It's been a slow week as far as announcements are concerned. We have been going through our infamous review process at Microsoft and this period of time is typically pretty slow in the office. In the Windows Developer world, there have been no dramatic releases or updates to software. As such, I'll take...

We recently published the first in a series of articles for the Hilo Project . The Hilo Project is a learning series that attempts to not only showcase Windows features, but also show some best practices for creating applications for Windows without using traditional application frameworks such as the...