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Saurabh Dasgupta worked for Microsoft Consulting Services till Feb 2010. - '640kb ought to be enough for anybody'

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My last day in Microsoft
I finished my last day in Microsoft. For the past 7 years, my work life at Microsoft Consulting Services had become a part of my family. In these years, I have had the good fortune of meeting so many hard working and talented professionals, from whom Read More...
Powershell:Reading the header columns in a .CSV file using import-csv cmdlet
As my journey into the wonderland of Powershell continues, I stumbled upon the need to read the list of header columns from a .CSV file. You would have already used import-csv to read the content of a .CSV file. What a beauty! If you need to know the Read More...
Comparing the processing power of servers in your Performance testing farm
Think of this scenario. You are into a performance tuning engagement. You are given two servers which are supposed to be playing the role of hosting ASP.NET applications. You implement load balancing. You test the servers for distribution of web requests. Read More...
Querying SQL server from Powershell scripts
I was trying to figure out a way to invoke custom SQL queries from a Powershell script and process the data within the script. I wanted something more powerful than executing queries from SQLCMD.EXE. My scenario required me to take an action based on Read More...
Powershell - Your friend for Performance Testing projects
I am into an intensive performance testing project, one of the activities involves load testing Web services using Visual Studio Team Edition for Tester. The performance rig has 2 web servers, 2 database servers and 4 BizTalk servers. Writing the unit Read More...
An approach towards implementing information entry forms using Silverlight and SharePoint-Part 2
Recap of Part 1 This is a continuation of Part 1 of the article. In the first part we discussed about a Expense entry form created using Silverlight. We discussed how it could be hosted on a dynamically created SharePoint page (web part page) using a Read More...
An approach towards implementing information entry forms using Silverlight and SharePoint-Part 1
In this article , I have envisioned a solution which marries the RIA capabilities of Silverlight and the portal/document management features of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Read More...
An approach towards centralized web.config management in WSS/MOSS
Introduction Let me be very frank with you. I love WSS 30/MOSS technologies. Building a portal for sharing information and collaborating has been made so simple with WSS/MOSS. The architects of WSS/MOSS rightly chose to build over the foundations provided Read More...
WSS/MOSS Certifications - I did it
Years ago I used to be skeptical of certifications. My argument with my manager was that you learn stuff doing things hands on and not rote. But, times have changed. MOSS/WSS is a very wide area and getting deep hands on experience in all the departments Read More...
Dynamic loading of XAML in Silverlight- Interesting possibilities for Line of Business Applications
Introduction Large scale Line of Business Applications (such as ERP, CRM, Accounting) require extensive end user customization. This is a natural outcome of the fact that no two business are alike and customizations are inevitable. Consider an Human Resource Read More...
Hosting a Silverlight application on blogs.msdn.com
I did not find any ready documentation to host the Silverlight plugin on blog post on this site. So I set to out try this out my self. I spent an hour dabbling with editing the HTML code and trying to upload a XAP file into pictures library. All of that Read More...
Composite Web Pages using Silverlight, Webparts and SharePoint
I am an ardent admirer of Composite Application Block (CAB) and it's WPF avataar Prism . Those of you have worked with these technologies will agree with me that these blocks are a wonderful way to make customizable applicaitons composed out of modular Read More...
Long running operations using BackGroundWorker class
As a consultant, I encounter several customer queries with regards to application architecture. This was a query from a customer on how to handle long running operations in a windows forms 2.0 application. I recommended the class BackGroundWorker as one Read More...
Installing Enterprise Library 2.0 for .NET Framework January 2006 without Visual Studio 2005
Hi all, I have the habit of having the online documentation of all the Microsoft products readily accessible. I was trying to install Enterprise library 2.0 on my laptop to for the same purpose. I do not have VS.NET 2005 on my laptop. I use a Virtual Read More...
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