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Software developer specialising in Microsoft .NET, web technologies and artificial intelligence.
Branislav Abadjimarinov's technical blog
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ActionScript 3 Number data type problem with long integer values by Branislav Abadjimarinov
Lately I've been doing some front-end flex programming and in a series of posts starting with this one I'll share my view of the Adobe's programming framework. First I'll start with ActionScript 3 - the programming language used in flex. It is an EcmaScript derived language. From what I've seen…
Filed under: ActionScript 3Posted 6/23/2010 2:22:00 PM - CST -
WeakReference and .net memory management by Branislav Abadjimarinov
WeakReference class is relatively unknown to the .net community. A weak reference in general is a reference to an object that doesn't stop the garbage collector from collecting an object. In its nature it is an agile reference to object - it can be useful to keep large objects in memory only if…
Posted 5/20/2010 12:50:00 AM - CST -
I'm officially a Microsoft Certified Trainer by Branislav Abadjimarinov
I haven't posted for a while and as you can gues I've been busy with all kinds of tasks. As the title states, now I'm officially a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT). Today I received my confirmation email. Joining the MCT program has been in my list of goals for a long time and I'm glad that I…
Posted 4/30/2010 2:15:00 AM - CST -
AJAX the easy way in ASP.NET Web Forms using genric handlers by Branislav Abadjimarinov
In this article we'll see a quick and elegant ajax call solution based on generic handlers in asp.net and jQuery. The goal is to populate a street list in a dropdown with ajax call based on a selected postal code in a dropdown. The usual way to do this in ASP.NET Web Forms will be to use the…
Posted 3/26/2010 12:15:00 AM - CST -
Web Applications Development with .NET Framework and ASP.NET course in Technical University of Sofia by Branislav Abadjimarinov
From Monday, 15 February a new course on programming is starting in the Technical University of Sofia. The course is titled "Web Applications Development with .NET Framework and ASP.NET" and it will cover some of the basics of Microsoft .net platform and ASP.NET. The training provided will be…
Posted 2/11/2010 1:43:00 AM - CST -
How to speed up compilations in ASP.NET Web Site by Branislav Abadjimarinov
When working with ASP.NET most developers, including me, choose to use the Web Site model. One of the reasons for that is the smooth working process. If you make a change in your website you do not need to manually recompile - asp.net does that for you. But because of this change there is a…
Posted 2/2/2010 11:18:00 AM - CST -
Application Architecture Guide 2.0 by Branislav Abadjimarinov
In codeplex I found a very interesting book part of Microsoft Patterns and Practices. The book is Application Architecture Guide 2.0 - http://www.codeplex.com/AppArchGuide . It covers various topics from application architecture field in Microsoft and in general. The book is a must read for…
Filed under: Course, Software ArchitecturePosted 1/25/2010 8:36:00 AM - CST -
Renew User in the same Request in asp.net while using forms authentication with cookies by Branislav Abadjimarinov
In ASP.NET forms authentication the usual authentication flow goes like this: a user submits his credentials; they are validated against database, web.config or other data source; an authentication cookie is issued and added to the current response (which is not sent yet); the cookie is…
Posted 1/24/2010 3:52:00 AM - CST -
Attach already changed object to a data context in Entity Framework by Branislav Abadjimarinov
Entity Framework in its current version (.net 3.5 sp 1) has some problems with multi-tier application architecture. If you need to use different data context instances for getting an object and submitting the changes made to it you'll face some frustration. Typical scenario in n-tier applications…
Filed under: ADO.NET, Entity FrameworkPosted 12/12/2009 12:38:00 AM - CST -
Visual Studio debugging and IIS 7 Application pools problem by Branislav Abadjimarinov
I had a strange problem debugging asp.net websites hosted on IIS 7. I attached the Visual Studio debugger to the working process of the IIS (in my case w3wp.exe) and started debugging. After a couple of minutes I got disconnected. This behavior reproduced every time. After checking the IIS 7…
Posted 11/12/2009 6:36:00 AM - CST
Recent Comments
No, there is no clean solution that I know of. I logged a bug…
Branislav Abadjimarinov - 7/12/2010 2:35 AMI too have the same problem, Did you find any solution for this?.
shaffi - 7/9/2010 2:30 AM