Nikhil's Blog

Today I attended an interesting talk on Performance Signatures by Rico Mariani . According to his experience, a high proportion of performance related problems are due to: Bad choice of algorithm Dependencies we take on other frameworks or platforms. Read More...

A good read for developers: How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary. Check it out here: http://samizdat.mines.edu/howto/HowToBeAProgrammer.html#id2794476 . Other books that I think every developer should read: As the name Read More...

I'll take an exception form the technical tone of this blog and comment on a a great speech by Bill Gates at the Harvard commencement ceremony. It touches on a very important subject - all of us in our small, little way, can make a huge difference to Read More...

I do not remember how many times I have tried to connect to a remote desktop using terminal services, only to realize that Terminal Services are not enabled on the machine. I found this article recently on how to remotely enable remote desktop . This Read More...

In the last few years, blogs have been largely instrumental in increasing transparency into Microsoft. From celebrity ex-Microsoft blogger, Scoble to the over 3000 bloggers now on MSDN blogs, we have been sharing more and more details of our development Read More...

VS 2008 Beta 1 has been out for a while, and there are ton of features in it. Lately, people have been asking questions about Beta 1 on the VSTO forums. I thought it would be a good idea to post some details about Beta 1. VSTO has a ton of new features Read More...