Essential WPF

Programming Windows 8 Metro style apps using C# and XAML by Tomer Shamam

This Wednesday, 07-Dec-2011, I’m having a whole day tutorial, showing how to develop Windows 8 Metro Style applications using C# and XAML from scratch. In this day you’ll learn what is a Metro style app, and how to use the API’s provided with the first Windows 8 Preview to develop great Metro style apps. Here are the abstract & agenda: Abstract Windows 8, Microsoft's next generation OS designed to run on top of Desktop and Tablet machines, introduces the next step in the evolution of the...

My Windows 8 Contracts Keynote Session at SDP by Tomer Shamam

Thank you for participating my Windows 8 Contracts session at Sela’s SDP conference, it was a great pleasure and I hope you’ve enjoyed the conference. In this session I’ve talked about Windows 8 Contracts in general and demonstrated how to implement both share source and target contracts, in a Metro Style app to share data between Metro style applications. Here are the presentation and demo code: Note that in the presentation and demo code you can also find how to implement a Search Contract. Hope...

My Windows Phone Session at Sela by Tomer Shamam

Thanks to all of you who participated in my session. It was lovely. Following is a summary of topics we've talked about Windows Phone Concept Windows Phone Metro UI Hardware Foundation Silverlight for Windows Phone Styles, Control Templates and Themes Data Binding Data Templates Controls Pivot Panorama Navigation and Pages Application Lifecycle and Tombstoning Application Bar Orientation Launchers and Choosers Isolated Storage Push Notifications XNA for Windows Phone App Hub – Community, Tools...

Windows Phone 7 Open House by Tomer Shamam

My colleague Erez Harari and I, are going to deliver half-day Windows Phone 7 seminar for developers at Microsoft Raanana. In this half-day we're going to present the Windows Phone 7 programming model for both Silverlight and XNA. In addition we are giving a quick preview of new features added with Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 Beta (aka Mango).   Here is the Updated Agenda: 08:30 – 09:00 Gathering 09:00 – 10:15 Introduction to Windows Phone 7 and Development with Silverlight 10:15 ...

Sela SDP 2011 Registration is now Open! by Tomer Shamam

SAVE THE DATE: 13-14.3 Tutorials, 15-16.3 Presentations. Sela College SDP 2011 registration is now open, and I’m leading a one day “ Smart Client Applications with WPF, Silverlight, and MVVM ” tutorial and one interesting session related to WPF, MEF and MVVM. Sela Developer Practice brings to you the best of Microsoft’s PDC. This is a great opportunity to meet the best of Sela’s experts and to be exposed to the new technologies and products revealed in the last year. This four days conference comprises...

SDP – WPF 4, MVVM, MEF and Friends by Tomer Shamam

Tomorrow, as part of the SDP conference, I’m having a whole day session dedicated to WPF 4 and LOB applications. What’s in there for you: Short intro to WPF Goodies in WPF 4 Building a Smart Client using WPF 4 Developing Composite Applications using Prism 2 In addition to all of this great stuff, Bnaya Eshet , my colleague at Sela will talk about MEF and how it’s related to WPF and LOB application. I’ll be more than happy to see you there.

Live from PDC 09 Keynote by Tomer Shamam

We are here, 20 people from Sela Group, wearing blue, waiting for the PDC 09 keynote to begin. The hall is full of people, and there are many other entering, seeking a seat. Comparing to PDC 08, there are less people, and its of course due to the economic situation, but the decoration here in the hall is awesome, and we’ve already got 3D glasses… I’m too curious to know why. Ozzie is here… please excuse me, I’ve got something to do here… :-)

Live from PDC09 by Tomer Shamam

We are here! 20 people from Sela Group are proud to be part of the PDC 09 great conference. We are here for updating you with the most up to date Microsoft technologies. I’m going to concentrate on the following topics: Windows 7 Development Visual Studio 2010 WPF 4.0 Silverlight UI Architecture So prepare your RSS reader and stay tuned, we are going to blast this blog server with great stuff directly from the PDC halls.

Vote for your IDCC sessions by Tomer Shamam

The IDCC (Israeli Developers Community Conference) is coming soon and you, part of this great community have an opportunity to decide what sessions are relevant. My suggested topic is of course WPF 4.0 When Visual Studio 2010 Met WPF... We've been waiting for this moment for so long: Microsoft take a strategy decision to use WPF platform as the main UI technology for Visual Studio 2010. This is a great news and a sign that WPF is now ready for business applications. In this session we will take...

Prism on Microsoft Developer Academy III by Tomer Shamam

Microsoft Developer Academy III is coming soon and I’m going to lecture about Composite Application Guidance for WPF (Prism). So what is in my lecture for you: Well, the original abstract is about Composite UI Applications Challenges and Building WPF Enterprise Applications with Prism. But... Prism is really a lightweight presentation infrastructure, It contains guidelines and class library for building WPF Composite UI Applications. But what about other kind of UI applications? Can we leverage Prism...

Presentation from my Tech-Ed Session by Tomer Shamam

To all of you who participated in my WPF Data Binding lecture at Tech-Ed Israel 2008, you can download my presentation from here . Also you can download the Aquarium Demo from here . Thanks

Demo from my Tech-Ed Session by Tomer Shamam

Thanks a lot to all of you who participated in my WPF Data Binding lecture at Tech-Ed Israel 2008. I hope that you enjoyed and learned from my lecture. If you have any question about any of the topics I talked about, please feel free to ask here. As I promised, here is the Aquarium Demo in Visual Studio 2008 format. You can download and use it for non-commercial use. Here are several screen shots to remember: As for the presentation, it will be published soon in the Tech-Ed site .

MVC by Noam by Tomer Shamam

Noam King is a great lecturer and I like the way he use music instrumentals in his lectures. Although WEB development is not my kind, I really enjoyed his lecture about MVC. I think that MVC is a great concept and an architectural evolution in ASP.NET development> It provides a great option to decide what page is downloaded to the client, by talking to the Controller instead of statically download the page using its URL. and Noam described it well in his musical lecture. I encourage you to see...

Materials from my WPF lectures in (9,10)-Mar-2008 by Tomer Shamam

Thank you to those who participated in my WPF lecture in 9-Mar-2008 and 10-Mar-2008. You can download the lecture materials from here . Other demos can be found in the links bellow: WPF Feature Montage Family Show You are invited to read my blog, and/or leave comments about the lecture in this post. Regards, Tomer

Come to see me at Tech-Ed Israel 2008 by Tomer Shamam

Tech-Ed Israel 2008 is coming soon, and I'm preparing a lecture about WPF Data Binding and Data Templates. In my lecture, I will talk about WPF Data Binding and Data Visualization I will show how to design data entities to support data binding, and how to visualize them with data templates. As part of my lecture, I will show how to build an application based on these concepts. The topics I'll cover are: Designing Data Entities around Data Binding Binding Source to Target Notifying Source...