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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

Dec 10, 2015
#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

Dec 9, 2015
#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

Dec 7, 2015
#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

Dec 4, 2015
#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

Nov 30, 2015
#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

Nov 27, 2015
#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