Tweet Since Microsoft has released the Kinect.NET SDK I wrote many articles on that subject: Kinect – Getting Started – Become The Incredible Hulk Kinect – Calculator – Adjust Skeleton Movements To Mouse More on Kinect I think Kinect it very cool and I’m searching for more projects and good ideas for Kinect, couple of days ago I talked with my friend Guy Burstein and he came with an idea for Kinect application, he said what if people will enter the Microsoft Israel reception and instead of video...

CodeProject In my previous post Kinect – Create Buttons I’ve showed one approach how to create Kinect Buttons for Windows, over the next posts I’ll show more ways to accomplish that by moving windows Cursor based on Kinect Skeleton Right Hand Position. Why To Create Kinect Button? Why not using windows cursor and create brilliant hand or head ( ) movement to simulate Click, so we don’t need to create designated Kinect Buttons. Answers: You had to stand at least 1 meter from the computer screen and...

I’ve created a few short videos, covering some introductory material – still may be useful for some… The audio quality is not the best possible, but should be fairly understandable. All the videos are in Hebrew (sorry, non-Hebrew speakers! You can still watch me type code samples, it may have some value) The videos are: Introduction to C# 5.0 asynchronous programming Introduction to the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) Understanding XAML (Part 1) Understanding XAML (Part 2)   They are also...

For our second Software Craftsmanship Coding Dojo , I have prepared a "Short Roman Numeral" Kata. In essence, a Short Roman Numeral is a number between 0 to 3999 that has a ToString() method which returns its roman presentation. The rules of roman presentation construction can be found here . After the meeting, I took some time in order to record the Code Kata. As you probably know it is extremely difficult to produce a well synchronized recording . Hence, after a few sleepless nights I...

On 12.07.2010 we have a lot of fun meeting at ALT.NET Tools Night. The topics were: Test Lint - Eli Shalom . CodeRush & Refactor Pro - Me :). NDepend - Dror Helper . Process Explorer - Ariel Raunstien Iron Ruby - Shay Friedman Testify Wizard - Lior Friedman Below you can find three sessions I have managed to record. (Unfortunately, I didn't manage to record more, as I needed to leave earlier.) Enjoy! Many thanks to Lior Friedman, Shay Friedman and Ken Egozi for organizing the event.

One of the key aspects of a Software Craftsmanship is constant practice. Kata (from Martial Arts) is one form of such practice. The notion of a Code Kata was first introduced by Dave Thomas and can be viewed as: Practice of the same methods, solutions and activities to a perfection. Practice of the same problem, tackling it each time from a different angle or with a different solution. Solving a known problem multiple times utilizing the same methods, enhances the understanding of the specific steps;...

Today I’ll talk about SMEWA (Silverlight Mesh Enabled Web Application) creation. To create one (as for today) you need to be a member of Live Framework CTP. Invite to this CTP could be received through Microsoft Connect site. After receiving the invitation key and redeeming it you will be able to download Live Framework SDK and Tools for Visual Studio and at Azure Services Developer Portal create new project – Live Framework CTP After installing the Live Framework Tools for Visual Studio you will...

Today I’ve been asked by colleague how to inject and execute JavaScript functionality from Silverlight application to the HTML DOM of hosting page. Well, things are pretty easy. First we need to get JavaScript from somewhere. In colleague's case it was an embedded resource, in my sample I’ll use TextBox to accept the script code. Also I’ll accept function name and parameters from UI. From here we have two approaches: to Eval the function code or to create “Script” element dynamically. First approach...

Lately I'm getting a lot of questions what could be done with Silverlight in in terms of work with streaming media. Today I'll show what could be done. I've built very simple media player based on MediaElement object and prepared some stream to use in my application. The major focus of this post it to briefly show what could be done with stream in Silverlight and not how specifically do it. I'll be glad to answer any specific questions there will be any. First about the stream. I've...

As promised, here short video from our Tech-Ed 2008 session setup... I've shot this at ~6:10, while trying to make whole stuff blend together :) Second part - in Tamir 's blog. Enjoy, Alex