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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/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/visual-studio-snippet-designer/ ] Chicks love CodePlex as well as Microsoft loves it too and today they release extremely useful tool, that was internal for more, then three years. It named: “ Visual Studio Snippet Designer ”. As you can, probably, understand. This tools is used to create and manage VS time savers - snippet files (introduced in VS2005) This is great tool, that will help...
[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/action-required-smart-client-users-group/ ] Recently I browsed INETA to seek for some group and was really surprising. There is no Smart Client user group registered there. Maybe there is a reason? Let’s understand what Smart Client is? According wikipedia , the term "Smart Client" is meant to refer to simultaneously capturing the benefits of a " thin client " (zero...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/what%e2%80%99s-new-in-msdn-downloads/ ] Just look how many new releases those days in MSDN Download web site. Virtual PC 2007 SP1 – download and release notes Scriptomatic 2.0 - download (uses PowerShell 1.0) Windows PowerShell V2 CTP2 - download Office Live Update 1.1 - download .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 beta – download Visual Studio 2008 SP1 beta - download Microsoft Expression Blend 2...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/quick-wpf-tip-how-to-bind-to-wpf-application-resources-and-settings/ ] You, probable know, that you can save application resources and settings within handy classes Settings and Properties, provided by Visual Studio code generator. Just put your values, set the usage scope and all you have to do is to save it upon request. This feature is really useful and great time saver. But how to...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/localization-fix-for-sap-es-explorer-for-visual-studio/ ] A couple of days ago, new great product [PDF] was released by SAP together with Microsoft . It named SAP Enterprise Services Explorer for Microsoft .NET (you can download sneak preview for free). It come to exchange SAP.NET Connector and enables to use SAP Enterprise Services as regular Web references or WCF services. This product...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/some-new-post-mix-downloads/ ] Today is download day at MSDN. There are some very interesting things published. New release of Windows SDK (new classes for WPF 3.5, bugs fixes, and enhanced support for Windows Server 2008, including speech, error reporting and UAC). Download it here . For more information, visit SDK blog Windows XP SP3 RC2 (it's not final release ), but if you want...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/building-custom-user-control-in-silverlight-20-how-to-build-code-snippet-for-vs-as-bonus/ ] Do you remember, that we have "go-live" for Silverlight 2.0 and already have build machines configured ? Now it's time to build your very own custom control. Today, we'll build Range Slider. What is range slider? Range slider is a control, that lets you input two values, typically...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/msbuild-tasks-for-build-machines-for-wpf-and-silverlight/ ] Silverlight got go-life, so we should start preparing automatic build machines for new Silverlight projects. Actually, it is not too complicated, however, there are some new tasks should be taken into account. Output type of any Silverlight application is Library New XML node specializing the output type of the library: SilverlightApplication...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/web-editor-performance-fix-for-visual-studio-2008/ ] After VS2008 was released, there were a lot of "buzz" from web developers, that complain about bad performance of new HTML editor, especially with large HTML and JavaScript pages. Today Web Tools team of Visual Studio released patch , that fixes those issues Freezes while typing in page with custom controls Conversion between...
[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-merge-help-files-to-appear-inside-visual-studio/ ] How many times after an installation of some SDK, you saw, that nothing has been merged into Visual Studio help. You press F1 and nothing happens? What to do? Actually, the answer is really stupid. You should go into Visual Studio Documentation (Programs->Visual Studio [number]->Visual Studio [number] documentation), go to...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/a-couple-of-updates-mega-update-post/ ] Today, only updates Yahoo finally releases Yahoo! Messenger for Vista - this was one of very first prototypes, shown in Mix last year. I did not install it, however, here a couple of review Erik Burke , Tim Sneath and Ryan Stewart . As for me, they lost "wow effect" last year Microsoft Expression Blend 2 - December Preview . What's...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/silverlight-tools-for-visual-studio-2008-rtm/ ] After upgrade to Visual Studio 2008 RTM from Beta 2, you, probably, will need Silverlight tools for VS2008. Download and install it from here . Please note, before installation, you should completely uninstall previouse version of Silverlight tools for Visual Studio 2008 beta 2.
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