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Slides and desks from my Expert Days’ sessions
Because of the new job , I’m bit tight in time, however, I  found a time to post slides from my sessions in Expert Days . Also, hand-on labs used for WPF beginners’  released as open source to CodePlex for your convenience. Windows Presentation...
WPF DataGrid CTP is here. It’s also open source!
Huge amount of people asked me about DataGrid control in WPF. There are some 3rd parties providing this control for free and not, However, I always adviced them to wait until Microsoft will release it with (or after) Arrowhead . So here comes the King...
.NET 3.5 SP1 is RTM and available for download
For all those who asked, .NET 3.5 SP1 is final and available for download. What’s inside? ASP.NET Dynamic data Core improvements for CLR A lot of performance improvements in WPF ClickOnce enhancements ADO.NET with Data Services and Entity Framework LINQ2SQL...
Expert days – last minute changes
Next week we’ll starting Expert Days , so you have a last chance to register for Windows Presentation Foundation for fellow developers (12-Aug) and Mastering Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 (13-Aug). Those sessions will take place in Bein-Thumi Herzeliya and...
Configuring and running Mono ASP.NET 3.5 (AJAX.NET) on Linux computers
Before we will start, we should install Linux. To do this, you can download any of LiveCDs with live installation. Officially, Mono supported only on one free Linux - openSuse . However, you can make it work on any RedHat (and its alternatives), OpenSolaris...
Arabic and Hebrew languages bidirectional support for Silverlight 2.0 beta 2
Those days, I’m, together with guys from Microsoft Egypt and Santeon , finishing development of bidirectional input and output support for Silverlight. I want you to take part in alpha testing of this solution. Please see the test form here and try it...
Silverlight Visual Tree Investigation
Wait a moment. Silverlight has Visual and Logical Trees as well as WPF? Not exactly. The design more similar to how it was in WinForms (Parent-Child relationship). But dev team made all possible to make it syntactically similar to WPF. Let’s start Challenge...
How to consume WCF or Webservice from Vista Sidebar gadget by using Silverlight?
The challenge today is really simple. All we have to do is to write Silverlight   Vista Sidebar Gadget , that consumes either WCF , ASMX or REST based service. Really simple, isn’t it? Let’s start Build server side services We should start from services...
Mastering Images in WPF
If you are “in” WPF imaging, you, definitely, should read this post of Dwayne Need (who is SDM of WPF in Microsoft) about customizing BitmapSource. A ton of information about how to make Bitmap Source for your needs, what WIC is and how to use it. Also...
HLSL (Pixel shader) effects tutorial
Recently, I already wrote about PixelShader effects , introduced in .NET framework 3.5 SP1 (WPF). However it looks like for most people this syntax is still hard to understand. Today we’ll try to lean it more. In order to do this, I wrote small program...
Silverlight controls library has been upgraded to Beta 2
Finally this weekend I got  a time to upgrade one of my OpenUp submissions, Silverlight controls library to work with Silverlight 2.0 beta 2. It was very interesting to track changes between developer’s (beta 1) and production (beta 2) go-live licenses...
Quick note: New TechEd downloads
There is TechEd in Orlando, and this means, that there are a lot of new announcements. Let’s fill up our download managers with expensive fuel and start. New WM 6.1 images (both standard and professional) – absolutely required if you’re programming Windows...
Just released: Parallel Extensions – June CTP
Today, Parallel Programming team released 2nd CTP for Parallel Extensions to .NET Framework 3.5. Major features in this CTP are declarative parallelist (LINQ-to-Object, LINQ-to-XML), parallel tasks and imperative data and, the most important (for me)...
Brightness and contrast manipulation in WPF 3.5 SP1
While being in flight, I had to learn new features, introduced in .NET 3.5 SP1. So, let’s start from image manipulation. I want to perform contrast and brightness manipulation in GPU over displayed image. In order to begin, you should download and install...
Action required: Smart client users group
Recently I browsed INETA to seek for some group and was really surprising. There is no Smart Client user group registered there. Maybe there is a reason? Let’s understand what Smart Client is? According wikipedia , the term "Smart Client" is...
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