February 2006 Entries
Today I installed URLScan 2.5 and experienced following error: “The Web Server Has Been Locked Down and Is Blocking the DEBUG Verb” while I tried to debug my project. I tried several thing apart from restarting my IIS, but nothing worked ! " UrlScan version 2.5 is a security tool that restricts the types of HTTP requests that Internet Information Services (IIS) will process. By blocking specific HTTP requests, the UrlScan security tool helps prevent potentially harmful requests from reaching...
According to Google "Want to create an online photo tour of your vacation to Bali? An overview of the South American precipitation cycle for your science class? A shrine to your pet ferret? Now's your chance. We're testing a new product that makes creating your own web pages as easy as creating a document in a word processor. Google Page Creator is a free tool that lets you create web pages right in your browser and publish them to the web with one click. There's no software to download and no web...
Today when I installed Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview on my machine I realized that the font in the Internet Explorer has became smooth and sharp, at the first glance it seems magical ! Then I tried to find out why ? Friend of mine Siddarth Aggarwal (Sid) told me about this, that it's Clear Type from Microsoft which enables smooth and sharp fonts on LCD screen (it may smooth on CRT's as well). Then we tried to find out more on this and we got following excrept from Microsoft Typography page....
“Internet Explorer 7 improves the implementation of the XMLHTTP Request as a native Javascript object for rich AJAX-style applications. While Internet Explorer 6 handled XMLHTTP requests with an ActiveX control, Internet Explorer 7 exposes XMLHTTP natively. This improves syntactical compatibility across different browsers and allows for clients to configure and customize a security policy of their choice without compromising key AJAX scenarios.“ Links: Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview,...
Another Google avatar is out. This post is not just about telling that it's out but it's more about the use of AJAX for building rich web applications. These rich and interactive web application are showing the path of future to developers like us. Visit it you might get an idea of using AJAX and other possiblities. Google Reader homepage: http://www.google.com/reader or http://reader.google.com Explore Google Reader: http://www.google.com/reade... Google Reader API: http://www.niallkennedy.com...
I found this while I was browsing Microsoft India homepage. I found it really a useful stuff and like to share it with the community as it provides best of the feeds provided by Microsoft, and thats not it, it also contains links to some feed aggregrators. It contains feeds accroding to the given categories: C O M M U N I T Y Channel 9 Channel 9 India L A N G U A G E S ASP.NET Visual Basic Visual C# Visual C++ Visual J# Visual FoxPro M S D N .NET Framework ASP.NET Code Samples ISV Community Center...
I found this great link while I encountered a problem of validating strong passwords using regualar expressions. http://msdn.microsoft.com/l... Check out it might be of great help for other regular expression related queries. Happy coding
I was recently searching for some localization stuff on the net and I found a few good links and like to share these with the community. http://www.longhornjunkies.... I hope they might help you...
Hey, It's finally out ! Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0 is now available for download. Check out the link below to get Architecture Overview, and other related stuff, of course download links are also there. http://msdn.microsoft.com/l... Go get it ...
I found this while I was searching for some ASP.NET “Atlas” stuff on microsoft site. Watch out the videos by none other then Nikhil Khotari, one of the creators of “Atlas”. Although this introduction is fairly simple but it's worth watching Nikhil. Check out following link to download the videos, links and other stuff. http://www.microsoft.com/do... Watch this link for streaming video of First...
The Internet and Mobile technology have played the most influential role in revolutionizing the way people do business and communicate with each other. With the emergence of Web 2.0 and Wireless Mobility, technology will further evolve to impact the world irreversibly, delivering unique opportunities for developers to drive productivity and innovation into development scenarios. The Microsoft Technology Roadshow, this February, presents the future of web-programming and the potential of mobile application...
I found this masterpiece while I was browsing a forum where somebody has posted this great stuff. Music Search Put this complete link in your browser,.....hit enter…then just type in the music or title you are looking for javascript:Qr='';if(!Qr){vo... Artist Or Song Name:',''))};if(Qr)location...
After Google Talk it time for G mail Chats. Yes, you got it right Google is now coming up with the concept of email chatting. I don't know that how successful would this concept will become in future but the concept is really good specially for the people who cannot use IM's(because they are behind a firewall). You can get more info on this from this link : http://mail.google.com/mail... Google continues to rule, hey microsoft guys r u listening ...
Last week I was on preparatory leave for my MS Software Systems mid semester exams. I'm currently pursuing my MS in Software Systems from BITS, Pilani, India Now I'm back and I'm really amazed by the response which I'm getting through this blog, and I'm really thankful to you guys for regularly visiting it. This is not just a blog for me, yes it is more than that ! I'm grateful to all you guys for your support and appreciation/suggestions. Thanks a lot :)...