Windows Hardware WDK and Driver Development announcements

Message Analyzer announcements

C++ Standards, Extensions, and Interop announcements

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    New Visual Studio Extensions in the Gallery
    Eric Battalio Microsoft employee

    There are a couple new (and exciting!) extensions available in the Visual Studio gallery:

    • PGO Plug-In. This tool improves the user experience for PGO in Visual Studio 2013 by providing a guided experience through the various phases of the PGO process. It also introduces the ability to perform PGO for Windows Store applications targeting x86 and x64 applications and more!
    • PdbProject Extension.This extension will allow Visual Studio 2012 to open and convert pdb into a vcxproj. The converted project will load as a normal VC project and provide IDE features such as tag browsing, intelli-sense and object browsing.

    While there, check out the many other extensions available for Visual Studio and be sure to leave your feedback!

    Thanks!
    -Eric ([email protected])

Network Monitor announcements

Developing Windows Desktop Applications with Power Management announcements

Windows Desktop Perfmon and Diagnostic tools announcements

Windows Filtering Platform (WFP) announcements

Windows Desktop SDK announcements

Windows Desktop Development for Ink, Touch, and Tablet PC announcements

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    Welcome!!!
    Eliot - MSFT Microsoft employee
    Hello and welcome to the "Ink, Multi-Touch, and Other Tablet PC Development" forum.

    This is the place where you can post questions, tricks, tips, and other observations about creating applications that specifically take advantage of natural input methods of ink and touch. Whether you are setting up a development environment, integrating handwriting into an existing application, or creating a state-of-the-art multi-touch client application from the ground up, we will strive to ensure that both other members of the developer community as well as product team members from Microsoft are pointing you to the correct resources and helping out where applicable.

    Some resources that you should know about immediately:

    • The Windows Developer Center on MSDN (http://msdn.microsoft.com/windows) contains pages dedicated to Tablet and Touch Technology. From the home page, click Technologies, and then click Mobile PC.
    • In addition, the Windows Developer Center contains resources specific to Tablet and Touch Technology in the Learn page, including How-Do-I videos and MS Learning webcasts.
    • The developer center contains a number of hands-on labs dedicated to Tablet and Touch Technology. The labs--written in C++, C#, and Visual Basic .NET--range from getting started to advanced pen data manipulation.

    You can find the Tablet and Touch SDK documentation in the MSDN Library:

    This forum is NOT for end-user questions or hardware reviews. It is for questions about developing applications using Tablet and Touch technologies. Questions that are out of scope will be redirected to appropriate forums or newsgroups.

    This forum is based on a new Forum 3.0 platform which provides many robust features. To know more about Forum 3.0 new features, view the following video: 

    http://xpstream.winisp.net/samjarawan/msdn%20forums%20overview.wmv

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    Creating Touch Control Frameworks in C++ (PhotoStrip Control Sample)
    gclassy

    The following link points to the code gallery sample for the Windows Touch Photostrip sample:

    http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/wintouchphotostrip

    This sample demonstrates how to get past the limitation of only one window receiving WM_TOUCH messages.

Windows Desktop Ribbon Development announcements

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    Hello and welcome to the Windows Ribbon Development forum!
    Karl Bridge Microsoft employee
     

    Hello and welcome to the Windows Ribbon Development forum!

     

    The Windows Ribbon Development forum provides you an opportunity to join a community of Windows developers interested in the Windows Ribbon Framework—a rich command presentation system that provides a modern alternative to the layered menus, toolbars, and task panes of traditional Windows applications. Here you can share knowledge, get questions answered, and learn from others with development backgrounds similar to yours. 

     

    If you have any suggestions or feedback on the new Windows Ribbon Framework, please feel free to post them in this forum.

     

    The Windows Ribbon Development forum is based on the new Forum 3.0 platform. To learn more about Forum 3.0 features, please view the following video:

    http://xpstream.winisp.net/samjarawan/msdn%20forums%20overview.wmv

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    The Windows Ribbon Development forum is unlocked for Windows 8!
    Karl Bridge Microsoft employee

    What’s new for Windows 8:

    • Support for PNG image resources.
    • Event notifications that identify the ribbon mode, command info, event type, and location within the ribbon.
    • Ability to show or hide font size buttons.
    • Improvements to Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) functionality, including highlighting, undo/redo buttons, and support for gallery controls.
    • Collapse ribbon and expand ribbon buttons.

Windows Hardware Testing and Certification announcements

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    Purpose of this Forum
    John Garcia (HCK) Microsoft employee
    The purpose of this forum is to help those who have questions with the Windows testing and certification processes used with the Hardware Certification Kit (HCK). Please post questions here about the tools, processes and tests used in testing, packaging, and certifying drivers.

Application Compatibility for Windows Desktop Development announcements

Windows Desktop Web Services API (webservices.dll) announcements

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