http://www.iamraf.net/ Raffaele Rialdi personal website Copyright (c) Raffaele Rialdi, http://www.iamraf.net http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification IAmRaf generator http://www.iamraf.net/ http://www.iamraf.net/Images/logo2.png en-US Raffaele Rialdi Raffaele Rialdi On March 28 and 29, Microsoft Bulgaria will host in Sofia the traditional event "Microsoft Days". I am very happy to be the speaker of two pillar arguments of the next technology wave:Introduction to Windows Runtime (WinRT) The Asynchronous Pattern in WinRT/Metro and .NET 4.5 The abstracts are ... http://www.iamraf.net/News/speaker-at-microsoft-days-2012-in-bulgaria-sofia Raffaele Rialdi speaker-at-microsoft-days-2012-in-bulgaria-sofia Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:42:24 GMT News Ten years ago Bill Gates decided to change the company's approach by introducing the Trustworthy Computing initiative in a famous e-mail addressed to all his employees. This decision triggered a huge change in software development not only inside Microsoft but also for all developers who use Micr... http://www.iamraf.net/News/ten-years-of-trustworthy-computing-at-microsoft Raffaele Rialdi ten-years-of-trustworthy-computing-at-microsoft Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:38:49 GMT News The new Windows start screen 8 shows a number of tiles that may look like a revamped version of the old shortcuts: But appearances can be deceptive and tiles are not shortcuts and they do not launch directly the application process. The crucial point is that Windows Runtime (WinRT) is the laye... http://www.iamraf.net/News/essential-winrt-part-3-contracts-and-activation Raffaele Rialdi essential-winrt-part-3-contracts-and-activation Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:52:49 GMT News As the WinRT world is an evolution of COM, the registration is similar but uses only the HKCU registry keys. This means that you don't need administrative privileges to install an application.Let's take a look to the most interesting registry keys involved during registration process: The HKCU\So... http://www.iamraf.net/News/essential-winrt-part-2-the-registration Raffaele Rialdi essential-winrt-part-2-the-registration Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:56:21 GMT News During the build conference sessions, beyond the great thrilling sessions like the one from Matt, I had the change to make me explain many interesting details about WinRT. So I want to thank speakers and the other team members for their availability to answer the numerous questions coming from the... http://www.iamraf.net/News/essential-winrt-part-1-the-package Raffaele Rialdi essential-winrt-part-1-the-package Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:19:12 GMT News In the previous post I retraced the motivations that led to WinRT. One of the fundamental requirements of WinRT is to allow better interaction between different languages, either native or managed. We also have already seen that only a runtime that exposes functionality in an object oriented fa... http://www.iamraf.net/News/mixing-languages-with-winrt Raffaele Rialdi mixing-languages-with-winrt Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:26:43 GMT News Before analyzing WinRT it's necessary to go back in time and retrace the evolution of languages. C language consolidated a standard way to interoperate in two different ways: Source-level thanks to the standardization of ANSI 1989 (and later) Binary, by using the x86 architecture calling conven... http://www.iamraf.net/News/why-winrt-an-object-oriented-api Raffaele Rialdi why-winrt-an-object-oriented-api Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:32:47 GMT News To put it in two words ... the response is too early for a user to judge Windows 8. The / / build / conference I just came back from, is a developer conference. It merged the PDC (Professional Developer Conference) and WinHEC (Windows Hardware Engineering Conference). The sessions on the agenda ... http://www.iamraf.net/News/windows-8-the-user-experience Raffaele Rialdi windows-8-the-user-experience Mon, 19 Sep 2011 09:05:00 GMT News After the //build/ keynotes, I looked for more informations regarding WinRT and a few teams gave me the answers to my questions. There are two stacks for building Windows 8 applications: Classic mode (Win32 / .NET) Metro-Style mode The classic mode is the one we all know, will not change and wi... http://www.iamraf.net/News/deep-diving-winrt-and-metro-style-apps-for-windows Raffaele Rialdi deep-diving-winrt-and-metro-style-apps-for-windows Thu, 15 Sep 2011 07:58:45 GMT News I am ready to leave from Italy to USA, Anaheim for the build Conference (Sept 13-16, 2011) I will give as much as possible news in two places:Here at http://www.iamraf.net/news in English languageOn my Italian Blog http://blogs.ugidotnet.org/raffaele Stay tuned!... http://www.iamraf.net/News/raf-coverage-for-build-windows-conference-in-anahe Raffaele Rialdi raf-coverage-for-build-windows-conference-in-anahe Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:54:17 GMT News From a reader perspective, this is not really a great news, but it has been really a hard work for me to entirely rewrite the engine of this website. Previously I used an external blog engine as storage, an RSS library to read the content and asp.net routing to publish the content. The new relea... http://www.iamraf.net/News/iamrafnet-v2-is-live