WIN32 API Programming with Visual Basic Steven Roman
Publisher: O'Reilly Media

But something happened to my programming experience which would change things drastically. A programmer(Like You) can put together an application using the components provided with Visual Basic itself. Other than that, for the most part, you are going to be stuck with proprietary development dependent on the OS. Programs written in Visual Basic can also use the Windows API, but doing so requires external function declarations. A programmer can create an application using the components provided by the Visual Basic program itself. Please ensure you read the code migration post as well.] . You can choose (in visual studio) to create a console application and use something like glut to do all your menuing and stuff. Kinect for Windows – Details of API Changes from Beta2 to v1.0 (C#/VB). Its not at all as complex as the win32 API and is also outdated but you can build your own on top of cross platform has to be opengl(writing everything from scratch), qt, wxwidgets or the basic glut if you arent too anything too heavy. I dabbled with a number of Basic programming languages such as GFA Basic and CA Realizer, but Visual Basic provided the easiest transition for me. Power, insufficient USB bandwidth, etc…) Please read the documentation under “Programming Guide/Kinect Sensor/Kinect-Enabled Application”: Relevant samples (installed with SDK): ShapeGame (C#/WPF) – KinectSensorChooser component. [This article covers the details of changes of C#/VB accessible APIs. I switched to a different Basic language compiler which was more akin to programming in C in Windows, which forced me to start learning how to work with the WIN32 API's.