Essential XAML

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 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...

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

  Next week, 14/11/2010 I’m having a session about Building Rich Client Applications with WPF 4 and Expression Blend 4 at Microsoft Israel, Raanana, and I’m going to present new features in WPF 4 such as the new Ribbon control and talk about how to develop WPF UI applications which work on Blend 4.   Feel free to register , it’s free. Hope to see you there.

Best Twitter Application for very fast Tweeting! by Tomer Shamam

Last weekend I’ve tried to find a very simple twitter application for sending messages very quickly over the twitter network,  so I’ve googled something like: “Best Twitter Application for very fast Tweeting” And not surprisingly I’ve got tons of twitter applications, but neither was simple to use nor suited to my needs. So I’ve decided to create another twitter application, were “very fast tweeting” is its main goal. So far I’ve created a new open source project in CodePlex , not yet published...

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...

WPF Panel & Data Binding by Tomer Shamam

WPF Data Binding on behalf of ItemsControl provides an elegant solution for collection of data types. All you have to do is simple as: < ListBox ItemsSource ="{ Binding Path =Items}" ... /> But what if you want to bind the same collection to a Panel, let say UniformGrid , WrapPanel or other custom panel? Trying to bind the Panel.Children collection using the same technique above, results in a big ERROR! And the reason is: Panel.Children is not designed to be bind, hence Children is...

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

Data Binding for Pure CLR Objects by Tomer Shamam

WPF has a great support for handling data: Data Binding. Unfortunately, one of the elements you bind to (the target) must have a DependencyProperty (known as the target-property). What if you don't have a dependency property to bind to, or you just want to bind two CLR types? For example let say that you wrote an application for simulating a car. You may have a Car and a Speedometer classes. Let say that a car handles its own speed, hence the car has its own speed state exposed by a Speed property...

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...