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Need more cool WPF demos...
25 September 06 04:00 PM | alexholy | 2 Comments   
Heard this a lot recently - in the meantime, ease the pain with Kevin's Bag-O-Tricks aka Kevin Moore's collection of WPF controls and samples . Kevin has updated his sample collection so it compiles and runs nicely under .NET Framework 3.0 RC1 (both on Read More...
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Vista RC1 + Office B2TR == Happiness
14 September 06 01:40 PM | alexholy | 0 Comments   
In case you have not seen Jensen Harris' announcement, you will be able to download Microsoft Office Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR) by the end of this day. Office B2TR is a huge improvement in terms speed and memory consumption. In fact, running on Windows Read More...
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Updated ATI and NVidia drivers for Windows Vista RC1
06 September 06 09:35 AM | alexholy | 1 Comments   
Windows Vista RC1 comes with inbox support for those neat new graphics cards, but if you care for the very latest drivers or exended control panels, both big vendors have released new drivers: ATI: Catalyst Beta Driver for Windows Vista RC1 NVidia: ForceWare Read More...
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Ways to speed up Vista
25 August 06 05:19 PM | alexholy | 0 Comments   
Depending on who talk to, people will tell you how happy/unhappy they are with current Windows Vista performance. Like most of my colleagues, I have installed the July 2006 CTP (Build 5472, available from the MSDN subscriber download). On the machines Read More...
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Flash + Hard Drive = Speed + Battery
10 July 06 02:00 PM | alexholy | 1 Comments   
If you have seen a recent presentation on Windows Vista, you may have noted that fully using new hardware is a recurring theme. So is the use of flash memory. The presenter might have also mentioned “hybrid hard disks with flash memory”. So how can a Read More...
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Into the Lions Den: Vista @ Black Hat 2006
12 June 06 09:39 AM | alexholy | 1 Comments   
I almost overlooked it: Stephen Toulouse posted it last week in the Microsoft Security Response Center Blog : As part of our ongoing security efforts, several talks have been submitted for the Black Hat Security Conference 2006 , and a total of 5 have Read More...
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How to record/capture Windows Vista demos
07 June 06 10:50 AM | alexholy | 1 Comments   
Grant, working for the Platform Adoption Center, has come up with a method to capture Windows demos . Several people discovered the hard way that software-based methods can no longer capture all the GPU powered graphical greatness of the UI. Also, most Read More...
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ScreenSpaceLines3D for WPF
31 May 06 09:56 AM | alexholy | 0 Comments   
Daniel Lehenbauer has posted an update for his 3D tools for WPF on GotDotNet . This version is compatible with WinFX Beta 2 and Windows Vista Beta 2 and adds a community-owned implementation of "ScreenSpaceLines3D". ScreenSpaceLines3D are 3D line primitives Read More...
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Don't be chicken: fix your apps for (Windows) Vista
30 May 06 06:14 PM | alexholy | 0 Comments   
Bookmark this page: Here you are going to find a wealth of webcasts on WinFX and Windows Vista development . The one I have noted is the level 400 session on modifying your application for Windows Vista . As for the chicken: Our marketing folks are pretty Read More...
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Is your application compatible with Windows Vista?
28 May 06 01:14 PM | alexholy | 0 Comments   
Programs that do not meet the requirements of a well behaved Windows Applications (as defined in the Application Compatibility Guidelines for Windows XP will have a hard time when Windows Vista ships. An easy way to find out if an application will cause Read More...
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New ATI and NVidia drivers for Windows Vista Beta 2
25 May 06 10:55 AM | alexholy | 0 Comments   
Beta 2 of Windows Vista is just out, and this is reason for the major hardware vendors to offer updated Beta 2 drivers, or drivers with extra utilities. ATI offers new Catalyst Drivers for Windows Vista Beta 2 and NVidia has released ForceWare Drivers Read More...
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