Programming The Life

Windows 8 Session

2012-01-29T08:30:00.001+03:00

In our next DevLifeStyle Community event I will be presenting a session on Windows 8. you can register here http://dlsfeb2012.eventbrite.com/

Silverlight 5 P-Invoke: Using Kinect SDK from Silverlight

2011-09-27T23:17:00.001+03:00

Away from all the discussions about whether Silverlight is dead or not, The Silverlight 5 RC contains the previously announced P-Invoke feature which enables you to call Win32 style APIs from a trusted Silverlight application. There are some attempts to use Kinect from Silverlight (here) but this was before MS released the official SDK. we will use Silverlight 5 P-Invoke feature to call the

Surface 2.0 SDK Released

2011-07-12T18:51:00.001+03:00

The long awaited Surface 2.0 SDK has been just released. to get started go to the new Surface Developer Center and download the SDK. Once downloaded and installed, start VS2010, you will find the Surface 2.0 project templates available Let’s create a sample application, I will create a simple twitter client (hopefully before scottgu creates it) let’s name it TwittSurf Once we created the

Portable Library Tools

2011-07-11T00:14:00.001+03:00

With the introduction of Windows Phone 7.0 a new opportunity emerged for Silverlight developers, this new platform uses Silverlight (a version of Silverlight 3.0) as the main framework to build applications on the phone. When building applications for Silverlight and WP7 you will find that you can reuse some of the code across the two platforms, Linked source files were used to share code between

DevLifeStyle Community: June 2011 Event Recordings

2011-07-04T12:07:00.001+03:00

I uploaded the sessions recordings for our last event to YouTube, you can find the list here: http://www.devlifestyle.net/content/DevlifestyleJune2011EventRecordings.aspx

MVVM

2011-06-28T13:50:00.001+03:00

I will be delivering a session on MVVM Thursday June 30, in the DevLifeStyle community monthly meeting. To register and view the detailed agenda, click here

DevLifeStyle May 2011 Community Event

2011-04-24T11:06:00.001+03:00

We are back again, join us on May 5,2011. I will be delivering a session on the new features in Silverlight5. To register and view the detailed agenda, click here

Silverlight 4.0 with SharePoint 2010

2011-03-01T20:32:00.001+03:00

On Last Friday 25th I delivered an online session part of the Second Riyadh Online Community Summit, here is a recording of the session Download and here is the source code of the demos Download

Silverlight 4.0 Tutorial (12 of N): Collecting Attendees Feedback using Windows Phone 7

2011-02-15T01:30:00.001+03:00

You can find a list of the previous tutorial posts here Continuing our RegistrationBooth Application… It’s very important to collect the attendees feedback to help us improve the future sessions/events we might organize, we can go ahead and implement this functionality in the RegistrationBooth application. but in this post we will take a different approach, we will implement a Windows Phone 7

Silverlight 4.0 Tutorial (11 of N): Roulette Behavior

2011-01-17T09:41:00.002+03:00

You can find a list of the previous tutorial posts here Continuing our RegistrationBooth Application… In most of the offline events we hold, there are some giveaways for the audience (most of the time the prize is XBOX). Picking a winner is manual process where we collect the feedback forms, put it in a big box/bag, shake the box/bag and turn it upside down multiple times to make sure that the

Expression Blend Demo

2011-01-10T10:27:00.001+03:00

In our last community event I delivered a session about using Expression Blend to build Silverlight Applications, many people asked me for the demo project I used, This time I will not write a blog post to walk you through the demo, instead I thought I will give it a try and record a video of the demo, here is the video http://www.devlifestyle.net/videos/Blend-Silverlight.mp4 please let me

Microsoft Communities in Saudi Arabia 2009/2010 Story in Pictures

2010-12-26T20:49:00.001+03:00

It' has been two years since I started working with the DevLifeStyle community in Saudi Arabia. The best thing about working the communities is that you get to meet with great people who share with you the same passion to technology. I’m really looking forward to continue our community efforts in the next year. In celebration of this occasion, I collected all the communities events pictures that

Join us at Riyadh Community Summit 23 December

2010-12-12T10:16:00.001+03:00

Are you ready to attend our next community summit and have a chance to win XBOX or KINECT? Detailed agenda can be found here http://www.devlifestyle.net/RCS2 what do you think of this Silverlight invitation

Silverlight 4.0 Tutorial (10 of N): Working with the PathListBox

2010-11-26T01:16:00.002+03:00

You can find a list of the previous tutorial posts here Continuing our RegistrationBooth Application, In this post we will make a change to the way we display the list of attendees. Currently we display them in a standard ListBox, we will replace this with a PathListBox, the PathListBox is a new customized control that comes with Blend SDK. From its name this control is a list box however its

Silverlight 4.0 with SharePoint 2010 (2 of 2)

2010-11-09T00:44:00.001+03:00

In the previous post we set the stage for how can we start building Silverlight applications for SharePoint 2010 You have three options to actually program against the SharePoint from Silverlight: First there’s the SharePoint web services that have been there for a long time, Second there’s the new REST APIs that is suitable for working with strongly typed lists and the final option is the

HTML5 and Silverlight: The hype is over. Thanks Bob!

