July 24, 2005
Every once in a while a blogger gets buried in everyday tasks, emails, product releases and so on. He then stops writing in his precious blog for a while. After the pressure goes away he starts to blog again with delightful pleasure and satisfaction. Well, that’s my case. If you are wondering what happed to my blog I can assure you that is not dead. It is just the fact that I am pretty overwhelmed with tasks. I am in a process of finishing a six month project, luckily for me it is pretty successful, and finishing another one for about a month, that is still in progress. In parallel, together with Bulgarian Association of Software Developers, we have started National Academy for Software Development. The primary goal for the academy is to provide training of inexperienced, but highly motivated and well educated students. The training is going to be 3 months, 5 day a week, 8 hours a day with a lot of practical exercises starting from September. There are two tracks for now - .NET Enterprise Developer and Java Enterprise Developer. Go to academy’s site for more information (English version will be available soon). Another non development project that I am in is writing for the first .NET book written by Bulgarians. I am writing the chapter for Interoperability with unmanaged code and if time allow – Web Services. The book is scheduled to be released about September too. It is going to have marvelous chapters because the people that are involved have real life experience with .NET and their knowledge is priceless. I hope that after completing one or another project I will have more time to contribute to this blog. So stay tuned :).
# posted by Martin Kulov @ 2:53 AM
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July 11, 2005
SofiaDev .NET User Group is going to carry out its summer session on 14th of July from 18:30 at Microsoft’s local office. Everyone is invited. The title is “NHibernate: Practical Applications” presented by Nikola Kasev. For more information go to newsgroup microsoft.public.bg.developer.
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July 07, 2005
If you have anything to do with Reporting Services in the near future these two links are must read for you. SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services (SSRS)http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/2005ssrs.mspxAmong all new features, the following ones are shining brightly for me. Custom Report Items
SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services enables Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and developers to extend report processing through the creation of custom report items.
Report Builder Client
The Report Builder client is a ClickOnce WinForms application launched from the Report Server. The Report Builder user interface is built on top of familiar Microsoft Office paradigms such as Excel and PowerPoint.
Report Builder Model Designer
When an end user builds a report with Report Builder, they use a business model representation of the underlying database schema. Providing reporting access to this business model precludes the end user from having to understand, for example, connection strings or how to write SQL or MDX. While models that provide access to SQL Server Analysis Services are automatically generated on the Report Server, the Report Builder Model Designer can be used to generate or modify the models that are built on top of SQL Server relational databases.SQL Server 2005 Features Comparisonhttp://www.microsoft.com/sql/2005/productinfo/sql2005features.mspxYou will find out that Reporting Service is available in all editions of SQL 2005. That’s cool!!!
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July 01, 2005
Wow, this year’s MS Days was pretty big. Congrats to Plamen Hristov for making this event happens at all. Nearly 1,900 IT profs watched the opening in which Valia Balkanska performace was awsome. My presentation went pretty smooth. After the Q&A session and the closing words I went home and slept all afternoon. I felt like squeezed, chewed up and spit out at the same time. Anyway it was a big pleasure and a great reward for me. I am starting to look for similar presentations in future. I decided to make my presentation and examples available to public. Here are the links to my presentation (in Bulgarian) and code samples. Feel free to modify and distribute them.
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