Anith Gopal

Don’t you hate it when you are going to do a simple thing like copy a UserControl and then it doesn’t work?  Seriously, how can you steal other peoples work if you have to redo all of their code.

Kinect のドキュメントの翻訳がついにリリースされました。 これまで Kinect のドキュメントは英語での提供となっていましたが、Kinect for Windows SDK beta 2 のドキュメントをこの度日本語へと翻訳させていただきました。 まず今回最初に提供しているのは「 Kinect for Windows SDK SkeletalViewer のチュートリアル 」です。本チュートリアルでは、Kinect for Windows SDK および Kinect の基本的な機能である、スケルトンの情報や深度を取得するための方法をコードとともに解説しています。全 36 ページのボリュームで、詳細を記載していますので、ぜひ Kinect アプリケーション開発の参考にしてください。 「Speech チュートリアル」や「AudioCaptureRaw チュートリアル」などは順次アップロードして、このブログポストを更新します。 公開している文書一覧 SkeletalViewer のチュートリアル なお、ダウンロードするには、Faculty Connection への登録が必要です。登録方法は 以前のブログポスト を参考にしてください。（Faculty Connection は先生や TA の方々を支援するサイトです。Faculty Connection への登録は、先生や TA の方に限られますのでご注意ください） 登録の際には認証が必要です。認証コードをご希望の場合は、ac.jp のドメインなどで「認証コード希望」という件名でメールを  cak-info@microsoft.com までご一報ください。登録に必要な認証コードをお送りいたします（認証コードの発行には 1 – 2 週間程度お時間をいただく場合がございます。ご了承ください）。 宜しくお願いいたします。 馬田

This week Microsoft released an update to the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Training Kit. This includes updates to labs that we made available at BUILD as well as several new labs. The Training Kit is available in two different offline packages and is also available to browse online at MSDN

  TechED is around the corner, and we have lined up some great speakers and content. Speakers Brian Keller – Senior Tech Evangelist for TFS/ALM Chris Menegay – a regional director from Imaginet who has been working with TFS for ages. Heads up one of the leading ALM partners in the United States Colin Dembovsky – new ALM MVP – congrats!.

Das Büro wird bald umgebaut. Wohin dann mit uns

Who likes free stuff? I know I do! Well, I’d like to take this opportunity to invite you to join our FREE deployment webcast where you can hear about some of the many ways in which you can get the most value from the service. There’ll also be lots of time for Q&A with our UK deployment specialist; me! So, if you have any questions I’d love to hear from you! Sit down with a coffee and register today to hear about: Various deployment scenarios How to avoid common deployment mistakes Ways you can integrate with your local infrastructure Register for this webcast to learn more about using Live@edu at your institution Thursday 4 August 12pm-1:30pm Register Monday 8 August 12pm-1:30pm Register With many deployment options and no minimum or maximum users, Live@edu is the ideal way to give students the software skills that employers demand

Si te apasiona la tecnología, la innovación y estás en busca de una oportunidad para compartir tu talento, conocimiento y desarrollarte como un futuro líder de tecnología … ¡Microsoft te está buscando! Los mejores estudiantes de carreras de Tecnología y Diseño de Universidades Públicas y Privadas de todo México, tienen la posibilidad de aplicar para ingresar a un selecto programa de estudiantes de alto potencial que brinda reconocimiento a su conocimiento, esfuerzo y pasión por la tecnología. Microsoft Student Partners es un selecto programa que tiene como fin  impulsar de una manera especial a los estudiantes y convertirlos en los futuros líderes de la industria de Tecnologías de Información. Al convertirte en Student Partner convivirás con la comunidad de estudiantes más entusiastas, brillantes, talentosos e innovadores de todo México y el mundo.

There was a lot of buzz around mobile development at DevTeach Montreal a few weeks ago with an entire track dedicated to mobile development, 4 Windows Phone 7 sessions, and a post-conference full day event all about Windows Phone 7 with Colin Melia . As an added bonus, Carl Franklin ( @carlfranklin ) and Richard Campbell ( @richcampbell ) were on hand to host a special .NET Rocks! show – Panel of Mobile Platform Experts. On the panel were Kevin McNiesh, iPhone expert; Robert MacHale, Android expert; Michael Hutchinson, Mono expert; and Colin Melia, Windows Phone 7 expert.

The Microsoft Imagine Cup brings together students from all over the world and asks them to use their creativity and passion for technology to help solve the world’s toughest problems. This year, more than 350,000 students from 183 countries and regions registered to compete and, from July 8-13, the finalists (more than 400 students from 70 countries) will meet for the Worldwide Finals in New York City. Beginning today, people around the world will have the opportunity to get involved in the excitement…( read more )

Alfred Thompson has written a series of good articles about programming, and why to take the classes, etc. But where is computer science being developed and refined to really save lives?  Chapel Hill held a 2 day conference titled: Microsoft Biology Foundation Workshop 2011.  This covered the open source tools for biological investigation and analysis.  For the conference syllabus see: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/events/mbf2011-chapelhill/ The basis for this conference is the Microsoft Biology Foundation at http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/bio/mbf.aspx , here you will find a bunch of stuff that I definitely will be blogging about in the future.

Another exciting use of HTML5 with Windows Internet Explorer 9 is the new Disney Tron Legacy Digital Book site, learn more about this exciting experience from the Microsoft News Center . Discover other amazing examples of HTML5 experiences developed by other sites on the Beauty of the Web

The latest episode of the Community Megaphone Podcast is up! In this episode, Dane and I bring back guest #2 (and frequent guest host) Joel Cochran, for a conversation on MVVM, WPF, Blend, and of course Joel’s new book. Joel shares his manifesto for practical MVVM, and his philosophy of how he approaches this popular pattern for WPF and Silverlight development.