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Raf on Channel9

5 febbraio 2010
On Tuesday I was in Microsoft Italy subsidiary for the UGIdotNET event. My session was about the new ways to interact with PCs and I talked about Multitouch (using my SurfRaf homemade device) and Windows 7 Sensor APIs. For the occasion I built an USB device from scratch. On my italian blog there ...

I am Raf is finally live

5 settembre 2009
Welcome to my website. I am Raffaele Rialdi and you can find my bio here: https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/raffaele My Italian blog won't move. You can find it at http://blogs.ugidotnet.org/raffaele Why another web space? Here I want to publish content, that is samples, snippets, demos,...

Articles

There is no doubt that the new Office Open XML file format is a huge gain for every developer, and as conseguence for users too. The new file format is native in Office 2007 but can be also used natively with a plugin in Office 2003 and with external (free) utilities with previous Office releases...
This is the same article that was published in the Micro Framework blog on October 9, 2007.    The Swim Timer Application As one of my first projects with the .NET Micro Framework, I created a more sophisticated version of a little project I developed some time ago: a counter for swim training....

Tools

When you need to publish a WCF or WWS service or an application that must listen on http, you must reserve an http namespace. Since Windows 2003 there is a new Http handler in kernel mode that handle/route the request to applications. This way you can listen to a single address/port couple from m...

Samples

There is no GetComputerName API on Windows CE and I could not find any Compact Framework class to obtain this functionality. On these devices you can find the computer (pda) name in the registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Ident\Name If you want to take a look at the registry on your devices/emulators...
While using the Compact Framework on a mobile device, you can need to invalidate some data if the user is inactive for a certain period of time. In my case I have a custom authentication system that create a custom Token class that is invalidated after few minutes the user is inactive. Windows CE...
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