I can proudly announce that I received an MVP title this month.I am MVP in Visual C# category even though my primary expertise isSoftware Architecture. There are only 33 MVPs here in Poland so it is a huge distinction to me.With the title I received MVP award: you can see what is inside onpictures on both sides.Additionally: I am new INETA country leader ......

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Meet me on the biggest IT conference in Poland - MTS 2008. 10 tracks, 100 sessions, 60 speakers - including my good colleague and Regional Director of Poland - Tadeusz Golonka. For those who speak Polish it is a great opportunity to see all the cutting edge stuff in one place. For those that don't - only tears are left as conference cost is pretty low ......

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One of my friends is in our geek town now - http://geekswithblogs.net/f... Łukasz Olbromski is a leader of one of the fastest growing .NET user groups in Poland - Wrocławska Grupa .NET. This guy is a working hero for me. He does at least twice as much as I do in Krakowska Grupa Deweloperów .NET. I believe he would have a lot to say about ......

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Some time ago I had a lecture on one of the IT Academic Days events that was held in Poland. I finally got some pictures from that event so I blog about it now even though it was more than 2 months ago. This little person in the middle of the picture on right is me. I was speaking to 150 students about workflow engines. I showed them Windows Workflow ......

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Polish .NET and SQL user groups are organizing a conference in Poland. It is called Community To Community (C2C). You can check it on http://c2c2008.pl/. It will take place on April 5th.We (Kraków .NET User Group) are responsible for the site. It is Sitefinity CMS - thanks to Telerik that sponsored the license.We will have two tracks on the conference ......

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I wasn't blogging recently as I am organizing Polish edition of European Silverlight Challenge. The contest is organized by INETA Europe in the entire Europe. Project submission has just been extended till February 8th. We already have 7 projects published on the site (see http://poland.silverlightch... I believe it ......

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Inspired by Scott Hanselman and his relation from Visual Studio 2008 InstallFest in Portland Polish user groups started the series of events in Poland. First such event was organized by Szymon Kobalczyk in Kraków and you can read about it on his blog. I was one of the organizers of the event so I cannot tell I liked it because I loved it. It was a huge ......

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When you need to startup WCF service conditionally - depending on your application configuration it is quite easy to achieve it by checking the ServiceHost.BaseAddresses collection. If your app.config file does not contain your service configured the collection will be empty. Here is the snippet: ServiceHost host = new ServiceHost(typeof(MyServic... ......

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I ve been recently creating few reports that required dates as parameters. It is quite common to have a report that must be provided range of dates (from and to). I investigated few reports that was created by my colleagues and I found those reports are not intuitive. Let me explain: When I see two dates that must be provided to a report I believe that ......

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I've been recently looking for a service that could be used as a medium of communication within a community. I do not want to type that I was looking for a community server as it is name of a product but I was. I needed it for Cracow .NET User Group that I am member of. I considered: Windows Sharepoint Services Community Server Google Groups Each of ......

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I've found that not too many of my coleagues know that almost every google application has its own API. E.g. the google calendar has API that is available in .NET. I am interested in the calendar automation so I hope I will find some time to use the Google Calendar APIs and Tools. Anyway all that is available for developers in google applications is ......

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I've finally found some time to test WCF performance vs .NET Remoting in sending 'plain' objects. Here you can find my previous results of sending DataSet through the wires. The test project described in this article can be downloaded here. What I tested: Plain [Serializable] object Marked with or without [DataContract] attribute I tested client latency ......

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I finished my first set of WCF services that my enterpise application exposes. I am ready to deploy them and I found some problems. The .NET 3.0 is 'only' a set of libraries build on top of .NET 2.0. I thought all I need to do is to publish the libraries (I need WCF only) with my application in the bin folder - xcopy it. Unfortunatelly it occurs it's ......

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Many times in my development live I had to plug-in some code into an existing application that should be xeceuted during startup / cleanup / ... . If you own the application you can always hardcode another line of code that invokes your static initialization class. But: What to do if a circular dependency occurs? Is the hardcoding clean? In such case ......

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When you want to do something weekly do it daily - this is one of principles that I find very useful. Small steps allow you to achieve a snow ball effect - do something slowly step by step. Simple task executed every day during years allows to achieve something really big - this one I believe is the most important of those three. OK. Those are my principles ......

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