Setting Up Your Development Environment (Kinect Windows SDK)

This video covers how to set up your development environment. You may find it easier to follow along by downloading the Kinect for Windows SDK Quickstarts samples and slides.

* [00:35] Sample Requirements
* [01:50] Starting the Demo
* [02:13] Adding References
* [02:45] Coding4Fun Kinect Library
* [03:23] Initializing the Kinect Runtime
* [05:41] Uninitializing the Kinect Runtime

Task: Download Sample Requirements

Some samples use DirectX and the Microsoft Speech APIs. For these demos to work, you must download the correct pre-requisite software.

Visual Studio:

* Visual Studio Express edition of the demo in the appropriate programming language or Visual Studio Professional or higher

DirectX Samples:

* Microsoft DirectX® SDK – June 2010 or later version
* Current runtime for Microsoft DirectX® 9

Speech Samples:

Note: If you have a 64-bit PC, you must still download the x86 versions of the Speech Runtime and SDK (below)

* Microsoft Speech Platform Runtime, version 10.2 (x86 edition)
* Microsoft Kinect Speech Platform (US-English version)
* Microsoft Speech Platform – Software Development Kit, version 10.2 (x86 edition)

16 Comments on “Setting Up Your Development Environment (Kinect Windows SDK)”

  1. Why the hell is this on such a low resolution 🙁 ?? But thanks, at least
    something to start with…

  2. Will this work on version 1.6 of the SDK? Help please anyone 🙂 this is for
    our thesis

  3. Hi XBlackFearX, I had the very same issue… The Microsoft.Research.Kinect
    has been renamed to Microsoft.Kinect and the Runtime has been renamed to
    KinectSensor. 🙂

  4. I really feel like VB community is being discriminated by Microsoft, book
    writers, tutorial makers, youtubers, everyone absolutely everyone! What a
    hack! Will I have to spend the rest of my life transalting C# codes to
    program the MS Kinect SDK?

  5. Were does one download that microsoft.reaserch.kinect? i can acess it in my
    refrences, was there something we needed to downlad. right know i dowloaded
    the microsoft kinect studio, and microsoft kiect SDK. what did i miss?

  6. Hi, I’ve tried to develop my environment an other way first, but with both
    codes (yours and mine) i’ve got the same problem. I am not sure what I did
    wrong. but when i run the Application it tells me that it can’t finde
    “Runtime”. Also I can only add the reference “Microsoft.Kinect” (I don’t
    know whether that might be the problem ?). Would be very nice if you could
    help me somehow.

  7. I’m getting an error when i double click the events. “Event handler is not
    valid”.

  8. When I type in the using statement for audio it says “The type or namespace
    name ‘Audio’ does not exist in the namespace ‘Microsoft.Kinect’ (are you
    missing an assembly reference?), and it says the same thing for nui. Any
    suggestions?

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