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TOP 10 SILVERLIGHT MYTHS AND THE FACTS TO BUST THEM

gtrifonov — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:48:23 GMT

Today came across great article “TOP 10 SILVERLIGHT MYTHS AND THE FACTS TO BUST THEM” written by Jeremy LIKNESS from Wintellect .

Highly recommend to read it.

List of Myths from it:

Silverlight is mainly for video
Silverlight requires Microsoft web servers to run
Microsoft tools for Silverlight are expensive
Silverlight doesn't work on ... (Mac, Chrome, etc.)
Silverlight is buggy
HTML5 is going to kill Silverlight
Silverlight is about smashing open standards
It's hard to develop for Silverlight
There aren't good materials to learn Silverlight
There aren't many practical Silverlight application

Supporting Russia in Vancouver

gtrifonov — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:03:23 GMT

Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games medal count

gtrifonov — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:01:26 GMT

Very disappointed with Russian skating team, no medals -first time in 46 years. Record series has been broken.

View the vancouver2010.com medals' table

Setting CurrentCulture - LCID code table

gtrifonov — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:10:41 GMT

I am working on adding localization to our product. You might find this table useful.

The following table lists Locale IDs (LCID).

Locale Description	Short String	Hex Value	Decimal Value	Locale Description	Short String	Hex Value	Decimal Value
Afrikaans	af	0x0436	1078	Icelandic	is	0x040F	1039
Albanian	sq	0x041C	1052	Indonesian	id	0x0421	1057
Arabic – United Arab Emirates	ar-ae	0x3801	14337	Italian - Italy	it-it	0x0410	1040
Arabic - Bahrain	ar-bh	0x3C01	15361	Italian - Switzerland	it-ch	0x0810	2064
Arabic - Algeria	ar-dz	0x1401	5121	Japanese	ja	0x0411	1041
Arabic - Egypt	ar-eg	0x0C01	3073	Korean	ko	0x0412	1042
Arabic - Iraq	ar-iq	0x0801	2049	Latvian	lv	0x0426	1062
Arabic - Jordan	ar-jo	0x2C01	11265	Lithuanian	lt	0x0427	1063
Arabic - Kuwait	ar-kw	0x3401	13313	FYRO Macedonian	mk	0x042F	1071
Arabic - Lebanon	ar-lb	0x3001	12289	Malay - Malaysia	ms-my	0x043E	1086
Arabic - Libya	ar-ly	0x1001	4097	Malay – Brunei	ms-bn	0x083E	2110
Arabic - Morocco	ar-ma	0x1801	6145	Maltese	mt	0x043A	1082
Arabic - Oman	ar-om	0x2001	8193	Marathi	mr	0x044E	1102
Arabic - Qatar	ar-qa	0x4001	16385	Norwegian - Bokmål	no-no	0x0414	1044
Arabic - Saudi Arabia	ar-sa	0x0401	1025	Norwegian – Nynorsk	no-no	0x0814	2068
Arabic - Syria	ar-sy	0x2801	10241	Polish	pl	0x0415	1045
Arabic - Tunisia	ar-tn	0x1C01	7169	Portuguese - Portugal	pt-pt	0x0816	2070
Arabic - Yemen	ar-ye	0x2401	9217	Portuguese - Brazil	pt-br	0x0416	1046
Armenian	hy	0x042B	1067	Raeto-Romance	rm	0x0417	1047
Azeri – Latin	az-az	0x042C	1068	Romanian - Romania	ro	0x0418	1048
Azeri – Cyrillic	az-az	0x082C	2092	Romanian - Moldova	ro-mo	0x0818	2072
