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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 — read more

Nov 26, 2015
#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 — read more

Nov 25, 2015
#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 — read more

Nov 24, 2015
#AZURE – #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 — read more

Nov 23, 2015
#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 — read more

Nov 20, 2015
#AZURE – 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 — read more

Nov 16, 2015
#AZURE – 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 — read more

Nov 14, 2015
#AZURE – Hello Emotions! Face APIs and Emotions APIs are the perfect combo to analyze people moods!

Hello ! Some time ago, I wrote a couple of posts where I explained how to use Azure Machine Learning Face APIs in some apps like Console Apps, Windows Presentation Foundation apps and Windows Store Apps (see references section). These features are part of the Project Oxford initiative, where we can find other useful features like Vision Recognition — read more

Nov 12, 2015
#EVENT – #Talks4Kids, less than a month to learn and contribute to a good cause!

Hola! Probably, right now I will be flying to Barcelona, so I’ll take this opportunity to remind everyone that in less than there will be best and coolest event ever, Talks4Kids. Talks4Kids is a development and technology charity event , whose funds will be allocated entirely to a Foundation which has as a main focus, programs and activities to — read more

Nov 9, 2015
#MSBAND – Posts on development #Windows10 apps for the Band using Visual Studio 2015

Hola! Today I’ll close the series of posts on How to develop Windows 10 apps which interacts with Microsoft Band using Visual Studio 2015. How to connect a Microsoft Band to a Windows 10 device How to connect to a Band and access sensor information in a Windows 10 app using Visual Studio 2015 List, add and delete — read more

Nov 3, 2015
#MSBAND – Send notifications and vibrations with #VS2015 and #Windows10

Hola! These are the final posts that I will write about Microsoft Band, Windows 10. and Visual Studio 2015 Now is time to send information to the band in dialog form. We have 2 ways to send a notification to the band: Using the method SendMessageAsync, we need to define a title and body, and it will — read more

Nov 2, 2015
#HUMOR – This is #GIT

Hola! As as developer, this is the MOST ACCURATE GIT DEFINITION EVER!! Saludos @ Madrid Source: http://m.xkcd.com/1597/ — read more

Nov 1, 2015
#VSGALLERY – Template to quickly create a #Windows10 Universal App with navigation panels in #VS2015

Hola! Visual Studio extension’s Friday again! Today extension is a timer saver Nav Pane App Template. This extension adds a new project type in the Universal applications category, which already has implemented a navigation model based on panels. This is something that is quite popular right now, the good news is that this extension saves you one morning to put — read more

Oct 30, 2015
#MSBAND – Update Tiles live data with #VS2015 and #Windows10

Hola! Today it is time to show how we can update the information displayed in a Tile in real time. To update the information we need to know The Id of the Tile The Id of the Page The Ids of the controls within the Page The following code example shows a class that these — read more

Oct 29, 2015
#MSBAND – Suscribe to User interaction with #MicrosoftBand and #VS2015

Hola! Today I start from back to forward. First a video where we can see A deployed custom Tile in a Band, with A label A barcode 2 buttons A Windows Universal Application on Windows 10 which Connects to the Band Capture the clicks of a user on the buttons Displays the button pressed in the app — read more

Oct 28, 2015
#MSBAND – About #Tiles format, and how to create complex ones

Hola! Today I’m going to review a little deeper the way in which Tiles are defined. The Microsoft Band SDK explains in detail this topic in Chapter 8 “Customizing Tile Layouts”. This chapter explains the available controls, the available dimensions and much more information concerning the design of tiles. After programming a little on this model, and — read more

Oct 27, 2015
#MSBAND – List, add and delete Tiles using an #Windows10 app and Visual Studio 2015

Hola! After a couple of post on how to connect and use C# to access a Microsoft Band information, today’s post will explain about how we can work with the Tiles of in a Band using C# code. In the references section, there are a couple of links explaining how Tiles works in in a Band. In this post — read more

Oct 26, 2015
#MSBAND – How to connect to a Band and access sensor information in a #Windows10 app using Visual Studio 2015

Hola! In my previous post I wrote on how to connect a Microsoft Band to a Windows 10 device using Bluetooth. Today I will show the 5 lines of code that we should use to access the Band from a Windows 10 Universal App project and also to show information from the band sensors. 1. Once we have paired the device with our computer, we — read more

Oct 23, 2015
#MSBAND – How to connect a Microsoft Band to a #Windows10 device

Hola! The official Microsoft Band documentation explains the basic getting started steps to follow when you just get a MS Band device. They suggest to download the [Microsoft Health] App for Android, iOS and Windows Phone and use this app to connect your device with the MS Band. My goal is to work with 10 Windows, and I just — read more

Oct 22, 2015
EVENT – #Talks4Kids, I’ll be there and you should also !!!

Hola ! I have a little abandoned blog in terms of number of posts, although this one it deserves an entry. The first thing you should do is to boo this day: December 4, then know the place: Microsoft offices in Pozuelo, and finally the reason: Talks4Kids.com. This event is a full session from 09:00 to 19:00, — read more

Oct 20, 2015