Tweet Over the last two posts I’ve talked about Microsoft pubCenter ads into your Windows Phone 7 application and Accelerometer Sensor for Windows Phone 7 all as part of a very long series I’m planning to write on Windows Phone 7 in order to help you write cool and useful applications for Windows Phone 7. In this Post I’ll talked about Location Service and Bing Maps. Location Service – I’ll show how to receives data from the Microsoft Location Service and displays the geographic coordinates of the...

A question about intercommunication between Silverlight and the HTML host has been asked in the Israeli MSDN forum. Since I’ve already implemented it once in a project, I believe I can extract the great info already exist in the MSDN documentation to a more direct how-to. Let’s begin. Create a class called JavaScriptBridge Each method that you would like to be exposed to the HTML host, thus be possible to get called by JavaScript you adorn with [ScriptableMember] attribute. [ScriptableMember()] public...

Tweet In my previous post on Windows Phone 7 I’ve showed how to integrate Microsoft pubCenter ads into your Windows Phone 7 application , the second part is writing an application for Windows Phone 7. Thinking about a good application isn’t simple but I can help you with some cool features available in Windows Phone 7 that can help your application to be much more cooler! There are APIs available to obtain raw sensor data from the device’s Compass , Gyroscope , Accelerometer and Motion API , but...

Tweet I consider myself a calm person with plenty of tolerance, I believe in productive discussion and love it – Part of my job as a consultant is to talk with Teams and explain them why you should choose a specific product over another, in 99.9% of those meetings there is one guy that don’t like the change (No One Like Changes) and you need in a calm way to explain and show him the benefits of the new tool – Forcing someone to do something is never a good thing. But sometimes there is no wining...

I’m happy to announce that I am to join forces with Shai Bar-Lev and help manage the INDNUG – Israel Dot Net Developers User Group . Today is my debut appearance at the group meeting, for those of you who don’t know this group roots are from a long time groups such as VB .NET user group. This group covers quite a wide range of areas, so it can appeal to any .NET developer out there. For exmple today, is a talk about SQL Server 2012 for .NET developers by Shy Engelberg Now dear followers, I encourage...

Tweet Last night I’ve received a message from Code Project letting me know that I received the CodeProject MVP award for my work at Code Project. CodeProject is enormous community of technology writers with tones of technical articles, and I’m prod to received this award for my work at CodeProject. Those who have spent their time answering questions in the forums and writing great articles. MVP status is awarded annually based on ones contributions, and the feedback of the other members. Members...

Tweet I did some cool things lately with TFS Lab Management API, from connecting it to TFS Web Access and allow REST access to the lab (if you want to ask why – The customer is always right ). So this part of TFS API will deal with Lab Management API, although Lab Management API is not public I’ll show some cool things you can do but this will be under your own risk. Again, this is just the beginning of the Lab Management API, so let’s get started Download Demo Project Step 1: Located “ Microsoft...

Tweet In the past I’ve showed some examples on how to work with TFS IGroupSecurityService for getting users list, but you can do much more, Create new Group, Add or Remove users from group etc… TFS API Part 25: Get TFS User List (Mail Sid, Account, Domain) – TFS 2010 TFS API Part 4: Get TFS User List (Mail, Sid, Account, Domain) Download Demo Project Step 1: Connect To TFS and Get All Users and Projects As always we need to start with connecting to TFS, but here we’ll also obtain 2 important services...

Tweet In my previous post on ASP MVC I showed How To Add Captcha to ASP MVC Web Application, but even if you use captcha you still want to make sure the user email is real and not just a fake one. In order to make sure the user has gave you his real email you need to use Email Confirmation mechanism to your site. ASP MVC is doing some of the work for us, when a user is register to your site is assign with a unique ID (Guid) property called -  ProviderUserKey I’ll use this value to verify the...

Tweet The conference was Amazing!!! I had great time in the conference with partners, customers and friends, I didn’t went to most of the lectures (Ich weiß nicht Deutsch spricht) but from the people who presented the presentation and the title there were plenty of interesting lectures. In my lecture I’ve talked about Applied Software Testing with Visual Studio 2010 , I showed demos on Test Manager, Web Performance Test, Load Testing and of course Coded UI Testing. I’ve also talked about Migration...