I was researching a question from ISV an about reusing the Icons Microsoft uses in Windows/Office. Here are some relevant links…
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Are you intrigued by multi touch? The Windows Engineering team just posted a great article on how Touch was implemented in Windows 7 and on how software developers can tap into this: http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/03/25/touching-windows-7.aspx#comments
The developer from a Windows team point of view use the WIN32 API. Of course most of you use .NET. There are also a bunch of resource available for you already.
Check out these labs to find out how you can use Windows 7 touch with WPF 3.5 SP1: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/WindowsTouch
This WPF 4.0 session from PDC shows you what you can expect next: http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC03/
By Richard Stallman: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html
If you can’t find the time to read this little piece of Kafka-like literature, I left out some words and reduced it to its essence.
free software is free, cute but Silverlight, worse, since Microsoft is bad. Only free programs become ethical . we need to change to support freedom to tell the user about nontrivial non-free to specify the free. Our campaign for free can begin.
This is all my personal opinion and doesn’t in anyway represent my employer but when I read stuff like that, I can’t help but thinking of Batman Begins and the League of Shadows that wants to destroy Gotham City because they think it’s the only way to serve justice.
That was fun :-)
On the 9th of April I will be at CloudCamp Antwerp.
http://cloudcamp-antwerp-09.eventbrite.com/
The idea is still relatively fresh and it is going to be interesting to see how the different actors in the industry will ‘embrace’ the idea.
I hope to see quite a few Microsoft partners there too!
About CloudCamp:
CloudCamp is an unconference where attendees can exchange ideas, knowledge and information in a creative and supporting environment, advancing the current state of cloud computing and related technologies. As an informal, member-supported gathering, we rely entirely on volunteers to help with meeting content, speakers, meeting locations, equipment and membership recruitment. We also have corporate sponsors that provide financial assistance with venues, food, drink, software, services and other valuable donations
You can go here to register. We have got a very nice agenda!
https://partner.microsoft.com/belux-nl/40100049
I haven’t verified the information but these would certainly be interesting cases.
http://weblog.infoworld.com/editor/archives/2009/03/why_microsoft_w.html
What really got me going, though, is that Microsoft is actively cultivating .Net partners to take up residence on Azure. Epicor, an ERP software provider, is creating a software-as-a-service .Net version for Azure. MicroFocus, which specializes in tools to migrate Cobol apps off mainframes, will soon let you deploy on Azure. OpenText, a content management company, is also taking the Azure route. The list goes on. Plus, along with .Net Services, why not throw in the entire stack of Microsoft servers? Exchange, SharePoint, SQL Server, and Dynamics CRM are there now (although not necessarily ready for prime time). Already, says Martin, an "industry leader in oil and gas" is using BizTalk and Windows Workflow hosted on Azure for process integration.
http://returncode.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!33D543D7CFAF9A6A!816.entry
Some interesting improvements blogged by Tony Goodhew.
Not a lot of information on Office 14 has been disclosed. Here’s an interview with Chris Capposela that reveals some more.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/enterpriseapps/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=215600338
Interesting bit also about Office 14 using Azure. Just in case you thought Azure wasn’t real:-)
Here’s a great WPF application built on Wikipedia. The application is deployed through ClickOnce. The bits that are deployed through ClickOnce are stored on Windows Azure as blobs.
Cool, no?
(link at the bottom)http://www.dotnetsolutions.ltd.uk/evidence/wikiexplorer