[gdg92989]

Since when does releasing code samples count as open-sourcing a codebase? You cant even look at the samples without downloading Visual Studio.

[Permit]

Are you sure? I can see the samples under "Source Code".

http://kinectforwindows.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset...

[stephenhuey]

And as mentioned in the blog post, it's significant that you don't have to download Visual Studio to look at the samples.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/k4wdev/archive/2013/03/06/easy-acces...