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Kinect SDK For PC – VB Samples available.

June 16, 2011 Jun 16, 2011 06/16/11
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
Today, Microsoft announced the Kinect SDK for PC  http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/kinectsdk/download.aspx  VB Samples are there at launch and available for downloading  http://files.ch9.ms/coding4fun/KinectSDKSamplesVB.zip    ...

Simultaneous Async Tasks (Alan Berman)

May 10, 2011 May 10, 2011 05/10/11
VBTeam
The new Async feature in the Visual Studio Async CTP (SP1 Refresh) provides an elegantly simple technique to make code asynchronous.Our writing team uses an internal app that would benefit from asynchronous calls.  For each URL contained in the MSDN documentation that we publish, the app lists the title from the link, and the title parsed...

Async Feature Control Flow (Alan Berman)

April 13, 2011 Apr 13, 2011 04/13/11
VBTeam
What is asynchronous programming? Let's say you send out an email, then wait and do nothing for the two minutes it takes to get a response back. You do nothing while you're waiting. It's worth waiting because it'll be back fast. When that happens, sending the email and getting a response is synchronous. But another time you send an email and ...