Dev Notes

Whidbey Tip# 1 : How to use custome port for VS 2005 Internal Web Server

In recent sessions I did for ASP.NET 2.0, the one frequent question I got from audience is : How can I debug on random ports while my functionality of application depends on a specific port number? The internal web server uses random ports and exposes

Escape from Yesterworld !

Very Good & Creative Idea :-) Enjoy : http://www.escapeyesterworld.com

Heavy Rains hit the Heart of India

Mumbai, INDIA has record highest ever Rain fall in history of India yesterday. ( Read here ) The effect ? 23 people killed. Important Tele conferences are cancelled One big national banking system was stopped due to breakage in communication network.

Team System Rocks !

http://teamsystemrocks.com/ is live now.

Formerly Windows code name "Longhorn"

Windows Vista arriving 2006 :-) Windows Vista Beta Beta 1 , targeted at developers and IT professionals, will be available by August 3rd 2005 . Most of my buddies told me they loved the codename "Longhorn" very much :-) I hope Vista experience will win

Generating Excel files with out having excel installed...

Wow..thats a dream for most of the developers..right ? Check this cool library CarlosAg Excel Xml Writer Library This library allows you to generate Excel Workbooks using XML, it is built 100% in C# and does not requires Excel installed at all to generate

Why does Microsoft care about developers?

Watch Steve with Scoble answering this on Channel 9.. The Questions are as follows Why does Microsoft care about developers? (This must be most favourite question of Steve B) 01:11 Why does Microsoft have an evangelism team? 01:48 What is your call to

Composite UI Application Block CTP Released

Microsoft's PAG has released Composite UI Application Block CTP 1 today. This application block is a reusable, source code–based component based on the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Beta 2. It provides proven practices to build complex smart client user

This July 4th : Give your friends freedom from Oracle...

Chop your costs by migrating from Oracle to SQL Server and tell SQL Server team about it. SQL Server Marketing is offering a Custom Designer Chopper for the best migration from Oracle to SQL Server. The award will be presented to the winner at the SQL

Thank you Tech Ed 2005 !

This year I enjoyed Tech Ed very much (Every year, I do..but this is special) attending most of the VSTS sessions and a hot hot Linux, Open Source Session at the end of the event. There is some kind of redundancy in VSTS session slides which is unavoidable