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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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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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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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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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Friday, May 13, 2011 1:11 PM

Upcoming Windows Phone 7, Windows Phone “Mango” and Advanced Silverlight Trainings in Redmond

I have a confession – I’m very excited those days! In 3 weeks I’m flying to Redmond, WA to deliver 3 new brand courses for advanced software developers. I will present “First Look” material about hottest topics (IMO) for developer community: 1. Advanced Windows Phone 7 2. Windows Phone “Mango” 3. Advanced Silverlight These trainings will all be held at Bellevue College campus the week of June 6-10, 2011. For information regarding this series, including registration information, please visit the following...
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011 1:38 AM

MIX11–Day 1

Some updates of first day I had at MIX11: Keynotes 2 main speakers at the keynotes presented the recent achievements in IE9 and Visual Studio since last MIX. Dean presented beautiful HTML 5 demos and introduced IE10 preview. The version available for download from this location. Scott presented new additions to MVVM and EF4.1. HTML5 for Silverlight Developers (Georgio Sardo) This session meant to help the Silverlight developers (like myself) to understand the world of HTML5. Georgio did really great...
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Thursday, March 24, 2011 5:44 PM

MIX11

This year (3rd or 4th time in row) I’m attending MIX11 conference in Las Vegas. The conference takes place at Mandaly Bay Hotel April 12-14, 2011. The pre-conference boot camps are taking place April 11. If you want to meet and/or ask some Silverlight , XNA and Windows Phone 7 related questions I will be around from April 11. Also, 11 more colleagues from Sela (top rated senior .NET consultants) will be around – I could connect you with them! Drop me a message via Contact Form or tweet me @DevCorner...
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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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Wednesday, December 01, 2010 11:31 AM

TechEd Israel 2010 – “XNA Game Studio 4.0: Code Once, Play Everywhere”– Session Slides and Code

Yesterday I presented a session dedicated to games in Dev Track of TechEd Israel 2010. Thanks for all participants – it was a great honor to present for you! The session slides hosted here . The sample I wrote hosted here . Hope you enjoyed the session, will be glad for your feedback Alex
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Sunday, October 24, 2010 12:32 PM

TechEd Israel 2010 – “XNA Game Studio 4.0: Code Once, Play Everywhere” Session announcement

Next month, 28-30 November, I’m going to TechEd Israel 2010 . At the conference I have a session dedicated to games! During the session I will show how to build the real world computer game running on such various platforms as Windows Phone 7, Xbox 360 and PC. A lot of fun and cool sample are “on the house” :) For additional details about the development tools and technologies track (which hosts my session) follow the  link: http://www.microsoft.com/israel/TechEd2010/Tracks/DEV.aspx   See...
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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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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...
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Monday, July 12, 2010 12:10 PM

Silverlight 4 – Open House

Silverlight 4 coming to the North (of Israel)! Tomorrow afternoon I’ll hold an open house about Silverlight 4 for Haifa and surroundings based developers. The open house will take a place in Philips building (building No. 34) at MATAM (Haifa industrial area). Registration is FREE but required (subject to free sitting places availability and auditorium capacity). More information and registration proceed here . Thanks to Sela Group and Philips Israel to organize it!   Cool samples, live coding...
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Thursday, July 01, 2010 6:22 PM

I’m Microsoft MVP for second time!

About an hour ago, I received an email presenting me with the Microsoft MVP Award in Silverlight!   I am very honored to receive an MVP Award for second year 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 the second year in row: My wife and daughter for having so much patience and providing the best support I could only dream about...
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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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