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Sunday, July 01, 2012 5:38 PM

I’m Microsoft MVP for another year!

About 10 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 the fourth time in row and I will continue contributing to the online and offline developer community worldwide. This is a great opportunity and place to thank quite a few people who helped me to win this Award again: My wife and daughter for having so much patience and providing the best support I could only dream about! My current and past managers ...
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Sunday, May 20, 2012 6:23 PM

Book review: Microsoft Silverlight 5 and Windows Azure Enterprise Integration

As promised here , here is overview of the book I just finished to read. First of all – my congratulations to author of the book, David Burela, as the book written very clear and describes both, basics and advanced concepts, I very practical and professional way. From other hand, author made this book also enjoyable! Now about the book itself. It has 12 chapter which overview whole spectrum of possibilities of how to integrate Windows Azure and Silverlight application. It starts from traditional...
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Thursday, May 10, 2012 9:35 PM

Books, books, books

Seems like today is “books” day. Working really hard for last few months, I completely forgot to blog about the book which I took part in! Announcing: Real World .NET, C#, and Silverlight: Indispensible Experiences from 15 MVPs Few months ago, 15 MVPs from around the globe joined together to write an ultimate resource book for discovering and understanding the C#, .NET 4 Framework and Windows Phone 7.5. Today the book is published, and available at Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Real-World-NET...
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Thursday, May 10, 2012 9:18 PM

It’s reading time!

Just got my hands on new book “Microsoft Silverlight 5 and Windows Azure Enterprise Integration” by David Burela. The book overview looks very promising and should give me a details how create scalable enterprise applications using Silverlight 5 (yes, it is still my favorite technology!) and take advantage of Windows Azure key features. It also provides an overview of the Windows Azure platform and how the different technologies can be integrated within your enterprise application and examine ways...
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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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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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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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Saturday, September 03, 2011 2:48 PM

vNext

Something BIG is happening those days... Come and join new development community at vNext.org for exciting technology content! Many unique content, latest tech news and other hot development topics soon to be revealed.   Stay tuned, 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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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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