DCSIMG
Microsoft - Alex Golesh's Blog About Silverlight Development

Browse by Tags

All Tags » Microsoft (RSS)
Thursday, March 15, 2012 8:34 PM

Microsoft Official HTML5 Course

During last few months I was co-authoring the Microsoft Official Course (MOC) named “HTML5 programming” with my colleagues at Sela - Noam Kfir and Gil Fink . About a month ago I delivered a first Beta of this course in Redmond, WA and finally the course is scheduled to be published on April 20, 2012. It was a very intensive experience with tight deadlines but we made it and the course is on its way for publishing. A few details about the course: It is three-day instructor-led course. The course is...
Posted by Alex Golesh | 3 comment(s)
תגים:, , , , , , , , , , ,
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...
Posted by Alex Golesh | with no comments
תגים:, , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 9:49 PM

Silverlight 5 Beta

Silverlight 5 Beta availability just announced by ScottGu! To try the beta follow this link and download the tools. Optionally download Blend 4 for Silverlight 5 preview from this location. Note : to install Silverlight 5 Beta you need to updated your Visual Studio 2010 with SP1 . The major improvements in Silverlight 5 are: Hardware Decode and presentation of H.264 encoded videos Improves performance for lower-power devices to render high-definition video using GPU support (Long awaited) TrickPlay...
Posted by Alex Golesh | 2 comment(s)
תגים:, , , , ,
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
Posted by Alex Golesh | 2 comment(s)
תגים:, , , , , , , , , , , , ,
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
Posted by Alex Golesh | 2 comment(s)
תגים:, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Tuesday, August 24, 2010 8:02 AM

Create Games for Windows Phone 7!

I have to admit, that I don’t post too much in the blog lately. I’m sorry for that! This is not because I have nothing too blog about – I have a lot of very interesting things. I’m not writing much partly because some of those things are still under NDA, but the main reason that I simply have no time to blog – I’m leading very interesting and very tight-scheduled project. Today (finally!) I could share some of this project details. The project is – a new XNA Game Studio 4.0 and the Windows Phone...
Posted by Alex Golesh | 1 comment(s)
תגים:, , , , , ,
Tuesday, June 09, 2009 9:08 AM

What’s new in Silverlight 3 and Expression Blend 3 – DevDay (22 July 2009)

Silverlight 3 will be released very soon . Many new features were added, many improvements were made. Come and see me presenting what’s new in Silverlight 3 and Expression Blend 3 at Microsoft Israel Offices, 22 July 2009. I will talk about new features, new and improved technologies. Will see Silverlight 3 tools and features in current version of Visual Studio 2008 and in upcoming release of Visual Studio 2010 (Beta). Will see what’s new in Expression Blend 3. Many cool demos, tips & tricks...
Posted by Alex Golesh | 5 comment(s)
תגים:, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 3:43 PM

Teaser

Something BIG is coming… I’m flying this weekend to attend MIX09 in Las Vegas, NV, USA and promise to post updates and news from there. Cool samples, “how-to’s” and “Quick Tips” will be posted here at the moment I’ll be able to post them :) Come back next week to get the full details. Stay tuned, Alex
Posted by Alex Golesh | 3 comment(s)
תגים:, , , , , , , , , ,
Wednesday, February 04, 2009 2:24 PM

Silverlight 2 Developer Day – a minute after

Thank you all, who participated today at Silverlight 2 Developer Day (Microsoft Israel offices). I uploaded printouts of the slides, presented during the session and the demo code so you can download it for a reference. I’m really interesting within your feedback ( leave comments ) in order for me to be able to enhance it for future events.   PowerPoint printouts here:   Demo project sources here .     Thanks and hope to see you again next time! Alex
Posted by Alex Golesh | 7 comment(s)
תגים:, , , , , , , , ,
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 1:57 AM

Silverlight Game of Life

Microsoft just started “<10k” coding challenge with grand prize of pass to the MIX09 event, 3 nights at The Venetian Hotel and a $1500 Visa gift card ! The rules are simple – develop cool WPF or Silverlight application with total sources under 10 kilobytes of code :) The submissions gallery here I’ve just submitted my entry: Silverlight The Game Of Life   Click to add more cells to the board and see how they will survive If you like it please vote for me!   Thanks and Enjoy, Alex
Posted by Alex Golesh | 1 comment(s)
תגים:, , , , , , , , ,
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 1:58 AM

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework CTP Downloads

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 are the next generation development tools and platform for Windows Vista, the 2007 Office System, and the Web. This CTP release is available in English only as a Virtual PC image. Download page for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP is here . Direct links: http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/7/4/97467b12-d04b-463f-b703-0e334c177799/VisualStudio2010CTP_11PartsTotal.part11.rar http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/7/4/97467b12...
Posted by Alex Golesh | 4 comment(s)
תגים:, , , , , ,
Tuesday, September 09, 2008 9:30 AM

DevAcademy 3 - Vote

If you're in Silverlight development or want to start develop real-world Silverlight applications you're invited to vote for my session in DevAcademy 3 : Silverlight 2 in real-world applications In this session we will see techniques, tips and tricks of integrating Silverlight 2 applications in real-world solutions; we will see how to build tight communication between Silverlight application and existing HTML/ASP.NET web site. Lots of tips and tricks, lessons learned, how-to’s and cool samples...
Posted by Alex Golesh | with no comments
תגים:, , , , ,