Durgaprasad Gorti's WebLog

I have acciddentally discovered a cool tip. Most of you use the Outlook Quick Steps correct? Now, one of the ways you can customize is to create your own Quick Steps For example, I have a quick step to move my mail to a folder. Then I assigned a...

Say you have a command prompt shortcut. You set it to start in a particular folder by editing the properties as shown above. Then you also set the Advanced properties to launch it as Administrator. You launch the shortcut and it puts you in windows\System32...

You know the MSBUILD drill. Everything is a custom task. Need to add two numbers? Write a custom task. Need to replace spaces in a string with '_' character? Write a custom task. I don't like the overhead of writing custom tasks. What you have with...

In my last post I mentioned getting into Ruby and making MABUILD and rake work together. I think I found a better way to do the same with PowerShell integration, which I will write up sometime this week. Now, it is inevitable that Ruby leads to Ruby On...

These days, I am spending quite a bit of time with Ruby, Ruby On Rails and RAKE. I am not into the Ruby religion yet, and not drinking the ruby Kool-aid that much. Just a little. I needed to integrate the TeamBuild (Team System) with Ruby/RAKE. So in...

A while back in the C++ days, there were class libraries doing things like sending mail, opening/reading cert store, event log writing reading, etc. These were written in C++ to encapsulate some of the pain associated with routine tasks. Great Idea!!...

I have been pondering over the Agile, Iterative, XTreme, waterfall and several other software methodologies. I think that each of them have their strengths, I have no reason to bash one methodology or pump some other methodology. Personally, I really...

In my previous blog article, I pointed out that in a workgroup environment, Windows XP has the force guest policy on and it prevents agents and clients connecting to the controller. In this post, I want to expand on this and talk a bit more about VSTT...

In Rosario Team Foundation Server, significant new functionality is added for liking work item types http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2007/08/06/work-item-tracking-enhancements-in-the-aug-rosario-ctp.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/teams_wit_tools/archive...

So I moved from the networking group to Visual Studio Team System Test. Recently, I was investigating an issue where the client, controller and agent are not working together when in a workgroup topology. In other words, the machines that are running...

These days connected applications are everywhere. Web Services and Indigo based applications are used to hook up various services over the internet. When something goes wrong you can debug all you want but ultimately you need to look at what is really...

Some people have asked me how to get the SubnetMask for the network interfafce. The subnet mask is valid only for IPv4. The solution may not jump at you since there is no property called SubnetMask, however there is a property called IPv4Mask. Here is...

In Whidbey (.NET Framework 2.0) System.Net has a new feature called Tracing. This uses the builtin CLR Tracing functionality. What is interesting about the System.Net Tracing is that You can easily see the data that is being sent or received without having...

Lets say that you are invoking a web service from another web service. Both are on the same box. You might be making authenticated or unauthenticated calls and perhaps you are setting the KeepAlive = false. Intermittently, (under load) you might get ...

I presented System.Net tips and tricks. I did the lunch session on Tuesday and Wednesday. Lunch sessions are particularly difficult, you only have 45 minutes - You can't present lengthy topics. I chose to talk about the System.Net Tracing, Negotiate Stream...

If you have questions on the System.Net [managed network programming api's] please post your questions to http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=40 I monitor this forum and so does all of my team. This is your best bet to get your...

When using System.Net or Web Services, you might want to receive or send cookies, perhaps for session state maintenance or in some rare situations for proxy authentication. The first thing we are tempted to do is to access WebResponse.Cookies collection...