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Intel® vTune™ Amplifier

Boost Performance Optimization and Multicore Scalability with a set of advanced capabilities for developers who need even greater performance optimization.
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Intel® Graphics Performance Analyzers

A set of powerful graphics and gaming analysis tools that are designed to work the way game developers do.
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Concurrency Checker

Measure the parallel performance level of your application with the fast, easy, and free Intel® Concurrency Checker. A Java Runtime Environment is required to run the Intel Concurrency Checker.
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Intel® Media SDK

Software development library that exposes Intel platforms' industry-leading media acceleration capabilities (encoding, decoding and transcoding).
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AppUp Native & Runtime SDKs
Developer Services Beta brings a new set of cloud APIs that provide an enhanced set of app development capabilities and features for Ultrabooks & mobile devices. From C/C+, NET, AIR and Java, AppUp has SDKs to make use of key store APIs.
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HTML5 - Test & Package Apps

HTML5

HTML5 is an emerging development framework we happily support. We offer the following tools and resources to aid your development, testing and packaging of HTML5 applications for Ultrabook devices.

HTML5 Playground

Try various HTML5 code samples and test them out in real time.

Remote Testing Tool

Test your Ultrabook apps on the latest Ultrabook hardware.

Find the latest and greatest documentation to help your develoment project. We have technical guides, case studies, code samples, videos and thought-provoking blog posts. You'll find all the resources for Ultrabook development here.

