Yesterday was my 28th Birthday

2010-05-25T11:03:00.005+03:00

To help my friends to find right gift I made a wish list:

ChromaKey green ( http://www.specphoto.ru/cash/vids/123_290.html )
Flash Canon SpeedLite 430 EX II ( http://catalog.onliner.by/canon/speedlite430ex2/ )
HDD Western Digital 2TB WD2001FASS ( http://bit.ly/9L4ouX )
Notebook+DSLR Camera Case ( http://products.lowepro.com/product/CompuRover-AW,1923,16.htm or http://products.lowepro.com/product/CompuTrekker-Plus-AW,1925,16.htm ) black only.

Assembly'09 Summer Opened

2009-08-06T21:03:00.009+03:00

Some photos from Helsinki:

Mine(c)

Silverlight 3 was announced

2008-11-18T11:18:00.006+02:00

New version of Silverlight will be released in 2009.
As expected there will be implemented such interesting features like:

3D support (with hardware acceleration).
New media formats support (H.264 included).
Enhanced data binding.
Controls update.
Visual development support in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Express.

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/11/16/update-on-silverlight-2-and-a-glimpse-of-silverlight-3.aspx

New .NET Logo

2008-10-30T16:04:00.003+02:00

We needed a logo that was in sync with the key values that we want .NET to stand for: consistency, robustness and great user experiences. We also wanted a logo that conformed to the design principles that are driving Microsoft’s brand identity evolution and is reflected in newer brands such as Silverlight, Surface and ‘Strata.’ Finally, we needed a logo that is more strongly aligned with the portfolio of brands that .NET is most strongly aligned with: Silverlight, Visual Studio and the AppPlat server products.
The result is a design we refer to as the “wave.” The design is strong, simple and distinctive. The suggestion of the letter ‘N’ in the design will become instantly recognizable over time as shorthand for the .NET brand name.
It's one of many things we're actively doing to renew our commitment to the future around the overall Rich Platforms we have today.

Source:
http://blogs.msdn.com/msmossyblog/archive/2008/10/25/embrace-the-new-net-logo.aspx

MSDN in Russian

2008-10-30T14:24:00.003+02:00

MSDN Library for VS.NET 2008 now available in Russian language
I don't think that it will be useful for skilled guys.
And I think such stuff will reduce motivation to learn English. :(
You can download it from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6ff3bc60-32c8-4c22-8591-a20bf8dff1a2&DisplayLang=ru

C# Future

2008-10-28T13:51:00.003+02:00

Future is coming ;) and Microsoft propose us to see its new versions of C# 4.0
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/csharpfuture

Download .NET Framework 4.0 (pre beta) and Visual Studio.Net 2010 (pre beta) you can do here(Virtual PC images) :
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=922b4655-93d0-4476-bda4-94cf5f8d4814&DisplayLang=en

Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 go RTM!

2008-02-05T10:55:00.000+02:00

Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 released several hours ago.
http://blogs.msdn.com/williamcornwill/archive/2008/02/05/
windows-vista-sp1-and-windows-server-2008-go-rtm.aspx
http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/
2008/02/04/announcing-the-rtm-of-windows-vista-sp1.aspx

.NET Framework Sources and Deep Debug

2008-01-17T16:41:00.000+02:00

.NET Framework Sources and Deep Debug in VS2008 are accessable now!
You just need configure you Visual Studio to use Microsoft sources.
Configuration setting you can find here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/sburke/archive/2008/01/16/configuring-visual-
studio-to-debug-net-framework-source-code.aspx

CES 2008 - Last Keynote from Bill Gates

2008-01-11T18:12:00.000+02:00

Last CES Keynote from Bill Gates and his last fulltime working day:
http://wm.istreamplanet.com/customers/ms/01062008_300.asx
Who haven't seen yet - I advice to see it! Very interesting.
Note: Video is ~150 Mb and lasts an hour.
Note: CES is Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

Free VS 2008 Knowledge Stuff

2007-12-20T11:03:00.000+02:00

E-learning course:
https://www.microsoftelearning.com/eLearning/courseDetail.aspx?courseId=73568
Electronic books:
http://csna01.libredigital.com/

