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...

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...

Third Year in a Row Yesterday I received the mail from Microsoft that congratulate me for being a Microsoft MVP for the third time. It’s is a honor for me to get the award three years in a row. This time the receiving of the mail was somewhat weird since I saw on Twitter that people got the mail and I didn’t get it… Apparently, my Gmail mail account (which is my personal mail account) “thought” that the congratulation mail is spam and moved it into the spam directory. This of course shows the true...

  All is set: Conference ticket – check. Plane ticket – check. Hotel – check. Build – Here I come! If everything goes as scheduled, in approx. a month and a half I'll be on the plane to Anaheim California, heading to the biggest conference Microsoft ever produced. Build (AKA PDC 2011) will be all about Windows 8. From some research I've done, which from obvious reasons can't be disclosed at this stage, Windows 8 is going to bring the biggest revolution since .NET was invented. I...

Microsoft has shut down its Windows Phone MVP program ; they will reopen it as more consumer-focused group. I don't know all the reasons for that, and I would appreciate if they could rearrange the group without retire all mobile MVPs, but I think that there is something else that this news tells us. Windows Phone is not a niche, it is part of something bigger, and the client/consumer device story is changing. We consume information through our PC, Phone, Slate device, TV, Xbox. All of them are...

This is it. MIX 2011 journey starts. I’m currently at the airport, waiting in Dan lounge for my flight to Toronto and then Las Vegas. This is the first I’ll attend MIX conference so I have high expectations.. I’m very excited about the trip, waiting for some new Silverlight action and wonder which geek celebrities I’ll meet.. If you come to MIX and want to meet me or any other Sela expert, feel free to contact me via the Blog’s contact form. This year Sela sends a team of 15 (!) software experts...

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

Since I will arrive on Monday and I’m not participating in the boot camps, I’ve decided to follow Gil Fink ’s footsteps and also offer four 15 minutes consulting sessions FOR FREE! We can discuss about anything, from UI technologies like WPF, Silverlight and WinForms to C# with Interop, COM and Windows 7. All you have to do is contact me through my Blog’s Contact Form or my mail (which can be found on the left column of my blog) with your details and what do you want to talk about. I’ll contact the...

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...

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...