Teucer's Quiver

Teucer's Quiver Me && .net

Feb 07

I have recently joined Microsoft US and have moved to US. So no more travelling often between India and Redmond. I haven't yet decided if I am going to move out of GWB. I think I would continue to occasionally post to my blog. ArunBala from our team has also started blogging, other than that few of the other guys on our team who are already on the web ......

Posted On Wednesday, February 21, 2007 1:36 PM Empty thoughts

Nov 06

Can a web app be offline and work like a smart client? YES it can

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I am a strong supporter of smart clients. They could not have been anything better than smart clients. Smart clients are the big thing for any of us developers who write code for the desktop. But I do keep in touch with some of those things happening in the web world in which I spent a fair amount of time. Smart clients are basically those client side ......

Posted On Monday, November 20, 2006 6:11 PM

Nov 06

Security considerations for smart client applications - I

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Security is one of the areas which I am constantly interested in and as my work revolves around smart clients in the last few years I decided to write down this post. Many of these items described below would apply not only to smart clients but for most applications (irrespective of Web services, Server side apps, alike). I don't consider myself a strong ......

Posted On Saturday, November 18, 2006 7:29 PM

Nov 06

DebuggerNonUserCode attribute

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Today I was debugging some code and was not able to break into some code of a component; the debugger just failed to recognize it. Turns out the method was decorated with the [DebuggerNonUserCodeAttribu... Its a neat way to restrict code from being debugged/stepped into. The attribute can be applied to structs, classes, methods, properties and as one ......

Posted On Thursday, November 16, 2006 7:15 PM

Nov 06

After the 100th Post... what next?

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Yes the last post was my 100th post. Nitin, a dear friend of mine who also is a blogger (got introduced by Tejas) did ask me some time ago why I stopped blogging. No reasons there of everything should be considered an excuse if I had to state any :(. So my resolution after posting the 100th post to my blog is to keep blogging at a decent frequency and ......

Posted On Monday, November 13, 2006 3:17 PM

Do developers really need money or something else?

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Came across a post from Software by Rob blog which has an interesting article about what developers (old school programmers many of them you can say like me...) really need in a programming job. Many of those points seem to be too true. But in my personal analysis I am opinionated I should say. Partly because I am not doing a day in night out coding ......

Posted On Monday, November 13, 2006 2:27 PM

Feb 06

MSN Developer Center.

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Just came across the MSN Developer center on MSDN. Pretty neat :)

Posted On Wednesday, February 22, 2006 10:30 AM

Feb 06

Delay signing and VS 2005 challenges

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I would like to run sn.exe as a post build instruction. Our key pair is stored in a share whose acess is controlled using ACLs hence its a protected asset. We didnt want to skip assembly verification or use the vs2005 feature for test key signing due to certain reasons notable of which is the fact that there is a dependant system which identifies our ......

Posted On Monday, February 13, 2006 7:58 AM

Nov 05

FAQ about Generics in .net

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MSDN has published four FAQs about Generics in .net and they are a must read in my opinion to anyone who is interested in template based programming constructs! Fundamentals.Net Framework & GenericsTool Support for GenericsBest Practices ......

Posted On Sunday, November 27, 2005 2:03 PM

Nov 05

New Winforms 2.0 Resources page..

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I was looking for some good FAQ's posted on Winforms 2.0 when I hit upon this page at the WindowsForms.net site. The DataGridView faq is probably the most comprehensive I have found so far on the net. DataGridView FAQ ratingA - GoodB - Very GoodC - ExcellentD - None of the above (Human Error: Could not find a word desribing above excellent) My Answer: ......

Posted On Sunday, November 20, 2005 1:32 PM

Nov 05

Questions on my mind...

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Questions which are on my mind right now. Hope I can fill in results for these questions some time (hopefully soon)! 1. How can the bootstrapper model of deployment be applicable for merge modules (currently you cannot write a bootstrapper setup for a merge module) 2. How do you install your application using setup.exe (the bootstrapper) but launch ......

Posted On Wednesday, November 9, 2005 11:40 PM

Nov 05

WSE 3.0 and VS2005 bootstrap installer

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Mark whose team delivers WSE blogged today about WSE 3.0 RTM. Congratulations J We require to ship the WSE runtime as a prerequisite for our smart client app hence I had to evaluate whether we can use the bootstrapper installer to install WSE.WSE 3.0 installs the bootstrapper relevant packages which is sweet but I noticed that it does not support install ......

Posted On Monday, November 7, 2005 9:03 PM

Back to maintaining a blog..

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Its been a long long time since I blogged. I guess its time....

Posted On Monday, November 7, 2005 7:58 PM

Mar 05

Yahoo's Developer Poral

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Yahoo opened up its developer portal (in beta as of now) . They are offering web services for Yahoo search and Overture (Yahoo's Ad subsidiary) to start with. First it was Google now Yahoo. People are sure catching up. MSN are you listening! ......

Posted On Wednesday, March 2, 2005 9:46 PM

Feb 05

CLR related reading..

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If you are looking for blogs by folks who work on the CLR team then this compilation is a must have in your subscription list. Via KGK - Blogging around the CLR on Shawn Farkas blog ......

Posted On Monday, February 28, 2005 11:51 PM

Dec 04

Providing Context Sensitive help for .net applications.

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I have been spending time working on this Smart Client application and we are running a successfull pilot implementation of the same. Smart Client applications being client side winform application hence its more or less mandated that the usability and UX guidelines set by Microsoft be adhered. After all “Standards” are a good thing :). ......

Posted On Friday, December 31, 2004 6:57 PM

Dec 04

For smart phone enthusiasts.

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Here’s a cool Ringtone splicer program that’ll cut your WMA files into short clips for use on your smartphone. Built on .NET using Windows Media Encoder components by an MVP in Malaysia. (http://www.marauderzstuff.... Simple and easy to use ......

Posted On Wednesday, December 29, 2004 10:45 PM

It's time to start thinking about how we might grant legal rights to computers

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