Windows Client Blogs

Calibrating Samsung SUR40 for Microsoft® Surface®

Feb 13 2012, 04:43 PM by Microsoft Surface Blog

I’m glad to see so many people excited to get their Samsung SUR40 for Microsoft Surface (“SUR40”) units delivered. SUR40 is reaching customers in over 20 countries...

The feedback loop

Feb 13 2012, 01:33 AM by Rudi Grobler in the Cloud

In Windows Phone (and most other mobile platforms), the user has very limited direct contact with the developer. The platform encourage the users to leave comments but unfortunately...

Windows Client Developer Roundup 087 for 2/9/2012

Feb 08 2012, 09:44 PM by Pete Brown's Blog (POKE 53280,0) for tag WindowsClient

The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of interest to Windows Client Developers, including WinRT XAML , WPF , Silverlight , Visual C++ , XNA , Expression Blend...

OpenSSL bug or why some private keys cannot be used for .NET

Feb 08 2012, 05:44 PM by Tamir Khason - Just code

More than half year ago, I wrote an article about importing RSA private key in PEM format into C# RSACryptoProvider. This code was used by me for a long time until two days ago I got...

Creating Big Silverlight Windows and Getting Monitor Resolutions and Positions with PInvoke

Feb 07 2012, 10:59 PM by Pete Brown's Blog (POKE 53280,0) for tag WindowsClient

While doing the (long!) tech review for Silverlight 5 in Action, my friend and former coworker Tom McKearney mentioned that we should put together some code to make handling windows...

The Commodore 64 Emulator: Emulating Pointers in a sandbox when the real thing is not allowed

Feb 06 2012, 07:02 PM by Pete Brown's Blog (POKE 53280,0) for tag WindowsClient

Late last week, I cracked open the Commodore 64 emulator code once again, in preparation to post it. However, I had to have a change made to the source control on CodePlex, so I had...

Microsoft® Surface® 2.0 SDK and Runtime Update

Feb 05 2012, 04:10 PM by Microsoft Surface Blog

We have updated our SDK and runtime bits to include improved support for Windows Touch Enabled devices. There were some issues in the Microsoft Surface Input Stack handling of reports...

Stimulant Takes Top Honors at IxDA Interaction Awards 2012

Feb 03 2012, 01:38 PM by Stimulant

Stimulant, alongside collaborator Sifteo, was honored with a pair of awards at the Interaction Design Association’s (IxDA) inaugural Interaction Design Awards at the Interaction 12...

Event Handler Memory Leaks, Unwiring Events, and the WeakEventManager in WPF 4.5

Jan 31 2012, 11:27 PM by Pete Brown's Blog (POKE 53280,0) for tag WindowsClient

Many developers don't realize that a common source of memory leaks in .NET applications is the event handler. WPF 4.5 includes built-in support for weak events to help us do the...

Intel’s Connect to Life Experience, CES 2012

Jan 26 2012, 04:02 PM by Stimulant

Foghorn asked us to create the interactive component for Intel’s booth at CES 2012. The result was the Intel Connect to Life Experience, the world’s largest interactive...