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Kinect for Windows SDK Beta

MS has released the Kinect for Windows SDK beta…nice!  Go here http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/kinectsdk/ Also, there’s some ‘get you started’ stuff out there : Setting Up Your Development Environment (http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/KinectSDKQuickstarts/Getting-Starte... [More]

Quickie : Named pipes and SQL User Instance

In case anyone else ever needs this… System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(@\\.\pipe\) will return an array of named pipes. and… the named pipes for SQL user instances always contains @"\tsql\query" so,… You can get to something like @"Data Source=\\.\pipe\XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XX\tsql\query; Int... [More]