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On 16th and 17th of February Microsoft Bulgaria together with Agitavi Research will organize a 2 day workshop on Sotware Business Management for ISVs. The workshop will cover the following topics: The Market Environment and Its Analysis ...

Tomorrow in the IEC Microsoft Bulgaria will held our annual event targeting software developers - ISV Community Day.For the first year there will be a Business Track alongside the traditional Technical Track. The sessions will cover the 3 recently lunched...

Cool new download at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bd02c19c-1250-433c-8c1b-2619bd93b3a2&DisplayLang=en Application Verifier is a runtime verification tool for unmanaged code that assists in quickly finding subtle programming...

This was my first time seen Kimberly Tripp in action here in Barcelona (It Forum 05) and I can assure you that her sessions worth your time. You can see the presentations and demos the she showed us on her website - www.sqlskills.com

Tommorow Morning (Nov 10th) we will have our Academic Stop at Technical University - Sofia. The main sessions will be regarding SQL 2005, VSTS and Express editions

Our officcial launch in Bulgaria is on Nov 8th and we see very big interest from partners and customers asking for invitations for the event. All preparations are at the final line (maybe except my VSTS demos :-) and we are facing to have amazing event...

This week we made several academic visits in some of the major bulgarian cities. We opened the roadshow in Gabrovo on Monday and we visited Varna & Bourgas. Today I'm writing from Plovdiv University (excelent wireless!!!) and I just finished my...

The VS2005 and SQL 2005 products are now live on MSDN Subscriber Downloads. The products available for download are: Visual Studio 2005 Standard Visual Studio 2005 Professional Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Visual Studio 2005...

Computer Space will held in the Central Military Club (bul. "Tzar Osvoboditel" 7) and the Hungarian cultural institute (16 "Aksakov" str.). The award ceremony will be on 22nd October (Saturday) from 16h in the Military Club. Click 'More' to view the programme...

Yesterday we had our regular ISV Club in the office of Microsoft Bulgaria. This meeting was focused on VSTS and SQL Server 2005 with presentations and demos around the source control system, programming model of SQL Server & the Reporting Services...

Today on our Channel Summit in Sofia I have made a 30 min demo of Windows Vista Beta 1. The audience was very excited of the new interface, the organizational and search capabilities and last but not least the Parent Control security feature :-) The...

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Visual Studio 2005 Release Candidate is live on MSDN Downloads!

Good news for all MSDN Universal and MSDN Enterprise subscriptions: Virtual Server 2005 Standard will be included in MSDN Enterprise and Universal Subscriptions with consistent development, test, and demonstration use rights.

Vacations are over and exiting dev months are in front of us expecting the Novembers launch of VS, SQL and Biztalk. The hottest event this month is The PDC in LA. Unfortunately I had to stay in Europe , but for all of us the PDC attendees and speakers...

Well this was the biggest event ever held in Bulgaria and we all did remarkable show. The special guest speakers - Eric Lee (VSTS), Kevin Ashby (SQL Server), Ken Levy (FoxPro & XML data tools) and Emil Velinov (Biztalk) really rose the event to a...

On June 28th-29th in Sofia Microsoft Bulgaria is organizing the annual Developer & IT Pro event called "MS Days 2005". The event will have 3 tracks: Developer track - with focus on VS .NET 2005 IT Pro track - with primary focus on MS SQL...

After we had very interesting and dynamic event yesterday (May 12th) in the University for National and World Economy here in Sofia where we had very interesting discussion around the new beta 2 of VSTS. The next events of our Academic Days roadshow...

This spring it looks like the students have spent a lot of time with the books and playing with microsoft .net. I saw big interest in web development topics and in our future products - VSTS & SQL 2005. The full rooms in these two cities show that...

On Monday Microsoft Bulgaria's team will visit Gabrovo - the 5th stop of our academic roadshow, where i will have presentations about ASP.NET. We will start our seminar at 13h in TU Gabrovo. On the next day we continue withe the 6th stop in Svishtov...

This week started with good news for all .NET develooper -beta 2 became available. Below is the current status of all microsoft 2005 dev tools: Visual Studio 2005 Team System Stable: Beta 2 Latest: Beta 2 Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition...

The process of European integration is affecting all political, economic and social aspects in all countries. How could technology efficiently address today’s challenges? What will be the new polices and programs driven by the European Union which in...

Yesterday (april 14th) we had a nice event in Blagoevgrad - the first stop of our Spring Academic Roadshow. We felt very enthusiastic when left Sofia and event the heavy reain and the road reconstuctions which make our jouner twice long as we expected...

MS Bulgaria starts the second round of our Academic Roadshow tomorrow (April 14th) in the American University in Blagoevgrad. For now we plan to visit the following universities/towns: Blagoevgrad 14.04.2005 Russe 21.04.2005 ...