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  • Global Azure Bootcamp Rome 2018

     Global Azure Bootcamp Rome 2018

    After a long time I miss to post on the blog, today I want to restart write about what I'm interested and enjoyed to do: Community and share knowledge!

    Last Saturday I was in Rome as a speaker in one of the 280 worldwide site of Global Azure Bootcamp

     As usual for this type of Community-driven events, I was excited and thrilled at the same time. The venue was huge! Just inside the biggest train station in Rome (Stazione Termini), we shared the …

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  • Great Project and personal satisfaction

    It’s almost an year from the start of a project with my two “pards” Marco Minerva and Riccardo Cappello, we named it: See4Me. It’s an open source Community driven project that use the power of Azure Cognitive Services inside a mobile App or a wearable device helping vision impaired people to “see” what’s around him. We already create the three version of the App using UWP and Xamarin, also published on WIndows Store and Apple Store. On the UWP side, we’ve the bonus that the same exact …

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  • Good news for the Windows Enterprise Mobile Devices

    As you already know very well, in my experience and day by day work I’m also developing application for the Enterprise Mobile Devices. In my (long) story I practically used every kind of device with a version of Windows Mobile, Pocket PC, Windows CE etc. OS. But the longest experience I’ve done is with a specific brand, that is also one of the biggest and more important on the market: Zebra (more often known as Symbol or Symbol Motorola, during the years it change name a couple of time). In the …

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  • How to install Windows 10 IoT Core on Intel Joule

    During the last Intel® IDF in San Francisco, the Intel Joule board was presented supporting 3 different OS BSP: Ostro, Ubuntu and Windows 10 IoT Core. For the first two OS the images was published at IDF time. For Windows 10 IoT Core the public image and support has published in mid October. As all the other Windows 10 IoT Core images for other supported boards, the distribution is located in an unique site: www.WindowsOnDevices.com . I'll try to graphically describe the step by step …

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  • A Busy autumn

    I return to blog after a long time, In the last period I’ve used mostly the classic Social Network (specially Twitter and Facebook) for my tech related content. I’m still thinking about what’s better for my specific interest. Until I’ll take a final decision, I’m here to write down about the next month. In my case there will be a lot of conference, events and meetings to speech, mentor or train developers about some of the technologies I love more. Here’s a brief list: Set 26th Sep 30th …

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  • Our rover at /Build 2016

    This year (as every year) I went to Build conference in San Francisco. The annual Conference of the developers of the Microsoft world where usually has presented the latest news and trends of the various technologies and products. For me the real news for this year was the opportunity to present a project developed together with my community colleague Marco Minerva  at the IoT Team booth in the Expo area of the Conference. The project in question is our rover that we developed to test the …

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  • How to get working Windows Hello on actual Insider Preview (and RTM)

    Update: the following article remain valid for the RTM (release to Manufacturer) version of Windows* 10. In the days following the release of July 29th some little issues has raised relating to the return from Standby where the camera was not restarted correctly and the recognition function don't work. The solution is in the updated version of DCM (rel 1.4.27.41944 ) that you can find in IDZ site or directly in download center.

    The new package contains updated firmware for F200 camera and …

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  • Back from MWC Barcelona: and now?

    During this week I attend the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona, where most of the mobile ecosystem go to present its new products or strategies for the year. I don’t try to realize a sort of reportage because everyone can find a good coverage for this event online. My interest is to go deeper on what Microsoft present during its Monday morning keynote and in the following event where some detail about Windows 10 development was revealed. Universal App Platform In order to develop for …

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  • And finally it’s here!

    After a (Very) long wait, today I receive the first REAL WIndows Embedded Handheld 8.1 device. It’s a Bluebird BM180 in the version Barcode Reader and MSR Reader but no 3G radio. Obviously it have WiFi, Bluetooth, NFC etc. I’m actually charging and configuring it. In the next days I’ll write a complete “test drive” using some of the enterprise app I’ve developed. For now I can only confirm: it exist!

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  • Pay attention! If you install Nokia Recovery tool you’ll lost the project my video on WP8.1

    In these days I’ve participated at an event where I have to host some session about developing on WP8.1.

    Obviously I’m counting to use Project my video feature finally available for all the device WP8.1.

