I don’t know about you, but I have a small wish list to Silverlight 3.0 ( considering the Beta 1 ) – two more additions : A Built-In support to RTL , in something like an “encoding” property of the XAML file – Just like in HTML ( current RTL is somewhat problematic :s ) Version selection , like this :   NOTICE : This is version of the Silverlight that you choose , NOT of the .NET Framework ! which is just like saying “I want to install more than one Silverlight Toolkit, Side By Side, just like...

Web Developers Community (WDC): Start Thinking with ADO.NET 3.5 Session I will be presenting introduction to ADO.NET 3.5 in the Israeli WDC (Web Developers Community) on Sunday, March 1, 2009 at Microsoft office in Ra’anana. The talk will introduce the following topics: Entity Framework ADO.NET Data Services Datasets Enhancements You can register the event here . I hope to see you there.

How to Write Your Own Code Snippets IntelliSense code snippets are a very useful tool for developers in order to write code faster.In the post I’m going to describe how to write your own code snippet and to show an example of a code snippet that I wrote which divides classes by regions in the style that I like. What are Code Snippets? IntelliSense code snippets are basically Xml files that have a strict schema and have a .snippet file name extension. They are used by developers for faster code writing...

ADO.NET Data Services Slide Deck Today I had an ADO.NET data services session in the The Israel Visual Basic User Group (IVBUG) . The session agenda: Why ADO.NET Data Services at All? Data Services Architecture in a Nutshell Creating and Consuming Data Services As promised the slide deck and demos (in C# and in VB) can be downloaded from here . I want to thank Jackie Goldstein for the opportunity to lecture in IVBUG . Also, I want to thank all the participants of the session . I really had a good...

Deep Code Analysis With NDepend A few weeks ago, I was contacted by Patrick Smacchia , a C# MVP, that I read his articles on one of my favorite blog sites – CodeBetter . Patrick asked me if I want to evaluate NDepend professional edition. Without thinking twice, I agreed and this post is a review of the product. I want to thank Patrick for the opportunity to evaluate a professional product which I wanted to test for a while (I downloaded the evaluation edition a few weeks before Patrick contact me...