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I frankly love that XAML/C#/Cx ,  HTML/CSS/JS and Dx/C++/Cx  are there for us to build first class apps... 

 

BUT i find it very weird that MS are using HTML for the MAJORITY of the Bing/Live/Xbox apps (looking at 15+ MS made apps all of which are HTML and a very very small fraction is XAML/Dx) ... it's like theres an internal memo to build everything in HTML,

i seriously don't know why at least the Video/Music apps wernt XAML/Dx, to me that would sound like the perfect technologies to showcase a video/music app ...

currently the Music/Video apps are unimpressive apps that are frankly embarassing and MS could do so much better (ala XBOX dashboard) ...

A great post from the guy that brought us a brilliant API (SharpDx) . This guy knows his stuff, you should all listen to him

 

Cloud Compilers, RedHawk, WinRT, Native, Managed, C# ... lots of great ideas and insights!!

 

http://code4k.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/going-native-20-future-of-winrt.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

 

 

 

So does this Experiment 19 pretty much suggest that we will have the FULL Desktop CLR on WP8?

So we get

1. Shared core

2. NT kernel

3. Desktop CLR

I wish MS would just tell us now, its not like they can change anything technically im guessing the architecture is backed now!

??

fanbaby

...please dont feel sorry for me... i actually feel sorry for you.. I'm a silverlight guy, that picked up WPF , and easily transitioned to XAML/C# in Win8.. Oh and now that I know XAML like the back of my hand I've been picking up C++/Cx and DirectX ...

Thanks to Silverlight teaching skills like MVVM/XAML and experiencing a design first approach, and with great tooling I'm pretty skilled up..

So please don't feel sorry for us Silverlight devs, we're doing just fine with our feet in both the old world and the new world ...

Thx for your concern ... xoxo

Why was KIN device picture on a Win7 MinWin HOST? Was KIN developed ontop of a Win7-MinWin OS (x86 on ARM) ?

Could JpegXR be getting prime time slot in Windows 8 ??!! I really hope so! 

http://bit.ly/nI8nMe 

Duncanma said:

we have a bunch of web services that can return lists of videos by tag... but you could do that via RSS as well ... what did you have in mind (what specific requests would you want to make?)

I'm doing a mix09 talk next year in March and for one of my main samples I wanted to build out a RIA version of channel 9. Basically I have 3 months to go nuts and what I want to do is show how I could use Silverlight / Azure /Mesh to turn an already popular asp/html based website to a fully kick * rich animated web app.. Whatever I do I promise to not kill your services, ill use smart caching where applicable and run everything by your technical guys. I'm pretty cluey on all things web development so can easily work out how your services work, i just need a url and your permissions ... If you have worries I completely understand BUT i have an idea in my head for this demo and channel nine content happens to be at the center of it

Does anyone know if Channel 9 offers an API for it's video content other than the RSS feed which only lists the latest stuff? I want to do a mashup for an upcomming talk of the channel 9 videos... Ideally the API would return stuff as JSON or XML ??

Essinivleevlelo said:

LiquidBoy said:

*snip*

By using nLite.
This is my box.

I have 35 programs installed. I run all the mandatory services.
Everything works perfectly.
Boots in 7 seconds.

I take back what i said, I never new you could get XP to something that low! 

Saying that I'm sure that the nLite people would be able to get this new Windows 7, once released, to a simlar state too. Just guessing on that but it's not that far off already!

My vaio laptop, i could actually get it to boot in about 10 seconds when it was vanilla and didnt have all my development apps running (like sql server and biztalk)

Memory Foot print was always around 400mb vanilla, but as i said above i can't see why nLite people couldnt work there magic on it too..

ps. Im actually using my 7 yo sony vaoi with windows 7 now, im really loving it. I can see alot of old vaios getting a second lease of life because of Windows 7.

pps. Readin up on nLite and vLite, im sure they will alow you to customize the OS to a state that will make you happy. The problem with sticking with XP is that the kernel is fundamentally designed for the lowest common denominator of hardware several years ago, Vista/Windows7/Server2008 makes use of new technology advancements that have come out in the last 2 years like multi-core and multi - processors as well as graphics and memory advancements. These may not be important to you, but they are important to me and many others. nLite and vLite is just not an option for me, i want a rich OS that runs rich applications, your version of XP just wont allow that!

Essinivleevlelo said:

LiquidBoy said:

*snip*

400 - 450 MB memory footprint is a joke.
That's ten (10) times my XP.

ummm you get a 40mb footprint on XP?? That's impossible! The mandatory services amount to atleast 300 mb!