Sergey Zwezdin
<br/> Microsoft Regional Director<br/><br/> Microsoft MVP
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Change of the background image on the logon screen in Windows 7
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. Process of changing of the image is very simple and can be executed without use of additional tools. This functionality is accessible and correctly works since 7057 build.
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Animation of switching of tasks in Windows 7
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. More recently we communicated with such user by e-mail. Its problem consisted that it is necessary to wait few time before he will see a preview window for the application at hovering on an application icon in the task panel. For this reason I have decided to write pair of tips for such category of users.
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Microsoft Sync Framework 2.0 CTP2
Today next preview version of Sync Framework became accessible. -
Windows Mobile 6.5 SDK is accessible to download
Today it became accessible SDK to develop for Windows Mobile 6.5. This pack includes the documentation, examples, header files and libraries (for native), tools for Visual Studio and images of emulators. Emulator's versions are accessible: -
Give green light to your applications together with Windows 7!
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 a isvappcompat.com resource.
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Windows 7 programming: Taskbar. Part 10 (final part) – JumpLists.
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 standard actions (pin, close) there will be some more additional actions which facilitate our daily work.
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Windows 7 programming: Taskbar. Part 9 – PeekBitmap.
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Windows 7 programming: Taskbar. Part 8 – IconicThumbnail.
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 displaying of other picture (an application state), instead of window parts.
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Windows 7 programming: Taskbar. Part 7 – ThumbnailClip.
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 convenient when at the user openly considerable quantity of windows.
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Windows 7 programming: Taskbar. Part 6 – AppId.
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.