Developing Arabic applications should be easy!
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