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30. travanj 2009. 15:40

Windows 7 RC: MSDN/TechNet Users D-day (Download-day)

Today is D-day for MSDN / TechNet Users - so be patient - a LOT of people will download new State-of-the-Art Microsoft OS.

If you would like to know more, follow this link: http://live.mscommunity.net/blogs/tbronzin/archive/2009/04/26/windows-7-rc-available-on-msdn-april-30th-broader-public-may-5th.aspx

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27. travanj 2009. 2:17

Thank you Microsoft Community Croatia for Microsoft Community Award for Contribution at WinDays 2009!

Microsoft WinDays 2009 Conference was different in many ways from previous conference years (it is 9th in the row), but one thing was special: newly established “Microsoft ISV Award 2009” – delivered in cooperation between Microsoft DPE (Development Platform Evangelist) Group and Microsoft Community Croatia.

In previous years, only partners that sold the largest number of licenses or so was awarded, this year Microsoft recognized ISV’s that are contributing with their added value and making possible to use Microsoft platform and tools!

There was 4 categories:

· Most Advanced Technology Solution / Company: Nomena
· Solution with the Greatest Business Value / Company – HRPro
· Most Innovative Solution / Company: Pet minuta
· Microsoft Community Award for Contribution / Person: Tomislav Bronzin (me :-) )

I wish to thank my colleagues from Microsoft Community Croatia and Microsoft Croatia for the great honor to receive Microsoft Community Award for Contribution!

Thank you!

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26. travanj 2009. 18:52

Windows 7 RC available on MSDN April 30th / broader public May 5th

I am happy user of Windows 7 Beta Build 7000 and I was very much excited when I received announcement that Windows 7 Release Candidate will be available on above dates!

Windows 7 truly is one of the best OS in the history of Microsoft OS's and I am really enjoying it's "lean and mean" technology that are delivering performance and usability to the user's built on Windows Vista foundation!

Read more here: http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/04/24/windows-7-release-candidate-update.aspx

To be clear, it is not just that product is near finish line, but Microsoft is saying that they built a lot of the improvements from beta, complete list of which you can find here: http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/02/26/some-changes-since-beta.aspx and here http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/03/13/a-few-more-changes-from-beta-to-rc.aspx

My favorite improvements/features are:
1. Blazing fast boot/shutdown
2. Battery life has been prolonged a LOT!
3. Support for VHD (mount/boot)!
4. SPEED is adequate!

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19. travanj 2009. 22:34

Microsoft WinDays 2009 - The Bigest ICT Regional Confernce, April 20-24,Croatia

Microsoft WinDays 9 Business and Microsoft WinDays 9 Technology will be held in the week from April 20 to 23, 2009 in Opatija, while the WinDays 9 Virtual conference will take place virtually, that is, prior, during and after the other two conferences along with the additional virtual conference day on April 24 2009.

I have being presenting at this conference from begining 9 years in a role, delivering Keynotes, Sessions and 1-day pre-conference days!

This year I will do part of the keynote in Thuresday about Cloud Computing - Windows Azure Services, following by the whole session about this new Microsoft Application Development platform. I will also speak on two other session: about Microsoft Live Meeting and Windows Vista Gadgets.

My collegues from CITUS is also presenting:

a) Vedran Kaldi, MCT, Tuesday, "Best practices of .NET Development"

b) Dobriša Adamec, MVP, Virtual Conference, "Windows Azure"

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5. travanj 2009. 12:52

Cloud Computing: Microsoft .NET Services SDK (March 2009 CTP)

As part of effort to make development experience more productive and to expose more of the Azure Services Platform capabilities Microsoft published Microsoft .NET Services SDK (March 2009 CTP).
Microsoft .NET Services is part of the Azure Services Platform and includes three services: the Access Control Service, the Service Bus, and the Workflow Service.
 
This SDK includes API libraries, tools, samples, and documentation for building connected applications with the .NET platform. It spans the entire spectrum of today’s Internet applications – from rich connected applications with advanced connectivity requirements to Web-style applications that use simple protocols such as HTTP and Atom to communicate with the broadest possible range of clients.
 