Basque	eu	0x042D	1069	Russian	ru	0x0419	1049
Belarusian	be	0x0423	1059	Russian - Moldova	ru-mo	0x0819	2073
Bulgarian	bg	0x0402	1026	Sanskrit	sa	0x044F	1103
Catalan	ca	0x0403	1027	Serbian - Cyrillic	sr-sp	0x0C1A	3098
Chinese - China	zh-cn	0x0804	2052	Serbian – Latin	sr-sp	0x081A	2074
Chinese - Hong Kong S.A.R.	zh-hk	0x0C04	3076	Setsuana	tn	0x0432	1074
Chinese – Macau S.A.R	zh-mo	0x1404	5124	Slovenian	sl	0x0424	1060
Chinese - Singapore	zh-sg	0x1004	4100	Slovak	sk	0x041B	1051
Chinese - Taiwan	zh-tw	0x0404	1028	Sorbian	sb	0x042E	1070
Croatian	hr	0x041A	1050	Spanish - Spain	es-es	0x0C0A	1034
Czech	cs	0x0405	1029	Spanish - Argentina	es-ar	0x2C0A	11274
Danish	da	0x0406	1030	Spanish - Bolivia	es-bo	0x400A	16394
Dutch – The Netherlands	nl-nl	0x0413	1043	Spanish - Chile	es-cl	0x340A	13322
Dutch - Belgium	nl-be	0x0813	2067	Spanish - Colombia	es-co	0x240A	9226
English - Australia	en-au	0x0C09	3081	Spanish - Costa Rica	es-cr	0x140A	5130
English - Belize	en-bz	0x2809	10249	Spanish - Dominican Republic	es-do	0x1C0A	7178
English - Canada	en-ca	0x1009	4105	Spanish - Ecuador	es-ec	0x300A	12298
English – Carribbean	en-cb	0x2409	9225	Spanish - Guatemala	es-gt	0x100A	4106
English - Ireland	en-ie	0x1809	6153	Spanish - Honduras	es-hn	0x480A	18442
English - Jamaica	en-jm	0x2009	8201	Spanish - Mexico	es-mx	0x080A	2058
English - New Zealand	en-nz	0x1409	5129	Spanish - Nicaragua	es-ni	0x4C0A	19466
English – Phillippines	en-ph	0x3409	13321	Spanish - Panama	es-pa	0x180A	6154
English - South Africa	en-za	0x1C09	7177	Spanish - Peru	es-pe	0x280A	10250
English - Trinidad	en-tt	0x2C09	11273	Spanish - Puerto Rico	es-pr	0x500A	20490
English - United Kingdom	en-gb	0x0809	2057	Spanish - Paraguay	es-py	0x3C0A	15370
English - United States	en-us	0x0409	1033	Spanish - El Salvador	es-sv	0x440A	17418
Estonian	et	0x0425	1061	Spanish - Uruguay	es-uy	0x380A	14346
Farsi	fa	0x0429	1065	Spanish - Venezuela	es-ve	0x200A	8202
Finnish	fi	0x040B	1035	Sutu	sx	0x0430	1072
Faroese	fo	0x0438	1080	Swahili	sw	0x0441	1089
French - France	fr-fr	0x040C	1036	Swedish - Sweden	sv-se	0x041D	1053
French - Belgium	fr-be	0x080C	2060	Swedish - Finland	sv-fi	0x081D	2077
French - Canada	fr-ca	0x0C0C	3084	Tamil	ta	0x0449	1097
French - Luxembourg	fr-lu	0x140C	5132	Tatar	tt	0X0444	1092
French - Switzerland	fr-ch	0x100C	4108	Thai	th	0x041E	1054
Gaelic – Ireland	gd-ie	0x083C	2108	Turkish	tr	0x041F	1055
Gaelic - Scotland	gd	0x043C	1084	Tsonga	ts	0x0431	1073
German - Germany	de-de	0x0407	1031	Ukrainian	uk	0x0422	1058
German - Austria	de-at	0x0C07	3079	Urdu	ur	0x0420	1056
German - Liechtenstein	de-li	0x1407	5127	Uzbek – Cyrillic	uz-uz	0x0843	2115
German - Luxembourg	de-lu	0x1007	4103	Uzbek – Latin	uz-uz	0x0443	1091
German - Switzerland	de-ch	0x0807	2055	Vietnamese	vi	0x042A	1066
Greek	el	0x0408	1032	Xhosa	xh	0x0434	1076
Hebrew	he	0x040D	1037	Yiddish	yi	0x043D	1085
Hindi	hi	0x0439	1081	Zulu	zu	0x0435	1077
Hungarian	hu	0x040E	1038

