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This show starts a series of short talks introducing Deep Learning with Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK). Topics covered in this series will range from elementary to advanced techniques. The intended audience includes:Data scientists who are new to d… Continue reading Episode 225: Deep Learning with Microsoft CognitiveToolkit (CNTK) | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show
Looking for more ways to get involved with the Xbox community? The Xbox Ambassadors Program has you covered! As an Xbox Ambassador, you’ll be able to interact with a growing community, help out fellow gamers and unlock cool Rewards. You may even find yourself spotlighted on This Week on Xbox and the Community Blog or actively participating in Xbox Ambassadors streams and YouTube videos. You can find a quick menu of activities central to the Xbox Ambassador Program here, but opportunities for getting active continue to grow. Last October, the Program launched Project Watchtower, a tool that enables Ambassadors to… Continue reading Xbox Ambassadors Program Encourages You to Get Involved With Your Community on and off the Console
Get ready for the biggest Halo esports tournament of the year! Today marks the beginning of the Halo World Championship 2017 finals, where 12 worthy contending teams from around the world have come to ESL Studios in Burbank, CA to compete for $1,000,000 in prizing and the title of Halo World Champion. The competition kicks off at 10:00 a.m. PDT/1:00 p.m. EDT, where Team EnVyUs and Splyce will face off in the first match of the day. We’ll be streaming live on Beam.pro/Halo, Twitch.tv/Halo, Twitter and Facebook, as well as side streams on Beam.pro/HaloWC2, Twitch.tv/ESL_Halo and Facebook.com/ESLHalo. If you haven’t been… Continue reading Tune-in Today to the Halo World Championship 2017
It was a busy week and this edition of Weekend Reading gives you the highlights, which include Microsoft’s first partner in a new intellectual property licensing program for connected cars, new joint solutions with Adobe and awards for world-changing ideas. On Wednesday, Microsoft announced an agreement to license its intellectual property (IP) for connected cars to Toyota, its first partner in the launch of a new auto licensing program. “As … Read more »
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Since we’re doing something like a Surface Dial Theme week, thought I’d close out the week with this guidance from the Windows Dev Center on the Surface Dial
Overview
Windows Wheel devices, such as the Surface Dial, are a new category of input device that enable a host of compelling and unique user interaction experiences for Windows and Windows apps.
Important
In this topic, we refer specifically to Surface Dial interactions, but the info is applicable to all Windows Wheel devices
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With a form factor based on a rotate action (or gesture), the Surface Dial is intended as a secondary, multi-modal input device that complements input from a primary device. In most cases, the device is manipulated by a user’s non-dominant hand while performing a task with their dominant hand (such as inking with a pen). It is not designed for precision pointer input (like touch, pen, or mouse). +
The Surface Dial also supports both a press and hold action and a click action. Press and hold has a single function: display a menu of commands. If the menu is active, the rotate and click input is processed by the menu. Otherwise, the input is passed to your app for processing.
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Developer guidance
You can customize the Surface Dial experience to complement the functionality in your apps through a comprehensive set of Windows Runtime APIs. +
As previously mentioned, the default Surface Dial menu is pre-populated with a set of built-in tools covering a broad range of basic system features (system volume, system brightness, scroll, zoom, undo, and media control when the system detects ongoing audio or video playback). However, these default tools might not provide the functionality required by your app. +
In the following sections, we describe how to add a custom tool to the Surface Dial menu and specify which built-in tools are exposed.
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Custom interactions
As mentioned, the Surface Dial supports three gestures (press and hold, rotate, click) with corresponding default interactions.
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Summary
This topic provides an overview of the Surface Dial input device with UX and developer guidance on how to customize the user experience for off-screen scenarios as well as on-screen scenarios when used with Surface Studio.
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API reference
- RadialController class
- RadialControllerButtonClickedEventArgs class
- RadialControllerConfiguration class
- RadialControllerControlAcquiredEventArgs class
- RadialControllerMenu class
- RadialControllerMenuItem class
- RadialControllerRotationChangedEventArgs class
- RadialControllerScreenContact class
- RadialControllerScreenContactContinuedEventArgs class
- RadialControllerScreenContactStartedEventArgs class
- RadialControllerMenuKnownIcon enum
- RadialControllerSystemMenuItemKind enum +
Samples
Universal Windows Platform samples (C# and C++)+
Andrew Liu joins Scott Hanselman to talk about Azure DocumentDB’s language integrated, transactional execution of JavaScript, which enables developers write stored procedures, triggers and user defined functions (UDFs) natively in JavaScript. Andrew al… Continue reading DocumentDB Stored Procedures Best Practices | Azure Friday
In episode 123 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Richard diZerega and Andrew Coates talk to Jakob Nielsen about the Excel Bot.
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Hi, I’m Scott, a recovering solo indie dev who made a game about the American Space Dream: Blue-Collar Astronaut. It’s a game that shows how anyone with enough moxie and a little bit of training can pull themselves up by their bootstraps and excel in Space-America’s future economy! A mind-blowing economy that includes truckin’ and pizza delivery to different planets! And the perfect mothership for a game like that is the ID@Xbox program! The gameplay follows the “Easy to play, hard to master” adage. Which is to say, you can open a menu, activate your thrusters, and rotate your ship… Continue reading Deliver Pizza and Pay Off Student Loans in Blue-Collar Astronaut, Available Now on Xbox One
