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...

Just though it would be a great idea to share Windows 8 Keyboard Shortcuts, in case you’re going to present Windows 8 Session, or just have fun with Windows 8 and you don’t have touch screen. Key Action WINKEY Switch between Start Screen and last Metro app WINKEY + L Log off WINKEY + P Change Monitors layout WINKEY + D Show desktop WINKEY + Y Temporarily look at the desktop WINKEY + Enter Launches Narrator WINKEY + F File Search WINKEY + I Settings WINKEY + K Connections WINKEY + H Share WINKEY ...

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

Last week SELA conducted a LIVE interview with all of the speakers at SDP 2011 ( S ela D eveloper P ractice conference). You can catch my interview on the new Sela College Channel: http://www.sela.co.il/y/ArikSprint11 or on YouTube: That’s me on the right :) In my interview I talked about the presentation I’ll deliver on March 15 in the Client track on the topic WPF + Silverlight + Windows Phone 7 = 3-Screens Development where I’ll show how to develop an application to WPF, Silverlight and Windows...

למי שיוודע ולמי שעדיין לא - סלע מקיימת את כנס ה - SDP השנתי, ואני הולך להרצות שם על IE9 ו - HTML5. ולמה אני מספר לכם ? ראשית כדי שתלחצו על הלינק למעלה ותרשמו ותגיעו לכנס (כדאי לכם). אבל גם כדי שתכנסו לכאן ותעשו LIKE להרצאה שלי (אחרי שתעשו LIKE לדף של מכללת סלע) תודה רבה מראש ונתראה בכנס

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...

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...

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 .