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Microsoft Courses 40003A and 40004A Released In the last few months, I was co-authoring (with Amit Raz , Erez Harari , Alon Levi and Sebastian Pederiva ) two Microsoft learning courses: Course 40003A: Programming Windows 8 Metro Style Apps using HTML5: Early Lab Collection Course 40004A: Programming Windows 8 Metro Style Apps using C#: Early Lab Collection The courses are a three-day instructor-led courses. they provides students with a first look at the features of Metro style app development for...
Third Year in a Row Yesterday I received the mail from Microsoft that congratulate me for being a Microsoft MVP for the third time. It’s is a honor for me to get the award three years in a row. This time the receiving of the mail was somewhat weird since I saw on Twitter that people got the mail and I didn’t get it… Apparently, my Gmail mail account (which is my personal mail account) “thought” that the congratulation mail is spam and moved it into the spam directory. This of course shows the true...
SDP Conference 2011 is Coming Sela Developer Practice (SDP) conference will occur between 13 to 16 of March. In this annual conference we ( Sela Group ) are going to share the current and future Microsoft technologies. The conference will give you a chance to see the best lecturers and leading experts, to be exposed to new technologies and to learn about the Microsoft products that have been launched last year. This is of course an opportunity to meet with colleagues from different organizations...
Microsoft MVP for the Second Time A few minutes ago I got the mail from Microsoft that informed me that I’m a Microsoft MVP for the second time. The mail is written as follows: “Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2010 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. We appreciate your outstanding contributions in Data Platform Development technical communities during the...
MIX10 – Summary Home sweet home! I arrived today back to Israel after a trip of six days to the MIX10 conference (three days conference and almost three days “on the roads”). To tell the truth, I was a little disappointed from the conference. I’ve expected more relevant information and less recycling of things that I already know. As you know (if you followed the MIX10 ), there were announcements about Windows Phone 7 , Silverlight 4 , OData protocol, IE9 and more. After being at the conference and...
MIX10 – Last Day Wrap up The last day of MIX has arrived and in this day we haven’t had a keynote session. The first session I went for was Building Great Standards-Based Websites for the Big Wide World with Microsoft ASP.NET 4 . A very big title for a session about XHTML, usability and accessibility which are things that you are require to do when you develop major sites. The lecturers showed an Australian site which was developed with standards. Also they showed an nice open source framework that...
MIX10 – Second Day Wrap up This is the wrapping up of the second day I had in the MIX10 conference . In the keynotes Dean Hachamovitch talked about IE9 and how it will support HTML5 standard. There will be a lot of improvements in IE9 which include: performance, standards support, GPU powered HTML5 , an IE9 platform and the punch line hardware accelerated HTML5 video. After Dean Scott Guthrie talked about the Microsoft web platform which include a lot of enhancements and there were demos of VS2010...
MIX 10 – First Day Wrap up As I wrote earlier this week I’m attending the MIX conference at Las Vegas. This is a summary of the first day I had in the conference. The day started with a keynote session by Scott Guthrie . The keynotes included information about Silverlight 4 , Windows Phone 7 and more. Lots of cool demos and exciting news for web developers. After the keynote I went to the Building Offline/Cache mode web Apps using Sync Framework session with Mike Clark . The news here are the OData...
ADO.NET Entity Framework Session at Microsoft A few months ago I wrote about a session I’m supposed to do on ADO.NET Entity Framework at Microsoft Israel . This is a reminder for that session which will take place on October 19 at Microsoft Ra’anana . In the session I’ll introduce Entity Framework and talk about how to use it. I’m also going to dedicate the end of the session for EF4 and show some of the features it include like POCO, Model-Defined Functions and more. If you are interested to hear...
Microsoft MVP Award Today I’ve started a new journey. I have the honor to be awarded Microsoft MVP . My old journey started over two years ago when my former manager in SRL Group, Maor David , convinced me to open a Blog in the Microsoft Israeli blogs system . Opening the blog was the first step toward this day which I got the mail indicating that I was awarded Microsoft MVP . I want to thank the following people that helped me on the way to this achievement: First of all to Maor my mentor...
Velocity Administration Console Lately I’ve been working on a small administration console project for Microsoft project code named Velocity . If you don’t know, Velocity’ s administration is being done with PowerShell . I decided to build a console that will do the same thing but in Windows Forms . The following figure shows the tool I’ve built: You can download the tool from here . Pay attention that the project is still in develop so bugs can occur! The following things are changes you need to...
Web Developers Community (WDC): Start Thinking with ADO.NET 3.5 Session I will be presenting introduction to ADO.NET 3.5 in the Israeli WDC (Web Developers Community) on Sunday, March 1, 2009 at Microsoft office in Ra’anana. The talk will introduce the following topics: Entity Framework ADO.NET Data Services Datasets Enhancements You can register the event here . I hope to see you there.
My Current Learning List of Technologies In the last few days I have started to learn few old/new technologies that I think you should consider learning in the near future as well (if you didn’t learn them before). The technologies: ASP.NET MVC Framework – the new framework that leverage the MVC pattern for ASP.NET. The technology is a must learn technology for every .NET web developer in my opinion. Learning the framework will give you a new choice for implementing web applications with MVC pattern...
My Developer Academy Experience Yesterday I participated in the Microsoft Developer Academy 3 conference. Microsoft Developer Academy is an annual Microsoft Israeli developers conference which is dedicated to deliver knowledge about current technologies and about best practices. I went to the following sessions: ASP.NET Ajax Internals, Dan Amiga. Great lecture! Dan is a great performer and the subject isn’t easy to deliver… (Try to deliver Ajax and JavaScript sessions which you write the code during...
Dependency Injection From Theory to Practice With Unity Article Today my article, Dependency Injection From Theory to Practice With Unity , was published on the Hebrew MSDN site. The article describe what is dependency injection and then introduce the Unity application block . You can read the article here . You can read more Hebrew MSDN articles here . Enjoy.
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