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Please update your bookmarks, because the new url of this blog is http://khason.net/ (you have not update RSS feeds, it will be done automatically). Why I did it? Why I decided to go to “stand-alone”… Well. there are some reasons. Generally, I do not want to explain all those here, but trust me, there are some. The main reason is, that there is no responsible person in charge for this blog platform in Microsoft Israel. This why, if your blog is popular and you have a respect to your blog visitors...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/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.Controls.Extended into System.Windows.Controls – Extended namespace...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/net-35-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 and Data Provider for SQL Server 2008, that was released last week WCF with easier...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/arabic-and-hebrew-languages-bidirectional-support-for-silverlight-20-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. <noframes>Visit <a href...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/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 : Find and hold references to all element, contains text. Solution : Recursive VisualTreeHelper...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/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. This is very straight forward mission. Here...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/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, should allow only numeric etc. If it’s possible out-of-box how...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/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 meant to refer to simultaneously capturing the benefits of a " thin client " (zero...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/drawingbrush-and-deep-clone-in-silverlight/ ] Today, we’ll say “ They did not put it there ” as lot. And start with DrawingBrush. Yes, there is no Drawing Brush in Silverlight, thus you cannot create neither hatch brush nor pattern brush in Silverlight. But we want it to be there. What to do? To enter into deep reflection first thing to do is to look into Reflector. How they did another...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/how-to-have-more-then-one-forms-in-page-and-be-able-to-submit-it-to-server-without-page-refresh-using-aspnet-ajax/ ] Someone asked me in Meet an Expert lunch in TechEd about having more, then one server forms in one page, using ASP.NET AJAX. The answer was simple – make only one visible at one time . Other words, hide all and show only one relevant <script runat=server language...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/findresource-replacement-and-how-to-change-control-style-more-then-once-in-silverlight-20-application/ ] As deeper we’re digging in Silverlight 2.0, we finding more and more WPF things and we’re really missing in Silverlight. One of such things is FindResources. In WPF I had Visual and Logical tree, so I was able to travel the tree to find resource I need. Let’s see an example of the...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/networking-raw-sockets-in-silverlight-and-wpf-messaging-in-general/ ] You, probably, know how to use raw sockets in WinForms. It's pretty the same in WPF, however it is very different (and limited) in Silverlight. Today, we'll create sample application in Silverlight, WPF and WinForm that sending and receiving updates via TCP as well as broadcasting it via UDP (singlecast and...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/building-custom-user-control-in-silverlight-20-how-to-build-code-snippet-for-vs-as-bonus/ ] Do you remember, that we have "go-live" for Silverlight 2.0 and already have build machines configured ? Now it's time to build your very own custom control. Today, we'll build Range Slider. What is range slider? Range slider is a control, that lets you input two values, typically...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/msbuild-tasks-for-build-machines-for-wpf-and-silverlight/ ] Silverlight got go-life, so we should start preparing automatic build machines for new Silverlight projects. Actually, it is not too complicated, however, there are some new tasks should be taken into account. Output type of any Silverlight application is Library New XML node specializing the output type of the library: SilverlightApplication...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/learning-marathon-december-23-29/ ] Do you want to know WPF, Silverlight or it's architecture or appliance and you are in Israel next week? If so, please keep reading. Next week (Dec 23-29) it's going to be a lot of workshops, courses and other learning attractions, related to those technologies. 24-Dec [ 4:00PM-8:00PM ] - Architects user's group " Architects Forum Meeting...
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