Raffaele Rialdi iamrafnet-v2-is-live Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:10:54 GMT News There are new huge news for DeployManager tool that I initially released last year (http://www.iamraf.net/Tools/DeployManager-first-release-certificates-management).Here is a list of the new additions.Filtering There is a new toolbar that enable filtering capabilities in both the tree and the lis... http://www.iamraf.net/Tools/deploymanager-june-2011-edition Raffaele Rialdi deploymanager-june-2011-edition Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:47:34 GMT Tools DeployManager is the name that resemble my wishes since the first time I worked with Windows Communication Foundation. There is no doubt that deploying a WCF service is tricky and time-expensive. Probably the most difficult part is certificates management, both in development and in production. ... http://www.iamraf.net/Tools/DeployManager-first-release-certificates-management Raffaele Rialdi DeployManager-first-release-certificates-management Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:03:00 GMT Tools There is no GetComputerName API on Windows CE and I could not find any Compact Framework class to obtain this functionality. On these devices you can find the computer (pda) name in the registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Ident\Name If you want to take a look at the registry on your devices/emulators... http://www.iamraf.net/Samples/GetComputerName-on-Windows-CE-Windows-Mobile-(VC2b2b) Raffaele Rialdi GetComputerName-on-Windows-CE-Windows-Mobile-(VC2b2b) Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:02:00 GMT Samples While using the Compact Framework on a mobile device, you can need to invalidate some data if the user is inactive for a certain period of time. In my case I have a custom authentication system that create a custom Token class that is invalidated after few minutes the user is inactive. Windows CE... http://www.iamraf.net/Samples/User-activity-detection-on-the-Compact-Framework Raffaele Rialdi User-activity-detection-on-the-Compact-Framework Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:01:00 GMT Samples Questo è il materiale della sessione che ho tenuto in Microsoft Italia per il workshop UGIdotNET. Note:Per far funzionare l'esempio con Twitter è necessario leggere attentamente il file readme.txt Per far funzionare gli esempi di WCF in console è necessario dare il permesso all'endpoint http. Mag... http://www.iamraf.net/Samples/Whats-new-in-Workflow-Foundation-40-and-Windows-Communication-Foundation-40 Raffaele Rialdi Whats-new-in-Workflow-Foundation-40-and-Windows-Communication-Foundation-40 Mon, 24 May 2010 06:06:00 GMT Samples The Visual Studio 2010 launch in Bucarest will be on May 19. With great pleasure, I will be the Keynote speaker of this event. I want also to thank all of the Ronua User Group, in particular Adrian, and Microsoft România.... http://www.iamraf.net/Events/Keynote-speaker-at-Visual-Studio-2010-launch-in-Bucarest Raffaele Rialdi Keynote-speaker-at-Visual-Studio-2010-launch-in-Bucarest Mon, 26 Apr 2010 06:05:00 GMT Events On Tuesday I was in Microsoft Italy subsidiary for the UGIdotNET event. My session was about the new ways to interact with PCs and I talked about Multitouch (using my SurfRaf homemade device) and Windows 7 Sensor APIs. For the occasion I built an USB device from scratch. On my italian blog there ... http://www.iamraf.net/News/Raf-on-Channel9 Raffaele Rialdi Raf-on-Channel9 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:04:00 GMT News This is the most important event for every MVP. On February (16-19) there will be the MVP Global Summit in Bellevue and Redmond (Microsoft Campus). I have been there multiple times in the past years and it's for sure my top event. I will be there some days before (Thursday 11) for some extra meet... http://www.iamraf.net/Events/MVP-Global-Summit-2010 Raffaele Rialdi MVP-Global-Summit-2010 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:03:00 GMT Events There is no doubt that the new Office Open XML file format is a huge gain for every developer, and as conseguence for users too. The new file format is native in Office 2007 but can be also used natively with a plugin in Office 2003 and with external (free) utilities with previous Office releases... http://www.iamraf.net/Articles/Creating-Word-docx-document-using-Office-Open-XML-SDK-20 Raffaele Rialdi Creating-Word-docx-document-using-Office-Open-XML-SDK-20 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:14:00 GMT Articles È alle porte TechDays WPC 2009 che si svolte il 24, 25, 26 Novembre 2009 ad Assago (Milano). Sarò speaker per quattro sessioni su C# 4.0, Office OpenXML, API di Windows 7 e 2008R2 e Hacking dei sistemi. Ci sarà inoltre una ATE (Ask The Expert) foltissima di MVP di tutte le discipline. See you th... http://www.iamraf.net/Events/TechDays-WPC-2009 Raffaele Rialdi TechDays-WPC-2009 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:59:00 GMT Events Last year I wrote two libraries to generate OOXML (Office OpenXML) ECMA-376 compliant files: wordprocessing (docx) and spreadsheet (xlsx). Although I needed it, I always thought that was a useless work since Microsoft is working on the OOXML SDK that is currently in CTP for version 2. As a member... http://www.iamraf.net/Samples/Converting-Excel-cell-row-and-column-to-string-(and-vice-versa) Raffaele Rialdi