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This review is based on Emulator Image. Not a real phone experience. Windows Mobile 6.5 Standard is a Non-Touchscreen version of Windows Mobile 6.5 OS. Why Standard?? It is still very popular today due to its ease of one handed navigation though real buttons, instead of touch controls on touchscreen based phones. Entire OS is fine tuned to let a user access most features one handed though tactile feel. After sometime using the phone most common operation do not require looking at the phone - which ...

We have been working hard on version 2.0.0 of Ra-Ajax and it is now publicly available for download. This release marks very exciting events and changes. Probably not the least of which is the switch of license from LGPL to GPL. We have completely revamped the website design, to make it easy for visitors to find just what they need. We have a new infrastructure that will allow our existing users to get the most out of Ra-Ajax and new users to get up to speed quickly. Many changes and bug fixes were ...

On August 1st the Baton Rouge Area SQL Server and .Net user groups are hosting an all day free SQL Server and .Net training event! Attendees will have chances to win great prizes! What more could a SQL Server and .Net Professional ask for? If this sounds good to you then don’t miss your opportunity to attend SQL Saturday! #17, the largest FREE training event dedicated exclusively to SQL Server, .Net, Development and Business Intelligence to hit Baton Rouge. Registration is required. For more information ...

Are you currently implementing SharePoint? Have you implemented SharePoint and now you are pulling your hair out? Did you hire someone to stand up your farm, now they are gone, and you have no clue what to do? Are you generally lost and cursing SharePoint with every other breath? Does your boss not get SharePoint? Are you a boss and don’t get it? Are you looking at spending thousands of dollars on training just to be able to use SharePoint? If you are Jerry Seinfeld, is SharePoint your Newman? Congratulations! ...

If you don't care about retaining all the history of one of the repositories, you can just create a new directory under one project's repository, then import the other. If you care about retaining the history of both, then you can use 'svnadmin dump' to dump one repository, and 'svnadmin load' to load it into the other repository. The revision numbers will be off, but you'll still have the history. The above quote is from the Subversion FAQ at Tigris.org. After reading it, one might get the impression ...

I rarely find Google’s product as exciting or as innovative as other people think they are. BUT… [I’ll come back as to why later on, don’t worry it’s only one feature that I need, but it’s important] I was driving yesterday, and needed to quickly look up an address, as I know the destination moved addresses recently and did not want to drive the wrong way. So I decided to use Google Maps for Mobile, as it seems to fixate on GPS in my BlackJack II faster. [To note I use my phone’s Internet and GPS ...

Microsoft have completely re-written Live Search, the new offering Bing! Bing is being marketed as a ‘decision engine’ as it tries to workout what you are looking for rather always giving the top ranking website out of an algorithm. Microsoft has commissioned allot of research to work out what people are actually trying to do for when they use a search engine. It is clear Microsoft cannot ‘out search’ Google but could gain market share by finding an edge and that edge is adding more depth. Achieving ...

Cool article.  Looking forward to the applications of this. 

Food for thought:  What would faster, more reliable connections in vehicles enable us to do?  Could cars detect traffic patterns faster or with better fidelity?  Could we upload GPS maps on the fly (some cars already do this I imagine)?   Perhaps the Google maps vehicles can start uploading their street view data as they are taking it. :P

As a part of my various experimentations, I do run Mozilla FireFox, Safari as well as Google Chrome. Recently, Mozilla had a crash and it doesn’t allow me to proceed further upon restarting it. The above screen shows up. I thought, clicking on “Restart Firefox” after submitting the information would help, but everytime I try running FireFox, the same dialog comes up. There must be some indication that Mozilla wouldn’t function and I would need to reinstall or something like that. Compared to the ...

Go to https://addons.mozilla.org/... ( Update: This is the only official provider made by Microsoft itself)This is the URL I originally posted (from which the below screenshots come): https://addons.mozilla.org/... - Of course you are recommended to go to the official URL above. Check “Let me install this experimental add-on” and click “Add to FireFox” Now the add-in is there. In the search bar, click the little triangle at the left and choose Bing. In ...

