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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...
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...
In case you missed one of my previous Windows 7 sessions, here is your chance to catch it. On May 24th I’ll be giving two sessions about “ Using Windows 7 Features in .NET Applications ”, as part of Sela Haifa Open House . 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...
Last Thursday (07.04.2011) I’ve delivered an MSDN session about “ Using Windows 7 Features in .NET applications ” at Microsoft Ra’anana. I want to thank all the attendees who came to hear the session, I truly enjoyed it. In the session 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, C# WinForms, C# WPF and C# Silverlight...
Next Thursday, 07.04.2011, I’ll be giving two sessions about “ Using Windows 7 Features in .NET Applications ”, 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. On the second session “ Touch...
Following is a summary of the session “ The Future of C# and Visual Basic ” presented by Anders Hejlsberg, lead architect of the C# programming language, in PDC 2010. History Before talking about the future, Anders starts with a review of C# and VB.NET history. Anders identifies three major trends over the passing decade: Declarative – concentrates on “What do you want do?” instead of “How you want to do it?” Dynamic – allowing more fluent style of programming using dynamic languages like IronPyton...
Following are some listings to be used as a quick reference to common Windows 7 Libraries features using Windows API Code Pack . The code in this post is based on previous work by Alon and other Sela team members. Great work all. Forward Just to clarify the terminology used: Every Windows 7 library is represented as an XML file with the .library-ms extension. The common libraries files are commonly stored in: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Libraries\ So if, for example...
In my new job at Sela I came across an application ( written by a client) that needed refactoring. This app has so many coding errors I’ve decided it worth its own post. Why not rewrite the application? You could suggest to rewrite the application but I’m strongly against it. To understand why you MUST read the excellent article Things You Should Never Do by Joel Spolsky. Go ahead and read it, it’s more important then reading this post! Code Duplication Never write the same code twice. I know, it...