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Today the SofiaDev.org US will host its monthly meeting. The talk will be about Silverlight and will be held by Jason Beres, MS MVP and an author of a few books for .NET and one for Silverlight. The event will be broadcasted online at the following...

I haven't got the chance to post anything interesting in the last few months, but I believe now's a good time to do that. I'm proud to present the first INETA European Contest - the European Silverlight Challenge in its Bulgarian version. The web site...

Hello boys, I'm baaaack. As March 1st '07 I've got back home. Moving-in toghether with my girlfriend right in the center of Sofia. Kicking it up with a nice project for Tam Tam - the best place I've worked for. ...

Do you know, that there's a build-in check for empty/null strings in .NET 2.0? So instead of doing this:   string strValue = ""; if (null == strValue || strValue.Length <= 0) {   //do something } You can do this: string...

I've started a pet project of mine during the holidays, for automating the registration for SofiaDev.org. For now, the only way for registering is to get in touch with me (usually IM or email) and ask for an account. At the last meeting, a couple of...

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A colleague of mine had a problem today, sending emails through Outlook Web Access, while the web access URL was in he’s “Trusted sites” in IE 7.0. A while ago, MS published an article, called “Replacing the DHTML Editing Control in Windows Vista and...

I was writing a method today, one that has to concatenate and format 2 strings. As every other developer on the planet, I’m using System.Text.StringBuilder class when I work with strings (for concatenating and formatting – because that’s what we’re using...

I’ve just got my new Toshiba Portege M400 – my first Intel Core Duo and Tablet PC @ the same time. And it’s great. It came just a couple of days before I went back to Sofia, for DevDays 2006. However, I think Toshiba has some problems with the preinstalled...

There’s a limited time free of charge offer by Red Gate Software for their product “SQL Prompt”. Check it out @ http://www.red-gate.com/products/SQL_Prompt/index.htm...

Check it out here: http://blogs.sofiadev.org/blogs/branimir/articles/MyCSharpCaml_Generator.aspx...

I was writing-up an event handler with custom event arguments, getting ready for defining the event args class along with a delegate for the event definition (as you’re supposed to in .NET 1.1), when I’ve noticed that in VS intellisense is helping...

I’m working on a project on which I need to sort some custom classes. Today, I’ve decided to play around and find easier and faster way to deal with different sorting scenarios with the use of generics. I’ve a simple class hierarchy with a root abstract...

I’m currently finishing on a project which uses WSE 2.0 SP3 as a communication platform. At one point I’ve had an interesting problem, which I couldn’t find solution for (at least not according to the specs and WSE documentation). So I’ve decided to share...

I’m writing up a class that wraps all of the functionality I need for accessing AD in one place.So how do I get the LDAP path to the domain controller? It’s easy – just get it from AD itself. Here’s the code: using (DirectoryEntry rootDse = (PreAuthenticate...

One of the projects currently I’m working on is using nHibernate as a data persistence framework. If you’re not familiar with the concept, check out Nikola’s article on nHibernate.   Ideally we want to write as little as possible code that deals...

I was checking my profile at Vue this Friday, when I saw that the results for 50-529 are finally out. I've passed :). With this one I've 2/4 of the new .NET track passed in beta....

So let’s pick it off from where we’ve left the last time. We’ve defined some base classes we’re going to use throughout our solution: BaseList – abstract base class An abstract configuration A concrete implementation of the configuration And a...

So let’s start with something simple. We’re going to define a few base classes, that will be used later on with all of the topics listed in the previous post. The base classes include: A base abstract configuration class that will contain some info...

I’m taking a crash course in Dutch this week. Since last Sunday, I’m taking a week crash course at Ceran’s center at Spa, Begium (www.ceran.com). It is pretty intense and very interesting at the same time. I’ve met some very interesting people down here...

Got the results of some of the Beta MCP exams I took in December. So far, I'm qualifying for MCITPro - DBA.I'm still waiting on the rest of the Beta's I took - 3 more and I have another 3 in about 10 days from now (MCSD upgrade and another SQL).Wish me...

I did quite a serious Sharepoint Portal Server development for the last couple of months, focusing on some interesting aspects of SPS. There are a few topics which I found difficult to find documentation and resources on, so I’ve decided to do a few blog...

I've moved - since Jan 1 2005, I'm taking the position of Sr. Software Dev at Tam Tam (http://www.tamtam.nl).Planning on a few articles on Dev with SPS - doin' a lot of it in the past month - especially working with SPList(s), SmartPart, controls inside...

We’ve had a great event yesterday. About 100 people showed up for a total of 4 and a half hours of presentations and demos. We started up with BT 2006 in the morning, after that Martin continued with a great presentation about the new features of VSTS...

We'll be doing a local community launch event next week toghether with BARS (Bulgarian Association of Software Developers – http://www.devbg.org/ ).The current date is Nov 12th, so be there - we plan one day event on new features of BizTalk 2006, MS SQL...