15-Feb-2013
2:43 PM PST
Friday Forum Focus: DirectX, Windows*8, and Perceptual Computing
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Just like we did with last’s week forum focus, this Friday we’re going to look at a few of the most active posts in the ...
15-Feb-2013
2:36 PM PST
Meet the Winners of the App Innovation Contest: Part 2
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Simon Mages and Florian Rappl, two Ph.Ds from the University of Regensburg, have won the  ...
15-Feb-2013
9:16 AM PST
Programming Considerations for Sensors on Ultrabook™ Convertibles
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I recently had the chance to interview Mark Davis about a Map Panning Application that he wrote that takes advantage of Windows 8* Ultrabook(tm) Sensors.  He ran into some interesting issues along the way. Ultrabook convertibles ...
14-Feb-2013
9:22 AM PST
Porting the HTML5 Samples to Windows 8* Store
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Table of Content Introduction Steps on Porting Creating a HTML5 App with Visual Studio 2012* Required Files ...
12-Feb-2013
1:53 PM PST
Bill Gates AMA: Windows*8, Future Tech, and Robots
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On Monday, February 11, co-founder and chairman of Microsoft Bill Gates took part in an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on Reddit, a popular social networking/water ...
11-Feb-2013
3:36 PM PST
Emerging Technologies: How Ultrabooks™ Are Paving the Way
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This week, Forrester Research, an independent technology and market research company, released  an insightful report based on the results of an global survey ...
08-Feb-2013
2:00 PM PST
The Reports of the PC’s Demise Are Greatly Exaggerated
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“The PC is dead; long live the PC!” If you look at computing history, we’ve really come a long way in a very short time. Remember those old bricks that required an entire desk set-up to deal with? Now there’s more power in our smartphones than those beasts, and we’re getting ever smaller and ...
07-Feb-2013
4:04 PM PST
Friday Forum Focus: Code Samples, Different Inputs, Unity, and More
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A couple Fridays a month, we’re going to look at a few of the most interesting topics that our Ultrabook community forum members have posted about in the past week. We have quite an active forum here and the discussions ...
07-Feb-2013
9:33 AM PST
Intel Developer Zone Hangout: New PC Form Factors
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Intel Developer Zone Hangout: New PC Form Factors Developer Implications Last week, Ultrabook Community Manager Bob Duffy hosted a Google Hangout with Rick Vanner (The Game ...
06-Feb-2013
1:43 PM PST
Going Perceptual: Ultimate Coder Challenge Is Live!
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Seven coders, four judges, seven weeks and a whole host of cutting-edge technologies begins today with the launch of Ultimate Coder Challenge: Going Perceptual. We're going to give you a front row seat to truly exciting innovation. How ...
06-Feb-2013
10:54 AM PST
Going Perceptual – Meet the Ultimate Coder Judges
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The theme of our latest Ultimate Coder Challenge is “Going Perceptual”. We introduced you to our brave challengers last week in Going Perceptual – Introducing Our Ultimate Coder ...
05-Feb-2013
2:29 PM PST
Buggy Geolocation drivers, Part 2: Calculating speed when your driver doesn't
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A couple of days ago I talked about my experiences with a geolocation driver bug that was not presenting a heading to the Geolocation sensor, and how to account for this problem in your app by calculating the value yourself. Today, I want to talk ...
05-Feb-2013
9:57 AM PST
Meet the Winners of the App Innovation Contest: Part 1
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Simon Mages and Florian Rappl, two Ph.Ds from the University of Regensburg, have won the ...
04-Feb-2013
12:00 PM PST
Windows* 8 Tutorial: Writing a Multithreaded Application for the Windows Store* using Intel® Threading Building Blocks.
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It is known that the Windows Store apps API is missing some commonly used thread functions, such as function CreateThread() and those that work with TLS keys. This is yet another great opportunity to move your application development from thread-based parallelism to task-based parallelism. This ...
01-Feb-2013
4:04 PM PST
Intel® Perceptual Computing SDK - How To Use the SDK with the Unity* Game Engine
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Intel® Perceptual Computing SDK - How To Use the SDK with the Unity* Game Engine 02-07-2013 02-07-2013 Tech Articles Intel® Perceptual Computing SDK
01-Feb-2013
1:38 PM PST
Tim Berners-Lee: Developers Are Doing “Incredible Things”
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This week at the World Economic Forum, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, most widely known for his invention of the World Wide Web, gave a talk ranging from topics such as social networking all the way to HTML5. ...
31-Jan-2013
5:09 PM PST
Going Perceptual - Introducing Our Ultimate Coder Challengers
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Going Perceptual is the theme of the latest Ultimate Coder Challenge, where 7 teams will have the task to use the latest Ultrabook convertible hardware along with the Intel Perceptual Computing SDK ...
31-Jan-2013
4:19 PM PST
Four Ways Dropbox Can Help Developers Be More Productive
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Dropbox is a freemium service that offers four basic tools: file synchronization, file versioning, file sharing, and remote backup of files.  It’s an extremely powerful tool for developers especially; as it enables coders to quickly sync ...
