2012
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).
Read more →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.
Read more →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.
Read more →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.
Read more →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).
Read more →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.
Read more →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.
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.
Read more →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!
Read more →Gianni’S Hub For Windows Phone
It is now possible to receive all the recent news and highlights from the blog directly on your Windows Phone, instantly.
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