Introduction to Windows 7 Development
This tutorial is aimed at Windows developers (Windows Forms or WPF) who want to add Windows 7 capabilities to their application. The emphasis is on providing a helpful and efficient user experience by hooking into what Windows 7 has to offer. You do not need to know how to interop to native code or how the Windows 7 features work internally.
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 Light Up on Windows 7 |
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00:24:01 | |
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Introduction and lighting Up
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05:00 | |
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Version checking
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09:19 | |
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Demo: Enabling user interface components and notifying the User
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06:16 | |
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Demo: Exceptions on older versions
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03:26 | |
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Windows 7 Jumplists |
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00:38:36 | |
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Introduction
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00:49 | |
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Windows API Code Pack
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05:25 | |
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Windows 7 Taskbar - Jumplists, overlays, thumbnails
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11:09 | |
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Jumplist terminology
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04:02 | |
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Demo: Recent and frequent destinations
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06:14 | |
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Demo: Custom categories in your jumplist
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04:40 | |
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Demo: Tasks in your jumplist
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06:17 | |
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Taskbar Overlays on Windows 7 |
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00:16:03 | |
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Introduction
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01:14 | |
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Demo: Icon Overlays
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07:10 | |
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Demo: Progress Bar Overlays
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07:39 | |
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Taskbar Thumbnails on Windows 7 |
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00:26:32 | |
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Introduction
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01:47 | |
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The purpose for thumbnail buttons
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03:31 | |
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Demo: Thumbnail buttons
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08:55 | |
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Demo: Thumbnail Clipping
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03:41 | |
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Demo: Tabbed Thumbnails
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07:30 | |
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Taskbar Wrapup
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01:08 | |
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Network Awareness on Windows 7 |
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00:15:06 | |
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Introduction to Network Awareness
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01:22 | |
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How Network Awareness helps
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02:14 | |
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Demo: Online or Offline?
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05:34 | |
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Know Your Networks
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02:27 | |
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Demo: Know Your Networks
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03:29 | |
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Power Awareness on Windows 7 |
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00:23:06 | |
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Introduction to Power Awareness
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01:08 | |
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Why Power Awareness matters
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02:26 | |
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Demo: Monitoring Power Usage
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04:24 | |
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How Can Your App Extend Battery Life?
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05:14 | |
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Power Awareness and Events
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09:54 | |
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Windows 7 Libraries |
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00:22:45 | |
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Introduction to Windows 7 Libraries
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01:05 | |
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How libraries help productivity
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02:52 | |
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Reading from and writing to a library
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03:23 | |
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Demo: Known libraries
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02:24 | |
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Demo: Library properties
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05:01 | |
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Demo: Managing libraries
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08:00 | |
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Windows 7 UAC and Manifests |
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00:29:51 | |
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Introduction
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01:15 | |
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UAC - What and why
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03:54 | |
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Demo: UAC in action
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03:51 | |
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What makes an application elevate?
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01:14 | |
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Demo: Manifests
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10:59 | |
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Demo: Other elevation issues
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05:23 | |
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What should you do about UAC?
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03:15 | |
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Partitioning Administrative Tasks for Windows 7 |
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00:16:59 | |
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Introduction to partitioning
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01:24 | |
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Some applications are for standard users but have administrative portions
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04:18 | |
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Demo: A partitioned app
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07:36 | |
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When and how to partition
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03:41 | |
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Known Folders for Windows 7 |
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00:24:07 | |
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Introduction to Known Folders
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01:31 | |
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A hardcoded path is a bug
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02:18 | |
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The Environment.Specialfolder enum
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02:48 | |
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Demo: Writing to AppData
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04:38 | |
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Code Pack's Known Folders
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03:01 | |
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Demo: Using a known library
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04:33 | |
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Demo: Exploring Known Folders
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05:18 | |
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Scheduled Tasks on Windows 7 |
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00:23:55 | |
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Introduction to Windows 7 Scheduled Tasks
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00:51 | |
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What is a Scheduled Task?
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01:48 | |
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Setting up a Scheduled Task
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05:48 | |
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Scheduled Tasks and Services
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04:35 | |
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Setting up a Scheduled Task from code
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10:53 |
