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Thursday, November 24, 2011 11:36 PM

Utility: Extmap Maker v1.1

Quite some time ago, I wrote small utility which helped to create external map manifest file for Silverlight assemblies. This manifest is needed to enable XAP reduction feature (you can read more about it here ). I have been told, that the utility is not working with assemblies compiled with Silverlight 5, so I decided to update it. The new version compatible with Silverlight 3, 4 & 5 assemblies. Please note, that new version requires .NET 4.0 Client profile in order to work. Updated version...
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Monday, October 31, 2011 3:40 AM

Sela Developer Practice–December 2011

Announcing – Sela Developer Practice conference (third time) will take time at Crown Plaza hotel (Tel Aviv, Israel) and the SELA headquarters (Bnei-Brak, Israel) on December 4-8, 2011. This year the conference will focus mostly on Windows 8 and other hot announcements made during //BUILD conference earlier this year at Anaheim, CA. During Sela Developer Practice (SDP) this year, Sela experts and special guests from Microsoft Israel ( Guy Burstein and Maor David-Pur ) will talk about new features...
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Saturday, October 01, 2011 1:49 PM

My Session at UNETAPlus

Few hours ago I delivered a session about creating Silverlight/XNA hybrid applications for Windows Phone Mango. I like to thank all the participants – you were great and I had a great pleasure to present for such quality audience. I loved the questions and the conversation after the session. The slides deck I used for presentation can be download from the here .   As promised, the demo applications also published and can be downloaded from the following locations: Demo #1 is here . Demo #2 is...
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Friday, September 16, 2011 4:34 AM

Windows 8 To Go

Today was most interesting day so far at //BUILD Windows conference. I’ve attended few interesting sessions, but one of them was absolutely amazing. The session focused on Windows 8 To Go – a way create fully working bootable copy of Windows 8 which can be used to boot any PC (and not only PC – I’ve tried it on my brand new Windows 8 Tablet) and have fully working environment. This opens new horizons to companies, independent software developers, consultants and instructors (like myself) to have...
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011 3:38 AM

Vote for my sessions at TechDays Canada 2011

My sessions made into short voting list to TechDays Canaga 2011. My sessions are: WIN314 - Mango: Silverlight and XNA – Better together! WIN319 - Mango: Search Integration WIN320 - Mango: Background Agents at Work Vote for my sessions at: http://bit.ly/tdcan2011vote   Thanks, Alex
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Wednesday, September 07, 2011 7:36 PM

Meet me at BUILD

BUILD/Windows approaching fast. As previous years with PDC, also this time SELA sends around 20 top experts to BUILD . I will be there also If you want to meet me or someone of other SELA experts to discuss some exciting news I’m sure we are going to get at BUILD (or just say “Hi”) feel free to send me a tweet @DevCorner.   See you at BUILD, Alex
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Thursday, September 01, 2011 8:56 PM

Silverlight 5 goes RC!

Silverlight 5 RC just released! This release includes some changes from Beta release – make sure you are reading the documentation and change your applications accordingly. Also, it includes some features announced before, but unavailable in Beta version. To install you must run Visual Studio 2010 SP1 – if you still not updated your environment download it form here . Download Silverlight 5 RC Developer runtime for 32-bit Windows here and for 64-bit Windows here . Mac downloads links: 32-bits and...
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011 7:49 AM

Windows Phone 7.1 (Mango) Developer Tools–RC Release!

Microsoft just released a new refresh of Windows Phone Mango developer tools (WPDT) – the RC. This release includes “Go Live” license that permits registered developers to publish Mango applications to the Marketplace! What changed/added: The profiler has been improved, and now provide memory profiling as well The emulator has a couple improvements to make development and testing better: The RTM build (build 7720) is used by the emulator, providing you with confidence that the code you write will...
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Friday, July 01, 2011 5:12 PM

I’m Microsoft MVP for Third Time!

About 15 minutes ago, I received an email presenting me with the Microsoft MVP Award in Silverlight! I am very honored to receive an MVP Award for third time in row and I will continue contributing to the online and offline developer community in Israel and abroad. This is a great opportunity and place to thank quite a few people who helped me to win this Award for third time: My wife and daughter for having so much patience and providing the best support I could only dream about! My current and...
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011 6:57 PM

Windows Phone Mango – New Tasks (Beta & Beta2)

Windows Phone Mango adds few more task over initial Windows Phone (RTM) release. This post will cover new task (launchers and choosers) added to Windows Phone Mango Beta and Beta 2. To introduce those features I’ve created sample application which looks very simple, yet have all those new tasks: Before we are starting, one very important note about tasks in general. Some of them works on emulator as on real device (Bing maps, Bing directions, etc.), some of them works but doesn’t produce any “visible...
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011 6:55 PM

Windows Pone Mango–Developer Tools Beta 2 released!

Microsoft just released Beta 2 refresh of Windows Phone Mango developer tools! The refresh further improves the tools, resolves bugs from previous release and adds some new features. Most important – registered Windows Phone developers with retail device will get access to Mango updates via invites to Microsoft Connect site which will give them access to Mango for their retail devices! Also, the release brings some breaking changes which we as developers need to be aware of. Here are the list of...
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011 4:02 PM

Windows Phone Mango–What’s New? (“Profiler” - Part 9 of 8)

This post is a “missing part” of series about new features in Windows Phone Mango New and very important feature of Windows Phone “Mango” Developer Tools is the profiler. The profiler enables the developers of Silverlight applications (currently only Silverlight scenarios are supported) to sense important heartbeats of the application and collect information about application behavior at runtime. To measure the performance or the application, navigate to Debug menu option and select Start Windows...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011 8:48 PM

Windows Phone Mango–What’s New? (“Push Notifications & Tiles” - Part 8 of 8)

Mango introduces some changes in Push Notifications mechanism which enables the developers to create more attractive scenarios. First feature I’ll show in this post is a secondary tiles for application. Before Mango, every application could have only one pinned tile on the main screen which could be updated using Push Notification mechanism (I blogged about it quite some time ago here and here ). Mango release enables to have additional tiles which can be pinned and removed from application code...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011 8:46 PM

Windows Phone Mango–What’s New? (“Silverlight/XNA Interoperability” - Part 7 of 8)

Windows Phone RTM didn’t allowed to mix Silverlight and XNA content. Mango enables the scenarios where Silverlight content can be rendered along with XNA content. In the sample presented in this post we will build 2-pager Silverlight application with pure Silverlight page (1st page) and mixed 3D XNA & Silverlight page (2nd page). Final application looks like the following: In order to ease on the developers, after installing Mango developer tools, Visual Studio provides us with two templates...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011 8:43 PM

Windows Phone Mango–What’s New? (“Fast Application Switch (FAS)” - Part 6 of 8)

The Windows Phone RTM operating system had only one active application and when application were sent to the background the state was serialized and kept in the application’s isolated storage. This process called tombstoning and application in such state called tombstoned. When user return to the tombstoned application, he would have to wait a while as the application deserialized its state and recovered and we as developers had to take care about saving the application’s state and resuming it. With...
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