My first English book, actually booklet :) is published. The book contains detailed info about Web Slice, Accelerator and Search Suggestion development. And here is the big surprise! The book will be freely distributed all over MEA in INETA activities and if you don’t get one printed copy don’t worry; you can download all content below including the content of the CD attached to the book.

The Complete Book (3,63 MB)
CD Content

Renewed! :) After being an ASP.NET MVP for the year 2008 I have again the MVP award for the year 2009 and here is my competency: Silverlight!

I’m proud to be one of the first five Silverlight MVPs on the world :)

After months of hard word finally I have my first MSDN Magazine article published! The article is about Internet Explorer 8 features for developers including building Web Slices, Accelerator, Search Suggestion and some extra great AJAX features I hope you will llike.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/tr-tr/magazine/dd458804(en-us).aspx

Enjoy the article ;)

When we plan a web based project we are used to include a designer to the project team. However the story is not the same when we are planning a windows based project. Usually we don’t feel the need of a designer while building windows based apps. This, actually is one the biggest mistakes we do. Unfortunately until WPF arrived we didn’t have any appropriate tool do design our windows apps.

Long story short, last month we started with a WPF / Multipoint application for our local Ministry Of Education. Multipoint SDK is a tool providing multi-cursor/mouse-device programming platform. Our mission was to develop a Paint! for little kids where more than one children can use separate mouse devices and paint together on the same PC.

Scary developer design!

Above you can see our first kind of finished WPF application! Ah yeah, I hear you :) Yes this is a “developer made” WPF app! I guess you will never want your child to see this interface and be scared of computers for the rest of his life!

Below you can see the same project after the touch of a magical designer staff!

Designers Magic!

The most important fact here is that the developer did nothing! While the designer created a nice make-up. We did not change even one line of code while the design process was happening. This is the designer/developer workflow we needed! Actually we don’t need to find a way to communicate developers and designers. With WPF they don’t need to communicate! (Except they don’t have an experienced project manager :))

This week-end we will be at Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus hosting the INETA Week-End event for three days. We will start Friday with the Openenin Ceremony and go on with technical lectures and labs. Here is the plan;

16 January
13.00-14.00 Opening Ceremony
14.00-15.00 DreamSpark and Imagine Cup Launch
15.30-18.30 ASP.NET Dynamic Data

17 January
10.00-12.30 3D Business Applications with WPF
13.30-16.30 Multi-Core Parallel Programming
17.00-19.00 LAB: Parallelize Your .NET Applications

18 January
10.00-12.30 Online Business Applications with Silverlight
13.30-16.30 Programming for High Performance Computing
17.00-.19.00 Light up your data on the web with Silverlight!

I will be hosting the Silverlight and WPF sessions and Tayfun Akcay from Microsoft Turkey will host the Parallel, HPC sessions. Thanks to our MSP from Cyprus, Görkem Güngor for his help in the Launch of Imagine Cup and DreamSpark programs.

Prepare for the huge info bombardment, see you soon ;)

This week-end we made a long visit with a team of developers/designers to Izmir, Dokuz Eylul University. Week-end events are the ones I love most. Why? Because both students and developers from industry can be part of the audience and this mix creates the most suitable social environment for experience interchange!

We did host sessions about SL 3, WPF, IE 8 for developers, ASP.NET Dynamic Data, LINQ and XNA! Thanks to our MVPs and local User Group leads for all their help hosting those sessions and providing support in the mean of activity announcement.

Finally a huge 10X :) to our MSPs from Dokuz Eylul! You ROCK!

Here is it. The first game we build at our Silverlight 2.0 Game Programming session at Microsoft Turkey! Go ahead, try it ;)

Not only the game itself, I’m sharing the source code of this wonderful game :) as well. Unfortunately the source code contains a lot of Turkish variable names. Hope you can figure out the way it is working. Not all the implementations are great, keep in mind that we just finished this game in 45 minutes (except the graphics which we barrowed from another tutorial on the net.)

Game Source Code - 30112008_2.rar (1,85 MB)

Game Programming is a fascinating topic for young students and equally hard in the mean of programming and mathematical calculations. Microsoft Turkey just started a Game Programming Tour where I’m hosting a session called “Game Programming with Silverlight 2.0”. Each day of the tour contains another session called “Game Programming with XNA”.

Microsoft Game Programming Tour, Istanbul

In the first session I’m building a little Silverlight 2.0 game which can be published over the web and in the second session our XNA expert starts coding an XBOX game which can connect to a WCF service :) What is the meaning of this? Actually that’s a child’s play to connect an XBOX game and a Silverlight game to a server with sockets and build an interactive game where people on the XBOX and on the internet can play together online.

Unfortunately the sessions are Turkish and all the code we write contains Turkish variable names :) I will try to share the game with the source on my blog. But before doing that I need to modify the code a little bit in order to extract the WCF logic out of it and provide online random play.

Last week-end we organized an event we call “INETA Capital Hit”. The event took place at the capital city of Turkey called Ankara :) and one of the local universities, Cankaya University been the host.

INETA Capital Hit

I had a great time with 4 of our speakers from different INETA User Groups and a total of random 300 people attending the seminars during the week-end. LINQ, ASP.NET Data Services, WPF, WCF, Silverlight, IIS7 are just some of the hot topics we discussed and hosted technical sessions in collaboration with MSPs and MVPs.

Thanks to all the attendees. Hope to see you soon again ;)

Yay! Silverlight 2.0 is out! Go to www.silverlight.net/getstarted and download all the tools you need. We have got some fresh news for you, first of all there is no more Blend 2.5! Silverlight 2.0 support for Blend comes with the SP1 for Blend 2. We have a new Silverlight Tools for VS to download and a new DeepZoom composer.

Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1  (72.1MB)
Microsoft Expression Blend 2 Service Pack 1 (17.8MB)
Deep Zoom Composer (3.8MB)

Such a great day! Gogogo ;)