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...

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...

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...

Do you want to win a free trip to Los Angeles and a free ticket to PDC 2009? Do you think you have what it takes to win $17,777? Do you think you can write an amazing Windows 7 application? Well, if your answer to any of the above question is "Yes...

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...

This is the first post in a new Windows 7 Taskbar series. One of the first Windows 7 changes that developers should pay attention to is the new Windows Taskbar. We all need to understand the functionality this feature introduces so that we can ensure...

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...

Both the Windows 7 RC and the Windows 7 RC SDK are available for download; make sure you get them quickly. As Brandon mentioned in his post , with this release we are coming down the home stretch to release of the final product. Now is when you need to...

One of the first noticeable changes in Windows 7 Desktop is the new Taskbar. The Windows 7 Taskbar post on the E7 blog clearly documents the reasons driving the Windows 7 Taskbar look and feel. The Windows 7 taskbar introduces new functionality that developers...