If you haven't checked out Microsoft's Virtual Earth yet, you definitely should. I swung by their offices and got a preview of it about a month ago and I was utterly impressed. In fact, I liked it so much that I headed down to San Francisco to celebrate with the team and some esteemed…

What would you do if you could write a program that supported two mice and two cursors on the same PC? The new MultiPoint technology announced from Microsoft lets you do just that. This software was developed by Microsoft Research India to allow more children to be activily involved in learning…

What happens when you attach more than one mouse to a single computer? You share a single cursor, of course. Well, not if you have the new MultiPoint technology announced todayHere, we dig into what MultiPoint is, how it works and why we created this new technology with some of the folks behind…

Hello world. Welcome to my inaugural video post for on10!I was in Australia last week and decided to take a trip up to The Gold Coast (Queensland, Australia) for some sun, sand, surf and of course, the 8th International Robotics Olympiad (IRO).Expecting to see Johnny 5…

Mike Hall, Senior Technical Product Manager, demonstrates how to configure a baseline CE 6.0 operating system (OS) image - We then add the list of components to the OS image that are needed to support a managed application within Visual Studio 2005 as an application development tool.  Once…

  Use Windows API calls in your .NET code to put your computer to sleep based on almost any application. Arian Kulp Arian Kulp's Blog Difficulty: Intermediate Time Required: 1-3 hours Cost: Free Software: Visual Basic or Visual C# Express Editions Hardware: None Download:…

Is Santa paying you a visit this year? Find out how naughty or nice you are based on what you say on your blog or personal web site! Arian Kulp Arian Kulp's Blog Difficulty: Intermediate Time Required: 1-3 hours Cost: Free Software: Visual Basic or Visual C# Express Editions Hardware:…

Windows Workflow Foundation is a new workflow engine included in .NET 3.0. By know I thought that everybody knew about this but I’m constantly amazed to hear the questions that people have about WF. On this episode I got Paul Andrew and Matt Winkler from the WF team to sit down for a quick chat…

My brother sent me a link to an article about a school where students are asking that the term "Special Education" be removed from the signs on the building housing their program. I think the students have a valid point. While some students need different help to succeed in school they…

Mike Hall (that's me!), Senior Technical Product Manager, provides insights into the new Application Compatibility Tool.  The CEAppCompat Tool reads executables and device drivers, and then provides HTML results that show which APIs are being called that are no longer supported in CE 6.0,…