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 the images are either cropped or line breaks are...

...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 see a lot of good information about troubleshooting...

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 issue for that specific client for the error...

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 to GMT+1 Prague, Budapest. I used to change it often...

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 for some files/folders to fix an issue with one...

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 my SQL Server during my last case!! So now, instead...

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 handy calculator which helps you in making some decisions...

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 can then choose up and down arrow to select the command...

This blog entry is a continuation of the KB Article http://support.microsoft.com/?id=910447. Scenario 7: Searching specific column data from a CSV file using Logparser Let's say you have a CSV (comma separated value) text file as follows... abc,abd,ac,rd,abe,f,g 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 3,2,3,4,5,2,5 3,4,5,7,3...

I like taking photos, and recently when I wanted to share some photographs with a couple of relatives via USB drive, I found a pretty interesting issue. I had about 200 pictures which I wanted to copy in my 1 GB USB drive. I selected all of them and when I tried pasting them in USB drive it started throwing...

If you follow my blog, you might probably we aware to some extent already about what we do. For me, it is a very exciting job and the love for this job is what has kept me going over the past 3 years (and counting)! I joined as a Support Engineer in October 2004, and am now working as a Technical Lead...

First of all, I wouldn't pretend to know something which I don't. But this is kindda interesting... I got a comment on one of my previous posts from Boyd who was seeing a weird error on Vista. He had an application with the following code... Sub test() Dim br As SHDocVw.InternetExplorer br = New SHDocVw...

Today, while I was trying to read a mail sent with Permissions, I was unable to do it. It threw the following error message... Your Information Rights Management configuration is invalid and needs to be repaired. For more information, contact your system administrator. To isolate this problem, I tried...

I was working with IIS at my home, and while looking at the Task Manager, I found a suspicious looking EXE running under the SYSTEM account. It was suspicious because the name of the EXE was fffccccMLP.exe. It just scared the hell out of me, since I haven't taken a backup for quite a few weeks now (yeah...

All I can say is thanks :-) I installed it and loved it... Great job WLW Team. You guys rock :-) For more details... please visit this <Snip> Some highlights of this release: Insert videos using our new 'Insert Video' dialog Upload images to Picasaweb when publishing to your Blogger blog Publish...

Recently, I came to know that a few changes in Windows Live Writer Beta version made my plugin to insert smileys crash the WLW! This post is just to update that the issue has been fixed ! Enjoy Rahul Share this post :

I created a Windows Live Writer plug-in for inserting Smileys a while ago. It depends on a TXT file which was initially present under Application Folder + "\Plugin" folder. Recently, due to design changes in the beta version of WLW, the plug-in started crashing due to the missing Text file! So the question...

Some excerpts... SG stands for Scott Guthrie, who else :-) SG: I started with the IIS team back in '96-'97, working on our core Web server technologies, and was involved in shipping a version of IIS. After IIS 4 was released, we started looking at next-generation Web programming model pieces. At the...

At GTSC, we get a lot of requests for hot fixes. Up to this point Microsoft has always required customers to make a phone call into Microsoft Product Support to receive a hotfix . Today we have made available a web application that allows customers to fill out a simple web form and receive the hotfix...

Who doesn't like things for free? Recently, after upgrading to Office 2007, I found that I was no longer able to access my Hotmail account from my Microsoft Outlook 2007 client. I was getting error messages like the following... That was sad, and I was in no mood to buy a subscription for this. After...

Post Production Debugging for ASPNET Applications Part 1 This article discusses how to become comfortable with some of the tools available for ASP.NET so that you can use them effectively when time is more precious than gold, especially when there is a problem with your ASP.NET Production Server and...

Sometimes, while troubleshooting I am interested to find out all the details about certain collections in ASP.NET, like Forms, QueryStrings, Headers, ServerVariables, Cookies, Sessions and Params... I created a very simple aspx page which would show you all the details... Create any text file with .aspx...

In one of my previous posts I mentioned about how you can Open command prompt and navigate directly to the path from explorer's right click menu... and I got a comment that it is missing from Vista. Thankfully, it is not missing... the sad part is that it is not as obvious. Anyway, this post is just...

Well, I didn't come across this software until today, and the first reaction I had after setting it all up was a BIG WOW !!! The Internet has certainly come of age, and I am feeling totally elated just thinking that something as cool as this available for FREE!!!!!! This late discovery also means that...

This is another simple and old tip with explorer. Pretty often, I come across a file with unknown extension which I want to open in Notepad. You have an Open with... option when you right click on a menu, but unfortunately it is a little slower than what I would have liked it to be and take a couple...