listopad 2007 - Posts

28. listopad 2007. 22:55

Start of new Community: www.MSCommunity.ba

I have this honor to congratulate Microsoft Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina for starting www.mscommunity.ba!

In the begining they will have joined ITPro and Developers User Group (off-line) meetings and first will be held at November 1st, 2007 in Microsoft B&H office.

Good luck!

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28. listopad 2007. 18:29

VS2008 Beta2 VPCs expiring prematurely - SOLUTION

Solution seamed to be obvious, but nobody could tell that it is the right one before someone tired it!

I will get you to the point: you "just" upgrade Windows Server with MSDN (or other full) license. "Just" - because it takes couple of hours to do that (depending on the speed of your computer/disks).

More on this: http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffbe/archive/2007/10/27/update-on-expiring-vs2008-beta2-vpcs.aspx

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27. listopad 2007. 22:38

VS2008 Beta2 VPCs expiring prematurely - PROBLEM

If you are like me METRO trainer or just developer that installed Visual Studi Beta 2 and started to develop aplication in VS2008/TFS, then following information is VERY IMPORTANT for you:

http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffbe/archive/2007/10/25/vs2008-beta2-vpcs-expiring-prematurely.aspx

Quote from Microsoft: 

"We recently discovered that the VPCs we distributed as part of the VS2008 Beta2 release will expire on Thursday, November 1, 2007, much earlier than we had originally expected.  Since the timeout is at the OS level, we cannot automatically extend the timeout period.  As such we are currently in the process of reissuing the VPCs and expect to make them available early next week.   In the meantime, for anyone that has stored information in TFS that they need to access moving forward, we recommend that you immediately backup the TFS databases in preparation to move them to the updated VPCs.  For information to complete these steps, please refer to the documentation on Moving Team Foundation Server.   We're still working on additional guidance to respond to this situation.  As more information becomes available, I'll post it here." 

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26. listopad 2007. 7:18

METRO - VS2008 Jump Start - GREECE

Next week, Tuesday, October 30. 2007, I am doing a METRO Visual Studio 2008 Jump Start session:

Visual Studio 2008 1-Day Jumpstart Agenda

Start

End

Session Title

 Session Description

14:00

14:10

Registration

  

14:10

15:00

Lap Around VS 2008

& .Net 3.5

 Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 provide several key features that allow developers to build a variety applications more quickly. During this session you will learn about some core enhancements to Visual Studio that all applications can take advantage of, such as multi-targeting. You will also learn about all of the key areas of “orcas” from a high-level, before we drill into some of those during the next hours.

15:00

15:45

Visual Studio Tools for Office

 This session is designed to help developers learn how Visual Studio Tools for Office enables them to leverage Visual Studio and the Microsoft Office platform to build scalable line-of-business solutions based on Microsoft Office.

15:45

16:00

Short Break

  

16:00

17:00

LINQ

 Language Integrated Query (LINQ) provides the ability to write query expressions directly within C# or Visual Basic. LINQ makes it significantly easier to query and access all types of data. During this session you will get an introduction to LINQ and you will learn about several different flavors of LINQ including LINQ to Objects, LINQ to XML, LINQ to SQL, LINQ to Datasets, and LINQ to Entities.

17:00

17:30

Short Break

  

17:30

18:30

WCF / WF

 The major enhancement to Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) inside the .NET Framework 3.5 is the integration with the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) in the functionality known as Workflow Services. This session will introduce the reasoning behind wanting to implement services as workflows and exposing workflows as services and then discuss the architectural foundations behind it. This technology was built upon the existing extensibility mechanisms in the framework and allows one to easily consume services as well as create them using WF. This session will introduce the basics of Workflow Services and then proceed to discuss the more advanced scenarios of duplex communication and conversations with multiple parties over the same contract.

18:30

18:45

Short Break (optional)

  

18:45

19:30

 ASP.NET, Ajax & Silverlight In this session, you'll learn how to use ASP.NET AJAX to build a richer, more responsive user experience. Topics include partial rendering, web services, structured scripting, and integration with Silverlight.

