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Fundamentals

Want the details on the inner workings of the Windows platform? In this track, hear directly from the developers how to take advantage of the features that will make your application more reliable, manageable, and secure. See new security features in Windows Vista, such as User Account Protection. See expert examples of rapid and safe deployment using ClickOnce and Windows Installer. Learn exciting new ways to instrument your applications to get the most out of them. Gain a deep understanding from the architects and designers on how these core subsystems and features work and why they will greatly enhance your applications.

 
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• Sep 22 Thu


Shared Bytes, Private Bytes and Fixups

Jim Nakashima writes "A shared byte is one that can be shared across multiple processes. A private byte cannot. So what bytes qualify as shareable? Unaltered pages of a dll where the backing file for that dll is not the page file but the dll itself... "


• Sep 21 Wed


Shared Bytes vs. Private Bytes

Rico Mariani writes "I mentioned the Whidbey improvements in this area, and their importance, in both of my talks but I only spoke briefly on those two notions at that time so several people approached me afterwards for more details. Jim Nakashima was one of them and he's written a nice article summarizing what we discussed..."


• Sep 17 Sat


A little more on Info Card & WWF & Vista RSS

Rajesh Das writes "...On a dissapointing note (relatively speaking) the “RSSness” in the Vista platform is COM based...ick! But understandable to make it available to the wide range of “clients“, e.g. IE, Office, etc. without requiring the CLR to get spun up. I'm curious why MS themselves thinks this is undiserable, since I would not be surprised that within the Vista timeframe, the CLR market penetration will be pretty close to ..."


• Sep 16 Fri


Vista Internals

John Wiltshire writes "New boot loader which is platform independant..."


MAF - Managed Addin Framework

JackG writes "The Managed Add-in Framework defines a programming model, built on top of .NET that allows applications to dynamically load and communicate with generic components at runtime. We provide a solution for creating independently versioning, mutually distrustful components, and allow them to work together. We tackle the two problematic – versioning and isolation – together..."


Getting Users to Fall in Love with Your Software

Jim McKeeth writes "When developing an application you loose one point for every dialog you add..."


Windows Vista scrollbars.

Brad Wardell writes "I liked what they do with the Vista scrollbars. You can't really see it in this screenshot but they are pretty gray and non-descript normally but when you mouse over a scrollbar, it changes into what you see here which looks nice."


• Sep 15 Thu


Catch our session at Microsoft PDC 2005!

Windows Installer Team writes "Just a reminder that Tyler Robinson and Jamie Cool will be speaking about software installation on Windows Vista and what cool new features we have in store for the next release of the Windows Installer here at the PDC. FUN222 - What's New in Software Installation on Windows Vista: Exploring the Windows Installer (MSI) and ClickOnce Options. Friday, September 16th @ ... "


Windows Workflow Foundation - Where does BizTalk fit in?

Darren Jefford writes "The official message on BizTalk Vs WWF is here, but here’s my take from a BizTalk point of view which hopefully doesn’t confuse any further! "


What Raymond Chen wants to be sure we know

Julie Lerman writes "Ray is talking to the packed room about being conscientious about your environmnet when you are writing applications - how is your app working with memory paging? how is the UI affected by different DPIs on the users computer, testing your app in different envrionments and having it smart enough to adjust it's functionality based on what's available to it... "


Rico Mariani gives Performance tips during lunch.

Erick Sgarbi writes "Rico Mariani has done a great thing for the PDC attendee which was a Lunch performance session. A couple of good info given..."


WinFS Examples in Action at PDC

BetaNews.com writes "Although WinFS won't ship until after Windows Vista hits store shelves, the new file system is garnering the attention of PDC 2005 attendees who want to see the capabilities that a relational file system will bring. Microsoft on Wednesday showed off a few examples of WinFS in action..."


Ink becomes a First Class Citizen in Vista

Steele Price writes "In Vista, there will (supposedly) be no difference between a tablet and a desktop, you will even be able to ink with a mouse if you want to... "


What are Workflows?

Girish Bharadwaj writes "Workflows are nothing of activities. Activities are things that do things for you in a way that contributes to your process. WWF is not meant to be neither an application or a server. Instead its a framework that allows you to build more.. "


• Sep 14 Wed


My first PDC05 talk

Rico Mariani writes "I'd like to invite any of you to ask questions regarding the talk, or pretty much whatever in the comments here. I've got lots more time than usual to answer questions this week so feel free to chime in. I expect that the talk will be posted soon -- when it is I'll be sure to let you know. One thing I wanted to talk to ... "


String Freezing

Brian Camping writes "String Freezing - attribute use to indicate that NGen should use a GC segment that contains all the app's string literals in a pre-created assembly..."


All ABout WWF

Chris Auld writes "WWF is going to be the worflow engine for windows. It basically allows you to declarativly stitch together application logic into worflows. Not only does it support your typical 'Biztalk style' sequential workflow types but it also allows you to build state machine type workflows. You can either write them in code or.... wait for it..... you can declare them in XAML ..."


WWF

David Wheeler writes "Now Microsoft are coining the phrase WWF to describe the Windows Workflow Foundation, a workflow engine and integrated designer for Visual Studio 2005...."


Windows Workflow Foundation

Christian Nagel writes "Visual Studio 2005 includes some cool designers such as a class designer, application designer, system designer... There's a good reason an activity diagram is missing. A diagram that can be compared is coming with Windows Workflow Foundation..."


PDC05: Addins in .NET

Thomas Quinn writes "I noted in an earlier post that I was involved in a committee to establish an Addin Model for Windows Vista. As will most large committees, progress was slow. But it wasn't fruitless. I will be speaking at PDC tomorrow with my colleague Jim Miller on the subject of Addins (FUN309: Designing Managed AddIns for Reliability, Security, and Versioning)...."

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