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Shortcut tip: Ctrl + shift + Esc and Ctrl + alt + end

I recently learnt a new shortcut to get to the task manager: Ctrl + shift + Esc. It's especially useful on Vista and Windows Server 2008. On these OSs, ctrl+alt+del maps to another screen where you can select the task manager. One screen lesser to get Read More...
Posted Monday, April 14, 2008 10:24 PM by Nikhil Khandelwal | 4 Comments
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VSTO Power tool: SharePoint Workflow package generator

We announced the release of VSTO power tools at Office Developer Conference (ODC). Of the many tools that we released, I will discuss the SharePoint Workflow Package Generator. Workflow package generator is a tool that creates a WSP file from a VS 2008 Read More...
Posted Monday, March 03, 2008 10:26 PM by Nikhil Khandelwal | 15 Comments

InfoPath forms deployment, SharePoint workflow in VS 2008

A number of developers who have tried the SharePoint workflow features in VS 2008 wanted to know more about our support for InfoPath forms deployment. So I'm blogging it here for everyone's reference. Before diving into details of InfoPath forms deployment Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 22, 2008 1:13 AM by Nikhil Khandelwal | 11 Comments

SharePoint Workflow feature in VS 2008 (Part II)

I will continue from my last post on authoring SharePoint workflows in VS 2008 by providing a walkthrough. In order to work with SharePoint workflows in VS you will have to setup your development machine as follows: 1) Install Windows Server 2003. 2) Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 19, 2008 4:30 PM by Nikhil Khandelwal | 41 Comments

SharePoint Workflow feature in VS 2008

As mentioned in earlier posts , I was one of the developers on the SharePoint Workflow feature in VS 2008. (shipped as one of the VSTO components - available in Professional SKU upwards) The feature include a set of VS project templates, wizard, and VS Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 15, 2008 1:33 AM by Nikhil Khandelwal | 48 Comments

Visual Studio 2008 released

With a lot of fanfare, VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 released on Nov. 19th. Talking to customers and early adopters, I have received a lot of positive feedback on the product. Check out the excitement in the blogsphere: With more than 400 comments (and counting), Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 04, 2007 1:12 AM by Nikhil Khandelwal | 1 Comments
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Performance tips for the BCL

This is a good article on performance tips of the .NET Framework Base Class Library - http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/01/CLRInsideOut/default.aspx . I learned something new about lock-free tracing and DateTime comparisons. The great numerical Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 07, 2007 1:25 AM by Nikhil Khandelwal | 1 Comments
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VS 2008 and SharePoint Workflow

The "Orcas" release train has been keeping me busy. For a long time I have been thinking of blogging about the feature that I worked on in Orcas. As the title of this entry suggests it is a VSTO feature that has to do something with SharePoint Workflow. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 11, 2007 12:14 AM by Nikhil Khandelwal | 6 Comments

VSTO file type mapping is lost

Some people have been running into this issue with VS2008 Beta 2 as posted on the MSDN forum . I am posting a workaround here for everyone's reference. When you change the default program for the .vsto file extension, VSTO solutions cannot be deployed Read More...
Posted Monday, August 27, 2007 10:17 AM by Nikhil Khandelwal | 0 Comments
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VS 2008 Beta 2 has released

This is a significant milestone in the VS 2008 development cycle. Almost all our features have completed in this broadly available public release and you can expect a significant upgrade in features when compared to Beta 1. If you haven't already got Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 26, 2007 11:53 PM by Nikhil Khandelwal | 3 Comments

Performance Signatures

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...
Posted Friday, June 29, 2007 6:37 PM by Nikhil Khandelwal | 1 Comments
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What have I been reading?

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...
Posted Tuesday, June 19, 2007 10:21 AM by Nikhil Khandelwal | 2 Comments
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Bill Gates' Harvard commencement speech

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...
Posted Monday, June 18, 2007 12:35 AM by Nikhil Khandelwal | 1 Comments

Enabling remote desktop remotely

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...
Posted Thursday, June 14, 2007 11:53 AM by Nikhil Khandelwal | 0 Comments
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Give feedback on "Orcas" feature specifications

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...
Posted Wednesday, June 06, 2007 12:47 AM by Nikhil Khandelwal | 1 Comments
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