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Windows 7 RC API Code Pack for .NET Framework

Windows API Code Pack for Microsoft .NET Framework is designed to permit developers to access a range of features associated with the next iteration of Windows that are not available in .NET Framework, in managed code.
windows - comments - 8.5.2009

Collection of published Vista SP1 API changes from MSDN

Microsoft might choose not to tell its enthusiasts anything about Windows Vista Service Pack 1, but they can’t afford to keep it a secret to the development community. Thanks to pacpis for this article.
windows - comments - 22.7.2007

Google to Give Developers Access to Trends API

Google will eventually give programmers access to an API for its Trends analysis tool.
common - comments - 5.12.2007

Upgrade Your Site's Authentication with the New ASP.NET 2.0 Membership API

In its first release, ASP.NET introduced forms authentication. This provided a powerful framework for handling user authentication in a secure fashion and with an easy-to-use API. The core of forms authentication hasn't changed in ASP.NET 2.0, so most of the tricks and techniques remain usable. However, a lot of work has been done in ASP.NET 2.0 to expose a new membership system that makes it even easier to create more powerful systems for user authentication and management. When you explore the basics of the provider model (upon which this new membership system is based) and its tight integration with forms authentication, you'll inevitably wonder: how does this affect my existing code and database of users and roles?
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Tafiti Search Visualization - Silverlight + Live Search API

What is Tafiti? It is a search visualization website which brings a new user experience to researching (searching and storing results). The source code for www.tafiti.com is available!
microsoft - comments - 19.12.2007

Bing Project Silk Road Now with Bing API 2.0

The Live Search to Bing rebranding covers the complex variety of nooks and crannies associated with Microsoft's search engine, including the application programming interface.
microsoft - comments - 10.6.2009

Vista SP1, and then Windows 7, Windows 8 and Non-Windows Midori

2008 saw the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Server 2008, but Microsoft's journey on the Windows path is far from over.
windows - comments - 5.8.2008

Windows 7 RC Brings Windows XP Mode Beta and Windows Virtual PC Beta

The Release Candidate of Windows 7 will bring with it the first Beta development milestones for Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC.
windows - comments - 29.4.2009

Windows Reactivator 2.0 - Backup & Restore Activation Status of Windows XP with Windows Reactivator

Every time you reinstall your windows XP you need to reactivate it online using your product key & worst if you lost your Windows XP product key.
download - comments - 3.6.2009

Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2

Feb 26th, 2008. Principled Technologies has released two Microsoft commissioned reports on Windows Vista SP1 performance. In these tests, Principled Technologies measured responsiveness of Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2 when performing a set of common business and home tasks.
windows - comments - 28.2.2008

Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9 – 1 Billion and Counting

Is Windows dead? Or, at least, is this the beginning of the end for Microsoft's proprietary operating system?
windows - comments - 15.9.2008

Week in Microsoft: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9

This week in Microsoft, we covered 128-bit support possibly coming to Windows 8 and Windows 9, Windows 7, Windows Mobile 6.5, Bill Gates, Office 2010 Starter, Microsoft MVP status, Windows Live Hotmail, the EU, and Microsoft Security Essentials.
windows - comments - 10.10.2009

Windows Vista Build 5231 and Windows Media Player 11 Leaks!

Windows Vista Build 5231 has leaked to the web. The new build is said to include Windows Media Player 11 included. View the screenshots below! This is a Main branch build that was released on September 12th, 2005 at 8:20PM.
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Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3: Official Release Dates

A French website, PC Inpact, has posted the official Microsoft product change request forms for Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3.
windows - comments - 6.2.2008

Download Free Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2 Straight from Microsoft

Via the Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image. That's right! Microsoft is offering access to free downloads of Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2.
download - comments - 6.3.2008

Windows Vista SP1 outperforms Windows XP SP2 in file copy

"Its interesting that people seem to think that Vista under performs in every area of the system which is quite an incorrect perception.
windows - comments - 27.5.2008

Windows Fiji Has RTMd as Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008

Microsoft officially confirmed that Windows Fiji has been released to manufacturing.
windows - comments - 18.7.2008

Windows 7 Beta Doesn't Play Nice with Windows Azure Cloud OS Tools

The promise for Windows 7 is that it will deliver an evolution when it will come down to stretching into the Cloud compared to its precursor, Windows Vista.
windows - comments - 16.1.2009

Internet Explorer 8 MUI packs for Windows XP, Windows Server 03

As detailed in our previous blog post, the following Internet Explorer MUI packs shipped today.
download - comments - 17.5.2009

Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta adds Windows 7 support

Microsoft announced the release of Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta, along with news that it will feature Windows 7 support.
windows - comments - 20.7.2009

Check for RAM Error or Defect in Windows 7 and Vista with Windows Memory Diagnostic

Memory or RAM is one of the most important electronic hardware component on a computer systems, not only in term of speed or clock frequency and size, but also the reliability of hardware ecosystem of the RAM sticks or memory modules and its subsystem.
common - comments - 1.10.2009

The Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 98 Threat Mitigation Guide

