Are you getting the above error while performing a cut or copy operation in your Visual Studio 2010. If “yes” , a patch has been released by the Visual Studio team which can help you fix the issue and is available here . If you are interested to read...

Recently, I have been hearing lot of concerns from organizations regarding security of their data for the services hosted on Windows Azure. I would like to address the concern by providing some details regarding Security and regulatory compliance for...

Some good news for some of my Java friends from the Azure team - Windows Azure does support multiple languages (.NET, PHP, Ruby, Python or Java ) and development tools (Visual Studio or Eclipse ), along with the interoperable approach, which does make...

One day I noticed that all of a sudden an message pops up with text “Some of the properties associated with the solution could not be read”,  when I try to open my project in Visual Studio 2008. I remember that I had changed some build settings at...

Recently, I saw this error while trying to open up a .dbproj project file on my Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite . I thought that team suite might support all the project types, but that was not the case. I tried to figure out what’s the issue here and figured...

Microsoft released Windows Mobile 6.5 last week.  With the release of 6.5, Microsoft also provided couple of new services namely Windows Marketplace for Mobile (With Windows Marketplace for Mobile you can find and download the latest apps for your...

I was using the Beta version of Windows 7 from couple of months (upgraded to RTM couple of days back). Recently I figured out that the space available on my C:\ drive was exhausting. I remembered the XP days, wherein I can go and delete the hibernation...

Imagine a situation where you need to install Windows Vista or 7 in a system but you don't have access to DVD drive. We all know Windows Vista, Server 2008 or 7 comes in DVDs and you'll need a DVD drive to install them. Then how will you install them...

The ongoing economy unraveling is the defining moment of our time. Many professional developers are fearful for their livelihood, as employers and customers cut and slash development plans, and as economic activity grinds to a halt. But not everywhere...

Hopper is a software test tool that simulates random user input on mobile devices providing a sometimes meaningful mean time to failure (MTTF) number. It is designed to find bugs and is not intended to run scenario tests or do "specific user things"...

Technorati Tags: IIS 7.0 , WCF , Service Model , ServiceModelReg Recently, I migrated to Windows 7 and ended up installing all my software's again. I had a project which involved hosting a WCF service on IIS. The service used a .svc file extension and...

This is what we call true technology!! Check this out.. Real-life relationships with Xbox Also, checkout the Xbox site Project Natal

Technorati Tags: Smart Device , Unit Test , Debugging While working on Unit Test for Smart devices, figured out that debugging Unit Test on device using Visual Studio(used 2008) is not straight forward. Looked up a bit on MSDN and figured out that some...

Technorati Tags: Microsoft Internet Explorer , IE , IE8 Microsoft has just released the Release Candidate 1 for Internet Explorer 8, and I think you should install it and use it today. You may want to know what a "release candidate" is: that's techno...

Microsoft Image Composite Editor This is my first blog and I am delighted to start this with a cool application developed by Microsoft Research . Also, being an enthusiastic for photography, I love the great panoramic images created by this application...