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(Αν και αρκετά καθυστερημένα) γράφω εδώ για την 2η παρουσίαση που έγινε στο τμήμα Πληροφορικής και Τηλεπικοινωνιών του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών με θέμα την ASP .NET 2, από τον Στέλιο Καραμπασάκη και από εμένα, την Παρασκευή 8 Ιουνίου 2007, στην Αίθουσα Α. Η αφίσα που χρησιμοποιήθηκε για την προβολή/διαφήμιση της εκδήλωσης καθώς και το ενημερωτικό thread που άνοιξε στο StudentGuru βρίσκονται Διαβάστε περισσότερα »...
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I'm a big fan of Office Development (and soon, you will be too!), so I was thrilled to see us release this: The Microsoft Office Interactive Developer Map is a WPF application that helps developers visualize the different programs, servers, services, and tools that will help them build solutions. It allows them to drill down to each product and technology and learn about new features, objects, Web services, namespaces, and schemas required to extend Microsoft Office and build custom Office Business Applications Διαβάστε περισσότερα »...
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Another question I keep getting when I present VSTS and TFS is how it relates to Project Server (integration with Project Professional is out-of-the-box functionality for VSTS). Once again, I've been saved by the web: We just announced a Project Server 2007 - TFS Connector ! The connector integrates the data across VSTS and the Project Server and helps synchronize the tasks (work items) between the two applications. It also gives control over governing the activities between the two by providing the Approve/Deny Διαβάστε περισσότερα »...
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Yesterday, I presented WCF in the 8th dotNETZone.gr event, in Microsoft Hellas building in Athens. Here is a list of resources that may help you get started with Windows Communication Foundation. Software: Visual Studio 2005 .NET Framework 3.0 Redistributable (preinstalled in Vista, else available for Windows XP SP2 and Windows 2003 Server) Visual Studio 2005 extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (WCF & WPF), November 2006 CTP Microsoft® Windows® Software Development Kit for Windows Vista and .NET Framework 3.0 Διαβάστε περισσότερα »...
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Surface computing at Microsoft is an outgrowth of a collaborative effort between the Microsoft Hardware and Microsoft Research teams, which were struck by the opportunity to create technology that would bridge the physical and virtual worlds. What started as a high-level concept grew into a prototype and evolved to today’s market-ready product that will transform the way people shop, dine, entertain and live. It’s a major advancement that moves beyond the traditional user interface to a more natural way of interacting Διαβάστε περισσότερα »...
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Windows Communication Foundation (WCF - formerly known as Indigo) encapsulates all previous microsoft technologies for remoting and messaging. It's layered architecture consists of a base that handles asynchronous calls and message handling and a top that handles security, transations, transport and encoding capabilities. WCF acts as a wrapper of preceding remoting technologies like: ASP.NET Web Services : The Microsoft's implementation for XML web services . NET Remoting : Supports .NET to .NET tight coupled Διαβάστε περισσότερα »...
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Architecture 101 (Mohammad, May 24) http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?EventID=1032338971&culture=en-CA Architecture is the balance between art and engineering; it requires a certain mindset and approach to solving problems. Architects often function as a bridge between the business users and development groups and are increasingly being recognized as a critical community within organizations. Becoming an Architect can often translate in to an elevated status from a career stage perspective Διαβάστε περισσότερα »...
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Norton Ghost is a very popular backup tool, as you propably already know. The feature that distinguishes Norton Ghost from it's competitors is that it is designed to get a complete system backup, relieving yourself from the burden of selecting individual folders or features to backup. This also makes recovering a very simple and straighforward procedure, since you get your hard disk back with all programs working in just a few clicks. Something you may not know is that Norton Ghost can create a virtual hard Διαβάστε περισσότερα »...
