I am so glad you guys kept Adam's beginning intro in. We've all been there - having to introduce ourselves before every presentation. Showing the human side makes you all easier to relate to. Great work on the show keep them coming!
I'm still chuckling from the fake lift - nice job! Loved the conversation about inclusiveness and how developers use multiple technologies to get the job done.
Very similar conversations going on in the RIA Community as well:
My Netbook came with Vista Basic and I have been running Windows 7 Ultimate on it. Performance and battery life are noticeably better in my opinion. Not sure about Windows XP I never ran it on it. I imagine if you have an older Netbook that wasn't Win7
certified than you might see better performance on XP.
By and large though there are so many improvements in Win7 to help battery life. For instance on XP if you shut off your wireless card most of the Network services still run and take up cpu cycles (thus draining more battery). In Windows 7 there is something
new called Trigger Start services and you will find even some of the default services utilize that. For example lmhosts service will not go out and try and get an ipaddress if it sees the nic is disabled.
If I am doing any serious development though I try and plug into AC power and run on "High Performance." I need all the horsepower I can get from the little guy.
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Playing Music and Sound Effects in a Windows 8 Metro Style App using HTML and JavaScript
@TheNucleon: I turned it off when I was demoing (gets hard to talk over hehe) but all of the sounds and music are enabled in the Game Kit.
Adding Touch Support to a Windows Store App using HTML and JavaScript
Great to hear Dave thank you!
Building Windows 8 Metro style casual games using HTML 5
@Lavabeams - LOL #awesomesauce.
Adding an Application Bar to a Windows 8 Metro Style App using HTML and JavaScript
@mksdass - I wrote the kit for HTML and JavaScript developers still working on my plans for XAML/C#.
I just open sourced my Windows Phone app that uses XAML/C# if you are interested: https://blogs.msdn.com/b/davedev/archive/2012/07/27/doodlepad-a-free-open-sourced-sketching-app-for-windows-phone.aspx. It's not a game but it's more free code.
Abolade Gbadegesin: Inside Windows Phone "Mango"
Great interview Charles. Looking forward to more from Abolade!
Windows Phone 7 app: Halo Waypoint just announced
Awesome! Pure gaming goodness!
Corrinne Yu - Principal Engine Architect for Halo Team Microsoft: Part Two
Awesome job! Thanks so much for doing this.
Cloud Cover - Episode 1
Great show guys - keep it up!
Silverlight TV 9: MIX 10K Challenge
I am so glad you guys kept Adam's beginning intro in. We've all been there - having to introduce ourselves before every presentation. Showing the human side makes you all easier to relate to.
Great work on the show keep them coming!
Countdown to MIX10: We Are a Year Round Community
I'm still chuckling from the fake lift - nice job!
Loved the conversation about inclusiveness and how developers use multiple technologies to get the job done.
Very similar conversations going on in the RIA Community as well:
http://www.bigspaceship.com/blog/labs/will-all-the-flash-devs-please-stand-up/
http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2010/02/my_thoughts_on.html
Can't wait for MIX!
-Dave
Coding .NET on a Netbook
On the mobile front we announced we will be talking about the next version of Windows phones at MIX10. March 15th-17th in Las Vegas again (http://visitmix.com/News/Thank-You-from-the-MIX09-Team) so stay tuned.
Coding .NET on a Netbook
My Netbook came with Vista Basic and I have been running Windows 7 Ultimate on it. Performance and battery life are noticeably better in my opinion. Not sure about Windows XP I never ran it on it. I imagine if you have an older Netbook that wasn't Win7 certified than you might see better performance on XP.
By and large though there are so many improvements in Win7 to help battery life. For instance on XP if you shut off your wireless card most of the Network services still run and take up cpu cycles (thus draining more battery). In Windows 7 there is something new called Trigger Start services and you will find even some of the default services utilize that. For example lmhosts service will not go out and try and get an ipaddress if it sees the nic is disabled.
If I am doing any serious development though I try and plug into AC power and run on "High Performance." I need all the horsepower I can get from the little guy.