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Console doesn’t display Arabic

The command prompt doesn’t have support of bidi languages. Therefore the components that run from...

Author: Dina Lasheen - MSFT Date: 01/30/2010

Search Engine Optimization Toolkit

So, it’s not about Arabic , complex scripts or bidi. Still it’s something good J Microsoft announced...

Author: Dina Lasheen - MSFT Date: 01/13/2010

What does it mean to have Arabic Support in Silverlight 4?

Really that means two things: 1) Silverlight 4, now displays Arabic properly. On earlier versions,...

Author: Dina Lasheen - MSFT Date: 11/25/2009

Silverlight 4 Beta available, with Bidi Support

This is a truly exciting time to see the beta of Silverlight 4. Finally after 3 versions we have...

Author: Dina Lasheen - MSFT Date: 11/23/2009

Arabic Numeric Conversion Sample - From numbers to letter for Arabic

To get you started I wrote this simple sample that uses the Visual Studio International Pack 2.0...

Author: Dina Lasheen - MSFT Date: 10/22/2009

FlowDocumentReader Arabic strings

I had a customer question about how to use FlowDocumentReader in WPF, for Arabic text. I thought...

Author: Dina Lasheen - MSFT Date: 07/30/2009

Visual Studio International Feature Pack 2.0 Beta

Visual Studio International Feature Pack 2.0 Beta has some great features for our international...

Author: Dina Lasheen - MSFT Date: 06/14/2009

Enter International Numbers in a Textbox

This is a very common case…. There are so many application that needs to enter numbers in a text...

Author: Dina Lasheen - MSFT Date: 04/30/2009

Exchange is down

It’s a sign!... I need to write a new blog post … I skipped last month because I had so much work...

Author: Dina Lasheen - MSFT Date: 04/16/2009

DataGridView with RTL Columns

I had an interesting customer scenario, which is common among developers that deal with more than...

Author: Dina Lasheen - MSFT Date: 01/29/2009

Silverlight Arabic Support

In short, there is no Arabic Support in Silverlight 2, however there are some workarounds. There is...

Author: Dina Lasheen - MSFT Date: 01/19/2009

WPF Sample for Drawing Text

In my earlier post, I mentioned the different consideration when dealing with rtl (or Bidi) text....

Author: Dina Lasheen - MSFT Date: 12/25/2008

Event and Arabic CLIP

November was a very hectic month. I participated as a speaker in the IT Evolution event, touring 6...

Author: Dina Lasheen - MSFT Date: 12/25/2008

Arabic CLIP is available!

Microsoft CLIP (or Microsoft Captions Language Interface Pack) is a language solution that uses...

Author: Dina Lasheen - MSFT Date: 11/06/2008

Developing Arabic WPF applications – Part 3

I talked before about changing the input language in a textbox in Windows Forms but what about WPF?...

Author: Dina Lasheen - MSFT Date: 09/29/2008

Arabic Online Machine Translation

Good news, Arabic Microsoft machine translation (MT) engine is now live at...

Author: Dina Lasheen - MSFT Date: 09/08/2008

Developing Arabic WPF applications – Part 2

There are a few cases where FlowDirection does not behave as expected. This blog covers two of these...

Author: Dina Lasheen - MSFT Date: 07/13/2008

What About SQL?

I'm all about VS but I came across this interesting article about SQL. The title is Arabic Language...

Author: Dina Lasheen - MSFT Date: 06/05/2008

Microsoft EDC 2008

Next week, I'll pack and head to Egypt, to attend Egypt Developer Conference (EDC). EDC 2008 is the...

Author: Dina Lasheen - MSFT Date: 03/30/2008

Mixed Time Date display

Hi, I wanted to continue posting in this blog in a hope that it would help people understand more...

Author: Dina Lasheen - MSFT Date: 03/24/2008

Arabic Visual Studio?

It’s been such a long time since my last blog entry but I’m finally back. I had a very long time Out...

Author: Dina Lasheen - MSFT Date: 01/29/2008

Changing the Web-page direction on the fly

To create Arabic webpages, we don’t only need to translate the web-pages but we also need to change...

Author: Dina Lasheen - MSFT Date: 08/27/2007

VBAME.DLL is the Middle East support file, for VB 6.0

This blog entry, is a flash back because I’ll talk about VB 6.0, I got several complains about using...

Author: Dina Lasheen - MSFT Date: 08/13/2007

Quick tips on having Arabic web pages

I’ve been busy on reviewing some Arabic webpages for the past two weeks. I thought the results might...

Author: Dina Lasheen - MSFT Date: 07/31/2007

Which DB provider should DBPro support?

The DBPro team is collecting input from customers on which 3rd party (non-Microsoft) database...

Author: Dina Lasheen - MSFT Date: 07/17/2007

Developing Arabic WPF applications – Part 1

I’ll talk today about developing Arabic applications in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). The...

Author: Dina Lasheen - MSFT Date: 06/11/2007

Layout Controls Properly without Re-arranging them Manually

I had a question last week from a customer who wanted to display a right-to-left WinForm but doesn't...

Author: Dina Lasheen - MSFT Date: 05/29/2007

Switching RightToLeft causes the controls to flicker

I got a question from a customer in pain over the unwanted flickering of his application when he...

Author: Dina Lasheen - MSFT Date: 05/23/2007

Changing the input language in a textbox at runtime

Today, I'll talk about changing the input language for a textbox at runtime, in VS 2005. The might...

Author: Dina Lasheen - MSFT Date: 04/29/2007

ContextMenuStrip images don't update quickly, if you have controls with different RightToLeft settings

A customer complained that the ContextMenuStrip didn't render images correctly when assigned to more...

Author: Dina Lasheen - MSFT Date: 04/24/2007

VSTS International customer survey

I know that I just started my blog but my team has created this survey to know your feedback about...

Author: Dina Lasheen - MSFT Date: 04/14/2007

My first blog post

Hello world! This is my first blog post... It's about time to do this... My blog is about developing...

Author: Dina Lasheen - MSFT Date: 04/14/2007

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