31-Jan-2013
3:18 PM PST
Buggy Geolocator drivers: How to calculate Heading when your driver doesn't
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I've been evaluating the location sensors in a number of Windows 8 tablet and ultrabook systems recently, and as you might expect I have come across the occasional buggy driver. Sometimes the bugs are severe enough that the location sensor doesn't function reliably or even function at all, but I ...
30-Jan-2013
12:30 PM PST
Optimizing Windows* 8 Applications for Connected Standby
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Download Article Optimizing Windows* 8 Applications for Connected Standby [PDF 1.4MB] Abstract This white paper describes how to validate and analyze the behavior of Windows 8* applications ...
30-Jan-2013
12:20 AM PST
The challenge of reinventing the PC: Ultimate Coder
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Your PC is an amazing peace of kit, it’s amazing because no other computing platform is as versatile and no other platform is so open for innovation. You can buy hardware for it from thousands of vendors, you can hook it up to just about any display or input device and you can make it do just about ...
28-Jan-2013
11:18 AM PST
Soon... The Perceptual Conversion of 7 Ultimate Coders
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It's about to begin, Intel's second Ultimate Coder Challenge. The work is planned and 7 amazing teams of developers have assembled to accepted the challenge, along with 4 anxiously awaiting Judges, who will review the work with us week to week.  If you missed the ...
27-Jan-2013
1:24 PM PST
FINALLY! Wireless HDMI to TV with Intel WiDi on Windows 8 Ultrabooks
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 I've been using my 3rd generation Intel core powered Ultrabook and WIndows 8 for a few months and it's amazing, however one cool feature has been lacking; WiDi.   WiDi is a display technology that sends HDMI signal to an external display (like a TV) over WiFi. I had tried getting it going in ...
25-Jan-2013
1:04 PM PST
User Privacy: There's a theme here!
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These days, it’s not enough to “just” build a fantastic app. Developers have to carefully consider how to integrate user privacy within their apps, especially in light of both ...
24-Jan-2013
6:09 PM PST
Sample Application: Using SIMD Instructions in Windows* 8 Store Apps
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Abstract SIMD instruction sets can be used to boost performance in Windows* 8 Store applications. This document focuses on how to create a SIMD library that can be consumed by any Windows 8 Store application programmed in any supported language. This paper shows how to begin making a SIMD library ...
24-Jan-2013
5:52 PM PST
Case Study: Blue Innovations Embraces Touch and Intel® Smart Connect Technology to Upgrade Its MoneyBag App for the Intel® Ultimate Coder: Ultrabook™ Challenge
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Download Article Download Case Study: Blue Innovations Embraces Touch and Intel® Smart Connect Technology to Upgrade Its MoneyBag App for the Intel® Ultimate Coder: Ultrabook™ Challenge [PDF 973KB] Blue ...
24-Jan-2013
5:14 PM PST
Intel® Perceptual Computing SDK - How to Use the Finger Tracking Module
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Intel® Perceptual Computing SDK - How to Use the Finger Tracking Module
24-Jan-2013
5:11 PM PST
Intel® Perceptual Computing SDK - How to Use the Face Analysis Module
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Intel® Perceptual Computing SDK - How to Use the Face Analysis Module
24-Jan-2013
5:03 PM PST
Intel® Perceptual Computing SDK - How to Capture Raw Image
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Intel® Perceptual Computing SDK - How to Capture Raw Image
24-Jan-2013
5:00 PM PST
Intel® Perceptual Computing SDK - My First C++ Application
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Intel® Perceptual Computing SDK - My First C++ Application
23-Jan-2013
11:47 AM PST
Apps for Kids: Basic Usability Guidelines
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More kids than ever before in history are engaging with computing devices on a daily basis, whether that may be that a smartphone, a tablet, a PC, or a convertible tablet/PC form factor. They do homework, interact with friends and family, and play games, and as seen by a simple search in any ...
22-Jan-2013
11:03 PM PST
For Software Developers: Start 2013 Strong By Protecting Digital Data from Cyber Threats
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A surf shop in California loses 10 years of customer data because their computer systems weren’t secured. This data was encrypted with ransomware, a form of malware that allows the cybercriminal to hold it for ransom. The surf shop ...
22-Jan-2013
10:41 AM PST
Handling touch input in Windows* 8 Applications
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Download Article Download Handling touch input in Windows* 8 Applications [PDF 745KB] With the growing number of devices supporting touch, handling the touch interaction method in your applications ...
22-Jan-2013
6:28 AM PST
Neat HTML5 features: Offline Web Applications
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Since I work quite a bit with HTML5 I decided to write about it whenever I discover a feature that I think is quite neat. So this blog post is about “Offline Web Applications”. This is based on the functionality described here: ...
21-Jan-2013
11:57 AM PST
Legalizing App Privacy: What Developers Should Know
