Sergey Zwezdin
<br/> Microsoft Regional Director<br/><br/> Microsoft MVP
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Windows 7 programming: Taskbar. Part 5 – CustomWindowsManager.
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 a icon of this application the task panel will show a set preview for these windows.
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Windows 7 programming: Taskbar. Part 4 – Custom OverlayIcon.
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 the reference on Icon is transferred.
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Windows 7 programming: Taskbar. Part 3 – OverlayIcon.
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.
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PHP driver for SQL Server now in Web Platform Installer
Web Platform Installer is a tool, which contains many libraries, components and ready to use solutions. This tool very useful, because allow to save many time. Also, it is free tool and you can download it and install on your machine.
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Update of .NET RIA Services (preview) is available
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Windows 7 programming: Taskbar. Part 2 - ThumbButtons.
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.
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jLinq – LINQ for JavaScript
Many developers are using JavaScript today. However, the programming JavaScript is not pleasant occupation. Therefore, many JavaScript frameworks (jQuery, ExtJS, Prototype, Moo etc) and libraries appeared lately.
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Azure SDK works on Windows 7
As you know, in Windows 7 Beta the bug which did impossible contained to debug appendices for Azure. The bug did not allow to start Development Fabric on Windows7. All it created the big inconveniences. The main recipe was to use the virtual machine with Windows Vista / Server 2008. -
Microsoft Regional Director program
Recently I have been nominated to Microsoft Regional Director program. -
Windows 7 programming: Taskbar. Part 1 - Progress Bar.
New OS Windows 7 contains a considerable quantity of innovations and improvements. These improvements concern safety, productivity, reliability etc. Also, the big attention is given to the user interface. In several posts we will talk about the innovations and program model.