Rajendra S Rawat's Blog

.NET controlled robot

rrawat — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:54:00 GMT

Well, you can catch the details of this worlds first (as claimed by ASPSOFT) .NET powered battle-bot called Finalizer here.

And if this excites you here is how to create a simple and relatively cheap one, of your own: This article shows you how you can write a program in .NET to create your computer controlled Remote car loaded with a camera (yes the Home-Alone style!)

WSS3.0 Application Templates for download

rrawat — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:53:00 GMT

The 20 WSS3.0 Site Admin Templates available now are:

· Board of Directors

· Business Performance Reporting

· Case Management for Government Agencies

· Classroom Management

· Clinical Trial Initiation and Management

· Competitive Analysis Site

· Discussion Database

· Disputed Invoice Management

· Employee Activities Site

· Employee Self-Service Benefits

· Employee Training Scheduling and Materials

· Equity Research

· Integrated Marketing Campaign Tracking

· Manufacturing Process Management

· New Store Opening

· Product and Marketing Requirements Planning

· Request for Proposal

· Sports League

· Team Work Site

· Timecard Management

coming soon 20 more!!

Windows Vista, Office 2007 has arrived

rrawat — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:50:00 GMT

The “Wow” starts now! … The LOVE (Launch of Office Vista Exchange) is in the air!

With critiques trying to tear it apart by bashing Windows Vista about requiring fast processor and loads of memory… as they did at the launch of Windows XP…

So what happened? Well, there are now 665 million copies of XP installed worldwide, giving it 74.3% share of the PC installed base. Other versions of Windows account for another 190 million units, or 21.6% share.)

No wonder nobody at Microsoft seems too upset about the bad reviews of Vista. First of all, it’s easy (and fashionable) to talk trash about Microsoft. And it’s all too easy to overlook Microsoft’s achievements, like making operating system software that works well enough and is priced well enough to attract 96% of the world’s PC users. (…)

Windows Vista and Office 2007 rolled out yesterday at over 39000 stores around the world and online to change the way people live, work and play.

Whatever they say now..They’ll

Probably be using it too in a few years time (…), if not now.

SharePoint SDK and ECM Starter Kit Download

rrawat — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:50:00 GMT

Recently released RTM versions of both our SharePoint SDK downloads are available on the Microsoft Download Center!

- Install the MOSS SDK and ECM Starter Kit

- Install the WSS SDK and Workflow Starter Kit

Here is the difference:

· MOSS SDK and ECM Starter Kit

Combo of the ECM Starter Kit and the MOSS SDK documentation and samples, and also included is WSS and Office Forms Server SDK documentation so you only have to download and install one package.

· Windows SharePoint Services Developer Resources

If you are only interested in WSS platform development, here WSS SDK documentation is combined with the Workflow Starter Kit.

MOSS Books List

rrawat — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:48:00 GMT

Find some 2007 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server books list here

Be the 1st in billion!!

rrawat — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:22:00 GMT

Become the first one in India to own a copy of Windows Vista signed by Bill Gates. Participate in Windows Vista and 2007 office powered HP pavilion Desktop. More…

iPhone - who's line it is anyways?

rrawat — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:07:00 GMT

Almost everyone now knows

- Microsoft’s Zune : a feature packed answer to iPod.

- IPTV on Xbox 360 : Recently announced in CES 2007 keynote by Bill Gates

In a two-hour keynote on Tuesday Steve Jobs announced

- Apple’s iPhone, A device in which besides listening to music you can make phone calls, send text messages and e-mail, surf the Web, and take and upload photos, all using a wide touch screen and a single button.

- Apple TV, previously known by its code name iTV.

Interestingly a similarly-named net phone called the iPhone was launched by Linksys (a division of Cisco Systems Inc.) just few weeks before the more recently launched Apple’s iPhone.

Steve Jobs also confirmed continuing to refer to the new mobile device as the iPhone, though the trademark is owned by Cisco Systems. Apple has apparently been in discussions with Cisco over use of the iPhone trademark for some time, but it was unclear what Apple's use of the name will mean for either company.

