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On March 28 and 29, Microsoft Bulgaria will host in Sofia the traditional event "Microsoft Days". I am very happy to be the speaker of two pillar arguments of the next technology wave:Introduction to Windows Runtime (WinRT) The Asynchronous Pattern in WinRT/Metro and .NET 4.5 The abstracts are ...

Ten years ago Bill Gates decided to change the company's approach by introducing the Trustworthy Computing initiative in a famous e-mail addressed to all his employees. This decision triggered a huge change in software development not only inside Microsoft but also for all developers who use Micr...

The new Windows start screen 8 shows a number of tiles that may look like a revamped version of the old shortcuts: But appearances can be deceptive and tiles are not shortcuts and they do not launch directly the application process. The crucial point is that Windows Runtime (WinRT) is the laye...

As the WinRT world is an evolution of COM, the registration is similar but uses only the HKCU registry keys. This means that you don't need administrative privileges to install an application.Let's take a look to the most interesting registry keys involved during registration process: The HKCU\So...

During the build conference sessions, beyond the great thrilling sessions like the one from Matt, I had the change to make me explain many interesting details about WinRT. So I want to thank speakers and the other team members for their availability to answer the numerous questions coming from the...

In the previous post I retraced the motivations that led to WinRT. One of the fundamental requirements of WinRT is to allow better interaction between different languages, either native or managed. We also have already seen that only a runtime that exposes functionality in an object oriented fa...

Before analyzing WinRT it's necessary to go back in time and retrace the evolution of languages. C language consolidated a standard way to interoperate in two different ways: Source-level thanks to the standardization of ANSI 1989 (and later) Binary, by using the x86 architecture calling conven...

To put it in two words ... the response is too early for a user to judge Windows 8. The / / build / conference I just came back from, is a developer conference. It merged the PDC (Professional Developer Conference) and WinHEC (Windows Hardware Engineering Conference). The sessions on the agenda ...

After the //build/ keynotes, I looked for more informations regarding WinRT and a few teams gave me the answers to my questions. There are two stacks for building Windows 8 applications: Classic mode (Win32 / .NET) Metro-Style mode The classic mode is the one we all know, will not change and wi...

I am ready to leave from Italy to USA, Anaheim for the build Conference (Sept 13-16, 2011) I will give as much as possible news in two places:Here at http://www.iamraf.net/news in English languageOn my Italian Blog http://blogs.ugidotnet.org/raffaele Stay tuned!...

From a reader perspective, this is not really a great news, but it has been really a hard work for me to entirely rewrite the engine of this website. Previously I used an external blog engine as storage, an RSS library to read the content and asp.net routing to publish the content. The new relea...

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 ...

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,...