Articles by Arik Poznanski (Articles: 52, Technical Blogs: 23)

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	Flashcards.Show Version 2 for the Desktop, Browser, and Windows Phone 4 Mar 2011 Updated: 4 Mar 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 13,241 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Flashcards.Show Version 2 for the Desktop, Browser, and Windows Phone
	Fix Error: An Attempt Was Made to Load a Program with an Incorrect Format 16 Sep 2010 Updated: 13 Jun 2011 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.84 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 125,938 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Post on how to fix an error while trying to run the sample project ShellObjectWatcherSampleWPF from the latest version of Windows API Code Pack
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Win32	Application Recovery and Restart C# Quick Reference 20 Apr 2010 Updated: 22 Apr 2010 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 27 Popularity: 6.92 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 56,297 Bookmarked: 57 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Application recovery and restart C# quick reference
	Windows API Code Pack v1.1 Released! 13 Sep 2010 Updated: 15 Sep 2010 Rating: 4.94/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.94 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 45,342 Bookmarked: 21 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Windows API Code Pack v1.1
Windows Forms	Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 0 – Table of Contents 31 Jan 2010 Updated: 31 Jan 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 23 Popularity: 6.71 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 104,714 Bookmarked: 94 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Complete Library for using the Windows 7 Ribbon from C#, including 18 samples and 21 blog posts documenting the Ribbon features
	Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 1 – Introduction 1 Mar 2010 Updated: 1 Mar 2010 Rating: 3.91/5 Votes: 18 Popularity: 4.71 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 66,862 Bookmarked: 52 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, I'll present the background information needed on the latest Windows 7 Ribbon Framework.
	Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 2 - Basic Ribbon Wrapper 1 Mar 2010 Updated: 2 Mar 2010 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 18 Popularity: 5.74 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 41,231 Bookmarked: 35 Downloaded: 4,686 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, I'll present the basic .NET wrappers for the Windows 7 Ribbon Framework.
	Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 3 - First WinForms Ribbon Application 1 Mar 2010 Updated: 4 Mar 2010 Rating: 4.29/5 Votes: 18 Popularity: 5.39 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 53,044 Bookmarked: 32 Downloaded: 3,806 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, I'll present how to create an empty WinForms application with Windows 7 ribbon support.
	Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 4 - Application Menu with Buttons 1 Mar 2010 Updated: 4 Mar 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 5.21 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 26,341 Bookmarked: 27 Downloaded: 1,954 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon application menu.
	Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 5 - Application Menu with SplitButton and DropButton 1 Mar 2010 Updated: 6 Mar 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 5.57 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 33,462 Bookmarked: 34 Downloaded: 3,225 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon application menu with ribbon split button and ribbon drop button controls.
	Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 6 – Tabs, Groups and HelpButton 1 Mar 2010 Updated: 7 Mar 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 5.40 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 32,015 Bookmarked: 25 Downloaded: 2,331 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, I'll present how to use ribbon tabs, groups and the ribbon help button control.
	Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 7 – Spinner 2 Mar 2010 Updated: 8 Mar 2010 Rating: 4.38/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 5.16 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 27,080 Bookmarked: 18 Downloaded: 1,683 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon spinner control.
	Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 8 – ComboBox 2 Mar 2010 Updated: 9 Mar 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 5.57 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 33,100 Bookmarked: 17 Downloaded: 2,489 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon combo box control.
	Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 9 – Changing Ribbon Colors 2 Mar 2010 Updated: 10 Mar 2010 Rating: 4.56/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 5.22 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 28,271 Bookmarked: 18 Downloaded: 3,631 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, I'll present how to change the ribbon colors.
	Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 10 – Working With Images 2 Mar 2010 Updated: 12 Mar 2010 Rating: 4.94/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 5.33 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 23,961 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 1,296 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, I'll present how to work with images in the ribbon.
	Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 11 – DropDownGallery, SplitButtonGallery, and InRibbonGallery 2 Mar 2010 Updated: 13 Mar 2010 Rating: 4.86/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 5.85 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 24,670 Bookmarked: 16 Downloaded: 1,388 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon drop down gallery, split button gallery, and in ribbon gallery controls.
	Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 12 – CheckBox and ToggleButton 2 Mar 2010 Updated: 14 Mar 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 5.21 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 25,430 Bookmarked: 18 Downloaded: 1,249 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon check box and toggle button controls.
	Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 13 – DropDownColorPicker 2 Mar 2010 Updated: 15 Mar 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 5.73 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 30,531 Bookmarked: 17 Downloaded: 1,998 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon drop down color picker control.
	Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 14 – FontControl 2 Mar 2010 Updated: 16 Mar 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 5.00 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 26,722 Bookmarked: 16 Downloaded: 1,423 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon font control.
	Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 15 – Use Ribbon as External DLL 2 Mar 2010 Updated: 19 Mar 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 5.40 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 34,431 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 2,917 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, I'll present how to load ribbon resources from external DLLs.
	Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 16 – ApplicationModes 2 Mar 2010 Updated: 20 Mar 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 5.40 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 23,690 Bookmarked: 13 Downloaded: 1,199 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, I'll present how to work with ribbon application modes.
	Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 17 – Contextual Tabs 2 Mar 2010 Updated: 21 Mar 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 5.21 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 24,451 Bookmarked: 15 Downloaded: 1,640 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, I'll present how to work with ribbon contextual tabs.
	Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 18 – ContextPopup 2 Mar 2010 Updated: 22 Mar 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 5.57 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 29,453 Bookmarked: 16 Downloaded: 1,745 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, I'll present how to work with ribbon context popup.
	Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 19 – RecentItems 2 Mar 2010 Updated: 23 Mar 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 5.21 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 25,431 Bookmarked: 20 Downloaded: 1,045 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, I'll present how to work with the ribbon recent items control.
	Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 20 – QuickAccessToolbar 2 Mar 2010 Updated: 23 Mar 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 5.73 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 32,151 Bookmarked: 18 Downloaded: 1,990 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, I'll present how to work with the ribbon quick access toolbar.
	Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 21 – SizeDefinition 2 Mar 2010 Updated: 24 Mar 2010 Rating: 4.96/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 5.83 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 30,801 Bookmarked: 16 Downloaded: 1,380 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, I'll present how to define custom size definitions for ribbon group elements.
	Crash While Closing Application that Uses Windows Ribbon Framework 14 Apr 2010 Updated: 22 Apr 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 14,051 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Crash while closing application that uses Windows Ribbon Framework
WPF	Porting from WPF to Silverlight: The Missing Pieces, Part 1 21 Sep 2010 Updated: 21 Sep 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 18,591 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Porting from WPF to Silverlight: The Missing Pieces, Part 1
	WPF: Where to Put Value Converters? 31 Jan 2010 Updated: 31 Jan 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 24 Popularity: 6.71 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 37,413 Bookmarked: 19 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The question this posts tries to address is: Where to put value converters?
	WPF: How To Animate Visibility Property? 7 Feb 2010 Updated: 7 Feb 2010 Rating: 4.86/5 Votes: 30 Popularity: 7.03 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 99,858 Bookmarked: 24 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An easy way to add fade-in / fade-out effects to your user controls, when you change their Visibility property
	WPF: Dictionary Value Converter 10 Aug 2011 Updated: 10 Aug 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 21,552 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. WPF: Dictionary Value Converter
	Order in Chaos: Handling Unhandled Exceptions in a WPF Application 8 Sep 2011 Updated: 8 Sep 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 18,001 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Handling unhandled exceptions in a WPF application
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	Flashcards.Show – Planning a Cross-Platform Solution 14 Mar 2011 Updated: 1 Apr 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 11,201 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Flashcards.Show – Planning a Cross-Platform Solution
Windows Phone 7	Reading RSS Items on Windows Phone 7 3 Feb 2011 Updated: 3 Feb 2011 Rating: 4.92/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.44 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 26,893 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to read RSS Items on Windows Phone 7
	Search Digg on Windows Phone 7 10 Feb 2011 Updated: 10 Feb 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 11,883 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Another utility class I wrote to help me search Digg results asynchronously on a Windows Phone 7 application
