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I got an HP8540W laptop a couple of months ago and at the time I had a bit of fun and games installing it. The machine has a main drive in it (SSD) and a secondary bay that can take a DVD-drive or another hard-drive and I have another hard-drive in there. I’m a bit “manual” when it comes to installing...
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I was very impressed by the Mosaic application that you can read more about on the Windows Azure blog or by hopping over to the Mosaic site; I’ve only tried the Windows version so far but I’m keen to get the Windows Phone 7 version too and try that out – in functionality, it feels a little like FlipBoard...
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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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Today, I’m running both MetroTwit and Bend which show up on my desktop as; and neither have the traditional Windows decoration around them and I’m wondering whether having the non-client area of a Window drawn with transparent glass as in; led to a bunch of apps simply taking away the window decoration...
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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...