Tomorrow I start the journey over to Africa, TechEd Africa in Durban, South Africa on August 2-5, to be exact.  While there, in addition to other presentations, I am scheduled to make three presentations about Windows 7 for Developers.  In the...

As I am putting the final preparations on my 3 Windows 7 Developer sessions for Tech Ed Africa, I’ve been looking at all possible resources.  One that that I particularly like (and recommend) is the Windows 7 RC Developer Training Kit .  It...

Many of you have asked me what applications and tools I have installed on my primary Windows 7 demo machine.  I’ll remind you that I am using a HP TouchSmart tx2 (dual AMD 42) w/4 GB RAM.  I’ve installed Windows 7 RC 64-bit. I thought the easiest...

User Group Day of the Month 1 Inland Empire .Net User Group 2 nd Tuesday - Every Month 2 L.A. .Net Developers Group 1 st Monday - Every Month 3 L.A. .Net Geek Dinners 4 th Thursday – Every Month 4 L.A. C# Developers Group 1 st Tuesday - Every Month 5...

We hosted around 20 girls over the past two days at Microsoft’s Irvine, CA office.   The global DigiGirlz program is funded by Microsoft and supports annual hosting of either one-day spring events or multi-day summer camps.  The goal of...

What’s going on with my Windows 7 blog series, you might be wondering?  Well, I am still working on it, in fact I’ve broadened the scope of my studies to include ALL AREAS of Windows 7 development (in preparation for my upcoming trip and talks in...

Our newly launched FrontRunner site for ISVs nicely pulls together many of the resources I’ve been using to learn how to write applications for Windows 7.  I decided to try it out.  Sign up is simple, just use a Windows Live ID and fill in one...

As I continue my work on learning / using Windows 7 as a platform for application development, I’ve (finally!) gone beyond the multi touch features that I’ve written about to date.  I’ve done this for two reasons: 1) Writing a Windows 7 applications...