So this is it! This is my last post in this blog. As I come to the end of my stint with this great company, I would close out this blog. Thanks to all the visitors, and thanks to the company for giving me the chance to giving vent my random thoughts in...

.NET - the coolest framework product in the world (IMHO) ......gets a cool new brand identity....and the new wave identity is COOL too!!

XmlDataSource class internally calls a private method called CreateCacheKey. Now, if you are using XmlDataSource without an ID, after upgrading the solution to ASP.NET 3.5, this might throw an exception - "When caching is enabled for the XmlDataSource...

Get some cool SQL 2008 trainings here - http://sqlserver2008jumpstart.microsofttraining.com/ Neat stuff!!

It doesn't get better than this ... Jeff on Silverlight :) http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=302

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Visual Studio 2008 does not show Solution view when there is only one project in the Solution by default, which makes it difficult to add another project to the solution. This persists even when we add a new (blank) solution. The solution is to go to...

If you ever felt a need to perform a query to check for a particular text instance in all sources (SPs, functions, triggers et al) in your SQL 2000 db, chances are you might have already written this little goodie. But if you haven't and if you need some...

Web Services are the order of the day - and all the industry movers and shakers are betting big on them! But here's some authentic info on how web services are being used for good - and how they are driving down the costs. For starters, using Web services...

The Microsoft SQL Server 2008 – Learning Portal has been released to external customers now and is available at http://www.microsoft.com/learning/sql/2008/default.mspx Join there and discover the SQL 2008 Advantage with free e-learning clinics and...

If you are used to installing your SQL objects into the database server using scripts and osql command, you may sometime encounter this message Msg 2812, Level 16, State 62, Line 1 Could not find stored procedure 'S'. The error message will be the first...

This is an enticing story of evolution of software architecture to today's SaaS model .... published in Microsoft Architecture Journal ........ Gianpaolo Carraro tells the story in an unique fashion which I loved and hopefully you will too....follow the...

Phishing has become a big concern - and it has started to hit Indians in large numbers. With the following two reports from ET - http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Infotech/Internet_/Call_Centre_man_held_for_hacking_bank_account/rssarticleshow/2548793...

Can't resist making a non-technical post at this cool news! The business today-Mercer-TNS survey is out, and it has ranked us as the Best Company to work for in India - and all can be read here - http://businesstoday.digitaltoday.in/index.php?option=com_content&task...

Although its a task you seldom would want to do, it might become a necessity when someone leaves the team on hurry/short notice. The way out is aptly described by Matthew at http://blogs.msdn.com/mrod/archive/2007/01/08/undoing-a-checkout-that-belongs...

I stumbed upon this, and found the explanation over here put in pretty decent manner - http://blogs.msdn.com/tess/archive/2006/04/13/575361.aspx

I got this error while trying to add records to sysmessages table in master db. Ad hoc updates to system catalogs are not enabled. The system administrator must reconfigure SQL Server to allow this. The fix is, login with Admin privileges and performt...

If you have migrated an old project from ASP.NET 1.1 to 2.0 and subsequently changed the Web.config according to http://ajax.asp.net/docs/ConfiguringASPNETAJAX.aspx , but still not getting Ajax to work and JavaScript errors keep popping up, xhtmlConformance...

The key news is definitely this - Microsoft buys into master data management These MDM articles are really good and covering all perspectives - Gartner and Forrester frameworks designed to combat confusion around MDM technology options Forrester...

The 'CXO crossfire' is the key highlight, with industry honchos exchanging ideas on the theme “Does IT drive the levers of change in business”.Microsoft Corporation India Pvt. Ltd has announced to host the largest Technology Event, TechMela 2007 from 13-16 June 2007 in Mumbai.from...

TechMela –The fusion of the latest technologies, technical expertise, and structured learning experiences. TechMela is an evolution of the erstwhile TechEd, Mobile and Embedded Developer Conference, MIX, and IT Professionals' Conference. TechMela is...

Found a great FAQ on Session state in ASP.NET, thought of sharing it here http://forums.asp.net/p/7504/7504.aspx#7504

Here is a neat guide provided by SearchSqlServer.com on maintaining DTS packages in SQL Server 2005 - http://searchsqlserver.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid87_gci1251587,00.html

http://www.ajaxload.info/ Wow...cool link! Thanks to the great Scott ....... http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/09/21/Tip_2F00_Trick_3A00_-UpdateProgress-Control-and-AJAX-Activity-Image-Animations.aspx

If you got this error, I would recommend having a look at this MSDN Forums post This solved the problem for me!