Windows Client Blogs

Stimulant Takes Top Honors at IxDA Interaction Awards 2012

Feb 03 2012, 01:38 PM by Stimulant

Stimulant, alongside collaborator Sifteo, was honored with a pair of awards at the Interaction Design Association’s (IxDA) inaugural Interaction Design Awards at the Interaction 12...

Event Handler Memory Leaks, Unwiring Events, and the WeakEventManager in WPF 4.5

Jan 31 2012, 11:27 PM by Pete Brown's Blog (POKE 53280,0) for tag WindowsClient

Many developers don't realize that a common source of memory leaks in .NET applications is the event handler. WPF 4.5 includes built-in support for weak events to help us do the...

Intel’s Connect to Life Experience, CES 2012

Jan 26 2012, 04:02 PM by Stimulant

Foghorn asked us to create the interactive component for Intel’s booth at CES 2012. The result was the Intel Connect to Life Experience, the world’s largest interactive...

Self installable and runnable service or how to make generic service and console hybrid

Jan 24 2012, 06:08 AM by Tamir Khason - Just code

Frankly, I thought that one of basic things in windows development, such as “debagability” and “installability” of services, were changed for the last 10 years in development...

WPF 4.5 Cross-Thread Collection Synchronization Redux

Jan 20 2012, 04:59 PM by Pete Brown's Blog (POKE 53280,0) for tag WindowsClient

In my post about WPF 4.5 Observable Collection Cross-thread Change Notification , I showed the basics of how to synchronize collection updates in WPF, and how to avoid having to manually...

Intel Museum Redesign

Jan 20 2012, 04:02 PM by Stimulant

Stimulant contributed seven interactive exhibits to a complete overhaul of the Intel Museum, located at Intel’s headquarters in Santa Clara, California. We designed and developed...

WPF 4.5: Observable Collection Cross-Thread Change Notification

Jan 16 2012, 03:54 PM by Pete Brown's Blog (POKE 53280,0) for tag WindowsClient

WPF 4.5 is available as part of the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview released at the Build 2011 conference, and is part of the .NET Framework version 4.5. WPF 4.5 addresses several...

Surface Solution Showcase invites retailers to get hands-on at NRF 2012

Jan 16 2012, 08:00 AM by Microsoft Surface Blog

Samsung SUR40 for Microsoft ® Surface ® (“SUR40”) is at this year’s National Retail Federation (NRF) Conference where retailers are getting hands-on with a...

Bing Maps Windows Presentation Foundation Control Version 1

Jan 16 2012, 07:09 AM by Microsoft Surface Blog

The Bing Maps team delivered yet one more time! Last year we approached them to see if they could write one of the most requested features we heard from our WPF developers: A map control...

Bing for Samsung SUR40 for Microsoft Surface

Jan 13 2012, 06:02 PM by Stimulant

Microsoft had planned to only ship one application on the new Samsung SUR40 for Microsoft Surface platform, and they came to Stimulant to help design and develop it. Stimulant collaborated...