Win32 & COM

Windows 7 Taskbar: Tabbed Thumbnails and Previews in Native Code

A few months ago, we’ve taken a look at how you can extend your MDI or TDI application with an individual thumbnail and live preview for each tab (or...

0 replies - 532 views - 08/15/09 by sashag in News

Windows 7 Taskbar: Window Switchers and Previews In Depth

In the previous post, we have only scratched the surface of how to provide a custom thumbnail and custom preview for an application’s window.  However, we...

0 replies - 719 views - 03/31/09 by sashag in News

Managed Preview Handlers

To set context, a preview handler in Windows Vista and/or Outlook 2007 is a component that provides a preview window for a specific file type (or set of file...

0 replies - 736 views - 01/29/09 by sashag in News

Microsoft PDC 2008: Day 3 Wrap-Up

Announcments from Microsoft Research The PDC 2008 Day 3 keynote was presented by Rick Rachid, senior vice president of Microsoft Research. Eight different...

0 replies - 935 views - 10/31/08 by alashcraft in News

Microsoft PDC 2008: Day 2 Wrap-Up

Windows 7, Office 14, Live Services, Visual Studio 2010 Tuesday’s first keynote focused on several different Microsoft products and technologies: Windows 7,...

0 replies - 1212 views - 10/29/08 by alashcraft in News

Managed Synchronization Primitives and Thread Apartment States

The managed synchronization mechanisms, including Monitor, WaitHandle.WaitAny, ManualResetEvent, ReaderWriterLock, Thread.Join, GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers and...

0 replies - 994 views - 08/27/08 by sashag in News