Contents tagged with Microsoft
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ADO.NET Data Services v.1.5 CTP2
Astoria team has released next CTP of ADO.NET Data Services 1.5. In comparison with previous release, CTP2 is really big work and we can observe now already that ADO.NET Data Services becomes even more powerful platform. As a whole it is visible, that development of Astoria is directed on more closer integration with Silverlight and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1.
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Windows Marketplace for Windows Mobile users
Marat Bakirov already wrote in his blog about Windows Marketplact for Mobile users. Till now over Windows Marketplace the curtain of secret kept and it was not clear as this direction will develop. And here recently, at WPC some details Windows Marketplace for mobile devices became known. -
Windows 7 Sensor and Location platform: Implementation of own sensor (Part 3/3)
Recently I have told about use Sensor and Location platform in the applications. We have seen, that use of this component set can be very convenient for the application and do not demand many efforts. Also we have an opportunity to work with set of devices in the unified style. Problem of use of this platform there is a presence of drivers for Windows 7 and presence of wrappers for Sensor API. Development of the driver for the device - a task of the manufacturer. And implementation of support in Sensor API can be made own forces.
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Windows 7 Sensor and Location platform: Sensors programming (Part 2/3)
Recently I wrote about Sensor and Location platform in Windows 7 and for what purposes it is necessary. Now we will talk about how this platform can be used in the applications.
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Windows 7 Sensor and Location platform: What is it? (Part 1/3)
One of components Windows 7 is Sensor and Location platform. Sensor and Location is part of Windows 7 which allows to work with various sensors and additional devices for measurement something.
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Work with the taskbar of Windows 7 in WPF applications
Recently I have published a series of articles that has been devoted to possibilities of Windows 7 for developers to work with the task panel. I have received a large quantity of responses for this time. Thanks you very much for it. That is interesting, questions were absolutely various subjects. However, the most part of questions was on a theme of use of similar functionality in WPF applications. Really, in the majority of examples I have lost sight WPF applications. I will try to compensate this defect here.
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Integration of your data sources with Windows 7 Federated Search
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Animation of switching of tasks in Windows 7
Among an users of Windows there are such people to whom smooth animations are not necessary at switching of windows etc. It is important for these users is speed of work and convenience. In a word, that is necessary for them - the responsible user interface. More recently we communicated with such user by e-mail. Its problem consisted that it is necessary to wait few time before he will see a preview window for the application at hovering on an application icon in the task panel. For this reason I have decided to write pair of tips for such category of users.
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Microsoft Sync Framework 2.0 CTP2
Today next preview version of Sync Framework became accessible. -
Windows Mobile 6.5 SDK is accessible to download
Today it became accessible SDK to develop for Windows Mobile 6.5. This pack includes the documentation, examples, header files and libraries (for native), tools for Visual Studio and images of emulators. Emulator's versions are accessible: