The things you should focus on are the status of the Kinect (if it is responding or not) and the current resolution of the frame (which is interesting now, and later on when the lab changes frame type). It is easy enough to get these values in code behind. To enable the xaml to bind to the status values, if they change, you must implement the INotifyPropertyChanged interface in the MainPage class. Then the code will fire the property changed event when the status changes, and when the frame description changes. To set this up, first copy the following highlighted code in the relevant sections of the MainPage class to initialize and use changeable properties: