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The new version of WPF Performance Profiling Tool is available for download
Finally, after a long time of silence, the new version of WPF Performance Profiling Tool is available for download for x32 and x64 OSs.  So, what’s new there? Ton of UI improvements for Visual Profiler New search function to quick find elements in...
Visual Studio snippet designer
Chicks love CodePlex as well as Microsoft loves it too and today they release extremely useful tool, that was internal for more, then three years. It named: “ Visual Studio Snippet Designer ”. As you can, probably, understand. This tools is used to create...
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...
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 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...
Backup and restore your wireless networks settings by using WirelessMigrator
I had to reinstall my working notebook, so I begun to backup all it’s settings. I almost finished, when recognize, that Windows Vista has no tool for backup and restore wireless networks settings (tnx to Daniel Petri ). You can manually add or remove...
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)...
Find similar images on your computer with Duplicate Images Finder (alpha)
I wrote a lot of image (and not only image) processing algorithms. Most of them were for military proposes. Almost all of them are not secret, so why not to use war technologies for peace manners? Sitting one of those long evenings, I wrote a simple application...
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