You moved to Windows 7 and tried to deploy and install Arabic or right-to-left VB6.0 application on this environment. The VB 6.0 applications is working but with some exceptions. Some symptoms of the issues: • In VB 6IDE the devs are not...

I got several questions about how to know if the locale\culture is right to left. Arabic is not the only RTL language, there is Farsi, Urdu, Dari, some Chinese and Indian scripts, to name some. There are several techniques but after many trials these...

I few months back I recorded a podcast episode with the help of MVPs: Hammad Rajjoub and Ronald Widha. We talked about developing Arabic applications and some interesting initiatives. You can check it out at http://www.dotnetme.net/2010/04/17/show-3-deena...

I worked on March to deliver a session during Tech.Ed Middle East 2010, with Yasser Makram, MVP. We covered several important topics on Arabic development. We demoed new Arabic features in WPF, Silverlight and showcased the Arabic Visual Studio 2008...

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