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Xbox One Development (2)

By Marcel Meijer

With the new Windows 10 Update the DEV mode on the Xbox One has also been changed. You now are just like with Windows IoT Core able to look at the device via a webapplication. This application gives you the abilities to uploaden, stopp, start etc apps. It look rather complete. Besides this there is also a new Dev Companion app for Windows 10. This app is more focused on the developer compared to the ‘normal’ Xbox app. In fact it does not more than a Remote Desktop connection to your Dev Xbox One. Together it looks like this. Pretty … Continue reading Xbox One Development (2)

Xbox One Development

By Marcel Meijer

You now can develop, build and deploy apps to your own Xbox One. In the Xbox One app store you need to search for Developer Activation and you get an app. After the install, you get an activation code. This one needs to bee entered on the URL; https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/XboxDevices. Your Xbox is now a developer Xbox(see NB). More information can be found here. https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-apps/uwp-on-xbox Just like developing for Windows Core IoT it is very easy. In Visual Studio select File –> New –> Project and then Windows –> Universal. With Run choose for Remote Machine and find your Xbox One … Continue reading Xbox One Development

OneNote Tip: Copy Text from Picture

By Marcel Meijer

You probably know it, via Bing/Google or other search engine you find a nice pciture with a very strong text. You don’t want to use the picture just the text. Ofcourse you can type it over, but if you are not like me very handy with typing, it takes a while. OneNote has THE solution for it. In a OneNote page you paste the picture. Then a right click on your mouse on the picture. Choose for the menuitem “Copy Text from Picture” And choose paste some where else. Top Feature! Very handy!

Windows 10 on Raspberry PI 2

By Marcel Meijer

The beauty of Windows 10 it runs on your Raspberry PI 2 as well as on your computer/laptop. An Universal Windows App for your laptop with Windows will run without many changes on a Raspberry PI 2. It is fairly easy. In Visual Studio make an Universal Windows App. Press F5 to run the app locally and test it. That takes a while, but it will run as expected. To run the same app on the Raspberry PI you need to follow some steps. Your computer is a x86/x64 solution Platform device. A Raspberry PI is based on ARM technology … Continue reading Windows 10 on Raspberry PI 2

Windows10: XBox ONE streaming

By Marcel Meijer

If you are the proud owner of a Xbox One and your PC is updated to Windows 10, than this is one of the new possibilities. In the start menu there is a new tile called Xbox. If you click on this, you log in with your Xbox account (which is your Microsoft Account). In the app you see your status, your friends, your achievements etc, just as you would on your Xbox One. But if you click here, you will see all Xbox One’s in your network. You can even turn on your Xbox One remotely. After selecting the … Continue reading Windows10: XBox ONE streaming

Windows 10: Hello Windows

By Marcel Meijer

With Windows 10 a new way of logging in is added. With Windows 8 you could login with your Microsoft Account, a PIN code or(especially handy for Tablets) a Picture password. With a fingerprint reader you also could login with your fingerprint. Now there is also logging in with you face added. You need a Real Sense camera for this. There are already some laptops available with this camera build in. It should be possible later to login with a Kinect Sensor v2. In this small (Dutch) movie a small impression.   Cool he!

.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

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

Macro in Excel not working after update

By Marcel Meijer

I am using an Excel 2013 sheet to create invoices. It is powered by macro’s a lot. After the latest Office updates the Excel sheet did not work like it use to. It reported unclear errors. After some searching on the internet I found the solution to this situation. Just search for file MSForms.exd, which shall be located in temporary folder C:\Users\user.name\AppData\Local\Temp\Excel8.0\ and delete MSForms.exd. The file will be rebuild during the next Excel 2013 launch, and all VBA macros will work. It worked and so did my Invoice sheet.