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So, like I wrote in my previous "Day 1" post, Silverlight was the main focus of the keynote, and MIX07 altogether. I was going to write some more about it, but I read this blog post @ TechCrunch, that began like this (copied from the post): The announcements around Microsoft’s new Silverlight platform yesterday were important to anyone who is thinking about where the web will evolve. For those of us watching the demos at the Mix conference the immediate importance of it was apparent - Silverlight will be the Διαβάστε περισσότερα »...
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Here is some digital media content from MIX07: Photos on flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/93154554@N00 You can find more photos if you search for MIX07 at flickr http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=mix07&m=tags Don't forget our tweeter feed @ http://twitter.com/MIX07_GR/with_friends And some videos Video: Venice inside the Venetian! Video: Twitter screensaver Video: Waiting for the MIX07 keynote to start Διαβάστε περισσότερα »...
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Wow - what a day! The main event of the first day was, of course, the keynote session by Ray Ozzie and Scott Guthrie. The main topic of the keynote (and the entire MIX07 event, I would say) is Silverlight . I think I see a pattern here - the most important/ground-breaking/impressive products we build, always get names made up of two words: SharePoint & Silverlight are the ones I have in mind right now... Instead of taking notes during the keynote in order to remember all the stuff in order to post it in Διαβάστε περισσότερα »...
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Some really cool thigs were shown in keynote of Mix07 event in Las Vegas . I watched almost the complete opening event and here are my impressions. First of all, the event opened with some very cool videos , created using thw new Expression Studio . They reminded me the good old days (and nights!) I spend with my friends during the university days playing EA Sport's Fifa (do you remember that cool intro videos the game had)! Ray Ozzie , Microsoft's chief S/W Architect entered the event with music and light effects Διαβάστε περισσότερα »...
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So, here we are, one day before the real thing begins! The day starts off with some pre-conf sessions arranged by the EMEA@MIX team. We get a barrage of WPF demos (some really cool and impressive stuff, including an application for golfers, one for a fashion channel and one for the London Underground – Panos has more details ), followed by brunch (good thing, cause everyone was hungry!). We then get a nice session on U ser e X perience, with big focus on SilverLight , followed by a session on Windows Live! and Διαβάστε περισσότερα »...
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We finally arrived in Las Vegas about 6 hours ago (21:30-ish local time). By the time we got our suitcases, hopped on the MIX07 bus that drove us to the hotel and checked in, it was 23:30! The hotel, by the way, is very impressive. First of all, it's huge ! All of the rooms are suites (around 70m 2 each) and it's got a ton of stuff inside, from a huge casino, to a Madame Tussaud museum, a number of shows, the halls where MIX07 will take place and a ton of other stuff. You probably need about 20 mins to walk Διαβάστε περισσότερα »...
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A couple of weeks ago, Panos found out that IBM was hosting an event on SOA and forwarded it to me. I thought it would be interesting to see what IBM has to say on the subject, so I registered, and went. Overall, the event was well organized (apart from a few sound problems they had in the beginning). The schedule was almost on track (for Greek standards, I mean!) and the food was great! I knew quite a few of the attendees there. In fact, one of them said " I think Patrick knows more people here than IBM does! Διαβάστε περισσότερα »...
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This Saturday is going to be tough. We're leaving for MIX07 and I just calculated exactly how long our flight will be. Here it is, for your personal viewing pleasure: Yes, that's right! Twenty three hours and thirty one minutes. I don't think I've ever done that before! After we recover from this flight, Panos and myself are going to be blogging like crazy from there, so get ready! We're taking along digital cameras and camcorders, as well as our laptops and PDAs. We've got an account on Soapbox for our videos, Διαβάστε περισσότερα »...
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Προσπαθούσα να φτιάξω ένα Vista Gadget χθες το βράδυ, και διαπίστωσα ότι το alert της Javascript δεν παίζει... Συνεπώς, μην έχοντας κάποιο περιβάλλον για την ανάπτυξη gadget, έψαξα για πιο 'old-school' μεθόδους. Βρήκα αυτό το εξαιρετικό εργαλείο της SysInternals, το DbgView, το οποίο μπορείτε να το κατεβάσετε από εδώ http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/debugview.mspx Διαβάστε περισσότερα »...
