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February 2007 - Posts

Friday, February 23, 2007 1:42 PM

Weird lambda usage

I had posted previously that I don't like lamda in C#. The reason is that C# had a different nature before. This is drastically changing and soon we'll have huge amounts of code having lambda and other cool new shiny language features which'll make it
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Thursday, February 22, 2007 10:42 AM

Hosting your shiny WPF stuff

Sometime back I had the priviledge of reviewing an intern project of some live online game. It was a online cricket playing game that is scheduled to match the cricket world cup coming up. The idea was at the time the real match is going on you can play
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Thursday, February 22, 2007 3:00 AM

International mother language day

Today is the International mother language day. I'm sure a lot of people will not get to figure this out as Google didn't change its banner :) I was chatting with a British friend and we were discussing that the relevance of mother language is not so
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Thursday, February 22, 2007 2:42 AM

Sharing static fields among generic class instances

Someone posted on an internal DL on how he can share static fields for all instances of the generic class (among all instances of different closed constructed types). The answer is you can't and I quote the C# 2.0 spec on this (so you better believe me)
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Friday, February 16, 2007 10:42 AM

Linq Everywhere: Kill processes

For some test code I needed to write a small utility that kills all processes running that matches a given name. Like KillApp Devenv. After writing the code as I normally would, I thought I should Linquify it. So here what I cooked up static class Program
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007 10:42 AM

Filling income tax

The Indian income tax law allows certain expenditure and investments to be tax-exempt. The law also demands various proofs if you want to claim exemptions for this. This include original medical bills, rent-receipts, investments proofs. The list goes
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Monday, February 12, 2007 10:42 AM

System.Windows.Forms.Kyes

The spelling mistake in the title is intentional :) Why? Just check out the System.Windows.Forms.Keys enumeration in the .NET (WinForm) Fx. This enum enumerates all the keys on your keyboard. However, someone seems to have made spelling mistakes while
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Thursday, February 01, 2007 2:42 PM

The Vista busy cursor

The Vista busy cursor is very interesting. Everyone I know liked it instantly. However, it deviates substantially from the hour-glass busy cursors we were used to. The funny part is that everyone seems to call it by their own name. I sent an email to
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