CreateFile() returns ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED opening a device

"I would write a driver that creates a WDF device object. I would then open this device from user-mode and send custom IO control requests" - A typical user-kernel communication scenario. Today, when I was doing this, I hit an issue opening the device in user-mode. I received ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED. User mode application is running with admin …

Android App With Xamarin on Mac

Quick Android App development with Xamarin in C# on Mac

Azure Cognitive Service Emotion API

Emotion API I watched a documentary on Inside Out, a movie where five basic emotions come to life and influence a little girls actions via a console in her mind's Headquarters. Documentary said there are 7 basic emotions by psychological research however movie used only five! And then I came across Azure Cognitive Service Emotion API. …

Phone App To Help Remember Face

Sanjay Singhania has to go through a lot of pain remembering people in Ghajini movie, I published a phone app to help him remember face. It's on Hackster! Code is shared from GitHub  

swprintf_s causing Random Crashes and Stack Corruption

This is what happens if you don’t read documentation properly swprintf_s [https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ce3zzk1k.aspx ] int swprintf_s( wchar_t *buffer, size_t sizeOfBuffer, const wchar_t *format, ... ); sizeOfBuffer Maximum number of characters to store. Documentation says the argument is the number of characters to store and not the size of buffer. More often, such APIs asks for the …

Deploy Windows 10 Universal App on Windows Phone in Three Simple Steps

Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform Apps is a great framework to write applications for Windows platform. These apps can be deployed on a range of Windows devices, ranging from Desktop/Tablets to Phone and XBox. Since Windows work on various type of devices with a range of form factors and capabilities, a common application model/framework is …

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning and Face Detection in IoT

Applications of Future draw their intelligence from a wide variety of source (Web 3.0 connected databases). They would learn continuously and be aware of the ecosystem they work in. Machine Learning is our first step on that path. Machine Learning is a field in Artificial Intelligence that deals with predictions. It is been in use in various forms …