Get the IR Stream and control the IR Emitter – Kinect for Windows SDK

by Abhijit JanaJanuary 11, 2013January 14, 20138 Comments

In this post I am going to talk about how to capture the Infrared stream from the Kinect sensor and control the IR emitter using Kinect for Window SDK. This feature is available with the Kinect for Windows SDK v1.6. The major components for a Kinect device consists of a depth sensor, color camera, IR Emitter, and a set of microphones with everything secured inside box. The box is attached to a small motor working as the base that enables the device to be tilted.

I wish you a Happy New Year 2013

by Abhijit JanaJanuary 1, 2013January 1, 20136 Comments

Wish you and your family a very happy and prosperous new year 2013. May this new year bring many new opportunities your way to explore every joy of life. I Hope this new year fills your life with happiness and perfect health always, much more success and happiness. Be Safe ! Stay Safe

As we wind up with year 2012, I would like to express my sincere thanks to all the visitors, readers, followers of my blog for their encouragement, feedbacks and support.

Many Thanks,
Abhijit

Kinect Book : Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide

by Abhijit JanaDecember 27, 2012January 7, 20133 Comments

I am very happy and pleased to announce the availability of my book “Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide”. The purpose of this book is to explain how to develop applications using the Kinect for Windows SDK. If you are a beginner and looking to start developing applications using the Kinect for Windows SDK, and if you want to build motion-sensing , speech-recognizing applications with Kinect, this book is for you. This book uses C# and WPF in the examples, so you need to know the basics of C# and WPF. If you are a student with basic C# programming knowledge and having basic understanding of WPF and interested to learn about Kinect SDK, you can also read this book.

Quick Overview:

Building application using Kinect for Windows SDK.
Covers the Kinect for Windows SDK v1.6
A practical step-by-step tutorial to make learning easy for a beginner.
A detailed discussion of all the APIs involved and the explanations of their usage in detail
Procedures for developing motion-sensing applications and also methods used to enable speech recognition

Thank You ! Wishing you all Merry Christmas

by Abhijit JanaDecember 25, 2012December 25, 2012Leave a comment

Here’s wishing you all the joys of the season. Wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year in advance. May this good times become the golden memories of tomorrow for all of you and bring abundant happiness in your life.

It’s been few months I kept my self absent from the blogging due to some other priorities. I have couple of good news to share; will share with all of you very soon. I would like to express my sincere thanks to all the visitors, readers, followers of my blog for their encouragement, feedbacks and continuous support. Please keep visiting and share your feedback.

Home Security System Using Kinect, Azure, Windows Phone and Windows 8

by Abhijit JanaApril 16, 2012January 14, 20137 Comments

Most the people who were in the TechEd 2012 India would have witnessed the cool demo by me and Jebarson made on the opening Keynotes of the event. And now we would like to share how this solution was developed so that you can also build your own.

Background

Before we could pitch in, let me give a little background on how we decided to build this on our garage. Developer Conference 2011 on Hyderabad was scheduled on October 2011 and myself and Jebarson were looking forward to show something cool on our own interested areas. Jebarson was looking out for something on Windows Azure and Windows Phone while myself was fiddling around Kinect. Ran out of ideas we both met together and thought of integrating everything and that is when we came up with the idea of building our own home security. We started building this application as early as September 2011. And by now, we have already revised the application more than 5 times due to newer SDK release and also due to the addition of newer components.

TechEd India 2012 – Presenting On "Windows Azure With Windows Phone, Windows 8 Metro And Kinect”

by Abhijit JanaMarch 13, 2012March 20, 20122 Comments

I am very happy and excited to announce that this TechEd I will be presenting along with my friend Jebarson. We will be presenting a session which will showcase the integration onWindows Azure, Windows Phone, Windows 8 Metro and Kinect.

For the presentation we have developed a proto solution for Home Security. Well let me explain how we have put all these technologies into action. The Kinect device will serve as a watch dog at the home which is connected to the Azure. The device will be uploading patrol images to the Azure on regular intervals. Once there is a human intrusion detected, the Kinect will send a alert to the Azure and also will start streaming the live video to the Smooth Streaming Server hosted on Azure. Once the Azure, receives the alert, it will send a notification using Microsoft Push Notification Server (MPNS) to the subscribed Windows Phones and Windows 8 Metro apps where you can watch the video streamed live from the Kinect. Well, that’s not the end, we will also demonstrate on controlling Kinect from Windows Phone / Windows 8 Metro app using Azure App Fabric.

We will be discussing all the technologies involved and the architecture of the complete solution extensively along with a live demonstration in the TechEd.

