Programming The Life

Here are the links for the sessions recordings for our last community event that was held in Khobar: - Introduction to SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) - Windows 8 Development Jumpstart - Kinect Development

Here are the sessions recordings for our last event Building High Performance Applications with .NET 4.5: Part1 , Part2 Kinect for Windows Developing Applications for Windows 8

Away from all the discussions about whether Silverlight is dead or not, The Silverlight 5 RC contains the previously announced P-Invoke feature which enables you to call Win32 style APIs from a trusted Silverlight application. There are some attempts to use Kinect from Silverlight ( here ) but this was before MS released the official SDK. we will use Silverlight 5 P-Invoke feature to call the Kinect SDK APIs. P-Invoke in Silverlight works just like P-Invoke on the desktop. you use the DllImport attribute to import the APIs and you declare in your code the dependent types (Enums, structs, etc.) [ DllImport ( "MSRKINECTNUI.DLL" )]        private static extern HRESULT NuiInitialize( uint dwFlags); I tried to keep the classes and methods in library identical to the ones in the official SDK. I implemented only a couple of the available APIs (with the help of the Coding4Fun Kinect Toolkit and Reflector). To test the library we will create a simple applicati...