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Make your application runs and shines on Windows 7

Moving applications to new platform is not an easy decision to make. Sometimes you have no choice, new desktops and laptops run the new operating system and you have to support your clients. Sometimes you do have a choice, you install your application with the system and you can choose the operating system that your code will run on. There are two factors in this dilemma: first is the investment effort on making the application compatible with the new O/S comparing to the benefit (ROI). Second is...

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Windows 7 Metro Content Updated for the RC

I have just came back from another Metro Win 7 course that I have given, this time in Budapest Hungary.  It was the first time that I have use the new RC materials. We were very busy moving all our slide decks, demo code and Hands On Labs to the RC Version as well as moving many of our samples to use the Windows API Code Pack instead of our Windows 7 Integration Library. The API Code Pack is the official wrapper of Windows 7 features for the .NET developers. There are still some parts that have...

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Finally – Our Windows 7 .NET Wrappers are out

During the last few months a small team from Sela , has developed course materials, exercises and demos for the DPE Metro Program, that show how to develop with the new features of Windows 7. As you may know, all of the new feature of the system are exposed to native developer, using Win32 API and COM. To use C# and .NET we developed set of wrappers. Sasha developed the Taskbar wrappers, and also wrote about it in his blog. Dima developed the Sensor & Location Platform wrappers and I developed...

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