ISV blog-voer : PDC09

Win een trip naar PDC!

Mark Voermans — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:41:30 GMT

Doe mee aan de Windows DEV7 Contest. Voor elke ontwikkelaar met een goed idee. Bouw een mooie, handige, originele applicatie voor Windows 7. Dan maak je kans op prachtige prijzen met als hoofdprijs de trip naar PDC09 in Los Angeles.

alle informatie vind je op : http://www.microsoft.com/netherlands/dev7nl/ happy coding!!!

Mark

Make Your Application Better on Windows 7

Mark Voermans — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:27:10 GMT

S. Somasegar did write a post on how you can make your application sparkle with Windows 7. He describes features in Windows 7 that your applications can use. I thought this might help you little if you want to win the trip to PDC in LA by sending in your application for the Windows 7 contest (Dutch).

Soma leads the teams responsible for providing tools and developer platform technologies targeted at developers, designers and teams involved in software development.

He provides views into in the features and apply them to C++ developers, MFC developers, and for C# and VB.NET developers. Here’s a quick summary of his post:

Multi-Touch

Touch-based interfaces allow users to interact with applications in a more intuitive way. Windows 7 introduces multi-touch input and manipulation processing through Windows Touch.

For native C++ developers, MFC now supports using a touch-enabled interface. WPF 4 includes object model additions for touch interfaces so managed code developers can easily add touch support to their applications as well.

Ribbon

Adding a Ribbon to your application can help organize your commands, tasks, and menus in a friendly way that makes it easier for your customers to find what they’re looking for. Whether your application is written in Win32, MFC, or WPF, new controls and APIs will help you add a Ribbon to your application.

Location

Windows 7 features the Location platform, which makes it easy to write applications that can make use of the user’s location. The Location platform opens the doors to some interesting application scenarios – especially on mobile computers.

Shell Integration

Windows 7’s Shell enhancements empower application authors to provide a richer integrated user experience. Jump Lists provide access to contextual startup tasks and files available to the applications

More Information

For more information, visit the Windows Team Blog and MSDN’s Windows 7 Developer Guide.

For more information, see make your application sparkle with Windows 7.

Mark

PDC: register now (with discount)

Mark Voermans — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:51:59 GMT

Discount registrations are open until next week (September 15) for Professional Developers Conference (PDC). If you register before September 15, you receive $500 off.

PDC is in Los Angeles November 17 –19. Workshops are held on November 16 too.

To give you an idea about the great session that are scheduled:

For the complete list of sessions, see PDC Sessions.

Mark