Facebook IE8 web slice goes live!
13 Μαρτίου 10 04:55 μμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
A few months back I’ve started working with Giorgio Sardo on a Facebook IE8 Web Slice. In fact there were a few people that already were aware of that and have been bugging me for the download link ;-) since my TechEd 2009 interview and my IE8 talk at Microsoft Dev Days where I’ve shown just a glimpse of it. Well your wait is over, yesterday Microsoft officially released a set of very

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An important choice to make: your browser
10 Μαρτίου 10 04:19 μμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
I’ve just rebooted from a Windows update only to find at my startup screen the following window. And I am wondering do other OSes have something similar …

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DevDay10 All about Azure
04 Μαρτίου 10 07:22 μμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
Last week I had the chance to talk about strating up with SQL Azure on a Microsoft’s Developers Day event. The things I’ve talked about included: How to create your database on the cloud, querying data, migrating Databases to SQL Azure. Tips and Tricks: SQL Azure firewall through API, Managing connections, Logging sessionId's, Throttling and latency, Transactions, Supportability. Overall

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Interviewed by Microsoftfeed.com
12 Φεβρουαρίου 10 11:37 μμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
Last week I was asked by http://microsoftfeed.com to give an interview about the MVP program. Microsoftfeed.com is a Microsoft community blog focused mainly in the middle east region. It contains lots of valuable information and they’re currently running a section called “ Interview with Microsoft Most Valuable professionals ” which features a lot of interesting people. So when asked

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Data Connection Dialog Source Code released on Code Gallery!
02 Φεβρουαρίου 10 03:10 μμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
The data connection builder dialog is a database tool component that’s included in Visual Studio and helps you build a connection string to a database. Last week though the standalone source code was published at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Connection/ , so that anyone can use it to build a data con nections independently of Visual Studio. According to the license, you can integrate

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EF POCO Template update for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2
31 Ιανουαρίου 10 12:33 μμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
Those of you that are interested in EF probably know by now by now that if you wanted to start playing around the new features of EF like POCO entities, Self tracking Entities and Code Only EF, you had to download and install EF4FeatureCTP2.exe . Unfortunately the second CTP which was released last November, the update for Visual Studio 2010, was released without the POCO Template (the

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New Identity Developer Training Kit for WIF with Windows Azure
07 Ιανουαρίου 10 10:43 μμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
Watching Vittorio Bertocci 's Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) introductory talk at PDC as well as the recording of the excellent talk Microsoft Architect Hervey Wilson gave on this subject at PDC09 brought back wonderful memories of long discussions (and arguments ;-)) I had with Stelios, Manolis, Dimos and Stavros back when I was working at DOL, on Federated identity and Microsoft’s

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Happy New Year
07 Ιανουαρίου 10 10:40 μμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
It’s been a while since my last post, but things have been pretty hectic trying to set up and start my new business. Thankfully things are going great so you’re going to be hearing more about Techaholics in the near future ;-). Yes Techaholics is the name I think best represents what my Friend Panos talked about a few years back (now that I look at it we’ve come up with a name almost

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Prism DotNetZone Resources
21 Δεκεμβρίου 09 12:51 πμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
Well as mentioned in my previous post last Tuesday I had the chance to speak about Prism and Unity at a DotNetZone event. I believe the talk went really well, at least the attendees seemed very interested in those two frameworks. Unfortunately time was rather short for covering both topics so I feel I need to apologize for going a bit too fast. Anyway I’m putting up my slide deck and

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Prism at the next DotNetZone Event
09 Δεκεμβρίου 09 04:11 μμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
I’m going to be speaking at the next DotNetZone event on a very interesting topic namely IoC (Inversion of Control) and on how using " Prism " and it's friend Unity (an implementation of IoC) from the Patterns and Practices team that can help in building Silverlight applications in a way that lends itself to testability and modularity. In talking with various colleagues and customers

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Azure ROI Calculator
02 Δεκεμβρίου 09 01:26 μμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
Are you intrigued with Cloud computing, are you considering Microsoft’s Windows Azure but don’t know whether this is going to actually save you money? Then visit Windows Azure ROI / TCO calculator and find out. After you agree to the terms, you’ll then have to fill in a one page questionnaire. The most important question is about the expected ‘growth profile’ of your application, i.e.

