Finally working with fully featured BlogEngine on godaddy the BlogEngine v 1.4.5 has been released and I had the time to update my blog, and finally works as a charm with godaddy shared hosting.

Some features that didn't work with the 1.4 version was the whole new widget system, Profiles and anything that used the BinaryFormatter at the end, which needed a high or full trust while godaddy shared hosting only allows meduim trust.

In version 1.4.5 Mads and the team removed all the BinaryFormatters references and used normal xml serializers save the widget and extension settings.

For all blogengine users using shared hosting, go ahead v 1.4.5 works out of the box, and also check the new features released in the latest version.

I mentioned a long while ago that I will work on some sharepoint and workflow foundation in order to enlarge my development knowledge base, I learned some stuff on the way may be all sharepoint and workflows beginners already know them but I love to share them for others.

I will start another series for sharepoint development (for beginners as myself) so If anyone out there finds out a better approach for anything I write or correction welcome for commenting on the posts so all can benefit too.

This series will start with introductory posts that are needed to understand the architecture and object model of sharepoint, these introduction points are all over the web and blogs of sharepoint pros, I will write them again in my wa, then proceed with some basic development then advanced, I don't have an outline for the posts I am gonna write I have some ideas any reader is welcome to add in comments any topic related to sharepoint development wants me to write about, hoping this series be useful like my older one Design Time Support of Custom Controls, so wish me luck.

This blog has been idle for some while, I was very busy, out of mood, studying for my masters and reading new technologies (for me like workflow and sharepoint development and some WCF). I didn't know what time my blogging mood will be back, until my friend Moses insisted to get me back and tagged me in the how I got started in software development, that started a while ago by Michel Eaton. So here we go.

10 years old (12 years ago).

My father used to make simple programs using C that showed dots and stuff I dont get till now , he used to let me write for him some code. Few years more my sister joined computer science and had assignments to program C++ application thats when I really got involved and started to read.(16 years old)

By that time it was C. 

My very first own program I wrote was the famous star pyramid using C++, My first windows application and favourite is the MineSweeper, which is my helloworld application that I used for many languages, I used to have the following minesweeper versions (WinForms, WPF, Assembly, Silverlight, OpenGL, DirectX, javascript).

C, C++, VisualBasic.Net, C#, Java, Assembly, Prolog, Javascript, HTML/XHTML, XAML and lot of other technologies related to development not considered programming language.

Was 4 years ago, I used C# for building winforms applications connecting to databases in my summer training that time.

OfCourse. I code with passion, love blogging and exploring new technologies around the block. I could have never imagined myself anything other than what am I in now.

Code for fun not for money. Have a life. Don't forget to lie to girls &  Buy your RayBan as Mads said I already got mine thank you Mads.

Building my very first Minesweeper and talking about it to my very best friend that time.

First, I'd like to thank my friend Moses for not only tagging me but for making me get back to the blogging mood, I hope to continue blogging regularly like old days.

Second, I'd like to pass this to my favourite bloggers, most of them already have been tagged, I recommend you reading them too, Dave, Matt, Mads, Moses, Joe and Keyvan. And now I tag Bashmohandes to write his story.

Anyone reading this and wants to write about his story just head straight to Michel's post and write him a comment.

My blog has been quiet for a long time now, I had a crowded month I didn't get the time to write anything but I am back to writing I hope so.

Last month I had some working tasks on new technologies (for me) , a new course to study for and of course all my PreMasters studies in my university.

So, I think my focus next blog post will be on the new stuff I learned about Sharepoint 2007 and workflow foundation hope I can write something useful.

By the way I have just passed the 70-631 Exam TS: Configuring Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. So I have a new MCTS in my transcript.

A while ago, Al Nyveldt wrote a post on 5 things he loves about BlogEngine.Net  and I totally agree with him on all the 5 and more coming in the future releases,  Mads Kristensen too wrote and made a video on a the widget framework on a nice feature coming up in the next version of blogengine.net.

BlogEngine.Net is built to take advantage of standards, one standard I loved that is implemented in BlogEngine is the OpenSearch 
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In my previous post I showed that ASP.NET application goes through 3 security context levels and discussed the first one :

1. IIS Level
2. ASP.NET worker process level
3. ASP.NET pipeline level

In this post, I will talk a little on ASP.NET worker process level, before starting I would like to point out the development environment we use, the development machines run windows XP and IIS 5.1, the server runs windows server 2003 on IIS 6 of course, so I need to point out the differences. More...

Lately at SCS I have been assigned to build up the security module and related tasks in the Real Estate Management System we are building. So I decided to share what I have learned in this past period and of course to hear from the community to find optimal solutions for the scenarios I worked with, all what I write here might be repeated but I will share it anyway. More...

In my tour in exploring GDI+ I explored the Brush object, now its time for some Pen stuff.

While the Brush classes are used to fill shapes, the Pen class is used to frame shapes. However, Pens are not only used for simple frames. Here in this post I show some advanced uses for the Pen. More...

Few days ago, I blogged about how to enable auto formats in the design time smart tag by overriding simple property, this post will describe how to enable design time template editing in a similar simple way.

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Back to design time support, but this time with ASP.NET server controls, most complex & simple controls built in the .NET framework are associated with an Auto Format.. link in the smart tag as the one shown in the figure, I showed in a previous post how to add links and properties to the smart tag of a control.

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