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Project “Hilo” is a series of articles and sample applications that demonstrate how you can leverage the power of Windows 7, Visual Studio 2010 and Visual C++ to build high performance, responsive rich client applications. Hilo provides both source code and guidance that will help you…

While Silverlight and XNA Framework enable developers to create new and innovative applications and games for the Windows Phone (WP), these are just sets of libraries. In order to complete the development experience, a set of powerful tools is required. Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express for…

$0Windows Phone 7 constitutes a dramatic new user experience paradigm. The Metro UI design language and the Windows Phone UI design together promote seamless interactions and great end user experiences. As developers, we have the option to follow the Metro guidelines and create Windows Phone…

Windows Phone Push Notification Service provides developers with the infrastructure to support sending notification messages to a Windows Phone device even when their applications are not running, in a better conservative manner. Since Windows Phone doesn’t allow 3rd party applications to run in…

Windows Phone 7 provides developers with two main frameworks in which to work:  Silverlight and XNA Framework. Regardless of the framework you chose, you will end up with a Windows Phone application that must be deployed to the Windows Phone market place and from there installed on a…

This is the fourth and last screencast about programming the Windows 7 libraries, and it is not really focused on libraries, but a different topic related to Windows Shell and Windows Explorer. Windows 7 introduces support for search federation to remote data stores using OpenSearch…

This is the third of four screencasts about programming the Windows 7 libraries. In this video we’ll focus on the coding for integration with libraries, specifically on how to create libraries, add and remove folders from libraries, and receive notifications about changes to a library structure.…

This is the second of four screencasts about programming the Windows 7 libraries. In this video we’ll focus on the coding for integration with libraries, specifically on how to retrieve data from a library and register for change notifications to receive an update when a library structure…

Welcome to this short series of Windows 7 screencasts for showing developers how to use Libraries to Light Up their applications on Windows 7. Windows 7 introduces the concept of Libraries as the new entry point for users’ data. In Libraries, users can find and organize their data as…

This is the six and last screencast in a series of Windows 7 screencasts for showing developers how to use the taskbar to Light Up their applications on Windows 7. Out of the box, the Windows 7 taskbar provides support for tabbed thumbnails. For example, when Internet Explorer uses tabs, they…