Entries tagged with developer - Channel 9

Interview: QuickSoft and SocketLabs on PDC

Brian Johnson — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:28:00 GMT

In this video, Dani interviews Bill Volz and John Alessi of QuikSoft and SocketLabs. Bill and John discuss how their company got started and the influence that the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference has had in their success both directly and indirectly. They talk about their development process and how new product ideas go from dream to reality.

Windows 7 para Desarrolladores

Channel9Spain — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:22:00 GMT

Isabel Gómez Miragaya, evangelista de Fabricantes de Software en Microsoft Ibérica y una apasionada de las tecnologías más punteras, nos presenta las novedades de Windows 7 para desarrolladores.

Durante el webcast, Isabel hablará sobre las mejoras que Windows 7 incluye en cuanto a memoria, disco E/S, energía, velocidad, menús y escalabilidad.

- Enlaces

http://msdn.microsoft.com/es-es/windows/default.aspx

Windows 7 Training Kit

Windows 7 Sensor and Location - Developing Drivers Part 2

Yochay Kiriaty — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:56:00 GMT

The Windows Sensor and Location platform, new for Windows 7, enables your computer and applications to adapt to their current environment and provide location base services and application. But sensors are external or logical devices that require a driver to connect to Windows 7. Join Gavin Gear, product team PM, and Yochay Kiriaty, Technical Evangelist, as we dive deep into the Windows 7 Sensor and Location driver architecture, learning the different about its different components and how to build one.

This is part 2 and here is the link to part 1.

Additional videos in this series:

In the Windows 7 Developer Training Kit, you can find three labs about Windows 7 Sensor and Location Platform.

You can find additional information about the Windows 7 Sensor and Location Platform in the:

www.microsoft.com/whdc/sensors
Send email with any questions to - sensext@microsoft.com
Windows 7 Sensor and Location Platform Developer Center on MSDN

Windows 7 Sensor and Location Platform series of posts
PDC session recording - Windows 7: The Sensor and Location Platform: Building Context-Aware Applications

Windows 7 Sensor and Location - Developing Drivers Part 1

Yochay Kiriaty — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:55:00 GMT

Additional videos in this series:

www.microsoft.com/whdc/sensors
Send email with any questions to - sensext@microsoft.com
Windows 7 Sensor and Location Platform Developer Center on MSDN

Windows 7 Sensor and Location Platform series of posts
PDC session recording - Windows 7: The Sensor and Location Platform: Building Context-Aware Applications

PHP Core Entwickler Pierre Joye im Interview - Teil 1 von 3

Jan Schenk — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:27:00 GMT

Letzte Woche hatte ich die Ehre, mich mit Pierre Joye zu treffen, seines Zeichens Team Leader unter den PHP Core Developern der Windows Division. Pierre ist für die Stabilität und Performance der Windows-Builds verantwortlich, und hat mit PHP 5.3 die beste Windows-Unterstützung geschaffen, die es jemals gab. Nicht zuletzt dank der Verwendung eines neueren Compilers, der den 10 Jahre alten VC6-Compiler abgelöst hat. In diesem Video interviewe ich Pierre zu seiner Person, seinem Privatleben und seinen Hobbies. Wer hätte gedacht, dass ein PHP Core Developer so offen gegenüber Microsoft sein kann? Nach der Devise "Make Web, Not War!" ist Interoperabilität und Zusammenarbeit der Schlüssel für bessere Technologien. Aber seht euch das Video einfach an und freut euch auf den zweiten Teil, in dem es um PHP 5.3 gehen wird!
Mehr zum Thema Interoperabilität und "Make Web, Not War" gibt es in meinem Blog unter http://blogs.msdn.com/jansche

Windows 7 Sensor and Location - Deep Dive into Location

Yochay Kiriaty — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:30:00 GMT

The Windows Sensor and Location platform, new for Windows 7, enables your computer and applications to adapt to their current environment. Previously, we introduced the Windows 7 Location Platform Overview; in this video, we take a deep dive into the Location Platform architecture and APIs. Join Alec Berntson and Yochay Kiriaty as they explains why location gets a special set of APIs and what makes the Location Platform such an amazing platform for developers.

