This is a quick post on a simple project demonstrating how you can pass Kinect sensor values to Windows Phone 7 Mango using nodejs. This was inspired by this concept video. (Thanks to Oren for helping me out with me error on the localhost thing in getting node and WP7 to communicate with each other) Steps 1. Install NITE/PrimeSense as described in this post. This will ensure that our Kinect setup is working. This will also have the c++ source code that we will modify later (Don’t worry, no coding required). ...

Today, a bunch of SG developers registered in AppHub got their Mango Beta 2 Connect invite so they can update their WP7 devices to Mango. You can refer to this blog post titled “Developers Get Goody Basket Full of Mangos” from the Windows Phone Developer Blog to find out more about why developers are getting this update. If you’re too lazy to read, here’s the summary towards the end of that post: ...

In this post I am going to carry on from where we last left off. For those who did not get to see our earlier posts here is [part 1] and [part 2]. Am going to briefly show you how to retrieve data, specifically from project nimbus, and put it in your app. A pre-requisite for using Project Nimbus would be an account key, which you can get by dropping them an email [projectnimbus@live.com.sg]. If you wish, you may use other datasets for your app as well. ...

Thank you for everyone who attended the CTU on 25th June. We have 91 registered and 84 attended the event. A group of passionate MVPs started and lanned this together. I would like to thank them for their time and contribution to the community. A big thank should go to Desmond who played a important leading role in this CTU 2011, below are words from him. “Community Technology Updates 2011 has been a wonderful event. This is the first time I am taking up the leading role of organizing CTU and it has been fruitful for me. Apart from the usual IT Pro, Dev and Special Track, this CTU we have added in HOL and ChalkTalk sharing session. These sessions aim to share useful industry experiences with attendees and great feedbacks were collected for these sessions. We will try to arrange more of such session in coming CTU if possible. It touches my heart to see attendees leaving at the end of the event with useful information and making new friends friend. These motivations will keep me going forward and push on to organize a better CTU for the community from the community again next time. For those who have missed this CTU, join us for CTU in Dec as we learn, share and make friends in this BIG community!!” ...

Sensors Hey guys, its Shank again. It seems that quite a number of you are were quite enthusiastic about writing your very own AR app after my first post. For those who have not read part one yet, well here’s the link to that post: http://weshipcode.com/developers/wp7arparti/ In this post, we are going to continue from where we last left off. By now, you would have an application that can display the camera stream on your screen. That’s great, but for an AR Application we also need to know the device’s movements and orientation, in order to display the information correctly on the screen. In this post we are going to explore 3 sensors and see how to hook up the data from those sensors to our application. ...

AVIcode delivers market-leading .NET application performance monitoring capabilities to help ensure the availability of business-critical applications and services, regardless of where they are deployed. It is part of System Center Operation Manager (SCOM) and can be installed as a Management Pack. To download the AVIcode management pack, go to HERE. AVIcode really allows the infrastructure team to provide more valuable information to the application engineering team. The process of sending these valuable information can be as easy as right click on the alert in SCOM and select send to engineering team. This is achieved through SCOM TFS connector (Read my post on TFS connector to know more). More importantly, it helps to identify where the real problem is. We don’t have to second guess whether the problem comes from infrastructure or application. AVIcode has capabilities like ...

Introduction Hi guys, I am Shank (Sangar), a Microsoft Student Intern from NTU. I am also a hobbyist Windows Phone 7 developer having developed apps such as ‘NewsSG’ and ‘SG Elections’. I was recently arrowed tasked by Chris Ismael to explore the Windows Phone Mango SDK and come up with tutorials that would help you guys, build apps that capitalize on the new APIs. (alright, i confess… he was making me do this as he was lazy to learn it by himself) ...

The 8th iteration of CTU is back – It’s the time of the year User Group of Singapore come together and put up a full day technical sharing event for the community. Organized by the community for the community, we have sessions that suits IT Professionals, Developers and Database Administrators. We have arranged for you a full day of contents to help get you up to date with the latest technologies in the Microsoft stack. If you are someone who like hands on more than anything, you are welcome to sign up for our Hands-on Lab on the actual day itself! Don’t miss this chance and start registering today! Why you should attend this event: ...

This post will get you up and running apps for Kinect connected to PC using open source libraries. Mine is running on Windows 7. We’ll assume that you don’t know what you’re doing, and you couldn’t care less about what libraries you’ll use to run this. (You can learn that later). You just want to follow the instructions, run that demo, and start to impress your friends, right? Obviously you need to have the Kinect sensor device with the power adapter for this. ...

We have some good internal folks who gave us permission to post this. It ought to be shared! Enjoy! Highlights | What’s New | Code Samples | Walkthroughs | Features RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS More Code Samples – There are 22 new code samples covering a majority of the platform features in Mango. These code samples are snackable solutions that allow you to hit F5 and go! Most of the samples are also accompanied by a walkthrough so that you can see how it was specifically built and how to extend it for your own apps and games. ...