Gianni's Hub


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

Start Something! Tour – Turin

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).

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Blend 5 Beta On Windows 8 Consumer Preview Update

Here's a little update about the Blend 5 issue I had on Windows 8 Consumer Preview. See this post for all the details.

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Windows Embedded Standard 8 CTP

Microsoft just released the Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Windows Embedded Standard 8 (WES8)!
It can be downloaded here and a detailed datasheet can be found here.

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Windows Phone SDK on Windows 8 Consumer Preview

Like many software developers, these days I'm very excited and eager to get started using the Consumer Preview on a daily basis, both at work and at home. But Windows 8 is still a preview release, which means that there could be some sort of software incompatibilities. Prior to completely switch my workstation to the next version of Windows, yesterday I started to play with Windows 8 Consumer Preview 32bit on a secondary laptop (a DELL XPS M1330) with just a unique goal: verify which development tools work and which don't.

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Windows 8 Consumer Preview Available

The Windows 8 Consumer preview and VS11 Beta are now available. If you want, you can download and try them by yourself!

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