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CodeProject I want to preface this article that the processes described are not generic to Microsoft...
Author: gclassy Date: 03/01/2011
Windows Developer Roundup for 02.25.2011
This week, The Code Project held a virtual tech summit, The Code Project Virtual tech summit covered...
Author: gclassy Date: 02/25/2011
Windows Touch Game Programming in DirectX 10
My CodeProject Entries In late 2009, Ian Backlund and I released a game we were working on that...
Author: gclassy Date: 02/21/2011
Windows Developer Center Updates for 02/18/2011
This week, I published a blog post on Windows Touch: 3D Manipulation and Custom Gestures in C++. In...
Author: gclassy Date: 02/18/2011
Custom Gestures for 3D Manipulation Using Windows Touch in C++
My CodeProject Entries My CodeProject Entries At PDC 2009, Reed Townsend presented some very...
Author: gclassy Date: 02/15/2011
Windows Developer Center Updates for 2/11/2011
This week we released a new Windows Touch whitepaper, I posted the code to this blog for one of the...
Author: gclassy Date: 02/11/2011
Is it just me or does the redesigned Windows developer center need work?
My CodeProject Entries I just got out of a meeting with someone who told me they received rather...
Author: gclassy Date: 02/11/2011
Creating Windows Touch Control Frameworks in C++ (PhotoStrip)
My CodeProject Entries At PDC 2009, Reed Townsend presented some very exciting multitouch samples in...
Author: gclassy Date: 02/07/2011
Windows Developer Center Updates for 2/4/2011
I finally published the article and video for the content I have been working on about hacking the...
Author: gclassy Date: 02/04/2011
Windows Developer Center Updates for 1/28/2011
We didn't publish any significant content to the developer center this week but I found a couple...
Author: gclassy Date: 01/28/2011
Basics of using the Command Window in Visual Studio 2010
Here at Microsoft, developers LOVE the Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE)...
Author: gclassy Date: 01/25/2011
Windows Developer Center Updates for 1/21/2010
This week, we published a new whitepaper and produced a short video on building C++ projects using...
Author: gclassy Date: 01/21/2011
Smartphones: The (perhaps unintended) realization of the past half century of consumer science fiction
I have been using smartphones since I could afford them roughly seven years ago and have been using...
Author: gclassy Date: 01/18/2011
Windows Developer Center Updates for 1/14/2010
Internationalization / Loc Pilot I mentioned in an earlier post this week that we have localized...
Author: gclassy Date: 01/14/2011
More Content Pilots with Internationalization
On Friday, I wrote a brief post about content from the MSDN Library that was recently localized as a...
Author: gclassy Date: 01/10/2011
The Redmond Reality Distortion Field (RDF) and Developer Documentation
I just saw a couple of fun posts about the Redmond Reality Distortion Field (RDF) and it really...
Author: gclassy Date: 01/04/2011
Goodbye 2010, hello 2011!
2010 has been a great year for me and for the Windows Developer center and it has been a blast...
Author: gclassy Date: 01/03/2011
Windows Phone 7 Series Thoughts
Waiting for Launch, Picking my Phone When I first saw the announcements about the latest generation...
Author: gclassy Date: 12/26/2010
Windows Developer Center Updates for the week of 12/24/2010
One of the last weeks of the year! The office has been very slow this week and there haven't been...
Author: gclassy Date: 12/24/2010
MIX11: Open Call for Content & Early Bird Incentives
If you are a web designer or developer, you might be interested in the following recent...
Author: gclassy Date: 12/20/2010
Windows Developer Center Updates for 12/17/2010
There are a few things that have been going on for Windows developers over the past week: Imagine...
Author: gclassy Date: 12/17/2010
Windows Developer Center Updates for 12/10/2010
Last week we added a few new whitepapers for accessibility. This week, we announced the Windows...
Author: gclassy Date: 12/10/2010
Windows Developer News for the week of Nov 12th, 2010
This week I took a look at the usage of the Windows Developer center and discovered that not very...
Author: gclassy Date: 11/12/2010
Developer News for the Week of Nov 5th, 2010
This week, MSDN updated the search page to make it easier to find your content, we published the...