19:30

19:35

Evaluation Fulfilment

  
 
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21. listopad 2007. 4:00

Mobility Bootcamp - November 26-30, Croatia

After successfully Mobility Day Conference My colleague Andrej Radinger, Mobile Devices MVP and I are preparing first in the row of Mobility Bootcamps.
We are planing to deliver several Mobility Bootcamps in Europe, starting from Croatia in November, then going around the Europe!

If you would like to hosting this training, contact me and we will discuss possibility!

In the mean time, check the web and following description of the 1. event in Croatia:

Bootcamp description

Description:
Mobility Bootcamp is intensive 5-day training, which teaches attendees technologies, news and tools supported in developing, deploying and maintaining mobile solutions and mobile devices in enterprise environment, as well as project methodology MSF.
Training lasts throughout the whole day, until late evening every day, with several hours of break and relaxing entertaining activities after lunch. Every session consists of theoretical introduction, followed by demos and examples, and concluded with hands-on labs on attendees’ workstations. All HOLs are supervised by bootcamp trainers. Last day of bootcamp, attendees will be divided into teams with 3-4 members each team. Each team will have a specific task within a large project, and the final result of all teams will be a solution created by Visual Studio 2005, following MSF methodology.

Target audience:
Solutions architects, software developers, system analysts and testers.
 
Why to attend?
After the training, attendees will have all necessary knowledge for developing and implementing mobile solutions. Also understanding of Exchange 2007 with mobile features is gained throughout the training. Training is also excellent preparation for passing new Microsoft exams related to mobility competency and achieving new certifications.
 
Prerequisites:
Training is not anticipated for total beginners. We expect certain previous knowledge and experience with application development:
• 6 months experience with .NET platform
• Relational database management system (RDBM) basics, like SQL Server
• Visual Basic and/or C# basics
Bootcamp is led by two experienced trainers and Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) Andrej Radinger and Tomislav Bronzin.

Price:
Take advantage of Early Bird, sign up for bootcamp before November 12, 2007 and save 15%: 2.100,00 € + VAT
 
Full price after November 12, 2007: 2.333,00 € + VAT

Price includes:
• Training fee
• All materials
• HOLs
• Windows Mobile 6.0 Device for each attendee
• 5 nights in hotel (unless asked otherwise by attendee)
• Breakfast, lunch and dinner for 5 days
• Additional entertaining activities (3 days)
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21. listopad 2007. 3:50

DEVELOPERS BOOTCAMP - On the road again ....

My good friend Andrej Radinger (Mobile Devices MVP) and I are again on the road!

After returning from SINERGIJA (Novi Sad, Serbia) we are now going to do the Developers Bootcamp in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina!

We are doing a little modification of our standard training Visual Studio 2005 Bootcamp that will emhasise migration to object oriented .NET languages and real life scenario.

This training is full, but keep an eye on my blog or http://www.msbtc.net for future ones! 

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19. listopad 2007. 8:39

Support OpenXML - Join "Voices for Innovation"

This days I am witnessing several attempts to erase Open XML from the market by governments adopting misguided polices. I would never mind if Open XML would be just one of the standards (not the only standard) but I am against every attempt to adopt ONLY ONE standard that would favor only one platform. I think that file formats like Open XML, Open Document Format (ODF) and Portable Document Format (PDF) should be able to openly compete.

So, I am calling you to support the movement in Microsoft Community for Open XML by joining "Voices for Innovation" Community by clicking on following button: Voices for Innovation

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18. listopad 2007. 2:16

Sinergija - Day 1

It was first day of Sinergija and I had a session "Visual Studio 2008 - Orcas and Road Ahead". There was a lot of people, as you can see from the picture - people were waiting to enter - there was no space for all (just kidding, everybody successeded to enter!):


People are waiting to enter and hear what
is new in Visual Studio 2008 - Orcas


From the left :-): Marin Bezić,
Anka Novkovic-Slamnig and me, myself and I

Andrej Radinger, MVP also had session: "Mobility in Windows Vista":


Andrej in action:
"Do not ask me - ask Microsoft"
(hehe, just kidding)
Full room and satisfied attendees
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16. listopad 2007. 9:45

