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Top-10 Ways to “Light-Up” You Applications on Windows Vista

Windows Vista Technologies and Developer Resources

Be Rock Solid

Run Securely

Windows Vista Security Overview (June 2006)

User Account Control (UAC)

• User Account Control Resources for IT Professionals (TechNet Landing Page)

• Developer Best Practices and Guidelines for Applications in a Least Privileged Environment

• UAC Team blog

• COM Elevation Moniker

• Windows Vista UX Guidelines for UAC

Low Rights IE, Mandatory Integrity Control, UI Privilege Isolation

• Understanding and Working in Protected Mode Internet Explorer

• Security and Compatibility in Internet Explorer 7

• IE Team blog

Other security features and technologies:

• Cryptograpy API: Next Generation (CNG)

• Parental Controls for Windows Vista

• Windows Filtering Platform

• Network Address Protection API

• Windows Remote Management

• Network Diagnostics Framework

Design for Reliability and Manageability

Restart Manager

• API Documentation for Installer Apps

• Guidelines for Applications and Services

• SDK Samples installed with Windows SDK

Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0\Samples\winbase\RestartManager

• Application Recovery and Restart SDK Documentation

• What’s New in Windows Installer 4.0

• Windows Event Log SDK Documentation

• Transactional File System

• Windows Remote Management (WinRM)

• Microsoft Management Console (MMC) 3.0

• Function Discovery

• Task Scheduler 2.0

• Windows Power Shell

Establish a Customer Feedback Loop

Windows Error Reporting

• What’s New in Windows Error Reporting

• Windows Error Reporting API Reference

Windows Quality Online Services Site

Problem Reports and Solutions App

Create an Impression

Follow the Windows Vista User Experience Guidelines

Windows Vista User Experience

• What’s New in Windows Vista (UI)

• Windows Vista User Experience Guidelines

• Segoe UI Font

New Win32 UI Elements

• Task Dialogs

• Command Links

Vista Bridge SDK Samples

Common File Dialogs

• IFileDialog

• IFileOpenDialog

• IFileSaveDialog

• IFileDialogControlEvents

• IFileDialogCustomize

• IFileDialogEvents

Enrich the User Experience

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)

• WPF SDK Documentation

• Designing with Windows Presentation Foundation

• 5-day ramp-up on WPF

• Windows Presentation Foundation Community Site

• WPF Blogger List

Gadgets

• Gadget SDK Documentation

• Windows SideBar Gadget Development Overview

• Windows SideBar Reference

• Windows Sidebar team blog

• Windows SideShow Reference

• Windows Live Gallery

• Microsoft Gadgets Site

DirectX for Windows Vista

Windows Imaging Component (WIC)

Desktop Window Manager

Windows Device Driver Model

Enable Users to Visualize, Organize, and Search

Integrating Search

• OLE DB Provider for Windows Search - Blog entries on query syntax

• Supporting the Advanced Query Syntax

o ISearchQueryHelper

Reading and Writing Metadata

• Property System Overview

• Property Provider API (IPropertyStore)

Windows Desktop Search 3.0

• Windows Desktop Search 3.0 Beta 2 Download (for XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 SP1)

• Windows Desktop Search 3.0 Reference

Extensibility mechanisms for file format and data store providers

• Thumbnail Providers

• Preview Handlers

• Property Handlers

• Search Filters (IFilter)

• Protocol Handlers (ISearchProtocol2)

Get Connected

Build for Connected Systems

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)

• WCF Community site

• WCF SDK Docs

• Peer to Peer Networking with PeerChannel

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF)

• WF Community site

• WF SDK Docs

Windows CardSpace

• CardSpace Community site

• CardSpace SDK Docs

Peer-to-Peer Technologies

• Peer-to-Peer Collaboration Infrastructure SDK Documentation

• Blog post on People Near Me API

• Windows Contacts

• Remote Assistance APIs

Introduction to IPv6

Introduction to Windows Peer-To-Peer Networking

Bring Data to the User with RSS

Windows RSS Platform

• RSS SDK Documentation

• Simple List Extensions

• RSS Team Blog

• WCF RSS Toolkit

Make Document Data Accessible

XML Paper Specification (XPS)

• XPS Specification

• XPS Sample Documents

Open Packaging Convention (OPC)

• OPC Specification

• The Addressing Model of the Open Packaging Conventions

XPS/OPC Team Contacts

• Email alias: xpsinfo@

• XPS Team blog

• Newsgroup: microsoft.beta.longhorn.xps

Build for Mobility

Key Mobile PC Technologies

• Power Management on Windows Vista

• Network Awareness on Windows Vista

• Data Synchronization on Windows Vista

MSDN Mobile PC Developer Center

Mobile PC Development Guide

Mobile PC User Experience Guidelines for Developers

Ink

• Ink Support in WPF

• Programming the Text Input Panel in Windows Vista

• COM Libraries

Specific Form Factors

• Table PC Development Guide

• Ultra Mobile PCs (UMPC, formerly known as “Origami”)

Additional Windows Vista Resources

• Windows Vista MSDN Windows Vista Developer Center

• Windows Vista, .NET Fx 3.0 Runtime and SDK Downloads

• Windows Vista Application Compatibility Cookbook

• Certified for Windows Vista Logo Program

• See Windows Vista

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