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#VS2015 â #Windows10 native API for #FaceDetection
Hi ! Among the new APIs that brings Windows 10 to work with images we found one quite interesting: Windows.Media.FaceAnalysis. The name already tells us the functionality of this API: face detection. Using this library, we have several ways of working with it. For example, in the FaceDetector class, we have a DetectFacesAsync() operation that using a SoftwareBitmap,… â read more
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#VS2015 – Compare 2 external files in Visual Studio from the IDE
Hello! Visual Studio 2013 file comparison tool can be considered “first citizen tool”. Before I used to use WinMerge, or another tool to compare. What is still missing in the IDE is a small menu that allows us to select 2 files and compare them. From command line, you can do it with devenv.exe /diff   … â read more
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#VS2015 – VS Touch useful extension to work in #TouchMode in Visual Studio
Hi! I didn’t write any post for my Visual Studio Friday Extension series, so I’ll start to share a couple of them even if today is not Friday. Today’s extension is very useful if you are using a touch enabled device, for my is very useful to be used with my Surface Pro 3 :… â read more
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#EVENT – Now in #Channel9 our #Talks4Kids videos, thanks!
Hi  ! I’ve already shared the materials I’ve used in the event (slides + source code), now is time to  watch all the sessions live in Channel9. Big Disclaimer: All the sessions are in spanish. Keynote Talks4Kids Windows 10: La comunidad del core (Ruben Fernandez) The Big Cloud Theory (Alejandro Campos Magencio) Bailando con monos (Josue Yeray) Coding4Fun 2.4 (Bruno Capuano) Consejos Heisenberg para conseguir Apps Windows… â read more
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#VS2015âWindows Universal Apps in #FullScreen or #CustomSize mode
Hello! To get to some users to use Windows Universal Apps sometimes can be a challenge. Therefore, tasks such as managing the FullScreen mode or set a specific size in a window are important stuff to add into our apps. The following lines of code show how to change state Full Screen to normal state and define a… â read more
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#VS2015–Tweets including media (video, image) from #UWP using #TweetInvi
Hello 2 days ago I published a post I commented that TweetInvi is an interesting option to work with Twitter from our Windows 10 apps. Shortly after someone asked me if it was possible to publish images or videos embedded tweets. TweetInvi possesses a Upload class that allows us to attach images, videos, or binary… â read more
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#OLW â #OpenLiveWriter, Windows Live Writer saved by the open source community
Hello! I’ve been writing posts for already more than 10 years and I think that during the first 5 years Windows Live Writer (WLW) was the main tool I used. On the road were other options such as Writing with Word, good idea, bad implementation. I think I tried it only 2 times. Send posts… â read more
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#VS2015 – Sending tweets from an #UWP app #Windows 10
Hello! The last time that I added some capabilities of Twitter in any app, I used the excellent Daniel Crenna’s TweetSharp library. Today when trying to add the NuGet package to a Universal de Windows 10 app, I have come to realize that it is not supported for UWP. So, now is time to find some cool alternative to… â read more
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#VS2015 â Create all graphic Assets for your #UWP app from a single image
Hi! A couple of months ago I wrote a post where I show a tool which automates the creation of all the image assets to be used in the Visual section of the manifest in a Windows 8 / Windows 10 app. A couple if days ago, I found a similar extension [Windows Universal App Image… â read more
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#Windows10 – Using #KinectV2 for authentication with #WindowsHello
Hello! While I hope that fall into my hands a Surface Book or a Surface Pro 4, one of the new features that wanted to try was Windows Hello. Windows Hello, is part of a new set of libraries on Windows 10 [Windows.Devices.Perception] Within this namespace we can find a series of UWP APIs that allow… â read more
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#EVENT – #Coding4Fun materials used in the #Talks4Kids event
hI! Today is an amazing day, we are hosting the technology event for the Theodora Foundation and and is a great placer to share that we raise âŹ2000 to share to the foundation! Thanks a lot to the sponsors, the Microsoft and to all the people here in the event! After tons of community events, customer events,… â read more
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#AZURE – A detailed sample of thumbnail generation and #SmartCropping with #VisionAPI
Hello In yesterday’s post I wrote on how to create thumbnails using Vision API in Project Oxford. While there are several options in the .Net community to create thumbnails, this stands for creating the miniature bearing in mind the main content of the original image. For this, this process uses VisionAPI capabilities to detect “the main areas” in the image,… â read more
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#AZURE – Creating Thumbnails with #VisioAPI #ProjectOxford
Hi Today a small post with one cool feature included in en VisionAPI: Thumbnails generation. This operation is included in VisionAPI, and we mus feed the operation with a image byte stream, the size for the thumbnail and finally the most important option: smartCropping. SmartCropping is the cool feature for this image generation. When is sets… â read more
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#AZURE – #VisionAPI, add a frame for each detected text #OCR
Hello In the post yesterday I shared an example to show how to recognize text in pictures. The OCR API returns a collection of regions where the text is recognized. If we go through each region can recognize points to create a frame, and inside it is the recognized text. If we put together… â read more
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#AZURE – #VisionAPI and optical character recognition #OCR
Hello The API VisionAPI in Project Oxford also gives us the ability to perform optical character recognition in an image. What we usually known as OCR. The result of the OCR process, shows us information with the language of the detected language the area where the text has been detected the angle of the text a collection of… â read more
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#AZURE â #VisionAPI implementation for image analysis
Hola I previous posts I wrote about one of the Project Oxford features > VisionAPI . Using the API you can analize and get different properties of an image. For example: Image type: JPG, PNG, TIF, etc. Image size Type of image, clipart, line drawing, etc. Sex-Rate score Categories, which examines details such as “photo on the beach”, “sports… â read more
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#VSTS – New #CodeSearch app in #VisualStudio Team Services
Hello! After a great set of new yesterday, now is time to review the most interesting ones. As always, I’ll leave the big news such as what’s new in Visual Studio Code updates to ASP.NET 5, to focus on those stories that are most relevant for us in our daily dev life. As today is Extension’s Friday, today we’re… â read more
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#HOUROFCODE – Now is #Minecraft time
Hi! A year ago I was lucky enough to be part in an Hour of Code in my kids school. Among all the sessions that I did during the year, I think that it was one of the most rewarding ones. Last year, the available exercises included some generic ones with very popular characters like Frozen or Angry Birds, so… â read more
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#AZURE â Display #EmotionsAPI and #FaceAPI in the detected face frame
Hello Some days ago, someone asked me about the chance to display age, gender and emotions information in the frame of a detected face. So, I make a couple of improvements in the GitHub samples and now you’ll find something similar to the similar image: The source code is available on GitHub https://github.com/elbruno/ProjectOxford Greetings @ Madrid El… â read more
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#AZURE â Complete sample of Face APIs and Emotions APIs #ProjectOxford
Hello Today we will see a little implementation and the detail provided by Project Oxford if we want to work with Emotion APIs. Firstly a gif with an example of recognition of age, gender and emotions in a WPF app. We see a photo with some faces recognized: 64 MVPs (nice set of people) and then a bit… â read more
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