Making your development setup ready

While the device and driver setup look good, you need to ensure your development environment is ready as well.

The basic software you require for setting up the development environment are Visual Studio 2010 Express Edition or any higher edition along with .NET 4.0 Framework, which we have already discussed as a part of system requirement.

If you are already familiar with development using Visual Studio, the basic steps for implementing an application using a Kinect device should be straightforward. You simply have to perform the following operations:

1. Launch a new instance of Visual Studio.

2. Create a new project.

3. Refer to the Microsoft.Kinect.dll file.

4. Declare the appropriate namespaces for the added assembly.

5. Start using the Kinect SDK API library.

We will be discussing the details about development in the next chapter.