Gianni's Hub


a blog to share my technology knowledge and other useful stuff, from yesterday to tomorrow

Superwin Released!

If you are passionate about the Italian lottery game "SuperEnalotto", Superwin is for you!

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Expression Blend Preview For Silverlight 5

Few days ago an updated version of Expression Blend Preview for Silverlight 5 has been released (download it from here). It provides support for creating Silverlight 5 and Silverlight 5 SketchFlow projects only (for previous version of Silverlight or to design WPF applications, Expression Blend 4 is required).

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Experimenting with WES 8 CTP and Kinect

For a demo project involving Kinect, my colleague Dorangela Daniele and I started to play around with the recently released Windows Embedded Standard 8 CTP. I already tested both Kinect SDK 1.0 Beta 2 and Kinect SDK 1.0 RTM in Windows 8 Consumer Preview, so we were confident that it would have worked fine in WES8, too.

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Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 Released

The final version of the Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 Update has been released today. It is a patch and not a standalone product, so the Windows Phone SDK 7.1 has to be installed before applying the update.

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Windows 8 Developer Event

On March 19th, at the Microsoft Innovation Campus in Milan (Italy), there will be the first Italian Windows 8 event, where it will be possible to try new devices, learn the Metro-design principles and many other things.

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