	Searching Twitter on Windows Phone 7 24 Feb 2011 Updated: 24 Feb 2011 Rating: 4.69/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.28 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 12,622 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Searching Twitter on Windows Phone 7
	Ways to Load Applications Faster – A Windows Phone Recipe 25 Mar 2011 Updated: 25 Mar 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 16,840 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Ways to load application
	Shake Gestures Library – A Windows Phone Recipe 3 Apr 2011 Updated: 3 Apr 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 26,550 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This document introduces a helper library for identifying shake gestures by using the accelerometer built into Windows Phone 7 devices.
	Managing Tombstone State in a Windows Phone 7 Application 2 May 2011 Updated: 2 May 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 15,630 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to manage Tombstone State in a Windows Phone 7 Application
	Using Windows Phone As Windows 7 Accelerometer Sensor 15 Aug 2011 Updated: 15 Aug 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.49 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 22,840 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to use Windows Phone as Windows 7 Accelerometer sensor
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C#	C# does Shell, Part 1 24 Jan 2003 Updated: 31 Jan 2003 Rating: 4.91/5 Votes: 93 Popularity: 9.61 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 528,984 Bookmarked: 383 Downloaded: 12,248 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article introduces shell programming using C#. It includes developing several utility classes for working with the shell and a class that wraps the extensible Browse for Folder dialog.
	C# does Shell, Part 3 2 Mar 2003 Updated: 2 Mar 2003 Rating: 4.91/5 Votes: 231 Popularity: 11.50 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 652,054 Bookmarked: 348 Downloaded: 17,570 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article is about Application Desktop Toolbars, which are applications that can align to the screen much like the taskbar. The article will develop a base class for developing such apps.
	C# does Shell, Part 4 13 Mar 2003 Updated: 26 Mar 2003 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 84 Popularity: 9.49 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 290,016 Bookmarked: 165 Downloaded: 4,661 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article is about the AutoComplete features enabled by windows and how to use them with C#. AutoComplete is the ability to expand strings written in an edit box. The article will develop a class for using this functionality in you applications.
	C# does Shell, Part 2 30 Jan 2003 Updated: 12 Jan 2010 Rating: 4.89/5 Votes: 120 Popularity: 10.03 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 442,462 Bookmarked: 302 Downloaded: 12,028 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article continues shell programming using C#. It includes Launching applications, doing Shell file operations (Copy, Move, Delete) with the proper shell response, adding files to Recent Documents list and doing some printer operations.
	Minesweeper, Behind the scenes 11 Jan 2003 Updated: 13 Jan 2003 Rating: 4.94/5 Votes: 203 Popularity: 11.32 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 606,481 Bookmarked: 248 Downloaded: 12,728 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article demonstrates directly reading another processes memory in C# using P/Invoke and Win32 Api's.
	FreeCell & Hearts, Behind the scenes 28 Jan 2003 Updated: 28 Jan 2003 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 127 Popularity: 10.28 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 275,499 Bookmarked: 94 Downloaded: 5,061 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article shows the insides of the freecell and hearts games, it uses the a library of reading and writing another process memory.
	C# Library for Grammar and Spell Checking 10 Jun 2011 Updated: 10 Jun 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 28,573 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. “After the Deadline” provides a web based API for both grammar and spell checking, free for non-commercial use!
	Order in Chaos: .NET Collections 8 Oct 2010 Updated: 8 Oct 2010 Rating: 4.85/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 5.97 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 28,054 Bookmarked: 29 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Review of the current available collection types in .NET Framework 4.0
C++	Ribbon with C++, Part 3: Using Buttons with Windows Ribbon Framework 13 Jun 2011 Updated: 13 Jun 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.89 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 28,592 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Review of the features in the Windows Ribbon Framework with focus on the most common feature in the ribbon: Buttons
	Ribbon with C++, Part 5: Using Galleries with Windows Ribbon Framework 22 Jul 2011 Updated: 22 Jul 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.89 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 24,112 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this post, we continue our exploration of the Windows Ribbon Framework, this time focusing on Gallery controls.
	Ribbon with C++, Post 6: Ribbon Dynamic Structure Capabilities 22 Jul 2011 Updated: 22 Jul 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.23 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 21,816 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this post, we will dive into the ribbon's dynamic structure capabilities, i.e., we will learn about the different ways to change the structure of the ribbon at runtime.
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ASP.NET	Sudoku and Smart Client techniques 30 Jul 2005 Updated: 21 Aug 2005 Rating: 4.79/5 Votes: 66 Popularity: 8.62 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 220,294 Bookmarked: 123 Downloaded: 2,187 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article will develop a Sudoku game based on a web service, while presenting useful development techniques of Smart Client applications.