Converting-Excel-cell-row-and-column-to-string-(and-vice-versa) Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:10:00 GMT Samples Some months ago, I talked with Diego Cattaruzza about the chance to read the file properties. It happens that "depends" on the file type. A couple of years ago, if I remember well, I used some PInvoke code to read file properties via COM Structured Storage. In these days OPC files have propertie... http://www.iamraf.net/Samples/Read-shell-file-properties Raffaele Rialdi Read-shell-file-properties Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:57:00 GMT Samples There are tons of options for custom formatting a number, but not enough :) Let's take a series of double/decimal numbers: 1:double[] doubles = { 2: -1234.56789, 3: 1234.56789, 4: 1234.5678, 5: 1234.56, 6: 1234.5, 7: 1234.56789, 8: 123.56789, 9: 1... http://www.iamraf.net/Samples/Aligning-decimal-numbers-to-the-separator Raffaele Rialdi Aligning-decimal-numbers-to-the-separator Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:55:00 GMT Samples Il 22 Ottobre a Milano e il 27 Ottobre a Roma ci saranno gli eventi di lancio dei sistemi operativi Windows 7 e Windows 2008 R2. Tutti i dettagli a partire da questo link: http://blogs.msdn.com/italy/archive/2009/09/16/il-lancio-di-windows-7-e-windows-server-2008-r2.aspx... http://www.iamraf.net/Events/Lancio-di-Windows-7-e-Windows-2008-R2 Raffaele Rialdi Lancio-di-Windows-7-e-Windows-2008-R2 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 05:54:00 GMT Events The powerpoint attachment contains only italian slides.Download Italian pptx Demos are international :) and you will need Microsoft API CodePack that is a managed wrapper over the native Win32 API that are new in Windows 7. Demos were created with a beta release of CodePack, so there could be som... http://www.iamraf.net/Samples/Windows-7-for-developer-(UGIdotNET-workshop-session)-material-is-here Raffaele Rialdi Windows-7-for-developer-(UGIdotNET-workshop-session)-material-is-here Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:52:00 GMT Samples This is the same article that was published in the Micro Framework blog on October 9, 2007.    The Swim Timer Application As one of my first projects with the .NET Micro Framework, I created a more sophisticated version of a little project I developed some time ago: a counter for swim training.... http://www.iamraf.net/Articles/Creating-a-GUI-Application-with-the-NET-Micro-Framework Raffaele Rialdi Creating-a-GUI-Application-with-the-NET-Micro-Framework Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:47:00 GMT Articles In Vista the Firewall API changed a lot in comparison to the previous versions. You can drive the Windows Firewall using a COM API, a layer over the Windows Filtering Platform. If you are thinking to develop directly the WFP, it's better to change your idea. WFP is a low level API to build Firewa... http://www.iamraf.net/Samples/Using-Vista-and-Windows-7-Firewall-from-Visual-C2b2b Raffaele Rialdi Using-Vista-and-Windows-7-Firewall-from-Visual-C2b2b Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:44:00 GMT Samples Il 18, 19 Settembre 2009 si svolgeranno gli MVP Open Days a Milano in Microsoft Italia. Il giorno 18 la partecipazione è allargata agli User Group Leader Italiani.... http://www.iamraf.net/Events/Italian-MVP-Open-Days Raffaele Rialdi Italian-MVP-Open-Days Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:43:00 GMT Events This is a simple class to convert a decimal number to italian characters. For example 1234.5 to "milleduecentotrentaquattro/50". This is often required in financial applications. Questa semplice classe permette di convertire un numero decimal in lettere italiane. Per esempio 1234.5 in "milleduece... http://www.iamraf.net/Samples/Simple-class-to-convert-decimal-numbers-to-italian-handwriting Raffaele Rialdi Simple-class-to-convert-decimal-numbers-to-italian-handwriting Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:42:00 GMT Samples When you need to publish a WCF or WWS service or an application that must listen on http, you must reserve an http namespace. Since Windows 2003 there is a new Http handler in kernel mode that handle/route the request to applications. This way you can listen to a single address/port couple from m... http://www.iamraf.net/Tools/HttpNamespace-a-Win32-utility-to-reserve-an-HttpEndpoint Raffaele Rialdi HttpNamespace-a-Win32-utility-to-reserve-an-HttpEndpoint Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:26:00 GMT Tools On june I presented a session on the new developer stuff for Windows 7. The coolest part was the Multitouch API and a home-made surface-like device. Here there is the full-res video in Silverlight (maximize for full-res). The audio is only in Italian language, sorry about that.surfraf00.mp4 The r... http://www.iamraf.net/Articles/SurfRaf-home-made-surface-for-Windows-7 Raffaele Rialdi SurfRaf-home-made-surface-for-Windows-7 Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:13:00 GMT Articles Welcome to my website. I am Raffaele Rialdi and you can find my bio here: https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/raffaele My Italian blog won't move. You can find it at http://blogs.ugidotnet.org/raffaele Why another web space? Here I want to publish content, that is samples, snippets, demos,... http://www.iamraf.net/News/I-am-Raf-is-finally-live Raffaele Rialdi I-am-Raf-is-finally-live Sat, 05 Sep 2009 09:17:00 GMT News