Kinect: Installing the Software Design Kit
Let’s say you want to use Kinect to build an application, you will need to have two things on your system:
- Visual Studio Express for Windows Phone 7
- Kinect Beta SDK (Software Design Kit)
First off, install the Visual Studio Express for Windows Phone 7:
Link valid as of 1/16/2012
https://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/windows-phone-developer-tools
If this doesn’t work, then you need to go to:
https://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/windows-phone-developer-tools
And if this is after 2012 you may need to go to https://www.microsoft.com and search for the equivalent tools
Perform the installation. You will need to have Windows 7 on your system.
You will also need to run the Visual Studio SP1 from:
https://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=23691
FYI: It takes as long to apply the SP1 (Service Pack 1) as it did to do the installation
Download the Kinect SDK from Research.Microsoft.com:
Make sure to unblock the downloaded file
For security reasons, when you download the file, you may need to unblock it before it will work properly in the Visual Studio Integrated Design environment
- Make sure to right click on the download file and select properties, then click on the “Unblock” button, which will disappear if you look again
- If you don’t do the Unblock, then the files may not run correctly on your system.
- What If the Unblock button isn’t visible?
- That is ok, just do the installation
- For more instructions see the link:
That was a bunch of work, so that’s it for this blog.