Additional Info About Latest MS Releases

2007-11-20T13:21:00.000+02:00

Everything begins here:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/default.aspx

Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server (90-day Trial):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B0155166-B0A3-436E
-AC95-37D7E39A440C&displaylang=en
Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite (90-day Trial):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D95598D7-AA6E-4F24
-82E3-81570C5384CB&displaylang=en

Plus:
Architecture Edition - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts2008/products/bb933749.aspx
Database Edition - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts2008/products/bb933747.aspx
Development Edition - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts2008/products/bb933752.aspx
Test Edition - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts2008/products/bb933754.aspx

and also:
Standard Edition - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vs2008/products/bb894689.aspx
Professional Edition - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vs2008/products/bb894671.aspx

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=333325FD-AE52-4E35-
B531-508D977D32A6&displaylang=en

VS 2008 RTM Released!

2007-11-19T12:40:00.000+02:00

Около часа назад долгожданный релиз свершился!
Уже доступна для скачивания MSDN подписчикам.

Visual Studio 2008 Release in the end of November 2007!

2007-11-05T16:59:00.000+02:00

In his keynote address at TechEd Developers in Barcelona, S. "Soma" Somasegar announced that Microsoft will release Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 by the end of November 2007. This release will enable developers and development organizations to be more productive, take advantage of all the latest platform advances on Windows, Office and the Web, and collaborate more effectively throughout the software life cycle
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/default.aspx

Tip/Trick: Hard Drive Speed and Visual Studio Performance

2007-11-01T17:41:00.000+02:00

Great recommendations from Scott Guthrie about Visual Studio performance:
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/11/01/tip-trick-hard-drive-speed
-and-visual-studio-performance.aspx

.NET Tip of The Day

2007-10-31T14:10:00.000+02:00

Interesting kit of .NET tips:
http://dotnettipoftheday.org/tips/

Speed up Visual Studio 2005

2007-10-31T13:59:00.000+02:00

Make sure Visual Studio 2005 SP1 is installed.
Turn off animation.
Go to Tools | Options | Environment and uncheck Animate environment tools.
Disable Navigation Bar.
If you are using ReSharper, you don't need VS2005 to update the list of methods and fields at the top of the file (CTRL-F12 does this nicely). Go to Tools | Options | Text Editor | C# and uncheck Navigation bar.
Turn off Track Changes.
Go to Tools | Options | Text Editor and uncheck Track changes. This will reduce overhead and speeds up IDE response.
Turn off Track Active item.
This will turn off jumping in the explorer whenever you select different files in different projects. Go to Tools | Options | Projects and Solutions and uncheck Track Active Item in Solution Explorer. This will ensure that if you are moving across files in different projects, left pane will still be steady instead of jumping around.
Turn off AutoToolboxPopulate.
There is an option in VS 2005 that will cause VS to automatically populate the toolbox with any controls you compile as part of your solution. This is a useful feature when developing controls since it updates them when you build, but it can cause VS to end up taking a long time in some circumstances. To disable this option, select the Tools | Options | Windows Forms Designer and then set AutoToolboxPopulate to False.
Disable "Start Page".
1. Go to Tools | Options.
2. In Environment | Startup section, change At startup setting to Show empty environment.
Disable splash screen.
1. Open the properties of Visual Studio 2005 shortcut.
2. Add the parameter /nosplash to the target.
Close all unnecessary panels/tabs to prevent them from appearing when the IDE loads.

ParallelFX and Parallel LINQ (PLINQ) were announced

2007-10-16T12:52:00.000+03:00

In October 2007 MSDN Magazine ParallelFX and Parallel LINQ were announced.
Article describes the mechanism of automatic paralleling LINQ to XML и LINQ to Objects queries on multi-core/multi-cpu systems.
In English - Parallel LINQ. Running Queries On Multi-Core Processors.
In Russian - Параллельный LINQ. Выполнение запросов на многоядерных процессорах

ParallelFX - Concurency Runtime (.NET) - System.Concurrency. It realizes paralleling scenarios and eliminating manual application threads creation.
Article
In English - Parallel Performance. Optimize Managed Code For Multi-Core Machines.
In Russian - Параллельная производительность. Оптимизация управляемого кода для многоядерных компьютеров.

