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Windows 7 para desarolladores. Taskbar: Jumplist

Channel9Spain — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:41:00 GMT

En este nuevo episodio sobre el desarrollo de aplicaciones para Windows 7, veremos cómo utilizar los Jumplist de la nueva Taskbar de Windows 7. Aprenderemos a crear categorías personalizadas y añadir nuestras propias tareas a la Jumplist de una aplicación de ejemplo.

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Código fuente en C#
Código fuente en VB

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Windows API Codepack

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/WindowsAPICodePack

Windows 7 para desarolladores. Taskbar: Administración de ventanas

Channel9Spain — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:41:00 GMT

Una de las novedades que más llaman la atención de Windows 7 es la nueva barra de tareas. En este primer video veremos una introducción de las nuevas características de la Taskbar utilizando la API Code Pack para el desarrollo de nuestras aplicaciones en Windows 7. Concretamente, veremos como agrupar y desagrupar nuestras ventanas en la barra de tareas.

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Windows API Code Pack
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/WindowsAPICodePack

Windows 7 para desarolladores. Búsqueda Federada (Parte I)

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

En este video tutorial veremos una de las novedades que trae Windows 7, que es la posibilidad de realizar búsqueda federada. Para quienes no conozcáis el concepto de búsqueda federada, decir que nos referimos a poder usar herramientas y flujos de trabajo para buscar datos remotos. Además de que nos permite resaltar las coincidencias dentro del documento donde se busca y visualizarlo en el explorador de Windows 7.

En este primer ejemplo veremos cómo realizar búsqueda federada en Windows 7 utilizando el buscador de Microsoft, Bing.

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Página de MSDN Library sobre Búsqueda Federada en Windows 7
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us%20/library/dd742951(VS.85).aspx

Windows 7 para desarolladores. Búsqueda Federada (Parte II)

Channel9Spain — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:20:00 GMT

Este nuevo video tutorial es la continuación de otro que hicimos explicando la búsqueda federada en Windows 7. Lo que introduciremos en esta nueva entrega será como mapear las propiedades de los RSS que contienen el resultado de la búsqueda. De esta manera podremos mejorar la experiencia de usuario y mostrar un mayor número de detalles que resultarán útiles en nuestras búsquedas.

- Descargar ejemplos de búsqueda federada

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Página de MSDN Library sobre Búsqueda Federada en Windows 7
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us%20/library/dd742951(VS.85).aspx

Windows 7 para desarolladores. Taskbar: Barra de Progreso e Iconos superpuestos

Channel9Spain — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:13:00 GMT

Este video tutorial es la tercera entrega de cómo desarrollar aplicaciones haciendo uso de las nuevas características de la nueva barra de tareas de Windows 7. Veremos cómo podemos utilizar la barra de progreso sobre nuestros iconos de aplicación alojados en la Taskbar de Windows 7 u cómo podemos superponer imágenes a nuestro icono de aplicación.

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  Código fuente en C# para la versión API Code Pack 0.8
  Código fuente en C# para la versión API Code Pack 1.0
  Código fuente en VB para la versión API Code Pack 0.8
  Código fuente en VB para la versión API Code Pack 1.0

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Windows API Codepack

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/WindowsAPICodePack

A WPF WebBrowser Control that plays nice with layout and transforms

Adam Kinney — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:00:00 GMT

Chris Cavanagh always seems to pick interesting projects. This time he's created a new WPF Web Browser control that plays nice with the WPF layout system and can be transformed.

Grab the source code or take a peek at his 3D Browser in the works.

Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers now available

Adam Kinney — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:25:00 GMT

To help prepare your applications for Windows 7, download the Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers. The kit includes code, videos and labs for both native Win32 C++ developers and .NET developers covering the new features available in Windows 7.

Introducing the new home for Windows on Channel 9

Charles — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:30:00 GMT

Windows is one of the world's most complex pieces of software. The latest edition of Microsoft's general purpose operating system, Windows 7, is our best offering yet. The efficient and focused engineering and thoughtful design that went into Windows 7 deserves an efficient and well designed home on Channel 9. It was the least we could do. Further, as the title of this post suggests, this area of Channel 9 will accommodate future iterations of Windows, so don't just think of this as the Windows 7 area on C9 (it is today and for the next chunk of time between Windows iterations). It's the home for Windows on Channel 9.

