Ayman Farouk

Do you blog in Arabic ?

2007-02-23T11:51:00Z

I spent the past couple of weeks looking at the Arabic .NET websites, watching their posts and articles. To tell the truth, they're doing a great job and they have huge number of users but I realized that they do not use BLOGS at all. They only depend on FORUMS and static articles. Thus, I got a small idea in my mind, but before I go any further. I want to know about you, do you BLOG in Arabic ? Or do you have the potential to do ? If yes, please leave me a comment.

Thanks,
a.

Hall of Fame !

2007-02-02T01:54:00Z

I was checking Simon Muzio blog when I saw his post about the ASP.NET Hall of Fame ! The idea is too interesting, it will push the users to give their best in the forums, and the website in general. When I visited the Hall of Fame page I was surprised the most when I saw Bilal Haider, the Lebanese MVP heading the top of this list with 41,098 points. Congratulations Bilal, we're too proud of you.

a.

Did you Blend it yet ?

2007-02-01T15:18:00Z

Well, I have just installed Microsoft Expression BLEND ~~beta 1~~ .. Guys,, it is really awsome..

I do recommend you to get it and install it..

more will be pulished soon ;)

Updated: Thanks guys for your comments, it was a styping mistake only.. I meant Beta 2 :-)

Windows Live Mail & Firefox !

2007-01-28T12:36:00Z

For some testing reasons I have installed the Firefox web browser on my machine. I got surprised when I saw Windows Live Mail doesn't work properly under Firefox ! Did Hotmail team forgot Firefox users ??

One, Two,, WPFE Intellisense !

2007-01-06T04:58:00Z

You have installed the WPFE SDK, and trying to write some XAML code using your VS.NET, BUT your lovely VS didnt give you WPFE intellisense !?

Okay, follow these two steps and you'll fine :P

1 ) Go to the folder which contains the SDK and copy the WPFE.XSD file

( Program Files -- > Microsoft SKDs --> WPFE --> HELP --> XSD )

2 ) Paste the file you've copied into

(Program Fies --> Microsoft Visual Studio 8 --> Xml --> Schemas )

Restart you VS.NET,, enjoy !

WPF/E + Express Design Simple Button !

2007-01-05T15:30:00Z

Umm, the result of my first 30 minutes playing with Express Design and WPFE .. I wanted to upload the files but I couldnt figur out how. However, the codes are here.. Three files, button.xaml, button.js, buttonHolder.htm

First, buttonHolder.htm

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
    <title>WPFE Test</title>
    
     </script type="text/javascript" src="js/aghost.js">
      
       </script type="text/javascript" src="js/button.js">
</head>
<body>
<div id="agControl1Host">
    <script type="text/javascript">
  
  new agHost(
    "agControl1Host", 
    
    "agControl1", 
    "300px",
    "300px", 
    "#D6D6D6", 
    null, 
    "button.xaml", 
                
    "false", 
    "30", 
    null 
                
  );

  
  var agControl = document.getElementById("agControlmt1");

</script>

    </div>
</body>
</html>

Second, button.xaml

<Canvas Width="2000" Height="3000" Background="White"
  xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" 
  xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml">
  <Canvas x:Name="Layer_1" Width="816" Height="1056" Loaded="BLOCKED SCRIPTCanvasLoad">
    <Rectangle x:Name="Rectangle" MouseLeftButtonDown="BLOCKED SCRIPTbuttonClick" Canvas.Left="25.5391" Canvas.Top="26.545" Width="208.95" Height="62.9569" Stretch="Fill" StrokeThickness="0.96" StrokeLineJoin="Round" Stroke="#FF000000">
      <Rectangle.Triggers>
        <EventTrigger RoutedEvent="Rectangle.MouseLeftButtonDown">
          <EventTrigger.Actions>
            <BeginStoryboard>
              <Storyboard x:Name="Click" Duration="Forever" BeginTime="0">
                <DoubleAnimation Storyboard.TargetName="Rectangle"
                    Storyboard.TargetProperty="Opacity"
                    From="1"
                    To=".3"
                    AutoReverse="True"
                  BeginTime="0:0:0"
                  Duration="0:0:0.3"/>
                <DoubleAnimation 
                  Storyboard.TargetName="Rectangle"
                  Storyboard.TargetProperty="(Canvas.Top)"
              
                  From="26.545"
                  To="28.545"
                  AutoReverse="True"
                  BeginTime="0:0:0"
                  Duration="0:0:0.3"
                   />
                <DoubleAnimation 
                      Storyboard.TargetName="Rectangle"
                      Storyboard.TargetProperty="(Canvas.Left)"
              
                      From="25.5391"
                      To="27.545"
                      AutoReverse="True"
                      BeginTime="0:0:0"
                      Duration="0:0:0.3"
                   />
                <DoubleAnimation 
                      Storyboard.TargetName="Group"
                      Storyboard.TargetProperty="(Canvas.Left)"
              
