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Kate Gregory and Richard Campbell are presenting Moving to Windows 7: Using Code Pack to improve user experience.

Join Richard Campbell and Kate Gregory for an action-packed overview on Windows 7 application development. Whether you are looking to create more performant, reliable, or secure applications, or you are an application developer looking to leap-frog past your competition, this FREE event will provide you with the information you need to better understand the Windows 7 platform.

This session will help you learn what makes a good Windows 7 application. Come see how taskbar jump lists and taskbar previews and controls give your users an intuitive, productive, and fun user experience on Windows 7! Learn about restart & recovery, network awareness, power awareness, and more! Explore how simple it is to leverage a free library from Microsoft and add these features to your application with just a few lines of code! You can even create a single executable that runs fine on older versions of Windows and “lights up” on Windows 7.

During this session, we’ll drill into the features provided by Windows 7 and how to add them to your application using the Windows API Code Pack for the .NET Framework. Samples in both Visual Basic and C# will cover shell integration (taskbar, previews, and more), restart & recovery, power awareness and much, much more! Learn how to add your own tasks to a jump list taskbar, to recover from a reboot or a crash without losing any user data, and to modify your application’s behaviour to conserve battery power. When you leave this session you’ll be ready to transform the user experience your application provides and take full advantage of Windows 7!

The morning and evening events will feature the same content so register now for the most convenient session in a city near you.

Breakfast Event Sessions

User Group Evening Sessions

Kate Gregory, Gregory Consulting       Kate Gregory is the Microsoft Regional Director for Toronto and a founding partner of Gregory Consulting. Based in rural Ontario, Gregory Consulting has been providing consulting and development services throughout North America since 1986, specializing in software development with leading-edge technologies, integration projects, and technology transfer. They also provide training, mentoring, and technical writing services. Kate is the author of over a dozen books including Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003 Kick Start. She teaches .NET, XML, UML, and C++ and is in demand as an expert speaker, with numerous cross-Canada tours for Microsoft Canada, and sessions at DevDays, DevTeach, TechEd (USA, Europe, Africa) and VSLive Toronto, among others. Kate is a C++ MVP, a founding sponsor of the Toronto .NET Users Group, the founder of the East of Toronto .NET Users group, a member of the INETA speakers bureau, and a member of adjunct faculty at Trent University in Peterborough. Kate has almost three decades of scientific and engineering programming experience in a variety of programming languages including Fortran, PL/I, C++, Java, Visual Basic, and C#. Her recent programming work is almost exclusively in Visual C++ and Visual Basic.NET, on a variety of projects, for both Enterprise and ISV clients. Since January 2002 she has been Microsoft Regional Director for Toronto and since January 2004 she has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional designation for Visual C++. In June 2005 she won the Regional Director of the year award. She maintains strong relationships with the C++ and Windows teams in Redmond.

Richard Campbell, Strangeloop Networks       Richard Campbell is one of the co-founders of Strangeloop Networks and today serves as product evangelist, introducing the company’s unique story to advisors, investors, patent attorneys, beta-customer candidates, potential employees, etc. Richard has more than 30 years of high-tech experience and is both a Microsoft Regional Director and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP). He has consulted with a number of leading North American organizations; Barnes&Noble.com, Dow Chemical, Johnson & Johnson Health Care Services, Reuters, Subaru/Isuzu and the U.S. Air Force. Richard is co-host of the “.NET Rocks!, the Internet Audio Talk Show for .NET Developers” podcast, host of “RunAs Radio, the Internet Audio Talks for IT Professionals” podcast, has been co-authoring of the “Advisor Answers” column on SQL Server for more than ten years and author of the courseware for AppDev's national SQL Server 7.0 training seminars and video series.

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