Contents tagged with Windows
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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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Change of the background image on the logon screen in Windows 7
As it has been announced earlier, in new operational system Windows 7 it is possible to easily change a background of a logon screen. For this purpose it is not required to change resources in executable files or to carry out still any special actions. Process of changing of the image is very simple and can be executed without use of additional tools. This functionality is accessible and correctly works since 7057 build.
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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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Give green light to your applications together with Windows 7!
Is your applications are completely compatible with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2? You can outstrip the competitors, having checked up your applications on compatibility with Windows 7 already today. If your company is ISV you can be helped by a isvappcompat.com resource.
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Windows 7 programming: Taskbar. Part 10 (final part) – JumpLists.
One of the major features of the task panel of Windows 7 are Jump Lists. Jump lists are displayed if to select an application icon in the task panel and to press the right button of the mouse. If the application uses functionality of JumpLists, then except standard actions (pin, close) there will be some more additional actions which facilitate our daily work.
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Windows 7 programming: Taskbar. Part 9 – PeekBitmap.