In the last few months I am working as full-time consultant for the training initiatives in Telerik. It is really an exciting company and I really enjoy my job as manager of the technical training and university relations. I still can’t believe that Telerik is really perfectly organized company, beyond my expectations and even dreams.

ASP.NET membership providers are nice framework for managing users and roles in ASP.NET Web applications but they have a strong weakness: they do not support transactions. Why We Need Transactions During User Registration? We may need to use transactions for example when we want to register new user account, assign few roles to it and

All .NET and Microsoft oriented developers are invited to DevReach 2009 conference – the premier conference for Microsoft technologies for the Balkans and Eastern Europe region. This year the conference attracts distinguished speakers who will deliver talks about Silverlight, WPF, ASP.NET 4.0, ASP.NET MVC, AJAX, IIS 7, Visual Studio 2010, SharePoint, SQL Server 2008, business

Most people using ASP.NET Form Authentication use the built-in <asp:Login> control that works fine but when we use a custom login form we have the follofing problem: the cookie expiration timeout in ASP.NET Forms Authentication for persistent and non-persistent sessions uses the same value. It is defined in Web.config in the timeout attribute of the

The .NET Framework does not provide standard functionality for resolving a path relative to the application root to a physical file system path. Thus in ASP.NET Web applications we need to use Server.MapPath(), but in console and Windows Forms / WPF applications we need to rely on the current directory. Moreover if we run a

I am invited to be а speaker at the upcomming seminar for PHP and Web developers that will focus on the integration of PHP with the Microsoft technologies and platforms. The speakers will demonstrate how to run PHP in IIS and how to integrate PHP and .NET applications. My talk will focus on the technologies

I am working on an ActiveX control that allows using a device for scanning personal ID cards in a Web application (based on ASP.NET). The card scanning device (called RTE reader) is accessed using a native DLL that communicates with the device through the COM port by using a proprietary protocol. It is pretty complicated

Today a customer of mine requested to integrate our ASP.NET based Web application with Microsoft CRM 3.0. Initially I thought this will be a simple task but few hours later I found that this is not straightforward. Accessing MS CRM 3.0 from .NET The best way to access MS CRM 3.0 from .NET application is