Download it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8d1d1d5e-1332-4186-b33f-26d053759e49&displaylang=en
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1. travanj 2009. 21:15

Congratulation to the new MVP's!

Alessandro Teglia, Microsoft CEE MVP Lead announced new MVP's:

Name Expertise Country
Andrei Ignat Visual C# Romania
Artemiou Artemakis SQL Server Cyprus
Carlo Pallini Visual C++ Italy
Dobriša Adamec ASP/ASP.NET Croatia
Jerislav Bobic Windows Media Croatia
Srdjan Božović Visual C# Serbia
Stanimir Stoyanov Visual C# Bulgaria
Vadims Podans PowerShell Latvia
Valter Minute Windows Embedded Italy
Zeljka Knezovic Communications Server Croatia

I am especially proud that I can say hello to the new members of Croatian MVP community and first women among them: Zeljka Knezovic!
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1. travanj 2009. 11:48

New Cool Dev Stuff: Visual Basic QuickStarts and How-to Topics for Prism V2.0!

Microsoft published some great stuff on WPF/Silverligt app dev guidance that is usefull both for Architects and Developers:

Visual Basic QuickStarts and How-to Topics for PrismV2 (Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight)
This release is provided to help Visual Basic developers use the Composite Application Library. The release includes QuickStarts, the Composite Application Library (only provided in C#), and documentation. The documentation includes:
  • Visual Basic Content for Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight - February 2009.chm: The QuickStarts, Hands-On Labs, and How-to Topics in Visual Basic.
  • Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight - February 2009.chm: Complete documentation in C#.
  • Composite Application Library Reference February 2009.chm: Library reference API.
 The Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight is designed to help you more easily build enterprise-level Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight client applications. It will help you design and build enterprise-level composite WPF client applications—composite applications use loosely coupled, independently evolvable pieces that work together in the overall application.

 

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1. travanj 2009. 2:51

TechDays 2009 - 24h Virtual Developers Event!

TechDays helps you sharpen your coding skills and learn from your peers how to get the most out of the tools and technologies that you are using today to develop applications. The five (5) tracks below will offer a series of live and on-demand sessions (up to 95!) as well as quick demos providing on-demand tips & tricks:

- Windows Development and Frameworks
- Windows Mobile Development
- Office and SharePoint Development
- Developer Tools, Languages & Practices
- Web Development & User Experience

TechDays provide a number of special offers:
- 50% off Microsoft Certification exam – exclusive offer for TechDays attendees!
- Get a second chance to pass your Microsoft Certification exam
- Competition with award: MSDN Premium Subscriptions

I am proud to say that my collegues Andrej Radinger Windows Mobile MVP and Josip Medved - MS Community Croatia Speaker are delivering their sessions in Wednesday!

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1. travanj 2009. 2:29

TechDays - CEE MVP's delivering sessions!

I am proud that we have CEE MVP Andrej Radinger delivering session on Windows Mobile Dev topic two times (for Hong Kong and Europe):
 
MBL304a Developing Mobile Solutions with Visual Studio 2008 and WM6 SDK Tools
    Wednesday, April 1 12:00 AM - 1:00 AM 
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Visual Studio 2008 brings lot of improvements for mobile developers, and Windows Mobile 6 SDKs tools that allow developers easier and faster solution development. This session will show you how to effectively develop Windows Mobile client applications. You will see some of the cool features that can be easily used in you applications, such as POOM integration, SMS interception, state and notification broker and camera integration. Session will be packed with live demos and code samples.
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Languages(s): English
Level: 300
Session Type: Live Session
Speaker(s): Andrej Radinger
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MBL304b Developing Mobile Solutions with Visual Studio 2008 and WM6 SDK Tools
    Wednesday, April 1 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM 
Visual Studio 2008 brings lot of improvements for mobile developers, and Windows Mobile 6 SDKs tools that allow developers easier and faster solution development. This session will show you how to effectively develop Windows Mobile client applications. You will see some of the cool features that can be easily used in you applications, such as POOM integration, SMS interception, state and notification broker and camera integration. Session will be packed with live demos and code samples.
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Languages(s): English
Level: 300
Session Type: Live Session
Speaker(s): Andrej Radinger
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