Project Detriot: OBD-II Manager

Read diagnostic information from your car and display it on a slick instrument cluster dashboard! The OBD-II Manager project is the OBD-II sub-system and instrument cluster application from the Project Detroit Mustang Microsoft built with West Coast Customs.  If you're not familiar with this project, you can find out more about it here and here. OBD stands for On-Board Diagnostics.  In the world of cars, this can be thought of as the computer which has a variety of data points which can be queried, such as speed, fuel level, and even trouble codes that relate to the check engine li... [More]

Websocketing the Kinect with Kinection

Valentia Kinection serves as a pathway for transmission of data from Kinetic device to the web client. The service extracts data from the device and helps publish it on web sockets, which can then be accessed on web clients via HTML 5 supporting browser such as Safari. Kinect Service Manager operates as a client/server application that provides a platform to the three basic components of the service to communicate with each other, which are: Kinect device Kinection utility Web client Kinection first utilizes the attached Kinect sensor to accumulate image, depth and skeleton data, then ... [More]

Kinect: "Recovering Gracefully from Loss of Skeletal Tracking"

The Kinect For Windows SDK v1.0 is awesome, but it doesn't recover well when it loses sight of you whilst tracking your skeleton. [More]

Now Available: Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 Technology Preview

Download the CTP release of the upcoming Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 Update, and preview the upcoming patch release for the WPSDK 7.1. This Community Technology Preview (CTP) release provides developers with a preview of the upcoming WPSDK Update, which will enables developers to develop and test for the recently announced Windows Phone 7.5 256 MB devices. The 7.1.1 Update provides the following. Please note, the CTP is based on a very early build of the Windows Phone 7.5 Refresh. Updated 512 MB OS Emulator Image: An updated build Windows Phone OS 7.1 New 256 MB OS Emulator Image: A new Windo... [More]

Let your apps sell themselves!

Don't miss any opportunity to market your Windows Phone apps! Each one of your apps can serve as an ad for your other apps. Learn how to add a listing of everything you have published in Marketplace to each of your apps. Even better, it will always be up to date! This project shows you how to create a user control to display a list of apps from a given publisher (preferably yourself!). The user control will be implemented as a ListBox with individual apps showing up visually similar to the way they do in Marketplace. Touching an app in the list should bring the user directly to the appropriat... [More]

Codeproject Windows Phone Application

A tutorial on how to build an application for accessing Codeproject on Windows phone 7 mobile. The RSS feed supplied by Codeproject is utilized to update the content in the application. I have shamelessly utilized the utility classes written by Arik Poznanski (mentioned in the article “Reading RSS items on Windows Phone 7”) to read the RSS feed. The source code provided requires VS2010, Windows Phone SDK 7.0 for compiling and Windows phone emulator for simulation purpose. I have utilized MS Expression blend for creating XAML files. If you want to get your hands dirty these ar... [More]

Sample Code List O' Links

  Accelerometer; Simulating accelerometer data in the Windows Phone 7 Emulator   http://blogs.silverarcade.com/silverlight-games-101/27/silverlight-simulating-accelerometer-data-in-the-windows-phone-7-emulator/   Animation; Ptorr Slides, Video and Code (Page Turn animation etc.)   http://blogs.msdn.com/ptorr/archive/2010/03/18/slides-video-and-code.aspx   Audio; Audio Recording in WP7   http://mobileworld.appamundi.com/blogs/peterfoot/archive/2010/03/26/audio-recording-in-wp7.aspx   Comms; Accessing WCF Data Services from WP7 CTP   http... [More]

Nokia Posts WP7 Code Samples

Nokia has posted a bevy of code samples for their new line of WP7 Phones. In case you live under a rock, they have released three new models, the Nokia 900, Nokia 800 and Nokia Lumia 710 phones. [More]

Infragistics Releases Showcase Control Samples for WPF, Silverlight and WP7!

You may have seen the Finance Stocks Dashboard, Hospital, Earthquake Explorer, YouTube Media Timeline, Auto Dashboard, Airline Seating and World Stats examples that were released previously for XAML, but  if you haven’t I would highly recommend you check them out. The new examples Infragistics has posted continue to demonstrate what is possible with the controls – real world examples that use real data to show real scenarios.  Here is what they added, you can download the code and read the how-to blogs for each one of these samples: Finance - A Windows Phone 7 sample th... [More]