Next month is gonna be kind of crazy, or as I like to call it – “Crazy October!”. As much as I like public speaking appearances, this upcoming October is gonna be packed with appearances in three major international conferences. TechBash 2017 First up is TechBash taking place on October 4th-6th at the Pocono Manor…
שבוע שעבר נערך כנס מפתחי התוכנה השנתי הגדול של מיקרוסופט – Microsoft Build. במהלך הכנס הוכרזו והוצגו מספר רב של חידושים עבור הפלטפורמות הטכנולוגיות השונות של מיקרוסופט אשר את עיקריהן אסקור במאמר זה.
IoT is Hot IoT gets all the hype these days. It is the new buzzword and soon it will be in every part of our life. But what are the parts that compose an IoT project? What is the correct way to build it? In case you haven’t heard, Tamir Dresher and myself are presenting…
Last week I attended Microsoft’s Build conference at San-Francisco along with my colleagues. Build is Microsoft’s prime developer conference, and as such it is packed with technical content relating to software development on top of Microsoft’s various platforms – from Band, to Xbox, to PC to Azure. In this post I’ll try to summarize my key…
Windows Phone 8 SDK was released during the BUILD conference about 3 weeks ago, and an increasing number of developers are actively developing new apps for the new platform. This post focuses on the software and hardware requirements for running the Windows Phone 8 Emulator, and specifically the requirement for hardware Second-Level Address Translation (SLAT)…
The BUILD party has passed, and the final day of BUILD has unfortunately arrived. This day had some interesting sessions which I’ll summarize in this post. Remember – all BUILD sessions are available for free on MSDN Channel 9. BUILD Session – Deep Dive Into the Kernel of .NET on Windows Phone 8 Unfortunately, the…
The BUILD conference’s third day was devoted fully to breakout conferences, with the BUILD party at the end of the day (and Microsoft has shown before that they know to throw a party). As always – all BUILD sessions are available on MSDN channel 9. BUILD Session – Tips and Tricks for Developing Connected Applications…
Day number two of BUILD has passed on by with some great content. In this post I’ll highlight some issues I encountered today at some of the professional sessions, which were all related to Windows Azure. You should note that all BUILD sessions are available for free on Channel 9. BUILD Keynote – Windows 8…
In a previous post, I highlighted BUILD’s first day keynote main topics, and on this post I would like to focus on my highlights from the professional sessions of the day. By the way – all BUILD sessions are available for free on Channel 9. BUILD Session – Bringing Existing C++ Code to Windows Store…
BUILD has finally begun on Tuesday, after a long wait. CodeValue is here at BUILD in full strength with 10 experts at the conference itself, and one more disappointed expert who unfortunately got stuck at home due to hurricane Sandy (Pavel, we’re with you at heart). By the way, if you missed it I am…
Thank you to all those who attended Alon’s, Pavel’s and mine sessions yesterday at the Windows User-Group at Microsoft Israel. My session focused on an introduction to the CLR Profiling API, and I had a great time presenting it, with interesting questions from the crowd and hardcore C++ and even some inline Assembly (!!). I…
As a veteran software developer, you must have already heard that the CLR can be hosted inside any application. You probably also heard that you can host it yourself, opening the door for many exciting customizations you can perform in the process. However, you might have been a little wary to try and implement it…