Sometime soon, I plan on releasing a cool application that uses text-to-speech. Some of you might have been curious about the implementation about text-to-speech for quite a while. The implementation of text-to-speech really isn’t that hard as long as you use Microsoft’s Speech API (SAPI). The current version of SAPI that you can download from Microsoft is 5.1, however if your running Windows Vista then you will have 5.3 preinstalled. If you have any version of Microsoft Office…

Microsoft officially launched Windows Embedded CE 6.0 today!, There are many improvements like: kernel enhancements, improved tools(Visual Studio 2005), and it is now 100% shared source.

Application Verifier is a runtime verification tool for unmanaged code that assists in quickly finding subtle programming errors that can be extremely difficult to identify with normal application testing. Application Verifier is designed specifically to detect and help debug memory corruptions and critical security vulnerabilities. It makes it easier to create reliable applications by monitoring an application’s interaction with the Windows operating system, profiling its use of objects,…

Last month Scott Guthrie staid that “Atlas” was going to have a new name, you can read more on that here.

First off, I would like to clarify how bad I am at making UI’s (User Interfaces). It never has been my specialty, but I know when I come across a UI that hasn’t been thought out for the consumers needs. Since I’m a gamer I’d like to show you a UI from (Valve Software) that I really am disgusted with, but am forced to use it.