Globalizing and Localizing Applications using .NET Planning on distributing your application to an international audience, there are a number of things you'll need to keep in mind during the design and development phases. Even if you don't have such plans...

Happy New Year to Everybody, 2005 comes with loads of Holidays and tons of work. !! ENJOY BOTH !! May this new year gives you..... Independence of Java Power of UNIX Popularity of Windows Extensibility of J2EE Luxury of .Net Efficiency of C Ease of VB...

Do you know you can have: 1. 32,767 database per instance of sql server 2. 2 billion tables per database 3. 1024 columns per table 4. 65,535 secondary datafiles per database 5. 256 filegroup per database 6. bytes per row - 8060 7. clustered index per...

Little busy with, recently started implementing Passport flexible co-branding. Just writing up a component for reading co-branding settings from .XML file and produce co-branding html for Passport website. So, soon you can expect some code / if possible...

Today, I created a new blog on MSN Spaces (BETA). Its one of the coolest blog providers available. you check my blog @ http://spaces.msn.com/members/saurabh . My Comments: Out of the world interface with awesome features. I have hosted this image on the...

Calling all the grey cells; Q. How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it? Q.If it took eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it take four men to build it? Q.If you had three apples and four oranges in one hand...

Scenario: Two friends preparing to leave for a party (i.e. Ajay & Ankur) They both are getting late. Ankur - Ajay !! Be Fast. Ajay - Oh.. I thought it was C# :) Ankur - You didn't got ready yet? Nothing more to mention, both are C# developers and...

Introduction: There are basically two types of variables in Common Type System ? 1) Value Type - Get Stored on Stack Memory. 2) Reference Type - Get Stored on Managed Heap Memory How this Works? Value types get stored on stack and shared the same process...

Today, I came across something interesting. Event : An insect falls into a mug of beer... Reactions: Englishman: Throws his mug away and walks out. American: Takes the insect out and drinks the beer. Chinese: Eats the insect and throws the beer away Japanese...

First post in my new category "Saurabh's Believe It Or Not !!" [Image courtesy Manalang via the amazing We Make Money Not Art ] Once upon a time, in the era 1950's..... "Scientists from the RAND Corporation have created this model to illustrate how a...

I am done with my article on Application Event Handler for Win Forms. If you all can recollect from my previous post ( http://blogs.msdn.com/saurabhv/archive/2004/11/11/255589.aspx ) You can read the same from http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/aeh.asp...

Something for VB.NET guys and I am sure they will love it. Microsoft has released some 101 short movies for VB.NET Developers to help them enjoy VB.NET more... Some posters: [Pictures from http://msdn.microsoft.com ] Exciting enough !! Interested in knowing...

Today, I am writing an Application Event Handler Component (AEHC) for any WinForm Application in .NET. AEHC is an event handler for your winforms application, The primary functionality of this component is to raise an event after every forms load into...

Yesterday, my friend Anil told something about SPOT watches, whatever he said was quite interesting and exiciting. So, I thought of sharing my KB on the same. What is SPOT? SPOT turns for Smart Personal Object Technology. I am quite sure that couple of...

Nice article on Visual Inheritance: http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/visualForm.asp

Dear Staff, Please be advised that there are NEW rules and regulations implemented to raise the efficiency of our firm. Transportation: - It is advised that you come to work driving a car according to your salary. - If we see you driving a Honda, we assume...

try { When I was young I thought Of so many things I would be And so practiced a lot of things To make a man of me Every action or decision I made Sparked an action in alternate plane Traveling down the Trousers of Time They were to me close, but not...

SOMETHING VERY FUNNY- DBA: Do you want usernames to be unique? Developer: Yes (next day) DBA: Should passwords be unique as well? Developer: No (later that day) DBA: Shouldn't we require passwords to be unique? Developer: No DBA: Are you sure? Developer...

Saturday: Today, I received an email from Betsy (MSDN). She guided me well and helped me setting my blog. Thanks Betsy and Andy.