This article provides basic facts about interoperability between managed and unmanaged code and guidelines and common practices for accessing and wrapping unmanaged API from managed code and for exposing managed APIs to unmanaged callers. Security and reliability considerations performance data and general practices for development processes are...

The third chapter outlines the latest recommendations and thinking on interoperability between managed and unmanaged code from Microsoft. This chapter first looks at the different technology options for interoperability and then drills into specific low-level recommendations for each technology based on the current engineering practices at Microsoft....

Get an introduction to the technical concepts associated with NGSCB technology and dive specifically into concepts and design considerations associated with application integration with NGSCB-aware applications and migration to NGSCB. Learn about the core features that NGSCB provides application developers. Topics included are Strong Process Isolation...

The Longhorn Identity System provides a unified store and representation for information about people groups and devices across all applications and leverages this information to enable secure communication. In this session learn how the Identity System enables developers to easily build applications that work across a continuum of secure digital...

Get an overview of the latest enhancements to Windows Networking technologies. Learn about the developer productivity enhancements coming in the next generation of Windows and the .Net Framework as well as tools to take advantage of pervasive end-to-end connectivity using IPv6 and related technologies....

Does downloading and running software feel like a game of chicken on the information superhighway Today users are afraid to download and run your products on Windows. Well-intentioned applications can break other applications and system components like the Internet Explorer. Get an introduction to new features in Windows Longhorn that will create...

Learn about the new managed API for searching across data stores. It s difficult to know where to search what constraints to use and how to interpret a user s input. System.Search helps solve these problems by bringing together Natural Language technologies along with a reasoning engine to understand a user s intent. Provides an overview of the API...

Come see the enhancements made to tablet technologies in Longhorn . See how inking is done and get introduced to the APIs I.e. ink elements and ink analysis to provide rich Tablet features in a Longhorn application....

Learn how you can write Windows applications that utilize the powerful features of the client yet are as hassle-free to deploy and update as a Web-page. Whidbey introduces a technology called ClickOnce which allows developers to deploy and update their applications by simply copying the files to a Web-site and doesn t require separate setup authoring....

Learn about upcoming improvements to Windows Installer MSI 3.0 and 4.0 to make installing and servicing your applications based on Windows Installer simpler and easier. This session is a must for any developer who has a MSI-based application and needs the advanced installation and deployment options available in Windows Longhorn . We review the guidelines...

Get an introduction to the rights management APIs shipping in Longhorn and learn about the mechanisms and associated SDKs which developers should use to package documents spreadsheets and emails based on new rights management functionality as well as the improvements made to the rights management technologies designed for packaging audio streaming...

Learn everything you ever wanted to know about the new ClickOnce deployment technology in Whidbey and Longhorn. Learn the nuts and bolts of how ClickOnce works and all of the tips and tricks to using the ClickOnce deployment technology today. Drill into advanced topics such as how to use the new deployment APIs to customize how your application...

Microsoft has long been promoting the idea of users running with least privilege as security hygiene. Since Windows 2000 there has been the Least-privilege User Account LUA initiative aimed at getting developers to make their application well behaved and only require special privileges where absolutely necessary. In Longhorn Microsoft is providing...

Get an overview of the Longhorn SDK. Explore the content samples and tools provided in the PDC release and see what we have planned for the final release of the SDK. See how to maximize your development experience on the Longhorn platform and create compelling applications that harness the power of all the new Longhorn features. Learn tips...

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