Hussein Zahran [MVP]

Moved my Blog to http://www.barmagy.com

Hussein — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 10:17:00 GMT

Sorry to leave behind 3 years of being here, but its time to have a blog to target a specific audience and to co-operate with other professionals to get a new community to the scene my blog is http://barmagy.com/blogs/dotnetgate/default.aspx am writing with the name Hus it will be nice to see you there and will keep my old posts here will not move it.

ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 RC

Hussein — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:56:00 GMT

Available for download , Microsoft announced Thursday the RC version for the ASP.NET AJAX Framework Enjoy ;)

ASP.NET AJAX Timer Control-Here we go

Hussein — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 18:14:00 GMT

The timer control is one of the ASP.NET AJAX (ATLAS ) controls, We could use the timer control for several usage, such as setting a clock on your page, updating the price of a company’s quote each while for example, and more.
The process of doing this now is so simple I remember the time when we did that using javascript and it was not that simple,.
First you have to add a reference to the Microsoft.Web.Atlas.dll located in the folder you have installed the ATLAS components to.
After that we will drag a ScriptManager control to our page and rename it to scriptManager.

Note: the ScriptManager should be the first ATLAS control located on your page else an error such the following will face you for example
An UpdatePanel requires a ScriptManager on the page. The ScriptManager must exist before the UpdatePanels.

Anyways, after dragging the ScriptManager control consider setting the EnablePartialRendering property to true
The next step is dragging an UpdatePanel to your content area, then add a ContentTemplate tag to it add more controls inside our UpdatePanel
For the propose of this post we will add 2 controls a Label and a Timer Control
Our label will be called lblDate
The timer will be timerControl
As a Timer the control is provided with an Interval property and a Tick Event.
We will set the interval for 1000 so our timer will fire the Tick event every 1 second to update the Label with the server time.











protected void timerControl_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        lblDate.Text = DateTime.Now.ToString();
    }

When we run our code the Label will appear empty after 1 second it will be get updated with the server date and time.
With the existence of the Timer control things now are very simple and provides to our hands a usable web page that could do more than updating a label.
Enjoy you night guys ;)

Download the ASP.NET AJAX v1.0 beta

Hussein — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:24:00 GMT

I was surprised and i want to surprise you with the beta release of the ASP.NET ASAX framework, here you go click here to download the beta release

Overview on Cider for Creating WPF Applications

Hussein — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:56:00 GMT

Cider is the code name for the Visual Designer for Windows Presentation Foundation, i was browsing today some of the functionality embedded in and really it's amazing to see things from both the designer and the XAML code and how things works, also i created a simple Hello World application and here i'll introduce you with some of the basic functionality providing visual assistance to go through this new tool,

first let me guide you to the following post where Simon Guest provide a basic introduction for the needed prerequisites and tools to start with the WPF

Here is where you start, you start by creating a new Windows Application under the .NET Framework 3.0 Projects node

Let us name it TestHelloWorld
A new Project will be created as shown in the Solution Explorer, By looking into the project elements you will find the project references couple of Components, also you will note the .XAML extension with the new added Window form, Window1.XAML also has a code behind for it called Window1.XAML.CS,

This how the designer environment looks like 2 panes, one contains the designer area and the other contains the XAML editor area, let us start by changing the Title of the Window form to Hello World

<Window x:Class="TestHelloWorld.Window1"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    Title="Hello World" Height="300" Width="300"
    >
    <Grid>

    </Grid>
</Window>

We will notice the Grid element, the Grid element is one of the container elements that exists so lets currently use the Grid Continer Control, as this control will be the working area for us to add our controls, so lets go to the next stage so fast.

Adding The Controls
First we will add a Button and a Label from the left toolbox , I have added some customizations and here is the XAML representation

<Grid Background="Black">
    <Button Margin="18,16,0,22" Background="Orange" Click="SayHello" Name="btnHelloWorld" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Width="75">Click Me!!</Button>
    <Label Margin="120,44,10,41" Foreground="White" Name="lblHello" ></Label>
</Grid>

and here how it looks like in the design mood

Ok, but my target was to say Hello World to those who will click the button represented on the above image, so let us see how we will fire this event in the WPF way :D

Events
Ok adding an event could be done through 2 ways as I have done till now, either by creating an event for that button and this will not be different from how you add events in the old way of dealing with the regular .NET applications, but the new is the XAML way of adding an event so let’s add an attribute called click to our button we have and assign a value of SayHello as below

