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Message Only Window in for .NET Application
Overview .NET is great platform, it speeds up the development process, you deal with your application logic and in most cases you don't need to know that there is whole Windows operating system down there. However sometimes you do need to program against Windows without the .NET assistance. As a Windows developer, you need to keep all your weapons ready, be it .NET, COM or C++ with the native Win32 API. In this article I am going to show how to deal with Windows Message based communication protocol...

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My Build Event Insights
You didn't have to go to //BUILD/ to get the information and knowledge of the new Windows Platform APIs; you could watch all the sessions from the comfort of your home, and I encourage you to do so, however attending the conference helps obtaining a perception about the future of Microsoft and especially the future of Windows technologies and the reaction of the developers that attended the conference. I didn't want to post about the conference before I have a clear picture, and believe me...

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C++ Renaissance: The Asynchronous Agents Library
Visual Studio 2010 brings back the power of C++. The new language capabilities and optimized STL libraries, the developers productivity as well as the resulting executable performance are much higher. In this post I’d like to present one of the abilities of the ConcRT Asynchronous Agents Library. Agent is based on the Actor Model and is one of the building block of a Concurrent Dataflow Network. The idea behind the Asynchronous Agent Library is that you build a network from agents and message blocks...

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Screen Capture in SIlverlight 4.0
Recently I have been doing a very sophisticated Silverlight project. In this project there was a need to capture the screen and to save the image in a data base. The known way to capture a screen is to use a WriteableBitmap class instance (See Jeff Prosise blog about this feature that was added in SL 3.0). To capture the screen we use the code from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1139200/using-fjcore-to-encode-silverlight-writeablebitmap   The following code is a service that captures the...

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Today! Gadi & Sahsa in the WPD User Group
Don’t forget to come today to the WPD user group to hear Sasha & Gadi .  Gadi is going to talk about parallel programming and Sasha is going to talk about developing native application with the next version of Visual Studio.  We are lucky to have two very talented lecturers in one evening.    This is the agenda for today: Agenda 17:00-17:30 Gathering 17:30-17:45 PDC Essentials – Alon Fliess 17:45-19:00 Introduction to the parallel world – Gad J. Meir 19:00-19:15 Break 19:15...

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Thanks to the people that came to the first meeting of the Windows Platform Developers User Group
Thanks for all of you that despite the traffic jams, made it and came to the first meeting. And thanks again for your feedbacks, all of them were excellent! Here are the links for the resources that we talked about: Windows 7 Training Kit Visual Studio 2010 Training Kit – The kit contains the MFC labs for the Windows 7 features XP2Win7 – stay tuned for a new release next week, or two. Removing the Kernel Dispatcher lock by Arun Kishan Mark Russinovich: Inside Windows 7 Mark Russinovich: Inside Windows...

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The first meeting of the Windows Platform Developers User Group
Come and join Pavel and me to the first meeting of the Windows Platform Developers user group . If the Windows platform is interesting you (and it probably does, otherwise you won’t be reading this post) you have to come. This is the chance to influence the spirit of the group. Pavel and I wanted to have a group for people like us. Those who develop for Windows with any needed tool, not just .NET or C++ but both and even more. The first meeting will be about Windows NT 6.1, this is the shortest way...

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Sela Developer Practice
We are going to the PDC . And when I say we, I mean 17 experts and 3 managers from Sela . This year we are going to be in all sessions and meet many key professionals from Microsoft and other companies. We will also have a booth . Why do I tell you that? Not just to tell you that it is fun to work at Sela (It is, but it is also very demanding) and that we are investing in our people, but to announce that we are going to talk about all current and new technologies that will be revealed in the PDC...

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More Windows Ribbon Tools & Resources
As the co-author of the “ Introducing Windows® 7 for Developers ” book  I wrote the two chapters about the new Windows Ribbon Framework. The first Ribbon chapter deals with the Ribbon markup language and the second chapter deals with the code behind. To let the reader the ability to understand and play with the markup language before reading the code behind chapter, I have created an open source project named RibbonExpolorer . The Ribbon team from Microsoft has also created such a tool named...

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Ribbon Explorer 1.1 has just been released
Windows 7 introduces a new Windows Ribbon framework, a framework that enables creating of a modern rich user interface and user experience based on the Office 2007 fluent UI concepts. The Windows Ribbon framework adopted the Model-View-Controller pattern. The UI is written using XAML like language, the controller is a COM based code and the Model is your business logic.  To enable developing the Ribbon markup we have created the Ribbon Explorer program.  These are the feature of Ribbon...

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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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The easy way to get dump files on Windows Vista/Server 2008 and Windows 7/Server 2008 R2
I have finished a Windows Internal course this week at Taldor. Windows Internal is a very special course. Usually when you go to a course, you know what the direct benefit is. You go to C# course; you will learn how to code in C#. You go to WPF, you … got the point. When you take the Windows Internal course, you just become better Windows user, Administrator and Programmer . After the course you have the feeling that you know the system. You know how it is built; you know what's going inside...

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Windows 7 Ribbon Explorer
We have released the Beta 1.0 of Ribbon Explorer , A win7 application which takes a ribbon markup (XML) and shows the resulting ribbon. The application compiles the Ribbon XML, (UICC.exe, RC.exe Link.exe). loads it and instantiate a window with the resulting Ribbon. The application controls the Ribbon and shows the Ribbon events. Features: Read a Ribbon markup file which its full path is provided in the first argument of the command line. Enable editing of the supply XML file, or a new XML file Show...

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Windows 7 RC Training Kit
More of our work is available to download. Microsoft has published the Windows 7 training kit . the kit includes the PowerPoint decks, the demos and HOLs. This is a great way to learn the new and cool features of Windows 7. The kit was developed by Yochay Kiriaty (DPE Redmond) with a lot of work of Dima, Sasha and myself. We took the PDC 2008 slides, fixed them, added new information, developed new demos and created new Hands-On-Lab for most of the features. Microsoft will soon publish another demo...

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New MSDN Magazine Article about Windows 7 Shell Library Programming
To have a better understanding of what it is and how to program with the Windows 7 Shell Library you can read this article that was written by Yochay Kiriaty and myself.

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