So who is following who??

It seems Lots to come…I believe let the competition benefit consumers and let device convergence expedite to give that all-in-one device soon.

Microsoft at CES 2007

rrawat — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:05:00 GMT

Bill Gates in keynote at CES showcases several cool things as IPTV on XBox360, Microsoft Home Server and more...

Released Enterprise Library 3.0 Dec06 CTP

rrawat — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 13:27:00 GMT

Community Technology Preview release of Enterprise Library 3.0 is now released.

Here are the highlights:

Core

- Source Code installer

- Partial Trust Support

- Strong-Named Binary Assemblies

Validation Application Block

- Core validation API

- Minimal Validator Library

- Attaching validators to objects via attributes

- Attaching validators to objects via configuration

- Not included yet (but in the works): Configuration tool support, complete validator library, integration with ASP.NET, Windows Forms, WCF etc.

Data Access Application Block

- SQL Server Compact Edition Support

- New Database.UpdateDatabase overload with updateBatchSize parameter

Configuration Tool

- Visual Studio IDE integration

- AppSettings support

- Encryption support

Application Block Software Factory

- Templates and recipes for creating application blocks and provider libraries

- Preliminary documentation

Strong Naming Guidance Package

- Recipes to assist in strong-naming and updating [InternalsVisibleTo] across multiple projects

è Download it from CodePlex site

Microsoft's AURA

rrawat — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:20:55 GMT

You are shopping. You just took a snap of 'Barcode' of the stuff you are about to buy. And your phone just told you "Hey this stuff is more cheaper at the other shop nearby". or "Hey don't buy that stuff, this comes from some controversial manufacturer!".

Yes!... this is possible with Advanced User Resource Annotation or AURA a free application from Microsoft Research, which though is in early stages but will give you a taste of the future.

Depending on your mobile phone it might require a Lens-kit... you can get that also by just sending a Self addressed stamped envelope to MSR.

more...

Cool WPF/E Demos

rrawat — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:59:57 GMT

Find some cool WPF/E demos here! Click on "Big Time" for relatively bigger view.

You can download WPF/E CTP SDK here and to know more about WPF click here

nJoy!

Meeting the (w)intellectuals…

rrawat — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:26:00 GMT

Last week, I had a chance to attend some amazingly good sessions (An advanced C# session by

Justin Smith

and Advanced ASP.NET 2.0, AJAX sessions by

Jeff Prosise

) as these techies flew to India. Not surprisingly, my mind was flooded with plethora of information (and ideas:) during these 3 days sessions. I was surprised as Jeff unfolded some less known and undocumented secrets of ASP.NET 2.0. I was wondering why these facts are not documented properly and how anybody can build any scalable enterprise web solutions without knowing them.

I know I’m a lazy programmer (and a lazy blogger:). But I’m dying to find time to try my hands (and blog) on some of these stuff soon.

WinFX in action !!

rrawat — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:34:00 GMT

“NY Times Reader” app uses many cool features of Windows Vista (.NET Framework 3.0 / WPF).

For those of you who haven’t downloaded it already – you can install the NY Times reader from here (It will automatically install the .NET 3.0 framework, if required) & watch the video demo

more to come...

rrawat — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:22:00 GMT

Recently everybody is witnessing kind of preview/release season at Microsoft(most of which were most awaited products) viz. XBox360, IE7, 2007 Office System RTM, VSTO 2005 SE, new release of Office Live, Zune and Windows Vista RTM etc. (Also there were some spikes in MSFT shares too:)

Though there were some launches from other players (esp. in gaming console market) too like PS3, Wii

But clearly there is more excitement within Microsoft and Public as many amazing products are lined up and reaching their final stage and which are worth waiting!

Web Services Software Factory

rrawat — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 16:25:00 GMT

Web Service Factory is a nice collection of tools, patterns, source code and guidance designed to help you quickly build Web services solutions.

As most of the code is auto-generated, using web service factory ensures that your solution is consistent and adheres to well known architecture and design patterns.

- download from here

- more on Web Service Factory