2010-11-01T22:52:00.001+03:00

After a long week full of confusion, controversy and anger, Bob Muglia provide more clarification. Kill Silverlight?! what did you think guys?! For GOD’s sake Silverlight is not the Ugly Kin to simply terminate like this. By the way, too many “Is Silverlight Dead?” screams out there but no “Is Flash Dead?” ! does this tell anything?!

Silverlight 4.0 with SharePoint 2010 (1 of 2)

2010-10-30T17:07:00.001+03:00

It’s been a while since I used SharePoint as I was focusing lately on Silverlight, In this post I will start exploring how to use Silverlight 4.0 with SharePoint 2010, I must mention that I’m not a SharePoint expert so please feel free to update me if there’s something mentioned that is not correct. What I like about SharePoint 2010 is that Silverlight comes right out of the box. The first thing

Join us @ ROCS

2010-10-08T13:31:00.001+03:00

The first Riyadh Online Community Summit (ROCS) will be held on 21-22 October. this is the first online event in Riyadh organized by Riyadh Communities (RSUG, DevLifeStyle, WindowsPhoneME), we are having speakers from the local communities as well as MVPs from all over the world. the detailed agenda can be found here http://rocs1.eventbrite.com/ Registration link https://www2.gotomeeting.com/

Silverlight 4.0 Tutorial (9 of N): Using the WebCam as a Barcode Scanner

2010-10-07T13:58:00.001+03:00

You can find a list of the previous tutorial posts here Continuing our RegistrationBooth Application, we want to allow registered users to evaluate sessions, we don’t have a credentials store in our application so to identify the registered attendees we will use a simpler approach, in part2 we allowed printing a name tag for registered attendees, this name tag contains a barcode of the attendee

Silverlight 4.0 Tutorial Index

2010-09-24T14:07:00.004+03:00

Here is a list of all the posts in the Silverlight 4.0 Tutorial i had till now, i will keep this list updated as i publish more content: - Part1: Building the Database and the Domain Model - Part2: Capturing the WebCam - Part3: Working with the DataForm Control - Part4: ListBox ItemTemplate - Part5: More Blend! - Part6: Working with the ItemsControl - Part7: Visual States - Part8: Fluid

Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools RTM Problem

2010-09-18T23:07:00.003+03:00

I couldn’t get Windows Phone 7 Tools RTM to work, whenever i try to deploy the application i receive the following error “Connection failed because of invalid command-line arguments.” this long thread which comes on the top of the search results has the solution buried among all the replies http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsphone7series/thread/fde4c415-44c5-4837-

Silverlight 4.0 Tutorial (8 of N): Fluid Layouts

2010-09-08T20:00:00.001+03:00

Read Previous Posts: Part1, Part2, Part3, Part4, Part5, Part6, Part7In our last post we implemented visual states for our application, you may have noticed in the States tab in Blend the Default Transition section the default transition is applied when moving from any state to any other state. - You can create transitions between any pair of states, for each transition you specify how long it

Upcoming Microsoft Middle East Events

2010-09-05T11:28:00.001+03:00

Microsoft Open Door Event: - Riyadh: November 2-3 - Jeddah: November 7 (more information here) TechEd Middle East 2011: Dubai March 8 – 10 (more info here)

Silverlight 4.0 Tutorial (7 of N): Visual States

2010-09-04T10:17:00.001+03:00

Read Previous Posts: Part1, Part2, Part3, Part4, Part5, Part6 Continuing our registration booth application, i did some changes to the application UI, here’s how the application look like right now - As you can see i removed the navigation features in the application, we will keep it as a one simple xaml page, i also changed some colors (excuse my poor color picking skills). - After looking

Silverlight 4.0 Tutorial (6 of N): Working with the ItemsControl

2010-08-07T14:49:00.001+03:00

Read Previous Posts: Part1, Part2, Part3, Part4, Part5 In this part of the series we will build the event agenda - First let’s try to make some room on the UI for the agenda, add a new row to the LayoutRoot grid, make sure that the attendees ListBox has RowSpan=2, then move the DataForm to the lower right cell, we will display the agenda in the upper right cell, Now our home page should look