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Creating transparent buttons, panels and other control with Compact Framework and putting one into other
In WPF / Silverlight world it's very simple to make transparent controls and put anything inside anything. However, that's not the situation in WinForms, and even worth in the world of compact devices with CF. Within this worlds, there is only...
Posted 21 November 2008 01:09 PM by tamirk | with no comments
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How to P/Invoke VarArgs (variable arguments) in C#? ... or hidden junk in CLR
Recently I wrote a cheat sheet for pinvoking in .NET . Shortly after I got a question in comments about how to deal with variable arguments, when it's more, then one parameter. Also what to do if those arguments are heterogeneous? Let's say, that...
Posted 19 November 2008 06:44 AM by tamirk | with no comments
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Set binding, based on trigger
Let’s say, that you want to set binding. However, you want to set it by using some trigger. Wait! Why I need it? Let’s say, that I have some very special object, that actually has no hard-coded properties. All it’s properties are created during the runtime...
Posted 13 October 2008 03:53 AM by tamirk | with no comments
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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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WGS to UTM, UTM to WGS conversions, geo distance, azimuth and other geographical calculations in C#
"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated" Since my post about leaving consulting field , I got huge amount of email with questions about all community projects, I'm leading, blogging in general and specific to the future of this...
Posted 15 September 2008 03:16 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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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...
Posted 12 August 2008 01:03 PM 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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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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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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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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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...
Posted 05 June 2008 10:58 PM by tamirk | with no comments
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