‘Touch’ is everywhere around us. We use it daily in our lives thanks to the touch-enabled devices – mobile phones, tables, kiosk stations. Touch navigation just feels more natural and pleasant to the end-user than using some kind of a pointing device, such as a mouse or a track-ball. Today, we are ...

Put your message boxes on steroids. Take advantage of the new-look dialogs in Windows Vista and Windows 7 in your applications and smarten up your UI.

It’s an app that unleashes the “Virtual WiFi” and Wireless Hosted Network features of Windows 7 to turn a PC into a Wireless Access Point or Hot Spot. Well, I looked into what it would take to build such an app, and it really wasn’t that difficult since Windows 7 has all the API’s built in to do it....

Windows Multitouch, in my opinion, is the most emotive new feature of Windows 7. From the kids at home to the audiences to whom I’m demoed Windows 7, there’s something fresh and fun about being able to manipulate an application with simple hand gestures. We’ve all used touch screens in some form be...

Well, I was looking through some more of my prototypes that I’ve written and I came across the following example of how to use the IProgressDialog Win32 Interface to harness the power of the Built-in Progress Dialog in Windows within your own .NET applications. I have test this on WIndows 7, but ...

Windows 7’s XP Mode is essentially a Windows XP virtual machine that runs in the new Windows 7 version of Virtual PC. This new edition of Virtual PC includes cool features such as seamless windows. The main reason I’m interested in this is to run older versions of Internet Explorer for testing purpo...

VMLauncher allows you to open any file or folder from your local host system in a specified Virtual Machine. This improves the integration of Windows Virtual PC. There is no need anymore to open the Virtual Machine in Desktop Mode to install a new application! You can open any program, file or fo...

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Some of you might remember that I blogged about the Windows 7 managed code API’s accessible via the Windows API Code Pack a little while ago, well I just would like to clarify that point and say the Windows API Code Pack is not just for Windows 7 developers and provides many exciting features never ...

The Windows® API Code Pack for Microsoft® .NET Framework provides support for various features of Windows 7 and previous releases of that operating system. The Code Pack has reached version 1.0 and has been published on Code Gallery:

WPF & Windows 7 Screencast Published by ejadib on August 10, 2009 11:01 am under Client Development, Events, Screencasts, WPF, Windows 7, Windows Presentation Foundation Edit Last week, we recorded with Matias Woloski an screencast for the Windows 7×7 campaign (Alberto Ortega blogged ...

It turns out that MSDN has the same kind of “Top Downloads” page, so you can really use AKAMAI to download Windows 7 much FASTER whether you have an MSDN or TechNet Subscription.

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Microsoft today announced the new product line for Windows 7. In some ways the new Windows 7 product line follows the same ideas of Windows Vista, but the big differences are that each Windows 7 edition is a superset of the previous edition (which means that each higher edition will have every featu...