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Please update your bookmarks, because the new url of this blog is http://khason.net/ (you have not update RSS feeds, it will be done automatically). Why I did it? Why I decided to go to “stand-alone”… Well. there are some reasons. Generally, I do not want to explain all those here, but trust me, there are some. The main reason is, that there is no responsible person in charge for this blog platform in Microsoft Israel. This why, if your blog is popular and you have a respect to your blog visitors...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/quick-silverlight-and-wpf-tip-how-to-write-program-without-xaml/ ] From the moment, 10K MIX09 contest was launched , I got more, then 20 people, asking the same question: Is it possible to have Silverlight program up and running without XAML at all? The answer is “ YES, IT IS ”. Here is how: All you need for run WPF or Silverlight application is Class inherited from System.Windows.Application...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/programming-for-windows-7/ ] Well, Windows 7 is going to be released by the end of next year. This is great news, because it seemed, that Microsoft finally understand how to get the best of Windows Vista and make it to work not only on monster machines . It even works on new brandy my wife's pinky machine. And if it works there and my wife is happy with it, this OS going to be very...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/silverlight-bidi-controls-library-rc0-and-movement-from-beta-2-to-rc0/ ] Finally, I got free minute to convert Silverlight BiDi controls from Silverlight beta 2 to RC0 (you can download SL rc0 tools for VS2008 here ) and as usual some breaking changes (the full list is here ) Calendar and DatePicker moved from System.Windows.Controls.Extended into System.Windows.Controls – Extended namespace...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/developers-academy-3-vote-your-choice/ ] If you're "in" WPF and/or Silverlight development and want to learn more about high performance programming in WPF or your ability to develop once for WPF and Silverlight, you're invited to vote for my session in Dev Academy 3 and attend it: High performance programming with WPF in .NET framework 3.5 SP1 .NET 3.5 SP1 (Arrowhead...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/expert-days-%e2%80%93-last-minute-changes/ ] Next week we’ll starting Expert Days , so you have a last chance to register for Windows Presentation Foundation for fellow developers (12-Aug) and Mastering Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 (13-Aug). Those sessions will take place in Bein-Thumi Herzeliya and start in 8:30. We have not enough participants to open Advanced .NET 3.5 SP1 (14-Aug) [not...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/arabic-and-hebrew-languages-bidirectional-support-for-silverlight-20-beta-2/ ] Those days, I’m, together with guys from Microsoft Egypt and Santeon , finishing development of bidirectional input and output support for Silverlight. I want you to take part in alpha testing of this solution. Please see the test form here and try it. <noframes>Visit <a href...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/teched-preparation-session-other-announcements/ ] If you want to attend my preparations before TechEd , you’re invited to attend 27-Jul in Microsoft Ra’anana. What is preparation session? This is the training for myself. I’ll present all four session (each one is an hour + one hour rep.) This is your chance to hear live my TechEd South Africa sessions, without paying the fee (ZAR 4,500...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/how-to-handle-thickness/ ] Yesterday, we spoke about type converters . We even, built simple generic enum converter. Today, we’ll create more complicated converter, that very missing in Silverlight – ThicknessConverter. During the post, I also explain about tokenizing values in Silverlight What is Thickness ? What is thickness in Silverlight? It’s <Border BorderThickness=”6”/> or...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/work-process-how-to-use-and-build-type-converters/ ] Today, I want to start new tag - “ Work process ”. Here I’m going to publish partial classes, fixes, small utilities, I’m building for myself or clients to help in work process. I’ll give an example : currently, I’m working on BiDi support for Silverlight 2.0 (beta 2 to RTM). During the work process, I need to write different classes...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/printouts-of-the-slides-presented-on-silverlight-20-open-house-today/ ] Thank you all, who participated today in Silverlight 2.0 for building Rich Internet Applications event . I uploaded printouts of the slides, presented during the session here. So, you can download it for reference. I’m really interesting within your feedback ( leave comments ) in order for me to be able to enhance...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/silverlight-20-for-building-rich-internet-applications-local-event-%e2%80%93-take-2/ ] As promised earlier , the next session of Silverlight 2.0 for building Rich Internet Applications will take place at 23 July, 8:30 AM-12:30 PM in ILDC. This is exactly the same session for those, who unable to attend tomorrow due to lack of place. Please, this time, try to register as soon as possible...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/please-do-not-ask-me-we-cannot-handle-more%e2%80%a6/ ] Monday next week, I’m making half day session about building rich internet applications with Silverlight 2.0 in ILDC. The registration is over a while ago , but during this week, I got very large amount of email, IMs and phones calls with appeal to attend. Sorry, we’re fully booked (currently about twice of available seats and it's...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/how-to-consume-wcf-or-webservice-from-vista-sidebar-gadget-by-using-silverlight/ ] The challenge today is really simple. All we have to do is to write Silverlight Vista Sidebar Gadget , that consumes either WCF , ASMX or REST based service. Really simple, isn’t it? Let’s start Build server side services We should start from services. This is very straight forward mission. Here...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/presenting-at-teched-developers-south-africa-2008-durban/ ] Save the date. TechEd Developers South Africa is around the corner (August 3rd through 6th). This year it will take place in Durban , the third most populous city in South Africa. This TechEd, there are four sessions assigned to me: Creating Rich Applications with Windows Presentation Foundation (300) Completely new session about...
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