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Silverlight Bidi Controls Library RC0 and movement from Beta 2 to RC0
Finally, I got free minute to convert Silverlight BiDi controls from Silverlight beta 2 to RC0 (you can download SL rc0 tools for VS2008 here ) and as usual some breaking changes (the full list is here ) Calendar and DatePicker moved from System.Windows...
Posted 05 October 2008 12:31 PM by tamirk | with no comments
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Developers academy 3 - vote your choice
If you're "in" WPF and/or Silverlight development and want to learn more about high performance programming in WPF or your ability to develop once for WPF and Silverlight, you're invited to vote for my session in Dev Academy 3 and attend...
Posted 09 September 2008 07:57 AM by tamirk | with no comments
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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...
Posted 22 August 2008 11:43 AM by tamirk | with no comments
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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...
Posted 08 August 2008 04:08 AM by tamirk | with no comments
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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...
Posted 17 July 2008 10:27 AM by tamirk | with no comments
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Quick Silverlight tip: Why my ActualWidth and ActualHeight equal 0?
If you’ll try to use ActualWidth and ActualHight of controls with explicitly set Width and Height, you’ll not see any problem, however, if your control sits inside other control, ActualWidth and ActualHeight properties will be equal to 0. Why this and...
Posted 12 July 2008 11:21 AM by tamirk | 1,461 comment(s)
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How to handle thickness
Yesterday, we spoke about type converters . We even, built simple generic enum converter. Today, we’ll create more complicated converter, that very missing in Silverlight – ThicknessConverter. During the post, I also explain about tokenizing values in...
Posted 08 July 2008 10:07 PM by tamirk | with no comments
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Work process: How to use and build type converters
Today, I want to start new tag - “ Work process ”. Here I’m going to publish partial classes, fixes, small utilities, I’m building for myself or clients to help in work process. I’ll give an example : currently, I’m working on BiDi support for Silverlight...
Posted 07 July 2008 08:58 PM by tamirk | with no comments
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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...
Posted 07 July 2008 07:44 AM by tamirk | with no comments
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Quick Silverlight Tip: How to access HTML DOM from Silverlight and Silverlight managed objects from HTML?
After my session yesterday , I got number of email from people, who have a problem to access HTML DOM from Silverlight and vice verse. I want to answer to all of you by this post. Access HTML from Silverlight You have not do anything special in Silverlight...
Posted 01 July 2008 12:56 PM by tamirk | 2 comment(s)
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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...
Posted 23 June 2008 09:37 PM by tamirk | with no comments
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Quick Silverlight tip: How to set format and validate value in TextBox?
Today morning I got an email from one of Microsofties, asking following question: Is there any way to set format and validation on TextBox in Silverlight 2. TextBox format: Date Format, Currency Format etc, TextBox validation: Regular date expression...
Posted 19 June 2008 03:07 PM by tamirk | with no comments
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UserControl binding to own property bug in Sliverlight 2.0 beta 2
Today morning, I come to my office. Alex , sitting there, was very tired. His eyes were red. I asked him: “What’s going on?” and he responsed: “I think, I’m sick. Something is broken in Silverlight”. “What’s the problem?” – I asked. And he explained me...
Posted 16 June 2008 09:18 AM by tamirk | with no comments
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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...
Posted 15 June 2008 05:35 PM by tamirk | with no comments
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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...
Posted 05 June 2008 11:25 AM by tamirk | with no comments
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