May 2012 – My musings

Programming Windows Sixth Edition – Last day to get a great deal

By sridharpoduri May 31, 2012XAML

Reposting... Charles Petzold is back with "Programming Windows Sixth Edition", updated for Windows 8. The book focuses on programming Windows 8 Apps using C# and XAML. Microsoft Press is offering an…

Unit testing support for native apps in Visual Studio 11

By sridharpoduri May 29, 2012C++, native apps, native code, unit testing

Visual Studio 11 includes support for unit testing native code. This support is provided via an in-built, shipping in the box, brand new C++ unit testing framework. No need to…

Whitepaper on Performance tips for Metro style XAML apps is now available

By sridharpoduri May 28, 2012performance, tips, whitepaper, XAML

Head over to the download site here to download the whitepaper and learn how you can tune your Metro style XAML apps. Enjoy!!

10 years of Trustworthy computing

By sridharpoduri May 28, 2012Others

Just realized that it is 10 years since Bill Gates sent the memo on Trustworthy computing. Jeffrey Schwartz summarizes the journey over the past decade http://redmondmag.com/articles/2012/05/01/10-years-of-trust.aspx

Update on blog maintenance

By sridharpoduri May 28, 2012Others

This past weekend I completed the blog maintenance as I mentioned earlier. I moved my domain registrar, migrated from a free wordpress.com blog to a hosted instance of wordpress by…

Upcoming Blog maintenance

By sridharpoduri May 26, 2012Others

I have been thinking of moving from a free wordpress blog, which is what my blog is currently, to a self hosted wordpress blog. I will be trying the move…

Announcement: Book on C++ /Cx and Metro style app development

By sridharpoduri May 23, 2012Book, C++ /CX, C++11, Metro style app, MS Press, WinRT, XAML16 Comments

Hi I am happy to announce an upcoming book on C++ /Cx and Metro style app development. This book is currently in the works and will be published by Microsoft…

Kinect for Windows v1.5 SDK and Runtime are now LIVE!!

By sridharpoduri May 21, 2012Kinect

Head over to the announcement here Enjoy!!

Hello World from XAML and C++ /CX

By sridharpoduri May 21, 2012C++ /CX, XAML2 Comments

We have previously explored how to write a Hello World console application using C++ /CX. Today we will develop a Hello World Application using XAML. Our Hello World app will…

Implementing an IValueConverter in C++ /Cx for Data Binding

By sridharpoduri May 21, 2012C++ /CX, Data binding, IValueConverter, XAML

To create a value converter, we create a class that implements the IValueConverter interface and then implement the Convert and (optionally) the ConvertBack methods. Converters can change data from one…