At PDC 2009, Reed Townsend presented some very exciting multitouch samples in a presentation: Windows Touch Deep Dive. This blog covers the code behind of the custom 3D manipulations that were presented.
Microsoft has violated the holy rules of COM and broken their msado15.dll. The violation occurs after the installation of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (version 6.1.7601.17514).
Download Code (1.14 MB)I was thinking about how to write code that will work on both Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8 (Metro). In theory some of the techniques that could be used are well known. But I wanted to try them out. So I decided to try some things out in a piece of throw away code.
If you have ever looked at a media file (audio or video) in explorer on a Windows 7 PC, you may have noticed that it displays additional information about that media file that previous versions of Windows didn't seem to have access to, for example the length/duration of a Quicktime Movie Clip.
The procedures to define document compatibility in Internet Explorer 8 are well documented here, but I’ve seen many developers and system administrators that are not aware of this...
If your application is associated with a specific file extension, then you get the last part for free! The taskbar also lists files opened by your application in the Recent category!
Staring from the original Command Line Parser v1.0 code, I wanted to be able to add multiple commands, or even nest commands. The result is a nice simple commanding architecture conducive to creating multiple commands.
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