposing ...

metro c# webapi client

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Peter Daukintis For my own purposes I wanted to create a test application which I can use as a test-bed to experiment with user interface aspects of Metro. I...

skydrive upload c# metro

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Peter Daukintis A preview of the latest Live SDK for Metro apps can be downloaded here https://connect.microsoft.com/site1226. This is for usage with the Win...

metro background audio c# (consumer preview)

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Peter Daukintis Some changes occurred in the consumer preview release of Windows 8 regarding background audio; the steps required to get it working are outli...