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Recently I have told about use Sensor and Location platform in the applications. We have seen, that use of this component set can be very convenient for the application and do not demand many efforts. Also we have an opportunity to work with set of devices...
Recently I wrote about Sensor and Location platform in Windows 7 and for what purposes it is necessary. Now we will talk about how this platform can be used in the applications. To make experiments with not virtual sensors, but with something more approached...
One of components Windows 7 is Sensor and Location platform . Sensor and Location is part of Windows 7 which allows to work with various sensors and additional devices for measurement something. What for it is necessary? Sensors are necessary to make...
Recently I have published a series of articles that has been devoted to possibilities of Windows 7 for developers to work with the task panel. I have received a large quantity of responses for this time. Thanks you very much for it. That is interesting...
How often you should search for the various information? Most likely it occurs every day. It is important, that an information search problem not trivial. Also the information can is in various sources - in files, in e-mail messages, in documents etc...
As it has been announced earlier, in new operational system Windows 7 it is possible to easily change a background of a logon screen. For this purpose it is not required to change resources in executable files or to carry out still any special actions...
Among an users of Windows there are such people to whom smooth animations are not necessary at switching of windows etc. It is important for these users is speed of work and convenience. In a word, that is necessary for them - the responsible user interface...
Is your applications are completely compatible with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2? You can outstrip the competitors, having checked up your applications on compatibility with Windows 7 already today. If your company is ISV you can be helped by...
One of the major features of the task panel of Windows 7 are Jump Lists. Jump lists are displayed if to select an application icon in the task panel and to press the right button of the mouse. If the application uses functionality of JumpLists, then except...
Earlier I wrote about possibility of the task panel of Windows 7 to change preview for a window. We said that in preview it is possible to display both a window part, and own image. At Windows 7 there is such pleasant feature, that if we will hover the...
Recently I have told about how it is possible to influence on preview windows in the task panel of Windows 7. We displayed only that part of a window which is most important for the user in that time. Nevertheless in certain situations be much more useful...
As we already saw, Windows 7 possesses convenient functionality for display preview of windows of applications. It is possible to look the reduced representation of a window for few seconds at mouse hover at a window icon in the task panel. It is very...
Recently I wrote how it is possible to display tabs for child windows of our application. In this case we needed to display child windows of our application. For these purposes we used CustomWindowManager class. The same effect can achieve, if we start...
We continue to study possibilities of the task panel in Windows 7. For certain all of you have paid attention that if the same application to start some times, Windows 7 will automatically group them in one button on the task panel. Besides at hover on...
Earlier I wrote how it is possible to add a icon of a state for your application in the task panel of Windows 7. We considered static images for these purposes. I will remind, that for this purpose we used SetTaskbarOverlayIcon method in which parametres...
This time we will talk about other feature of task panel of Windows 7 - OverlayIcon. This possibility is very useful for applications which have any state from the point of view of the user. For example, such applications are programs for an exchange...
Recently I was telling about how we can display progress inside task panel in Windows7. This time we will continue to talk about Windows 7 possibilities for developers. Let’s look how we can use buttons in window’s preview in task panel. Such functionality...
I am pleased to say that the Windows 7 RC will be available at April 30th for download by MSDN and Technet subscribers. Also, public availability will begin on May 5th. You can read more on the Windows 7 Team Blog . Windows 7 is a great OS and I am very...
Today I find good utility – Ultimate Windows Tweaker . With it I can tune my Windows Vista. This utility allow tune Windows using rather than 130 tweaks and his size near 370 Kb. In addition, its supports x86 and x64. You can tune Windows by following...