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Windows Server 2008 MTC Lab Invite

v-gokuva — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:00:45 GMT

Windows Server 2008 MTC Lab Invite

Windows Vista Application Development Requirements for User Account Control

mcsargon — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 22:22:43 GMT

This is a link to the to MSDN and latest information about Windows Vista and User Account Control

Windows Vista UAC Development Requirements

McSargon — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:50:46 GMT

This document contains information to assist application developers with ensuring that their applications are User Account Control (UAC) compatible

Windows Vista Backup and Application Compatibility

McSargon — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:58:29 GMT

There as several changes in Windows Vista and Windows Vista Server that affects the compatibility of backup applications. This document addresses those issues and specific requirements concerning those changes.

List of Windows Vista API changes

Mcsargon — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 18:34:42 GMT

Here is a useful list of API changed\additions in Windows Vista

Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit version 5.0 Beta Evaluation Guide

Mcsargon — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 00:06:01 GMT

Understanding the methodology of using the Microsoft® Application Compatibility Toolkit will provide you a clear view of how you can manage your application portfolio and organize your applications to create a clear project that will assist you when deploying a new Windows operating system or new Windows updates. Using the Microsoft® Application Compatibility Toolkit, we will work through the methodology of Inventorying and Analyzing the Application Portfolio, Rationalizing applications that should be prioritized, and finally Prioritizing applications to ensure an appropriate focus with compatibility efforts.

Vista compatibility investigation guide

Mcsargon — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:15:15 GMT

This document will help ISV's walk through and discover some of the changes with Microsoft Vista that can affect an application running as it did under Windows XP.

Registry Entries and MUI

mcsargon — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 19:19:49 GMT

For many years, it has been common practice to store UI text in the registry. However, this practice is not recommended for globalized applications. While it is possible for a globalized application to maintain separate registry values for each language supported, doing this with a large number of variables can severely diminish the overall performance of the registry. Instead of using these practices, your globalized applications should refer to strings indirectly.

Shell Strings and MUI

mcsargon — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 19:18:35 GMT

An application uses the registry to inform the Windows Shell of its UI display name, which is the application name displayed in the Windows Shell UI. The application also uses the registry to inform the Shell of the InfoTip string displayed when the user moves the pointer over the application icon.

A First Look at APIs For Creating XML Paper Specification Documents

mcsargon — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 19:14:06 GMT

Electronic documents have changed the way people publish and exchange information. But while convenient, the process isn't flawless. With current software, documents often appear one way when viewed on the screen and another when printed. To make matters worse, many documents depend on locally installed software, fonts, and other resources. When a document is viewed on different computers, aspects of the document, such as page layout, image color, and font style, can change, altering the document's appearance. Consequently, a document's appearance depends greatly on where and how the document is viewed.

Windows Explorer Search and Organize

mcsargon — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 19:11:15 GMT

Windows Vista provides users with the tools to turn the raw data on their systems into useful information. These tools include optimizations in the storage, retrieval, and organization of native data and file types, as well as technologies for developers to extend this functionality.

Top Ten Things to Do when developing a Windows Vista Application

mcsargon — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 19:01:22 GMT

This link presents in formation about developing Windows Vista Applications, including new API's and a CHM to help you through the most common application development issues.

Pick the Right Degree of Control for User Interfaces

mcsargon — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 18:51:20 GMT

Your application's user interface is an intermediary, situated between the user and the computer. To some extent, the user and the software rely on each other. A user cannot directly manipulate bits of data in memory or storage hardware, nor can the software's limited capacity for intelligence allow it to independently determine the desired result for any non-trivial task. In a way, the user and the software collaborate. This collaboration requires you to make a critical decision: which of the two will control the interactional” the user or the software?

Windows Vista User Experience Guidelines

mcsargon — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 18:49:20 GMT

This site links to areas such as what's new in Vista, top rules for User experience, Top rules, and Designing with Windows Presentations Foundation.

Speech Technologies changes for Vista

mcsargon — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 18:36:29 GMT

In the past, Microsoft offered Windows Desktop Speech technologies for developers through a separate Speech SDK that contained development files and redistributable binaries. The latter files had to be packaged with the application and installed on each user's machine to enable speech capabilities. Because speech technologies have matured and entered mainstream use, this state of affairs has changed for Windows Vista: the operating system now has integrated speech capabilities and the speech APIs are now included with the Windows SDK.