I received comments to my blog (WCF vs. Remoting (with DataSet)- performance comparison) with some adjustments I could make to improve performance of the WCF. I did some of them:

I just came across a very interesting post from James Kovacs that describes how C# and .NET evolved. I had blogged about this almost a year ago, but James' post adds some additional background.

Not too long ago, I talked about Extension Methods in.NET 3.5 and also about a way to provide data binding an enum type with descriptions. Today, Simo talked about how often he forgets the syntax o…

No Left Navigation when new web part pages are created in sharepoint

A lot of you probably already know my feelings on certifications, particularly the Microsoft certifications. Even though I am an MCPD, I took what appears to be the "non traditional" approach and a…

It was recently pointed out to me that not many developers are familiar with the TreeNodeCollection.AddRange method and how it differs from the TreeNodeCollection.Add method. Even though I am focus…

Recently I worked with another consultant on trying to import data from a flat file into a SQL Server 2005 database. There were issues loading the file using the SSIS Import and Export Wizard, howe…

Last week I've been looking for a better RSS Reader (err... Aggregator). You see after certain number of feeds MS Outlook no longer works for me and I needed a better alternative. In my search I ca…

Have you offset your carbon usage today?

In this post, I will show you how to compress the Asp.net Ajax Web Service response, To understand the benefits of compression let us start with a simple example, Consider you have an web service w…

Kanban (pronounced kahn-bahn) is a Just-In-Time (JIT) manufacturing technique that minimizes inventory and increases throughput. This is done by signaling. A production station has a bin or loading…

I remember when the title 'architect' in IT became a buzz word around 2005, a fellow blogger comments that it is just a new way to say ‘I'm senior enough not to code any more’. It is a joke, a good…

\[UPDATE: The link to the VS2008 project was broken. Sorry for that\]

In my previous post, I have shown the data binding capabilities of ListView control. In this post, I will show the Data Editing power of ListView. Like the previous DataGrid, DataList and GridView …

Doing some winforms dev for a change - and had a need to hide a form, instead of closing it, when the user clicked the standard windows close form button (little cross \[x\] icon on the top right c…

Suppose that you have the need to switch drive letters of two of yours volumes. Lets say you have one partition with assigned drive letter D and other drive with assigned drive letter E. To change …

Not only am I an Automation Engineer, I'm also one of the Quality Center admins at my current job.

My First experiment with Asp.net ListView control was awesome. I downloaded few templates from and able to apply it only in few minutes. Checkout the result of Northwind Customer table:

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As always happens when you take a few days off work, the build server started having problems. When i looked at it the problem in our build was when trying to remove the existing hosts to recreate …