jQuery 1.4.1 Intellisense with Visual Studio

gtrifonov — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 0:19:48 GMT

ScotGu blogged about using jQuery intellisence.

If you are using VS 2008 SP1 you’ll want to download and install this patch and you need to download vsdoc from jQuery web site.

How to find twitter users to follow

gtrifonov — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 3:53:01 GMT

Video tutorial how to use www.findtwittertofollow.com to quickly find new people to follow on twitter.

iPad SDK available

gtrifonov — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:05:20 GMT

Got email few days ago from Apple: iPhone SDK 3.2 beta is now available to all iPhone Developer Standard and Enterprise Program Members from the iPhone Dev Center. Do you think that Apple prediction about golden rush for app developers will come true? App store for Iphoen is Apple success story, will we see something similar for Ipad?

IPhonedevelopment Using .NET

gtrifonov — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:59:31 GMT

Check this video tutorial to have a quick look how to develop Iphone App using .net languages. Mono Touch framework for Iphone will let you to utilize c# for writing iphone apps.

Get suggested twitter friends based on your current friends

gtrifonov — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 0:45:28 GMT

As a new twitter user I always wondered, how people make decision whom to follow and what factors are playing important role in such decision process.
Mainly we adding our friends which we personally know, news sites, industry experts and sites on which we prefer to spend our time. Some times when we talking about networks and communities it is hard to identify all people which we want to follow. As your friend might recommend you somebody in real life, your friend twitter list can also tell a lot. Twitter App with code name ‘SocialMole’ analyse you friends networks and suggested twitter profiles to follow, which are shared across multiple of your friends.

Today I uploaded beta version of ‘SocialMole’ to www.findtwittertofollow.com. It took me some time mainly to choose api library and solve hosting problems to make this application up and running. I am waiting feedback, so please share with your friends.

Enjoy and let me know what features you would like to see there..

Godaddy-System.Security.SecurityException: You cannot use in partial trust without a policy that allows connecting to API endpoints.

gtrifonov — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 0:13:24 GMT

I am using hosting from GoDaddy.com and yesterday got exception playing with Twitter API library - TweetSharp .

System.Security.SecurityException: You cannot use TweetSharp in partial trust without a policy that allows connecting to API endpoints.

Exception Details: System.Security.SecurityException: You cannot use TweetSharp in partial trust without a policy that allows connecting to API endpoints.
The following policy information (or equivalent) must be added to your trust policy:
<IPermission class="System.Net.WebPermission, System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089"
version="1">
<ConnectAccess>
<URI uri="http://twitter\.com/.*"/>
<URI uri="http://api.twitter\.com/.*"/>
<URI uri="http://search.twitter\.com/.*"/>
</ConnectAccess>
</IPermission>

After searching I found that GoDaddy will not allow me to modify their policy, since it is shared hosting account. Resolution is to apply WebPermissions in your code:

var permissions = new WebPermission();
            var baseUrl = @"http://twitter\.com/*";
            var apiUrl = @"http://api.twitter\.com/*";
            var searchUrl = @"http://search.twitter\.com/*";

            permissions.AddPermission(NetworkAccess.Connect, baseUrl);
            permissions.AddPermission(NetworkAccess.Connect, apiUrl);
            permissions.AddPermission(NetworkAccess.Connect, searchUrl);

            try
            {
                permissions.Demand();
            }

Please note that in case of GoDaddy, you don’t need to use regexp as urls.