Seam Carving. Image Resize Technology.

2007-10-10T16:09:00.000+03:00

Революционная и перспективная технология в непропорциональном масштабировании растровых изображений без изменения пропорций объектов на них, была представлена на конференции SIGGRAPH 2007 . Представляли ее Shai Avidan и Ariel Shamir из исследовательской лаборатории Mitsubishi Electric.

Releasing the Source Code for the .NET Framework Libraries

2007-10-03T23:20:00.000+03:00

Microsoft открывает исходные коды многих библиотек .NET Framework - Base Class Libraries (System namespace, IO, Text, Collections, CodeDom, Regular Expressions, etc), ASP.NET, WinForms и WPF(!). В дальнейшем список может быть расширен.
Подробности можно узнать на ScottGu's Blog

SELECT vs. SET: Optimizing Loops

2007-10-03T13:35:00.000+03:00

Loops are fairly common in SQL Server stored procedures. If you discover a loop in a stored procedure, you might find that the code iterates thousands of times before the loop exits. One way to improve the performance of loops is to optimize variable handling.

Do you know the difference between using the SELECT and SET commands to assign values to variables? Many SQL Server developers believe that the commands perform the same function, except that SELECT was designed to return data, whereas SET is optimized to assign values to local variables; therefore, most developers use SET to change variables. This action is correct most of the time.

Certainly, if you're setting a variable's value, SET is the recommended command; however, sometimes SET isn't the best command for the job. Every time you use the SET command, an assignation language element executes. Thus, if you're setting multiple variables, each SET command runs like a SELECT @variable statement. Consider the following two statements, which are functionally equivalent:

SET @iOne = 1;
SET @iTwo = 2;
SET @iThree = 3;
SET @iFour = 4;

SELECT
@iOne = 1,
@iTwo = 2,
@iThree = 3,
@iFour = 4;

Although the statements are similar, the SELECT statement runs significantly faster than the SET statement. Each SET statement runs individually and updates one value per execution, whereas the entire SELECT statement runs as a whole and updates all four values in one execution.

To test this action, I ran each statement in a loop one million times. I found that the SET block ran in 0.0094 milliseconds (ms) on average and the SELECT statement ran in only 0.0039 ms. The SELECT statement ran 59 percent faster than the SET statement. If you're looping through a query only a few hundred thousand times, you probably won't notice a difference between the speed of the two commands; however, the difference in speed might be important to an end user who must wait 10 seconds rather than just 3 seconds for a report to generate.

Another thing to consider is that you can embed your variable updates in preexisting SELECT and UPDATE statements within a loop. In the benchmark tests I ran, each variable that I added to a SELECT or UPDATE statement required an additional 0.00016 ms. By comparison, adding a SET statement required 0.0027 ms. I was surprised to learn that adding a SET statement introduces a processing delay that is 1687.5 percent longer than the processing delay caused by adding a variable to a previously existing SELECT assignation statement. If you're looping through rows, you can further expedite your loop by altering multiple variables in one UPDATE statement, as Listing shows:

UPDATE MyTable SET
Optimized = True,
@iOne = 1,
@iTwo = 2,
@iThree = 3,
@iFour = 4,
@iLoop = @iLoop + 1;

From the February 2007 edition of SQL Server Magazine

MSSQL2005 & VS2005 feature

2007-10-03T13:28:00.000+03:00

Попробуйте скопировать названия столбцов в таблице в режиме modify (я так пробовал) из SQL Server 2005
И вставить в aspx страничку (HTML view) в VS 2005
Посмотрите что получилось и обратите вниманиe на новые записи в web.config’е ;)

Visual Studio 2005 Tips & Tricks

2007-10-02T20:02:00.000+03:00

Нашел для себя пару новых штучек, может для кого-то новых будет больше...

