A first look at Visual Studio 2010
26 Φεβρουαρίου 09 01:50 πμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
As you may already know visual studio is going to be built using WPF, so there is great anticipation on how it will look like. Unfortunately the shell wasn’t ready at this year TechEd Europe. Yesterday though Jason Zanders (General Manager, Visual Studio, Developer Division) announced the new UI of Visual Studio. So if you’re qurius (like me) take a peak at the A New Look for Visual

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WPF Data-binding Cheat Sheet
04 Φεβρουαρίου 09 02:02 μμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
If you’re developing in WPF then you’ll love this great post Do you find yourself struggling to remember all the settings for WPF bindings? Perhaps taping this three page cheat sheet to your office wall would help. http://www.nbdtech.com/Free/WpfBinding.pdf Sample Thanks Walt Can we have one of those for Silverlight as well?

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MetaCMS first web site goes public
02 Φεβρουαρίου 09 01:36 πμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
So it’s time for me to reveal what I’ve been up to for the past 6 months. As some of you may already know, I moved to a new start up company about six months ago, called Metadata (I know the site isn’t quite ready yet, but we focused on the product instead of the site), where I was assigned the task of designing and building a solution for Content Management. The company business strategy

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MVP Interview
26 Ιανουαρίου 09 02:16 μμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
Last week I had the opportunity to be interviewed by Alessandro our MVP Lead about the MVP program and what’s it like being an MVP. Well the interview is up and I think you’ll find it interesting, especially if you’d like to join the program ;-).

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Windows 7 adventures
26 Ιανουαρίου 09 02:08 μμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
I’ve been wanting to write about Windows 7 for some time now but waited to try them more in order to get a clearer picture for Microsoft’s new operating system. So here’s what I found out so far: Advantages: Really really small footprint which results in great performance. I’ve even tried it to a small netbook I’ve got and it works really really well. New and improved taskbar allows

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Windows Sidebar Gadget: System Undefined
17 Ιανουαρίου 09 08:42 μμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
I've developed a couple of gadgets and have found that, since installing the latest built of IE7 or Windows 7 the settings pages have broken. From some initial testing it seems as something has changed in the Sidebar event model. What happens is that when handling the onload event of a gadget's settings page, System hasn't been loaded yet (thus the System undefined error). So there

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New year resolution “Blog more…”
13 Ιανουαρίου 09 02:32 πμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
First let me say have a happy new Year full of happiness and successes to everyone. It’s been a while since my last blog post but I’ve decided to take some time off and spend Christmas and New Year with my family this year. It’s been great, I got a chance to play with my son a lot, visit Amfikleia a small village on the foot of Parnassos mountain, where we got to stay in a horse farm

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Greek support in SQL Server Full Text Search
27 Νοεμβρίου 08 10:47 πμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
Full text search is probably the best tool when it comes to searching through large amount of database data and has come a long way since the early versions of SQL server in of performance but also with more languages, being supported in each new version. But even though SQL Server 2008 now supports more than 50 diverse languages, according to msdn documentation, there is still no support

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Dynamically loading user controls
21 Νοεμβρίου 08 02:38 πμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
There are many occasions (at least so I’ve discovered) were you need to re-use user controls that you’ve created. A solution in those cases would be to convert your user control to a custom control, compile it into an assembly which is then going to be shared to all projects needed. The problem is, that you can’t easily convert a user control to a custom control cause you have to write

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MVP Open Day
21 Νοεμβρίου 08 01:24 πμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
Today I had the chance to meet with my fellow MVPs and our lead Alessandro Teglia on the first Greek MVP open day. It’s an event that is meant to bring MVPs closer, motivate us and give us an opportunity to meet and discuss the community and MVP program problems but most of all have fun. It was really fun, we talked about several things and all I have to say is that really cool things

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DotNetZone Event Resources
20 Νοεμβρίου 08 02:22 μμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
As promised yesterday, I’m publishing the slide deck I used as well as the demo source code I used. Stay tuned to get notified when the video of the event gets published on DotNetZone . /p> I had a great time discussing how Dynamic Data and ADO.NET data services work although I was pretty stressed out at the beginning with a number of technical problems (network was down, projector

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Winning at TechEd 2008
14 Νοεμβρίου 08 11:05 πμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
This year TechEd had a surprise for me... Playing in a game at the speaker idol booth I got to win a brand new HTC mobile phone. Luckily (or not this depends on how you look at it ;-) there were a couple of my fellow delegates around to capture this in camera. So to be even more embarrassed here I am winning the HTC…

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DotNetZone Event
13 Νοεμβρίου 08 04:10 μμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
Right after getting back from Barcelona, on Wednesday the 19th of November, I will be giving a talk for the DNZ community at Microsoft offices about all things Dynamic in.Net :-) Things I will talk about include: Dynamic Data Web Sites: Creating a Dynamic web site Customizing Look and Feel Connecting to a Database Scaffolding Further Customization of the site Microsoft SQL Data Services:

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TechEd 2008 Day 1
11 Νοεμβρίου 08 11:35 πμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
Last year I used photos to capture the event and although these were great pictures they didn’t actually capture the event vibe so this year I’ve decided that I wouldn’t take any pictures. Instead I brought my video camera with me and decided to get everyone in. So here it is first day’s video. I hope that I’ll find some time later on to give you my opinion of TechEd first day till

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See you at TechEd Barcelona
07 Νοεμβρίου 08 01:48 μμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
I'll be at TechEd in Barcelona next week. I'll be at the Ask The Experts booths a few hours during the week. Feel free to come and say hello. I'll be available if you want to discuss about ASP.NET, my projects – work , or .NET in general :-) Please ping me if you'll be there too and would like to meet.

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Charting Controls
03 Νοεμβρίου 08 10:49 πμ | spantos | 0 σχόλια   
Most of the people I meet have this idea that they have to either buy or find an open source third party component, or (even worse) use flash, when it comes to drawing graphs for a web application or site. So I’m guessing that most people don’t know that the Data Visualization Group within the SQL Server Reporting Services Team has created stand-alone ASP.NET and Windows Forms Chart

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