Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Today Microsoft announced the availability of the second Windows Embedded Standard 8 community technology preview (CTP) at Computex.

Thursday, May 24, 2012

A few days ago a new version of the Microsoft Kinect for Windows SDK has been released!

Friday, May 4, 2012

On June 15th there will be a new Start Something! Tour event in Turin, hosted and organized by Microsoft, in collaboration with TTG - Torino Technologies Group community. As did in the previous event held in March, it will be an open day 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).

Monday, April 23, 2012

MetroMVVM is a .NET helper library for Windows 8 Metro style XAML applications. It contains a set of basic components, helpers and extensions to easily develop apps based on the Model-View-ViewModel pattern. The goal of this library is to make Windows 8 XAML apps development faster, using a widely adopted pattern and a decoupled architecture, so developers won't have to spend time solving problems that have already been solved.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

GazTrack is an easy car fuel tracking system with simple data analysis. It easily tracks your car refuel history and fuel economy. Data input takes just few seconds each time, then the app takes care of the rest, such as calculating MPG and other interesting statistics.

Saturday, April 7, 2012

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

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.