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Monday, May 16, 2011 8:23 PM

WP7 Acceleration Week in Microsoft Israel R&D Center

Seems this week dedicated to announcements because I have additional announcement to made! Next week I will deliver many Windows Phone 7 & Windows Phone “Mango” sessions as a part of “WP7 Acceleration Week”.   The week agenda is as follows: Sunday, May 22 nd 09:00-13:30 · Windows Phone 7 Bootcamp and Demo – An overview of the Windows Phone 7 platform and its abilities. Presented by Sela. · Mobile Application UI – Principles of good mobile UI. Presented by Balora. · Introduction to WP7 Metro...
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011 8:17 AM

Silverlight 5–What’s New #4

This post is dedicated to 3D graphics in Silverlight 5. The graphics engine is pretty similar to XNA and for better understanding I suggest to read some 3D graphics theory and some XNA documentation. To display the 3D graphics Silverlight 5 adds a new FrameworkElement called “DrawingSurface”. To use it, first you application must have GPU acceleration enabled at the Silverlight plug-in level: < param name ="EnableGPUAcceleration" value ="true" /> Once your plug-in set, the...
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011 6:41 AM

Silverlight 5–What’s New #2

This is a second post in series of posts about new features in Silverlight 5. This post focuses at simple, yet much desired feature of multiple windows support. First – some clarification: multiple windows will work in elevated out-of-browser mode only. To demonstrate this feature I’ve built simplest application which spans 5 additional windows on button click. The “child” window presents a UserControl. Child window content: < UserControl x : Class ="MultipleWindows_OOB.ChildWindowContent"...
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010 7:32 AM

Silverlight 4 Open House and Microsoft Israel and Sela HQ

Yesterday I had 2 great open houses – first at Microsoft Israel and second at Sela HQ. Thanks for all participants! I really enjoyed to present Silverlight 4 before such nice audience! I really enjoyed the Q&A session ah the end of the meeting. If you have more questions – keep them coming!   As promised, I’m posting the link to demo for your convince. Localized and Styled LOB sample application here .   See you next time! Alex
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Sunday, October 24, 2010 8:42 PM

Thoughts about application packaging, Resources, MVVM and others

I thought a lot before decided to write this post… First - I’d like to thanks Ariel Ben Horesh for “inspiring” me to write this post and for dedicating so much time to write his post! After reading his post I thought a lot and my thoughts about the post are the follows: 1. First, I thought about the applications and the way to provide user with best experience while loading those applications… The users shouldn’t wait minutes for application to download… While authoring large Silverlight applications...
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Friday, October 22, 2010 10:31 AM

Windows Phone 7 Quick Tip: How to use Bing Maps in XNA games

A few days ago, a colleague of mine pointed out to this site which shows a Bing Maps usage within XNA game. I was intrigued how to achieve it… I know that Silverlight applications for Windows Phone 7 could use Bing Maps control (see great usage tutorial here ), but XNA games cannot render Silverlight controls… To solve it, I decided to use a different approach for XNA – download image tiles and present them in XNA game. Let’s get started. First, in order to use Bing Maps API you need a Bing Maps...
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010 11:56 AM

Teaser: Multi-Screen

Something big is coming… Imagine PC, imagine phone, imagine game console… Image all of them playing same game… Imagine player with phone playing versus player on console or player on PC… Imagine player starting the game in public transport at the way home and resuming it after arriving home on the console… Imagine that everything is possible…   Just imagine… and enjoy the photo meanwhile :) Stay tuned for more to come!   Enjoy, Alex
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Thursday, September 16, 2010 7:49 PM

Windows Phone Developer Tools Released!

Today the Windows Phone Developer Tools have gone final! Download the tools from here ! Read the release notes – quite a few changes from previous Beta version. Documentation (MSDN) for the Windows Phone development here .   Stay tuned for more!   Enjoy, Alex
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Thursday, August 19, 2010 10:11 AM

LightSwitch Beta available!

As published today by LightSwitch team, the first beta is available for MSDN subscribers. If you have a subscription, visit your subscriptions page . If not, the public download will be available from Monday – via the LightSwitch Developer Center .   For more information about this promising product visit the LightSwitch Team Blog .   Stay tuned, Alex
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010 4:41 PM

Silverlight for Windows Phone 7: “Tombstoning”

This post will talk about tombstoning (what a name!) – the part of application lifecycle on Windows Phone 7. The Windows Phone execution model governs the life cycle of applications running on a Windows Phone, from when the application is launched until it is terminated. The execution model is designed to provide end users with a fast, responsive experience at all times. To achieve this, Windows Phone allows only one application to run at a time. This eliminates the possibility of users getting their...
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Monday, July 12, 2010 10:00 PM

Silverlight for Windows Phone 7: Launchers and Choosers

This post will talk about launchers and choosers mechanism in Windows Phone 7 applications. The Windows Phone application model isolates every application in its own sandbox, both for execution and file storage. Applications are not able to directly access common stores of information, such as the contacts list to directly invoke other applications such as the phone or messaging applications. To enable scenarios that require common tasks such as these, Windows Phone exposes a set of APIs referred...
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Monday, July 12, 2010 9:53 PM

Silverlight for Windows Phone 7: Push Notifications (Part 1 of 2)

Now, after Beta tools released it is a time to start talking about new features and changes since Apirl CTP. This is the first part of two parts blog post about push notification mechanism in Windows Phone 7. The API described in this article according to recently released Beta version of Windows Phone Development Tools (WPDT). Windows Phone 7 application can’t run in the background (performance, battery life, usage of radio) and therefore there is a need to have a mechanism that facilitates a communication...
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Monday, July 12, 2010 9:42 PM

Windows Phone 7 Tools Beta Available for Download

Windows Phone 7 Tools beta available for download. Download from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c8496c2a-54d9-4b11-9491-a1bfaf32f2e3 The Beta includes: Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone Windows Phone Emulator Silverlight for Windows Phone XNA Game Studio 4.0 Expression Blend 4 for Windows Phone Beta.   Posts about new features & techniques – to follow very soon :)     Stay tuned, Alex
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Thursday, June 10, 2010 9:44 AM

Silverlight 4 @WDC

Thanks for all participants at WDC monthly meeting! I really enjoyed to present Silverlight 4 before such nice audience! I really enjoyed the Q&A session ah the end of the meeting. If you have more questions – keep them coming! As promised, I’m posting the links for demos and presentation for your convince. Presentation slides are here . You could see them online (guess what – pure Silverlight presentation) at my home page: http://www.devcorner.info/   Demo #1 – Webcam, Printing, Install...
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Thursday, April 29, 2010 10:09 PM

Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP Refresh Available

Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP refresh available! This build is compatible with Visual Studio 2010 RTM! For those who are in Silverlight development – from now it is possible to develop Silverlight 4 applications with Silverlight 4 RTW and Windows Phone 7 applications with this CTP refresh.   The download location here . Make sure you are reading what’s new document here and Release Notes (from download location). Additional information about changes could be found here .   Enjoy! Alex
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