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How simple mental calculations are

Sun, 08 Feb 2009 22:39:51 GMT

Simple way to perform math power and multiplication calculations mentaly

Brilliant, yet simple technical questions, can be used for work interv

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:35:14 GMT

Some technical questions from 11th grade Russian exam, that will help you to choose good candidate for hardware engineer.

WPF Disciples

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:16:18 GMT

This post list all the WPF Disciples blogs and feeds for easy access. The webfeeds are also supplied as a OPML file for easy consumption into IE7 or outlook

Open Source licenses comparison table

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:26:58 GMT

Usable comparison table of open source licenses. What each license means and how to use it.

Nifty time savers for WPF development

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:28:30 GMT

Those are some of my everyday small "time savers" - extended methods, I'm using for everyday WPF development

Audio CD operation including CD-Text reading in pure C#

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:09:11 GMT

Managed way to rip tracks and get cdtext of CDROM

New version of Hebrew and Arabic support for Silverlight was released

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:45:41 GMT

RC2 of Hebrew and Arabic bidirectional support for Silverlight was just released.

USB FM radio library was published on CodePlex

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:47:23 GMT

Fully managed (C#) open source library to support USB FM radios with RDS and TMC support

Wiring audio echo service with managed DirectSound and C#

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 01:04:53 GMT

This article explains the way you can create your own echo service by using managed DirectSound and C#. You can capture voice from the microphone of any other audio source and stream it to PC speakers.

How to write WPF or Silverlight program without XAML

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:34:47 GMT

From the moment, 10K MIX09 contest was launched, people keep asking the same question: Is it possible to have Silverlight program up and running without XAML at all? The answer is: YES. This article explains how

Reading and decoding RDS (Radio Data System) in C# - Just code - Tamir

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 05:32:43 GMT

RDS or Radio Data System is very common in US and many European countries. It is communication protocol used to send small amount of digital information using regular FM radio broadcast. This protocol is used to "tell" your receiver about alternative frequencies, time, program notifications, program types, traffic information and regular text (such as singer name or genre). Unfortunately in Israel RDS is not very common and there is very limited number of radio stations broadcasts RDS information.

Creating real transparent controls with compact framework

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:20:02 GMT

This article explains one of easiest ways to create real transparent controls, can be positioned over other controls with image background with compact framework and windows mobile 5

How to P/Invoke VarArgs (variable arguments) in C#?

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:52:28 GMT

This article explains the way of marshaling C and C++ variable arguments from and to C# by using hidden features of CLR

P/Invoke Check Sheet

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:05:55 GMT

This article will help you to understand how to create managed signatures for unmanaged methods, types and delegates

Trigger based binding

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:18:45 GMT

This article explains the way of creation custom markup extension for setting binding, based on trigger. It includes full source code also

Silverlight 2.0 BiDi controls libarary was updated to Silverlight RC0

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:14:44 GMT

I just got free minutes and updated bidirectional (Hebrew/Arabic) support for Silverlight 2.0 toward RC0. So, if you're using it, please be sure to get the latest version

Visual Studio snippet designer

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:46:02 GMT

Recently Microsoft released source code and compiled version of previously internal tool, that helps to create and manage code snippets in Visual Studio IDE

GIS calculations helper classes

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:38:17 GMT

If you ever wrote GIS programs, you, probably, know, that every time we forget how to convert latlon (Latitude-Longitude or, simpler World Geographical System) coordinates into Universal Transverse Mercator coordinates and vise verse, how to calculate geographical distance from point to point, line or segment to point and line to line, how to calculate azimuth between two geo points, or how to calculate destination point, based on start coordinate, distance and bearing.

Configuring and running ASP.NET 3.5 on Linux

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:16:02 GMT

This article is about running, configuring and debugging ASP.NET and AJAX.NET on Linux machine with Mono

Arabic and Hebrew bidirectional support for Silverlight - Alpha

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:46:22 GMT

You are invited to take part in alpha tests of Arabic and Hebrew biderectional support for Silverlight

How to handle Thickness in Silverlight

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:27:59 GMT

This article is about a process of building Thickness Typeconverter, which is a part of future community BIDI support for Silverlight

How to use and build type converters in Silverlight

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:01:07 GMT

Article describes how and why use TypeConverter attribute in Silverlight, also it includes number of tips to efficient use of custom classes, derived from TypeConverter

Silverlight Visual Tree investigation

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:50:35 GMT

The article about using VisualTreeHelper in Silverlight to seek and find all elements, contains text property

Using HLSL to create Pixel Shader effects in WPF

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:36:39 GMT

This article explains how to write HLSL to create interesting bitmap and shader effects in WPF

Silverlight controls library has been updated for Silverlight 2 beta 2

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:00:52 GMT

I just updated my open source Silverlight controls library to Silverlight 2.0 beta 2 and describes some of breaking changes between beta 1 and beta 2 versions of Silverlight