Now, I'm a geek at heart (obviously, since I'm here) and this is just cool...

After listening to recent HanselMinutes show on Life Hacks I've got myself a Moleskine Pocket Notebook today. If you never heard of this it's a small (9 x 14 cm), lightweight notebook that fits per…

- Recover your XP product key from the registry using C#,

A few weeks ago, I linked to a list of What Great .NET Developers Should Know. I then came up with the idea of adding more of my own through my own experiences. I found this list to be helpful and …

Visual Studio has a nifty feature called Pre-Build and Post-Build events. These are used to include extra DOS commands before or after the build.

After all this hype around C# 3.0 where we will get LINQ, lambda expressions and many other thing I thought that it would be useful to have a deeper look at functional programming languages like F#…

If you've been using the SQL Server Management Studio that comes with SQL Server 2005 for a while, you might noticed this nice message box that shows all exception messages. Not only it shows the e…

It's feels a little Awkward to be writing something as simple as this but then again, maybe this is why no one has written it and Google couldn't help me find an answer :)

NOTE : There have been some comments getting out of hand. I am deleting any rude or personally insulting comments in this thread. Keep it clean.

The postulation of Douglas Engelbart back in 1965 that the complexity of computers would double every 24 months has held true ever since he said it. Although it was originally Engelbart's theory, i…

As you probably know shared assemblies are stored in the global assembly cache (GAC) which is located at c:\\windows\\assembly.If you navigate to this folder you might be surprised to see that is l…

Today I recieved this mail from friends(Peeyush & Rajeev), although I don't prefer to post this kind of stuff, but it's simply hilarious, and represents the Indianess(desi) in these pics ;)

Recently I had posted some reasons about why I use Repository as opposed to Active Record. This post was originally spawned by some comments by Sam Gentile in regard to peole refactorring from repo…

This is pretty cool technology. I got an email this morning from Frank Taylor and he said that the Google Earth integration we have on Where's Tim is cool, but not even close to what we could be do…

In previous versions, ASP.NET considered the web.config file to be untouchable. What you, the developer, wrote into the file may as well have been engraved like the Ten Commandments into stone tabl…

If you haven't read this post about dissecting the HD-A1, you should start there.

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Upon hearing rumors that Toshiba put a 2.5 GHz Pentium 4 CPU and a gig of PC2700 DDR RAM in their new $500 high definition set-top DVD player, I was intrigued. When I heard that they also put in a …

Searched out on the internet and didn't really find anything that was horribly succinct, so I wrote this class for fun. I had help from http://www.codeproject.com/cs/webservices/translation.asp. I …

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