[Polish] Ha.. pamiętacie jak z żalem informowałem, że PDC07 , które miało się odbyć jesienią tego roku zostało odwołane? Mam bardzo dobrą wiadomość, która może namieszać w waszych kalendarzach. PDC (Professional Developers Conference) odbędzie się w następną jesien (w 2008 roku). Więcej wiadomości na...

[EN] I'm doing a lot of VSTS consultancy last days. I have to admit that after some research I found tones of VSTS content online. Harder is to find some order and logic in that compilation. Accidentally I found a page which I cannot call differently than VSTS in a nutshell. Check it: http://www.cshost...

Another blogger at blogs.msdn.com found interesting issue I mean, on this blog for some period I have observed many trackbacks sourced by rss feeds. URL like msdnrss.thecoderblogs.com suggests that it's an aggregate covering many other blogs to into a single feed at least. Looks fine as you can also...

Several times I hear request to implement download manager in Internet Explorer as Firefox users can experience for some time already. I think IE-Team is the place to find proper answer to that request but I in this week I observed interesting thing on my Windows Vista and IE7. I needed to download several...

I just read one article on Software Development Times (SDTimes.com) which you can somehow treat as an answer to a question somebody asked me on that blog entry . It's another good signal for you after article I mentioned here . Mono guys have got official MS guidance as you can read.

Właśnie odkryłem interesującą aplikację, o której wcześniej nie słyszałem. Moim zdaniem jest warta świeczki. Jeśli tylko piszecie aplikacje korzystające z WPF uważam, że jest nawet kluczowa! Oto adres do Snoop'a: http://www.blois.us/Snoop/ To narzędzie powinno wam pomóc w debugowaniu aplikacji korzystających...

I must admit that I learnt programming because I wanted to develop games (when I grow adult). Reality showed that in ERP and database systems business I'm better candidate to be a developer and now it's a completely different story. But the truth is that if I only have time to play hard with my computer...

[EN] X++ team started writing their own blog. If you're interested go there: http://blogs.msdn.com/x/ [PL] Zespół odpowiedzialny za rozwój X++ rozpoczął pisać swojego bloga. Jest on dostępny tutaj: http://blogs.msdn.com/x/

It's funny how easy is to forget one crucial thing very well defined in "Wireless Crime and Forensic Investigation" book written by Gregory Kipper. If you have a 3 months old child many people around who see your baby less often than your day-to-day and hour-to-hour basis accidentally shout a comment...

Prior to my SQL Server 2008 "Katmai" session (tommorrow) I'd like to share some nice resource explaining bitmap filters and indexes in SQL Server. http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlqueryprocessing/archive/2006/10/27/query-execution-bitmaps.aspx Nice explanation in simple words

I think this trick can be used on any windowing system with below events supported. WPF specific implementation is easier because if you handle mouse events on main window events will be raised even if some additional control cover dirty region on the form. Of course OriginSource properly informs you...

When I was a highschool youngster I was highly interested to learn programming at my best mostly because I wanted to develop games. Future showed that my destination has gone in different direction but nostalgy built in my mind moves me to constant tracing about news to know what's going on in gamedev...

I just read in one of our internal newsetter about the site and initiative related to global climate crisis. I think it's important to be a part of this messaging in a way much more civilized than riots in Rostock/Germany. How does it Microsoft and especially MSN? Find out yourself there: http://liveearth...

[EN] As in subject. If you want to meet the future of touch screen and how you can interact with tablets very very soon go to below site: http://www.microsoft.com/surface/ Microsoft Surface is the answer here. More information about this technology can be found also there: http://www.microsoft.com...

[EN] I don't like news like this. I was waiting for this event either, but anyway I have to forward this news: PDC is cancelled this year Fall (October 2007). Rescheduling process started so I hope new dates will popup soon but it's hard to promise anything right now. I'm waiting for more news in subject...

I'm a geek and geek like me needs to code from time to time not only talk about coding, design, principles and stuff like that. So I sacrificed some of my free time to check some idea. Most of you should know what rogue-like games are. Ascii games like ADOM and clones. Not so hard to start playing with...

[EN] I just updated my own site ( http://www.dbiesiada.com ) to include there presentations I used recently while speaking on various events. Most of that content is only in Polish language but I'll later translate it also to keep this information globally available. Direct link to these publications...

[PL] Jak możecie sobie przeczytać pod poniższym adresem, Microsoft zagłosował za przyjęciem formatu ODF 1.0 (OpenDocument Format) do listy amerykańskich standardów (ANSI). http://www.microsoft.com/poland/centrumprasowe/prasa/07_05/02.mspx [EN] As you can read in below article, Microsoft voted yes for...

[PL] Tak jak wspomniałem na konferencji Intela, podejście Microsoftu przy dostarczaniu narzędzi i technologii deweloperskich było zawsze związane z nastawieniem na produktywność. Zmiana architektury aplikacji związanej z uwzlgędnieniem procesorów wielordzeniowych wiąże się z gwałtownym zwiększeniem...

I just installed Powershell and started playing with. Of course being a developer first I wanted to check some scripts which could help me out to play with command line based makefiles and scripts which can be easily implemented using PS1. First of all I recommend of course converting cmd.exe based...

I just found and read nice article about OpenGL coding on Windows Vista. Many times I heard about lower performance of graphical applications on Windows Vista versus XP. Here you can find nice benchmark of various gfx applications: Additional gaming benchmark: DirectX benchmark to compare: Full...

If you want to know what above three put together mean, check below URL: http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/msft/ [Port 25 team in action]

When I wrote another entry about Silverlight somebody asked me about "promised" support for Linux. I'm not sure if below answer helps much but after MIX it seems that Mono guys are going to make the job done. More details you can find there: http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9714669-7.html

I'm not sure if you noticed that at below URL http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/searchguide/en-en/default.mspx where generally you can add some custom predefined search providers for IE7 you can also create your own custom search provider. Quick test with Polish news&media portal called Onet...

If you were reading coding 4 fun articles and tutorials and other stuff gathered on http://www.coding4fun.net site you can now subscribe a feed on this blogs.msdn.com host. Their new residence is: http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun/ Benefit for you beside of bookmarks update is for example nice search...