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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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#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… 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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#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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#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… â read more
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#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… â read more
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#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… â read more