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  • Windows 7 gadgets platform

    Windows 7 provides a Gadgets Platform which is used to create and host Windows 7 gadgets. Some of the goals of the Gadgets Platform development was to provide excellent backward compatibility with existing Windows Vista gadges, while providing many improvements for gadget developers including better...
    Posted to Janae’s Blog (Weblog) by jallen on Thu, May 28 2009

  • Windows 7 Sticky Notes

    Today, I'm going to deviate from my typical technical discussions about code or SDKs. Why? I just found a new feature in Windows 7 that I'm really liking. Has your monitor ever started to look like a giant pastel flower because of all the sticky notes adorning the edges? Then you will love Windows...
    Posted to Matt’s Blog (Weblog) by mbohn on Fri, May 22 2009

  • Windows 7 Libraries

    One of the highlights of the new features of Windows 7 is the Library. The Library is a replacement for the standard Documents folder seen in previous versions of Windows. Using the Library, the user defines the locations of documents / files of the same type that should be collected together (Music...
    Posted to Janae’s Blog (Weblog) by jallen on Thu, May 21 2009

  • Developing Multi-touch Applications for Windows 7

    I recently watched a session taken from the Professional Developers Conference 2008 in which they describe the various ways developers can integrate touch into their applications. One of the great things about Windows 7 is the out-of-the-box support it provides for legacy applications that do not include...
    Posted to Melyssa’s Blog (Weblog) by mbell on Thu, May 21 2009

  • Windows 7 Federated Search - website considerations

    Introduction Windows 7 offers a feature called Federated Search which allows users to search internet sites from within Windows Explorer. Windows Explorer uses the search functionality provided by these internet sites and displays the results in a familiar and user-friendly way. The search results can...
    Posted to Janae’s Blog (Weblog) by jallen on Mon, May 18 2009

  • Setting up the Windows 7 SDK Beta Virtual Light Sensor

    In my previous, post Windows 7 Sensor and Location API I spoke at a very high level on what the Sensor and Location APIs bring into Windows 7. Now I'd like to delve a little deeper and show how to setup the Virtual Light Sensor that comes with the Windows 7 SDK Beta. If you don't have existing...
    Posted to Matt’s Blog (Weblog) by mbohn on Thu, May 14 2009

  • WPF Theme Selector with WPF Toolkit/WPF Futures

    The WPF Theme Selector Add-In for Visual Studio is a handy tool for quickly adding a reference to a custom WPF theme file. But what if you want to use it with a 3rd party themes project such as those found in WPF Futures? In this blog, I will be looking at what it takes to do just that, and the good...
    Posted to WPF Theme Selector (Weblog) by jkennedy on Mon, May 11 2009

  • Windows 7 Sensor and Location API

    One of the exciting new additions coming in Windows 7 is the Windows 7 Sensor and Location Platform . The Windows 7 Sensor and Location Platform is an API built into Windows 7 that will allow application developers to interact with sensors in a standard way, and it allow a standard way for hardware vendors...
    Posted to Matt’s Blog (Weblog) by mbohn on Mon, May 11 2009

  • Windows 7 Taskbar and Jump Lists

    One of the features of Windows 7 is the newly designed taskbar. The taskbar is meant to provide the user a way to quickly access the programs and tasks that interest the user most. Previous versions of the taskbar included a Quick Launch area and the standard area that showed which programs were running...
    Posted to Janae’s Blog (Weblog) by jallen on Fri, May 8 2009
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