By Mostafa Ashour , PM of Maren Team Dear All, We’re pleased to announce that today the Cairo Microsoft Innovation Center (CMIC) is releasing Microsoft Maren , a Windows extension that allows you to type Arabic in Roman characters and have...

From Windows Team Blog post at http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/springboard/default.aspx “Still on the Windows 7 Beta,? You need to move to the RC and fast . Starting July 1 st , the Beta will start to reboot every 2 hrs and expire Aug 1 st . ...

A fresh announcement from ScottGu today, that Microsoft will be shipping jQuery (the light weight javascript library) in the long term with Visual Studio as well as shipping it in the short term with the next versions of Microsoft ASP.net MVC. Microsoft...

I am a PC guy, I always was, for me PC gives more freedom, you can do whatever you like, build the craziest machine you think it is good for you, and you will never be over priced, with PC you are always in control, if you want to add more capacity, just...

Windows Live has some great products, and you are already using bunch of them, Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Hotmail, Windows Live Writer, Windows Live Photo Gallery, Windows Live Mail … etc, but the newest and the most interesting one is Windows...

Whohoooo, Astoria is RTM

Almost an hour of conversation about C# 4.0 from the (Almost new) C# team, you will be surprised who joined the new C# team which can give you a hint about the future of C#. C# 4.0 is one of the greatest achievements of MS and it is still proving that...

I know you are not waiting for me to know that last Full Time day for Bell Gates was yesterday, however I couldn't help it to write about this great journey that inspired everybody. Bill Gates was always the perfect geek, and will always be, he is...

Hey, this is my first blog post for my new blogs :) I will copy some of my old blog posts that I personally like to this new blog, so you will find it being updated every now and then, keep in touch ;)

Hey, It's been a while since my last blog post, I was somehow busy getting married, moving to another country, dealing with tons of paper work, however finally I had a weekend, and I am back to blogging, I have a lot to say, and I think it will be interesting...

I had some cool time working with WCF new features shipped with .net 3.5, one of the most ineteresting and useful features is the JSON support and how easy you can enable the JSON support for your current WCF services by changing the configurations. ...

I've been hearing about PLINQ (Parallel Linq) since the first days of announcing LINQ, the idea of making use of the new functional style programming provided in DotNet 3.5 in order to give better performance on Multi Core machines, the idea sounds cool...

This is the second part of my presentation in SilverKey Demo Day 2 (SKDD 2) last July, for the first part, Check Here , you will also find the presentation slides & samples attached in Part 1 or you can download from here So let's start Let's check...

Service Oriented Architecture via Windows Communications Foundation I should have blogged this very much earlier, because this was my presentation in SilverKey Demo Day II last July 7th, so it took me more than a month, I hope I still rememebr :) You...

This is a post I wanted to write really long time ago, but I never had enough time to sit and write. The following listing will be my agenda for this post Why Javascript for ASP.net developers is different ? Javascript tricks for ASP.net developers Reading...

I have posted before about how to implement the observer pattern using C# in a way that is more suitable to C# and uses its functionalities to produce more elegant code. This time I am re-implementing the Command pattern in a C# way. First of all, let...

One of the most interesting patterns in Design Patterns is the Observer pattern which is listed under Behavioral Patterns, it is really important how to make other classes which are interested in the state of another object get notified when the state...

Hey, These are some Interview Questions with suggested answers we collected in Middle-East-Developers , for more questions in other fields like C++, you can check the group. These questions are collected by Adel Khalil Yehia Megahed Hisham...

I've been reading for a while in the great CLR via C# second edition book, and here is one of the best things I've seen there, When you declare a type, the CLR in runtime automatically rearrange the order of your type members for performance, so the access...

I've been using Windows Work Flow (WF) for a while, and I faced a lot of problems that I could solve, and this article is about one of them, I am working on a project that faced the situation which I need to raise the same event to more than one HandleExternalEventActivity...

From the first days of C# 1.0 we could do stuff like this public static int Add( int x, int y) { return x + y; } and also C# gives you the ability to write the function signature in the form of delegate, that allows function pointers so you can do something...

This time I will talk about how to implement a plugin module that loads and runs plugins in your application. but first why do we need such thing? In so many cases, you need to provide a way that enables someone else to write a piece of code that can...