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[#UNITY3D] Great promition for Unity3d developers
Hello! Interesting promotion have created the friends of Unity3D. It is a program with 2 levels for developers who create games with Unity3D. If games are published in the Stores of Windows or Windows Phone you can enter into a program of 2 levels where If your game qualify for level 1, you will receive — read more
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[#SYNCFUSION] Download Essential Studio for #free (more than 650 controls for WP, Win, iOS and Android)
Hello! Thanks to my friend David, I reallice that now SyncFusion team have released for free the SyncFusion Essential Studio. They share all the details and constrains in deep in their official statement Similar to Visual Studio Community Edition, Syncfusion is now offering free License for its Essential Studio product which includes over 650 components across 12 platforms — read more
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[#VS2015] HowTo: Show more detail in a local build in the Visual Studio IDE
Hello! Many times I face myselft with Visual Studio solutions that take a long time in the basic step of bulld and run unit tests. When I attempt to help or ask for help to see something with “bad smell” I’m amazed with the following Many people are not aware that by default, the level of logging in a Build — read more
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[#KINECT] Kinect V1? Ends on 2015
Hello! I still remember the time when, after a few very hards days at work, we leave with Edu to download some tensions outside and we also purchase a couple of Kinect for XBox 360 sensors. This version, which was a 100% free game control experience after the proposal of the Nintendo Wii and it included the great Kinect Adventures — read more
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[#ALM] About free online training (#MOOC), #Millenials and what to do to improve your team work
Hello! Surely if you see the first hashtag (#MOOC) in the title of the post, you will think something similar to This post sure has links to training resources. You are probably right,, but I’ll try to go a little further. MOOCs Let’s start with the definition of MOOC in wikipedia (link) MOOC (an acronym of massive — read more
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[#KINECTSDK] Beware of the array of bodies, not all bodies are tracked by defaultK in #KinectV2
Hello! When you work with apps on Kinect that require a special code for each body recognized by the sensor, the entry point tends to be the collection of bodies returning to us in the line 15 of the first block in the following code example The problem with these lines is the collection of bodies it is — read more
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[#KINECTSDK] Do you build #Kinect apps without a Kinect V2 sensor? Check #KinectStudio and the new Kinect SDK V2
Hello! A long time ago, a very interesting tool was added in KinectSdk version 1.5: “Kinect Studio” (I wrote a review 2 years ago here). This tool allows us to record Kinect sessions including all sensor captured information, like camera feed or infrared feed. If you develop Kinect apps wich require very repetitive testing, this type of recording is — read more
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[#VS2013] Free books for Visual Studio 2013 and Visual Studio 2015
Hello! I guess it is a Christmas offer or similar, however I see that these books are available for download in epub and pdf format these days. Visual Studio 2013 Design and development of applications with Visual Studio Development of applications with Visual Studio 2013 and Xamarin Windows Professional Visual Studio 2013 and Cordova Creating — read more
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[#CODE] #HourOfCode: Thanks #Microsoft and plenty of fun for children !!!
Hello! A couple of weeks ago I talked about the initiative of Hour of Code and how Microsoft Spain helped us with this initiative. For privacy reasons, I can not share my personal experience to everyone; but I must say it’s the most fun thing I’ve done during the year. However, I think I should encourage everyone to use — read more
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[#HUMOR] Duckfooding, walks like a duck, swims like a duck, is yellow and uses batteries
Hello! As soon I saw this one, I remembered when 7 years ago I used to start my scrum sessions with the following phrase – Is yellow as a duck, swims like a duck, walks like a duck and uses batteries You have to know the work of James Withcomb Riley to know the context, but if — read more
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[#VS2015] Some #NuGet new features in Visual Studio 2015
Hello! Right now work with Visual Studio 2015 is a pleasure. Even if the current version “less than a Beta”, it is rather stable and you can use it to work fine. One of the things that I like most in the new IDE, is the new NuGet window which is not modal. For sure, in the past you get — read more
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[#KINECTSDK] Error: Kinect Monitor (KinectMonitor) failed to start.
Hello! Today is (again) a quick post. I hope this one is my last error fixing of the year 2014. Todays issue is related to the installation process of Kinect SDK V2. If you were using old sdks, you’ll probably find this error message Error code: 1920 Kinect Monitor (KinectMonitor) failed to start. Verify that you have sufficient — read more
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[#VS2013] Some build errors, #Bing Developer Assistant and how you can probably skip a couple of steps ;)
Hello! Bing Developer Assistant is so cool. Some time ago I already wrote about it, specially for scenarios where the addin could help us while we in “code mode”. Today I see that when a build fails, we also get some support in the error list panel. the way it works is simple, you select the option “Contextual — read more
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[#VS2013] NuGet Error: Failed to initialize the PowerShell host. If your PowerShell execution policy setting is set to AllSigned, open the Package Manager Console to initialize the host first.
Hello! Today I’ll go with a and easy-to-fix Visual Studio error. I was fixing some old projects and I find that suddenly NuGet decided to stop working. The error message was pretty clear ‘ EntityFramework 6.1. 1′ already installed. Adding ‘ EntityFramework 6.1. 1′ to BigAndCoolProject. Successfully added ‘ EntityFramework 6.1. 1′ to BigAndCoolProject. Executing script file ‘… \src\packages\EntityFramework.6.1.1\tools\install.ps1′. Failed to — read more
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[#HUMOR] Try/Catch in love / couple mode ;)
Hello! As incredible description of our beloved (and sometimes bad usa) Try / Catch for couples Greetings @ Home /El Bruno Source: Seen on twitter, but I could not find the original. Google Images has helped me a bit (link) — read more
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[#VSONLINE] New license model and prices for builds, load testing, release management, etc.
Hello! A few days ago Brian Harry has released some Christmas news with some changes in the licensing model for Visual Studio Online, and also he make some clarification related to the prices of some of the services in VSO. Some time ago he already announced some important changes, for example StakeHolders will not require to pay — read more
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[#ALM] About Annual Performance Reviews, new Managers and feel free to break walls !!!
Hello! When we are getting closer to end-of-year, we usually get to that fabulous moment where we face the annual performance review. I know, I am not going to talk about that topic for 2 reasons: first one, is that painful model gives me hives and that would also give to write a full post. Is much better — read more
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[#VS2015] HowTo: Change the IDE based on your work environment
Hello! If your like me, you probably get to work on different computers. So, the chances that you also have to adapt to each of these environments to VS IDE are great. For example, the Surface Pro has a very cool super definition HD and is very good , but the size is kind of a — read more
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[#VS2015] A little about #Roslyn, #ReSharper 9.0 RTM available and now is part of a very cool suite ;)
Hello! With the arrival of Roslyn, Visual Studio 2015 as IDE was able to take a big step and incorporate some tools that are in the line of “code / syntax helpers” very similar to the ones we know in ReSharper. For example, the Syntax Tree Visualizer is an interesting one. Also, now that compilers for C# and VB.Net — read more