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...

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...

HTML5 and Government Organizations Session Slide Deck Yesterday I had the pleasure of delivering a session in the HTML5Fest conference. The session subject was about HTML5 and government organizations . I want to thank all the attendees who came to hear me. The topics that I talked about included: What is HTML5? Government Organizations Main Challenges HTML5 and Government Organizations If you are interested in the session slide deck you can download it from here . CodeProject

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...

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 ...

MIX11 Here I Come Tomorrow I’m flying to Las Vegas in order to attend MIX11 conference. Since most of my work is web-oriented, it is very natural that I going to the biggest Microsoft web conference and of course the bonus is that it is in Vegas. This is going to be my second round to Vegas and MIX since last year I also attended the conference and enjoyed it. One of the things I really liked last year was to mix with a lot of passionate professionals and to meet a lot of interesting people. I remind...

Meet Me at MIX11 As you know (or you found out just now) I’m suppose to attend MIX11 conference. Since I’m going to arrive on Monday and I’m not attending the pre-conference Boot Camps, I’ll have some spare time. So I decided pronounce two opportunities: On Monday April 11, I’m going to give away four 15 minutes consulting sessions FOR FREE! about anything from ASP.NET, Entity Framework, OData to whatever you like. All you have to do is to contact me through my Blog’s Contact Form with your details...

MIX11 Open Call Voting Has Started Today MIX conference is the biggest Microsoft web conference which occurs every year in Las Vegas. As in every year Microsoft asked the developers and designers communities to propose sessions that will be part of a community voting. The sessions that will be chosen will be performed on stage at this year’s conference. Since I’m going to MIX11 as in last year, I proposed two sessions and they were chosen to the open call voting. This is the session descriptions...

This is my first post, and I want to annunciate the next SDP conference. It will occur between 13 to 16 of March. SDP conference brings you the best conference of Microsoft PDC, this is your chance to see the best lecturers and leading by Sela experts, to be exposed to new technologies, learn about the products launched last year. The conference is a 4 days and includes: 8 courses (tutorials) and 30 lectures (presentations): Windows Azure: Introduction, Storage, Roles - Manu Cohen-Yashar ORM Day...

SDP Conference 2011 is Coming Sela Developer Practice (SDP) conference will occur between 13 to 16 of March. In this annual conference we ( Sela Group ) are going to share the current and future Microsoft technologies. The conference will give you a chance to see the best lecturers and leading experts, to be exposed to new technologies and to learn about the Microsoft products that have been launched last year. This is of course an opportunity to meet with colleagues from different organizations...