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introducing Direct2D and DirectWrite
At the 2008 PDC, Kam Vedbrat and I introduced two brand new DirectX APIs, to be included in Windows 7: Direct2D and DirectWrite. Direct2D is geared towards high-quality vector and bitmap graphics, with the performance characteristics of hardware-acceleration Read More...
Posted 02 November 08 12:55 by lblanco | 1 Comments   
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C# for dynamic programming!
Anders Hejlsberg demonstrated the dynamic programming features of C# 4.0. Very cool was C# calling JavaScript code without extra casts, calls to Invoke, and the like -- just straight function calls in C# that happen to be implemented in JavaScript. Even Read More...
Posted 28 October 08 12:10 by lblanco | 0 Comments   
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Windows Azure
PDC 2008 day 1: Ray Ozzie unveiled " Windows Azure ", our operating system for the cloud. After years of thinking of "operating system" as something that runs a computer, it's weird to think about the meaning of the term with respect to a large set of Read More...
Posted 27 October 08 09:36 by lblanco | 1 Comments   
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at the PDC again
I'm back in Los Angeles for this year's PDC. It was a long shot, given that the group I happen to be on is sending a smaller percentage of people to the PDC than the WPF team did back in '05, but thankfully I have an opportunity to present, which means Read More...
Posted 27 October 08 09:08 by lblanco | 2 Comments   
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