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App privacy is becoming more of a public issue, which means it’s also starting to become an issue for our elected officials. This past week, U.S. Representative Hank Johnson of Georgia has drafted a bill aimed at trying to give users more control over their app data. A discussion draft has been ...
18-Jan-2013
9:16 AM PST
User Privacy: Seven Ways App Developers Can Protect It
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With the unprecedented growth of the app ecosystem, user privacy is becoming more and more of a hot button issue, especially when that privacy is violated. For many users, finding and downloading a new app is something that has become almost second-nature; we browse our favorite app stores, we ...
17-Jan-2013
1:35 PM PST
Facebook Graph Search: What It Means for Developers
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This week, Facebook rolled out Graph Search, a new feature within the social networking site that will enable users to make new kinds of content connections based on information they’ve already input into the site as a whole ...
15-Jan-2013
2:54 PM PST
Women in Tech: Issues and Inspiration for Female Coders
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It’s a fact that can’t be denied: there are, quite simply, far fewer women in technology-related fields then there are men. STEM-focused fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) have been typically underrepresented by the fairer sex for decades, and the gap looks to be growing: “ ...
14-Jan-2013
9:05 AM PST
Porting iOS* Custom Charts and Graphs to Windows* 8 UI
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Overview This article takes a look at the various ways custom graphs and charts are used in iOS* to create rich enterprise healthcare applications and how these same custom graphics can be created in an equivalent Windows* 8 Store app experience. An example written in C# and XAML will be used to ...
14-Jan-2013
8:42 AM PST
Software Occlusion Culling
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Download Article Download Software Occlusion Culling [PDF 1.1MB] Abstract This article details an algorithm and associated sample code for software occlusion culling which is available for download. The technique divides scene objects ...
11-Jan-2013
4:51 PM PST
Porting the User Interface from an iOS* Basic App to Windows* 8
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Download Article Download Porting the User Interface from an iOS* Basic App to Windows* 8 [PDF 620KB] Table of Contents 1. Introduction. 2 2. Basic UI Navigation and Layout 2 2.1 Navigation Hierarchy. 2 2.1.1 ...
11-Jan-2013
3:55 PM PST
Porting Advanced User Interfaces From iOS* To Windows 8*
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Download Article Download Porting Advanced User Interfaces From iOS* To Windows 8* [PDF 620KB] Abstract This article discusses porting advanced user interface features from an iOS app to a Windows Store app. ...
11-Jan-2013
3:29 PM PST
Porting App Life Cycle, Settings, and Search Features from iOS* to Windows* 8
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Objective Most mobile apps, regardless of the platform, have features like search, app settings, complex app life cycle, and state maintenance in them. In this article we will cover how to port these features from existing iOS apps, to the Windows* 8 platform. We will compare and contrast how ...
11-Jan-2013
3:19 PM PST
Porting iOS* Apps to Windows* 8 - Overview
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Download Article Download Porting iOS* Apps to Windows* 8 - Overview [PDF 841KB] Objective Developers looking to port their existing iOS* apps to the new Windows* 8 platform face several challenges. In this ...
11-Jan-2013
1:15 PM PST
See How Software Partners are Innovating on Ultrabook™ Devices
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Wondering how Intel® Developer Zone members are innovating on Ultrabook™ devices? Wonder no more!  We just launched a new ...
11-Jan-2013
9:11 AM PST
CES 2013: A Week in Retrospective
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What an amazing week it’s been for Intel at CES 2013 in Las Vegas! From an Ultrabook™ tree (yes, you read that right) to new smartphone announcements to tablet innovations, there’s certainly been a lot going on. In this article, we’re going to take a quick retrospective look at just a few of the ...
10-Jan-2013
9:51 AM PST
Handling Windows 8 Auto-rotate feature in your application
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There is an interesting new feature that has been introduced in Windows 8. This new feature allows the desktop to rotate as you rotate your tablet and/or Ultrabook with sensors.  I recently ran into an interesting situation with a popular game that we were recently working on so I thought I would ...
09-Jan-2013
4:00 PM PST
Deforming Terrain Through Touch
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Download Article Download Deforming Terrain Through Touch [PDF 888KB] Introduction Dynamically deformable terrain has long been a desired feature of game developers. Ultrabook™ devices and Windows 8* tablets open new ...
09-Jan-2013
3:58 PM PST
Work Mode, Play Mode: An Ultrabook™ Convertible Experience
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If you’re looking for a device that integrates the computing power of an Ultrabook™ but offers the mobility of a tablet, then you’ll want to check out one of the new Ultrabook convertible devices.  One such device is the Dell XPS 12 Ultrabook™ Convertible, a solid machine that gives users the ...
07-Jan-2013
4:48 PM PST
App Development: By The Numbers
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Apple released this week their numbers for user downloads from the Apple Store since its grand opening in 2008, and to put it mildly, they are astonishing ...

