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Feb 2010 Monthly Meeting

 
The Victoria .NET Developer's Association welcomes Richard Campbell on Thursday Feb 4th!
 
Richard Campbell has more than 30 years of high-tech experience and is both a Microsoft Regional Director and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP). He has consulted with a number of leading North American organizations; Barnes&Noble.com, Dow Chemical, Johnson & Johnson Health Care Services, Reuters, Subaru/Isuzu and the U.S. Air Force. Richard is co-host of the “.NET Rocks!, the Internet Audio Talk Show for .NET Developers” podcast, host of “RunAs Radio, the Internet Audio Talks for IT Professionals” podcast, has been co-authoring of the “Advisor Answers” column on SQL Server for more than ten years.
  
 
Title: Moving to Windows 7: Using Code Pack to Improve User Experience
 
Description:
 
Spend two hours with an expert learning what makes a good Windows 7 application. See how taskbar jumplists and taskbar previews and controls give your users an intuitive, productive, and fun user experience on Windows 7. Learn about restart and recovery, network awareness, power awareness, and more. Then see how simple it is to leverage a free library from Microsoft and add these features to your application with just a few lines of code. You can even create a single executable that runs fine on older versions of Windows and “lights up” on Windows 7.

This session will drill in to the features provided by Windows 7 and how to add them to your application using the Windows® API Code Pack for Microsoft® .NET Framework. Samples in both Visual Basic and C# will cover shell integration (taskbar, previews, and more), restart and recovery, power awareness and more. Learn how to add your own tasks to a jumplist taskbar, to recover from a reboot or a crash without losing any user data, and to modify your application’s behavior to conserve battery power. When you leave this session you’ll be ready to transform the user experience your application provides and take full advantage of Windows 7.
 
 
Intended Audience Skill Level: All
 
Date/Time: Thursday, Feb 4th, 2009 from 6:30-9:30pm (talk starts at 7)
 
Location: University of Victoria, New Engineering and Computer Science Building, Room ECS108  see map 

Registration: Please register for the event. Note that the different registration process is different from our usual process.
 
 
Thanks, hope to see you there!
 
Published Sunday, November 29, 2009 7:11 PM by nolanzak

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