Design, Solutions and .NET Framework by Dejan Dimitrovski

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 ,...

You have chance to spend a day with some of the nation’s leading cloud experts and for you to learn how to build an application that runs in Windows Azure. You will learn how to sign up for free time in the cloud, and how to build a typical web application...

Since this will be the year of the Cloud, I’m glad to be the one who will present the Microsoft Cloud Story to the audience at the South East European Business Technology Week . The event is planned to be as a roadshow into the neighboring countries Macedonia...

Join live the Microsoft Redmond Campus to learn how to get started building applications for the cloud from Microsoft technical leaders Scott Guthrie, Dave Campbell, and Mark Russinovich! On Tuesday December 13th there will be a special Windows Azure...

Great news for all developers who want to integrate their applications with Live services, including SkyDrive for operating with documents and pictures in the cloud. SkyDrive is a key part of the “device cloud” concept letting you use 25GB for easily...

I’m honored to be part from this year’s Microsoft Vizija conference – the biggest IT event happening in Macedonia. I’m looking forward to this great opportunity to meet a lot of interesting people! I am going to hold a session about Azure and how to prepare...

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...

Mango is an important leap forward in Microsoft’s overall mobile strategy and the developer community has taken notice. Now is the time to embrace the “tile-and-app” UI and reap the rewards Mango provides your development team and user community. This...

I would like to share that during the period 24-26th June I’ll be part of the first Startup Weekend organized in Skopje, Macedonia. I’m honored that the initiation came from the organizers, where they’ve asked from me to join this historical event for...

Microsoft TechDays is one of the largest technical event for Microsoft technologies in this region, and this year I will present the Visual Studio LightSwitch in Kosovo (17.05.2011) and Macedonia (18.05.2011). For those who will not be able to join my...

Let's make a short overview. Everything has started during the 90's, text based browsers. At that time I was a student, looking for new challenges. MTV, NBA... I've remember my first modem with 9.6kbps, first visual designs, my first Internet...

HTTP as a protocol is a request/reply communication mechanism which means that the server respond only if it is initiated as request from the client. Because of this nature of the HTTP protocol, some tricks are needed to make it look like a duplex transport...

This tool takes a WCF trace file and a WCF client proxy, or a WCF interface contract, and generates a unit test that replays the same sequence of calls found in the trace file. The code generated is easily modifiable so that data variation can be introduced...

This post is just a note for those who have not experienced WCF, REST, GET method and Internet Explorer in combination or AJAX, GET method and Internet Explorer again. Actually the problem is that the browser is greedy for caching and If you use a GET...

Using WCF application that has an HTTP binding often needs ability to monitor exact messages that are being transmitted. If you don’t like to use WCF message tracing and logging feature , you can try the alternative more accurate and easier way to capture...

Nice overview on S+S strategy, and why it’s far superior related to Software as a Service (SaaS). Take a look on this 4 minutes video . video.aspx?vid=0c9021e8 eb39 4a82 9120 0adfc2302515 As additional info, you can reach the following materials...

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...

It’s obvious that every software is something breakable if we planning to improve it with a new version and the same story is with our WCF services which can evolve over time. In this article, I’ll gave you few advices on dealing with different versioning...

After submitting request before few weeks to allow me an access to the Windows Azure Services , Microsoft sends me an email with all necessary details on how to explore this new platform for developers. First thoughts on Azure were that this is another...

WCF as part of the .NET Framework supports different OS platforms, providing accessibility over many protocols including HTTP, TCP, IPC and MSMQ. But not every WCF host support the entire suite of protocols which limiting your options at times. Beyond...

The most important thing when you are developing an application is actually the debugging process. If we are talking about WCF, tracing should help developer to debug WCF service by logging all operations on the service. How to enable trace Open the config...

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...

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...

Few year ago, when I was being an ASP.NET enthusiast, I had to deal with the problem known as hop the credential over servers. It looks that this problem still is the major pain for the most of ASP.NET developers, because many of them so often asks me...

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...