Essential WPF

Time to move on after 9 years… by Tomer Shamam

אחרי תקופה ארוכה של יותר מתשע שנות עבודה בחברת סלע, כמהנדס תוכנה, מרצה, ויועץ בכיר, החלטתי שזה זמן טוב לרענן ולבחור בדרך חדשה. סלע היתה ועדיין בית חם ומשפחה בשבילי, ונהנתי מאוד לעבוד ולהיות חלק ממשפחה זו למשך כל שנות עבודתי בחברה. בהזדמנות זו, אני רוצה להודות לדודו, לקרו, לישי, לאלי, ולאנשי המקצוע הקולגות בסלע, על תקופה נפלאה, ואני בטוח שעוד יצא לנו להפגש לא מעט, ואפילו כבר נפגשתי עם חלק מכם. מטבעי, אני אדם דינאמי שאוהב לשנות ולנסות דברים חדשים, להתקדם קדימה ולראות את הדברים מזוויות שונות. בדרכי...

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...

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...

Windows 8 Keyboard Shortcuts by Tomer Shamam

Just though it would be a great idea to share Windows 8 Keyboard Shortcuts, in case you’re going to present Windows 8 Session, or just have fun with Windows 8 and you don’t have touch screen. Key Action WINKEY Switch between Start Screen and last Metro app WINKEY + L Log off WINKEY + P Change Monitors layout WINKEY + D Show desktop WINKEY + Y Temporarily look at the desktop WINKEY + Enter Launches Narrator WINKEY + F File Search WINKEY + I Settings WINKEY + K Connections WINKEY + H Share WINKEY ...

Windows Phone HTC HD7 – A very important update! by Tomer Shamam

Thanks to Noam Sheffer , I just connected my Windows Phone to Zune, and guess what!? An important update… But this guy, is amazing, it’s an HTC update. Yap, right after Mango, and the great news are: Internet Sharing . The long awaited feature. Now I’m so happy, I can leave my old iPhone to my little Kid for good (only carried it with me for Internet Sharing, since I’m working with some customers with no internet access and this is a must have, at least for me). So here is screen shot of my device...

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...

MVVM Open House at Sela Group, Haifa by Tomer Shamam

To all of you who participated in the MVVM session today last week, I hope you've enjoyed it and learned something new. It was a great pleasure to speak in front of you. As I promised, here is the presentation . Also here is the Agenda for the 4 days Advanced WPF course at Sela Group.

Updating to Windows Phone Mango Final Version by Tomer Shamam

Just connected my HD7 device to Zune today, and guess what? I’ve got this lovely message: Yea, finally I’m updating my Windows Phone to Mango final version 7720. Wish me a good luck. UPDATE While updating, my device restarted one time, and then got this message in Zune: Waited about 10min and nothing! I’ve clicked Cancel, disconnected and connected my phone again, then I’ve got this message: It’s a beta cleanup update! I’ve clicked Update, my phone restarted and after ~2min I’ve got this: Checking...

Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) is finally rolling out by Tomer Shamam

About two hours ago, Microsoft announced the rolling out of Windows Phone 7.5 , the highly anticipated version of the Windows Phone OS. For those of you who already have it, nothing’s new right? well, happy to disappoint you. Microsoft kept new cool features in the closet for the release of this version. Here are some of them: Internet Sharing (tethering) – Depends on your carrier, you’ll see that option as Internet Sharing under settings. This cool feature supports up to 5 connections at the same...

Windows Phone 7 Israeli Forum by Tomer Shamam

לא ידעתם? לא שמעתם? נפתח במיקרוסופט פורום חדש בנושא Windows Phone 7 בעברית! אז קדימה, למה לחכות? צרו חשבון Windows Live ותרגישו חופשי לשאול שאלות בכל נושא הקשור לפיתוח Windows Phone 7. את הפורום תמצאו בכתובת: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/he-il/WindowsPhonedevil אגב, אני אחד המנהלים שם, אז דירבאלאק, לא לפרסם שטויות…

Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone v1.3 has been released by Tomer Shamam

You can download the new version from codeplex , it’s now support the new WPDT 7.1 RC . The new version includes great updates, including: Support for SQL Azure as a membership provider. Support for SQL Azure as a data source through using OData. Updates for the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio 1.4 and the Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 RC . Upgraded the web application ASP.NET MVC 3. BabelCam full source code, available at Windows Phone Marketplace .

Installing Windows Phone Mango on HD2 by Tomer Shamam

So you’re stuck with your HD2, running Windows Mobile 6.5, or Windows Phone pre Mango? Two XDA members: xboxmod and YukiXDA revealed WP Mango ROM for HD2. You may find these instructions from XDA developers very helpful , installing Windows Phone Mango on your HD2 device. I wish you a Good Luck, you may need it

Submit your Mango Applications to the Marketplace by Tomer Shamam

Microsoft has just announced that the Marketplace is accepting Mango edition Applications. So just in case that you’ve kept your mango applications ready in your hard-drive, waiting to this moment, this is the time! First, you must uninstall beta Mango SDK from your machine and install the new WP RC SDK. You can download it from this page . After installing the new SDK, you should recompile your applications and use Marketplace Test Kit directly from Visual Studio. This runs the same tests that the...

Update your Windows Phone with build 7712 (Early build of Mango RC) by Tomer Shamam

For those of you who participated in the Connect program and already have the Mango Beta 2 OS, Microsoft just released a new “Beta 2 Refresh”, build 7712, for the Windows Phone, which is a pre-mango release, working with the new WPSDK 7.1. You should follow these steps to install the new update: Place the backup you took when you updated to the Mango Beta 2 pre-release in a safe place. THIS IS A MUST. Download the new files from Connect.Microsoft.com which includes a new Zune client and a new UpdateWP...