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Shape the future of SQL Azure
02 Δεκεμβρίου 09 12:47 μμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
Last week at Microsoft DevDays “Make Web not War” we had a rather passionate conversation on the features Microsoft’s cloud relational database engine (SQL Azure) offers today and how these are going to change the way we program today. In that direction I’m linking the page that Microsoft has put up in order to listen everyone's wishes on what features are the most important ones. So

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Google Wave Invitations give away
01 Δεκεμβρίου 09 05:51 μμ | spantos | 2 σχόλια   
Yesterday I received my Google Wave Invitation which includes 8 more invitations to give away. So I have 8 Google Wave invitations and I’m going to give them up to 8 readers that will leave a comment to this blog post. So if you’re interested in testing Google’s new Social Platform leave a comment and try your luck ;-) The draw will take place next Tuesday. P.S. You’ll have to include

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DevDays09 Make Web Not War
26 Νοεμβρίου 09 06:49 μμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
I had the chance to speak at Microsoft TechDays today about IE8 and the new features that it brings. I grabbed the opportunity to also demo the new fbSlice Web Slice I’ve talked about at TechEd . Expect to see more about this soon ;-) You can find my slide deck and accelerator twitter client demo source code on skydrive if you need to download it, or just see the presentation here:

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Photos from TechEd 09 Berlin
19 Νοεμβρίου 09 02:37 μμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
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TechEd 2009 Sum-up
16 Νοεμβρίου 09 02:36 μμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
It is Monday 16th Nov 2009 - which means that TechEd Europe in Berlin is over. Overall I have had a good week – lots of time with product team members and colleagues. The week didn’t start as indented though. I traveled feeling a bit sick and arrived at Berlin having a small fever. Spent the entire Sunday in bed trying to avoid getting worse but didn’t avoid going to the doctor on Monday

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DevDays 09 - Live streaming
04 Νοεμβρίου 09 01:24 μμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
DevDays 09 part 2 : Silverlight 3 See the light! If you're unable to attend catch the live stream (RSVP now!) starting at 9.30 AM GMT+2 Athens time. Online TV Shows by Ustream

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Interviewed at TechEd
04 Νοεμβρίου 09 10:11 πμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
Wow these are great news, I’m going to participate at TechEd Online TechTalk series this year. I’ m going to be interviewed be Giorgio Sardo on how to build an IE8 Web Slice . The official description of the talk is Are you interested to light up your site on IE8? The MVP Konstantinos Pantos will share his experience building a web slice; we will also talk about some handy tip and trick

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Reconnecting Computers with Business Live Streaming
22 Οκτωβρίου 09 12:03 μμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
dotNetZone 1st Architecture Days event - Reconnecting Computers with Business live stream Free video chat by Ustream

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Two years in the life of a Software Solutions Architect
18 Οκτωβρίου 09 12:59 μμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
Almost two years have pasted since I moved to Metadata , a small startup company focusing on The Web, to work as a Software Solutions Architect. During this time I was able to design and develop the company’s web platform, namely MetaCMS and use it to develop large news portals and e-commerce solutions. Yesterday, I announced my resignation. There are a lot of reasons that lead me to

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MetaCMS V2
17 Οκτωβρίου 09 01:04 μμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
I briefly got the chance to talk about MetaCMS , the content management system and e-shop platform I’ve designed and built, a while back. Since then a lot of sites have been built using it. Some of which (the biggest ones) include: www.nooz.gr (former www.flash.gr) www.progreece.gr www.e-tipos.gr www.zougla.gr And as if building these sites wasn’t enough we’ve decided to completely

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Azure Tables Management
15 Οκτωβρίου 09 04:44 μμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
If you’ve started playing around Microsoft Azure then you are probably going to appreciate this post ;-). I know I did. Kudos to Ryan Dunn On Tuesday an azure table Browser service was launched for developers at MyAzureStorage.com . The service was build using ASP.NET MVC on a rich AJAX interface. and its goals are to provide developers an easy way to create, query, and manage their

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Linq to SQL =&gt; far from dead
14 Οκτωβρίου 09 01:00 πμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
There are quite a few developers that believe that Linq to SQL is dead in favor of EF. That’s not the case though and I have the facts to prove it. Here’s the list of changes that are coming with the next .net framework, .Net 4.0. Performance Query plans are reused more often by specifically defining text parameter lengths (when connecting to SQL 2005 or later) Identity cache lookups

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Reconnecting Computers with Business
13 Οκτωβρίου 09 04:48 μμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
In the past we mainly processed huge datasets, fast. Today we handle complex processes more aligned to business, in a cost-effective and adaptable manner. In other words we maintain high standards of availability and reliability while reducing development time. The architect’s life got exciting! Thursday 22 October , the DotNetZone community invites you to the 1st DotNetZone Architecture

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dotNETZone.gr Community Event - N-tier RIA applications
13 Οκτωβρίου 09 01:03 πμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
Join us on the 27th of October at Microsoft Innovation Center to learn all about RIA Services. More Info about the event here: http://www.dotnetzone.gr/cs/forums/thread/54386.aspx Facebook Event Page Save to Outlook

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