This year again, Macedonian .NET User Group is organizing the biggest event in balkans... CODE CAMP 2011 Event will be held at 26th of November at FON University, Skopje, Macedonia. There are 24 speakers, 7 MVPs, 25 sessions and 5 tracks. In the first 15 hours we got 600 registered attendees... and we expect this number to reach 1000 by the end of registrations. I will be speaking on top...

Microsoft BizSpark Bootcamp is an event where techie start-ups can learn about the advantages of using Microsoft technologies for doing business and what the program offers them as a set of resources that will enormously help them start their business. I will be speaking at BizSpark Bootcamp event on topic Cloud Computing - Windows Azure where I will show what is Cloud Computing, Windows...

Today I saw that the new asp.net beta website is available. Basically, there are layout changes and content reorganization. The platform on which is build is not changed since it was working perfectly fine previously and now. Take a look at it: http://beta.asp.net

Yesterday, 4th of October 2011, Orchard 1.3 was released! If you want to learn what's new in this version, have a look at the following two blog posts: Orchard 1.3 Released - Forms API, Tokens, Content Item Preview So what's new in Orchard 1.3? Once I dig more in the new version, I will blog about anything I may find ineresting. Regards, Hajan

In the past weeks I have been playing with Windows 8 Developer Preview and ASP.NET MVC4, VS.NET 2011 and other new Developer Preview stuff that has been made available by Microsoft. Several days ago I have installed ASP.NET MVC4 Developer Preview in my Windows 7 OS and VS.NET 2010. There are lot of new stuff, but before going in deeper details, lets first pass through the very first thin...

In the past ten days, Scott Guthrie has started series of ASP.NET vNext articles where he shows some cool features that are coming in the ASP.NET vNext. You can find the list of articles in the following link http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2011/08/31/asp-net-vnext-series.aspx There are three articles available right now and as Scott has written, the post will be updated once new ...

In 1995, Windows changed the PC. BUILD will show you that Windows 8 changes everything. This is the sentence you will probably automatically notice once you open the BUILD conference Website - http://www.buildwindows.com/ . The next week, at September 13, will be held the BUILD Conference for Windows 8. You can find more details on the site provided above. Moreover, I just read this arti...

Using try catch finally blocks is very recommended practice in order to handle exceptions properly. There are many other benefits of using this, however, the focus of this post is to show how you can handle multiple exceptions at same time. When you deal with exceptions, the general rule is that you go from the more specific to the more general one. One example: string strName = "hajan";...

Yesterday I posted a blog about Serializing specific class properties to JSON string using JavaScriptSerializer class and LINQ. In the examle I have shown the serialization of string, integer and boolean properties. One of the readers asked about serializing DateTime to JSON. To read how to perform the serialization, first read the blog post here . We have the following JSON Array of obj...

This is the greatest moment of my professional life! I have been awarded Microsoft MVP for ASP.NET/IIS product category by Microsoft . I am proud, honored and very exited about this. I received the mail from Microsoft today. Guys, I was soo exited when I opened the email which confirmed that Microsoft recognizes me with this prestigious award. I would like to say special thanks to all of...

Sometimes developers are in need to get the Base Page URL so that they can easily create URL's in their server or client side. This is especially very much needed when you work with Master pages or master layout and have other pages that use that master pages. This is also important if you, for example, develop your website on your local development server or in an child application of a...

I was just reading a blog post by Jon Galloway who describes how posts get listed in the ASP.NET Community Spotlight page and how to make it your Visual Studio start page. Mainly, there is a RSS feed for all www.asp.net daily community spotlight articles that appear in the www.asp.net frontpage. The RSS feed url is: http://www.asp.net/rss/spotlight . Now, since you know the RSS feed URL,...

I have seen this as a problem in many cases, asked in the forums and other community places and thought it would be good to document it and write about it on my blog post here. So, due to security reasons, Internet Explorer won't let you play much with clearing the value or changing the value of the file upload control, other than the selected value using the Browse functionality. Someon...

In the previous blog post we saw how easy is to create and setup your blog on the Orchard CMS. Since most of the bloggers use third-party client apps for blogging, like Windows Live Writer, it is useful if your blog has ability to work with these client apps. The client apps use XML-RPC interface in order to have the ability to manage and publish blogs remotely. What is interesting and v...

Having a blog in your website is one of the common features that you may see in many websites nowadays. If you use or want to use Orchard CMS, you will find that creating a blog in your website is extremely easy. First of all, go to your Orchard Administration Dashboard and Click on Blog in the left menu After that, you will see the following screen: Fill this with data, as in the follow...

I just read the announcement in jQuery Blog that jQuery 1.6 is now available for download! This release contains major rewrite of the Attribute module and a number of performance improvements… You can get the code from the jQuery CDN: http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.6.js http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.6.min.js You already have it available in Microsoft Ajax CDN - http://ajax.aspnetcdn.c...

I just found interesting link which I wanted to share with all of you in a short blog post. 'List of 1000 jQuery Plugins' - http://www.jquery4u.com/plugins/ If you are working with jQuery in ASP.NET, this may be very good resource to find very interesting plugins that you may use in your websites. Hope this is useful, Hajan

I’m very pleased and honored to share this with all of you that my community contributions have been recognized by Microsoft. I have received the Microsoft Community Contributor Award for year 2011 . This was a big and very special surprise to me… What is Microsoft Community Contributor (MCC) Award? Through the Microsoft ® Community Contributor Award, we express our thanks to individuals...

In the asp.net forums, one developer asked how to do this from client-side where his asp.net LinkButton control is outside the UpdatePanel. I have written simple example on how to achieve this, so I thought it would be good to share it here with you. We have the following situation: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-...

I'm very happy to tell you that two of my blogs I write in asp.net community site have been mentioned in Channel 9. Here are the links: http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-Nineys-MIX-Open-Call-WP7-GPS-Emulator--lots-of-new-software-releases http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-Windows-Phone-samples-and-controls-SQL-Cop-WCF-for-large-data Thank...

It passed sometime when I made the last post with stored procedures. Probably the problem is that I'm using a lot EF, LINQ2SQL and other ORMs' in the last period. However, I just followed a question in the aps.net forums where I provided an answer on how to update multiple records at once using stored procedure that accepts parameter as comma delimited string. The issue was to create upd...

Hello all... Just wanted to share one great YouTube Video about Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework and the Sample Browser v2.0. Here is the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_profilepage&v=cO5Li3APU58 Once again, I wrote a blog post previously about this so if you want you can get the Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework 'Sample Browser v2.0' . It contains some amazin...

Interesting problem which I've seen asked several times within Microsoft forums and blogs, mostly asked by those who are just starting with Entity Framework. Error: The specified named connection is either not found in the configuration, not intended to be used with the EntityClient provider, or not valid. In case when you have an ASP.NET Web Application project and you create Entity Fra...

Early today I read the Scott Gu's blog listing the videos from the Mvc Conference that happened at the beginning of this month (February 2011) organized by the ASP.NET MVC Developers Community. The official website for the MVC Conference is: http://www.mvcconf.com/ Here is list of all sessions which you can also download (list taken from Scott Gu's blog): Scott Guthrie Keynote The NuGet-...

About two months ago, the jQuery team have started working on the jQuery UI Grid plugin. This will be a great addition to the jQuery UI, something that was missing. About 1 week ago, the first stage of the jQuery UI Grid development has been completed. HERE you have available demo of the grid markup. The team working on this plugin consists of known names in the jQuery world, and there i...