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...

השב"כ מחפש מומחה ארכיטקטורת פיתוח וזה נשמע לי תפקיד מפתה ויוקרתי מאד. אני מפרסם את זה בין השאר כי לא נפתחות הרבה משרות לארכיטקטים. קישור למודעה: https://www.shabak.gov.il/jobs/alljobs/computres/Pages/129.aspx אפשר לשלוח קו"ח גם אל: it. shabak@gmail.com בהצלחה, אסף

I recently got a request from one of my customers for code sample how to programmatically upload Workitem query (wiql) to TFS. Since the UI doesn’t allow import query from file but only create new query in editor I decided to share it. First of all, dealing with queries using API became a little complicated in TFS 2010 because the folder tree support. I recommend a post written by my colleague Shai Raiten as very good source to learn it. (although in his sample code the save method for add/remove...

Understanding and Applying Parallel Patterns with the .NET Framework 4 Overview : This document provides a detailed and in-depth tour of support in the Microsoft® .NET Framework 4 for parallel programming. This includes an examination of common parallel patterns and how they’re implemented without and with this new support in the .NET Framework, as well as covering best practices for developing parallel components utilizing parallel patterns. Stephen Toub Parallel Computing Platform Download : http...

When we look at the mobile phone market, can we project from it about the future of software? Is Windows 8 going to be a closed system? Will we as developers need to upload all our applications to an App-Store or Marketplaces ? Will we have Multitasking? Let's look at the iPad, a big iPhone or better a big iPod? Let's say that it will sell more than Windows PC based Tablets . What does it say to Microsoft? Microsoft has pushed the tablet idea since the release of Windows XP tablet edition...

After practicing parallel computing for a long while I have decided that it is time to summerise things as I see them so far. See the post in the link below: My Conclusions on Parallel Computing Asaf

In the last Dev Academy I have given a lecture in the TDM (R&D Manager) track about Software Porting, The Why, When, and How.  During the lecture I have talked about many different migration scenarios: from VB 6.0 to C#/VB.NET. From VC++ 6.0 to VC 2008/2010, From Unix/Linux to Windows, From old .NET to new .NET etc. I have talked about the porting project, best practices and tools. This is the link to the lecture’s slides. There are many useful links inside it.

About a week ago I've participated in the first meeting of ALT.NET Tools session in Israel, the session was pure fun, we grouped together a bunch of geeks in one conference room to speak about tooling that can make developer’s live easier. We had several interesting sessions over the meeting with lots of cool tools… some common ones and some are products of newly startup companies. By the middle of the meeting we had lots of pizzas in complementary from our host Delver or by its new name Sears...

A few days ago I wanted to build a simple message broker so I’ve decided to tryout the new routing feature WCF 4.0 is offering. When doing so I’ve encountered two problems: The first problem was that I needed to figure out a way on how to do the routing when hosting the services under WAS (Windows Process Activation Service) since I’ve been using netTcpBinding for my services. And the second problem was how to do XPath Message Filtering on a service operation parameters (not a Data Contract). I’ve...

the situation is : I have two boxes; web01 and web02 (Win2K3/MOSS 2007). Both boxes use an SQL box sql01 for their databases. Web02 is going to be decommissioned, and required content needs to be migrated over to web01. I am doing the easy stuff first like copying lists etc over as templates. The tricky part is the document management system (DMS) that exists on web02. I need to copy the content including metadata to a new site on web01, update the CT and metadata, and then decommission web02 and...