    In the week before I’ve tested it and work ok, unfortunately when I arrive to the venue and test if everything is ok for the sessions I see that the projection doesn’t work.

    After all the test of uninstall drive, remove the device from Device and printers, …

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  • Windows Embedded 8 Handheld SDK is available

     

    Windows Embedded Handheld 8 SDK is finally available, and you can download and install it from here .

    But I want to make order out of what actually is this SDK and what role plays in the market.

    Windows Embedded Handheld 8 is part of the Embedded family of products offered by Microsoft, in particular, the handheld version is already available from many years and in fact is the product formerly known as Windows Mobile smartphones that Microsoft was offering at that time. Still …

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  • How to detect if an headset is plugged

    Some time ago, a friend who is working on a big WP8 project, asked me for a method to detect when the headphone jack is plugged or unplugged from the device, given that apparently there were no  API to do this.

    I also do not know the answer and not even my internet searches give any success.

    My first idea was to use the FM radio API to measure signal strength, as the headset is used as an antenna for the radio synth, I thought that the presence of plug in device would increase the …

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  • Small personal satisfactions …..

    In recent months I have to say that my commitment within the Italian Community given me some big satisfactions, in fact I had a chance to participate as a speaker or attendee to events that have expressed very high levels for content, and overall organization. I refer to the ComunityDays of Milan and Catania, DotNetCampus, Codemotion or recent Better Embedded. Not counting the numerous individual community events where I usually have relations DotNetToscana , DotNetLombardia, DomusDotNet, …

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  • Intel Perceptual Computing SDK 2013 get GOLD release 2

    In these days our loved Perceptual SDK receive an update in the SDK incarnation, there's a lot of improvement and new implementation. The release is marked with the version number 8779, just from the change log we can note the news. First of all the Java app dev support and Projection in framework porting libraries support was added, Many of the samples (either C++ and C#) was rewritten or heavily modified. For example the Gesture_Viewer_Simple (in C#) was rewritten to be GUI based, now it …

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  • New appointments for Embedded Devs in Italy

    We are seeing the arrival of the new wave of embedded product from Microsoft, and I think we will see many event about that around the world. For now I want to remember two event where we can see some of these new tech here in Italy: DotNetCampus on April 13th at Università Roma Tre Better Embedded on July 8th and 9th in Florence   In these two conference I’ll be host some session about Windows Embedded Handeld and enterprise application.

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  • Porting an Enterprise app from Windows Mobile to Windows Phone (Part 1 of ??)

    That’s coming! The (real) successor of Windows Mobile (Windows Embedded Handheld 6.5.x) is coming in the next month (week?), as we already know. We also understand that the next generation of handheld devices will be based on Windows Phone 8 OS (the correct name is Windows Embedded 8 Handheld or WE8H), so I decided to start the porting, or is better to say rewriting, of one of my Enterprise App I’ve developed in the last year, to the new OS. This is the first of an unspecified number of posts, …

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  • Printing with Windows Phone

    Last week I hosted a session at an event named WPReborn, organized by the Community DotNetLombardia at the Microsoft headquarters in Milan.

    As the name of the event say, all the sessions try to clarify all the news coming with WP8 bat also many aspect that usually you don’t find around.

    My speech was about the Enterprise Application on WP8.

    I specifically develop a demo of an app for the paying park management with relative ticket emission.

    Every day we see similar app around the …

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  • Windows Embedded 8 Handeld: The return of Windows Mobile!

    Ok, I already know that the Microsoft Marketing guys will hate me for my title, but I think this was the only title that could sum up my thoughts. In fact, if we’re going back until the beginning of 2010 we find the announcement of the new platform and ecosystem: Windows Phone 7 or, as it was called at first Windows Phone 7 series. That announcement marked the end of Windows Mobile platform on which much of the enterprise market for retail, logistics, hospitality etc was based. Many (like me) …

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  • Windows Embedded: What's the situation?

    Windows 8 day is approaching, all the echosystem around it may (we hope) revitalive the market, but in these days less or nothing is in the news about the "other" Microsoft world: EMBEDDED.

    Let me try to point the actual situation:

    Windows Embedded Standard is in release previewtoday, as reported by Twitter channel of Windows Embedded.As the previous versions (till CTP3) we can try it downloading from Connect.

    From the CTP3 distribution, the binaries are aligned with the RTM of Windows …

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