If you are not on Twitter, let me spread this by @bing: Ladies and Gentlemen, www.bing.com is live. :) (rollouts will continue however to partners and other mkts, more to come) ^betsy Bing, if you don’t know, is Microsoft’s new search engine, also known as “Decision Engine” since it has features that help answer what you are wondering about rather than just display links. For those wondering about Live Search. I think I read somewhere that both search engines will remain there for a while, then Live ...

In Part 1 we downloaded or built from source control. In Part 2 we added UppercuT to our project. In Part 3 we set up the UppercuT configuration. In Part 4 we updated our reference folders if we needed to. In Part 5 we built our code successfully. In Part 6, we checked into source control. In Part 7, we automatically ignored folders for SVN. What are the next steps to take advantage of the power of UppercuT? The Power of UppercuT UppercuT comes with many great features! You now have automated build ...

For a couple of years I have been tracking message-bodies inside BAM but only recently I was asked to make a BAM Portal document link to these message bodies that actually works :-) Strangely enough I couldn't find any solution on Google so I tried to figure this one out myself. Guess what? I had to jump through quite a few hoops. I decided to share those hoops with my other 2 blog readers (yes you). Hoop 1: the 1st and most obvious step is getting the message bodies into the BAM tables using the ...

I recently switched gigs at work and I’ve had re-install, well, all the tools and gadgets that I tend to use. I’ve also seen a bunch of blog posts lately about tools and plug-ins and I love learning what tools are being out there that I can use…SO, I’ve put together a real short and sweet list myself. This is by no means exhaustive! Tool Description Windows Live I switched over some time ago. This is a great tool for blog posts. I also love the code snippet plug-in. CopySourceAsHtml Handy plug-in ...

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-style-parent:""; line-height:115%; font-size:11.0pt;"Calibri",... From past 3 days I am struggling to access internet from Virtual PC Guest operating system. My host operating system is Windows Vista Home Premium Edition. Even though Microsoft officially does not support virtual PC on Windows Vista Home premium, it is working fine with ...

There have been a couple of builds already for the new version 5.1 of DotNetNuke. On the DotNetNuke site, there is even a thread for users to discuss any problems they are having with the builds and they are encouraged to log their problems or suggestions on their Gemini site. The current build is 364 and there's already changes from the previous build. For example, here's the new Admin Settings: One change from the previous build is that Google Analytics is now located here. You could find this ...

Baton Rouge’s first Speaker Idol is going to take place on Wednesday, June 24th! 5 speakers 15 minutes Grueling judges Great prizes! View the flyer or check out the Google group for more information and how to be a part of the action! If you’re interested, you can shoot me a message and I’ll get you in touch with the right people ;) Technorati Tags: brdnug,speakeridol ...

If you ever need to deploy a WCF service to SharePoint 2007, there's plenty of information about how to do it on the web. Including how to make it work with Integrated Authentication or Forms Authentication. And it's all great and works. However, I had to make the service "run" under the context of a particular web (which was actually a subweb). By this I mean that if I have a root site and a subsite and my WCF service calls SPContext.Current.Web I'd want it to return the subsite, not the root site. ...

In this Issue: Nigel Sampson, Jonathan van de Veen, Rod Paddock, Alex Knight, Arturo Toledo, Tim Heuer, Justin Angel, Lee, and David Anson. Shoutouts: There are probably more by now, but at last look, both Jesse Liberty and Alex Golesh had not only dowloaded and installed VS2010, but they're also building Silverlight apps out there... sweet! From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 3 Navigation and Google Analytics Nigel Sampson pinged me on this post. I blew right past it two days in a row! Nigel ...

I added a little newsgroup browser to my SharePoint site with about a one page RSSBus SharePoint WebPart template. It works by importing the RSSBus NntpOps Connector. It calls its nntpListArticles operation to list the articles of a particular newsgroup and displays them in a table. Then when an article is clicked on, it calls the nntpGetArticle operation to retrieve the actual article – don’t worry – it will only retrieve the first 1000 lines of the article – if the thread is larger than that it ...

