Vista Core Audio API Master volume control
Managed wrapper for accessing the Vista Core Audio API
Webcam using DirectShow.NET
This article describes how to use DirectShow.NET. DirectShow.NET is a dll to use DirectShow as managed code. I found it hard to find examples for using DirectShow. I still didn't find out how that all works. That is why I translated a C# example of DirectShow.NET to VB.NET code..
SophiaBot: creating a talking artificial personality with Vista Speech Recognition API
The included Sophia project is intended to be both instructive and fun. It is, at the most basic level, a chatterbox application with speech synthesis and speech recognition tacked on to it.
This article provides an overview of the various features of the GrammarBuilder class, including how to build increasingly sophisticated recognition rules. I will go over some tricks for making the bot personality appear more lifelike. I will also try to unravel some of the issues involving deploying an SR application to Windows XP rather than deploying to Vista. This article will also highlight some of the other gotchas you might encounter while working with the Vista managed Speech API. Finally, it will demonstrate an extensible design that allows multiple speech recognition applications to run together at the same time.
Creating PDF Tables using C# and iTextSharp
Creating PDF Tables using C# (.NET 2.0) and iTextSharp
Tutorials on creating PDF files using C#
There are several ways to create PDFs. The hardest of them all is perhaps to create it on your own using C#. However, if you want to learn how to do so, you have to climb a steep learning curve. You can either read the 1300+ page specification document available free from Adobe's PDF Technology Center or use an open source library called
iTextSharp. iTextSharp eases the learning curve a fair amount. But learning to use iTextSharp is itself non-trivial...
Speech Recognition And Synthesis Managed APIs In Windows Vista
Tutorial demonstrating how to add speech recognition and synthesis functionality to a humble text pad application.
Access image metadata using Visual Studio's new object data binding feature
Using a new class library to bind to photo metadata with a few line of code.
DirectShow - TV finetuning using the IKsPropertySet in C#
Enhancements to the DirectX.Capture class for TV finetuning using the IKsPropertySet.
Monitor Your Web Cam from a Remote Computer
We've offered a few solutions for working with web cams within .NET to create fun and intriguing monitoring applications. In this article, we extend those ideas so that web cam images can be shared with multiple clients over the Web.
A wrapper for the canon CDSDK and PRSDK for remote capture
A wrapper to allow remote capture of images with Canon cameras in C#
