Sensor & Location Platform Team Blog

Using an Accelerometer to Build a Game Controller

The XNA team created their XNA Game Studio to simplify the creation of games for: Windows, the Xbox...

Author: sensblog Date: 06/29/2010

Making Sense of Sensor Permissions

In this, my first Sensor and Location Team Blog post, I will discuss sensor permissions. I’ll...

Author: sensblog Date: 06/25/2010

Understanding Access Denied when working with ISensor::GetState() and ISensor::GetProperty()

In last week’s blog post we provided best practice guidance for Sensor State management in Location...

Author: sensblog Date: 04/27/2010

State Transition in Location Drivers : Best practices

This post will be talking about best practices for handling state to get the best behaviors from the...

Author: sensblog Date: 04/13/2010

Developing Your First Sensor Driver – Part 2

In the last blog post we investigated the fundamental characteristics of a sensor driver (properties...

Author: sensblog Date: 03/30/2010

Developing Your First Sensor Driver – Part 1

The Windows Driver Kit (WDK) is a great place to get started when writing your first sensor driver....

Author: sensblog Date: 03/23/2010

Overview of Adaptive Brightness in Windows 7

So you just got yourself a new laptop. Congratulations! Did you notice that it has an Ambient Light...

Author: sensblog Date: 03/09/2010

The Parallax Introduction to Sensors Kit

Accelerometers, motion-sensors, distance-sensors, and compasses. What do these sensors have in...

Author: sensblog Date: 03/03/2010

Introducing Location in .NET 4.0

The .NET Framework 4.0 RC, which is integrated with Visual Studio 2010, is now available for...

Author: sensblog Date: 02/23/2010

The Sensor and Location Drill Down – Part 3: The Location API

Over the last few weeks we have been providing an introduction to the Sensor and Location Platform...

Author: sensblog Date: 02/10/2010

The Sensor and Location Drill Down - Part 2: The Sensor API

We continue our overview of the Sensor and Location Platform this time focusing on the Sensor API....

Author: sensblog Date: 01/27/2010

The Sensor and Location Platform Drill Down – Part 1 : The Sensor DDI

Welcome back and Happy New Year! As we resume our blog in the new year, we begin by doing a series...

Author: sensblog Date: 01/12/2010

Sensor & Location Platform – The 50,000-Foot View

The Sensor & Location platform for Windows 7 is essentially a set of COM APIs designed to...

Author: sensblog Date: 12/15/2009

Welcome to the Sensor & Location Platform Team Blog

Welcome to the Sensor and Location Platform Team Blog. We’re the ones who brought this new platform...

Author: sensblog Date: 12/08/2009