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Programming the Windows 7 Taskbar – Working with Application ID

February 19, 10 //
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Welcome to this short series of Windows 7 screencasts for showing developers how to use the taskbar to Light Up their applications on Windows 7.

This screencast provides a quick overview of the Windows 7 taskbar and its functionality. We also provide a closer look at programming the Windows 7 taskbar using the taskbar Application ID to control the way windows are grouped and presented as taskbar buttons. This screencast focuses on the native API.

This is the first of six screencasts about programming the Windows 7 taskbar using native code. You can download the code shown in the screencast. The other screencasts in this series are:

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Windows 7 Sensor and Location – Developing Drivers Part 1

September 28, 09 //
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The Windows Sensor and Location platform, new for Windows 7, enables your computer and applications to adapt to their current environment and provide location base services and application. But sensors are external or logical devices that require a driver to connect to Windows 7. Join Gavin Gear, product team PM, and Yochay Kiriaty, Technical Evangelist, as we dive deep into the Windows 7 Sensor and Location driver architecture, learning the different about its different components and how to build one. 

This is part 1 and here is the link to part 2.

Additional videos in this series:

In the Windows 7 Developer Training Kit, you can find three labs about Windows 7 Sensor and Location Platform.

You can find additional information about the Windows 7 Sensor and Location Platform in the:

Windows 7 Sensor and Location Platform series of posts
PDC session recording – Windows 7: The Sensor and Location Platform: Building Context-Aware Applications

Windows 7 Sensor and Location – Deep Dive into Location

August 20, 09 //
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The Windows Sensor and Location platform, new for Windows 7, enables your computer and applications to adapt to their current environment. Previously, we introduced the Windows 7 Location Platform Overview; in this video, we take a deep dive into the Location Platform architecture and APIs. Join Alec Berntson and Yochay Kiriaty as they explains why location gets a special set of APIs and what makes the Location Platform such an amazing platform for developers.

In the Windows 7 Developer Kit you can find Hands On Labs and additional content on Windows 7 Sensor and Location.

You can find additional information about the Windows 7 Sensor and Location Platform in the:

Windows Animation – Advanced Topics

August 6, 09 //
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Smooth animations are fundamental to many graphical UI applications. Windows 7 introduces a native animation framework for managing the scheduling and execution of animations. The animation framework supplies a library of useful mathematical functions for specifying behavior over time and lets developers provide their own behavior functions. The framework supports sophisticated resolution of conflicts when multiple animations attempt to manipulate the same value simultaneously. An application can specify that one animation must be completed before another can begin and can force completion within a set time. The new framework also helps animations determine appropriate durations.

You are welcome to join the Paul(s), both Paul Kwiatkowski and Paul Gildea, as they dive deep (real deep) in to some of the advanced topics of the Windows Animation Manager.

This is the third video in a series of videos about the Windows Animation Manager. The first two videos are: Windows Scenic Animation Overview, Windows Animation – Advanced Features.