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Windows Mixed Reality Developers Edition

Windows Mixed Reality Developers Edition

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The developer’s editor VR (Virtual Reality) hardware was announced at Build 2017 however since the announcement very little information has been released. The dev kits started to ship two month ago; this article is my impression of the hardware and software based on the Acre Developers Edition headset. As this is a developers release, you would expect some rough edges and “issues”. The instructions for getting the headset up and running are straightforward, they equated to open the box and…

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Microsoft and the R(evolution)

Microsoft and the R(evolution)

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Over the last few years Microsoft have been building infrastructure to support the R language within a number of tools, technologies and platforms. Microsoft R Open Initially distributed by Revolution as Revolution R Open and after acquisition in 2015 the free to own and distribute version of R was rebranded Microsoft R Open. The current release is based on R-3.3.3 (with new distributions coming out a month following the CRAN version update). In addition to the total compatibility with the…

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Reading and Writing Delimited Files in .Net Core

Reading and Writing Delimited Files in .Net Core

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I often need to read and write files in delimited files from within a .Net Core application. It seems that there is no inbuilt parser for doing this so I wrote one. The code consists of a single static class “DelimtedFile” that has two methods, one to read a delimited file and one to write one.

Visual Studio 2015 Debug Tools

Visual Studio 2015 Debug Tools

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Sometimes I just want to run my Universal Windows Application in debug mode and do some exploratory testing, or just test drive a new change. However, when Visual Studio creates a new project it enables the diagnostic tools and frame rate counter by default. To prevent the Diagnostic Tools from starting when you debug go to the Debug-> Options dialog and uncheck the “Enable Diagnostic Tools while debugging”. To prevent the XAML tools from starting, in the Debug -> Options…

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HoloLens Development Edition

HoloLens Development Edition

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Microsoft have finally revealed more information about the HoloLens and has published documentation on their developers site that outlines the API and developer experience we can expect when the “Development Edition” arrives on the 30th of March. Held with the documentation are some pieces of information that are certainly going to impact how/what we develop with the “Development Edition”, it will remain to be seen how many of these restrictions get removed as we move through discovery/development into the production…

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A year with MS Band

A year with MS Band

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Prolog I rarely purchase version 1 hardware (or software), I tend to wait for the reviews to come out, then the first service pack or hardware update to be released and only then I consider whether I really want the item. I had looked at a couple of other fitness bands and has almost purchased one of the ill fated “Up” bands but most of the fitness trackers did not support my Windows phone or were lacked support for one…

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