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What does it mean to have Arabic Support in Silverlight 4?
25 November 09 11:27 AM | Dina Lasheen | 0 Comments   

Really that means two things: 1) Silverlight 4, now displays Arabic properly. On earlier versions, the characters were reversed and appeared in their isolated form. Now we finally have Arabic letters combined and shaped properly. 2) Second, we have a Read More...

Filed under: Arabic, Silverlight

Silverlight 4 Beta available, with Bidi Support
23 November 09 09:26 AM | Dina Lasheen | 0 Comments   

This is a truly exciting time to see the beta of Silverlight 4. Finally after 3 versions we have Arabic support in Silverlight. This is really great news and a great chance for Arabic Silverlight users. I would like people to try it out and download it Read More...

Filed under: Arabic, Silverlight, Bidi

Visual Studio International Feature Pack 2.0 Beta
14 June 09 11:26 AM | Dina Lasheen | 1 Comments   

Visual Studio International Feature Pack 2.0 Beta has some great features for our international customers. There are many features for our East Asian customers in addition to a feature for our Arabic customers. I had many customer requests to display Read More...

Filed under: Arabic, Numeric Library

Arabic CLIP is available!
06 November 08 09:24 AM | Dina Lasheen | 1 Comments   

Microsoft CLIP (or Microsoft Captions Language Interface Pack) is a language solution that uses tooltips or a window to display translation. CLIP works with any application to show translations in the Tooltip and/or the CLIP Window. You can also add/edit/delete Read More...

Filed under: Arabic, CLIP

What About SQL?
05 June 08 10:24 AM | Dina Lasheen | 2 Comments   

I'm all about VS but I came across this interesting article about SQL. The title is Arabic Language Support in SQL Server 2005, it's found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc295829.aspx . It has some interesting info about Arabic support in Read More...

Filed under: Arabic

Arabic Visual Studio?
29 January 08 08:48 AM | Dina Lasheen | 7 Comments   

It’s been such a long time since my last blog entry but I’m finally back. I had a very long time Out Of Office (OOF), I really re-charged my energy but I’m swamped with work. So many things happened since my last blog. The launch of Windows Server, 2008, Read More...

Filed under: General, Arabic