Windows Phone event
13 Οκτωβρίου 09 12:50 πμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
WINDOWS PHONE Καλώς ήρθατε στο Windows Phone Marketplace Ελάτε και μάθετε όλα όσα χρειάζεται να ξέρει ένας προγραμματιστής όταν ενδιαφέρεται να βγάλει την εφαρμογή του στη διεθνή αγορά! 20 Οκτωβρίου 2009 στο Κέντρο Καινοτομίας (Βασιλίσσης Σοφίας 103 – Δίπλα στο σταθμό του Μετρό: Μέγαρο Μουσικής) Είστε προγραμματιστής? Πιστεύετε πως το μέλλον στο σχεδιασμό εφαρμογών βρίσκετε ‘στο κινητό

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TechEd 2009 Berlin
08 Οκτωβρίου 09 11:53 πμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
A year has passed and it’s time for the Microsoft TechEd 2009 conference. This year the conference will be hosted at beautiful Berlin. Luckily I’ll be able to attend it (I wouldn’t miss it for the world) so drop me a line if you feel like saying hello. I'll be available if you want to discuss about ASP.NET, my projects – work , or .NET in general :-) For those of you that haven’t registered

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SQL Azure Explorer
06 Οκτωβρίου 09 10:47 πμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
If you have already started playing around SQL Azure you will have probably stumbled on the limitation the SQL Management studio has. So I think you’ll find SQL Azure Explorer rather useful till Microsoft synchronizes its toolset with the Azure platform. SQL Azure Explorer is an addin for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 that will enable you to manage you SQL Azure Tables just live the Visual

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XAML Power Toys
21 Σεπτεμβρίου 09 09:18 πμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
If you’re into Silverlight/WPF development you’ll surely appreciate Karl Shifflett’s XAML Power Toys: http://tinyurl.com/karlpowertoys Awesome (free) tool for WPF/Silverlight. XAML Power Toys Full Feature Set includes Create ViewModel Class - from a VB.NET or C# code window, easily create a ViewModel stub that includes commands and exposed data class. Optionally you can elect to re-implement

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ASP.NET Tips and Tricks
21 Σεπτεμβρίου 09 01:20 πμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
I’m starting a new line of blog posts in which I’m going to give out a few tips and tricks I’ve picked up during the past years. I’m going to start with one of the most common mistakes I often face when reading code. To demonstrate that, I’m going to use LinqToSQL as my data access method (although the problem can be found in any kind of Data access technology) and use the the same

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GPS Tools
20 Σεπτεμβρίου 09 08:01 μμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
If you’re into geo-app development the following tools should come handy. GeoFrameworks and Jon Person released their GPS Framework for .NET on CodePlex ! The really nice thing about this framework is it works with both the full blown .NET Framework and the Compact Framework. If you’re developing for a Windows Mobile, embedded, laptop or desktop computer, it should handle all your needs.

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Featured at MSDN home page
11 Σεπτεμβρίου 09 12:19 μμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
What a great honor this is, I’m featured at the home page of the Greek MSDN site ;-).

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Uploading your database to SQL Azure
08 Σεπτεμβρίου 09 03:46 μμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
Ok you’ve developed your cloud application and you’re ready to publish it to Azure, wait a minute how are you going to upload your database to SQL Azure? Of course you just can’t do a backup – restore to the cloud so what are your options? Well actually there are two ways you could deploy a database to SQL Azure. With the first one you manually create your db schema installation script

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Connect to SQL Azure
08 Σεπτεμβρίου 09 03:44 μμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
A few weeks back Microsoft announced the first CTP of SQL Azure, its new cloud relational persistence offering. In this post I will show you how you can connect and query your SQL Azure DBs from your PC. There are two ways you can interact with SQL Azure, one is through the SQLCMD command line program and the other is through SQL Server Management studio. To connect to SQL Azure using

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Linq To SQL Caching Adventures Part 2
06 Σεπτεμβρίου 09 12:25 πμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
Before picking up where I left off yesterday , I have to first make a small disclaimer. I received a couple of comments stating that the caching solution I presented wasn’t that sophisticated or complete or that the cache keys that I’ve used were not the right and the answer is of course “yes”. The solution I presented was far from perfect but it served well as a simplified demonstration

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Linq To SQL Caching Adventures Part 1
03 Σεπτεμβρίου 09 05:47 μμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
A caching solution is always necessary if you want to build scalable applications which will handle lots of users and heavy data access without requiring more hardware resources. I’ve already talked about caching when using Entity Framework , but is there a way to use caching in Linq to SQL and what are the problems one might face. To explore caching in Linq to SQL I’ve built a small

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Faster Windows 7 Download
07 Αυγούστου 09 12:55 πμ | spantos | 1 σχόλια   
I guess that everyone is already downloading Windows7 and you all probably use Micosoft File Transfer Manager, What most of you haven’t noticed is that there is another link at the MSDN Top Downloads page which is delivered via Akamai. Usin that my download speeds jumped from 50KB/s to 1MB/s when I switched to it. So if you’re in a harry (like me ;-) use that link .

