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MS has released the Kinect for Windows SDK beta…nice!  Go here http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/kinectsdk/

Also, there’s some ‘get you started’ stuff out there :

Setting Up Your Development Environment (http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/KinectSDKQuickstarts/Getting-Started)

Kinect Toolkit (http://c4fkinect.codeplex.com/)

Kinect Mouse Cursor (http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/projects/Kinect-Mouse-Cursor)

In case anyone else ever needs this…

System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(@\\.\pipe\) will return an array of named pipes.

and…

the named pipes for SQL user instances always contains @"\tsql\query"

so,…

You can get to something like @"Data Source=\\.\pipe\XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XX\tsql\query; Integrated Security=True;Connect Timeout=30;";

and..

“SELECT * FROM sysdatabases” will return all the attached databases from that ‘user instance’ of SQL

Reposted from xkcd.com  original at http://xkcd.com/844/