BrainTube » PDC2009 http://braintube.tv Braincandy for your needs... Tue, 22 Jun 2010 23:58:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Give Me a Side of Scrollbar. Supersized. http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/LarryLarsen/Give-Me-a-Side-of-Scrollbar-Supersized/ http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/LarryLarsen/Give-Me-a-Side-of-Scrollbar-Supersized/#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:24:00 +0000 channel9 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/LarryLarsen/Give-Me-a-Side-of-Scrollbar-Supersized/ Let's say you finally got your hands on a multitouch laptop, whether a PDC laptop, HP TX2, or something else. With the smaller screens, you might say to yourself "Hey, it's almost as if this scrollbar was made more for a mouse cursor than my fat greasy finger." You're kind of right, but fortunately some fine minds at Microsoft had already thought about that. Recall the Origami Experience 2.0 pack from Microsoft. This incredibly helpful bit of bytes will allow you to optimize the chrome on your apps for fat fingers, with taller title bars, bigger Min|Max|Close buttons, and wider scrollbars. There's an option to put the touch keyboard by the systray and enable a touch pointer.

Two other components of Origami Experience include Origami Now and Origami Central. Origami Now is kind of a gadget carousel that will let you create and rotate through tiles of things like weather, clocks, calendars, email, lists, pictures, notes or (pre-defined & out-of-date) RSS feeds. Origami Central includes a fat finger friendly media player, web browser, and customizable program launcher.

Keep in mind this is UMPC/Vista code. Mileage may vary, caveat emptor, etc. etc. But I've used it on the PDC laptop without a hitch.]]> Let’s say you finally got your hands on a multitouch laptop, whether a PDC laptop, HP TX2, or something else. With the smaller screens, you might say to yourself “Hey, it’s almost as if this scrollbar was made more for a mouse cursor than my fat greasy finger.” You’re kind of right, but fortunately some fine minds at Microsoft had already thought about that. Recall the Origami Experience 2.0 pack from Microsoft. This incredibly helpful bit of bytes will allow you to optimize the chrome on your apps for fat fingers, with taller title bars, bigger Min|Max|Close buttons, and wider scrollbars. There’s an option to put the touch keyboard by the systray and enable a touch pointer.

Two other components of Origami Experience include Origami Now and Origami Central. Origami Now is kind of a gadget carousel that will let you create and rotate through tiles of things like weather, clocks, calendars, email, lists, pictures, notes or (pre-defined & out-of-date) RSS feeds. Origami Central includes a fat finger friendly media player, web browser, and customizable program launcher.

Keep in mind this is UMPC/Vista code. Mileage may vary, caveat emptor, etc. etc. But I’ve used it on the PDC laptop without a hitch.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/LarryLarsen/Give-Me-a-Side-of-Scrollbar-Supersized/feed/ 0 Hanselminutes on 9 – Guided Tour inside the Windows Azure Cloud with Patrick Yantz http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Glucose/Hanselminutes-on-9-Guided-Tour-inside-the-Windows-Azure-Cloud-with-Patrick-Yantz/ http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Glucose/Hanselminutes-on-9-Guided-Tour-inside-the-Windows-Azure-Cloud-with-Patrick-Yantz/#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:15:00 +0000 channel9 http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/ch9/1/5/3/8/0/5/HanselminutesOn9PDCGuidedTourOfAzureCloud2_ch9.wmv Scott at PDC09 in Los Angeles this week and got a great opportunity to get a guided tour of a piece of the Windows Azure Cloud from Patrick Yantz, a Cloud Architect with Data Center Services. You may think it's a Cloud Container, but it's not!
Join me on this very technical 15 minute deep dive inside the making of the hardware behind the Windows Azure Cloud.]]> Scott at PDC09 in Los Angeles this week and got a great opportunity to get a guided tour of a piece of the Windows Azure Cloud from Patrick Yantz, a Cloud Architect with Data Center Services. You may think it’s a Cloud Container, but it’s not!
Join me on this very technical 15 minute deep dive inside the making of the hardware behind the Windows Azure Cloud.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Glucose/Hanselminutes-on-9-Guided-Tour-inside-the-Windows-Azure-Cloud-with-Patrick-Yantz/feed/ 0 This Week C9: Win7 on MSDN, PDC 2009, Drunktender http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/This-Week-C9-Win7-on-MSDN-PDC-2009-Drunktender/ http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/This-Week-C9-Win7-on-MSDN-PDC-2009-Drunktender/#comments Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:08:00 +0000 channel9 http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/ch9/3/8/2/3/8/4/ThisWeekC9Aug072009_ch9.wmv This week on C9, Brian and Christian "Littleguru"  Liensberger review the week's top developer stories including:

- Dan on paternity leave – welcome to Gavin Xavier Fernandez!
- MSDN & Technet availability of Windows 7 (Correction to the video: Windows Server 2008 R2 not available just yet... team says "available in the coming weeks")
- Windows 7 on 9 and Windows 7 on Edge
- Windows 7 Physical and Virtual Deployment Options
- Windows 7 Remote Desktop with multi-mon
- Windows 7 Bing Desktop Wallpaper
- PDC 2009 Registration Launched
- Silverlight SDK for Bing
- Customizing TFS Process Guidance
- Team Review for Team System
- Using VSTS 2010 to catch string formatting bugs
- 31 Days of Refactoring
- Clint Rutkas’s Drunktender 1.0 Demo
- AI in C# and LINQ

 

Picks of the week:
- Christian’s pick-of-the-week, RoombaSCI
- Brian’s pick-of-the-week, Russ’s Toolshed on Channel 9]]> This week on C9, Brian and Christian “Littleguru”  Liensberger review the week’s top developer stories including:

- Dan on paternity leave – welcome to Gavin Xavier Fernandez!
- MSDN & Technet availability of Windows 7 (Correction to the video: Windows Server 2008 R2 not available just yet… team says “available in the coming weeks”)
- Windows 7 on 9 and Windows 7 on Edge
- Windows 7 Physical and Virtual Deployment Options
- Windows 7 Remote Desktop with multi-mon
- Windows 7 Bing Desktop Wallpaper
- PDC 2009 Registration Launched
- Silverlight SDK for Bing
- Customizing TFS Process Guidance
- Team Review for Team System
- Using VSTS 2010 to catch string formatting bugs
- 31 Days of Refactoring
- Clint Rutkas’s Drunktender 1.0 Demo
- AI in C# and LINQ

 

Picks of the week:
- Christian’s pick-of-the-week, RoombaSCI
- Brian’s pick-of-the-week, Russ’s Toolshed on Channel 9

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