In the Windows 7 Developer Kit you can find Hands On Labs and additional content on Windows 7 Sensor and Location.

You can find additional information about the Windows 7 Sensor and Location Platform in the:

Windows 7 Sensor and Location Platform Developer Center on MSDN
Windows 7 Sensor and Location Platform series of posts
PDC session recording - Windows 7: The Sensor and Location Platform: Building Context-Aware Applications

Windows Animation - Advanced Topics

Yochay Kiriaty — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:30:00 GMT

Smooth animations are fundamental to many graphical UI applications. Windows 7 introduces a native animation framework for managing the scheduling and execution of animations. The animation framework supplies a library of useful mathematical functions for specifying behavior over time and lets developers provide their own behavior functions. The framework supports sophisticated resolution of conflicts when multiple animations attempt to manipulate the same value simultaneously. An application can specify that one animation must be completed before another can begin and can force completion within a set time. The new framework also helps animations determine appropriate durations.

You are welcome to join the Paul(s), both Paul Kwiatkowski and Paul Gildea, as they dive deep (real deep) in to some of the advanced topics of the Windows Animation Manager.

This is the third video in a series of videos about the Windows Animation Manager. The first two videos are: Windows Scenic Animation Overview, Windows Animation – Advanced Features.

Toolshed Tooltip #17 - Expression Blend 3 SketchFlow - The game has changed

Russell Fustino — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:40:00 GMT

The Expression Blend 3.0 SketchFlow feature changes the game when it comes to both developers and designers becoming integrated on the development and design process. Prototype WPF and Silverlight Applications with amazing speed. Provide review, feedback and documentation with ease.

What is it?
It’s a new set of features specifically targeted at making it easier and faster to design, communicate, and review prototypes for interactive applications and interactive content.

Download Site *: http://expression.microsoft.com/en-us/cc507094.aspx

Example Problem(s) it solves:

Provides a ‘white board’ approach to an application diagram for interactive flow
Similar to Powerpoint prototype:
but is non-linear
No upper limits – can use scribbles, draw UI elements or use standard UI elements
It’s a real Silverlight or WPF application
You can design screens from other screens
Reviewers can annotate prototypes while they are running

Installation Notes:
SketchFlow feature is not available yet (ETA sometime soon)

* Usage Notes: 3.0 is not out yet (however an Expression Blend 3 Preview is available without SketchFlow)

This is the fourthof Tool Shed Tooltips released from Episode 3 of the TV Show Russ Tool Shed presents... "It's All About The Tools" hosted by Russ Fustino and Co-Host Stan Schultes. Download code, ppt and demo script from http://code.msdn.com/toolshed for all episodes. Also, use the links on http://channel9.msdn.com/toolshed to download tools. Finally, check out some more great videos on the Developer Evangelist East site: http://channel9.msdn.com/dpeeast

Windows 7 Graphics – High DPI

Yochay Kiriaty — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:23:00 GMT

High DPI is not new to Windows; however in Windows 7 we made few changes that developers should be aware of. The goal is to encourage end users to set their displays to native resolution and use DPI rather than screen resolution to change the size of displayed text and images. Windows 7 can auto-detect and configure a default DPI on clean installs on machines configured by their OEMs using DPI settings. Join Silvana Moncayo and Matthew Blackshaw, PM in the graphics team and Yochay Kiriaty, Technical Evangelist, on a discussion on Windows 7 High DPI.

This is another video in a sereis of Windows 7 Grahics videos on Channel 9

Programming Windows 7 Multi Touch - Part 2

Yochay Kiriaty — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:23:00 GMT

In the Windows 7 Multi-Touch Overview video we talked about the basic multi-touch functionality in Windows 7 and a little bit about the “Good, Better, and Best” programming model. In this video, we focus on Windows 7 multi-touch programming model. Join Reed Townsend and Ian Mendiola as they cover how to configure and work with multi-touch gestures, how to work with raw multi-touch messages, and what the manipulation and inertia processes are and how to work with them.

