Kam VedBrat

Tune in to the DirectX blog!

KamVedBrat — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:29:00 GMT

We've started a dedicated blog for all things DirectX, including Direct2D, DirectWrite, and some of the other new graphics technologies created for Windows 7. I'll focus most of my posts regarding Windows Graphics on that blog moving forward. This one will remain active for other things...

SDK Documentation for Direct2D and DirectWrite now live on MSDN

KamVedBrat — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:52:48 GMT

The SDK documentation for our new graphics and text API's in Windows 7 is now available on MSDN. Here are the links:

· Direct2D

· DirectWrite

Happy coding!

Locating DirectX content on “The Goods” from PDC

KamVedBrat — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 07:11:03 GMT

We’ve had a handful of PDC attendees contact us directly asking for help finding the DirectX related materials on the hard-drive that was handed out as part of “The Goods” at PDC.

If you look in this folder:

\Windows7\Windows_Whitepapers_and_HOLs\High-Fidelity Graphics and Media\DirectX

You will find:

Four white-papers about DirectX innovations in Windows 7, including introductions to Direct2D and DirectWrite
A zip file containing the source code and documentation for each module of the DirectX Hands-On-Lab that was available in the “the Big Room” at the conference.

As an aside, the code in the Hands-On-Lab includes the examples that Leonardo walked through on stage during our session.

neowin covers my talk!

KamVedBrat — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:56:09 GMT

It looks like some press folks from neowin were in the crowd for my talk yesterday, and posted some handheld video of the demo’s.

link: http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=49358

Watch my PDC talk on Channel 9

KamVedBrat — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:48:38 GMT

My PDC talk is now posted on Channel 9! If you weren’t able to attend at PDC, you can watch it here: http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC18/.

If you were in the audience at PDC, thank you very much coming. It was great to finally be able to talk about what I’ve been working on since shipping Windows Vista!

If you have questions, or want to know more about Driect2D and DirectWrite, you can get in touch with me by posting a comment, or using the email link on this blog. I’ll also be watching the discussion on channel 9, so you can post comments & questions there as well.

Attend my presentation at PDC2008!

KamVedBrat — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:35:00 GMT

As you've probably guessed by know, I've been busy working on something that is part of Windows 7 for the past year and a half since Windows Vista shipped.

I'll be presenting session PC-18, "Windows 7: New Text and Graphics API's" which will cover a great deal of what I've been working on.

If you haven't done so already you can register for PDC here, and build your own agenda on the sessions page.

Churos!

KamVedBrat — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:24:04 GMT

Not much to add here - just watch the clip...(updated with higher quality video)

Video: Shoe Circus

Engineering Windows 7

KamVedBrat — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:55:05 GMT

I can't talk about my work quite yet - but some of the senior leadership on the Windows 7 team have started a blog about the engineering process. You'll want to subscribe to this one!

Off Topic: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: The Abridged Script

KamVedBrat — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 07:32:28 GMT

I saw this over at Craig's blog. Made me laugh out loud. I actually enjoyed Indy 4 quite a bit, but this was still hilarious.

Eric Tan's Poster Art

KamVedBrat — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:39:40 GMT

Sorry for radio silence on work related posts. I promise to come back to it when there's something new for me to talk about.

In the meantime, Slashfilm has a nice write-up on some super-cool retro poster-art that Eric Tan did for the new Pixar movie WALL-E. Check it out.

Stamps!

KamVedBrat — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:25:53 GMT

I was scrolling through shelterrific this afternoon and came across a post to some new 2008 stamp designs from the postal service, including this one, honoring Charles & Ray Eames. Nice!

It's late...

KamVedBrat — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:33:14 GMT

...and I'm catching up on my blogroll. Two things that popped for me this evening are Brand New, which has a guest editorial write-up about how the brand of American Gladiators was updated for the return to television, and Jan's review of the updated Zune client. I had a chance to work with Jan for a while in the early days of Longhorn. Jan has one of the strongest senses of empathy when it comes to UI design I've seen in many years. It really comes through in his blog, as well as his latest professional efforts.

Finally, Businessweek had a great write-up about the newest technology object of my desire, the Lenovo X300.

Windows Vista Ultimate (PRODUCT) RED

KamVedBrat — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:27:00 GMT

Microsoft, Dell and (RED) announced a partnership to help people living with HIV/AIDS in Africa. All the details are over on the Windows Vista blog. There's also some coverage of it over on Engadget.

Keeping the taskbar transparent when your deskband is enabled

KamVedBrat — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:51:05 GMT

If you have code that implements a deskband for the Windows Taskbar in Windows Vista, you may have noticed that it causes the taskbar to appear opaque when there is not a maximized window open, instead of being transparent, but darkly tinted which is the normal state of the taskbar.

You can get around this by implementing the IDeskBand2 interface and responding to the associated methods appropriately.

Clutter

KamVedBrat — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:29:50 GMT

Someone at work forwarded me a link to this video on the New York Times site about the clutter around us.