The Global Assembly Cache underwent a few changes in .NET 4.0. On your first few days with .NET 4.0 you'll most likely encounter a few scenarios which work differently than they did in the previous versions of .NET Framework. 1) You use gacutil.exe to...

I've not used anything but a Windows Mobile (oops Windows Phone !) for the past 7-8 years, even though I'm a hardcore WinMo buff, I have to agree performing some simple tasks such as setting up a new Ringtone on the phone is harder than what it should...

It’s a little over 2 years that we first heard of it ...today was the inevitable day. I wasn't fortunate enough to attend the Bill Gates town hall in person today. Though it was being webcasted to all MPRs on campus - I decided to watch it from my...

IIS 7 Mobile Admin lets you remotely administer a IIS 7 Web server right from your mobile phone. I do like the fact that this is a web application and not a smart/thick client running natively on the phone. Nothing stops you from even borrowing your friend...

Assigning shortcut/access keys to say a button (So instead of click on the Next Button you can press N on your keyboard) is something really trivial in a the Windows Form's world - but strangely in WPF the friendly '&' that you place in front of the...

Rajesh Sampath and I will be speaking at Tech ED India (or Techmela as it’s called in its new incarnation, which is an amalgamation of Tech ED, Mix, MEDC and ITPC all happening at the same time, same place!). We will deliver a talk titled Model Driven...

If you've written a whole bunch (and I mean a really big WHOLE bunch) of code inside a method, constructor or the like, there is a good chance you'll see this exception. We had an application that would generate an Assembly using CodeDom based on certain...

As you probably know Windows Powershell has RTWed ! You can find the download links and more information on the Windows Vista blog or the Windows Powershell blog . The Windows Vista blog lists 12 Cool Features of Windows PowerShell. I just wanted to...

The world will never be the same - at least for me. Took me a while to let the dust settle in, and to realize that the press conference and the emails that I saw on Thursday were really real. The man responsible for changing the world, to what it is today...

If you are running XP / Windows 2000 / Windows 2003 - you MUST apply the update on http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS05-051.mspx to stay protected against a critical vulnerability - after you install the Microsoft Security Bulletin...

If you develop / use Outlook Add-ins for quite some time you'll run into this fairly common issue with ActiveSync (or any other application that uses Outlook Automation). Users who use PDAs / SmartPhones that run Microsoft Windows Mobile use ActiveSync...

The easiest way to install web parts is probably to use this utility from Microsoft called Install Assemblies - very simple and intuitive interface, takes care of creating the Safe Control entries and even creating DWPs for your web part assemblies. Install...

I've seen quite often people writing code that parses thru XML returned by SPS Web services as strings instead of using XPath - cause the XmlDocument throws this error all the time if you dont use an XmlNameSpaceManager "Namespace Manager or XsltContext...

With Integrated Authentication its fairly often that people find themselves in a situation where the currently logged in users credentials are not passed from the client to a SQL server / File share / some other server that they are trying to access from...

If you ever have to create a web part that needs to act both like a provider and a consumer in which case you'll need to implement more than one Interface, you'll need to create separate classes that implement the separate interfaces... To make a web...