Month: June 2015

.NET on Raspberry PI 2

By Marcel Meijer

In a previous blogpost I told about Windows 10 IoT Core. This is great, because you can program in C# and you can add a Graphical user interface to it. But most of the IoT devices will not need user interaction or attached to a Monitor. The most IoT devices collect data and give that to others or keep track of an environment and are only expecting control information. There may be enough reasons to use Windows 10 IoT Core, but it is not necessary for a Microsoft environment. Also on NOOBS (New Out of the Box Software) OS you … Continue reading .NET on Raspberry PI 2

Project Oxford

By Marcel Meijer

During the //Build/ Conference they showed a very nice demo; the Photo site (http://how-old.net/). Project Oxford (http://www.projectoxford.ai/) is the base of this app. This API offers a lot of possibilities. The best part, you can use it yourself. There is a fully documented API available. These API’s are for free for now, but it is a lot of fun to play with it. Azure Machine Learning is used for the learning of the API. There is a nice free e-book about Machine Learning. Very readable and gives you some basis knowledge of Machine learning. During the last Ignite Conference there … Continue reading Project Oxford

Windows 10 Development: Small and Big Screens

By Marcel Meijer

With Windows 10 and the fact that it runs on every device, the Universal app as we know in Windows 8.1 is gone. That makes it easier, but also more complex in another way.   Previous you had a project for Windows Phone and the windows in this project are for small screens. Now every size of window is in one project even in one XAML file, you have to deal with that in one way. Lucky the Windows 10 development SDK has some useful resources. Like a RelativePanel. On a RelativePanel the controls have a relative position to other … Continue reading Windows 10 Development: Small and Big Screens

Windows 10 IoT Core

By Marcel Meijer

Since the //Build/ conference is a technical preview of Windows 10 for Raspberry PI 2 is available. With that the promise of Microsoft (Windows on all devices) becomes reality. There will be 3 versions of Windows 10 IoT available: For Industry Devices, Mobile Devices and Core. Installing Windows 10 IoT Core on a Raspberry PI 2 very easy. More information on http://windowsondevices.com and demos http://ms-iot.github.io/content/win10/StartCoding.htm. While installing you will see these screens pass by. The first startup of Windows 10 IoT Core takes a bit longer, some additional setups are being done. No worries next time the startup is fairly … Continue reading Windows 10 IoT Core

Consume Modern SaaS EndPoints with Visual Studio 2015

By Marcel Meijer

We all know the functionality of Visual Studio to add a Service reference to your project. With this you can consume available Services rather easy in your application. From the code you can get to the methods of the services rather easy etc. More information can be found here. Service Reference is a burden if the service needs credentials. The credentials with which you create the reference are often not the credentials you use in your application. Sometimes more configuration is needed and you need to read the documentation to find out. Can be done via the configuration files, but … Continue reading Consume Modern SaaS EndPoints with Visual Studio 2015