Visual Studio 11 Developer Day– Hyderabad–18th Feb 2012

by Abhijit JanaFebruary 13, 2012February 13, 2012Leave a comment

Microsoft User Group Hyderabad (MUGH ) invites you to Developer Day on 18th Feb 2012 ( 9:30 A.M to 1.30 PM ) at Microsoft Campus , Building 3 MPR Halls , Gachibowli, Hyderabad. Join us to meet Meet Charles Sterling, Senior Program Manager, Visual Studio Team. Charles will deliver 90 min talks on “Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 11”. Additionally, we have two sessions on “Debug production hosted application with Intellitrace and Visual Studio 11” and “SQL Server 2012 Database Unit Testing with Visual Studio 11”.

Presenting at DevDays – Hyderabad 29th January 2012

by Abhijit JanaJanuary 25, 2012January 25, 2012Leave a comment

Microsoft User Group Hyderabad (MUGH ) invites you to Developer Day on 29th Jan’12 . This is scheduled on this Sunday (29th Jan – from 9:30 A.M to 1.30 PM ) at Microsoft Campus , Building 3 MPR Halls , Gachibowli, Hyderabad.

I am presenting on “Coding for fun on Kinect” . During this1 hr. session, I will be talking about Kinect .NET SDK APIs and will be developing some cool application using Kinect for Windows SDK Beta 2. Yeah, something interesting!

JScript Debugger– “Unable to attach the process. Another debugger might be attached to the process” – while application is running from Visual Studio. [ Solution ]

by Abhijit JanaJanuary 20, 2012January 20, 20123 Comments

IE Developer toolbar provide us a fantastic and easiest way to debug JavaScript with in browser. If the web site is hosted on IIS and you are trying debug JavaScript using IE Developer tool bar, it will work fine if you the correct browser setting for debugging. If you are running your web application directly from visual studio, you might came across the problem of “Unable to attach to the process” while click on “Start debugging” button in IE Developer toolbar. In this post I am going to talk about the resolution of the same and will also talk about little bit behind the scene.

I wish you a Happy New Year 2012

by Abhijit JanaJanuary 1, 2012January 1, 20122 Comments

Wish you and your family a very happy and prosperous new year 2012. May this new year bring many opportunities your way to explore every joy of life. I Hope this new year fills your life with happiness and perfect health always, much more success and happiness.

As we wind up with year 2011, I would like to express my sincere thanks to all the visitors, readers, followers of my blog for their encouragement, feedbacks and support. Please keep visiting and send me your feedback.

Keep visiting here and follow me @AbhijitJana for quick update.

Again, Thanks you and a very very happy new year 2012 !

Thanks !

AJ

Daily .NET Tips – Completed 1 Year Today

by Abhijit JanaDecember 27, 2011December 27, 20114 Comments

I am very happy to inform that, Daily .NET Tips marks the first anniversary today. 27th Dec 2010, I announced the official launch of this web site ( .NET Tip a Day, Keeps painkillers away! – Live at http://dailydotnettips.com – 27th Dec 2010 ). A year back I started with this site with intention of sharing most useful and handy tip and tricks on .NET that can improve productivity of work while coding and can give solutions of much required problems. This site is completely design for sharing Tips and Tricks, New Features, useful Code Snippet which you can use in daily development work and targeted anything related with .NET.

Wishing you all Merry Christmas

by Abhijit JanaDecember 25, 2011December 25, 2011Leave a comment

Here’s wishing you all the joys of the season. Wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year in year in advance. May this good times become the golden memories of tomorrow for all of you. Wish you lots of love, joy and happiness.

Best Regards,

Abhijit

Download : “Betty Wallpapers” – Windows Phone App for Bing image search

by Abhijit JanaDecember 21, 2011December 21, 2011Leave a comment

If you ever wanted an application in windows phone which can search images and wallpapers from internet and download it into your phone, then your wait is over.

My friend Jebarson has developed a very simple app named "Betty Wallpapers" which uses Bing for searching the images / wallpapers from the internet and shows up on the screen. You can download them directly into your library.

The application also exposes search options which allows you to filter your images by size, aspect, color, style,etc.

My Upcoming Events : Virtual Tech Days and Technology Conclave Delhi 2011

by Abhijit JanaDecember 10, 2011December 10, 20115 Comments

The 13th edition of Microsoft Virtual Tech Days – being held on 14th to 16th Dec 2011. I’ll be present ing a session on Web Developer Track and will talk about “Inside IIS Request Processing and ASP.NET Page Life Cycle” on 15th Dec 2011 from 3:00pm – 4:00pm (IST) . Understanding the ASP.NET Page Life Cycle is an essential knowledge for developing ASP.NET Web Application, and before Page Life Cycle, IIS does a numbers of internal process with the request coming from client browser. During this session I will discuss how IIS process ASP.NET Requests, what happens when some client request comes to IIS, how IIS decided what kind of request it is and later in internals of ASP.NET Page lifecycle.