Believe it or now it has been an year since I last blogged. Funny enough my last blog post last year was about Visual Studio 2010 Official Launch. I still remember the journey for releasing Visual Studio 2010. As one of the Visual Studio ALM MVPs, it feels like I am part of the team […]
Building anything on the web more than a static HTML page, introduces a lot of technical challenges from the novice to the expert software developer. There are many reasons for that, but there is one particular field that most people get very much frustrated – Deployment. Most software developers are unaware of architectural and operational […]
At TechEd EMEA 2009, I was invited by Tiberiu Covaci to participate in a panel discussion. We talked about what is takes to be a User Group lead, how you can be involved with community activities and what is in for you. What made the panel really interesting was to hear different opinions from people […]
I am setting up Microsoft Test Manager in order to playback recorded manual tests for Propeople. I created a test case and set up my environment to collect data from web server. However when I tried to start recording of my manual test with Microsoft Test Manager, I’ve got the error below: Data and diagnostics […]
I just upgraded my Lenovo R61 laptop from 3GB to 4GB. After the upgrade Lenovo technician showed me that BIOS was saying – 4GB memory installed. When I started Windows 7, I fired up Task Manager and I can see that Total Physical Memory was 3,096MB or just 3GB. When I ask the technician what […]
Coskun Sunali sent me a list of 77 tips for Windows 7. While some of the tips are already included in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, it is still a good reference to all of them. Here is a short list of my favorites. 15. Prepare for DirectAccess. DirectAccess makes it easier for users to […]
I just found today that Hyper-V snapshots are recommended by Microsoft only for development and testing purposes. You should never try to use Hyper-V snapshots instead of fully functional backup solution! There is even more on the Hyper-V Virtual Machine Snapshots FAQ: Important Microsoft does not support the use of snapshots on virtual machines hosting […]
Since recently, Microsoft Bulgaria launched a blog for news and events in the Development Platform area. Make sure that you subscribe to the RSS feed and you will receive important information about new releases from Microsoft and related events in Bulgaria. You can find the blog here: http://blogs.msdn.com/dpe_bulgaria/
Microsoft announced the availability of WebsiteSpark program as a natural continuation after releasing BizSpark and DreamSpark programs.The program targets small entrepreneurial teams up to 10 people developing for the web. The program will get you with the tools in order to provide service in web site design and development. Considering the up coming Visual Studio […]
Microsoft announced the new Microsoft Project 2010 on Microsoft Project Conference in Phoenix. Check out the amazing First Look demos of Microsoft Project 2010 and Project Server 2010. Most important – ActiveX controls are history now, MS Project looks to be much more agile planning tool, MS Project Server will have integration with TFS 2010 […]