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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/consultants-for-charity/ ] As you, probably, know, I left consulting field . However, it does not mean, that I quit helping developers community with client application development. Also, every day I'm getting between 50 and 300 emails with questions (I'm trying to answer all of those) and sometimes proposals for consulting. Currently I'm refusing all those, because I do not...
[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/software-is-sucks-probably-it-really-is/ ] Remember new features, that make your code unreadable ? A couple of days ago, CLR team released first preview of Parallel Computing for .NET . Isn't it really cool, that now you can use full power of your computer? I decided to test the extension and wrote simple routine, that throttles your CPU. static int i=0; static void MessMe() ...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/the-first-full-time-wpf-training-is-over/ ] Today, for the first time since Hi-Tech college days about seven years ago, I teaches full day dev session. It was about WPF and covered all information from fundamentals to interop. I can tag this session as "Learn to understand and write WPF in eight ours" (cool name, indeed). Here the list of topics were covered: Fundamentals (30...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/datagrid-or-not/ ] Are WPF developers really need DataGrid component (as like the awful one in VB, .NET 1.1 and 2). My opinion - no , but there are those who want it. Generally, Microsoft is not "Component Provider". This place is saved for 3 d parties like Infragistics , Xceed etc. They are doing great work by saving valuable time for companies. From the other hand, GridView...