Want to learn more about Windows Phone? Check out my lecture at E4D’s Expert Days.

Last month I gave a series of lectures in various campuses around Israel about Windows Phone and Azure.

The lecture included an introduction to Silverlight, Windows Phone, and a short overview of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone.

During August 11-12 there will be a workshop for any student who needs assistance in submitting [...]

In WCF we can use the APM pattern to create an asynchronous client. For example, consider the following service contract:

[ServiceContract]
public interface IHello
{
[OperationContract]
string Greet(string name);
}

An APM-enabled version of this interface would look like this:

[ServiceContract(Name = "IHello")]
public interface IHelloApm

You’ve all read about the asynchrony promise of C# 5 (if you haven’t, I highly recommend reading Eric Lippert’s series about the subject or this post won’t make much sense). I think it’s a great step forward, and it would make asynchronous programming all a lot easier.

We already know how to think in [...]

Pivot is a Microsoft Silverlight control which can visualize collections of data, filter and sort them in a very appealing manner. To see what I mean, check out the CodeValue Blogs Pivot:

codevalue.net/blogspivot/

This allows you to browse through our blogs, and to filter them by tags, dates and authors.

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Today I’m saying goodbye to Sela. I’ve been a senior consultant at Sela for the past 9 months, and it has been a good experience for me; I’m much more experienced with giving lectures and teaching classes. I’ve also had a chance to meet and work with some of the leading experts in their fields.

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A few months ago I’ve decided to write a Prism tutorial by building a WPF UI for the .NET Reflector.

Red Gate, the owner of Reflector, liked the idea so they asked me to write it for their magazine, Simple Talk.

Today the article was published, and you may read it on the Simple [...]

I’ve prepared a class diagram for my students of main WPF controls, divided into Decorators, Panels, Content Controls and Items Controls. The diagram was generated using the new Visual Studio 2010 Visualization and Modeling Tools (with a bit of manual cleanup).

I’ve also attached an XPS version and the DGML source.

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One of the new features in .NET 4.0 is Side-By-Side In-Process (SxS InProc) execution of older CLRs (e.g. .NET 2.0). Previously, SxS was supported only in different processes. If you look it up, you’ll find these two (yet to be updated) blog posts by the CLR team, an MSDN Magazine article as [...]

I recently attended the Microsoft MIX10 conference in Las Vegas. I had a nice time, but mostly because of the location; Las Vegas is an interesting place. The conference itself was mainly a PR for the new Windows Phone, but there were a couple of very interesting lectures I would like to share:

The [...]