If you like inserting Youtube videos in your blog posts, you might be already aware of Insert Video plugin . This plug-in is great. One shortcoming of this plugin is that when you insert videos using this plugin, the video cannot be run in Full Screen...

You can reject the calls with one touch on smart phones, but if you live in a country where you keep getting pesky marketing calls throughout the day, here is what may help you. If you get those Junk calls from a specific number or numbers, save it as...

I have been away from this blog for almost 3 years. Time indeed flies! I have thoroughly enjoyed my stint at the PFE team and learnt a lot of stuff. The role has been a lot more customer facing than it was in GTSC. All this while I was blogging at www...

In one of my previous posts , I mentioned about how to troubleshoot some issues with the use of a module. In this post, I will show you how a similar module could be of use when you want to log all the errors in a text file for troubleshooting purposes...

This blog entry is a continuation of the KB Article http://support.microsoft.com/?id=910447 Scenario 9:Find out what is the peak time for your IIS Server How can you find out what is the peak time (peak hour) for your Website using Logparser? Answer:...

...well first of all, I am NOT recommending it, but sometimes it could be necessary! Now, let's proceed to the code... 1. Create a page called RunBatchFile.vb and paste the following... Imports System.Diagnostics Imports System.IO Partial Class RunBatchFile...

No matter how many things you keep in mind before developing an application, when once they are put in production... quite often you will see something not behaving the way you expected. Many-a-times, the applications would throw an error which you can...

If you work with a lot of samples, the chances are quite likely that you will end up in a rather dirty list of Recent Projects List in Visual Studio. I'm personally quite nit-picky and I really hate it when I find something like this... Now... I...

There are times when you want to incorporate a picture, a large piece of code in a limited web space... ex. a blog post which has a lot of <DIV> tags. Now, to crop or resize the picture may not be the option always. I still see a lot posts where...

When I tried opening the AjaxControlToolkit.sln by double clicking on it, it was throwing the following error at me... --------------------------- Microsoft Visual Studio --------------------------- The application for project 'H:\Downloads\AjaxControlToolkit...

I have found that a couple of my plug-ins, namely Social Bookmarking and Smiley Plugin   don’t work as expected in Windows Live Writer’s latest version. If you are encountering any issues and running Vista machine, please try running WLW as an Administrator...

...and I am pretty excited about it! In our team, we deal with a lot of issues with IIS and ASP.NET and have a plenty of folks in our team who blog individually, and do it pretty well. We will continue to have our own blogs, but going forward you will...

This blog entry is a continuation of the KB Article http://support.microsoft.com/?id=910447. Scenario 8: Checking the traffic/requests between a specific client and server Why would you do it in the first place? You may want to troubleshoot an authenticate...

I joined the Windows Mobile bandwagon pretty late and still getting used to it. No doubt, it is awesome, but it does come with its own set of frills. I realized it when my time zone (Start->Settings->System, Clock & Alarms) always went back...

Or... what exactly is this "Compatibility Files" folder icon doing in my Windows Explorer?? Jerry's Blog explains this stuff beautifully! So, why am I blogging about this? Well... to cut the long story short, I have lost almost 3 hours yesterday searching...

I have created a very simple C# console application which gives me the following MSIL code when compiled... The next screenshot has almost the same code but with some special difference. Can you tell me what could have caused it and is it good or bad...

There are quite a few times, when I get an issue related with a specific DataControl and I want to bind it to a datasource. All geared up and with full enthusiasm, I start dealing with the issue... and DARN... I find that I did something awfully bad with...

For those who are unaware, Windows Powershell is a new Windows command line shell with System Administrators being the target audience. That's the reason why I kept myself away from this tool for a pretty long time (I am more of a Developer than an Administrator...

Smiley Plugin 2.0 is available for Windows Live Writer. Using this plugin you can add smileys from Yahoo, Yahoo Hidden and MSN. The good thing which comes up with version 2.0 of this plugin is that, now... you can add smileys or pictures directly from...

Background: Let's write the following code in C# (cons.cs) using C = System.Console; public class X {     int i, j;     public X()     {     }     public X(int i)    ...

Problem Description Issues when you try to Publish your website from Visual Studio 2005. It might happen if you create a File System project called <someName> and while publishing you use the same name in IIS. To reproduce this issue, create...

I am quite new to share market and I see that a lot of my colleagues here use it for investment. With the markets going up and down like crazy, it gives tonnes of opportunities of making your portfolio a bit better over time. I created a small and...

Background: Let's create a setter in C# with a simple getter and setter... using System; class Employee {    private string name;    public string Name    {       get      ...

I am sure many of you will be aware of this F7 and F8 keyboard shortcut while working with the plain old command prompt. For those who are not... try this out! F7 - Basically, this would just list the history of commands you have already typed in. You...

Background: If you have multiple Main methods in your C# console application, you will be able to compile the application only if you provide the /main:ClassName on your command prompt. For ex. create a file called SampleMSIL.cs and paste the following...