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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

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).

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

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.

Monday, March 26, 2012

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.

Saturday, March 17, 2012

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.

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Tomorrow and on Friday I'll be at the Start Something! Tour in Turin, hosted and organized by Microsoft, in collaboration with TTG - Torino Technologies Group community. They will be two open days for people who want to write and test their applications on Windows Phone devices (in collaboration with Nokia) or Series 5/Series 7 Tablets and Notebooks with Windows 8 (in collaboration with Samsung).