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Architecture Handled using a Driver Model that is implemented by the partners Based on WM_Messages that are exchanged by the application and the Multi-touch Hardware Development Tiers Good Everything that comes for free APIs Panning/Zoom gestures Right...
Geneva Framework has received a name change and now is called WIF – Windows Identity Foundation, since is the technology that will work with all types of Identity in the Microsoft world. “It provides developers pre-built .NET security logic...
Windows 7 Usage of the GPU Continues from Vista Media Center UI Video Playback Desktop Window Manager (DWM) Win7 DWM uses DirectX3D10.1 API Scales in Performance all the way from low end integrated graphics cards to the highest level ones Windows 7 High...
One of the most asked questions about Windows Azure is what is the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) and the ROI (Return of Investment) that we have in order to decide if we are going or not into the cloud. Based on this questions...
Sensor Platform Overview Develop better and more productive user experiences Enable environmentally adaptive user interface Windows 7 features a unified API for working with sensors No need to target vendor-specific APIs Consistent interface for sensors...
Overview In previous versions of windows, users managed files in known folders locations Documents, Pictures, Music, Videos People store data “all over the place” 54% of digital content lives outside the user profile Most uses do both Store content on...
Key Goals Things you use all the time are at your fingerprints Manage your windows with confidence You are in control Clean and lightweight Coding for the Windows Taskbar Win32/C++ COM iTaskbarList3 ICustomDestinationList IShellItem IShellLink .NET Windows...
Working Set Background Optimal usage of system memory – a constant area of investment Working set: Comprises all the potentially trimmable virtual addresses for a given process, session or system resource Resources like nonpaged pool, kernel stacks, large...
Introduction to the Windows 7 BootCamp Key Windows Kernel Changes Performance Footprint reduction Memory optimizations Working set management improvements Perftrack Power efficiency Core Parking Trying to make cores going to sleep if they are not needed...
In the last few days I’ve been seeing several element of the Entity Framework 4.0 that come with the .NET 4.0 and I there are several interesting news that I thought I could wrap up a little bit in this post, and so lets start with the news. ...
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