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Semantic Zoom (Universal Apps)

6 minute read

Hub App This will be a bit of a deep dive into the Semantic Zoom control and it’s usage in a windows c# / xaml universal app project. Starting with something...

wp8 streamsocket

1 minute read

Building on previous StreamSocket-related posts http://babaandthepigman.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/streamsocket-example-c-metro/ and http://babaandthepigman.wo...

metro app and kinect voice control

2 minute read

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)

1 minute read

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

3 minute read

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

less than 1 minute read

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

1 minute read

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 ...