AprilR's Blog

Earlier this week, the Surface team posted an update for the Surface 2.0 SDK and Runtime. This release improves support for certain Windows 7 Touch Enabled Devices. For more information, and other great info, check the Surface developer portal and...

The Windows 8 Developer Preview unveiled last night includes an exciting advancement of the Help3 project! Read about in these blogs posts: Jeff Braaten - MSDN - http://weblog.helpware.net/?p=584 Help MVP Rob Chandler - HelpWare - http://thirdblogfromthesun...

Head over to the code gallery and check out a comprehensive sample for Surface 2.0. Take a look at how to incorporate both Microsoft Tag and Surface byte tags, create admin customization tools and a cool, customizable end user experience UI. http:...

Make sure you head over to the Surface blog to check out what's new and awesome about the new Surface SDK. It's not only what you need for developing cool applications for the SUR40 coming from Samsung, later this year, but you can use it to develop premium...

In recent weeks I had become more and more frustrated with a couple of things on my Samsung Focus. At Happy Hour with a friend from the Windows Phone team, I complained about these things, and over a few texts in the days following, I found out that some...

Make sure to pick up your April edition of Popular Science and look for an article on what makes the Samsung SUR40 tick. http://www.popsci.com/gadgets/images/2011-03/samsung-sur40-microsoft-surface - April

If you haven't heard by now, Visual Studio 2010 SP1 has release and it includes a new local help viewer. Didn't like the browser options in the original release? Now you can use a local help client instead, which includes a variety of your favorite features...

Jeff has also provided a helpful cheat sheet for de-coding and hand crafting MSDN URLs: http://thirdblogfromthesun.com/msdn-url-cheatsheet/ Enjoy! -April

Jeff Braaten has detailed the history of Help 3 and the experience of help in Visual Studio 2010. Check it out! http://thirdblogfromthesun.com/2010/10/the-story-of-help-in-visual-studio-2010/ http://thirdblogfromthesun.com/2010/10/the-story-of...

Check it out over on the HelpGuy blog: Sandcastle w/support for Help3/MSHC is available: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/thehelpguy/archive/2010/06/24/sandcastle-with-mshc-support-has-been-released.aspx April

Thanks to HelpWare for posting this: http://mshcmigrate.helpmvp.com/news/vs2010helpdebugging April

Hey there, blog followers! I just wanted to let you know that you can follow me on Twitter. I Tweet a lot, about a number of topics: project management, development and design topics and more personal interests like the NHL/Flyers, the NFL/Seahawks, and...

Along with myself, a couple of my colleagues are thinking of preparing a small notebook of user scenario and interaction design guidance for developing Surface applications. As you probably know, we recently posted a few videos ( http://www.microsoft...

A nice summary on the types of tools that help C++ developers are covered in this blog post: http://virtualrealityblog.com/lists/7-great-tools-for-c-programmers/ What do you think? Do you have other suggestions and tips? How are you liking C...

Miss your integrated help? Miss your index? Here is a cool download that brings these features back for you! http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/4af86641-a302-4edf-9853-007bcc670b30 Kudos to the Help team - April

Our team has been working hard to bring some of the magic of Microsoft Surface to Windows 7 PCs! Ready to create cool multi-touch experiences? Well, once you pick up your new edition of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 , go test out this...

Hey - just want to point out another resource for you: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/WindowsTouch Good stuff up there - aprilr

Wow, I just realized that this month marks five years of blogging on MSDN! Thanks for following my journey or getting on board over time. I hope to start providing more insight into developing on Surface and for Windows Touch. Who knows where I'll be...

Hey, did you know that the Surface SDK is now publicly available? Check it out on MSDN: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=3db8987b-47c8-46ca-aafb-9c3b36f43bcc Also, our awesome support team has started a...

Well, since the powers that be decided that Microsoft Help 3.0 should be renamed Microsoft Help Viewer 1.0 (ehem, leaving out my own editorial here), they have discontinued the Help3 blog. Fortunately for you, long-time-industry-savant has started a new...

If you are experiencing problems with your Beta 2 help, you may need to repair it, especially if you had a prior tech preview installed. The Help 3 team blogs tells you how to fix it: http://blogs.msdn.com/help3team/archive/2009/10/21/how-to-repair...

Kim Wolk, the new Product Unit Manager for the online and offline Visual Studio help experience, has started a blog. You can get a good look under the hood and follow the developments in this area here: http://blogs.msdn.com/kwolk Enjoy~ AprilR

Rico Mariani has quite simply become one of my favorite people, professionally and personally. Not long after I first met him, as we started working on the problem of fixing Visual Studio help, about a year ago, I would describe him to people as the ...

We get a lot of inquiries about upgrading this or that in the Surface tables. This is not supported, and as our hardware test guru mentioned, everyone should consider the table a closed system - like an XBOX. The software and hardware components are developed...

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