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03-Apr-2013
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Developing for High DPI Applications for Windows* 8
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Chris PhlipotMarch 14 2013 Download Article  Windows DPI Scaling.pdf (336.59 KB) In 2013, the industry is moving towards using high resolution, high DPI screens on Windows devices. Today, most . . .
31-Mar-2013
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Windows* 8 OS Tutorial: Writing a Multithreaded Application for the Windows Store* using Intel® Threading Building Blocks - now with DLLs.
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This article explains how to build a simple application for the Windows Store* using Intel Threading Building Blocks (Intel® TBB). A previous post: “Windows . . .
27-Mar-2013
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How to package a HTML5/web-app for AppUp using node-webit and WixToolset
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Introduction This article demonstrates one of many ways to package a HTML5/web app for distribution for Windows. The result will be a Windows MSI installer file that can install silently. The web app is packaged with node-webkit that provides the browser environment for the app. The beauty is your . . .
22-Mar-2013
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Pointing the Way: Designing a Stylus-driven Device in a Mobile World
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Download Article Pointing the Way: Designing a Stylus-driven Device in a Mobile World [ PDF 676KB ] By Benjamin A. Lieberman, Ph.D. As infants, we know instinctively to reach out with our bodies to explore the . . .

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Friday Forum Focus: Windows*8 development, gesture recognition, Unity
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Once a month, we take a look at some of the most popular posts in the Ultrabook™ and Windows*8 forums here on the Intel Developer Zone, as well as notable blogs and articles.  Whether you’ve got a specific question or ...
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 On May 10th in New York City Intel and Microsoft hosted an App Lab for local software developers working on applications for the Financial Services industry. For this event at the New York Microsoft Technology ...
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The Rise of the Independent Game Developer
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Independent developers might not have as many resources as their larger studio counterparts have to offer, but it seems that the barrier to game development at least has been made a little bit easier to jump lately. A recent announcement from Unity, one of the most popular game rendering engines ...
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Perceptual Computing and Exergaming: It’s a Match
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What is “exergaming”? According to Exergaming Australia, it’s a whole new way to combine fitness with technology: “Exergaming is more than a combination of just “exercise” and “games,” since such a definition would ...
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Mohamed N.Thu, February 7th 2013 - 5:02
regarding image scaling in DirectX C++1
Hi to All          I am developing 2D game for intel ultra book I am using DirectX C++ now i need to Resize the ID2D1Bitmap image before painting. In QT there is a libray called Scale(Image img,size) is there is any library in DirectX c++. Kindly .Suggest me to tackle this problem. Thanks & ...
chang-liTue, January 29th 2013 - 21:13
Any code samples to use pinch to zoom in Windows 7? 10
There is touch screen in Ultrabook then how to apply these basic touch operations on Windows 7 and Windows 8 Desktop?
ParagDaveThu, January 17th 2013 - 6:30
Getting message to Upgrade Win8 version5
Hi I am getting message, "This licance for evolution version is expired . Need to install latest". Does Intel provides their SDPs latest version of Win 8? Or do any one know any smarter way (Without buying licance) to do that? Thank you Dave
Adam HillMon, January 14th 2013 - 16:34
Ultrabook touch screen input not detected after reinstalling Win81
Hi, I was a developer in the recent Intel AppUp App Innovation contest, and received an Ultrabook as part of the competition. I recently purchased Windows 8 for it as I didn't have an MSDN account. Upon reinstalling Windows 8 the device no longer responds to touch input, which was working fine ...

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As a Software Partner you and your company are provided the resources you need to develop, optimize, and market your Ultrabook applications faster, less expensively, and more competitively.

Become a Software Partner

We provides companies and individuals working with Ultrabooks the resources to effectively develop and market commercial applications optimized for Intel® Ultrabook Technologies. 

List Your Application

Gain visibility for your Ultrabook applications and for your company with customers, Intel experts, peers, and developers in the Ultrabook business and developer communities.

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Building optimized, competitive software requires the right tools, techniques, and support. Members get access to all the resources for optimization.

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Your software has the potential to exceed user expectations! From intense 3-D gaming to remote BIOS management, you can unlock the power of the platform by optimizing your applications for the latest Intel technologies. You can deliver the best application performance for your customers, create power efficient applications, or take your software to the next level by incorporating Manageability remote detect, repair, and protect capabilities.

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