Update Your Windows Phone 7 to Mango Release Today Two days ago I updated my Windows Phone 7 (HTC HD7 device) to the Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) even though the update didn’t arrive to my device from my device carrier. If you ask yourself how I did it, the answer is simple. I used a hack. You can read about this hack in this PC magazine article – How to Force Your Phone to Upgrade to Windows Phone Mango . Pay attention that it might take a few tries up until this hack will succeed to operate (it took...

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...

Balsamiq Mockups Tool As part of a project that I’m currently managing and developing, I was in a need to design UI mockup for a sample web application. I didn’t want to use Visio or Word for this task since I think that it is an overkill to use such “monsters” for a simple (but very important) task. So I remembered Scott Mitchell’s MSDN Magazine article and his recommendation for the Balsamiq Mockups tool.   After I read the article last year, I evaluated the tool in the online demo and it...

Not Just a Designer: Code First in Entity Framework Article on VS Magazine Lately I wrote an article about Code First approach in Entity Framework 4.1 for Visual Studio Magazine . The article was published a few days ago and you can read it here . Enjoy! CodeProject

I Have Joined The Conversation One picture is worth a thousand words: CodeProject

Wrapping Up the MIX11 Experience I got back home yesterday’s evening after ~20 hours on flights. This is the time to wrap up the MIX11 conference experience. Here are all the posts I wrote during the conference: MIX11 Keynote Session Summary MIX11 First Day Sessions Summary MIX11 Second Keynote Session Summary MIX11 Second Day Sessions Summary MIX11 Third Day Sessions Summary Summary of MIX11 announcements - IE10 Preview 1 was released and can be download from here A new tools update for ASP.NET...

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...

My SDP Lecturer Interview Last week Sela conducted a live broadcast with trailers to the sessions that will be presented on stage in the SDP conference. The broadcast was recorded if you want to see me “making a fool” of myself in the live broadcast you can watch the recording of my interview here ( in Hebrew ). I’m reminding that I’m going to have two sessions: Creating OData Services with WCF Data Services Data is a first-class element of every application. The Open Data Protocol (OData) applies...

Interview on MicrosoftFeed Yesterday an interview with me was published on MicrosoftFeed Blog. You can read it here . CodeProject