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InterGrid provides its customers with on demand bursts of power for complex, intensive computing processes using the Link Removed. Primary industries served include biotechnology, financial modeling, digital media, oil and gas, and design and manufacturing. Common usage scenarios entail the...

In this episode I'll show you an experimental API prototype I created which allows you to invoke a workflow as a task using System.Threading.Task. The benefit of doing this is you get a much simpler API for using WorkflowApplication. This API is included in the latest release of Link Removed...

TPL Dataflow (TDF), System.Threading.Tasks.Dataflow, builds upon the foundational layer for asynchronous and concurrent programming using Tasks provided in TPL in .NET 4. TDF is a complementary set of primitives to those delivered in TPL in .NET 4, addressing additional scenarios beyond those...

Do you need to create WSDL contracts and WCF Services from XML Schema (xsd)? If so, you need to know about Link Removed, an addin brought to you by some terrific developers, including Santosh Benjamin Muthiah, Edward Bakker, Alex Meyer-Gleaves, Christian Weyer, and Buddhike De Silva. In this...

Link RemovedIn this deep dive,*Sean McKenna from Windows Phone*and Greg Hodgal discuss how to program for Windows Phone 7 using the accelerometer. An accelerometer is a sensor that measures acceleration forces such as gravity or the forces caused by moving the sensor. All Windows*Phones have at...

Link RemovedThis week on Web Camps TV*Link Removed talks to*Link Removed about the new craze sweeping the world of services - OData*- the new web protocol for querying and updating data. Jonathan describes how OData (short for Open Data protocol)*is great for companies who are hosting services...

I am looking for a way to figure out if a driver is digitally signed. I use the api SetupVerifyInfFile for this, but this always fails with the error "Parameter is incorrect". Following are the parameters that I pass to this function, InfName - The Path of the Inf file with the file name. (say...

AMD delivers ATI Stream SDK v2.2 with OpenCL 1.1 support Written by Cristian Thursday 12 August 2010 - 7:43 | Tags: amd, ati, opencl, sdk, stream Developers interested in making both CPU and GPU-accelerated applications are now being offered by AMD a new version of the ATI Stream SDK...

GPU Caps Viewer moves up to version 1.8.8 Written by Cristian Friday 23 July 2010 - 14:17 | Tags: 1.8.8, caps, gpu, viewer If you think GPU-Shark is too 'light' for your needs then worry not because an updated version of GPU Caps Viewer, which offers a heap of graphics card info (specs...

Link Removed - Invalid URL Microsoft has released an update to the backward compatibility feature in Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2 that increases the compatibility of programs in specific scenarios. We all know that the backward compatibility feature can set the dynamic context of...

Using the GetRandomRgn function in windows does not work on Windows 7. The forms borders stay visible. The following code on XP clears the entire window including borders and enables you to draw on the entire window area. The code on Windows 7 clears only the client area and enables you to...

Link Removed - Invalid URL Developers now have a tool that allows them to monitor a motion sensor. What is the advantage of using the sensor monitor application? It is a time and cost saver. It allows sensor developers a platform where they can create compatible sensors and sensor drivers...

I want to cross check if my application is running under "WinXP" mode in Windows 7. Is there any native API available to perform the same. The use case - My application runs on Win Xp but can't run on Win7 due to library which doesn't support Win 7. Before I decide to switch to new...

I have developed a tool to help users create beautiful wallpaper slide shows for Windows 7 using flickr search. Flickr does not provide a public RSS feed so I had to create one myself using their API. Some amazing pictures are on flickr and they can really enhance the look and feel of your...

DirectX 10 vs Directx 10.1 Link Removed - Invalid URL DirectX 10.1: - improved access to shader resources - In particular, this involves better control when reading back samples from multi-sample anti-aliasing. In conjunction with this, the ability to create customised downsampling...

This one is pretty cool, IMO. Windows 7 has a built-in API that can make use of GPS units to track your current location and show details accordingly. 7 Less Known Facts About Windows 7 | I'm Just Being Manan

Hello! I'm just getting started playing with Windows 7 and would love to get into developing multi-touch applications. I've downloaded some labs from the PDC and have VS2010 beta installed along with blend to start off. Is there any way I can simulate multi-touch input to test applications...

Currently, my application without any modifications has three tasks in the JumpList: One listing the application name, one for pinning it to the taskbar, and one to close the application. I am trying to determine how to modify my application to remove the former two tasks, and only leave the...

Hey, does anyone know if there is already a API for Java to control for example the Multitouch functions in Windows 7? Greetz, Tobi

Hello, my application has a feature that shows printers details as tree node and I use EnumPrinters API to fill nodes of this tree. i.e., the provider name, domain names and printer names etc. We have used Lazy loading concept in this tree formation. EnumPrinters API is called for any node level...