MS-Word 2007 has a beautiful feature for publishing blog posts. You can utilize the feature's present with Word for blog publishing since it's very handy. This option you can see in new file window as "New Blog Post". After that you have to manage your accounts using the "Manage accounts" menu option. There you will be provided with provider options. There are various provider's supported by word for blogging. I tried registering for my GeekswithBlogs.net account and ended up in mess. This is because ...

Over the past several months, I frequently found myself cursing the Internet slowness of my fully loaded multi-core computer. I cleaned, optimized, defragmented, flushed and did everything customary to resuscitate a lethargic machine. A blog entry described the woes of someone in a similar position. He speculated that the cause was Abobe's Flash plug-in for IE. A Google search showed people with a similar problem and similar thoughts. I figured it would not hurt to just kill Flash ... kill it as ...

¿Sabías que en el mundo somos cerca de 6,670 millones de habitantes? ¿Que en China e India habita casi un tercio de la población mundial? ¿Que El Sol está a poco más de 14 horas luz de La Tierra? ¿Que el hidrógeno es el elemento de mayor abundancia en el universo? Pues todo eso y mucho más puedes descubrir con el nuevo buscador WolframAlpha(WA). Un buscador que va mucho más allá de desplegarte las urls hacia sitios que contengan las palabras ingresadas como criterio de búsqueda; WA analiza por tí ...

So, it takes too long for me to write this post. even though I completed the coding stuff a week back but it is really hard to manage time these days. In this post, I will explain and demonstrate you how to create custom paging in Grid view control. Paging which works like the Google Paging. Let me elaborate more, say for example you have a record set of 500 items and you want to display 10 items per page. Now what happen to the pages numbers. Either you use the default with “..” sign after 10th ...

The new Point & Click web design tool - the Control & Theme Designer - presents a ground breaking simple, intuitive developer/designer interface to creating advanced, customized, and creative customer-facing Web user interfaces (UIs) without any need to code in HTML and CSS. The new tool will allow to easily create custom themes for Visual WebGui applications or download complete themes. New themes created by Gizmox that would give your Visual WebGui application familiar, cool looks are going ...

In this Issue: James Bacon, SmartyP, Peter Gerritsen(2), Vasanthakumar D, Peter Bromberg, and John Papa(2). Shoutout: Pete Brown elaborates on the Pixel Shader Effects available for Silverlight in the WPF effects library on Codeplex that I discussed yesterday, and shows some screenshots too: More Pixel Shader Effects for Silverlight From SilverlightCream.com: How to add Silverlight version detection to Google Analytics James Bacon shows how to add Silverlight version info to your Google Analytics ...

One of my last big project revolved around keyword based searching using a Google Search Appliance and an open-source API code the Google Search Appliance written in .NET [link]. Ever since then I’ve been intrigued by keyword search technologies, specifically as it relates to their backend logic. That all said, Google searching simply matches for strings with a few exceptions. The guys who developed Mathmetica, though, have developed a processing engine that actually finds answers. By that, I mean ...

Hearty congratulations go out to Dave Kolb and everyone at the WNC .NET Developers Guild. They are celebrating their first anniversary tonight! Happy Birthday Dave! The WNC .NET Developers Guild is an independent, all volunteer organization, dedicated to promoting Microsoft .NET technology and education to the software developer community of Asheville, NC and the surrounding areas. Meeting on the second Tuesday of every month, Dave has had a very impressive start over the past twelve months. Their ...

So today see’s the end of my week long attempt to use an online bookstore search in replacement of my habitual use of Gooooogle. All in all it was a relative success. We were certainly able to find the topics we were looking for – but as expected, Safari was able to best answer questions on ‘best practise’ and ‘how should be approach x’. Where Google steps forward was exposing the real world experiences actually implementing those practises, thanks to the world of Blogging and Forums. Has to be said ...