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The patterns & practices team Web guidance survey
24 Ιουλίου 09 01:35 πμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
The patterns & practices team plans to create some new Web guidance and we needs our help prioritizing the requirements through a survey that went live. They have split the effort into 2 projects. The first project will be to update the Web Client Software Factory (WCSF) to run on Visual Studio 2010. The second project will take a fresh look at creating new Web Guidance . Your feedback

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myFacebook version 1.2.3.0 is out.
01 Ιουλίου 09 03:13 πμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
As I already mentioned earlier , Facebook has recently removed the friends status RSS feed from its pages causing myFacebook gadget users a problem as they couldn’t easily configure myFacebook sidebar gadget to display friend statuses. To resolve this issue I changed the way myFacebook gadget retrieved those statuses by removing the RSS feed and instead using the brand new Facebook

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Caching with Entity Framework
16 Ιουνίου 09 12:51 πμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
It’s been quite some time since I last talked about Entity Framework Caching . Since then a lot of people has come to me asking me if there was something they could do. Well I’m happy to announce that this week Jaroslaw Kowalski released the source code on msdn code library of sample caching providers ASP.Net Cache, and Velocity on) for Entity Framework. The solution relies on caching

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Silverlight Presentation at Microsoft
21 Μαΐου 09 01:47 πμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
Yesterday, I had the chance to speak in front of an audience about how ready is Silverlight for your business applications at a Microsoft DevDay event. I really enjoyed it as I was mainly showing code and demos (did 7 demos in 1h.30m which is a personal record) instead of doing PowerPoint slides, and talked about a lot of new features coming up with Silverlight 3. I hope everyone enjoyed

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myFacebook status feed update
03 Μαΐου 09 08:21 μμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
It seems that Facebook has changed the friends status page and has removed the RSS feed link that existed there. So it’s a bit difficult to find the right url, the gadget needs, in order to display your friends’ status on it. So even if you click on the link “here” on the gadget you’ll end up on a page that doesn’t have and RSS links. Even though the link isn’t there any more, that

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DeepZoomPix
17 Απριλίου 09 01:12 μμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
It’s been almost a year since I last talked about Microsoft's Hosted Deep Zoom project . It then was a simple Ajax – silverlight enabled web application that enabled you to dynamically deepzoom and share your images. A lot have changed since then as I discovered today. To begin with, the project has been renamed to Deepzoompix and a lot of cool new features have been added making it

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Multi touch Windows Desktop
09 Απριλίου 09 01:36 πμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
Back on February 2007 I blogged about a prototype project of Human Productivity Lab, code named Bumptop and was claiming that we’re really not that far from seeing something like that becoming available for end-users. Well today I found out that I wasn’t wrong. Bumptop is officially released and available in two versions a free one as well as a Pro one for a small fee. Check it out

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Tools for building Line of Business Apps with Silverlight
09 Απριλίου 09 01:08 πμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
Most of the large control suite vendors have already started releasing their offerings for the Silverlight platform. One of those, namely divelements , has put together a couple of samples on what you can do with their controls. So if you are interested in building line of business applications in Silverlight such as an mail client, word processing, or something similar, check out http://divelements.co.uk/silverlight/

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Velocity CTP 3 is available
09 Απριλίου 09 12:57 πμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
Good news, the 3rd community technology preview of Microsoft’s offering on Caching is out. You can download it here . If you haven’t looked at it yet, now is a good time to start. If on the other hand you’ve already played with it (like me) here’s what’s new in this version. Cache Notifications Using cache notifications, the object in the local cache automatically invalidates as soon

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Microsoft MVP again
05 Απριλίου 09 09:44 μμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
Great news arrived this week. Didn’t have time to blog about it as I also had a Community presentation about windows Azure . So Microsoft has given me the MVP title, once again! This my third year in a row as an MVP, and hopefully not my last. Last year I promised that I would try to engage more in the community through my blogging, speaking, and writing on Software and web development.

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Not an April Fools joke… lets talk about Azure
31 Μαρτίου 09 10:21 μμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
Tomorrow on 19.15 I’m going to speak for the 27th dotNETZone.gr Community Event about the windows Azure platform at the Microsoft Innovation Center. I’m planning on talking about the windows Azure platform and briefly touch on Azure Live Services, Azure .Net Services and last but not least SQL Services. So if you’re interested come discuss on Windows Azure…

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Ramp Up
23 Μαρτίου 09 09:02 μμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
Talking about training and events a resource I’ve first saw in this year TechEd came into my mind Ramp Up . Ramp Up is a free, online, community-based learning program, with a number of different tracks that will help you build your portfolio of professional development skills. Ramp Up has a solid foundation of premium technical content from subject-matter gurus, and provides easy-to-access

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Microsoft Virtual Tech Days 2009
23 Μαρτίου 09 08:44 μμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
On April 1st Microsoft is launching a new kind of event, namely Virtual TechDays . To attend it all you’ll have to do is open your browser and navigate to the site. You can even attend it from the comfort of your home couch. At least that is what I’m going to attempt, I’m going to stream it to my Windows Media Center Extender (aka XBOX) from your Windows Media Center ;-) PC). You don’t

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