Programming The Life

Read my ASP.NET articles on Mobarmij.net here

The mono team made it, they are finishing the Linux version of SilverLight called MoonLight

We launched a new .net Developers Community in Riyadh Mobarmig.net , if you are in Riyadh and interested in the new .net technologies (WPF, WCF, WWF), register now

Check out this site http://www.mp3quran.net/  it contains MP3 version of Quraan for most of the famous Shoyokh

Wow!! i came across this control a while ago but i didn't notice that it's FREE, register and download from here

"Acropolis builds on the rich capabilities of Microsoft Windows and the .NET Framework, including Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), by providing tools and pre-built components that help developers quickly assemble applications from loosely-coupled parts and services. With Acropolis you will be able to: Quickly create WPF enabled user experiences for your client applications. Build client applications from reusable, connectable, modules that allow you to easily create complex, business-focused applications in less time. Integrate and host your modules in applications such as Microsoft Office, or quickly build stand-alone client interfaces. Change the look and feel of your application quickly using built-in themes, or custom designs using XAML. Add features such as workflow navigation and user-specific views with minimal coding. Manage, update, and deploy your application modules quickly and easily." More Info Here

Yep, The Future is Now

Couple of days ago i received an invitaion to Microsoft Popfly, today i played with it and in a couple of minutes i created a simple web page that displays my Flickr photos in a photosphere control

Nothing more to say http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/media/en/popfly/PopFlyin15.wvx http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=308460#308460

Refactor!™ for ASP.NET is a free tool from Developer Express that provides many refactoring options for ASP.NET 2.0 Developers this is a must have tool for any ASP.NET Developer Watch a demo video here , read a blog post on this tool here

From BradA download it from here

The MIX'07 Conference has many goodies for SilverLight Watch Ray Ozzie keynote ( 100k - 300k - 500k ) Getting Started with SilverLight: http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/ Tim Seath Posted some useful videos here Check out the new SilverLight Streaming by Windows Live Service

My friend Mansour pointed me to this arabic rap band http://www.blackattackside.com/ .

Nice post on how to configure your Windows CE 5.0 Emulator to connect to the internet

Today Announced SilverLight formerly known as WPF/E, more info here . I need to start working with this ASAP

A public hotfix is available for Asp.Net 2.0, read more .

I have been using NewsGator as my RSS reader for a very long time now and i always suffered from keeping the news item i read in home and work both in Sync, i decided to try Google Reader , so i exported my feeds subscriptions in NewsGator to an OPML file and i uploaded it to Google Reader, till now everything is working great and it's actually faster than the Desktop application :)

This is hilarious

I ran into a very strange problem that happens when you use a RadioButtonList as a trigger for an UpdatePanel, you can read more about this problem here

I faced the following problem that i wanted to share with you, I have a user control that populates a menu to be shown to the user, the menu is populated based on the user privileges. i wanted to cache this user control so that the menu population logic won't run for every page request, so i decided to cache the output of the user control based on the SessionID, to do this i added the following attribute to the control <%@ OutputCache Duration="1" VaryByCustom="Session" VaryByParam="None" %> the VaryByCustom attribute allows you to vary the cached output by your defined string, having specifying the "Session" as my defined string i had to override the HttpApplication.GetVaryByCustomString method in the Global.asax file Overrides Function GetVaryByCustomString( ByVal context As HttpContext, ByVal custom As String ) As String If custom = "Session" Then Return Session.SessionID Else ...

I took this beta exam earlier today, most questions were on the customization of the process template, work item types, the TFS command line tools and Security and permissions. the only useful resource i found is the Visual Studio Team Foundation Administrator's Guide . i should know the result within weeks, wish me luck :)

My new article at CodeProject was posted today, read it here http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/ASPNetChat.asp

From Windows Now blog: Bill Gates and Steve Jobs will appear together in the Fifth Annual 'D: All Things Digital' Conference.

A new version from reflector is available here , including many new features ( C# 3.0 support), see this presentation for details

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP2 Microsoft Virtual PC 2007

Yes! yesterday i passed the exam and got my driving license, the next step is to search for a good used car :)

A couple of days ago I bought a new laptop DELL Inspiron 6800 (1.8 Core2 Duo, 1 GB DDR Ram, 160 GB SATA Hard Disk, 15" Screen), I though I would give Windows Vista a try, the installation was seamless and took about 25 minutes. Vista recognized all the hardware drivers and everything is working perfectly (although I have a 1 GB RAM shared with the graphics card memory)

Nice Post from Omar Al Zabir, read it here

It's has been raining all day long here in riyadh

This is my mobile number in KSA +966569489065

My first post from outside egypt, i arrived to Riyadh last Saturday, you may know that i left OMS and moved to a new job in the Ministry of Higher Education at Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Riyadh is very big with large network of roads and bridges the kind that makes you feel lost. I'm staying with my friends for the time being, still don't know if i will continue there or get a separate appartment. The work at the ministry starts on 8 AM till 4 PM, untill now i haven't been assigned any tasks, still searching for a PC, desk, partition, etc., but i guess that the applications/systems here is not very complex. Anyway please wish me luck in my new job :)