23 Jun, 2009
code pack Windows 7
I just stumbled upon the Windows API Code Pack for the Microsoft .NET Framework. It’s a code pack that allows .NET developers to take advantage of some of the new Windows 7 features.
Features supported by version 0.9 of the code pack are:
- Windows 7 Taskbar Jump Lists, Icon Overlay, Progress Bar, Tabbed Thumbnails, and Thumbnail Toolbars.
- Known Folders, Windows 7 Libraries, non-file system containers, and a hierarchy of Shell Namespace entities.
- Windows 7 Explorer Browser Control.
- Shell property system.
- Windows Vista and Windows 7 Common File Dialogs, including custom controls.
- Windows Vista and Windows 7 Task Dialogs.
- Direct3D 11.0, Direct3D 10.1/10.0, DXGI 1.0/1.1, Direct2D 1.0, DirectWrite, Windows Imaging Component (WIC) APIs. (DirectWrite and WIC have partial support)
- Sensor Platform APIs
- Extended Linguistic Services APIs
- Power Management APIs
- Application Restart and Recovery APIs
- Network List Manager APIs
- Command Link control and System defined Shell icons.
Requirements:
- .NET Framework 3.5 or later.
- This library targets the Windows 7 RC version, though some of the features will work on the older versions of Windows operating system.
- DirectX features have dependency on Windows SDK for Windows 7 RC and March 2009 release of DirectX SDK.
There are also a few short 2-minute videos available to show you how easy it is to use some of the above features.
14 Jun, 2009
kulendayz
On saturday 13th of June I gave a presentation on KulenDayz titled “What’s new in Visual C++ 2010?”. The presentation consisted of quite a few demos. This post contains links to the source code for all demos including articles giving some more details.
12 Jun, 2009
PPL Visual C++ 2010
Visual C++ 2010 comes with a brand new library called the Parallel Pattern Library or PPL. It is a powerful library that makes writing parallel code easier which is getting more and more important with the current and upcoming multicore CPUs. This article will give an overview of the PPL. Read the rest of this entry »
11 Jun, 2009
restart manager Visual C++ 2010
Windows Vista introduced the restart manager. It is used to automatically restart an application after it crashes. It can also be used to restart application after a reboot by a Windows Installer or update. If you create a new MFC application using the project wizard in Visual C++ 2010, you will automatically get support for the restart manager. If you want to add support to an existing MFC application, you only need to add 1 line of code to the constructor of your CWinApp or CWinAppEx derived class. Read the rest of this entry »
10 Jun, 2009
CTaskDialog Task Dialog Visual C++ 2010
Windows Vista introduced the concept of Task Dialogs. Those are a powerful replacement for the standard message boxes. Read the rest of this entry »
10 Jun, 2009
kulendayz
From 12th till 14th of June, the Microsoft Community Osijek (Croatia) is organizing the Kulendayz event. I will be giving a lecture titled “What is new in Visual C++ 2010?”. If you want to participate in the event, please register on the Kulendayz website.
9 Jun, 2009
SafeInt Visual C++ 2010
The SafeInt library is a new addition to Visual C++ 2010. It allows you to safely perform arithmetic operations on integers ranging from 8-bit to 64-bit. The SafeInt library will automatically detect arithmetic overflow or divide by zero. Using the SafeInt library is pretty easy. The following piece of code uses the SafeInt library to safely calculate the addition of two 8-bit integers. Read the rest of this entry »
8 Jun, 2009
auto Visual C++ 2010
Starting with Visual C++ 2010, the ‘auto’ keyword has a different meaning. Auto is now used as a variable type and it instructs the compiler to figure out the exact type itself. This makes it much easier to define function pointers or to iterate over vectors for example. This post will give a brief overview of how to use the ‘auto’ keyword. Read the rest of this entry »
7 Jun, 2009
move constructor rvalue references Visual C++ 2010
A new feature in Visual C++ 2010 is called Rvalue References. This is a feature from the C++0x standard. One thing that Rvalue References can be used for is to implement move semantics for objects. To add move semantics to a class, we need to implement a move constructor and a move assignment operator (optional). This article will briefly explain the benefits of move constructors and how to write them. Read the rest of this entry »
