Preview of Windows 7

submitted by ivolved 17 days, 14 hours ago

azurecoding.net — A preview of Windows 7 Pre-Beta on a high-end laptop. read more...

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Vista DWM Hacking – Capture and Stream D3D/WPF Windows Real-Time

jmorrill.hjtcentral.com — This prototype project uses undocumented Vista DWM calls to get reference to a Direct3D surface the Vista DWM uses to paint windows. The D3D surface is then able to be rendered in a WPF application like a "VisualBrush". Because this is done in the GPU, it is very efficient. The sample application will also let you stream a high quality, high fps capture of your video to Silverlight or Windows Media Player. read more...

4 comments | category: Windows Presentation Foundation | Views: 230

Crack.NET - A runtime debugging and scripting tool for .NET

cracknetproject.com — Crack.NET is a runtime debugging and scripting tool that gives you access to the internals of any .NET desktop application running on your computer. If you love Snoop and Mole for Visual Studio, you’ll love Crack.NET, too. Crack.NET allows you to “walk” the managed heap of another .NET application, inspect all kinds of values on objects, and even manipulate those objects via IronPython scripts. read more...

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Touchless - A webcam multi-touch SDK

published 1 month, 19 days ago, submitted by wisemx 1 month, 24 days ago

officelabs.com — That brings us to today, releasing Touchless to the world outside Microsoft, as a *FREE* *OPEN-SOURCE* SDK with a low barrier to entry for developers and users. Touchless makes developing multi-touch capable software easy, and the results can be enjoyed by anyone with a webcam (and some M&Ms :))! Touchless has come a long way, but its journey has just begun. I can imagine a variety of great directions to explore using Touchless. Perhaps support for the forthcoming Windows multi-touch API, video chat white-boarding, implementing mouse/game/hotkey/media control, and designing decked out Minority Report style file/media browsers. read more...

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YouCube (3D WPF web browser)

chriscavanagh.wordpress.com — As you know, .NET 3.5 SP1 includes a WebBrowser control. The current implementation is just a wrapper around the MSHTML ActiveX control, which unfortunately prevents you from doing crazy things to it through WPF. The ActiveX control itself can be queried for the IViewObject interface and have its Draw method called. The WPF WebBrowser doesn’t expose this directly, but fortunately the Windows Forms WebBrowser does (alternatively you could host MSHTML directly)... read more...

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Silverlight Particle Generator

published 3 months, 11 days ago, submitted by Jemm 3 months, 11 days ago

blog.nerdplusart.com — Cool particle effects live demo done with Silverlight. Sources are available, too! read more...

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Photshop style layer blending in WPF

published 3 months, 19 days ago, submitted by rakee 3 months, 20 days ago

rakeshravuri.blogspot.com — Pixelshader code for Photshop style layer blending in WPF. read more...

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ShaderPad - WPF ShaderEffects Workbench

published 3 months, 19 days ago, submitted by rakee 3 months, 20 days ago

rakeshravuri.blogspot.com — ShaderPad is a application like XamlPad / LinqPad , it is meant to server as WPF ShaderEffects Workbench. The ShaderEffect is a PixelShader based Effect that an be applied to any UIElement in WPF. This feature is available only in .NET 3.5 SP1 . Download it from codeplex read more...

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