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[#VS2015] Ding on build, Ding on error, Ding on success tests … Dings anytime !!! (now you can choose)
Hi! More than a year ago, I wrote a small review of an interesting extension for Visual Studio. This extension plays a sound (bip) on some events in the IDE: Build Sucess, Build Failed, Test Run, etc. I really like the idea, however that version only have one sound for everything. So I kindly ask — read more
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[#VS2015] x:Bind, better performance and typed bindings in #Windows10 apps
Hello! If you work with XAML for sure you know the label x:Binding, we usually use it to associate code behind properties with XAML views. With the arrival of Windows Universal Apps for Windows 10 to have an evolution of that tag x:Bind. The way to use it is very similar. This is the Binding that we — read more
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#PERSONAL – €699 an #OculusRift really? IMHO OR has lost it
Hello! I’ve always been a big fan of Oculus Rift. From the point of view of technology, OR was a collage of many technologies that were for long time. However, they were the first ones who really knew how to succeed with a simple product based on 2 topics -Be cheap -Have a very powerful SDK — read more
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#VS2015 – #FateDetection and Merry Christmas #Coding4Fun
Hi! Although Christmas is gone, my children still love to play with their Santa hats. Half of them have already have been given, but I get out my dev superpowers and with 4 lines of code I add some VIRTUAL HATS in the face detection app !!! Like always the source is on GitHub and a — read more
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[#PERSONAL] #MVP for 9th time and a year with some BIG changes
Hello! New year season is always a great time to enjoy with family and friends. And also to consider new goals. This year I’ve been a bit ambicious with the goals… but I’ll get to that later. Going back to January 1st, I must admit, even if I’ve being recognized as MVP 9 years in a — read more
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#HUMOR – #IoT Connected World
Hi ! Everyone is talking about IoT, however this is maybe the best way to explain the current state of “everything” And then you became … Greetings @ Madrid -El Bruno Source Geek & Poke, Connected World — read more
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#VS2015 – Windows Universal sample App using #FaceDetection native API on #Windows10
Hello! In the yesterday’s post I wrote on the new Windows 10 APIs to perform face detection. In today’s sample app (shared on GitHub), it is possible to see how a WebCam feed is analyzed in real time and displays the detected faces. A couple of details about the App The AppCommandBar button changes to show — read more
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#VS2015 – #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, — 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 — 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 : — 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 — read more
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#VS2015–Windows 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 — 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 — read more
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#OLW – #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 — 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 — read more
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#VS2015 – 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 — 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 — 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 €2000 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, — read more
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#SURFACEPRO – #TouchCover not detected, how to fix it: #SoftReset
Hello! Interesting time this which when I was waiting my flight at the airport, I find that my Surface Pro 3 keyboard (Touch Cover) has stopped working. In the begging of a long work week and that ends with Talks4Kids, this is not good news. Good thing, is that this already has happened to someone — 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, — read more
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