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	How To Use a .NET 4 Based DLL From .NET 2 Based Application? [Technical Blog] 31 May 2011 Updated: 13 Jun 2011 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.46 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 62,098 Bookmarked: 19 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to use a .NET 4 based DLL from .NET 2 based application?
.NET4	Step Into .NET Framework 4.0 Source Code [Technical Blog] 12 Jul 2010 Updated: 12 Jul 2010 Rating: 4.86/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.78 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 49,392 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to configure your Visual Studio 2010 to step into the source code of .NET Framework 4.0.
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	Ribbon with C++, Part 4: Layout Controls in Windows Ribbon Framework [Technical Blog] 16 Jun 2011 Updated: 16 Jun 2011 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.15 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 23,040 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is the 4th post about Windows Ribbon Framework features. On previous posts we have introduced the Windows Ribbon Framework, shown a complete example of how to develop a ribbon enabled application and reviewed the different buttons-based UI controls that the ribbon framework provides.
	Porting from WPF to Silverlight: The Missing Pieces, Part 2 [Technical Blog] 23 Sep 2010 Updated: 23 Sep 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 10,000 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I bring you the sequel for the post found here. These are just more Silverlight 3 missing features I’ve needed while porting a WPF 3.5 application to Silverlight.
	A ProgressBar With Text For Windows Phone 7 [Technical Blog] 26 Jan 2011 Updated: 26 Jan 2011 Rating: 4.91/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.96 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 18,680 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A ProgressBar With Text For Windows Phone 7
	Get Twitter Trends on Windows Phone 7 [Technical Blog] 21 Feb 2011 Updated: 21 Feb 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 11,580 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this post, I will show you how you can get the list of trends on Twitter.
	Windows 7 Libraries C# Quick Reference [Technical Blog] 15 Mar 2010 Updated: 16 Mar 2010 Rating: 4.87/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 5.73 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 35,931 Bookmarked: 16 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Following are some listings to be used as a quick reference to common Windows 7 Libraries features using Windows API Code Pack.
	Using Windows 7 Light Sensor in Your Application [Technical Blog] 29 Jun 2010 Updated: 17 Jul 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 25,882 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. One of the new features we got with Windows 7 is the Windows Sensor and Location Platform. This platform enables us, developers, to access a variety of sensors with a standard API. No more rewrite-entire-device-layer-because-we-changed-vendors issues.
	Live Writer Plug-in for Sharing Technical Post [Technical Blog] 17 Jul 2010 Updated: 17 Jul 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 10,410 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Describes how to write a Plug-in for Windows Live Writer
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Win32	Windows 7 Taskbar C# Quick Reference [Technical Blog] 12 Mar 2010 Updated: 14 Mar 2010 Rating: 4.97/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 6.12 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 48,495 Bookmarked: 27 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Following are some listings to be used as a quick reference to common Windows 7 Taskbar features using Windows API Code Pack.
Windows Forms	Windows Ribbon for WinForms v2.5 Released – New Events Mechanism [Technical Blog] 12 Oct 2010 Updated: 27 Dec 2010 Rating: 4.90/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.34 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 21,411 Bookmarked: 12 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Windows Ribbon for WinForms v2.5 Released – New Events Mechanism
WPF	No More Magic Strings! Presenting: @string.of [Technical Blog] 17 Nov 2010 Updated: 23 Nov 2010 Rating: 4.63/5 Votes: 31 Popularity: 6.76 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 79,305 Bookmarked: 23 Downloaded: 203 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Implementing a "stringof" operator using expression trees
