A non-traumatic migration from Kinect SDK 1.0 to 1.5

Hi All!

Today I'll speak about the migration from Kinect SDK 1.0 to SDK 1.5 . It was mostly easy, but there are some non very clear things that made me spent more time that I wanted:

1. When you're working with a WPF application, sometimes you must modify the XAML archive. The KinectSensorChooser tool has changed the way of access if you want to upgrade; so if you have something like that:
   
   
   <Window x:Class="MyProject.MainWindow"
          xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
          xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
          Title="MainWindow" Height="522" Width="897" Loaded="Window_Loaded" xmlns:myNameSpace="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Samples.Kinect.WpfViewers;assembly=Microsoft.Samples.Kinect.WpfViewers" Closing="Window_Closing" Name="RecognizerMainWindow">
       <Grid>
           <myNameSpace:KinectSensorChooser HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="326,59,0,0" Name="kinectSensorChooser1" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="340" Height="240" />
   ...
   
   
   you must change the XML namespace and the reference for the chooser in that way for the SDK 1.5:
   
   <Window x:Class="MyProject.MainWindow"
          xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
          xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
          Title="MainWindow" Height="522" Width="897" Loaded="Window_Loaded" xmlns:my="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Kinect.Toolkit;assembly=Microsoft.Kinect.Toolkit" Closing="Window_Closing" Name="RecognizerMainWindow">
       <Grid>
           <my:KinectSensorChooserUI HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="538,243,0,0" Name="kinectSensorChooserUI" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="99" Height="40" KinectSensorChooser="{Binding ElementName=kinectSensorChooser1, Path=KinectSensorChooser.KinectSensorChooser}" />
   
   so, just change the property and the reference: from Microsoft.Samples.Kinect.WpfViewers to Microsoft.Kinect.Toolkit, and therefore the inner field.
   
   
2. Now, in the application code, it has changed also the way of declare the Kinect Sensor, before it was a DependencyPropertyChanged event as:
   
   private void Window_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
   {
    kinectSensorChooser1.KinectSensorChanged += new DependencyPropertyChangedEventHandler(kinectSensorChooser1_KinectSensorChanged);
   }
   
   void kinectSensorChooser1_KinectSensorChanged(object sender, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
   {
    KinectSensor oldSensor = (KinectSensor)e.OldValue;
    StopKinect(oldSensor);
    KinectSensor newSensor = (KinectSensor)e.NewValue;
   }
   
   
   but now, you must declare it as follows:
   
   KinectSensorChooser sensorChooser = new KinectSensorChooser();
   
   private void Window_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
   {
    this.kinectSensorChooserUI.KinectSensorChooser = sensorChooser;
    sensorChooser.KinectChanged += new EventHandler<KinectChangedEventArgs>(sensorChooser_KinectChanged);
    sensorChooser.Start();
   }
   void sensorChooser_KinectChanged(object sender, KinectChangedEventArgs e)
   {
    KinectSensor oldSensor = (KinectSensor)e.OldSensor;
    StopKinect(oldSensor);
    newSensor = (KinectSensor)e.NewSensor;
   }

And that's all folks!! hope that you migration would be less traumatic with these hints (=
Lotta love at the garden,
JuananRey.