During Wednesday’s keynote, Brian Goldfarb demoed an amazing Silverlight 4 client for Facebook. Beyond its amazing looks, this Silverlight 4 demo provides a full and complete desktop client application for Windows (and Mac). SilverFace is built...

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...

We introduced Service 0 Isolation a few weeks ago as an application compatibility topic. It is only natural that we continue our conversation about services in the context of Windows 7. But this time, we will talk about some of the benefits to service...

Windows 7 is now available to the public and anyone can buy and install Windows 7, whether for a new computer or an existing one. Soon, people from around the world will run your applications on Windows 7. They will expect the application to work and...

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...

This is it people. Windows 7 RTM is available for download from MSDN & TechNet sites! If you have a MSDN subscription you can get Windows 7 RTM in English. On October 1st, the remaining languages will be released, for more information read - Windows...

Version checking is probably one of the most common Application Compatibility issues that both developers and users are facing. This is another post in a series of posts about Getting Ready for Windows 7 . As said, this is probably the most common application...

To making sure your application is ready (compatible) for Windows 7, I am going to start providing additional information about the few compatibility topics we introduced in the “ Is Your Application Ready for Windows 7 RTM? ” post. This post...

We covered the basics of the Windows 7 Taskbar in Developing for the Windows 7 Taskbar – Application ID , and how you can create a Jump List for your application in Developing for the Windows 7 Taskbar – Jump into Jump Lists – Part 1 , Part 2 , and Part...

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...

So far, you have seen how you can opt into the Windows 7 Taskbar Jump List experience by creating a Jump List for your application (in the Developing for the Windows 7 Taskbar – Jump into Jump Lists – Part 2 post.) You have also seen the Windows 7 default...

This is the second post about the Taskbar Jump List in a series of Windows 7 Taskbar posts. In the previous post, Developing for the Windows 7 Taskbar – Jump into Jump Lists – Part 1 , we introduced the elements that comprise the Taskbar Jump Lists: the...

Welcome to yet another Windows 7 Taskbar post. In the previous post, Developing for the Windows 7 Taskbar – Get to Know Your Application ID , we introduced a very important component of the underlying architecture of the Taskbar, the Application ID (AppID...

[June 19th - I added a code sample and new screenshots.] In response to some of the comments I included a link to the download and new screenshots to show the effect of changing Application ID in run time. And Just to make sure we are all on the same...