Essential WPF

Developers Seminar at Microsoft about Advanced Windows Phone 7.5 by Tomer Shamam

אני שמח להזמין אתכם ליום עיון למפתחים במיקרוסופט רעננה, בתאריך 13/2/2012 שיוצא ביום שני, בו אני מרצה בנושא Advanced Windows Phone 7.5 Applications . בהרצאה זו נדבר על מרכיב חדש שהתווסף לגרסת מנגו, שמאפשר לתהליכים באפליקציה לרוץ ברקע בזמן שהאפליקציה אינה רצה. מה שבעצם מכונה Background Task, ונלמד כיצד בעזרת תהליכים מקביליים אלו תוכל האפליקציה לעדכן Tiles, לבדוק שינויי סטטוס, לבצע סנכרון מול השרת, ועוד, ובו זמנית לשמור על חיי סוללה תקינים וחווית משתמש איכותית. פרטים נוספים אודות האירוע, והרשמה תוכלו...

Just got a Microsoft Community Contributor award by Tomer Shamam

I’ve just been informed that I awarded the Microsoft Community Contributor award for the year 2012. Here is the announcement I’ve got from Microsoft: “The Microsoft Community Contributor Award is reserved for participants who have made notable contributions in Microsoft online community forums such as TechNet, MSDN and Answers. The value of these resources is greatly enhanced by participants like you, who voluntarily contribute your time and energy to improve the online community experience for others...

Windows Phone Mango Open House at Microsoft Ranana by Tomer Shamam

Thank you for participating my Windows Phone open house session at Microsoft Ranana today. It was a great pleasure, and I really enjoyed speaking in front of you. You can download the Power Point Presentation from here . You can download the Code Sample from here . Please feel free to download the Windows Phone Assets project demonstrated from codeplex. Also if you wish to contribute this project, feel free to PM me. Also please do not forget to check the Windows Phone Israeli forum at: http://social...

Windows Phone 7 & Mango Session by Tomer Shamam

Thanks to all of you who participated in my Windows Phone 7 and Mango session today at Microsoft Raanana. It was a pleasure. Following is the presentation for the first part, and demos for both parts. Introduction to WP7 + Demos   The attached zip file contains WP7 Mango demos. You must download and install Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 Beta in order to build them. Note : The audio files has been removed from AudioPlaybackAgentDemo\Audio. Please add your own audio file in order to run this...

My SDP Session About MVVM + MEF by Tomer Shamam

Thank you to all of you who participated in my SDP session " Architecting a Smart Client with MEF and MVVM " today at Crowne Plaza Hotel, Tel Aviv. I really hope that you enjoyed it and learned something new about MVVM and MEF. it was delightful. Feel free to download the Power Point presentation from here , and the source code from here . Also here is a small souvenir for remembering this session. Hope to see you soon in the near future, Tomer Shamam CodeProject

WPF 4 Multitouch Application testing with Microsoft Touch Mouse by Tomer Shamam

One of the greatest features in WPF 4 is the built-in support of Windows 7 multitouch gestures. Developing multitouch applications for Windows 7 you should have a special multitouch screen, and usually you don't have it, at least not in your development laptop. So you have to buy one, or use the PDC 2009 laptop: Acer Aspire 1420P give-away. The problem in such case is that you'll have to use remote-debug to debug your multitouch gestures, and it's awkward. There are several NUI alternatives...

Microsoft Open House Summary - WPF 4 and Blend 4 by Tomer Shamam

To all of you who participated in my WPF 4 and Blend 4 lecture at Microsoft Raanana today, it was my pleasure. I hope that you enjoyed and learned one or two things new about WPF.   You can download the presentation and demo code from here . Hope to see you soon.

WPF 4 Session by Tomer Shamam

Thank you for participating my WPF 4 and Blend 3 session at Microsoft, Ranana, Jan-21. You can download the presentation and demo files from SkyDrive .

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.

Composite UI Infrastructure Review by Microsoft, Redmond by Tomer Shamam

We’ve just returned back from our Composite UI Infrastructure architecture review by who else but the Prism creators, the Microsoft P&P team, and we’ve also discussed on several WPF issues we’ve got with the WPF team. I have such a great time meeting with David Hill, Blaine Wastell, Julian Dominguez, Rob Relyea, Mike Hillberg, Anson Tsao, Varsha Mahadevan and Jaime Rodriguez. I want to thank each and every one of you personally! Special thanks to Lior Rozner from Microsoft Israel for leading...

Microsoft Meeting - Introduction to WPF by Tomer Shamam

To all of you who participated in the WPF Introduction meeting today, at Microsoft Raanana, it was a pleasure! Feel free to download the presentation and demos from here: - Presentation - WPF Feature Montage , WPF Composite Application   In addition, you can download and hear my Composite Application Guidance for WPF lecture at the latest Dev Academy 3 conference.   Thanks.

Microsoft Live Search Censor! by Tomer Shamam

Are you a Live Search user, living in Israel? No!? So I think that I have the reason for Microsoft: Internet Bezeq International, the biggest Internet provider in Israel decided that blocking Live Search would be a great service, provided for free to most of their clients. Any live search query will be directed to netex by default. How do I known that? I tried to open www.live.com from Israel, then when I clicked on More… it directed me to netex error screen instead of Live Search. In another extreme...

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...

Open House on WPF Data Binding by Tomer Shamam

WPF for Microsoft Surface by Tomer Shamam

I've always dreamed about having an interactive table in my living room, such one that I can interact with, play table games with my friends, even watch TV and plan trips. Thanks to Microsoft, my dream comes true. I'm barely can wait to put my hand on such a surface, or even write WPF applications for this beautiful toy. Kevin Moore is helping the WPF team with a few tweaks in core controls to ensure that they play nicely on Surface. Prepare for more Input APIs in WPF, such as Fingers, Objects such...