In less than 12 hours is starting TechDays Developer 2009 – Defy All Challenges – 24-Hour virtual event! For the first time, it is gathering developers from all over the world in one continuous 24 hours of learning around the clock on April 1, 2009. Through the TechDays virtual event portal, attendees will be able […]
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Breakpoints in multithreaded applications
By Martin Kulov in Programming No Comments
There are known problems in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 related to breakpoints and debugging experience with multithreaded applications. Since these days almost everything that you write is multithreaded app, I would recommend you to install the hotfix from MSDN Code Gallery. Here are the possible symptoms: Breakpoints in parallelized loops are eventually ignored after multiple […]
Silverlight 3 Beta
By Martin Kulov in Events No Comments
Today at MIX09 ScottGu announced the availability of Silverlight 3 Beta. I am very excited about the new databinding capabilities and the HD streaming support. Microsoft definitely put a lot of efforts in this release. Check out the Silverlight 3 Beta release page. Interesting fact – although all the new features that are added, the […]
MIX09 is live
By Martin Kulov in Events No Comments
Check out MIX09 keynotes and live sessions as they become available. Video on demand will be provided also soon.
Empty Blogger RSS feeds
By Martin Kulov in Misc No Comments
I experienced some downtime on my blog due to some problem with Blogger FTP publishing feature. It is unfortunate to see that Blogger is not able to handle forum support anymore except major percent of the blogs stop working. My atom.xml and rss.xml files were having 0 file size although the internal blogger rss feed […]
How TFS proxy works
By Martin Kulov in Application Lifecycle No Comments
A little know fact is that you can install a proxy server for your TFS server. This is extremely helpful if you want to boost your remote TFS experience, or your build machine performance. The way the proxy works is that it caches all downloaded files in a cache folder, so your team does not […]
MS Days 2009
By Martin Kulov in Events No Comments
MS Days 2009 registration is open. This year the conference will have IT and Dev sessions held in different days (IT sessions: 14, 15 April – Dev sessions: 16,17 April). Along with the great line up of speakers, I would like to point to you two of them – Dean Vitner and Dino Esposito. They […]
C# 4.0 Features
By Martin Kulov in Programming No Comments
Time is coming when there will be just one language used for programming .NET framework. With the new features in C# 4.0, it gets closer and closer to VB.NET. I would expect that in the recent years we will have one language to rule them all – Basic C# 🙂 here is a short excerpt: […]