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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...
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...
TechEd preparation session + other announcements
If you want to attend my preparations before TechEd , you’re invited to attend 27-Jul in Microsoft Ra’anana. What is preparation session? This is the training for myself. I’ll present all four session (each one is an hour + one hour rep.) This is your...
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...
Printouts of the slides, presented on Silverlight 2.0 open house today
Thank you all, who participated today in Silverlight 2.0 for building Rich Internet Applications event . I uploaded printouts of the slides, presented during the session here. So, you can download it for reference. I’m really interesting within your feedback...
Silverlight 2.0 for building Rich Internet Applications (Local Event) – Take 2
As promised earlier , the next session of Silverlight 2.0 for building Rich Internet Applications will take place at 23 July, 8:30 AM-12:30 PM in ILDC. This is exactly the same session for those, who unable to attend tomorrow due to lack of place. Please...
Please do not ask me. We cannot handle more…
Monday next week, I’ll making half day session about building rich internet applications with Silverlight 2.0 in ILDC. The registration is over a while ago , but during this week, I got very large amount of email, IMs and phones calls with appeal to attend...
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...
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...
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Quick Silverlight tip: How to open new window or tab by using HyperlinkButton and Ctrl-Shift modifiers
Regular behavior of any HTML anchor element is to open new Window if you’re clicking the link with Shift key and new Tab, if you’re clicking with Ctrl key or middle mouse button. Unfortunately, Silverlight HyperlinkButton does not support opening new...
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...
Silverlight 2.0 for building Rich Internet Applications (local event)
If you are developing rich internet applications, web sites or just want to learn what’s new in Silverlight 2.0 , you are invited to attend  local (Israel) Microsoft Event 30-June 8:30 AM- 12:30 PM in ILDC (new Microsoft R&D offices in Herzliya...
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