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Following is another post by Yochay Kiriaty on a project I’ve done for Microsoft involving WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7 and Windows Azure. If you’re interested in more details, make sure you come to my presentation at the coming SDP 2011 conference (in two days!). [Cross-posted from http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/archive/2011/03/03/flashcards-show-planning-a-cross-platform-solution.aspx ] I recently blogged about Flashcards.Show Version 2 for WPF, Silverlight, and Windows Phone...
Following is a great post by Yochay Kiriaty on a project I’ve done involving WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7 and Windows Azure. If you’re interested in more details, make sure you come to my presentation at the coming SDP 2011 conference. [Cross-posted from http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/developers/archive/2011/02/17/flashcards-show-version-2-for-the-desktop-browser-and-windows-phone.aspx ] The Flashcards.show application has been around for few months now. It is mostly used as a developer...
Sela Developer Practice (SDP) is an annual conference held in Israel which will occur this year between 13 to 16 of March. In this year’s conference I’m going to present on Marsh 14, a one-day seminar about Windows 7: New Features, Porting and Multi-Platform Support . In this tutorial I'll present cool new features like the new Taskbar, Libraries, Multi-Touch support and the new Sensors API. We will focus on the practical aspects of programming a Windows 7 application. I'll present how to...
A few months ago I delivered a session on Windows 7 features in WPF and WinForms applications. In this session I show, among other things, how to work with the Windows 7 Taskbar, how to work with sensors information (light, temperature, etc.), how to use the Windows 7 Ribbon and more. Fortunately for all those who missed it, the session was recorded and is now available via Sela’s latest invention: Sela College Channel , a broadcasting channel for software related videos. You can see the session...
My associate, Bernhard Elbl , as published another two posts on his blog further explaining the latest improvements in the Ribbon for WinForms project. In the first post Bernhard explains what is the RibbonGenerator and how it is generating the .ribbon files. In the second post he explains what does it takes to use the Ribbon for WinForms project using Visual Studio 2010 Express edition. I suggest everyone who use this project to check out these posts. Finally, I would like to thank Bernhard for...
Due to popular demand on instructions for how to use the new version of the Ribbon for WinForms project, I’ve asked Bernhard to write a small tutorial. Bernhard agreed and wrote an excellent quick start tutorial, which now I present to you: http://bernhardelbl.wordpress.com/2010/11/17/quickstart-tutorial-windows-ribbon-for-winforms/ Note that the first 3 steps should be done only the first time you create a ribbon enabled application. This leaves us with just a single step in the tutorial. Couldn...
The Windows Ribbon for WinForms is a ribbon control designed to be used with WinForms applications. Yea, I know, WinForms is so last year, but it turns out people still use it and keep asking for features and bug fixes.. Anyway, it is a managed wrapper around Windows Ribbon Framework , provided by Microsoft in Windows 7 and Vista. More details on this project can be found in the project site: windowsribbon.codeplex.com . So, what’s new? Simplified use for the Ribbon control. Simply drag and drop...
The Windows Ribbon for WinForms is a managed wrapper around Windows Ribbon Framework, a free ribbon control that Microsoft provides in Windows 7 and Vista. More details on this project can be found in the project site: windowsribbon.codeplex.com . I’ve just released another update to the project. Note: this release contains breaking changes, only take it if you are starting a new project, or you don’t mind the needed updates to your code. Basically I’ve changed how events are exposed in the library...
The Windows Ribbon for WinForms is a managed wrapper around Windows Ribbon Framework, a free ribbon control that Microsoft provides in Windows 7 and Vista. More details on this project can be found in the project site: windowsribbon.codeplex.com . I’ve just released yet another update to the project. This release adds support for compiling the project on 64bit machines. If you use a 32bit machine, you are safe with your current version. The main change is how I compile the samples applications. Some...
The Windows Ribbon for WinForms is a managed wrapper around Windows Ribbon Framework, a free ribbon control that Microsoft provides in Windows 7 and Vista. More details on this project can be found in the project site: windowsribbon.codeplex.com . Anyway, I’ve just released a new update to the project. This release includes bug fixes related to all the gallery controls: DropDownGallery, SplitButtonGallery, InRibbonGallery and ComboBox. So, if you had any issues with these controls, make sure you...
One of the new features we got with Windows 7 is a the Windows Sensor and Location Platform . This platform enables us, developers, to access a variety of sensors with a standard API. No more rewrite-entire-device-layer-because-we-changed-vendors issues. All that is required is that the hardware vendor will provide a Windows 7 compliant driver. Microsoft practically opened this market to competition, so we can expect allot of these sensors in the coming future. Ambient Light Sensor One sensor type...
Since so many people asked, I’ve created a Visual Basic .NET version of the Windows Ribbon for WinForms samples using Instant VB by Tangible Software Solutions . Their demo version is limited to converting projects up to 1000 lines, but this was enough for me to convert the samples project. The new VB.NET samples have been uploaded to the project site . That’s it for now, Arik Poznanski.
Following are some listings to be used as a quick reference to common Windows 7 Libraries features using Windows API Code Pack . The code in this post is based on previous work by Alon and other Sela team members. Great work all. Forward Just to clarify the terminology used: Every Windows 7 library is represented as an XML file with the .library-ms extension. The common libraries files are commonly stored in: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Libraries\ So if, for example...
Following are some listings to be used as a quick reference to common Windows 7 Taskbar features using Windows API Code Pack . The code in this post is based on previous work by Yochay and Sasha . Features Setting the process Application ID TaskbarManager.Instance.ApplicationId = "TaskbarManaged" ; Note: This should be done before the window is shown, a good place is on form load. Setting the Application ID of a window TaskbarManager.Instance.SetApplicationIdForSpecificWindow(form.Handle...
First I want to announce that the Windows Ribbon for WinForms library is no longer beta. Since now the library covers every feature available by the windows ribbon I think it would be useful to provide a table of contents for the posts I've written during the development process. Each post serves as documentation on how to use one or two ribbon features. Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 1 – Introduction : Background on the windows ribbon. Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 2 - Basic Ribbon Wrapper...
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