If you still have Virtual Server running, I would definitely recommend that you first migrate to Windows Hyper-V 🙂 However for the rest of us living in the real world, there is a cool trick to check if virtualization is actually running for your virtual machine. You need to see the value of the following […]
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DevReach 2009 is coming this October
By Martin Kulov in Events No Comments
It is less than two months when DevReach 2009 will happen again in Sofia, Bulgaria. This is the forth edition of the wonderful conference gathering so many internationally recognized Microsoft Regional Directors, MVPs, INETA and TechEd speakers. The event will take place on 12-13th of October, in Arena Cinema Mladost, Sofia. We have selected this […]
Search string in SQL Server database
By Martin Kulov in Misc 2 Comments
How you can find a string in a SQL database? One option would be to export the database to Excel file and use the Excel searching capabilities. Unfortunately I did not manage to get the export working for me at all. If you want to do it the smart way, here is a query that […]
Migrating TFS 2008 Project Portal
By Martin Kulov in Application Lifecycle, Misc No Comments
I had a strange problem last week. I was trying to access the WSS portal site for one of our TFS projects. We migrated the TFS to a new domain and the portal site was working before that. However now I’ve got the lovely “404 NOT FOUND” message. More interestingly when I tried to create […]
Windows Azure Pricing
By Martin Kulov in Programming No Comments
Microsoft has just announced the pricing for the Windows Azure services. The big news were announced during the Worldwide Partner Conference 2009. The service will be commercially available at PDC 2009 in the middle of November, 2009. Why Windows Azure is important and how to use it, you can learn much more about at the […]
SharePoint 2010 Sneak Peek
By Martin Kulov in Programming No Comments
You can now get a sneak peek of what is coming SharePoint 2010 with demos presented from the Microsoft Product team itself. This is the first information released about SharePoint 2010 for now. Watch the video here.
Judging at Imagine Cup 2009
By Martin Kulov in Events No Comments
Today are the Imagine Cup 2009 finals at Cairo. I have the honor to be selected as member of the jury for Software Design category. Imagine Cup is the world’s largest student competition for Microsoft technologies. Bulgaria is also represented by the MindPoint team from Technical University of Sofia. Members of the team are Kiril […]
MK.NET CodeCamp
By Martin Kulov in Events No Comments
I will be speaking at Macedonian .NET UG’s CodeCamp at Skopje this Saturday, 13th of June. I am going to present a session on Building Highly Scalable Web Sites using Microsoft “Velocity” (Level 300). If you happen to be in the same area, drop me a message and we can get in touch.
Connect to TFS 2010 from VS2008
By Martin Kulov in Application Lifecycle, Misc 1 Comment
If try to connect to TFS 2010 instance from Visual Studio 2008 you will probably experience the following error message: Possible reasons for failure include: The Team Foundation Server name, port number or protocol is incorrect. The Team Foundation Server is offline. Password is expired or incorrect. The trick is that due to changes in […]
Everything about Alternate Access Mappings in SharePoint
By Martin Kulov in Programming No Comments
Ever wanted to know how Alternate Access Mappings (AMM) work in SharePoint. Do you need to add host header to your web site or you wonder what the heck is internal and public URLs in SharePoint? The following three articles will help you understand everything I think you need to know about Alternate Access Mappings […]