Well, Microsoft still puts effort in old Windows versions...
microsoft - comments - 31.3.2006

Windows Vista comes with 19,500 drivers on DVD – more on Windows Update

Ever needed to find a driver for a product and wished Windows would either just have the driver in it, or that their Windows Update service could provide it? With Vista, it can – and new features and updates will be forthcoming too. It’s about time!
windows - comments - 20.11.2006

Windows XP Home No Longer Qualifies for Windows Vista Upgrades

Windows XP Home Edition no longer qualifies for Windows Vista Business Upgrade or Upgrade + SA through Volume Licensing.
windows - comments - 17.10.2007

Microsoft Offers a Complex Windows Vista vs. Windows XP Perspective

A new standard of security is an integer aspect of the evolution puzzle represented by the move from Windows XP to Windows Vista.
windows - comments - 3.11.2007

Windows XP SP3 to Drop Concomitantly with Windows Vista SP1?

Yes, it's time for every Windows user's favorite obsession: Windows XP Service Pack 3. The third and final service pack for Windows XP has been quite elusive for the past three years.
windows - comments - 25.11.2007

Windows Vista vs. Windows 9x/Me, NT Server, 2000 and XP

If at just a couple of weeks short of the first anniversary since Windows Vista hit the shelves you are still looking for reasons to upgrade to the latest Windows client, then Biplab Paul, Partner Technical Consultant with Microsoft India, has an impressive, and exhaustive list of features that are bound to tilt the balance in Vista's favor.
windows - comments - 14.1.2008

Free Windows Vista Business and Windows XP SP2 on Parade

Free Windows... Not a concept you would expect from Microsoft. With a business strategy focused on proprietary software, the Redmond company is by all means at the opposite technology spectrum from open source and free software.
windows - comments - 9.3.2008

Microsoft Presents the Lost Comparison: Windows Vista vs. Windows XP

With both Windows XP and Windows Vista being available concomitantly on the market, Microsoft is doing nothing more than inviting the consumers to compare the two operating systems.
windows - comments - 20.4.2008

Windows Server 2008 = Windows Vista SP1 Minus the Pain

Windows Server 2008, formerly codenamed Longhorn, is essentially intimately connected with Windows Vista Service Pack 1, to the level in which the RTM version of Microsoft's latest server operating system features the SP1 label
windows - comments - 6.5.2008

Microsoft speaks DirectX 10

From the Games Developers Conference Europe

Microsoft finally saw sense and decided to drop Windows Graphic Foundation (WGF) and replace it with the more easier and logical DirectX 10 name for its nexgen API.

It gave some details to the developers officially about its upcoming API and we know that it plans to release this API together with Longhorn. Or Vista, as we must learn to call it.

The DirectX 10 API will have completely new and faster dynamic link libraries (DLLs) and is supposed to run much faster. The company decided to cut the backward compatibility with DirectX 9, 8, 7 and lower in this API but there will be a way to use games programmed for those APIs. Microsoft will enable support for DX 9 or lower games through a software layer, meaning it might run slower...
winbeta.org - 06.09.2005

Facebook opens up Stream API to developers

Facebook announced that starting today developers will be able to access users content from the main home page, also known as your "Stream" API. With this open source API, developers will be able to customize and manipulate a users stream information, such as your friends new images, updates and more. On Facebook's developer blog, the crew announced it will be opening new API called stream.get and stream.publish and new FQL tables that will allow you to access your stream. Developers can use this new API to make a fully functional desktop client for your Facebook account that will allow you to share what's on your mind, make comments and "likes" to posts in your stream.

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neowin.net - 28.04.2009

Who Goes There? Upgrade Your Site's Authentication with the New ASP.NET 2.0 Membership API

Dino Esposito and Andrea Saltarello cover the ASP.NET 2.0 Membership API. To demonstrate its functionality, they take an existing ASP.NET 1.x authentication mechanism and port it to ASP.NET 2.0, exposing the legacy authentication through the new API...
msdn.microsoft.com - 21.10.2005

MySpace set to launch developer platform Tuesday

With rival Facebook's open API gaining traction, MySpace on Wednesday said that it would launch its own API on February 5...
betanews.com - 30.01.2008

Google Introduces New Social Networking API

Google is expected to announce Thursday that it will release an API that allows developers to create a single application that works across several social networks...
betanews.com - 31.10.2007

New API enables Google Maps to be embedded in Flash apps

In a move that could signal a break from Google's dependence on HTML-structured pages with JavaScript code, the company today unveiled its first working API for embedding functionality inside an Adobe Flash-based application...
betanews.com - 16.05.2008

10 Online Storage APIs

If you offer an online storage service, its becoming increasingly important to offer an API to it. With this months addition of the DigitalBucket API, we now have 10 storage APIs in our listings. Some of these services focus on the API first (or only in the case of Amazon S3), others offer free and œpro� level consumer accounts as well as a developer API. The APIs have been used to integrated with operating system tools (Windows, Mac, Linux), provide direct access to other online services like document and spreadsheet apps, browser extensions, or to provide storage infrastructure for multimedia files like photos and videos. Heres a summary of these 10 storage APIs...




