You didn't have to go to //BUILD/ to get the information and knowledge of the new Windows Platform APIs; you could watch all the sessions from the comfort of your home, and I encourage you to do so, however attending the conference helps obtaining a perception about the future of Microsoft and especially the future of Windows technologies and the reaction of the developers that attended the conference. I didn't want to post about the conference before I have a clear picture, and believe me...
תגים:C++/CLI, C++, Win32, COM, MFC, C#, DEV, conference, Silverlight, CPP/CLI, C++ Renaissance, Microsoft, Windows 8, WinRT, Build, C++ 11
Recently I have been doing a very sophisticated Silverlight project. In this project there was a need to capture the screen and to save the image in a data base. The known way to capture a screen is to use a WriteableBitmap class instance (See Jeff Prosise blog about this feature that was added in SL 3.0). To capture the screen we use the code from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1139200/using-fjcore-to-encode-silverlight-writeablebitmap The following code is a service that captures the...
When we look at the mobile phone market, can we project from it about the future of software? Is Windows 8 going to be a closed system? Will we as developers need to upload all our applications to an App-Store or Marketplaces ? Will we have Multitasking? Let's look at the iPad, a big iPhone or better a big iPod? Let's say that it will sell more than Windows PC based Tablets . What does it say to Microsoft? Microsoft has pushed the tablet idea since the release of Windows XP tablet edition...
תגים:C++, C#, DEV, Home Automation, TECH, Phone, OFFTOPIC, XNA, Future, iPad, iPhone, Silverlight