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This week I’ll organize several events in few Balkan countries. The events focus is on ITPros and Developers named as: May 14 th – TechDay ITPro , Podgorica, Montenegro May 15 th – IT Camp , Pristina, Kosovo May 16 th – TechDay ITPro & Dev , Pristina, Kosovo May 17 th – TechDay ITPro & Dev...

Python Tools for Visual Studio turns Visual Studio into a Python IDE.  It's a free & open source plug-in for Visual Studio 2010 from Microsoft's Developer Division. PTVS enables developers to use all the major productivity features of Visual Studio to build Python code using either CPython...

If you are interested, here is a sneak peek on top ten technologies in Microsoft Research by Network World. Take a look at parts in this article for Oslo and Visual Studio 2010 as one of top projects there, it’s more than obvious that there is a bright future with those tools. However, if you like to...

That’s it. The next version of .NET, known as version 4.0, should be presented to the developer’s community in October as Preview. Together with Visual Studio “10” they are a quite exciting bunch of technologies that Microsoft will extend the capabilities of Windows Server, by adding a set of capabilities...

It's nice to see that my favorite XSD designer is back after installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1. For those who are not in the game, read on my previous article about Visual Studio 2008 XML tools . First of all, I have noticed that my Server Explorer bar is missing and after few attempts to find out...

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 are out! Even that they looks more like feature pack ( my previous article ), they offer additionally improvements in responsiveness, stability and performance. The list of delivers is: WPF and visual designer improvements .NET Framework...

Visual Studio 2005 has introduced a very nice feature called debugger visualizers which represents extensions to Visual Studio that drops in a custom user interface for visualizing types. This vizualizers allows you to visually view useful information about objects during debug which can often be a lot...

Quick overview on few interesting posts in the previous days: The very useful CR_Documentor 2.0 has been released with Sandcastle Preview and is now open source code; List of classes Jerremy Miller includes in his projects; An Amazing Introduction to NDepend ; Jesus Rodriguez has a WCF extensibility...

Microsoft has just released for download, Visual Studio SP1 Beta, which includes the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta. Visual Studio 2008 SP1 includes support for SQL Server 2008, new ADO.NET features such as the Entity Framework, improvements to the WPF designers, WCF templates for Silverlight projects,...

Many of you have asked me to share my list of favorite tools, so definitely here it is: Web Development Notepad++ - excellent Notepad replacement, supporting multi-tabs, several programming languages etc. Fiddler - HTTP Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet...

PowerCommands is a set of useful extensions for the Visual Studio 2008 adding additional functionality to various areas of the IDE. The source code is included and requires the VS SDK for VS 2008 to allow modification of functionality or as a reference to create additional custom PowerCommand extensions...

If someone tend to hear the name of Linus Torvalds, sorry I'm disappointing you. Here is a latest Microsoft action about "software that really changes my world": What makes you a hero? For many, it is doing what you love, and doing it well. That's why Microsoft believes in providing...

Good news Maybe you have noticed that there are few changes in Visual Studio 2008 XML related tools, but however here is the list of changes: Fully supported IntelliSense Using of code snippets when editing XML, XSLT, XSD … Schema cache and Schema catalog Large File Support (>10MB)- now the...