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Windows 7: Find and Organize Part 2 - Building Federated Search applications
Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:50:00 +0530
In Part 1, you saw the user experience of finding and organizing your files in Windows 7. In Part 2, David Washington and Brandon Paddock show how developers can build federated search applications that enable you to easily search your organization's intranet or the Web and integrate those search results directly into Windows Explorer. The best part is that instead of needing to install software on Windows 7 to get new search providers, you simply run an XML configuration file to add a search provider to your machine! - Watch their PDC session here too
The New COM API for Accessibility and Automation in Windows 7
Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:45:36 +0530
The new COM API for UI Automation (UIA) is a significant advance over previous OS support for programmatic access to UI from native code. The Windows 7 UI Automation API also introduces new support for ARIA properties, virtualized controls, and customizable patterns. This presentation also shares key information about implementing accessibility for custom controls using the UI Automation Provider API. The demos and code samples are primary written in C++.
A lap around Windows 7 new Scenic Ribbon
Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:19:00 +0530
Windows 7 has a new shiny Ribbon platform developers can leverage to create new user experience for their applications. Using the Windows 7 Ribbon, developers can eliminate much of the drudgery of Win32 UI development and deliver a rich, graphical, animated, and highly familiar user interface by using markup based UI and a small, high-performance, native code runtime.
Join Nicolas Brun and Ryan Demopoulos as they explain what Windows 7 Ribbon is all about, how developers can use it, and why Microsoft investments resources in creating a new Ribbon for Windows 7? Nicolas will also show some code and Mark-up just to show how easy it is to integrate this new technology.
Inside Windows 7: Larry Osterman on new audio capabilities
Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:26:00 +0530
The great Larry Osterman discusses what excites him most about Windows 7's new audio features. Of course, we talk about all things audio as Larry is a 24 year veteran of Microsoft and best known as the developer who makes Windows go ding. He's also an avid blogger.
Steven Sinofsky at the PDC2008 Open Space
Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:22:00 +0530
Steven Sinofsky participates in an Open Space Discussion on Windows 7 at the PDC.
Soma on Visual Studio for Windows Azure, Concurrency, and Windows 7
Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:53:00 +0530
S. Somasegar (better known as Soma) is the Senior Vice President in charge of the Developer Division which makes everything from Visual Studio, the Expression suite, and application runtimes including the .NET Framework, Silverlight, and more. In this video, we talk to Soma about the key announcements for PDC and how his team is building tools for Windows Azure, tools to simplify building concurrent applications and tools to take advantage of new features in Windows 7.
Windows 7: Writing World-Ready Applications
Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:36:15 +0530
This session centers on globalization features for Windows 7, including sorting and string comparison, locale support, and coverage for new languages, with an eye to helping developers extend their applications to a global user base. This session introduces the Extended Linguistic Services API, the next step in the evolution of globalization support for Windows developers. This session also covers the Multilingual User Interface (MUI) technology inside Windows 7 and .NET, and walks you through an end-to-end look at how to make your application MUI-enabled so that you can easily take your application worldwide and extend your customer base into new language markets.
Windows 7: Best Practices for Developing for Windows Standard User
Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:36:13 +0530
The application development requirements in Windows 7 for UAC-compatibility are exactly the same as in Windows Vista: Vista-compatible applications will interact with UAC in Windows 7 without any modification. No new APIs are required or provided. The UAC improvements for Windows 7 will impact the user's experience but not the application interface. Logo requirements regarding UAC compatibility are the same as in Vista.
Windows 7: Using Instrumentation and Diagnostics to Develop High Quality Software
Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:36:11 +0530
Learn how to enhance the quality and supportability of your software during developing and deployment using the Windows 7 instrumentation and troubleshooting platforms. This session will focus on key aspects of the event and performance counter infrastructures, and discuss best practices around adding instrumentation to your code. We will introduce the new Windows PowerShell-based troubleshooting platform, and how it enables you to easily monitor multiple data sources to empower the end user and IT pro to detect and resolve software problems.
Windows 7: Programming Sync Providers That Work Great with Windows
Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:36:04 +0530
Learn how you can enable your application to synchronize with other applications that use the Microsoft Sync Framework. This session covers how to implement sync for contacts and other PIM data, how to package sync providers for distribution and installation, and how to register sync provider for use on Windows.
Deep Dive: What's New with user32 and comctl32 in Win32
Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:36:02 +0530
Hear about the lowest level user interface components (user32, comctl32)