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Voronoi Selection for Cancer Drug Network Visualization in Mixed Reality

Andrei ErmilovMarch 9, 2018Mar 9, 201803/9/18

Background Researchers at the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine (EIPM) at Weill Cornell Medicine bring together basic science, medicine, DNA sequencing and big data to deliver the next generation of precision medicine; it is the most promising approach to tackle diseases like cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, and rare genetic ...

Revisiting InterOp with Unity, UWP and DirectX

Ritchie LozadaJune 28, 2017Jun 28, 201706/28/17

In the last few years — particularly with the release of new 3D-focused devices in Virtual Reality (VR), New User Input, and Mixed Reality — we've seen Unity grow from an easy platform for game developers into one of the main development tools for graphical 2D/3D, simulation, visualization and cross-platform software solutions. Unity ...

Hacking React Native Unbundles into UWP

Eric RozellJune 27, 2017Jun 27, 201706/27/17

We recently wrapped up development on "unbundle" support for react-native-windows. An unbundle is an optimized packaging mechanism for React Native that supports on-demand, lazy loading of JavaScript modules. Our goal was to reduce launch times and memory usage for React Native Windows apps. The Problem We've been working with BlueJeans ...

Building Facebook.Yoga for UWP and WPF

Eric RozellJune 23, 2017Jun 23, 201706/23/17

We've been working with BlueJeans to port react-native-windows to WPF to complement the existing support for UWP. Facebook recently open-sourced Yoga, a cross-platform layout library that implements a subset of CSS, namely flexbox. The React Native framework for iOS and Android switched to use Yoga; we saw this as an opportunity to bring ...

Hybrid Apps Using C# and JavaScript with ChakraCore

Eric RozellJune 2, 2016Jun 2, 201606/2/16

ChakraCore provides a high performance JavaScript engine that powers the Microsoft Edge browser and Windows applications written with WinJS. There are many reasons why one may want to embed JavaScript capabilities into an app. One example may be to take a dependency on a JavaScript library that has not yet been ported to the language ...

Creating Universal Windows Apps with React Native

Eric RozellMay 26, 2016May 26, 201605/26/16

React.js is a popular JavaScript library for building reusable UI components. React Native takes all the great features of React, from the one-way binding and virtual DOM to debugging tools, and applies them to mobile app development on iOS and Android. With the React Native Universal Windows platform extension, you can now make your React ...

Compiling Electron Apps for the Windows Store

Anthony TurnerMay 8, 2016May 8, 201605/8/16

Electron apps are a powerful cross-platform solution for developers: Combining Chromium, Node.js, and a thick layer of APIs to integrate with the operating system, Electron enables developers to build Desktop apps using JavaScript and Node modules. Electron applications run on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux - but they are not able to take ...

Building a Radial Menu Control for Surface Devices

Anthony TurnerOctober 25, 2015Oct 25, 201510/25/15

User interfaces should not stand between user and content - a known golden rule that can be difficult to implement. For presentation-heavy applications dealing with notes, images, or documents, being as unobtrusive as possible has always been an important mantra. The most popular apps in those fields tend to have user interfaces that collapse ...

Talking AllJoyn with Universal Windows Platform (UWP)

Jason PoonSeptember 15, 2015Sep 15, 201509/15/15

Windows 10 introduced support for AllJoyn giving any Windows 10 device – phone, desktop, tablet – the ability to connect and control multiple Internet of Things (IoT) devices like @HeavenFresh air purifiers and humidifiers. In this case study, we will delve into the process of how we added AllJoyn support to the HeavenFresh Universal ...

Rotary Wheel Control with HeavenFresh

Jason PoonSeptember 8, 2015Sep 8, 201509/8/15

Windows 10 introduces the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) providing a common app platform enabling the ability to install the same app package onto every Windows 10 device: phone, desktop, Xbox, IoT, Surface Hub, etc. We worked with @HeavenFresh to create a UWP application and, in the process, a rotary wheel user control. This case study ...

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