In Why Windows Ribbon I have touched up on the Authoring and implementation [Designer vs. Developer] aspect of the Window Ribbon. I will try to get into some details about the authoring part of the Ribbon development. The outer skeleton of the Windows...

These are the steps required to do get your application ribbon enabled. Create a 'myapp.ribbon.xml' which has the layout definition of the Ribbon. A sample ribbon markup looks like this. <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <Application xmlns...

Authoring and implementation [Designer vs. Developer] Ribbon provides great authoring story by abstracting the behaviors from specific controls keeping the dynamic nature (look at dynamic gallery, App Mode, Contextual Tabs). The static portion of the...

What is there in Windows 7 for me as developer? Touch, Multi-touch Default touch handling – Windows will handle or convert the user action to standard events like WM_SCROLL Gestures Touch points direct manipulation http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC03...

I had a terrific time setting up Visual Studio 2005 Remote Debugger Setup in Vista. When we run MSVSMON.EXE, It will try to configure the firewall but for me it gave an error message stating "Could not configure the Windows firewall" and sometimes I got...

Microsoft recently announced a Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007, which declared to be a "complete event-conference solution" and they also announced the core feature-set for Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007. Currently a preview of Microsoft Office...