Thoughts from a solution architect, technologist and Christian citizen.
Hi Community, I would like to invite you all to “Developer… Developer… Developer Sydney”. This event will be held at UTS on Saturday 30th June 2012. I’ll be presenting “Building Windows 8 applications natively with Visual C++”. I look forward to seeing you there. Best Regards, Angel
Continue ReadingHi Community, I would like to share with you all the CyberNanny project that I just published on CodePlex. I’ve submitted an article to MSDN magazine about it but I really don’t know when it’s going to be published, so please feel free to download and/or contribute to the project in the meantime. I will […]
Continue ReadingHi Community, As mentioned in my previous post, I’ve been putting together an application which comprises technologies like Kinect, Windows Azure & Visual C++. The application name is “CyberNanny” and I wrote it for my beautiful newborn baby . Actually, I’ve submitted today an article to MSDN magazine about the aforementioned solution. Today’s post is about […]
Continue ReadingHi Community, Today I started to write an MFC application that comprises the Kinect sensor and its SDK, and the idea is to have a single UI with different views, this functionality is provided by the CTabCtrl class (Tab control) – I could’ve accomplish this by creating tabs and setting its properties individually but it’s […]
Continue ReadingHi Community, The following post is about how we can leverage Office 365 (SharePoint in our case) from our WinRT application. WWSAPI will provide the infrastructure required to interact with the Web Services. There’s a blog post I wrote a couple of years ago on WWSAPI that can be found here. The very first thing […]
Continue ReadingHi Community, Microsoft just published the “C++ AMP Specification”, please feel free to download it from here. Cheers, Angel
Continue ReadingHi Community, As a follow up to my previous post. This one shows how to execute an XPATH query, loop through the nodes returned by the query, how to use a lambda to retrieve the attributes from a given node but most importantly, how to read the attribute’s value… Yes, you read the last point […]
Continue ReadingHi Community, I hope you all had a well-deserved Christmas break A couple of days ago I began writing an article for MSDN Magazine. The article is about Metro, Windows 8 and interop between Win32 and WinRT. One of the most frequent and error prone operation is “String manipulation”, due to the possibility of a […]
Continue ReadingG’day community, Firstly, I’d like to wish you all a happy new year 2012, full of health, blessings & success Secondly, I’m happy to announce that Microsoft has awarded me with an MVP (8th consecutive year) in the Visual C++ category, therefore I’d like to thank God, community & fellow developers, Microsoft and the MVP […]
Continue ReadingHi Community, I’m very excited about learning WinRT, in the same way I was some years ago while learning Win32 The upcoming releases of Windows & Visual C++ come with a bunch of cool technologies and new features. Some of these new features are available in Windows 8 Developer Preview (as shown in the images […]
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