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...

Here we are at the LA Convention Center, attending the FREE Windows 7 Seminar: Boot Camp . We managed to “ sell out ” (just a reminder-- it is free) this event, getting more than 1200 registrations. This day is all about learning what’s new in the Windows...

In the last post Windows 7 Trigger Start Services – Part 1: Introduction , we introduced Windows7 Trigger Services as a great way to optimize your services to have better performance and improved security. In this post you will learn how to convert a...

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...

PDC 2009 takes place at the LA Convention Center on November 17 th , 18 th , and 19 th . As I wrote before , The Professional Developers Conference is the one event each developer has to attend. Windows 7 will become generally available (GA) to the public...

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...

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...

We are intent on providing people with the best possible experience using their PCs with Windows. Building on that important principle, we will ship the same version of Windows 7 in Europe as in rest of the world on the worldwide launch date of 22 October...

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...