This is another video in the Windows 7 multi touch series, which includes:

Programming Windows 7 Multi Touch – Part 1

Yochay Kiriaty — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:23:00 GMT

This is another video in the Windows 7 multi touch series, which includes:

Windows 7 Multi Touch Overview

Yochay Kiriaty — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:22:00 GMT

We have added multi-touch capabilities to Windows 7 that provide support for both Windows 7 and applications--even those applications that were not developed specifically to support multi-touch. As developers, we have the opportunity to opt into multi-touch in Windows 7 and provide additional functionality to our end users, enhancing their user experience.

Join Reed Townsend and Yochay Kiriaty as they explorer multi-touch in Windows 7. They will cover basic out of the box support for legacy applications, as well as for applications optimized for multi-touch, and explain the “Good, Better, and Best” programming model.

This is the first video in the Windows 7 Multi-Touch series, which includes:

Windows 7 Taskbar: Advanced Features

Yochay Kiriaty — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:36:00 GMT

Windows 7 offers a new way of controlling your desktop, managing your windows, and launching applications. The Windows 7 Taskbar is a new application-launching and window-switching mechanism that consolidates the functionalities from previous Windows OS Desktop mechanisms such as Quick Launch, Recent Documents, Notification area icons, desktop shortcuts, and running application windows.

This is yet another video in the Windows 7 Taskbar series. This video focuses on the advanced functionalities that the Windows 7 Taskbar offers, such as Thumbnail Overview, AeroPeek, overriding the default Thumbnail icon, and surfacing tabs and documents from a Multi Tab or Documents Interface (such as IE8). Join Ben Betz and Robert Jarrett as they dive deep into the Taskbar API to explain exactly how to integrate your applications with the Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail and AeroPeek functionality.

This is another video in the Windows 7 Taskbar series, which includes:

geekSpeak recording - What You May Not Know About the Visual Studio Team System 2008 with Mike Vincent

Brian Johnson — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:40:00 GMT

In this episode of geekSpeak, Mike Vincent shares some perspectives about how the Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 is a good investment in these tough economic times. Mike illustrates some of the ways the Visual Studio Team System 2008 can deliver value by getting your whole organization team involved to deliver successful projects. He touches on people, process, process templates, test-driven development (TDD), continuous integration, reports, and the value of good application life-cycle management. Your hosts for this geekSpeak are Lynn Langit and Mithun Dhar.

The geekSpeak webcast series brings you industry experts in a "talk-radio" format hosted by developer evangelists from Microsoft. These experts share their knowledge and experience about a particular developer technology and are ready to answer your questions in real time during the webcast. To ask a question in advance of the live webcast, or for post-show resources, be sure to visit the geekSpeak blog.

Guest Presenter: Mike Vincent, Solutions Architect, MVA Software

Mike Vincent is a solutions architect based in Orange County, California. He provides clients with software architecture, application life-cycle management, and development services that primarily focus on Microsoft .NET technology. Mike has been in the software business for more than 20 years in engineering and marketing management positions. He founded both the Southern California Chapter of the International Association of Software Architects (IASA) and the Orange County C# Developers group, and Mike is treasurer of INETA North America (NorAm). You can reach Mike through his blog at http://mvasoftware.com/blogs/mikev_weblog/default.aspx.

Scott Guthrie On Silverlight, MIX09, Keynotes, Developers and Designers

Charles — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:00:00 GMT

It's always fun to talk to Scott Guthrie, VP of all things .NET and one of Microsoft's most prolific technical bloggers (he actually writes all of the entries on his blog which is quite a feat given his schedule and time constraints as a corporate Vice President). Many of you have seen his keynotes over the years, which are always among the most popular and highest rated by conference attendees. It's no surprise that he will again headline at MIX this year. Wonder what he'll be talking about? We discuss this here (and he addresses what it's like to speak in front of a large audience - for people who know Scott, he's actually kind of shy. How nervous is he, anyway, when he steps on to the grand stage?). We also touch on Silverlight 3, the next iteration of the media streaming and web client managed platform Scott and team create. But we step back, too. How is Silverlight doing out there, anyway? Both developers and designers use the tools that Scott and team create. How's the Scott's vision of the developer-designer workflow working in reality?

