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I've recently received an email from Microsoft notifying me I've been awarded Microsoft MVP in Visual C# ! I’d like to thank Microsoft and specifically Guy Burstein for his guidance and excellent advice on finding ways to help the developers community. Also, a special thanks is in order for my managers at Sela Group : David Bassa, Caro Segal and Ishai Ram for giving me the time to invest in the developers community. Lastly, I'd like to thank you, my blog readers. Now that I got this out...
Following are some blog news: New Israeli C# Forum I'm proud to present a new MSDN forum in Hebrew for the C# developers community in Israel, managed by yours truly. The forum is available on the following link: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/he-il/VisualCsharpil To all those nice developers who keep asking me C# related questions by mail, I strongly urge you to post your C# related questions on this forum. NOT because I don't enjoy it! On contrary, I love to help you and would even...
All is set: Conference ticket – check. Plane ticket – check. Hotel – check. Build – Here I come! If everything goes as scheduled, in approx. a month and a half I'll be on the plane to Anaheim California, heading to the biggest conference Microsoft ever produced. Build (AKA PDC 2011) will be all about Windows 8. From some research I've done, which from obvious reasons can't be disclosed at this stage, Windows 8 is going to bring the biggest revolution since .NET was invented. I...
I've recently been announced that I was awarded the Microsoft Community Contributor Award for the year 2011! For those who don't know: "The Microsoft Community Contributor Award is reserved for participants who have made notable contributions in Microsoft online community forums such as TechNet, MSDN and Answers." In the past year I've written approximately one hundred blog posts, published numerous articles on CodeProject , WebMaster.org.il and HWzone.co.il and contributed...
Today (24.05.2011) I’ve delivered two sessions about “ Using Windows 7 Features in .NET applications ” in Sela Haifa Open House which was presented in Philips building in Haifa. Dear Philips (and other) developers, I had a great time presenting today's Windows 7 sessions. Thank you for coming! In the sessions I talked about how to use new Windows 7 features like the new Taskbar, sensors API, the Ribbon control supplied with Windows 7, Application restart and Recovery and plenty of Multi...
Yesterday (18.05.2011) I’ve delivered two sessions about “ Using Windows 7 Features in .NET applications ” in the Israeli .NET User Group, at Microsoft offices in Ra’anana. I want to thank all the attendees who came to hear the sessions, I truly enjoyed it. In the sessions I talked about how to use new Windows 7 features like the new Taskbar, sensors API, the Ribbon control supplied with Windows 7, Application restart and Recovery and plenty of Multi-Touch. We’ve seen numerous examples in C++ Win32...
On May 18th I’ll be giving two sessions about “ Using Windows 7 Features in .NET Applications ”, as part of the monthly .NET User Group sessions, in Microsoft offices, Ra’anana, Israel. On the first session “ The 7 Show: From XP to Win 7 ” we will talk about new features in Windows 7 that will modernize your application. We will learn how to work with the new Taskbar, how to work with Sensors, how to use the Ribbon interface and more. The session will be rich with examples in .NET, WPF and WinForms...
Before we continue, I trust that you know exactly the meaning of tombstone state in a Windows Phone 7 application. If this is not the case, simply read Yochay ’s great posts on the application execution model ( Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 ). Every Windows Phone 7 application needs to manages tombstoning correctly to provide a better user experience and pass the application certification requirements . When your application goes into tombstone state, it is your responsibility to save all the application...
This session was delivered by Nick Kramer, Senior Program Manager from Microsoft. Topics discussed: Unrestricted file access Silverlight 5 trusted apps can access all files. Silverlight 4 trusted apps could only access My Documents and friends. Access is done using the standard .NET Directory.EnumerateFiles and File.OpenRead Trusted apps in-browser In Silverlight 4 only out-of-browser application could be trusted with user consent In Silverlight 5: in-browser trusted apps with admin consent Trusted...
This session was delivered by Thomas Fennel, Program manager, from Microsoft. Thomas stated his session by showing what push notifications and tiles are. Push notification is how you can engage the user when your app is not on the foreground. Tiles are the squares on the Windows Phone home screen. Toast notifications – on the top. Tile notifications – most popular – includes data for count, title (of app or arbitrary string) and background image. Then, Thomas explained the normal architecture for...
The panel participants were Curtis Wong, Alex Kipman, Darren Bennett and Kristin Tolle. Following is a brief summary of the questions and answers discussed in the panel. Question : What do you think will be the trends in NUI in the future? Answer by Bennett : NUI used anywhere, not just in games. Answer by Kipman : Using NUI to create a world with less technology, i.e. there will be no need to learn technology, instead the computer will better understand us. Also, the rise of speech technology and...
This session was delivered by Miguel de Icaza, VP developer Platform, Mono Team, Novell. Miguel started by announcing the coming monospace conference: July 23 – July 25, in Boston, MA. Then Miguel presented the different mono related projects and their status: Mono includes Mono for iPhone (MonoTouch), MonoMac, Mono for Android, MonoDevelop IDE for Mac and Windows, Moonlight 4 (mono based Silverlight) and more. Miguel did thanked Microsoft for the large amounts of code it contributed to the mono...
This session was delivered by Mark Paley, Principal Lead Program Manager from Microsoft. The next version of Windows Phone will support a few new sensors, like Gyro and Compass sensors. Mark started the session by showing several camera and sensors demo. Some common usage scenario: Sudoku solver Barcode scanner Custom photo application etc. So, what sensors are supported? Accelerometer – standard on all windows phone devices, provides acceleration data over 3 axis Compass – gives magnetic heading...
Following is my planned schedule for the third day of MIX 2011. Note: I have a Plan B for almost every lecture, just in case. Day 3, 09:00-10:00 Session : Designer and Developer: A Case for the Hybrid Presenter : Jeff Croft Description : Should designers code? Or is is okay for one to specialize in visual design and expect others to build their vision? As we get farther and farther away from the days of the "webmaster," and become an industry of specialists, are we losing some of the beauty...
This session was delivered by Nishant Kothary. In this session Nishant tries to solve the $64000 question: Why do we suck at predictably building great software? This session was simply amazing. There are almost any software in this session, and yet Nishant succeeded to pass a very interesting lecture in a fun way. I deliberately don’t want to elaborate because I know I can’t express it better than Nishant. Just go see the video, fun is guaranteed. That’s it for now, Arik Poznanski.
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