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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

Dec 29, 2014
[#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

Dec 28, 2014
[#VS2015] Tag Admin, cool extension to manage WorkItems Tags

Hello! These 2 great developers Utkarsh Shigihalli and Tarun Arora, now bring us a panel to the Visual Studio IDE that we have been missing from a while: WorkItem Tags administrator . When you start using the tagging capabilities in TFS the working process becomes much more powerful. However, is a pity that from the Visual Studio IDE, we… — read more

Dec 23, 2014
[#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

Dec 22, 2014
[#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

Dec 21, 2014
[#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

Dec 20, 2014
[#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

Dec 19, 2014
[#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

Dec 18, 2014
[#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

Dec 16, 2014
[#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

Dec 14, 2014
[#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

Dec 14, 2014
[#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

Dec 11, 2014
[#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

Dec 9, 2014
[#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

Dec 8, 2014
[#HUMOR] One of the better and worst things that happens to Developers

Hello! Long ago that do not put one of the posts from humor, today has been reviewing earrings, see this post and automatically feel identified Greetings @ Paracuellos /El Bruno Source: http://geek-and-poke.com/geekandpoke/2014/11/29/developers-madness — read more

Dec 8, 2014
[#TFS2013] Do you need a sample source code of TFS integration? You got it! TFS WordAddIn is OSS

Hello! I-m trying to getup and do some stuff while I’m dealing with a strange fever. So i just found that the ALM Rangers have released, the source code for the Word AddIn which works with TFS. The Homepage is on CodePlex, and here you will find some explanation about the project. It would nice to use GitHub (as other MS… — read more

Dec 4, 2014
[#WINDOWS10] HowTo: Speed up your Windows 10 Technical Preview updates

Hello! A few seconds ago I was pulling my teeth with pliers, because I have different versions of Windows 10 Technical Preview in my development laptop and in my Surface Pro for demos . This may seems trivial, but it has already complicated me a lot. In previous versions of Windows 10 Technical Preview there are some features of WinRT… — read more

Dec 2, 2014
[#HOC] Hour of Code: Learning to code with future generations

Hello! The school of my children is amazing and I know that much of their work lies on my. So that’s why I try to help every time I can. That’s why, besides helping in football (Argentinian topic) and play the guitar for the kids, now I have the opportunity to share something closer to my dayly basis with… — read more

Dec 1, 2014
[#VS2015] Some cool new stuff in Blend 2015

Hello! After running the 10 K race put a brake, now a little review what has been learned after using Blend 2015 for a couple of weeks. There are posts from the official Visual Studio Team where he discussed all of the new features, I’ll try to comment what I liked during this last time.… — read more

Nov 30, 2014
[#VS2015] Evolution: references, services and now #ConnectedServices! ;)

Hello! If you have some years as developer, for sure you’ll remember the mother or grandmother of a colleague that “has complicated the easy use of references in a development project“. Even with diferent words, the functionality of the references in different languages is the same: import a module which provides a feature XYZ. And… — read more

Nov 28, 2014