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New Year, New Blog!

This is my last blog post here. I have moved to a new home at http://vbandi.net . I already have a couple of posts there: New Year, New Blog – explains why I resumed blogging and why I choose to do so on a new site. My HoloLens Experience – sharing my...

Published Sun, Dec 12 2015 5:32 PM by vbandi

AutoView – the Missing Link for a Good ViewModel First Approach

Whether you are developing a WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone or Windows Store app using XAML, you will probably be told that MVVM is the way to go. With MVVM, you have to make a relationship between the View and the ViewModel for things to work. Essentially...

Published Tue, Mar 03 2014 11:18 AM by vbandi

Filed under: WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, WinRT, XAML, MVVM, Windows Phone

My first Pluralsight Course: Kinect Interaction with WPF (and beyond)

I am extremely happy to present my first ever online course for Pluralsight: Kinect Interaction with WPF. This course covers the following material: Basic usage of the included controls, such as: KinectSensorChooser SensorChooserUI KinectRegion UserViewer...

Published Sat, Jan 01 2014 4:46 PM by vbandi

Filed under: WPF, Kinect, Kinect Interactions

Kinect v1 vs Kinect v2 – RGB and Depth sensors

As a recently awarded Kinect MVP, I am lucky enough to have one of the rare pre-production units of the next Kinect for Windows sensor with me. I always thought that the original Kinect sensor was an amazing piece of technology, but this new version is...

Published Sat, Dec 12 2013 8:13 PM by vbandi

Filed under: Kinect

Kinect Interactions with(out) WPF – Part III: Demystifying the Interaction Stream

In this part of my Kinect Interaction blog post series , we go deep into the rabbit hole, and examine the foundation of Kinect Interactions – the InteractionStream , upon which the entire library is built. This is a risky ride – with no official documentation...

Published Fri, May 05 2013 9:43 PM by vbandi

Filed under: Kinect, Kinect Interactions

Kinect Interaction with WPF Part II: Getting Started Easier

In the previous post of this series , I have introduced the Kinect for Windows SDK 1.7, and the key controls and concepts within its Kinect Interactions toolkit. If you have followed through that post , you have seen all the work and code you need to...

Published Fri, Apr 04 2013 4:27 PM by vbandi

Filed under: Expression Blend, Kinect, Kinect Interactions

Kinect Interactions with WPF - Part I: Getting Started

Introduction Microsoft has recently released V1.7 of the Kinect for Windows SDK. And they immediately made a mistake – there are so many new and awesome stuff in it, that it should be called 2.0 :) The 1.7 SDK focuses on two key new features: Kinect Fusion...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2013 3:24 PM by vbandi

Filed under: Kinect, Kinect Interactions

Windows Phone Performance – Part 8 of many: Lumia 620 performance

In this post, I’ll take a look at the performance of the Nokia Lumia 620 from a developer’s point of view. This post is part of my Windows Phone Performance series . HUGE thanks to Joost von Schaik for performing the tests in this article. Since I don...

Published Sat, Mar 03 2013 9:43 PM by vbandi

Filed under: Windows Phone 7, WP Performance

DataContextChanged event for WinRT

Unlike WPF, WinRT (or Windows Store App API) does not have a DataContextChanged event handler. This may cause problems if you are doing framework-y stuff, or even for some controls, where you are . Luckily, Jeremy Likness wrote a solution for the exact...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2013 11:22 AM by vbandi

Windows Phone Performance – Part 7 of many: Lumia 820 performance

In this post, I’ll take a look at the performance of the Nokia Lumia 820 from a developer’s point of view. This post is part of my Windows Phone performance series . HUGE thanks to Alex Sorokoletov for performing the tests in this article. Since I didn...

Published Thu, Jan 01 2013 12:17 PM by vbandi

Filed under: WP Performance

Windows Phone performance – Part 6 of many: Nokia Lumia 920 performance

In this post, I’ll take a look at the performance of the Nokia Lumia 920 from a developer’s point of view. This post is part of my Windows Phone performance series . The Nokia Lumia 920 As Nokia’s flagship Windows Phone device, the Lumia 920 is a beast...

Published Thu, Dec 12 2012 1:37 PM by vbandi

Filed under: WP Performance

Adding and Editing WinRT Behaviors with Blend

I am a huuuuuuge fan of Behaviors (and Actions and Triggers) for Silverlight and WPF. I have been very disappointed when WinRT turned out not to support them. Luckily, Joost van Schaik created WinRTBehaviors on CodePlex (also available on NuGet ). But...

Published Fri, Sep 09 2012 11:06 AM by vbandi

Using NUnit to test Windows Phone 7 applications Part 3: ViewModels and MVVM Light Toolkit

In the previous posts of this series , we managed to get NUnit up and running to test WP7 code outside of the Windows Phone Emulator, in test runners such as NUnit, ReSharper and NCrunch, but paid the price by running into assembly load issues. We created...

Published Fri, Aug 08 2012 2:40 AM by vbandi

Filed under: WP7 Nunit

Using NUnit to test Windows Phone 7 applications – Part 2

In the previous post of this series , we managed to get NUnit up and running to test WP7 code outside the Windows Phone emulator, in test runners such as NUnit, Resharper or Ncrunch. In this post, we pay the price for that as we move on to more complicated...

Published Sun, Aug 08 2012 6:11 PM by vbandi

Filed under: WP7 Nunit

Using NUnit to test Windows Phone 7 applications – Part 1

Unit testing phone applications is not common. Partly, because these applications tend to be UI-focused and there is not too much logic to talk about in the first place. Partly, because the lack of tooling support. I am not a big unit tester myself, since...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2012 10:33 AM by vbandi

Filed under: Windows Phone 7, WP7 Nunit

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