Shai Raiten

Windows Phone 7–Raise My Dog–Russian

Tweet This is a game I wrote couple of months ago and now Sela helped me to translate and publish to the Russian market. This is all part of Sela Group massive work on Windows Phone 7 for enterprise application and games. Raise My Dog is an interactive game for WP7 that allows you to raise a dog inside you mobile device.   Marketplace

Windows Phone 7 - Location Service and Bing Maps

Tweet Over the last two posts I’ve talked about Microsoft pubCenter ads into your Windows Phone 7 application and Accelerometer Sensor for Windows Phone 7 all as part of a very long series I’m planning to write on Windows Phone 7 in order to help you write cool and useful applications for Windows Phone 7. In this Post I’ll talked about Location Service and Bing Maps. Location Service – I’ll show how to receives data from the Microsoft Location Service and displays the geographic coordinates of the...

Accelerometer Sensor for Windows Phone 7

Tweet In my previous post on Windows Phone 7 I’ve showed how to integrate Microsoft pubCenter ads into your Windows Phone 7 application , the second part is writing an application for Windows Phone 7. Thinking about a good application isn’t simple but I can help you with some cool features available in Windows Phone 7 that can help your application to be much more cooler! There are APIs available to obtain raw sensor data from the device’s Compass , Gyroscope , Accelerometer and Motion API , but...

How To Connect Window Phone 7 and Windows 8 app to Microsoft pubCenter

Tweet When writing a Windows Phone 7 or Windows 8 application you might want to put some Ads, some applications cost money when others has ads. Microsoft pucCenter isn’t the only solution for Windows 7 and Windows 8 but it’s something easy and simple to do when working with Visual Studio to developer applications. Microsoft Advertising pubCenter empowers Web site publishers and Windows Phone 7 application developers to place ads within web pages and Windows Phone 7 apps. When users click on these...

The Git Hole

Tweet I consider myself a calm person with plenty of tolerance, I believe in productive discussion and love it – Part of my job as a consultant is to talk with Teams and explain them why you should choose a specific product over another, in 99.9% of those meetings there is one guy that don’t like the change (No One Like Changes) and you need in a calm way to explain and show him the benefits of the new tool – Forcing someone to do something is never a good thing. But sometimes there is no wining...

I’m a CodeProject MVP 2012

Tweet Last night I’ve received a message from Code Project letting me know that I received the CodeProject MVP award for my work at Code Project. CodeProject is enormous community of technology writers with tones of technical articles, and I’m prod to received this award for my work at CodeProject. Those who have spent their time answering questions in the forums and writing great articles. MVP status is awarded annually based on ones contributions, and the feedback of the other members. Members...

TFS API Part 42 – Getting Started With Lab Management API

Tweet I did some cool things lately with TFS Lab Management API, from connecting it to TFS Web Access and allow REST access to the lab (if you want to ask why – The customer is always right ). So this part of TFS API will deal with Lab Management API, although Lab Management API is not public I’ll show some cool things you can do but this will be under your own risk. Again, this is just the beginning of the Lab Management API, so let’s get started Download Demo Project Step 1: Located “ Microsoft...

JavaScript – Add Commas To Number

Tweet Many times when you write a number in your site you want to add commas and format the number, for example: instead of 1000000 I want to my user to see 1,000,000. Using JavaScript this is very simple task, you can also extend this code example to a Plugin inside JavaScript Lib - How To Write JavaScript \ JQuery Plugins First I’m looking for . char inside the number (we don’t want to split this…) and after that using Regex just adding comma after 3 chars. function addCommas(nStr) {    ...

How To: Detect Mobile Device Users In Your Web Site – JavaScript

Tweet Today everything is about Mobile Devices, users are using their tablets and phones to view web sites. Some web sites has a mobile application or just what to inform the user about a related mobile application. So the question is how to inform the user about a mobile application related to a specific site? You can put some links in your site and maybe the user will click on those links and will be redirect to your mobile application, but I want more – I want my site to detect if the user comes...

TFS API Part 41–Manage Groups and Members

Tweet In the past I’ve showed some examples on how to work with TFS IGroupSecurityService for getting users list, but you can do much more, Create new Group, Add or Remove users from group etc… TFS API Part 25: Get TFS User List (Mail Sid, Account, Domain) – TFS 2010 TFS API Part 4: Get TFS User List (Mail, Sid, Account, Domain) Download Demo Project Step 1: Connect To TFS and Get All Users and Projects As always we need to start with connecting to TFS, but here we’ll also obtain 2 important services...

Email Confirmation - ASP.NET MVC Web Application

Tweet In my previous post on ASP MVC I showed How To Add Captcha to ASP MVC Web Application, but even if you use captcha you still want to make sure the user email is real and not just a fake one. In order to make sure the user has gave you his real email you need to use Email Confirmation mechanism to your site. ASP MVC is doing some of the work for us, when a user is register to your site is assign with a unique ID (Guid) property called -  ProviderUserKey I’ll use this value to verify the...

My Lecture at Munich ALM Days 2011

Tweet The conference was Amazing!!! I had great time in the conference with partners, customers and friends, I didn’t went to most of the lectures (Ich weiß nicht Deutsch spricht) but from the people who presented the presentation and the title there were plenty of interesting lectures. In my lecture I’ve talked about Applied Software Testing with Visual Studio 2010 , I showed demos on Test Manager, Web Performance Test, Load Testing and of course Coded UI Testing. I’ve also talked about Migration...

Add reCAPTCHA To ASP.NET MVC Web Application

Tweet Captcha is a type of challenge-response test used in computing as an attempt to ensure that the response is generated by a person. When building public web sites captcha is very important to avoid script and bots running on your web site. First go to reCAPTCHA site and register for unique Key, then Download reCAPTCHA .NET Library . Save you Public and Private keys safely. Now, Let’s start new ASP.NET MVC 3 Web Application Project in Visual Studio 2010 Download Demo Project Choose to create...

TFS API Part 40–Build Service Host

Tweet First, what is the Build Service Host or IBuildServiceHost ? The BuildServiceHost object represent the physical location of the Controller and/or Agent objects. The name property is usually the machine name that the Controller or Agent lives on. In earlier versions, this was simply the Machine Name property on the Agent. Now, I’m working with a customer works with Lab Manager and after upgrading the SCVVM and perform some port changes we faced an issue – The Build Service Host stuck in your...

JavaScript YouTube Downloader–The Compact Edition

Tweet Couple of days ago I wrote about how to download YouTube movies to your machine using JavaScript, The solution I showed didn’t worked for all browsers because Cross Scripting blocks in some browsers. But don’t worry, there is always a way! I’ve toke the same script I’ve used in the YouTube download tool and add a “JavaScript :” before the script so it can be used directly from the YouTube page. All you need to do is enter the desire YouTube video and click the bookmark or just paste the entire...