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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! 

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.