Stand alone multiplatform Silverlight application

It is a real challenge to run Silverlight applications standalone and have a way to do interprocess communication with windows applications! For our ongoing challenge we got inspired by DesLighter from Blendables – after this I found a more generic recipe  Stand...

How to leverage Surface investments for Windows 7

My article yesterday caused a little bit of confusion so I will try to explain a little more in detail what options we have. In order to run Surface applications you have three basic options: A real Microsoft Surface Table A developer work seat with the tools provided...

playing with Windows Phone 7

Just playing with Silverlight & Windows Phone 7. Guess, the result is quite okay so far. For what you can see, I used 2 components: – PanoramaView Control: look&feel like known from the MS presentations – AnimateOrientation: does the animation when...

Microsoft Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch Beta

Since April there is a nice way to port microsoft surface application for the growing number of multitouch screens available with Windows 7. This allows for a cool expierence on multitouch windows 7 – with the proven Development tools from the Microsoft Surface Tool...

Visual Studio 2010 mysteries

Wednesday I installed Visual Studio 2010 Premium, and played a while with the WPF-based editor. Annoying  thing: I could not select any of the controls on a WPF-Application-Form. Whenever I clicked on the TextBox, the Designer added a Border-Control. Then I...

Offline Manual

On one of my Software and Gadget sites (Gizmodo) I found an neat way to guide even the elderly easy through the first steps with their new gadget. Back to Basics