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• Vista for the tablet PC

  This weekend I finally installed the final Vista on my tiny tablet. Which is an old notebook with (these days) unimpressive specs but just refuses to retire. Easy to carry, runs XP and VS 2005 quite well and so far behaved well under the Vista beta's... Posted Feb 12 2007, 04:37 AM by pvanooijen with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Tablet PC

• Tidbits (Javascript and OOP ?)

  For the past few weeks I've been working fulltime on a big Javascript application. At first this did not look like any source for blog fodder at all. Having learned lots of new things I have changed my mind and am working on a big post on Object Oriented... Posted Oct 18 2006, 01:56 PM by pvanooijen with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Tablet PC, Chatter

• Working with .NET 3.0

  Over the last days I've been working with the .NET 3.0 framework (or whatever you want to call it ). Starting from the perspective of a real world application, not a bunch of cool solutions looking for a problem. The idea was to create a WPF tablet PC... Posted Jul 06 2006, 05:51 AM by pvanooijen with | with no comments Filed under: Programming, Tablet PC

• Installing Vista build 5270 on a (tiny) Tablet PC

  Vista is coming. To us developers Vista is about new API's, to users Vista is about a new UI. As a developer you have to take a good look at that as well; that's how people will (want to) work with the software you make. The feel of Vista is different;... Posted Feb 06 2006, 09:05 AM by pvanooijen with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Chatter, Tablet PC

• Charles Petzold, WPF and the Tablet PC

  Charles Petzold's book Programming Windows is a classical masterpiece. Through his work a whole generation learned how to write programs for that new strange graphical operating system called Windows. As that grew in size over the years the new editions... Posted Dec 06 2005, 03:03 AM by pvanooijen with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Tablet PC

• Installing Vista build 5219 (on a tablet PC)

  Recently I installed Vista beta 1 on my tablet. Not in Virtual PC but as dual boot. You need a dedicated partition for that, but it is the only way Vista can reach your machine's hardware functionality like DX or the digitizer tablet. The first install... Posted Sep 25 2005, 04:30 PM by pvanooijen with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Tablet PC

• A touching gesture

  I missed my chance to come to the PDC and hear this first hand, but blogs can fill the gap. Microsoft has announced it will license the current Tablet OS, Windows XP 2005 Tablet PC edition , to touch screen PC makers. Fujitsu already announced one for... Posted Sep 15 2005, 06:34 PM by pvanooijen with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Tablet PC

• Beta of the TIP for Vista Tablet PC

  Recently I installed the Vista Beta on my Tablet PC . It works, given the occasional blue screen, quite well; but didn't feel like a real tablet PC yet. The pen worked but the Tablet Input Panel (TIP) and the handwriting recognizers were still missing... Posted Sep 01 2005, 06:34 PM by pvanooijen with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Tablet PC

• Vista is a big push for the Tablet PC. But it's not a full tablet yet...

  My first install of Vista was on a Virtual PC. Nice but my main problem was that it's sluggish and unresponsive. Even if it has a 2.Ghz Hyperthreaded CPU and a full gigabyte of RAM at its disposal. The cause of that, as discussed here on Joel on Software... Posted Aug 08 2005, 12:12 PM by pvanooijen with | with 15 comment(s) Filed under: Tablet PC

• Past, present and future (my favorite PDC sessions)

  Last PDC, the 2003 edition, was one big flood of new things. It was the first time Longhorn (now named Vista) and Whidbey (now named Visual Studio 2005) were presented to the developer community. The coming, 2005 edition, will be on the same, by now almost... Posted Aug 05 2005, 07:51 PM by pvanooijen with | with no comments Filed under: Tablet PC, User groups and meetings

• The fix for the Tablet PC's memory leak is (finally) there

  Microsoft has finally released the fix for the memory leak in the tablet PC. It's diguished as Windowx XP hotfix KB895953 . Took a while. At the time (5 months ago !) I wandered how serious the bug really was for real life day to day tablet use, but the... Posted Jul 11 2005, 03:51 PM by pvanooijen with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Tablet PC

• Any Tablet PC sessions at the PDC ?

  The PDC 2005 frenzy is heating up, on Codebetter you'll find poetic as well as total geeky starters. The content of the PDC is also starting to materialize. I skimmed all session and tracks for "Tablet PC" but did not find a thing. So what's next ? Convert... Posted Jul 01 2005, 10:24 AM by pvanooijen with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Tablet PC, User groups and meetings

• Tablet PC input: recognizing gestures and creating strokes from code

  In my previous post on Tablet PC pen input I explored handwriting recognition. I explored how the language specific recognizers of the tablet API translated your scribbling into text, listed the possible alternatives and the confidence it had in the results... Posted Jun 28 2005, 03:34 PM by pvanooijen with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Tablet PC

• Recognizing handwriting on a Tablet PC: beyond Strokes.ToString()

  Having spent 3 solid days on doing a crash-course VS 2005 training it's time for a little diversion. Finally I made the time for another post on programming the Tablet PC. The tablet PC is very good in recognizing handwriting, it will even make sense... Posted Jun 16 2005, 04:43 AM by pvanooijen with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: Programming, Tablet PC

• So what about that Tablet PC ?

  I’m a big fan of the tablet PC and have a category tablet PC on my blog. But havn’t blogged that much on the Tablet recently. I’ve been writing a lot of ASP.NET production code and didn’t have the time to care of my pet. Time for a little catchup. On... Posted May 09 2005, 03:13 AM by pvanooijen with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Tablet PC