lipanj 2009 - Posts

KulenDayz Conference - Microsoft Community Regional Event of the year supported by INETA Europe!

KulenDayz Conference have finished yesterday!

Microsoft Community Osijek together with Microsoft Croatia with support from INETA Europe and HUPRO (Croatian Association of Computer Programmers) organized the regional community conference KulenDayz 2009. Conference brought togather more than 150 leading IT Experts from the region giving them a chance to spend a weekend filled with 18 attractive sessions presented by top speakers (among them 12 MVP's) and to relax in Kopacki Rit-Nature Park, enjoying unspoiled nature.

Keynote speakers were:
1. Opening Speach: Bernardin Katic and Dejan Vitner (MVP's and User Group Leaders from Osijek/Croatia)
2. Supporting IT Pro and Dev Communites and how MVP's are important: Rane Johnson-Stempson from Microsoft (CEE Regional Leader for Communites),
3. Windows Azure Platform: Tomislav Bronzin (Microsoft Regional Director for Croatia) and Dobriša Adamec (both MVP's and INETA Europe Vice Presidents)

Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVP's) that were speaking at event: Jose Luis Latorre Millas (Spain - also INETA Vice President), Matija Lah (Slovenia), Ivan Pavlovic (Serbia), Marc Gregoire (Belgium), Dejan Vitner, Bernardin Katić, Tomislav Bronzin, Dobriša Adamec, Vladan Strigo, Ivan Šaškor, Jerislav Bobic, Robert Petrunić (Croatia)

Prominent Speakers: Lorenzo Barbieri (Italy), Henk van Roest (The Netherlands), Janko Jovanović (Serbia), Radenko Zec (User Group Leader, Bosnia and Herzegovina), Vladimir Hluchy, Tomislav Piasevoli, Luka Gospodnetic, Dario Fruk, Nenad Trajkovski, Nenad Bestvina, Marin Franković, Ilija Brajković, Josip Medved (Croatia),

Agenda was presented here: http://kulendayz.mscommunity.net/Agenda/tabid/163/Default.aspx
Details about speakers: http://kulendayz.mscommunity.net/Speakers/tabid/158/Default.aspx

Presentations, demos and pictures will be published at KulenDayz Conference web site: http://kulendayz.mscommunity.net

Windows 7 API (Managed) Code Pack (former Windows Vista Bridge)

For developers that want to use Windows 7 features in maanged code - there was several oportunites:
a) use directly P/Invoke or COM+
b) use some kind of wrapper (most popular was/is Windows Vista Bridge)

Now, there is (almost) official version that you can download from here: Windows® API Code Pack for Microsoft® .NET Framework (v0.85)  

The following is a short list of the APIs contained in the Windows API Code Pack:
• Support for Windows Shell namespace objects, including:
         • Windows 7 libraries
         • Known Folders 
         • Non-file system containers
• Windows Vista and Windows 7 Task Dialogs
• Support for Windows 7 Explorer Browser Control
• Support for Shell property system
• Windows 7 Taskbar
• Support for Windows Vista and Windows 7 common file dialogs, including custom file dialog controls
• Support for Direct3D 11.0 and DXGI 1.0/1.1 APIs
• Sensor Platform APIs
• Extended Linguistic Services APIs

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