Tune in. This is another insightful conversation with one of Microsoft's best.

deCast - Creating Self-Signed Certificates For Developing and Testing HTTPS Apps

Rob Bagby — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:59:00 GMT

Many web sites and web services use HTTPS for transport layer security. As a developer, I find myself setting up dev environments with https every few months or so. This entails creating self-signed certificates. IIS7 provides an easy way to do this, but there are issues. In this screencast, I will detail how to create self-signed certificates correctly and how to configure them appropriately in order to develop and test secure solutions. Click here to see a blog post on this subject.

Dariusz quatscht - Jan Schenk, Developer Evangelist

Dariusz Parys — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:05:00 GMT

In der 11 Episode von Dariusz quatscht - Die Podcast Show habe ich einen neuen Kollegen zu Gast: Jan Schenk. Jan ist seit dem 01.12.2008 bei Microsoft Deutschland als Developer Evangelist tätig. Jan selbst hat allerdings keine Microsoft Technologie Historie, interessant zu hören was Jan's Stand der Einarbeitung ist.

Jan kann man unter seinem Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/jansche erreichen.

Viel Spaß beim reinhören,
Dariusz

Windows 7 Ribbon Deep Dive

Yochay Kiriaty — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:28:00 GMT

Windows 7 adopts the successful Office 2007 Ribbon user interface concept. The Windows 7 Ribbon command infrastructure enables developers to quickly and easily create rich ribbon experiences in their applications.

Watch Yochay Kiriaty, Windows 7 Technical Evangelist, and Windows Ribbon product team members Ryan Demopoulos, and Sebastian Poulose as we take a deep dive into the Windows 7 Ribbon API and programming module, focusing on advanced topics such as dynamic galleries.

This Deep dive in to Windows 7 Ribbon is one of a series of Channel 9 videos about the Windows 7 Ribbon:

1. This Windows 7 Ribbon Overview

2. Windows 7 Ribbon Markup Overview

3. Deep dive in to Windows 7 Ribbon

For more technical content on Windows 7 and few cool code samples, go to the Windows 7 Blog for Developers.

You can always watch the Windows 7 Scenic Ribbon: The next generation user experience for presenting Commands in Windows PDC session if you missed the live session.

Windows Scenic Animation Overview

Yochay Kiriaty — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:28:00 GMT

Smooth animations are fundamental to many graphical UI applications, and Windows 7 introduces a native animation framework for managing the scheduling and execution of animations. The animation framework supplies a library of useful mathematical functions for specifying behavior over time and also lets developers provide their own behavior functions. The framework supports sophisticated resolution of conflicts when multiple animations attempt to manipulate the same value simultaneously. An application can specify that one animation must be completed before another can begin and can force completion within a set time. The new framework also helps animations determine appropriate durations

Watch Yochay Kiriaty, Windows 7 Technical Evangelist, and Windows Ribbon Scenic Animation product team members Paul Kwiatkowski and Paul Gildea as we explain Windows Scenic Animation, why we need it, and which components of Windows use this amazing technology. Paul also has few cool demos that show the real power of this technology.

For more technical content on Windows 7 and few cool code samples, go to the Windows 7 Blog for Developers.

Windows 7 Ribbon Markup Overview

Yochay Kiriaty — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:28:00 GMT

Watch Yochay Kiriaty, Windows 7 Technical Evangelist, and Windows Ribbon product team members Shawn Van Ness, and Sebastian Poulose as we present the new Windows 7 Ribbon XML Markup syntax. The Windows 7 Ribbon layout is defined by XML that is very similar to WPF XAML; it is a major piece of the Windows Ribbon architect. In this video we will view how the Windows Ribbon works, and explore the different XML and layout options that are built into the Windows Ribbon.

