The Most Revolutionary Microsoft Technology You’ve Never Heard Of

Marc Jacobs has an interesting post titled The Most Revolutionary Microsoft Technology You’ve Never Heard Of

He talks about the new application model based on the DSS/CSS DSS/CCR components shipped with the Microsoft Robotics Studio.

Do you want to easily create, host and discover lightweight services?

Do you want to be able to create massive distributed solution easily as you create an ordinary sequential Winforms application?

Do you want to be able to easily and effectively utilize multi core/multi cpu systems without even care about the standard thread primitives?

Then you definitely have to check out the Decentralized Software Services(DSS) and Concurrency and Coordination Runtime(CCR), which are currently part of the Microsoft Robotics Studio

It is even more interesting: The DSS/CCR based services may be hosted in a Windows Mobile box. You may use .NET Compact Framework to create these services and run them on the mobile side.

NOTE:
Are you going to attend at the Microsoft Days 2007 in Sofia on 11 and 12 10 and 11 May 2007?
Than you may check out my session about Microsoft Robotic Studio, where we'll talk about these impressive technologies.



Links:

Marc Jacobs's Blog
Microsoft Robotics Studio
The Most Revolutionary Microsoft Technology You’ve Never Heard Of

Update
Check out this post for CCR samples

Imagine Cup Bulgaria 07 Summary

I just came from the local round of Imagine Cup Bulgaria 07
I was part of the jury and spent almost the whole day listening and watching the presenting teams. Despite of my expectations it was fun for me. I'm happy that I had the chance to watch these young motivated and smart people talking about their solutions.

There were great and not so great presentations and we(the jury) had to pick up the best one - the one to present Bulgaria on the finals in Seoul,Korea.

I've experienced a WOW! feeling, when BrainStorm(the winning team) presented their solution and as it turned out I wasn't alone - they won :)
So guys, good luck in Seoul!

NOTE:
Actually, some of the other teams demonstrated interesting ideas and even remarkable technological solutions. Unfortunately, they missed to meet some of the basic requirements of the contest. Some of the teams even failed to provide a live demo during their sessions - we had to guess if they could eventually implement their ideas.

Following some pictures:

CC.NET Vista Sidebar Gadget

Simone Chiaretta published his CC.NET Monitor for Vista Sidebar. It allows you to monitor the CruiseControl.NET projects from the Vista Sidebar without using CCTray.

He took a better approach than mine and definitely his gadget has a far better appearance.


Congratulations for the good job!


Links:

Simone Chiaretta's Blog

CC.NET Monitor for Vista Sidebar 0.7

Sofia .NET User Group Summary

We had our regular monthly meeting again as announced before.
Rosen Zhivkov told us the whole story about InfoPath2007, SharePoint Services and Forms Server.
We used the food and drinks supplied by Microsoft for a while and then moved to get some beers and pizza in a local pub.
Check out the photos:

Imagine Cup Bulgaria 07

Imagine a world where technology enables a better education for all...

The local round from Imagine Cup 07 will be held tomorrow. A several teams (students) will participate in a contest presenting their software solutions in front of a jury.
The event will be held in the Education Center Elieff
on 26.Apr.2007 at 9:30h and may be viewed on-line.
The winner will present Bulgaria in Korea at the Imagine Cup finals.

Meet you there.