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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.

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 Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Best Feature - Microsoft Help Viewer 1.1 for by Tomer Shamam

As you may already know, Microsoft released the first service pack for Visual Studio 2010. And yes, there are tons of improvements, bug fixes, crash fixes and performance issues. I think SP1 is great for the developers and I really appreciate that.   One of the most annoying and frustrating features came out with Visual Studio 2010 is the poor web-based help center. Up until VS2010 came out we where used to have a great help viewer, and then Boom… it was gone!   Fortunately, the Microsoft...

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 Course at Canada by Tomer Shamam

To all of you guys, participated in the Sela's WPF course at Waterloo, Canada, I want to thank each personally. It was a real pleasure and I really enjoyed training you. Please find here the demos created in class. Feel free to comment this post should you have any questions. Also feel free to PM me using this blog. Hope to see you soon in the near future. CodeProject

Mole for Visual Studio 2010 by Tomer Shamam

Just in case that you've missed the great news, Karl Shifflett released the new version of Mole, called Mole 2010 . This version has many new features and it makes the previous free versions to be looked half-baked prototype, as Karl mentioned. Note that this version is a commercial version and it will cost $$. If you're asking me, It worth every penny, but if you care about your money you can still use the old version with Visual Studio 2010. You can download a free version from here , also...

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...

Productivity Power Tools turns my Visual Studio into a Zombie by Tomer Shamam

Lately, I've noticed my Visual Studio 2010 run Veerrryyyy Sllooowwww…. in every aspect: Building, Working with the solution, Intellisence and Designer and XAML editor. Tried to figure out what's going on over there…, I have a pretty nice machine, running on i7, 4G and ATI Mobility Radeon 4670. I'm sure it should run faster! I suddenly remembered that I've installed the Productivity Power Tools since I'm using one of its great feature to copy and paste Code/XAML from Visual Studio...

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.

Prism 4 Release by Tomer Shamam

Prism 4 November 2010 has been released yesterday by Karl Shifflett. This version of Prism 4 targets: .NET Framework 4.0 Guidance around the MVVM pattern Navigation Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) You can read more about it here , and download it from here . Enjoy.

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.

Open Project in Blend from Visual Studio 2010 - BlendIt! by Tomer Shamam

About one year ago, I wrote a little Visual Studio 2008 Addin called Blend It! for opening the active solution with Blend. Sadly, this Addin stopped working under Visual Studio 2010. Today someone sent me an email, and asked if I can migrate this addin to work with VS2010. So I did and I’m glad to share it with my dear blog readers. :) Feel free to download Blend It! for Visual Studio 2010 from here . After downloading, just install it and restart Visual Studio 2010. Now you can open WPF project...

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 .

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.