I am glad to announce that today we shipped a new version of the Windows API Code Pack – version 1.0.1. This is not a major version with a lot of new features, but rather a minor version focused on fixing bugs, improving performance, adding demos and...

A few weeks ago, just two days before Windows 7 become generally available, Visual Studio 2010 hit its own major milestone with the release its second Community Technical Preview of Visual Studio, known as Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. To me, it is always...

The Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is the one event that all developers who use any Microsoft technologies must attend at least once in their professional careers. It’s the flagship event for developers, offering the most comprehensive, future...

Have you ever wondered how Windows 7 resumes from sleep in less than 2 seconds? Or how Windows 7 can scale up to 256 cores? Or maybe you just want to want to learn about any Kernel improvements that will make your application run faster with no extra...

Yesterday Windows 7 completed a major milestone-- release to manufacturing (RTM)! And in three months time – on October 22 nd – Windows 7 will be available for everyone to enjoy. Excitement about the upcoming public release of Windows 7 has been growing...

This week we released the Windows 7 RC Training Kit for Developers as part of our ongoing effort to give you, all the Windows developers out there, and valuable content to work with while making your application shine on Windows 7. This version of the...

Note – this post will be updated from time to time, to include new content. Last update: June 13 th (New Sensor, Location and Windows Animation videos) During the past couple of months, we have being working on Windows 7 videos featuring the new...

The Windows 7 Sensor and Location platform enables your computer and applications to adapt to their current environment and change the way they look, feel, or behave. For example, imagine an application that uses a light sensor and so can change the brightness...

We’ve got .NET sample libraries and example for managed code developers to target Windows 7 new APIs! Windows 7 offers new functionality that developers can exploit in their applications to provide enhanced experiences and productivity for their...