Author: gclassy Date: 11/05/2010
Developer News for the Week of Oct 29th, 2010
There haven't been many things happening for the developer center this week, we have been focused on...
Author: gclassy Date: 10/29/2010
Boot to VHD / Boot from VHD
I recently learned about boot to/from Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) and how it makes it very easy to set...
Author: gclassy Date: 10/25/2010
Windows Developer News for the Week of Oct 22nd
This week, we published a new Hilo Chapter, refreshed the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2...
Author: gclassy Date: 10/22/2010
Windows Developer News for the Week of Oct 15th
This week, we launched the next chapter of Hilo helping developers learn how to write Windows...
Author: gclassy Date: 10/15/2010
Windows Developer News for the Week of Oct 8th 2010
Not much happened this week around the developer center. We are currently working on new...
Author: gclassy Date: 10/08/2010
Windows Developer News for the week of Oct 1st
The following content is new for this week: New Hilo article released Power Management Guidelines...
Author: gclassy Date: 10/01/2010
Windows Developer News for the week of Sept 24th
This week we worked on refining portions of the existing content on the developer center and have...
Author: gclassy Date: 09/24/2010
Windows Developer News for the week of September 17th 2010
This week a lot was happening in the Windows Developer world and we did a lot of great work for the...
Author: gclassy Date: 09/17/2010
IE9 Beta Live!
The beta release of Internet Explorer 9 launched on Wednesday of this week. If you're a developer...
Author: gclassy Date: 09/16/2010
Windows Developer News for the weeks of Sept 3rd and 10th
A couple things have been happening around the developer center: Hilo Chapter 10 and Hilo Chapter 11...
Author: gclassy Date: 09/10/2010
Windows Developer News for the week of August 27th 2010
It's almost September and we'll be pushing a lot of content over the next month targeting Windows...
Author: gclassy Date: 08/27/2010
Simulate Windows Touch with TUIO drivers for the Wacom Bamboo
Many people have been looking for an easy and cheap way to simulate Windows Touch and I recently...
Author: gclassy Date: 08/27/2010
Windows Developer News for the week of Aug. 20th, 2010
This was a heck of a week for the Windows Developer Center. In summary: The browsable list of...
Author: gclassy Date: 08/20/2010
Microsoft Nomenclature for Developers
It's slightly strange to think about but at Microsoft we have a certain internal culture around how...
Author: gclassy Date: 08/18/2010
Browsable list of Windows Programming Topics
Just showing off a long list of resources that will eventually make it into the Windows Developer...
Author: gclassy Date: 08/17/2010
Windows Developer News for the week of Aug. 13th, 2010
News and Updates Chapters 6,7, and 8 for the Hilo series have been published. If you are trying to...
Author: gclassy Date: 08/13/2010
Fix for DXGI Surface in D2D debug layer
A reminder that in older versions of the Debug layer in Direct2D, there is an issue that causes a...
Author: gclassy Date: 08/10/2010
Windows Developer News for the week of Aug. 8th, 2010
This week has been a rather eventful week. Lots of releases and updates were announced and...
Author: gclassy Date: 08/06/2010
Resources for Windows Developers
I'm literally on my way out of the office, but before I leave, I would like to share a mega-list...
Author: gclassy Date: 08/06/2010
Windows Developer News... Offline Docs, DirectCompute lecture series update, and more!
This week, the DirectCompute lecture series was featured on Channel 9 and the Jason Yang from AMD...
Author: gclassy Date: 07/30/2010
Where did the offline docs go in Windows SDK 7.1?
Yesterday, when I was writing the short post on viewing the offline documentation I realized that...
Author: gclassy Date: 07/27/2010
Viewing the MSDN Documentation Offline
The Windows SDK blog posted an article on viewing the MSDN documentation offline. In this article,...
Author: gclassy Date: 07/26/2010
Windows Developer News... Accessibility tools, Windows SDK Download, Windows Phone 7...
It's been a slow week as far as announcements are concerned. We have been going through our infamous...
Author: gclassy Date: 07/23/2010
Where did the accessibility tools go?
Accessibility tools that previously shipped in the Microsoft Accessibility Package (MSAA SDK) now...
Author: gclassy Date: 07/22/2010