About code. Mostly on C++
The MVP Global Summit ended today. It has been a great week here at Seattle and Redmond. There were 1753 MVPs present at the summit and 1000 Microsoft employees from the product developing teams were involved in the event, delivering presentations, talking about the things they do for the next versions of their products and, … Read more
Today starts the MVP Global Summit in Seattle and at Microsoft’s campus in Redmond. I have arrived yesterday in Seattle, one day later than planned because I lost my connection flight in New York. At least after spending the second part of Saturday waiting in lines (one hour at the Customs, two hours waiting at … Read more
Microsoft launched yesterday Visual Studio Gallery, a site hosting Visual Studio extensions. Currently, there are over 350 such extension, free or per charge. The extension include macros, add-ins, packages, project templates. A good thing is that anybody can contribute with content to this gallery. There are some very good extensions available in the gallery. You … Read more
Recently Microsoft launched a program called DreamSpark addressed to students from all over the world (though currently the program is available only in 10 countries) that allows them to used for free software created by Microsoft. This includes: development tools: Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition XNA Game Studio 2.0, 12-month … Read more
INETA Europe in collaboration with Microsoft organized a competition called European Silverlight Challenge, organized on country based, with the winners from each country participating in the European final. It is based on the development of a web component or application using Silverlight for its user interface and with the only condition that it to be … Read more
Pe 8 decembrie va avea loc o noua intalnire RONUA in Timisoara. Agenda este urmatoarea: 09:00 – 09:10 – Intro și networking 09:10 – 10:10 – WCF in deep Mihai TĂTĂRAN, H.P.C Consulting Pauză. 10:20 – 11:10 – WPF şi Silverlight Florin Toader, H.P.C Consulting Pauză. 11:20 – 12:20 – WWF Another View Petru JUCOVSCHI, … Read more
Microsoft announced yesterday that it released VS 2008 to manufacturing. For now, it is only available for MSDN subscribers. The official public release will happen on February 27, 2008 at Los Angeles. You can have an overview of the product here. You can read more about the product on the home page.
A couple of days ago, Somasegar has announced that Microsoft is on track to release Visual Studio 2008 before the end of November 2007. On the other hand, the marketing release will take place on Februarie 27, 2008 in Los Angeles, along with Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008. You can read the announcement on … Read more
In acest sezon de toamna-iarna, Microsoft Romania a pregatit un concurs de gadget-uri pentru Windows Live sau sidebar-ul din Windows Vista. Castigatorilor primelor trei locuri vor primi un televizor LCD Sony Bravia, o consola XBox 360 si respectiv un telefon HTC Touch. Inscrierile se pot face pana pe 31 octombrie, iar votul intre 1 si … Read more
Exactly two months ago Codexpert.ro was launched. Our intention (and when I say ‘our’ I mean me, Ovidiu Cucu and Dragos Cojocari) as founders of the site was to bring together the C++/VC++ programmers from Romania. Among others, the site offers articles on topics such as Windows Programming, Visual C++, MFC, C++, etc. We are encouraging all of … Read more