This is so unacceptable. I generally don’t share my rant for the application that I use often but what Facebook showed me today, is totally unacceptable. Very recently, last month?, I happen to have used the “Friend Finder” utility from them, I guess its called “Contact Importer” now; So anyways, its like this, I use the utility and find many many of my contacts on Facebook, and using the brilliant list selection web control, I choose whom I like to add on Facebook! Now, it’s today, I log to my work ...

I was integrating a JQuery plugin for file uploads, uploadify, in my app when I saw a very strange behavior. The plugin reported an error transmitting the file to the server and debugging the controller code I noticed the target action wasn’t being called at all. Debugging the client code I found out that the server was redirecting the upload to the login page. The Controller was marked with the AuthorizeAttribute but the user was already authenticated. After a google search I found this article ...

In this Issue: Simon Guest(2), Al Pascual, Jeff Prosise, Andrew Duthie, Nikhil Kothari, Alex Golesh, Ning Zhang, Jesse Liberty, and SilverLemma. Shoutouts: Jeff Wilcox is asking Is it worthwhile to keep AutoCompleteBox’s DropDownOpening and Closing events? Cameron Albert has a blog post up about his Perenthia World Builder in Silverlight Pete Brown posted his Silverlight 3 Links from the Reston DevDinner From SilverlightCream.com: Using SketchFlow to Create Better Prototypes Simon Guest sent me a ...

I was on my way home this evening when I was thinking of a test generation framework that could help me write some of the tests I always write to test construction setters, properties and null inputs to methods. Basically the tag line was going to be "AutoSpec - For those of us that are Test Driven but want to automate some of the mundane tests." Once I got home, I started to look if anything like this is out there and came across something different. I came across a Ruby product called AutoSpec. ...

Here’s a screenshot of my document in Word 2007: That’s exactly what I wanted: three columns in different shades. Hurray for Word 2007! Then I saved as PDF. Here’s a screenshot from Acrobat: I don’t know why the colors “leaked” like that, but it’s bad. And while I could imagine this being Acrobat, not word, this is clearly Word’s fault. I added a line to Column C, but made no other changes. Here’s the screenshot from Word: More of the same strange color leaking. Not acceptable, not in my marketing ...

I just read a ZDNet Article by Jason Hiner, and I strongly believe he is missing the point. Before I delve into the details, I would just like to state my opinion. The browser has become frankenstein - these word processors (if you can call them that) and so forth are using the browser for things that it was never designed for. Sure you have V8 in Chrome now - but JS will never match real OOP languages like C# and Java in terms of maintainability. These are 'cool' things that should have remained ...

Every once in a while when I have nothing better to do, I’ll do a Google search for “.net developer tools” or "must have tools for .net” to see if there are any tools out there to enhance my development experience, Scott Hanselman has THE MASTER LIST which he religiously maintains and that for the most part is my one stop shop since I know that I’ll almost always find something useful in his listing. But I did also want to try to have an online list to which I can add my own findings. Following is ...

Cloud computing holds great promise to the next evolution of business and consumer computing. Amazon has been in the cloud computing game for a while now. In addition to their Azure platform for hosting cloud applications, Microsoft also has online services for pictures, blogs, videos, and files. Google has similar software-as-a-service offerings as well. As other companies bring their offerings to the market, we’ll see more and more options to store our data and files “in the cloud”. But in our ...

If you have a Silverlight 3 Beta 1 DataGrid that, for some reason, is not refreshing when its bound ItemsSource changes, like so... <data:DataGrid ItemsSource="{Binding Path=Parameters}" AutoGenerateColumns="false" IsReadOnly="True" > ...you might want to know that it's a bug in the beta. I actually spent about 2 days on and off on this issue, researching a workaround and googling for it with no results. Only today, more on a guess than anything else, I did this: <data:DataGrid ItemsSource="{Binding ...

Today one of my friend got this problem when she tried to get local path of a WCF Service using Mappath. I searched in a google for a while and got a MSDN link saying, “…using HostingEnvironment plus VirtualPathExtension is the right thing to map virtual paths to physical paths. This works fine for any IIS/WAS hosted services, even for Cassini….” here : http://social.msdn.microsof... I hope it works! If somebody has a better way please ...