1. Вертикальное выделение текста
Наверное одна из моих самых любимых функций редактора Visual Studio – выделение текста колонками, а не строками. Нажмите Alt и левую клавишу маши и выделяйте текст колонкой.

2. Альтернативный поиск строк
Нажмите Ctrl + I и начинайте вводить некоторый текст. Будут выделяться совпадающие символы первого вхождения строки от положения курсора и ниже.

3. Множественное копирование
Иногда так хочется скопировать в буфер обмена несколько строк сразу, а потом, перейдя к другому файлу вставлять скопированные строки в произвольном порядке. Visual Studio умеет и это!
Для начала выделите некоторый фрагмент кода и скопируйте его в буфер (Ctrl + C), после этого выделите другой фрагмент и скопируйте его тоже. Ну и еще один, интереса ради.
Теперь установите курсор ввода куда-нибудь еще и зажмите клавиши Ctrl + Shift и нажимайте клавишу V (не отпуская Ctrl + Shift). Вы увидите, что вставляемые фрагменты циклично чередуются.

4. Копирование текста на Toolbox и с Toolbox
Великий и могучий Drag & Drop при редактировании кода также может быть не менее полезен, чем при добавлении контролов на форму. Вы можете выделить кусочек текста и перетащить его на панель Toolbox, чтобы потом, также перетаскивая, вставлять куда угодно. Еще один удобный аналог стандартного буфера обмена.

5. Быстрое комментирование/раскомментирование фрагментов кода
Выделите фрагмент кода, который хотите закоментировать и нажмите Ctrl + K, C (удерживая Ctrl нажать K, затем C ). Для снятия комментариев нужно выделить закомментированный кусок и нажать Ctrl + K, U.

6. Отображение IntelliSense
Если вы хотите отобразить IntelliSense, то нужно нажеть Ctrl + J. Это может пригодится, если по каким-то причинам подсказка не отображается (вы на «полуслове» наступили «на горло песне», то есть нажали Esc).

7. Перемещение между открывающими/закрывающими скобками
Установите курсор ввода на скобку, для перехода на ее пару нажмите Ctrl + ]. Это же работает для многострочных комментариев (/* */), регионов (# region # endregion ) и кавычек, обрамляющих строки.

8. Сворачивание/разворачивание блока (региона, функции, цикла и т.п.)
Если вам лениво ползать мышью до значка +/-, то нажатие Ctrl + M, M (удерживая Ctrl нажать M два раза) сделает то, что нужно. Ctrl + M , L позволяет свернуть/развернуть все блоки

10 Usability Nightmares You Should Be Aware Of

2007-10-02T19:14:00.000+03:00

Вот тут довольно неплохой обзор того как не надо делать сайты:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/09/27/10-usability-nightmares-you-should-be-aware-of/
А вот тут уже успели эту статью перевести:
http://blog.perfectomania.com/usability/10-yuzabiliti-koshmarov-kotoryx-vy-dolzhny-izbegat/

Visual Studio 2005 Tips & Tricks

2007-10-02T19:04:00.000+03:00

Для того, чтобы быстро подключить отладчик Visual Studio к процессу ASP.NET(aspnet_wp.exe) можно использовать следующую комбинацию.

ALT + D, P "AS" ENTER

ALT + D, P - откроет диалог "Attach to Process"
"AS" - если нажать эти две буквы, то выделение перейдет на процесс aspnet_wp.exe
ENTER - приаттачит отладчик к процессу ASP.NET

После нескольких повторений переход в режим отладки занимает ~1 секунды

World Trade Center 7 destruction

2007-09-12T17:35:00.000+03:00

Не так давно узнал что оказывается в тот злополучный день 11 сентября 2001 года было разрушено 3(три!) выстотных здания, причем третье оказывается было подорвано заложенное заранее взырывчаткой
Here the information about 3rd WTC tower (WTC 7)
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/wtc7.html

First Post

2007-02-10T19:13:00.000+02:00

Done.