Back in July, Yochay blogged about the Code7 Contest on the Windows 7 for Developers Blog . The Code7 Contest is a worldwide contest recognizing developers building innovative and really cool applications for Windows 7. I wanted to give a quick update on the contest. We are now 5 days away from the close...
Today I am pleased to announce some new technologies to help developers and IT professionals make the transition to Windows 7. For developers, we are announcing the public beta for the Platform Update for Windows Vista . The Platform Update for Windows Vista is a set of runtime libraries that makes it...
If you are new to Windows Marketplace for Mobile or wished there was available a straight forward, step-by-step, tour of the process, the Marketplace team has put together the following two walkthroughs you should find useful. Windows Marketplace for Mobile Developer Registration Walk Through View more...
I am posting this on behalf of Jason Grieves who is a Program Manager on the Windows Accessibility Team. He and his colleague Masahiko Kaneko co-authored a book about our engineering process for accessibility. This is a great example of us helping the ecosystem build great software. Our expectations...
Update: Icon registry key and how to avoid the need for signing ‘privileged’. Update: As of August 10, 2009, the requirement for the PNG Start Screen icon has changed from requiring three to one (90x90) PNG icon. This FAQ has been updated to reflect this change. You can satisfy this requirement...
Today represents another significant milestone for Windows Marketplace for Mobile, and more importantly, the first big opportunity for developers. We are now accepting application submissions from all 29 supported countries and have launched a Race to Market Challenge to kick things off. It’s time to...
Before an application will be accepted into the Windows Marketplace for Mobile catalog, it must be able to perform all primary and secondary functions while the Microsoft Application Verifier Test (AppVerifier) is running. AppVerifier needs to be configured to detect heap corruption and invalid locks...
Hello, my name is Loke Uei Tan and I am the Senior Technical Product Manager for the Mobile Developer Experience (DEX) team at Microsoft. I blog regularly on MSDN , and will also post on this team blog from time to time. You can also connect with me on Twitter @wmdev and @lokeuei . Given our strong commitment...
Originally posted June 4, 2009 at MSDN . Now that the Windows Mobile 6.5 Developer Toolkit is out, it is time to start writing widgets!!! Necessary equipment: 1) The Windows Mobile 6.5 emulator images 2) The web development environment of choice 3) WMDC or Windows Mobile Device Center (on Vista or Windows...
Originally posted May 6, 2009 at MSDN . The Games API (GAPI) was a technology that allowed Windows Mobile 2003 applications to quickly draw graphics onto the device screen. It also contained functions that allowed an application to request all button press messages, even the ones that were normally intercepted...