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Kinect for Windows Version 1 Documentation


Does anyone know where or how to get documentation for version 1 of the Kinect SDK - I downloaded Kinect for Windows V1.8 from here in order to develop a tool to use a first gen Kinect camera on a windows 7 machine but after installation it turns out that even though Microsoft are continuing to serve the old SDK installation files the documentation was hosted online and the links to that are now redirected to a generic landing page for previous version docs which doesn't seem to include the Kinect pages.


Solution

  • OK so the most comprehensive link into the internet archives for the Kinect documentation is going back to around 2012 which mostly documents Kinect for Windows SDK 1.6 ... there are partial archives going forward to version 1.8 however its a lot more hit and miss whether specific pages are in the archive. The version linked seems to have most if not all the C++ reference intact.

    Note To save anyone reading the comments below from having to uninstall and reinstall just to access the documentation files the following link is a copy of the CHM files in my Dropbox Windows SDK v1.0 windows chm,chi help files