<Button Margin="18,16,0,22" Background="Orange" Click="SayHello" Name="btnHelloWorld" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Width="75">Click Me!!</Button>

What we still have is to add a method that will say Hello Word, so lets switch to the code behind and add the following method in it

public void SayHello(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            lblHello.Content = "Hello World";
        }

Yes lblHello.Content not .Text, it taked me 5 minutes to explore the properties to add a text value to that Label, anyways let’s now run the application we have now and see the end result

That’s the final result we will get after we run the application and click on the button, In the end I know that this was a simple one but I wanted to share with you the first hello world I have created using the WPF designer “Cider”

Enjoy your time with it ;)

Fixing the Visual Studio Content Installer Error

Hussein — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:36:00 GMT

I was faced this morning with a problem while installing the ASPNETAtlas.vsi and each time i try to run the VSI it gives me the String cannot have a zero length tried all possible solutions until i found the following post

and i noticed that it's a registery key problm all you have to do is to add 2 keys under the following registery path

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSEnvCommunityContent\ContentTypes\VSTemplate]

Create the following keys if they are missing
"ClassName"="VSContentInstaller.VSTemplateInstallerPage"
"DisplayName"="#VSTemplateContentDisplayName"

thanks to Frank for that post it helped me alot as i was facing this issue with my laptop and i needed to install the atlas components to do some demos

Enjoy guys ;)

ATLAS to be ASP.NET AJAX

Hussein — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 18:39:00 GMT

I just noticed that the code name ATLAS is changed to ASP.NET AJAX before it's official release click here to download the updated toolkit, enjoy

New to Development?

Hussein — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 07:52:00 GMT

If you are new to development or you would like to increase your development know how here you are the ASP.NET New to Development section

http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/learning/learn/newtodevelopment/

Develop Without Borders- Are you ready for it

Hussein — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 07:42:00 GMT

It's agreat opportunity for you guys who wish to share your ideas in solving world problems through designing an application on the 2007 Microsoft Office System,
You could win through your actions in the charity activities

for more information go now to that link

Reach out. Make a Difference ;)

Go Atlas Go - &amp;quot;Atlas&amp;quot; June CTP Release

Hussein — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 10:00:00 GMT

The Atlas team was working hard to deliver us the June CTP Release which will include many bug fixs go and download guys ;) Click Here

The Egyptian Dev House workspace - Are you ready for it? :D

Hussein — Sun, 21 May 2006 11:57:00 GMT

I am glad to announce that we had launched the Egyptian Dev House workspace that is moderated by a number of local Egyptian MVPs, we are mainly targeting the Egyptian professionals, instructors, students and hobbyists, if you are interested please visit us on http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/workspace.aspx?id=01930e48-76f0-45c7-b658-84c794ee77e1

Atlas Control Toolkit Refresh Released

Hussein — Fri, 05 May 2006 19:12:00 GMT

I was browsing Shawn Burke's Blog and i noticed that the Atlas Control Toolkit Refresh Released good job check it out here

Running ASP.NET 2.0 on a machine that are not running IIS

Hussein — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 19:30:00 GMT

Well I was in a big need to run a web service that works with the Windows workflow foundation and that was impossible to run it as my machine is not running a windows XP professional version well, to solve this problem I know that there were a solution to that which was Cassini but I didn’t knew if there is a build for the .NET 2.0 or not well I’am here to tell those who don’t know that currently there is a .NET 2.0 version of Cassini it still in its Release Candidate but its cool anyways here you go the URLs are included :D http://ultidev.com/Products/Cassini/CassiniDevGuide.htm
http://ultidev.com/download/default.aspx

WinFX Tour– inside the Egyptian borders 15th of May

Hussein — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:47:00 GMT

The WinFX Tour will be visiting couple of countries to provide the latest news about the WinFX technologies and to provide couple of demos, one of the amazing things is that the WinFX tour will be visiting Egypt next month in the 15th of May its really wonderful news I am really interested to attend
click here to register if you are intrested

Source Code for the Built-in ASP.NET 2.0 Providers Now Available for Download

Hussein — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 06:52:00 GMT

Source Code for the Built-in ASP.NET 2.0 Providers Now Available for Download ,
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/04/13/442772.aspx