Get the Most out of PC Hardware - Windows 7

LYNN LANGITDEVELOPER EVANGELIST – MICROSOFT

HTTP://BLOGS.MSDN.COM/SOCALDEVGAL

Shine on Modern Graphics Hardware with DirectX®

Use Sensor Platform to Give Life to Your Applications Location, Location, Location!Building Next Generation UI with Multitouch & Windows Ribbon in Windows 7

Today’s Agenda

Taking Your Application to the Next Level with Windows 7

Beyond Human Interaction with Windows 7 Sensor & Location Platform

Building A Great Windows 7 Application

Multitouch Windows Ribbon Sensors

Windows Taskbar Libraries Fundamentals

Version Control User Account Control Removed

Components

Get Compatible

Optimize

Differentiate

Windows 7 DWM memory consumption is cut by 50% per window

Take advantage of the GPU’s computational power

High-DPI support & high color Great interoperability across technologies

Graphics: Improvements

Direct2D

Direct3D Segoe UIDirectWrite

DXVA & WIC

New Graphics Stack

DirectWrite

Direct2D

Direct3D 10 Direct3D11

DirectX® Graphics Infrastructure

New in Windows 7

WICDWM

DXVA

Direct3D 9

DXGKernelIn Windows

Vista®

USER GDI

Win32K

GDI+

Direct2D, Direct3D & DirectWrite

A Tour

demo

Windows Sensor and Location Platform

Develop better and more productive user experiences Enable environmentally based applications

Uniform APIs for working with sensors No need to target vendor-specific APIs Consistent interface for sensors, extensions for location Access control and privacy (via Control Panel or API)

UMDF DriverApplication Sensor API Sensor Device

Category: What is being sensed? (e.g. Location) Type: How is it being sensed? (e.g. GPS) Properties: Model, report interval, friendly name Data report: Synchronous or asynchronous Events: State change, data arrived State: Enabled, access denied

What’s in a Sensor?

Ambient Light Sensor

Optimize for best user experience Change screen brightness Out of the box with Windows 7

Drive adaptive user interface LCD displays are difficult to read

outdoors in direct sunlight Utilize knowledge of ambient

lighting conditions to improve PC usability

Change contrast, color theme, and font size to be more readable in direct sunlight

MSDN ReaderLight-Aware User Interfaces

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Location Platform

A single API call to answer: Where am I? Enable location-based services Adjust functionality based on location changes

Built on top of the sensor API Automatic transition between providers

Built-in providers Lat-lon location provider Civic address Location provider

Sources: GPS, Wi-Fi or cell tower triangulation, IP resolver, default location (control panel)

Location, Location, Location!eDLP, Desktop Gadgets

demo

Summary

Windows 7 Graphic Stack Major performance enhancements Take advantage of the GPU power Make sure your application supports high-DPI

Create environmentally-aware applications using Windows sensors and location platform

Consumer based location aware services Light-aware user interface Enterprise/vertical applications

enhanced with location

SoCal Windows 7 Developer ResourcesTechnical Resources

Underground @PDC – Wed, Nov 18 – 7pm until late

CodeCampLA – Sat/Sun, Nov 20 – 21 - http://www.lacodecamp.com/

Slides – http://blogs.msdn.com/SoCalDevGal

Code samples – my blog (as above)

Recordings – from San Diego MSDN event – watch my blog for the link

Conference – PDC09 – Nov 17-19 in LA - http://microsoftpdc.com/

PreCon – FREE – Windows 7 Developer Bootcamp @PDC09 – Mon, Nov 16 in LA – must register http://microsoftpdc.com/Registration

Lynn’s blog series – http://blogs.msdn.com/SoCalDevGal #Win7DevSeries

Training Resources

Community Events

Additional Windows 7 ResourcesTechnical Resources

Windows 7 Blog for Developers www.windowsteamblog.com/blogs/developers.aspx

Windows 7 on Channel 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/Windows+7

Windows Developer Center on MSDN http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dd433113.aspx

Windows Application Compatibility Developer Center http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/aa904987.aspx

Windows 7 Remediation Labs http://www.readyset7.com/workshops

Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9681321

“PhotoView” Reference Application (XP2Win7Project) http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/XP2Win7

Training Offers—Exclusive for Launch Attendees www.microsoft.com/learning/careeroffers

Training Resources

Community Resources