Visual Studio 2010

Today Microsoft release officially Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0, with five major release events and many others across the globe. You can download it from MSDN. Those that don’t have an MSDN subscription can try the evaluation versions available here. Express editions are still available for free and can be downloaded from here….

Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 RTM available on MSDN

Windows 7 RTM and Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM are now available for download on MSDN for MSDN and TechNet subscribers. Currently, the only available bits are in English. The other languages will become available on October 1st. Volume License customers with an existing Software Assurance license will be able to download the bits starting…

Romanian Winners at Imagine Cup 2009

Romanians won two of the nine awards at the 2009 Imagine Cup in Cairo: Software Design, the most important category, won by Sytech team, Adrian Buzgar, Calin Juravle, Andreas Resios, and IT Challenge, won by Cosmin Ilie. This year’s theme was “Imagine a world where technology helps solve the world’s toughest problems.” About 300.000 students…

Launch of Sharparena.com

I am please to announce the launch of Sharparena.com, a developer community focused on the .NET framework and the # languages, C#, F# and J#. This is an English site where you can ask questions about C#, F#, J# and the .NET framework in general, publish articles and stay up to date with news about…

Introducere in .NET, 6-8 aprilie

In perioada 6-8 aprilie va avea loc la Bucuresti la sediul Uzinexport un training de Introducere in .NET, sponsorizat de Microsoft Romania. Dupa cum explica Zoli pe blogul sau, acest training este dedicat programatorilor începatori, juniorilor din firmele de software, programatorilor de FoxPro, Visual Basic, Java, dar si programatorilor care nu au reusit sa treaca…

Vote EARTH! Turn off lights for one hour

On March 28, turn off lights for one hour starting at 20:30. This way you can tell the world leaders they have to take real action against the global warming and climate changes. This year, Earth Hour has been transformed into the world’s first global election, between Earth and global warming. For the first time…

MVP Summit 2009

The MVP Global Summit 2009 is talking place between 1 -4 March in Seattle and Redmond. Its going to be over 700 sessions during these 4 days. Last two years it was really good and it will probably be the same this time too. I’ll be mostly focused on sessions with the Visual C++ team…

European PASS Conference

Urmatoarea conferinta europeana PASS (Professional Association of SQL Server) va avea loc intre 22-24 Aprilie 2009 la Neuss in Germania. AXTI a obtinut un promo-code pentru membrii RONUA si DboDev (RO16F6). Cei interesati de a participa si a beneficia de aceasta reducere, vizitati blog-ul lui Aurelian, unde puteti afla mai multe informatii.

Castiga un Visual Studio Team Suite cu MSDN Premium

In perioada 1 iulie – 30 septembrie, CODEXPERT sustine un concurs de articole a carui castigator va primi o licenta Visual Studio Team Suite cu abonament MSDN Premium pe 1 an. Pentru a participa nu trebuie decat sa trimiteti un articol in format MS Word Document sau HTML pe adresa articole@codexpert.ro. Castigatorul va fi desemnat…

Manning’s .NET Daily Drawing

Manning Publications, for which I reviewed a couple of books, opens today a promotion called .NET Daily Drawing, that will be available until July 17th. During this time they are giving away one free .NET e-book each day and a final grand prize consisting of a Manning .NET Library. If you want to take part…