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I still remember the day when I joined Microsoft in Oct 2004. I was excited to be in my dream company, and at the same time, quite tense that I would now be required to support ASP.NET. I was a pure WinForm guy then and since I came from a very small
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There are times when you want to incorporate a picture, a large piece of code in a limited web space... ex. a blog post which has a lot of <DIV> tags. Now, to crop or resize the picture may not be the option always. I still see a lot posts where
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...and I am pretty excited about it! In our team, we deal with a lot of issues with IIS and ASP.NET and have a plenty of folks in our team who blog individually, and do it pretty well. We will continue to have our own blogs, but going forward you will
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This blog entry is a continuation of the KB Article http://support.microsoft.com/?id=910447. Scenario 8: Checking the traffic/requests between a specific client and server Why would you do it in the first place? You may want to troubleshoot an authenticate
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I joined the Windows Mobile bandwagon pretty late and still getting used to it. No doubt, it is awesome, but it does come with its own set of frills. I realized it when my time zone (Start->Settings->System, Clock & Alarms) always went back
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Or... what exactly is this "Compatibility Files" folder icon doing in my Windows Explorer?? Jerry's Blog explains this stuff beautifully! So, why am I blogging about this? Well... to cut the long story short, I have lost almost 3 hours yesterday searching
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There are quite a few times, when I get an issue related with a specific DataControl and I want to bind it to a datasource. All geared up and with full enthusiasm, I start dealing with the issue... and DARN... I find that I did something awfully bad with
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I am quite new to share market and I see that a lot of my colleagues here use it for investment. With the markets going up and down like crazy, it gives tonnes of opportunities of making your portfolio a bit better over time. I created a small and handy
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I am sure many of you will be aware of this F7 and F8 keyboard shortcut while working with the plain old command prompt. For those who are not... try this out! F7 - Basically, this would just list the history of commands you have already typed in. You
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Courtesy I will see you next year !!! Have a blast :-) Rahul
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This blog entry is a continuation of the KB Article http://support.microsoft.com/?id=910447. Scenario 7: Searching specific column data from a CSV file using Logparser Let's say you have a CSV (comma separated value) text file as follows... abc,abd,ac,rd,abe,f,g
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I like taking photos, and recently when I wanted to share some photographs with a couple of relatives via USB drive, I found a pretty interesting issue. I had about 200 pictures which I wanted to copy in my 1 GB USB drive. I selected all of them and when
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If you follow my blog, you might probably we aware to some extent already about what we do. For me, it is a very exciting job and the love for this job is what has kept me going over the past 3 years (and counting)! I joined as a Support Engineer in October
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First of all, I wouldn't pretend to know something which I don't. But this is kindda interesting... I got a comment on one of my previous posts from Boyd who was seeing a weird error on Vista. He had an application with the following code... Sub test()
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Today, while I was trying to read a mail sent with Permissions, I was unable to do it. It threw the following error message... Your Information Rights Management configuration is invalid and needs to be repaired. For more information, contact your system
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