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On the Web, competition is just one click away (JustHost is our new host)
Monday, November 02, 2009 4:31 PM

This is a post about customer service, customer frustration and customer / user experience. I've made a move from my old webhost Inside.hr to JustHost.com. Reason? Well, I was frustrated with their „customer service“. After careful consideration, I’ve... Read More...

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

Filed under: UX, Web, User Experience, Featured Articles, UX / usability tutorials, web host, service management, customer support, customer service

Make complete button surface active and enhance usability
Wednesday, July 08, 2009 4:19 PM

Buttons are everywhere – both on web and on desktop applications. Being so widespread and known to end-users they should be as usable as possible. However, there are lot of mistakes when designing buttons and they kill the usability. One of the biggest... Read More...

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

Filed under: Facebook, UX, Web, MySpace, UX / usability tutorials, usability, desktop, analysis, buttons

Some new in-mix downloads
Friday, March 20, 2009 10:19 AM

There are some very cool downloads suddenly appear on MSDN download site due to all new technologies, presented at Mix ‘09. So let’s start Silverlight 3 SDK beta 1 If you do not want to install full SDK, you can install only runtime for Windows or Mac... Read More...

by Tamir Khason - Just code » Silverlight

Filed under: WPF, Silverlight, c#, Vista, .NET 3.5, Microsoft, promo, Web, DEV, download, TECH, x64, GIS

WPF Line-Of-Business labs and Silverlight vs. Flash
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 5:27 AM

Small update today (mostly interesting links)… During my last “Smart Client” session I was asked about WPF LOB application development labs. So, there are two full labs, I noticed about: Southridge, which comes from Redmond team Order Manager, which comes... Read More...

by Tamir Khason - Just code » Silverlight

Filed under: WPF, Silverlight, c#, .NET 3.5, Tutorial, promo, Web, DEV, download, demos, TECH

Source code for Silverlight 2 controls
Thursday, January 08, 2009 2:48 AM

Too much exciting news today. Shortly after announced about Windows 7 beta download, I found, that Joe Stegman, Seema Ramchandani, Andre Michaud, Jon Sheller and other guys from Silverlight team released the source code of managed Silverlight controls... Read More...

by Tamir Khason - Just code » Silverlight

Filed under: Silverlight, Microsoft, soft, Web, source, download, TECH

New version of Hebrew and Arabic support for Silverlight was released
Sunday, January 04, 2009 11:21 AM

Please notice, that new version (RC1) of Bidi support for Silverlight was released. What’s new in this release? Initial version of bidi DataGrid Listbox, CheckBox, RadioButton, DatePicker, Tab and TabItem controls were added (tnx to Yasser Makram and... Read More...

by Tamir Khason - Just code » Silverlight

Filed under: Silverlight, c#, .NET 3.5, Microsoft, soft, promo, Web, DEV, source, Open Source, download

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