March 2007 - Posts

Creating a High DPI application in Windows Vista
23 March 07 11:57 AM | KamVedBrat | 0 Comments   

The folks over at RealWorld Graphics posted a nice write up on how developers working on native Win32 applications can create DPI aware applications for Windows Vista. For new applications, using Windows Presentation Foundation is a strong solution in Read More...

Filed under: Windows Vista, High DPI

Ben Forta is hooked on Windows Vista
21 March 07 04:07 PM | KamVedBrat | 1 Comments   

Ben Forta has a nice write-up about his experience using Windows Vista. Kind words from a senior guy at Adobe . Read More...

Filed under: Windows Vista

Boku
21 March 07 04:01 PM | KamVedBrat | 1 Comments   

We had TechFest here at Microsoft a few weeks back, and I got to see some really interesting new things from Microsoft Research. One of the things I saw was a nifty programming environment for young children that takes the form of a game that can be played Read More...

Filed under: Programming

Get your ringtones here…
15 March 07 10:54 PM | KamVedBrat | 0 Comments   

If you play on an XBOX 360, you may be interested to know that Major Nelson posted the achievement unlocked sound on his blog. If you have a windows mobile phone, you can download it and make it your ringtone. Read More...

Filed under: Windows Mobile

Fascinating – the speech accent archive
15 March 07 01:04 AM | KamVedBrat | 1 Comments   

I had lunch w/ Michael Wallent the other day (Michael was my group manager when I worked in Windows) and he mentioned a really fascinating site to me. George Mason University did a study on phonetic variations that occur as a result of people's accents; Read More...

Filed under: Life

5 Things that should be taught in every school
14 March 07 10:28 PM | KamVedBrat | 0 Comments   

OFF TOPIC: I saw a link to this post on 43 folders . Brian Kim writes about self-improvement and has some interesting suggestions for what every young person should learn before they venture out into the real world. Some great ideas there, and really Read More...

Filed under: Life

Get your Expression Blend release candidate here!
14 March 07 09:57 PM | KamVedBrat | 1 Comments   

Congratulations to the Blend team for shipping their release candidate! You can download Expression Blend RC1 from here . This build has a ton of quality improvements, a great set of new samples, and an updated user guide. Read More...

Filed under: Expression

4 GB's of RAM
09 March 07 04:19 PM | KamVedBrat | 0 Comments   

Jeff Atwood posted a great write-up detailing some of the issues around getting a PC running with more than 3GB of RAM. This is a great read if you're looking at building any kind of high-end workstation or if you're considering a 64-bit OS to support Read More...

Filed under: 64-bit

Visual Studio and Windows Vista
07 March 07 02:04 PM | KamVedBrat | 0 Comments   

There is now an update available for Visual Studio that addresses many of the issues regarding using VS on Windows Vista. The details are on the download page . Read More...

Filed under: Windows Vista

Scott Guthrie on Red vs. Blue
07 March 07 01:53 PM | KamVedBrat | 0 Comments   

Hilarious. Read More...

Filed under: Funny

iTunes & Quicktime and Aero
07 March 07 11:40 AM | KamVedBrat | 2 Comments   

I made a post about a year ago regarding how some applications have a side effect of disabling Aero. While it is still possible to create applications that have this side-effect (due to the underlying problem of applications accessing the primary display Read More...

Filed under: Aero, Windows Vista, DWM, Apple