We figured it would be a really good idea to break Windows down into three broad "pillars" that match our significant Windows content repository. So, if you want to learn about how to develop for Windows 7, we've categorized all of our programming content to fit neatly under a new C9 "taskbar" button, Programming Windows 7. If you want to learn about how to use Windows 7 and take advantage of its new user features, click on the Using Windows 7 "taskbar" button. If you want to know how Windows 7 works, the nuts and bolts, the engine room, well, you'll want to click on the Under the Hood "taskbar" button.

Enjoy and happy learning!

C9 Team

The Coding4Fun Show: MEF Utility Runner with Arian Kulp

Brian Peek — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:18:00 GMT

In this episode of the Coding4Fun Show, I interview Arian Kulp, creator of the MEF Utility Runner, a unified host for system tray utility applications. Learn a bit about MEF and how it can be leveraged to create a plugin architecture for any application, as well as how it was used to create the MEF Utility runner, and how you can write your own plugins for this application.

This Week C9: Windows 7 RTMs, 7 Sins of App Compat, & cool Silverlight apps

Dan Fernandez — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 01:22:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan discuss the week's top developer news, including:

- Brandon LeBlanc - Windows Team Blog - Video snippet of Steve Ballmer signing Windows 7 Gold Disc
- Michael Fortin - Windows 7 Efficiency
- Yochay Kiriaty - Ensuring your application is ready for Windows 7 RTM, including:
    - Windows 7 Quality Cookbook
    - The seven sins on Windows 7 application compatibility
    - Optimizing for Windows 7
- 3 Developer Questions for Windows 7
    - Build Number:
    - .NET Framework version: 3.5 SP1
    - Default User Agent:
    - Silverlight Installed: No
- Windows 7 availability
- Microsoft contributes code to the Linux kernel
- James Clarke - Expression Encoder available for download, via Alvin Ashcraft
- Nishant Kothary & Joshua Allen - Gestalt: Ruby/Python in HTML & Silverlight
- Nikhil Kothari - Silverlight.FX updated for SL 3, includes App framework, UI controls, effects/transitions
- Silverlight Toolkit updated (live demo) - Includes data visualization (TreeMap!), controls, theming, and more, via Greg Duncan
- Robby Ingebretsen - Free Silverlight Simple Styles
- Pete Brown - Silverlight Audio Synthesizer
- Roger Guess - Coding4Fun - Build a Simple Shooter Silverlight game
- Larry Larsen - Photosynths of Apollo 11,12, & 17 Campsites
- Rick Strahl - CodePaste.NET - TwitPic for code - Lets you paste/share code snippets over Twitter/comments, etc, via Greg Duncan
- SFW pictures from Scott Hanselman Avatar Weekend on Twitter

Picks of the week
- Dan's pick: Ben Anderson & Adam Nathan - Coding4Fun - Popfly Game Downloader - Download games before August 24th and play them forever
- Brian's pick: 10-4 Episode on the Historical Debugger

Windows 7 has has been released!

Adam Kinney — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:28:00 GMT

Windows 7 Has Been Released to Manufacturing announced Brandon LeBlanc on the Windows 7 Blog.

"We continue to be overwhelmed at the community’s response to Windows 7 and it has been an extremely rewarding experience to witness. We hope the enthusiasm will continue to grow even more as our partners build amazing experiences with their products and Windows 7."

Check out Yochay Kiriaty's blog and Windows 7 videos to find out about new features in Windows available for developers.

XP2Win7 - The Windows 7 Reference Application

Adam Kinney — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:30:00 GMT

Explore Windows features available to developers from Windows XP to Windows 7 by simply clicking different tabs. The download includes a full set of reference material and source code.

Windows 7 Developer Contest - win a trip to PDC09 and cash

Adam Kinney — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

What better reason could there be to learn the new APIs available to developers in Windows 7? A trip to PDC 2009 and cash, up to $17,777. The application must use at least one of the following Windows 7 technology features; Libraries, Windows Touch, Shell Integration, DirectX 11 or Sensor and Location Platform. Check out the Code7 Contest.

Developing Windows 7 Multi-Touch Apps without a Multi-Touch Device tutorial

Adam Kinney — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:45:00 GMT

Walt Ritscher has a new tutorial on how to Develop Windows 7 Multi-Touch Apps without a Multi-Touch Device. Using a Codeplex project called MultiTouchVista, Walt shows how to configure your system to work with multiple mice and other input devices.

