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Windows Phone 7: Hands on Demo.

February 16th, 2010 at 10:15 am by Ahmet Gyger

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Posted in Microsoft, Mobile, Videos



Interesting video (from Channel 9) showing a preview of the winPhone 7 OS.

I am just a bit worried about the localized version of Bing. So far I have seen it working in the US. Does that mean that Bing will be updated for a worldwide support or that the winPhone7 will be available only in [...]

Microsoft Pivot – an innovative way of browsing information

February 12th, 2010 at 10:59 am by Ahmet Gyger

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Posted in Intelligence, Microsoft, RIA



After playing with Pivot, I have been really existed by the possibilities that Pivot offers.
”Pivot makes it easier to interact with massive amounts of data in ways that are powerful, informative, and fun.”
Simply speaking, Pivot is a tool that helps us visually browse collections of information.

Figure 1: Item view in Pivot while browsing the mathematics [...]

Synchronous and Asynchronous use of Delegate with C#

January 18th, 2010 at 1:25 pm by Ahmet Gyger

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Posted in CSharp, Microsoft, Tutorials



 For developers the quality of a program can be often express in the time used to finish the computation. With current multicore processor we have to move our thinking from a serial execution to a concurrent execution. Using delegates in an asynchronous way can force the CLR to allocate multiple threads to your computation.
In below [...]

Get Arguments array from CmdLine of a WPF Application.

December 18th, 2009 at 6:24 pm by Ahmet Gyger

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Posted in CSharp, Microsoft, Tutorials



 
This is my first post of, I hope, a series related to WPF and C#.
The examples below are made with VS (Visual Studio) 2010 and .Net 4.0, for this precise example you can make it work with .Net 3.5 at least.
During the life of an application we can listen for some important events, these events [...]

Search does not need engines, knowledge and decision does.

May 28th, 2009 at 11:25 pm by Ahmet Gyger

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Posted in Google, Intelligence, Microsoft



Search engine are not doing search anymore… No search is for small player, now the real thing is to have an evolved engine. Where Wolframalpha offer a computational knowledge engine, Bing offer a decision engine. So far Google can keep being Google fearless ; )
Bing (also known as Kumo) should be publicly available on June 3rd. At least the name [...]

Know our history: Pirate of Silicon Valley.

May 27th, 2009 at 11:25 pm by Ahmet Gyger

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Posted in Microsoft, Videos



Just in case you haven’t seen it yet, a biographical look at the men who founded Apple and Microsoft and a look at the early days of the companies.

Enjoy,
Ahmet

Wanna try Visual Studio 2010 Professional Beta 1 ?

May 25th, 2009 at 10:16 pm by Ahmet Gyger

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Posted in CSharp, Microsoft



Just noticed that Visual Studio 2010 pro (beta 1) is now available to download as a web installer.
I am personnaly quite new to the VS world, I have been using it daily for only 9 month now. I must say that I am still quite impresse by the simplicity and the power this tool have.
Just try [...]

Windows 7 Beta is now Available :)

January 10th, 2009 at 12:09 am by Ahmet Gyger

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Posted in Microsoft



While trying to download Windows7 today (like a lot of other people it seems as the server are too busy), I saw this postpone message from the Windows blog, I share it here as it is so slow to access:
Due to very heavy traffic we’re seeing as a result of interest in the Windows 7 [...]

Microsoft – ZDC –

January 5th, 2009 at 10:43 pm by Ahmet Gyger

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I’m a bit late for propagating the news, so you may have already heard that Microsoft has opened the Zurich Development Center (December 2008).

 

 
We are working on bits for Office Communication Server.
The work enviromement is really great, we got very confortable offices with a fitness room and a game room (ping-pong, dart, table soccer, shuffle [...]

WMI and CSharp (C#)
Enumerate all the instances (and properties) from a class via WQL

November 26th, 2008 at 12:32 am by Ahmet Gyger

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Posted in CSharp, Microsoft, Tutorials



In the two previous posts (Enumerate all classes from a namespace and Enumerate all Namespaces from Root) we gather enough information to enumerate namespaces and classes. In this post we are going to see how to enumerate all the instances from a class via WQL.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Management;

namespace WmiNamespace
{
class Program
[...]