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Shine Draw – your Silverlight vs Flash blog (and one year of UXPassion.com)
Tuesday, August 18, 2009 2:12 PM

Today is exactly one year from the first article published here on UXPassion.com and today is the day when I'd like to introduce you to Shine Draw blog. His author Terence Tsang from Hong Kong is my colleague Microsoft MVP and hooked on all things Silverlight... Read More...

by UX Passion - Things about user experience, usability, IA, SEO, tutorials, blogging and Microsoft

Filed under: BLOG, shine draw, Random and other, uxpassion.com

Web v.Next
Tuesday, June 02, 2009 1:49 AM

We are entering a new phase in the evolution of the web, and it’s not “Web 3.0”. The phrase “Web 3.0” is generally used to refer to the semantic web. That phrase in itself typically needs some explanation so for the purposes of this article I’ll use the... Read More...

by RIA Thoughts

Filed under: BLOG

I’m Speaking at Mix09!
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1:18 PM

Wow. Just like a few hundred other people, I submitted a few talks to Mix when the call for speakers was open. And just like most of them, my talk were turned down. Luckily for me though, my employer also submitted a few talks and one of those was accepted... Read More...

by RIA Thoughts

Filed under: BLOG

CodeMash Wrapup
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 8:06 PM

I know this is late but hey, at least I’m getting it out there :). CodeMash 2009 was held Jan 7-9 in the frigid and snowy Sandusky Ohio. This was the most incredible experience I’ve had professionally in a very long time. The keynotes were incredible... Read More...

by RIA Thoughts

Filed under: BLOG

2009 is here – now what?
Friday, January 02, 2009 4:16 PM

[Note: This and all posts in 2009 will include Silverlight applications. If you are reading this post in a RSS reader you may not be able to see this application. Please visit the live post to get the full benefit of the content.] Well here it is, 2009... Read More...

by RIA Thoughts

Filed under: BLOG

Architecting RIAs: Do’s and Don’ts
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 3:46 PM

As we are working towards creating richer applications for our clients and their customers, we need a set of guidelines on what to do and not to do. Well, we’re in luck. Josh Holmes of Microsoft and James Ward of Adobe teamed up a couple weeks ago... Read More...

by RIA Thoughts

Filed under: BLOG

Silverlight Bidi Controls Library RC0 and movement from Beta 2 to RC0
Sunday, October 05, 2008 8:31 AM

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... Read More...

by Tamir Khason - Just code » Silverlight

Filed under: WPF, Silverlight, Visual Studio, c#, Microsoft, promo, Web, DEV, source, VSTS, BLOG

Arabic and Hebrew languages bidirectional support for Silverlight 2.0 beta 2
Thursday, July 17, 2008 6:27 AM

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... Read More...

by Tamir Khason - Just code » Silverlight

Filed under: WPF, Silverlight, Visual Studio, c#, .NET 3.5, Windows Live, Microsoft, promo, Web, source, download, VSTS, BLOG, demos, My tools, help

TechEd preparation session + other announcements
Monday, July 14, 2008 6:19 AM

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... Read More...

by Tamir Khason - Just code » Silverlight

Filed under: WPF, Silverlight, Events, Microsoft, promo, Web, BLOG, teched

Silverlight Visual Tree Investigation
Monday, July 07, 2008 3:44 AM

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... Read More...

by Tamir Khason - Just code » Silverlight

Filed under: WPF/E, Silverlight, c#, .NET 3.5, Tutorial, Web, source, BLOG, Tips and Tricks

Printouts of the slides, presented on Silverlight 2.0 open house today
Monday, June 30, 2008 12:26 PM

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... Read More...

by Tamir Khason - Just code » Silverlight

Filed under: WPF/E, Silverlight, Events, Microsoft, promo, Web, download, BLOG, blogging general

Silverlight 2.0 for building Rich Internet Applications (Local Event) – Take 2
Sunday, June 29, 2008 2:42 PM

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... Read More...

by Tamir Khason - Just code » Silverlight

Filed under: Silverlight, Events, Microsoft, promo, Web, BLOG, blogging general

Please do not ask me. We cannot handle more…
Thursday, June 26, 2008 9:34 AM

Monday next week, I’m 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... Read More...

by Tamir Khason - Just code » Silverlight

Filed under: WPF/E, Silverlight, Events, Microsoft, promo, Web, BLOG, blogging general

How to consume WCF or Webservice from Vista Sidebar gadget by using Silverlight?
Monday, June 23, 2008 5:37 PM

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... Read More...

by Tamir Khason - Just code » Silverlight

Filed under: ASP.NET, Silverlight, c#, WCF, Vista, .NET 3.5, Tutorial, Microsoft, Web, BLOG, Tips and Tricks, Windows Gadgets

Quick Silverlight tip: How to set format and validate value in TextBox?
Thursday, June 19, 2008 11:07 AM

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... Read More...

by Tamir Khason - Just code » Silverlight

Filed under: Silverlight, c#, Web, source, BLOG