Essential XAML

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...

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 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.

Materials from Windows Phone Open House at Sela Group by Tomer Shamam

Thanks to all of you who participated in my Windows Phone open house session today at Sela Group , it was a great pleasure. Here are some of the topics we’ve discussed about: - Windows Phone Concept and Metro UI - Hardware foundation - App Hub registration and unlocking the phone for development - Silverlight application deployment - UI development with Visual Studio 2010 and Blend - Fast Application Switching and Application Lifetime (Tombstoning and Dormancy) - Background Tasks - Push notifications...

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...

MVVM Open House at Sela Group by Tomer Shamam

To all of you who participated in the MVVM session today 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 are the presentation and demo code. Also here is the Agenda for the 4 days Advanced WPF course at Sela Group. CodeProject

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

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 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 Smart Client SDP Session at Sela by Tomer Shamam

Thanks to all of you who participated in my WPF Smart Client session today at Sela. Hope that you enjoyed the session. As I promised, here is a link to the presentation and demo application written in the class: SkyDrive .

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.