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Just a link to some interesting things that SteveB talked about at the recent developer forum in Japan; I can’t find an online video of the session yet but the transcript is up here and has some interesting pointers around a few future areas. Please note that I’m not attempting to add commentary or interpretation...
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One of the things that I talked a little about in my talk about “Modern Windows Applications on Windows 7” was around the idea of using a TaskDialog when you’re trying to get a response from the user rather than using your own custom dialog or a MessageBox or similar. As an aside, this isn’t just about...
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At the UK TechDays online conference last week there were a number of sessions around Silverlight and Windows that I wanted to provide follow-up resources on here. Session: Modern Windows Applications Visit Develop For Windows Download the WPF Ribbon Control and get the information on it here Download...
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We ran an online event in the UK yesterday around client technologies with the main themes being around Silverlight, HTML, Internet Explorer and Windows. We had some great speakers including; Jon Harris from the Expression Blend team John Allwright, John Papa , Karl Schifflet and David Sayed on Silverlight...
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Silverlight applications are written as managed code which runs on a CLR which sandboxes the code. In Silverlight 1 and 2 this was easy to understand because all applications were running in a browser and it’s common to expect code running in a browser to be security sandboxed such that (for example...
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Following on from that previous post I promised to make a simple example where an application would display 2 pictures and a single-finger drag would flip from one picture to another. Here’s my example as a WPF application, a Silverlight application and a Windows Phone 7 application; and all 3 are responding...
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quick note – this post has a lot of sketchy code in it that I’ve not really tidied up – apply a pinch of salt and look for better examples elsewhere as I’m just trying to skate across the surface of the different API options. Following up on that previous post , I thought I’d carry on a little and think...
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I delivered a session on “Modern Windows 7 Applications” the other week in London at a special developer event that we put together as Steve Ballmer was in town and offered to come along and get in front of some UK developers. Not an offer that we were likely to refuse The event was captured on video...
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Following on from that previous post I wanted to take a look at processing raw touch events. In truth, I suspect that most application developers don’t want raw touch events and would rather work at the level of gestures and/or manipulations but being able to get access to the raw events at least means...
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Multi-touch interfaces are becoming more and more prevalent. This week saw the launch of the Windows Phone 7 where the interface is mostly (or almost entirely in the case of phones without keyboards) touch driven and it’s hardly alone amongst the Android, iPhone and iPad devices for making use of multi...
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Sure, it’s an attention-grabbing title and, of course, it’s complete nonsense. I was watching the #Silverlight and #WPF tags on Twitter this week and saw a stream of noise about how various client technologies from Microsoft are “dead” and the killer seemed to be a mixture of Flash or HTML5 or even one...
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I wanted to do a call out for the Client development day that we’re running as part of the UK TechDays event. This is a FREE event that’s running all day in London on the 15th April and it’s targeted at developers who are interested in hearing about client development with .NET Framework V4.0 and for...
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The other day I had a talk to give which included a little around Windows 7 shell programming in .NET 4.0 Beta 2 and I hadn’t really looked at it so I took a few mins out to take a look at how you can program the Taskbar in Windows 7 from WPF in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. I was really looking for a short...
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I got around to installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and so I thought it made sense to follow up this post by taking a quick look at what WPF V4.0 Beta 1 has to offer in the same area. As far as I know, Beta 1 does not have the low level WM_TOUCH style message processing that I looked at a little here...
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Following up on this post , I wanted to see if I could continue to use the interop wrappers in order to add inertia to my multi-touch manipulations. The intertia API in Windows 7 is really “just” a physics engine that you can use to add more realism to things like touch interactions. There’s some detail...