August 2006 Entries
From past few day I'm facing this problem with MSDN. I'm sure you guys would be facing the same problem. MSDN IE Bug MSDN Mozilla Firefox Bug Hey guys from Redmond, are you lisening! Happy Browsing :) ......
I found this cool site, which tries to calculate your disposable Income. Check it out what's yours! And what stuff you can buy! Links: Disposable Income Calculator Enjoy Calculation :) ......
I just found this great site consisting really good snippets. The site contains thousands of snippets. You can either Browse or Search for the snippets. The site contains snippets on various categories like Visual Basic, C#, J# and XML. Links: GotCodeSnippets.Net Happy Coding :) ......
My collegue Rajat sent this post by Adners Noras on How to: Deep copy any serializable object. Links: How to: Deep copy any serializable object Shallow vs Deep Copying Copying, Cloning, and Marshalling in .NET IClonable deep vs shallow, best practise Thanks Rajat for sharing that nice post Happy Copying :) ......
I found this article by Jawahar Govindaraj on c-sharpcorner, and is worth reading as he shows a walkthrough of creating unit tests. Links: A Practical Approach to .NET Testing using Visual Studio 2005 Test Team Suite Happy Testing :) ......
I found this very handy article on MSDN by Milena Salman, and is really of great help for WinForms Developers. This article discusses: Improving application startup time Tuning up control creation and population Improving painting performance Rendering text and images Efficient resource management The article concludes with Twelve Performance Tips : Load fewer modules at startup Precompile assemblies using NGen Place strong-named assemblies in the GAC Avoid base address collisions Avoid blocking ......
I got this wierd problem while configuring Windows Live Writer(Beta) with Windows Live Spaces. Error File: Saturday, August 19, 2006 2:55:12 PM Version: 1.0 Build: 109 OS Version: Microsoft Windows NT 5.0.2195 Service Pack 4 Runtime version: 2.0.50727.42 Shutdown started: False Program: "C:\Program Files\Windows Live Writer\WindowsLiveWriter.exe" Memory Load: 72% Total Physical: 1015 MB Available Physical: 277 MB Total Page File: 1267 MB Available Page File: 376 MB Total Virtual: 2097 MB Available ......
I found this great poster of ASP.NET 2.0 Page LifeCycle @ Manish Agrawal's Blog.
Thanks Manish for sharing a great resource with developers community!
Happy Programming :)
I just found this great add-in for Outlook, which displays Windows Local Live Maps. You might thinking that what the hell these maps can do to me? So here' s the answer, you can add appointments according to places you want to visit, and add Home, Business and Other Location, and that is not it, you can get directions between two places, optimized trip routes, estimated travel time etc. Now I'm sure you will be impressed with that! Links: Windows Local Live Maps for Outlook Add-In home Happy Mapping ......
Hey guys this is your chance to get a free CD's of Windows Vista Beta2. Just answer these simple questions and you will get these CD's delivered @ ur home! Links: Windows Vista Future Assured Home Windows Vista Future Assured Quiz Windows Vista Future Assured Quiz Answers ;) Happy Quizzing :) ......
This is my first post with Windows Live Writer, I'm pretty much excited from last week when I heard about it. I downloaded and installed it, but didn't know how to configure GWB with it, until I found this post by Jeff Julian : Using Live Writer Beta on Geekswithblogs.net I also found this post Posting Photos to Geekswithblogs.net Using Live Writer and Flickr, but it didn't worked for me as it requires Windows XP SP2 onwards huh! In the meanwhile I'll post using this great utility! Thanks Windows ......
Vande Mataram! A very Happy Independence Day to my fellow Indians! As a biggest democracy have shown the world that despite of lack of resources we can excel, we have got the talent, calibre and guts to take up challanges and prove ourselves. In this century we are going to show the world that we are the best, but before that we need put our focus on primary education, poverty, hunger, corruption and many more things. I know that these things cannot change overnight, but what I think is “Change ......
Hyderabad August 23, 2006 Chennai August 25, 2006 The Microsoft "Synergize2Energize" Tour begins on August 23, 2006. Keep yourself free! New Delhi September 6, 2006 Mumbai September 8, 2006 Pune September 13, 2006 Bangalore September 15, 2006 The foundation for a software team to do great development work depends on synergies within the team, be it Keeping in touch with your team whenever and wherever In having control to meet project quality and deadline The visibility and monitoring of projects ......
I don't know how many developers in Financial domain know this, so I decided to share it with my fellow developers. Microsoft has a seperate division for Financial Services,, which operates across three verticals: Banking, Insurance, and Capital Markets. Microsoft Financial Services: Banking Solutions Microsoft Financial Services: Insurance Microsoft Financial Services: Capital Markets Microsoft Financial Services Developers Windowsfs - Windows in Financial Services Links: Microsoft Financial Services ......
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university lecturer. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the lecturer went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups: porcelain, plastic, glass, some plain-looking and some expensive and exquisite, telling them to help themselves to hot coffee. When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the lecturer said: ......
Windows Live™ Spaces Microsoft is here with Windows Live Spaces, the concept is same as of the MSN Spaces but with some new tadka of look and feel. One more thing I would like to add is that your MSN Spaces are automatically upgraded to Live Spaces, I've already tested mine @ http://ramshankar.spaces.li... Links: Windows Live Spaces home My Live Space Happy blogging :) ......