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If you’ve not been and done the test-drive of IE9 yet then the 3rd preview version has just gone out and it’s really, really worth taking a look even if you’re an internet-denier like me who thinks all this HTML and Javascript stuff will never take off and that the world is just waiting to re-awaken...
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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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My colleagues Andrew and James have made some cracking videos around Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2. Get started ( and be impressed by Andrew’s drawing skills ) below;
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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...
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Following on from the previous post and the one before , it was fun to play with my own interop wrappers for a while but I figure it’s going to be a lot more productive to use the interop wrappers contained up at; http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Project/Download/FileDownload.aspx?ProjectName=WindowsTouch&DownloadId...
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Following on from my previous post and remembering that I’m just playing around here and there are better resources up at; http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/WindowsTouch which will lead you to a full, sample interop library wrapper. I wanted to carry on a little with my experiment though and move up into...
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I was down in the Microsoft Technology Centre at Reading the other week where I got a chance to take a look at a piece of proof-of-concept work that one of our customers is doing around using touch in Windows 7 to improve the user experience of one of their applications. ( I’ve captured this on video...
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It’s a public holiday in the UK and the weather’s turned sour but playing with XAML and WPF can still bring on a smile – I’m not claiming it’s anything new or clever but I enjoyed it ( paste into Kaxaml or XamlPad to view ); <Page xmlns=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml...
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Internally, I’ve had a number of people ask me “What’s in Windows 7 for Developers?” or “What will developers get out of Windows 7?” and so I thought I’d put together a short post with some links around places to go for information on Windows 7 and what to expect when Windows 7 ships. The first point...
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I’m reading Yochay’s posts up at the Windows 7 for Developers blog; http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/developers/rss.aspx It’s all great material – one of the things that I hadn’t been aware of was that if in a WPF application ( on 3.5 Service Pack 1 ) I’m using a file dialog as in; using S y s t e m...
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I’ve just finished making my complete move to Windows 7. I’ve been running Windows 7 for a while on a number of machines but with the RC I thought I’d move lock-stock-and-barrel to Windows 7. One of the first things that hit me was around the UAC options. I’ve always left UAC switched on but I’ve generally...
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Wow, I guess today is "Windows 7 Day". If you're trying to get the bits then "good luck" as all I'm seeing right now is; which has to be representative of how many people are trying to grab that beta :-) So, if you're frustrated with that or you're downloading and want to know some more about Windows...