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You're sitting in an airport, patiently waiting for your flight to board and, all of a sudden, Nick Skyscrapr , the famous enterprise architect sits right next to you. Being extremely friendly, he introduces himself to you and asks you what you do – so you say "I… well… I am an architect". "Perfect", he says, "Let's talk SOA!" Are you ready for this discussion? Do you have an opinion? Do you know who the players in the SOA field are? Are you sure you know who the players are? ;) Macehiter Ward-Dutton , a specialist Διαβάστε περισσότερα »...
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Not really related to VSTS or any other Microsoft technologies, I recently found out about a company called Steorn , who claim that their technology, " Orbo ", can produce energy that doesn't need any external sources , produces no emissions and does so indefinitely . This is the sort of thing that makes you say "yeah, right – you missed April fools by 12 days", as it violates the first law of thermodynamics , but these guys are serious about it. As you might expect, the scientific community is very skeptical Διαβάστε περισσότερα »...
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In the next edition of Visual Studio, codenamed "Orcas", the unit testing functionality, currently available only with the Team Editions of the product, will be available in the Professional edition as well. Creating and running database unit tests will remain in the Team Editions. Doing something like this makes sense, once you understand our long-term strategy for Visual Studio Team System. The idea is simple: we will keep adding value to all our Visual Studio editions in the years to come. Some of the functionality, Διαβάστε περισσότερα »...
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The last line of my previous blog post mentioned a link where you can find a VSTS information goldmine! A number of people pointed out that information this significant needs to be in a post of its own, so here's a list of things you can find in our new, prescriptive guidance for VSTS (repost from J.D. Meier's Blog): Explained: Branching in Team Foundation Server Explained - Structuring Your Solutions and Projects in Source Control with Team Foundation Server How To: Perform a Baseless Merge in Team Foundation Διαβάστε περισσότερα »...
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Here is a tiny detail in the try/catch syntax of VB.NET you not be aware of - I wasn't until I recently discovered it in the documentation by accident : Try Catch ex As Exception When [Expression] End Try I recently needed this for a generic function which I was calling both synchronously and asynchronously (separate thread). I wanted this function to handle the exception by displaying a dialog box in case it was executed asynchronously only. So I just added a parameter to that function called 'handleException' Διαβάστε περισσότερα »...
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Πολλές φορές, όταν εκτελούμε SQL queries, θέλουμε να πάρουμε ένα ορισμένο υποσύνολο από τα δεδομένα που θα παίρναμε κανονικά. Για παράδειγμα, το query SELECT * FROM products ORDER BY ProductID ASC στην Northwind database (πρόκειται για μία test database της Microsoft, μπορείτε να την κατεβάσετε από εδώ ) φέρνει 77 rows. Πολύ εύκολα μπορούμε να πάρουμε τα πρώτα X rows από ένα table, Διαβάστε περισσότερα »...
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I receive about 200 e-mails a day. Some are discussion threads from several internal distribution lists I monitor, others are stuff people need from me or replies to my e-mails, and some are internal announcements – sometimes confidential. I received one of those on Sunday, and I've been itching to blog about all this time, but I couldn't… Until now! (well, actually, until Monday, but I've been having some issues with my site, and I couldn't post till now) I am a big fan of Visual Studio Team System . Not because Διαβάστε περισσότερα »...
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http://www.connectionstrings.com/ Περιέχει connection strings για πάρα πολλά RDBMS συστήματα, ODBC connections για διάφορους providers, και πολλά άλλα! Το χρησιμοποιώ αρκετά συχνά και μπορώ να πω ότι με έχει σώσει πάρα πολλές φορές!!!! Enjoy!! Μοιραστείτε τη δημοσίευση: email-it! | bookmark to del.icio.us! | digg-it! | redd-it! | kick-it! | bookmark to technorati! | bookmark to live Διαβάστε περισσότερα »...
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