So I have got most of the drivers for XP working fine and things are running great. Only once did XP crash while I was installing the drivers but that was maybe because I installed the wrong one. I was having trouble finding the right driver for my video card, ATI Radeon 4570. Anyways, to find the drivers I searched google and again came about many posts related to the topic. Tried the drivers one by one, some failed and some didn't. But in the end I came about a post saying that Dell has released ...

Hi there, I have been struggling with my laptop for about a day now, trying to get it to dual boot with vista and xp. And I am happy to say that it is working now! My laptop came pre-installed with Vista home edition and I wanted to install xp on it because I knew that some of the programs I use will not work on Vista. The Mistake I inserted my xp cd and restarted my machine to boot from the cd and the first speed bump came along real quick. As soon as the first screen came up I got the infamous ...

Hey everyone,I am writing this so that anyone can point me to some good articles,tutorials on creating a plugin support for an application in .Net 3.5 or higher(SP1).

I tried a lot of google searches but nothing that can let me create plugin support for my application in a standard way...
Thanx in advance.

Well, finally after fiddling and trying everything to partition my single gigantic drive on my laptop for close to 4 hours, I have done it! The drive is finally broken. I tried using Vista's disk manager utility to partition but with partial success. I got my C drive from 280GB down to 180GB. And when I further try to shrink C, it says total available shrink space is zero! What the heck! Time to use google and a quick search shows that I am not the only one facing this problem almost half of the ...

I saw this question on a certification exam for WSS 3.0. I narrowed down the answer and it appears that I was right. I wasn't sure if I was correct, so I consulted someone and they looked up the answer. I also went around google to see what is the actual answer. It turns out if you don't run Item.Update(), but instead Item.SystemUpdate() it doesn't end up modifying the Modified and Modified By fields. This basically means that no alert will get sent when you choose this option over the regular update ...

I think the tools that we use and the way we use them define us in some ways. Some people prefer to work with command prompts even though a GUI is available, some people always stick with their editors that they use and switching to a new editor is very unsettling. As you progress as a developer you become greatly attached to these tools and the first thing that we do on a new PC is setup the tools the way we want. So here goes the list of tools that I use. TextPad TextPad has always been the editor ...

As you can guess from the title I have written this post completely on my iPhone.A part from the obvious restrictions, such as the small keyboard, it wasn't a wholly unpleasant experience making the whole notion of using a device like this to construct posts a viable option.What put me off attempting to do this before was indeed screen-size but the iPhone does just about cross the boundary in a useable experience.So I'm a little late to the iPhone party with all the fuss happening last year but it ...

When I was over at PDC the guys from GWB convinced me to move my blog to them (well, it didn’t take much convincing…), so I have, but I kept cross-posting on my old blog as well until I make up my mind. Took me way too long, but I have now decided to stick with my old place. Cross posting is naturally not a good idea, and I shouldn’t have done that for that long – apart from me having to post twice each time, other people comments are not visible for all which is the worst aspect of it, and also ...

Wow! If you have any sense of humor you have to see what Google has come up with now! As many of you know, you can set your Microsoft Outlook to have an automatic out of office reply. I will detail some tips on how to do that in a second. However, how great would it be to have an automatic, politician like, non-committal spin generator for when you are out of the office, instead? Leave it to the Geniuses at Google to add this feature to Gmail! Talk about an office productivity booster, instead of ...

Really enjoying the new Google Autopilot. Pretty interesting feature set.

If you haven't taken a look at this yet, be sure to check it out here.

So, after my server died, I needed a quick way to re-establish my email as I had previously been running Exchange server. My family all have email accounts on this server, so I’d thought I’d explore a few options for hosted email, that would work with our mobile phones (Windows Mobile and iPhone). Reading all the press coverage about Gmail supporting The Microsoft Air-Sync protocol, I thought I’d give this a go. I set up a couple of Gmail accounts. Then on the iPhone went through the process of setting ...