Mark Russinovich and David Solomon: Windows Internals 5 Released

Charles — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:01:00 GMT

Windows kernel expert and kernel "professor" David Solomon and Windows Kernel Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich have written another great book covering, in great detail, the internal composition of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. A third author,Alex Ionescu, joined the fray this time around. Together, they've just released Windows Internals Fifth Edition. My order has been submitted! If you want to really understand the mechanics of Windows' latest generation general purpose kernel, then go get this book.

David was in Redmond recently conducting deep training on the Windows 7 kernel, which contains 95% of the same ingredients as the Windows Vista kernel. So, of course we had to get the dynamic duo together to talk about their book, the Windows kernel, their history (they've been working together for a long time) and their future.

Enjoy! Happy reading.

Photoshop style Blend Modes for WPF with Shaders

Adam Kinney — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:24:00 GMT

Cory Plotts has taken on Robby Ingebretsen's original challenge and has created a Photoshop style blend modes library for WPF. This means that using Cory's library you can use Blend modes you are familiar with from Photoshop while developing a WPF Application. Familiar modes like Linear Burn, Hard Light, Overlay are all executed using pixel shaders and specifically multi-input shader effects. The source code and binaries are available on Cory's blog.

Power Management features for energy efficiency in Windows 7

Adam Kinney — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:00:00 GMT

This is an interesting post from Microsoft's Environmental Sustainability blog on Power Management in Windows 7. Features smart things like scaling down hardware power needs when they're not in use. Your network card doesn't need full power when its not in use, right? More details are available in the post.

Data Matrix in WPF Tutorial

Adam Kinney — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:36:00 GMT

Josh Smith posted a tutorial on creating and displaying a matrix using a custom control in WPF. Not only does he use the control, he explains how it works and the thinking behind the architecture. And as expected from Josh, there si a full seperation of model, control and a template based presentation.

WPF 4 Beta 1 video series on Channel 9 is now complete

Adam Kinney — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:29:00 GMT

Posting the final few pieces today on the new Visual Studio Designer for WPF and Silverlight, we are up to 7 videos spanning 79 minutes and 5 seconds of content covering WPF 4 Beta 1.

Videos include:

Gmail Notifier Plus - nice Windows 7 Taskbar example

Adam Kinney — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:18:00 GMT

The Gmail Notifier Plus is a nice example of taking advantage of the new functionality in the Windows 7 Taskbar. Custom status icons in action along with useful items added to the Jumplist.

Windows 7 RC Training Kit for Developers now available

Adam Kinney — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:10:00 GMT

The Windows 7 RC Training Kit is now available and includes 7 Hands-on Labs, 9 Presentation Decks covering Windows 7 awesome features like Multi-touch, Sensors and the Taskbar. To take advantage of the kit you must be running Windows 7 RC, Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and the Windows 7 RC SDK. This Kit along with the Windows 7 Developer Blog and the Windows 7 videos on Ch9 should have you writing amazing Win7 Apps in no time.

Deployment in .NET 4 Beta 1

Adam Kinney — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:08:00 GMT

Jossef Goldberg explains how the deployment of your client applications will be easier in .NET 4. The new Client Profile and improved Visual Studio feature integration are shown off as we walk through building a simple application and deploying it to a non-developer's computer. Form more information check out Jossef's blog on WPF Performance and the .NET Framework Client Profile.

Multi-touch in WPF 4 Beta 1

Adam Kinney — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:51:00 GMT

Jaime Rodriguez sat down with Anson Tsao to discuss the new Multi-touch capabilities of WPF available in WPF 4 Beta 1. Multiple inputs are exposed through existing and new input events, along with new manipulation and inertia events.

For instructions on how to download and install Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and WPF 4 Beta 1 check out this episode of 10-4.

Jaime's list of WPF 4 features in Beta 1 and Beyond

Adam Kinney — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:53:00 GMT

Jaime Rodriguez has posted a large list detailing which features are available in WPF 4 Beta 1 and what's expected for Beta 2. Dependant on Beta 2 you will notice the expected Text Enhancements which will make the VS2010 all the more enjoyable to use.

Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7 includes games and optimized applications

Adam Kinney — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:01:00 GMT

The Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7 was released today. Now when you get your hands on a Windows 7 Multi-touch enabled device, you are guaranteed to have some touch optimized applications and games to use.