	WPF: Animate Visibility Property - Update [Technical Blog] 13 Apr 2010 Updated: 13 Apr 2010 Rating: 4.90/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 5.29 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 18,770 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Back in this post I showed you how you can easily add a fade-in / fade-out effect to a UIElement that changes its Visibility property, using a simple attached property.Some people encountered a problem using this property when they bind the UIElement to a model which initially hides the control.
	WPF Single Instance Application [Technical Blog] 28 May 2010 Updated: 28 May 2010 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 48 Popularity: 8.24 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 143,359 Bookmarked: 60 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to enforce that your WPF application has only one instance
	WPF Inside Out: Dispatcher [Technical Blog] 12 Aug 2010 Updated: 15 Sep 2010 Rating: 4.81/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 5.01 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 47,263 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this post, we’ll see a few interesting things about WPF’s Dispatcher class.
	Order in Chaos: Dependency Property Value Resolution [Technical Blog] 25 Dec 2010 Updated: 27 Dec 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.77 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 17,752 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Order in Chaos: Dependency Property Value Resolution
	A Customizable WPF MessageBox [Technical Blog] 25 May 2011 Updated: 31 May 2011 Rating: 4.91/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.96 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 80,815 Bookmarked: 15 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A Customizable WPF MessageBox
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C#	Spelling and Grammar Checking Plugin for Windows Live Writer [Technical Blog] 13 Jun 2011 Updated: 13 Jun 2011 Rating: 3.50/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.05 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 14,251 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Spelling and Grammar Checking Plugin for Windows Live Writer
C++	Ribbon with C++, Part 1: Introduction to the Windows Ribbon Framework [Technical Blog] 5 Jun 2011 Updated: 13 Jun 2011 Rating: 4.84/5 Votes: 24 Popularity: 6.68 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 67,415 Bookmarked: 38 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The basics of the Windows Ribbon Framework - a rich command presentation system that provides a modern alternative to the layered menus, toolbars, and task panes of traditional Windows applications.
	Workaround For Crash In Performance Profiling Tools for WPF [Technical Blog] 22 Jul 2011 Updated: 22 Jul 2011 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 10,650 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Introduction Every WPF developer knows the situation where you have a large line-of-business application, you’ve implemented all the features and when you finally run it on real data – it runs s-l-o-w.
XML	Ribbon with C++, Part 2: First Ribbon Enabled Application [Technical Blog] 8 Jun 2011 Updated: 8 Jun 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 5.21 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 33,774 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this post, we continue our review of the Windows Ribbon Framework feature brought to us in Windows 7. For more information on the ribbon feature in general and Windows Ribbon Framework in particular, make sure you read Part 1.
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	How to Check How Many Writes Are Done While You Build [Technical Blog] 10 May 2011 Updated: 10 May 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 5,840 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How you can measure how many read and writes (in bytes) your build takes.
	Speed up Visual Studio Builds [Technical Blog] 17 May 2011 Updated: 17 May 2011 Rating: 4.98/5 Votes: 23 Popularity: 6.78 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 105,275 Bookmarked: 29 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This post discusses how you can decrease build time

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Arik Poznanski

Software Developer (Senior) Verint

Israel

Arik Poznanski is a senior software developer at Verint. He completed two B.Sc. degrees in Mathematics & Computer Science, summa cum laude, from the Technion in Israel.

Arik has extensive knowledge and experience in many Microsoft technologies, including .NET with C#, WPF, Silverlight, WinForms, Interop, COM/ATL programming, C++ Win32 programming and reverse engineering (assembly, IL).

Articles by Arik Poznanski (Articles: 52, Technical Blogs: 23)

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