Chris Jones - 10 things devs need to know to build a great Windows Vista application
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Chris Jones, corporate vice president on the Windows team, sits down with Jeremy Mazner to talk about
what developers need to do to make a great Windows Vista application. Video length: 45:02.
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Yea Scoble, you really dropped the ball on this one...
jk, I guess I am still bummed I ain't going to the PDC
For example, from the new "Aero User Experience Guidelines":
- "Use the Aero Theme ... Use theme painting APIs to owner-draw any elements that look like standard system elements."
- "Use the standard window frame ... Use the standard window frame. The new “Aero Glass”, as seen in Windows Vista translucent window frames, is an important part of the new aesthetic, aiming to be both attractive and lightweight. By running on Windows Vista, this aspect of Aero design is integrated with every application. ... Don’t create your own nonstandard window frame by drawing in the non-client window region."
Let's get Office 12 to be the great example of a Windows app at its best!
AFAIK, it will be released for Vista as well as XP/2003. Unfortunately it doesn't fit in, visually, with either.
The screenshot at http://pdc.xbetas.com/images/word12.png shows Word 12 running in front of an IE window. The difference between the two is remarkable. How hard would it be for Office 12 to use the standard title bar? And use the appearance of an XP rebar (toolbar) as the background color for the ribbon?
Thank you so much for posting these videos so quickly even though there were difficulties.
Thanks,
Shmuel
Here is a post I made to a news group:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.developer.winfx.avalon/browse_frm/thread/19b2e017543198f4/09c6e849bf5229ea#09c6e849bf5229ea
I am getting the exceptions:
Culture name 'cn' is not supported
and a XAMLPAD NullReferenceException
Thank you,
Josh
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