Kinect for Windows SDK – It’s Here! – Steve Clayton makes the announcement of the availability of the Kinect for Windows SDK from Microsoft Research. This release is a ‘for non-commercial use’ release of what will be a commercial product and allows you access to the key parts of the Kinect system.
Kinect SDK Out! – Seth Juarez has spent a day up at Microsoft playing with the Kinect SDK and shares his initial thoughts
Connecting to Kinect from Sho – The Sho Team discussing linking the Kinect SDK into Sho, another of the Microsoft Research projects which aims to provide the environment for performing data analysis and scientific computing.
Kinect for Windows SDK is here! – Brian Peek discusses the Kinect for Windows SDK release and highlights some great samples available from the Coding4Fun site
Kinect SDK – Dawn of a new era – Ujjwal Kumar highlights various samples, interviews and learning resources for anyone interested in getting to work with the Kinect SDK
ReSharper 6.0 Beta 2 is Out – The team over at JetBrains announce their second beta release of ReSharper 6.0. This release addresses crashing issues with solution wide analysis, fixes performance in large Razor .cshtml files
Atomicity, volatility and immutability are different, part three – Eric Lippert continues his series of posts exploring the theory of Atomicity, volatility and immutability with a look at volatile, discussing what it means, and how it can be used in the C# language
C#/.NET Fundamentals: Choosing the Right Collection Class – James Michael Hare continues his C# / .NET Fundamentals series of posts with a look at picking the correct collection class for your purposes, reviewing the various options in the framework and discussing the best uses of each
LINQ To Objects and the performance of nested "Where" calls – Jon Skeet takes a look at the Linq Where operator, examining a question from StackOverflow which asked about multiple calls to where versus combining the clauses into a single where statement. In this post Jon digs into the performance, and also takes a look at how things behave in his EduLinq implementation.
LINQ Intersect() 2.7x faster with HashSet – Patrick Smacchia has also been looking at the performance of Linq Operators, discussing the optimisations some methods have depending on the type of collection they run against, and in particular looking at the Intersect and Union operators and your choice of IEnumerable implementation to operate on.
MS11-039 Vulnerability Details – Jeroen Frijters discusses the recent MS11-039 security fix for the .NET Framework, looking at the change the update makes, and what the vulnerability being patched was.