June 23, 2006
I am not very smart guy you know and I am getting hard time to understand all this new certification paths and upgrades in Microsoft Certified program. I find this Microsoft Certification Track diagram really helpful, so may be it will help you too. 
# posted by Martin Kulov @ 9:57 PM
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June 18, 2006
Depeche Mode is going to perform on the same day when I speak three sessions for MS DevDays 2006. It is going to be a hard day :).
# posted by Martin Kulov @ 12:21 AM
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June 17, 2006
Microsoft Dev Days 2006 is “sold” out. Well, it is not actually sold, because the event is free, but still the registration is closed. I guess there going to be about 1,800 people attending the event. It is going to be huge!
# posted by Martin Kulov @ 9:59 PM
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June 16, 2006
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June 14, 2006
From Somasegar's blog: The .NET Framework has always been at the core of WinFX, but the WinFX brand didn’t convey this. The WinFX brand helped us introduce the incredible innovations in terms of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and the newly christened Windows CardSpace (WCS) formerly known under the codename “InfoCard.” The brand also created an unnatural discontinuity between previous versions of our framework and the current version.
With this in mind we have decided to rename WinFX to the .NET Framework 3.0. .NET Framework 3.0 aptly identifies the technology for exactly what it is – the next version of our developer framework.
# posted by Martin Kulov @ 6:01 PM
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Skype nearly got me into screaming this night. I was debugging an ASP.NET 2.0 problem and at some time the IIS started to behave very strange. The debugging in Visual Studio failed with error “Unable to start debugging on the web server. The server committed a protocol violation. Section=ResponseStatusLine” and any attempt to load a page from the local IIS server returned an empty page even for those that did not exist :). At some time (couple of hours lost) I saw in the IIS Management Console that the web site was not running at all. When I tried to start it I got the error “Unexpected Error 0x8ffe2740 Occurred” and the long awaited event log entry (there was no entry at the time I tried to start the web site) – Event ID: 115 Description: “The service could not bind instance 1.”. A quick google showed that this error is due to already opened port 80 and the web server just could not open and use that port. Indeed netstat –a showed that port 80 is already opened but there was no way to see who was using it. This is where TCPView, marvelous tool from Sysinternals, helped a lot ( Update: I just found that netstat –b would display the owning processes of each connection.). There was Skype listening on port 80, obviously taken ownership of the socket during the number of restarts when I was debugging. How stupid is that? Attention to all web developers who are using Skype! Make sure to uncheck the option for using port 80 and 443 from Tools\Options\Connection dialog.
# posted by Martin Kulov @ 3:01 AM
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June 08, 2006
June 06, 2006
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# posted by Martin Kulov @ 1:51 AM
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June 04, 2006
Today I decided to take a look at my MCP Transcript and see what betas I have taken. For my surprise it seems that taking those exams, got me MCPD and MCTS status :). Additionally I passed the first upgrade exam for MCSDs (#553) and that also may have reflected. It is so hard to follow up these certification tracks. Now I feel a little bit confused what certification titles should I include in my presentations. Image when I show up in front of you and say – “Hi guys, my name is Martin Kulov and I am currently MCSD, MCSD.NET , MCTS: Web, Windows, MCPD:Windows, MCT”. And this not the full list though. I wish that Microsoft take more time to think about all these abbreviations and provide meaningful names with goo organized hierarchy for all of the titles. Now there are several versions of MCTS, MCPD and MCSD, which I find confusing. May be I will stick to MCSD and MCPD to make the list just a little bit shorter.
# posted by Martin Kulov @ 1:53 PM
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June 01, 2006
Microsoft announced the release of Visual Studio Team System – Team Edition for Database Professionals: Take Control of Database Change Take control of your database schema by creating a baseline version of the database with an off-line source controlled project. Streamline changes to your database with tools that allow you automatically cascade changes throughout the database schema in a controlled and consistent manner. Reduce the risk involved with changing database schema by comparing the source controlled version against test and production systems and automating the creation of change scripts. Automate Database Testing to Improve Quality Create full unit tests for your database schema that can be run independently or in combination with Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite to provide a comprehensive set of tests for the application and database tiers. Author tests in either T-SQL or managed code with extensible unit test functionality and a new test editor. Improve Collaboration and Communication Establish the Database Professional as an integral part of the project team with a unique Visual Studio role-based experience and full access to the benefits of Team Foundation Server. Improve collaboration between the Database Professional and other members of the development team through use of the shared team portal, integrated change management and a common version control and data repository. Communicate important changes to the database to the rest of the team through work-item updates and event-based notifications.
# posted by Martin Kulov @ 1:53 AM
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