This Windows 7 Ribbon Markup Overview [link] is one of a series of Channel 9 videos about the Windows 7 Ribbon.:

1. This Windows 7 Ribbon Overview

2. Windows 7 Ribbon Markup Overview

3. Deep dive in to Windows 7 Ribbon

For more technical content on Windows 7 and few cool code samples, go to the Windows 7 Blog for Developers.

You can always watch the Windows 7 Scenic Ribbon: The next generation user experience for presenting Commands in Windows PDC session if you missed the live session.

For more technical content on Windows 7 and few cool code samples, go to the Windows 7 Blog for Developers.

You can always watch the Windows 7 Scenic Ribbon: The next generation user experience for presenting Commands in Windows PDC session if you missed the live session.

Jump into the Windows 7 Taskbar Jump Lists

Yochay Kiriaty — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:31:00 GMT

Watch Yochay Kiriaty, Windows 7 Technical Evangelist, and Taskbar product team developers Robert Jarrett and Ben Betz as we take a deep dive into the Windows 7 Taskbar Jump Lists. You can think of a Jump List as your own mini Start Menu for your application, giving you some control over its appearance and functionality. We will explore the COM interface and APIs used to customize Jump Lists and we will talk about the importance of application ID for Jump Lists.

Jump in to Windows 7 Taskbar Jump Lists is one video of a series of Channel 9 videos on Windows 7 Taskbar. Other videos include:

1. Designing the Windows 7 Taskbar

2. Windows 7 Taskbar Behind the Scenes

3. Jump in to Windows 7 Taskbar Jump Lists

4. Windows 7 Taskbar Overview

For more technical information on the Windows 7 Taskbar, read the Windows 7 Taskbar Part 1 – The Basics. And for more technical content on Windows 7, along with a few cool code samples, go to the Windows 7 Blog for Developers.

If you missed the PDC sessions on the Windows 7 Taskbar, you can always watch their videos: Welcome to Windows 7 Taskbar and Integrate with Windows 7 Taskbar – but I know you already saw them few times. ;)

Windows 7 Taskbar - Behind the Scenes

Yochay Kiriaty — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:30:00 GMT

Watch Yochay Kiriaty, Windows 7 Technical Evangelist, and Taskbar product team developers Robert Jarrett and Ben Betz as we talk about the three parts of the Taskbar. Rob will describe the architecture driving some of the new Taskbar features such as custom switchers and Jump Lists and we will address the important topic of Application ID.

Windows 7 Taskbar Behind the Scenes is one video of a series of Channel 9 videos on Windows 7 Taskbar. Other videos include:

1. Designing the Windows 7 Taskbar

2. Windows 7 Taskbar Behind the Scenes

3. Jump in to Windows 7 Taskbar Jump Lists

4. Windows 7 Taskbar Overview

Patrick Baudisch - MS Researcher und Professor am Hasso Plattner Institut

Oliver Scheer — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:13:00 GMT

Auf der Xtopia und dem Technical Summit war Patrick Baudisch einer unserer Top-Sprecher während der Keynotes. Ich habe mit ihm über seine "Doppel-Rolle" bei Microsoft Research und am Hasso Plattner Institut gesprochen. In diesem Interview spricht er über seine Projekte, seinen Werdegang und seine Affinität zu sehr kleinen und dennoch einfach zu steuernden Interaktions-Devices.

A lap around Windows 7 new Scenic Ribbon

Yochay Kiriaty — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:19:00 GMT

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.

You can also see Nicolas PDC Session here

Xtopia: Logo on Tour

Oliver Scheer — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:30:00 GMT

Die Xtopia ist unterwegs nach Berlin. Das Logo befindet sich gerade auf Roadshow und rührt die Werbetrommel. Was es dabei so alles erlebt, gibt es in diesem Video zu sehen.