winbeta.org - 26.11.2007

Photobucket opens its API to developers

At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco today, photo sharing site Photobucket announced that it is opening its API to developers, with the hopes of generating new applications based on its Web services...
betanews.com - 23.04.2008

Imeem unveils its social networking API to Web services

Specializing in networking the creative sector -- including artists, musicians, filmmakers, photographers -- imeem opened its API today, allowing developers to take advantage of the site's media library, with OpenSocial support soon to be added...
betanews.com - 25.03.2008

Windows Live Messenger IM Control & Presence API

The Windows Liveâ„¢ Messenger IM Control lets people on the Web reach you in Messenger by showing your Messenger status on your web site, blog, or social networking profile.



The IM Control runs in the browser and lets site visitors message you without installing Messenger first.



It is supported in IE6, IE7, and FireFox 2.0 on Windows and FireFox 2.0 on Mac OS and supports 32 languages.



The Windows Liveâ„¢ Messenger Presence API is a JSON

API which returns a users status & display name, this can be queried programmatically.

There will be a Quick App demonstrating this linked from http://codeplex.com/wlquickapps in the next couple of days.




winbeta.org - 07.11.2007

Microsoft Will Not Release DirectX 10 for WinXP

Microsoft will not release next-generation graphics application programming interface (API) called DirectX 10 for the currently shipping Windows XP operating system (OS), instead, the company will keep the new API strictly for the forthcoming Windows Vista OS, despite earlier assumptions about DirectX 10 for the XP.


jcxp.net - 26.05.2006

Google's OpenSocial API could convert iGoogle into a social media platform

A simple demonstration of adding access to the OpenSocial API through iGoogle gadgets is the hot topic of discussion among both Web developers and social network aficionados today, as Google looks more poised to take on the social net leaders...
betanews.com - 22.04.2008

Google launches Themes API for iGoogle

Google has released an iGoogle Themes API, giving designers the ability to create their own iGoogle Theme. With the iGoogle Themes API, developers can design and share a theme with the tens of millions of iGoogle users around the world, providing even more options for users to customize their iGoogle experience. To jumpstart the development, and for the a little bit of inspiration, Google has also released custom themes from innovative designers Yves Behar, Mark Frauenfelder, Troy Lee and John Maeda. A new themes directory, similar to the Google Gadgets directory, has also been created.


neowin.net - 16.01.2008

Microsoft to Open Access to Viridian Virtualization API

In a move to demonstrate its recent drive toward openness was not being done to appease the European Commission, Microsoft this afternoon announced it is adding the API for hypercalls - the ability for a host machine to communicate directly with a virtual machine - to the list of technologies covered by its Open Specification Promise...
betanews.com - 24.10.2007

Windows Virtualization Hypercall APIs available via OSP

Microsoft today announced that it will extend the Open Specification Promise to the hypercall application programmers interface (API) within Windows Server virtualization (codename Viridian), and will be available when Windows Server virtualization is released to manufacturing (RTM). In the interim, today Microsoft posted an updated draft of the hypercall API to Microsofts website so that partners can continue to have early access to this important development interface. Microsoft first distributed hypercall API draft documentation to attendees of Windows Hardware Engineering Conference 2006.



The hypercall API enables partners to develop solutions with Windows Server virtualization allowing customers to achieve dynamic IT environments. These APIs are available for use by any organization seeking to integrate or extend their software with Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server virtualization.



"The majority of our customers have mixed-source environments, and they want their platform vendors to make things work together," said Roger Levy, senior vice president and general manager, Open Platform Solutions at Novell. "That's why we entered into a technical collaboration agreement with Microsoft. As a result, Novell is the first vendor to develop and ship technology that will allow a paravirtualized Windows Server 2008 to be hosted as a guest on the Xen hypervisor. Microsoft's decision to put the hypercall API under their Open Specifications Promise will make it even easier for Novell, our customers and partners, and the entire open source community to develop high-quality virtualization solutions that deliver true interoperability between Windows and Linux."..
winbeta.org - 24.10.2007

Devs start your engines, Windows 7 RTM Code Pack released

Now that Microsoft has officially signed off on the Windows 7 RTM build and has released it to MSDN/TechNet subscribers, it's time for some API code so developers can start developing applications for Windows 7. Microsoft has released the Windows 7 RTM Code Pack 1.0, available to the general public. Microsoft's Charlie Calvert, Community Program Manager for the C# group said, "The Windows® API Code Pack for Microsoft® .NET Framework provides support for various features of Windows 7 and previous releases of that operating system.

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neowin.net - 11.08.2009

Google Opens Up Calendar API

Adding to its growing list of "GData" application programming interfaces (APIs), Google on Thursday opened up its new Calendar beta service to third party developers. The API enables external Web sites and applications to integrate directly with Google Calendar and create, edit or delete events...
betanews.com - 21.04.2006

Google cuts the ribbon on its AJAX Playground

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