14 Jun, 2009
kulendayz
On saturday 13th of June I gave a presentation on KulenDayz titled “What’s new in Visual C++ 2010?”. The presentation consisted of quite a few demos. This post contains links to the source code for all demos including articles giving some more details.
10 Jun, 2009
kulendayz
From 12th till 14th of June, the Microsoft Community Osijek (Croatia) is organizing the Kulendayz event. I will be giving a lecture titled “What is new in Visual C++ 2010?”. If you want to participate in the event, please register on the Kulendayz website.
28 Mar, 2009
The intro that was played on the Microsoft 2009 MVP Global Summit is available online. Click the link below to see it 
The Microsoft 2009 MVP Global Summit Intro
29 Nov, 2008
On Thursday 27th of November I have given my first presentation for a Microsoft event. The presentation was given during a Microsoft Community Osijek (Croatia) event. You can find more information about that community on their site. The presentation was a 45 minute “Introduction to C++”. It gave a brief overview of C++ and about the advantages of C++. It also explained how to decide when to use C++ and how to fuse the C++ and C# worlds. At the end, I gave a demo on how to call a C++ DLL from C#. Comments after the presentation were quite positive
21 Oct, 2008
On Saturday 18th of October I went to the Microsoft Community event called CodeCamp in Zagreb (Croatia). It was a one day event with presentations all with coding demos, so not just some slides
The day started with a presentation by Tomislav Bronzin about Exchange server and how to use the Microsoft Unified Communications platform to easily integrate support for contacts, emails, presence information … in your own applications. It looks like an interesting platform. However, using it requires quite a few lines of code.
The second presentation was about using the Windows Mobile 6 SDK to develop applications for mobile devices and was given by Andrej Radinger. Demonstrations included how to use the different emulators that are available. This also includes FakeGPS to fake a real GPS device and a tool (cellular emulator) to simulate sending/receiving of SMS messages, dailing phone numbers, receiving incoming calls, faking busy signals and so on.
Next it was a presentation about SQL Server 2008 by Dean Vitner, explaining and demonstrating things like support for encryption, compression and auditing.
The next presentation was about BizTalk by Josip Šaban, but I skipped that one since I had to leave for half an hour.
After that, Marko Čulo gave us a presentation called “Dirtiest SQL Tips & Tricks” with examples which showed important things to remember like the behavior of nested transactions.
The last presentation was about MS StyleCop by Bernard Katić. MS StyleCop is yet another tool to force coding standards. It will also check your code documentation so that it matches certain standards.
All in all, the presentations were interesting.
24 Jun, 2008
On 21st of June I went to the Kulendayz 2008 which is the first regional community conference organized by the Microsoft Community Osijek together with Microsoft Croatia with support from INETA and Hupro. Since I’m living in Croatia at the moment and the Kulendayz location was only 30 minutes from my place, it was pretty easy for me to get there.
In the morning I went to a scrum presentation and to a session about advanced debugging of ASP.NET applications using windbg.
In the afternoon I went to a unified communications presentation, explaining the Office Communications Server.
The last presentation I went to was about concurrent/parallel programming in C#. This was one of the most interesting presentations for me (by Bernard Katic). It explained how to optimize code for running on multicore processors, which is becoming more and more important with the release of Quad-Core processors and Octo-Core and even 80-core processors in the pipeline. The session was focussed on the Parallel FX Library and Parallel LINQ. The Parallel FX Library allows you to easily “parallelize” certain parts of your application like for loops. Parallel LINQ allows you to do the same with your LINQ queries. There is an interesting article on MSDN called “Optimize Managed Code For Multi-Core Machines” that expains the Parallel FX Library with clear and simple examples.
It was interesting to find out that I was not the only belgian on the conference. Arlindo Alves from Microsoft Belgium was also there giving a presentation on Microsoft Hyper-V.
2 May, 2008
I finally found some time to post a few pictures of the Microsoft MVP Global Summit 2008 in Seattle. The summit was great. There were 1753 MVPs from all over the world attending the summit. The sessions given by Microsoft product groups were very interesting. I went to all the Visual C++ sessions and it was great to hear the direction in which they are going with the product. One thing they made perfectly clear is that MFC is not dead They are putting interesting new things in upcoming versions of MFC which allow you to create modern user interfaces for your MFC applications. One such thing is the ribon bar which is part of the MFC Feature Pack for Visual Studio 2008. Below you can see some pictures taken during the summit. Read the rest of this entry »
30 Jan, 2008
Microsoft TechDays are the new Microsoft Developer & IT Pro Days. TechDays 2008 will be held in Ghent (Belgium) on March 12 and 13. March 11 is the official launch of brand new versions of Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 in Belgium & Luxembourg.
The following speakers will be on the TechDays 2008:
- Scott Schnoll, Microsoft Corporation
- Ward Ralston, Microsoft Corporation
- Tony Krijnen, Microsoft Netherlands
- Dandy Weyn, Microsoft Corporation
- Kurt Roggen, Guidance
- Jan De Clercq, HP
- and more…
If you are interested in this event or want more information, just click the banner below.
