Fuziness and Cognizance...

Community Tech Day – Delhi Chapter

2009-09-22T23:34:00Z

Hi Friends – if you are in Delhi on 27th Sept and want to share ideas, knowledge and just have fun with your peer technologists please do come for the Community Tech Day. I will be there too and would love to meet you! Register at www.communitytechdays.com - it's FREE!...(read more)

Stonehenge and the .NET StockTrader Sample Application

2009-08-28T06:44:23Z

Microsoft recently donated code to Apache Foundation’s Stonehenge project which aims at demonstrating real world best practices for building SOA based systems and achieving application interoperability. You can find the complete source code for the sample application called the .NET StockTrader here ....(read more)

With or without SOA?

2009-02-03T00:03:13Z

I recently got a question - "While developing applications in ASP.Net what is the difference with or without SOA architecture?". i thought - it is quite an interesting question and something I should write a post on. First things first - what is SOA? why do we need SOA? what are the advantages of SOA? Service Oriented Architecture - it is an architectural paradigm that advocates building enterprise systems (usually distributed but not necessarily) from and based on web services (although...(read more)

Operating the cloud with Azure

2008-11-13T15:14:49Z

Every body is talking about Azure - Microsoft's Operating System for the cloud. How can i not write something about it? After all i was there during the unveiling of this paradigm changing strategy was done by Ray Ozzie at PDC. Read the transcript of Ray Ozzie’s keynote or watch the video to know more. So what is all this about? Azure, Cloud OS, .NET Services, Live Services and tons of other stuff? Let me try and paint the picture. Let's first look into what is an Operating System (OS) all...(read more)

Hindi on Windows Mobile

2008-10-21T16:50:00Z

For a longtime customers have been requesting us to provide Hindi language support on Windows Mobile. Without going into the technicalities of why it was not available, I would like to say that finally the gap has been filled. One of the Microsoft Partners have finally implemented a FREE Hindi font engine for Windows Mobile 5 and Windows Mobile 6. Presently this is available only for touch screen phones. Once you install the engine - you will be able to enter data in Hindi, view text in Hindi from...(read more)

Approach document for Globalizing and Localizing .NET Applications

2008-10-20T14:10:00Z

I recently wrote a white paper on the approach and the things that need to be considered while developing .Net applications that support multiple languages - both in terms of accepting the user input and also displaying resources. I am putting it up on my blog for consumption by all. Please let me know if there is something i missed....(read more)

Know your tools better: Questions from Attendees

2008-09-26T01:30:12Z

Virtual Tech Days day one, session one. I delivered a talk titled "know your tools better". Firstly, thanks to all those who attended the talk. Thanks for having keeping patience inspite of the audio and video issues we faced. Due to lack of time i could not cover some things that i wanted to share and also could not take up questions. I had saved all the questions that were posted over live meeting and i will address them in this post. Q1) How do extension method really work? Please show...(read more)

Virtual Tech Day One

2008-09-17T07:22:39Z

Hi Friends! In about 45 minutes from now i will be delivering the first session of the VTD on Know your tools better: tips and tricks on how to enhance .NET development using VS 2008 and other tools and at 3:45 IST i will be talking on PLINQ: Parallelize Your .NET Applications with Parallel Extensions . Please do join in if you have time - i promise you will learn something new from both the sessions. To know more about how you can join go to www.virtualtechdays.com . If you attend i encourage...(read more)

What would you do if you were a Microsoft Evangelist?

2008-09-03T11:18:00Z

Thanks Anand! Sorry for stealing the title and idea of your post. It was this post from Anand that inspired me to ask the same queston to the Indian developers community. As Anand mentioned - we do a lot of work in trying to give to the community whatever we can. Things sometimes seem going good and sometimes not so good - we get feedback for our sessions and talks but that hardly tells us what we need to change - what are the things that people want to hear or know. When we go outside - we see people...(read more)

XBAP and Silverlight

2008-02-27T06:33:00Z

What is the difference between XBAP and Silverlight and when should i use which of these technologies? Let me step back and start with a precursor: In .NET 3.0 we have Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) which allows us to create stunning UIs for desktop applications using managed code. If you still haven't experienced the power of WPF check out the WPF applications here . Now the logical question was "How can we take the same stunning experience onto the web" - the first step towards that was...(read more)

.NET Learning guide

2008-02-07T09:47:00Z

Finally i have succumbed to the requests of putting this document online. I was figuring out a way to put this on msdn blogs since it does not allow me to upload files, when someone told me that i can use SkyDrive for this purpose. SkyDrive is amazing! So here is the .NET Learning guide, roadmap whatever you call it - essentially it is a document that contains answers to common .NET questions, quick references to resources and some facts about .NET. I would appreciate if you can give me feedbacks...(read more)

WPF: Using the InkCanvas Control

2007-12-11T17:57:00Z

I have been doing a demo of InkCanvas recently to demonstrate the power of WPF and a lot of people have requested that I put the code on the blog, so here it is. 1) Open Visual Studio 2008 create a new WPF project in .NET 3.5. Let call it DemoInkCanvas. I chose C#, you can do the same in VB.NET 2) You will get something like the following: The inkCanvas control is not available on the toolbox by default, lets now add it – right click on the circled area and select “Choose Items…”. Select the “WPF...(read more)

.NET Framework using up memory

2007-12-06T12:07:00Z

I recently got a question something similar to: "We are having some memory issues when trying to run our .NET applications over Citrix. Since each user is running his or hers own session .NET Framework loads into memory for each instance of the application and this appears to hog the memory. Are there any recommendations when writing applications for these scenarios?" Here is my response. I felt that this could be useful to lot many people: The .net framework is loaded into a process for each application...(read more)

Webcast Q&A - 2

2007-09-11T14:48:06Z

Q) I have built an exe out of my .net 2.0 application. Do I need .net framework on the deployment machines? Even if it is yes, can I make it independent to run on windows platform without .net framework because I don't want to install .net framework just for this single exe to run. My client has 200 machines and he cannot install .net framework in the all machines, the plan is he just calls the exe from the shared network path. Yes – you will need .NET framework on the target (deployment) machine...(read more)

Webcast Q&A - .NET Reference Material

2007-09-11T10:18:33Z

There were a lot of question on good reference material for .NET (books and online). Here is a consolidated list of resources I am aware of. If anyone knows of more stuff – please do feel free to suggest in the comments. CLR and JIT CLR via C#, Second Edition (Pro Developer) By Jeffrey Richter Drill Into .NET Framework Internals to See How the CLR Creates Runtime Objects http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/05/JITCompiler/ NGEN NGen Revs Up Your Performance with Powerful New Features http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/04/NGen/default.aspx...(read more)