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Friend Assemblies .NET

Alsalam alikom wa r7amat Allah wa barakatoh (Peace upon you..) Long story short, you have AssemblyA (with source code) and AssemblyB… you want AssemblyB to be able to access internal members (types, data, methods.. etc) of AssemblyA… You can of course do that through Reflection but come on, it’s not a descent way to do it.. right?? Continue Reading… [my MSDN blog]

Windows7 adds Math Input Panel

Alsalam alikom wa ra7mat Allah wa barakatoh… I was reading a windows team post about Input Panels improvements in Windows7 [ here ]. When at the end I saw a very interesting –intuitive if you wish- new thing… which is, as you guessed, the Math Input Panel… Yes, that crappy font is mine… I “drew” that by mouse as I don’t have a tablet pen/pc. You can then paste it directly into word and it’ll recognize it as an editable equation… During my tests, the output panel (the top part) hanged, but I liked that the drawing panel was still responsive and I could still write/erase… till the top one started to respond again… One other thing to know, after you click Insert (that button down there) it copies the equation in MathML [ Wikipedia link ] format.. which is a standard way of representing equations and hence any application that recognizes the format can insert it not as an image but as a nice editable equation… If you think it recognized something wrong, you can click “Sele