Quick Start for Kinect: Setting Up Your Development Environment

The original link is here: http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/KinectSDKQuickstarts/Getting-Started

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 slidesthat have been updated for Beta 2 (Nov, 2011).

• [00:35] Sample Requirements
• [02:13] Adding References
• [02:45] Coding4Fun Kinect Library
• [03:23] Initializing the Kinect Runtime
• [05:41] Uninitializing the Kinect Runtime

In my experience, if you install Kinect for Windows SDK then it will set everything done because it only can be used in Win7 + Visual Studio 2010. If it did not work, you should add something by yourself.

C++ - From the Property Manager, double click debug/release and add kinect sdk directories to it.

C# – From the Solution Explorer, right click on References and select Add Reference as shown below

Visual Basic – From the Solution Explorer, right click on the project name and select Add Reference as shown below