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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/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/slides-and-desks-from-my-expert-days%e2%80%99-sessions/ ] Because of the new job , I’m bit tight in time, however, I found a time to post slides from my sessions in Expert Days . Also, hand-on labs used for WPF beginners’ released as open source to CodePlex for your convenience. Windows Presentation Foundation for Fellow Developers [4 MB] Mastering Microsoft Silverlight 2...
[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/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-controls-library-has-been-upgraded-to-beta-2/ ] Finally this weekend I got a time to upgrade one of my OpenUp submissions, Silverlight controls library to work with Silverlight 2.0 beta 2. It was very interesting to track changes between developer’s (beta 1) and production (beta 2) go-live licenses. Let’s try to understand what has need changed. Syntax of DependencyProperty...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/quick-note-new-teched-downloads/ ] There is TechEd in Orlando, and this means, that there are a lot of new announcements. Let’s fill up our download managers with expensive fuel and start. New WM 6.1 images (both standard and professional) – absolutely required if you’re programming Windows Mobile Managed Extensibility Framework – I blogged about it a little in the past. Really cool approach...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/deep-zoom-composer-for-download/ ] One of best technologies, presented at Mix'08 was HardRock Memorabilia . It uses technology, previously named Seadragon to adapt image resolution and size to what you're currently viewing. It montages number of images in different resolutions and then dispatches them upon your request. Take a look into Silverlight 2.0 poster , created by Joe...
[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/tafiti-goes-open-source-well-actually-shared-source-under-ms-pl/ ] All those, how want to implement data visualization in Silverlight (as Tafiti does ), can look into this CodePlex project and use it for your own. Notice, you can download, modify and, even, resell this code, due to fact, that it's under MS-PL shared source licence . Well done, Live team .
[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.
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/silverlight-installation-experience/ ] You are, probably, know who looks Silverlight installation. Logo calls for download -> another page -> EULA -> another page -> download file -> another page -> look for the file, just downloaded -> run it -> close and reopen everything to be sure, that Sivlerlight runtime was installed. The same way for other browser type...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/sorted-dictionary-class-for-silverlight/ ] Yes, Silverlight 1.1 is far from being perfect. It's lack of some very important classes. The good example for it is SortedDictionary and binary search tree. Why it's so important and what top-down (red-black) binary search trees are? If you want to use generic dictionary not only for storing key-value information, but also for searching...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/microsoft-expression-blend-2-august-preview-is-available/ ] New refreshment of great XAML editing tool is available for download as Preview version. What's new? Silverlight (working with Silverlight 1.0 RC) and Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas) integration support, User controls authoring, XAML editor got some improvements, such as changing font sizes, word wrapping, etc. You can now target...