Tag Archives: WPF

Microsoft Store Kiosk

Check out this article about the Microsoft Store Software Kiosk over on MSDN. They interview my colleague David Kelley, who was part of our Wire Stone team that helped build this WPF application.

You can watch the video interview here:

Video: MVP David Kelley shows us the kiosk Wire Stone built for the new Microsoft store in Bellevue, Wa.

WPF Sonar application using Arduino and PING))) sensor

I’ve been playing around with the Arduino more and more lately and really wanted to find a way to make it work with my other world of C# and WPF.   The idea was to make an application that changes the screen based on how far away the user is.  The only way that I could easily think about doing it was to use an Arduino as a serial device to help communicate with the sonar sensor. 

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Microsoft Live Mesh Part 3

I had a chance to see Ori Amiga give a presentation around the Live Mesh platform at the Web 2.0 Expo.  At first I was little hesitant about this technology.  After all the public preview is super early and lacking in a whole lot of usefulness and features.  Getting a chance to really see where it’s going however got me all excited.

You can view the same presentation on Channel 9 – Programming the Mesh.

What’s missing from the current preview is the entire Apps section that is a major part of the product.

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