Microsoft Office Live Workspace - Beta

Microsoft Office Live Workspace is interesting new feature for small teams that is also called "Sharepoint Lite". It will be free and easy, it is Microsoft Office online companion and you can pre-register here: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/officelive/FX102394081033.aspx

Anywhere Access

  • Store 1000+ Microsoft Office documents in one place
  • Access them from almost any computer with a Web browser
  • No more flash drives or sending yourself documents via e-mail

Share With Others

  • Invite people to your workspace
  • You control who can view, comment, and edit your documents
  • Stop manually merging versions from multiple people
Learn more
-->

Works With Microsoft Office

  • Open and save files directly from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
  • Synchronize contact, task, and event lists with Outlook
  • No need to learn a new program
Learn more
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16. listopad 2007. 7:15

DevArena Conference - real developers in action

Today I had an honor to speak on DevArena - conference organized by Ekobit. Of course, I was speaking about "Visual Studio 2008 - Orcas and Road Ahead".

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14. listopad 2007. 10:45

Microsoft Sinergija - October 16-19, Novi Sad, Serbia

This is the largest Microsoft Conference in Serbia with 10 tracks and 100 speakers.

Among them, Andrej Radinger (Mobile Devices MVP) and I are having 5 sessions (in Wednesday and Thursday).

If you will be there - we will arrive in Tuesday evening - so if you are interested in Communities or technology, or you want to meet us - let us know!

More info: https://www.mssinergija.net/en/ 

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14. listopad 2007. 10:38

Microsoft Vizija - October 9-10, Skopje, Macedonia

Microsoft is busy this days in the region: another big event happened October 9-10 in Skopje, Macedonia.

A lot of prominent speakers was there, including MVP: Aleksandar Talev, Community leader Vladimir Meloski, a lot of Microsoft Corp speakers as well as regional Microsoft experts like Marin Bezić, Luka Abrus, Igor Slišković etc.

Great event guys, I am sorry that I could not attend!

More info (only in Macedonian): http://www.microsoft.com.mk/vizija/

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10. listopad 2007. 10:52

Picture Gallery - CEE MVP Open Days 2007 - Dubrovnik, Croatia

Some pictures and comments can be found here: http://www.mscommunity.net/Default.aspx?tabid=1105

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7. listopad 2007. 4:15

Bruno Kovacic - New Microsoft Student Consultant

Our colleague, Bruno Kovacic, student that proved his knowledge of ICT at international competitions has been elected as a new Microsoft Student Consultant for Croatia!
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7. listopad 2007. 3:37

Damir Tomicic - INETA Europe President - presented with Steve Ballmer on "Expression around the Clock"

I am super-excited that I can write here about once-a-life time oportunity that INETA Europe President Damir Tomicic had recently!

 

Damir (INETA Europe President, MVP i Microsoft Regional Director from Germany) was presenting at Steve Balmer keynote at Microsoft event called  "Expression around the Clock".

 

This event was broadcasted online to 10 city worldwide: Auckland, Bangalore, Kairo, Mailand, Mexico City, Moskau, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Toronto i Zürich.

 

In his keynote, with the title "Designing the Next Era of Software", Steve Ballmer was talking about "how to combine great design and great code" and technologies like Microsoft Surface, Seadragon i PhotoSynth, but the central demo was delivered by Damir Tomicic from Axinom. His company developed solution for media company Premiere, specialised in distribution of Hollywood movies and sport for German speaking public.

He was showing how they developed Silverlight powered web site that alows Premiere to implement DRM and deliver high definition video across Internet.

 

Video recording of the keynote is available here:

http://www.microsoft.com/expression/events-training/globalevent/player/Default.html?Zurich_SteveBallmer_Keynote_500k=Steve_Ballmer=Designing_the_Next_Era_of_Software

 

Some other links:

http://tomicic.de/CommentView,guid,1afbeda8-fc57-4303-bc9c-f3fd53392afd.aspx#commentstart

http://www.lunchoverip.com/2007/10/steve-ballmer-t.html

 

 

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