application development

If you are a developer using the Unified Communications Managed API (UCMA) 3.0 with Lync Server 2010, you may need to add your workstation to a pool of trusted application endpoints so you can debug from your developer environment. Nicholas Fish, Software Development Engineer in Test on the...

We have just launched an all new series that teaches beginning developers with little programming experience how to develop applications for Windows Phone 7. This series assumes that they have absolutely no knowledge of C#, Silverlight, or mobile development. In just a few hours, they will...

This year at the PDC we took advantage of the large amount of students creating apps for the new Windows Phone 7. In this clip I sat down with 5 students from across the globe to learn about how the spent their time at PDC and what apps that had each created. Good stuff! Link Removed Link Removed

Jesse Liberty and Jon Galloway are kicking off a new screencast series called The Full Stack. They're pair-programming, building out a full application from a server back-end down to Windows Phone, web, Silverlight, and wherever else the app-building process leads them. Join them for the ride...

You probably already know that the final version of Windows Phone Developer Tools wasshipped today! In celebration, we decided to walk through the corridors of Studio F (where most of the devs, PMs, and testers are), and talk with a few of the people who are behind this great release of Windows...

Since Windows Phone doesn’t allow 3rd party applications to run in the background, your code can’t listen to or poll the Web for updates. However, Windows Push Notification Service overcomes this communication issue, making it possible for Windows Phone devices to receive Push Notification...

Link RemovedSince Windows Phone doesn’t allow 3rd party applications to run in the background, your code can’t listen to or poll the Web for updates. However, Windows Push Notification Service overcomes this communication issue, making it possible for Windows Phone devices to receive Push...

Link RemovedTsitsi Gora, UX Designer at Microsoft, appears on the show to*announce the new Silverlight themes that her team has been working on. Tsitsi demonstrates the new themes available for download and explains the scenarios they had in mind when they created the themes.*The new*themes...

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...

It seems no matter what I do, Windows 7, obviously my superior, won't let me. I wrote an app in VB6 for a client. It writes data to text files and creates pdf files. If it runs on Windows 7 (and apparently Vista), it throws a 'file/path access error' and won't complete the job. This is a...

Google said it is planning to release its free Chrome operating system to go head to head with Microsoft Windows, later this year. Sundar Pichai at CompuTex Taipei, Asia's biggest IT trade show said the OS will be available in the Autumn and he expects it to be downloaded by millions of users...

We bought a very brand new Lenova IdeaPad [netbook/tablet] specifically to present our application for judging at the AT&T competition for "Best Mobile App" in the Open category. Because we didn't want too many variables B4 the judging we chose to connect the Lenova Ideapad S10-3t via a Sierra...

I have an exe I wrote which works fine on 32 bit OSes. However my users who run 64 bit windows 7 tell me that it's only able to read files under the directory where the exe is installed. If they use the exe to read a file anywhere else on the file system is throws an error. I am assuming this...

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...

Using WMDM I have created a small application to read portable device information, my application works fine on vista and XP but has one problem on Win7. Problem: I am not able to get drive letter of USB device. I am calling GetName of IWMDMDevice interface, on XP & VISTA this API returns...

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...

I created a service that transfers data to/from the USB The service runs smoothly on Win XP and if i run it as an app in Vista is works OK, but ran as a service in Vista the Reads and Writes to the USB fail with ERROR_IO_PENDING. My app seems to be frozen because the threads are waiting on the...

Hey Folks, Here is the challenge I am having with Vista and would really appreciate any help from anybody that might now how to work around this. 1. I have an application running of my own creation 2. I progrmatically minimize it 3. Once minized I want to take a snapshot of the screen The...