                      From="79.5323"
                      To="81.5323"
                      AutoReverse="True"
                      BeginTime="0:0:0"
                      Duration="0:0:0.3"
                   />

                <DoubleAnimation 
                    Storyboard.TargetName="Group"
                    Storyboard.TargetProperty="(Canvas.Top)"
              
                    From="36.6633"
                    To="38.6633"
                    AutoReverse="True"
                    BeginTime="0:0:0"
                    Duration="0:0:0.3"
                   />

              </Storyboard>

            </BeginStoryboard>
          </EventTrigger.Actions>
        </EventTrigger>
      </Rectangle.Triggers>
      
      <Rectangle.Fill>
        <LinearGradientBrush StartPoint="0.00116084,0.500001" EndPoint="0.983499,0.145966">
          <LinearGradientBrush.GradientStops>
            <GradientStop Color="#FF184F74" Offset="0"/>
            <GradientStop Color="#FFFFFFFF" Offset="1"/>
          </LinearGradientBrush.GradientStops>
        </LinearGradientBrush>
      </Rectangle.Fill>

      
    </Rectangle>
    <Canvas Width="86.5551" Height="34.9219" x:Name="Group" Canvas.Left="77.1416" Canvas.Top="36.6633">
      <Path x:Name="Path" Canvas.Left="0" Canvas.Top="0" Width="27.2344" Height="34.3594" Stretch="Fill" Fill="#FF000000" Data="F1 M 11.3203,34.3594L 11.3203,4.05475L 0,4.05475L 0,0L 27.2344,0L 27.2344,4.05475L 15.8672,4.05475L 15.8672,34.3594L 11.3203,34.3594 Z "/>
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    </Canvas>

    
  </Canvas>

</Canvas>

And now, button.js

// JScript File
// button.js
function CanvasLoad()
{
    var wpfe = document.getElementById("agControl1");
    var Anim = wpfe.FindName("Click"); 
    Anim.stop(); 
}

function buttonClick(sender,args)
{
 var wpfe = document.getElementById("agControl1");
 var Anim = wpfe.FindName("Click"); 
 Anim.begin(); 
}

Enjoy ;)

Expression Design Dec. CTP

2007-01-05T05:26:00Z

Elloha,

Lets welcome back our lovely Expression Design Dec. CTP. For those who dont know, this CTP had a big story. Finally, they've fixed it, and it is live now, get it from

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=7CC8E068-DB67-4041-B8E7-E6313244E007&displaylang=en

WPF/E and VS Express

2007-01-02T12:24:00Z

If you have just installed the only WPF/E CTP. I think you might face a problem with the VS.NET Template, cause it doesnt support the Express edition of Visual Web Developer. You can download a quick fix that Mike Harsh from here.

Atlas & CommunityServer

2007-01-01T14:36:00Z

It's been too long time since I have blogged in here. That was because of the school. However, I was trying to implement the ATLAS framework functionality in CommunityServer, but my trial failed.

What I tried was simply,, reconfiguring the CS website so it recognizes the new atlas controls. And the result was, it recognized the controls but no functionality !! Any clue ?

MessengerClient.Shutdown Event

2006-10-18T04:27:00Z

MSDN ::

This event fires when Messenger unloads the add-in. This occurs in the following circumstances:

In the case of an Away Message add-in, when the client's state changes to online
When the client is shutting down
When the client is uninstalling an add-in
When the client logs off the current user
When the client changes the currently selected Agent add-in

I have tried this event. It only works when the client logs off the current user !!! Any clue ?

Messenger Add-in API !

2006-10-17T12:42:00Z

A great SDK is being cooked over there. Go and check out this. I have spent the last two hours playing aroung and building some "stupid" add-ins :P..

It's going to be great if the there is an event raised when a buddy signs in ..

Failed to access IIS metabase !

2006-10-12T15:53:00Z

Failed to access IIS metabase !

Have you ever got this annoying message while you're trying to get you're ASP.NET application ? well, I got it recently. The problem occured cause I have installed the IIS after installing the .NET Framework 2.0, do a repair for the .net framework from "add/remove programs" and this will be okay ;)

CommunityServer 2.1 and Windows 2003 R2

2006-10-11T12:48:00Z

I dont know where to start from. Everytime I try to install the CommunityServer 2.1 on my computer ( Windows 2003 R2, .NET Framework 2.0, SQL Server 2005 ) I get surprised with the message " The Page Cannot be Found " !

I tried to install it several times. Using the MSI, manually, the .NET 2.0 version and the .NET 1.1 too ! but nothing worked with me. Some guys said that it is abotu the .NET framework, I have uninstalled the .NET 2.0 Framework and I also tried to do the manual .NET 1.1 Framework repair ! but I got nothing. I dont know what's the problem !

Here I am !

2006-10-10T09:08:00Z

Hello everybody,

This is Ayman Farouk again. From this moment, I will start blogging about .NET here.. So keep an eye on this link ;)