November 2004 - Posts

• How intelligent are you?

  Calling all the grey cells; Q. How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it? Q.If it took eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it take four men to build it? Q.If you had three apples and four oranges in one hand Read More... Posted Monday, November 29, 2004 1:19 PM by saurabhv | 19 Comments Filed under: Weekend's Cooking

• Humour of the weekend

  Scenario: Two friends preparing to leave for a party (i.e. Ajay & Ankur) They both are getting late. Ankur - Ajay !! Be Fast. Ajay - Oh.. I thought it was C# :) Ankur - You didn't got ready yet? Nothing more to mention, both are C# developers and Read More... Posted Monday, November 29, 2004 10:57 AM by saurabhv | 0 Comments Filed under: Wackiest Efforts

• How Reference and Value types are stored in memory ?

  Introduction: There are basically two types of variables in Common Type System ? 1) Value Type - Get Stored on Stack Memory. 2) Reference Type - Get Stored on Managed Heap Memory How this Works? Value types get stored on stack and shared the same process Read More... Posted Friday, November 26, 2004 6:03 PM by saurabhv | 7 Comments Filed under: Technology Stunts

• An insect falls into a mug of beer...

  Today, I came across something interesting. Event : An insect falls into a mug of beer... Reactions: Englishman: Throws his mug away and walks out. American: Takes the insect out and drinks the beer. Chinese: Eats the insect and throws the beer away Japanese: Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 17, 2004 2:54 PM by saurabhv | 21 Comments Filed under: Wackiest Efforts

• Saurabh's Believe It Or Not : Home Computer for 2004

  First post in my new category "Saurabh's Believe It Or Not !!" [Image courtesy Manalang via the amazing We Make Money Not Art ] Once upon a time, in the era 1950's..... "Scientists from the RAND Corporation have created this model to illustrate how a Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 16, 2004 8:24 AM by saurabhv | 7 Comments Filed under: "Saurabh's Believe It Or Not !!"

• Article on HTTP Handler like functionality for WinForms

  I am done with my article on Application Event Handler for Win Forms. If you all can recollect from my previous post ( http://blogs.msdn.com/saurabhv/archive/2004/11/11/255589.aspx ) You can read the same from http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/aeh.asp Read More... Posted Monday, November 15, 2004 1:41 PM by saurabhv | 3 Comments Filed under: Technology Stunts

• Movies on VB.NET

  Something for VB.NET guys and I am sure they will love it. Microsoft has released some 101 short movies for VB.NET Developers to help them enjoy VB.NET more... Some posters: [Pictures from http://msdn.microsoft.com ] Exciting enough !! Interested in knowing Read More... Posted Monday, November 15, 2004 1:01 PM by saurabhv | 2 Comments Filed under: Daily Stuff

• Ever wondered writing an HTTP Handler for WinForms

  Today, I am writing an Application Event Handler Component (AEHC) for any WinForm Application in .NET. AEHC is an event handler for your winforms application, The primary functionality of this component is to raise an event after every forms load into Read More... Posted Thursday, November 11, 2004 3:21 PM by saurabhv | 3 Comments Filed under: Technology Stunts

• SPOT - Smart Personal Object Technology

  Yesterday, my friend Anil told something about SPOT watches, whatever he said was quite interesting and exiciting. So, I thought of sharing my KB on the same. What is SPOT? SPOT turns for Smart Personal Object Technology. I am quite sure that couple of Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 09, 2004 1:48 PM by saurabhv | 1 Comments Filed under: Daily Stuff

• Secrets of Visual Inheritance

  Nice article on Visual Inheritance: http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/visualForm.asp Read More... Posted Saturday, November 06, 2004 4:10 PM by saurabhv | 3 Comments Filed under: Technology Stunts

• New HR Policy

  Dear Staff, Please be advised that there are NEW rules and regulations implemented to raise the efficiency of our firm. Transportation: - It is advised that you come to work driving a car according to your salary. - If we see you driving a Honda, we assume Read More... Posted Saturday, November 06, 2004 2:56 PM by saurabhv | 6 Comments Filed under: Weekend's Cooking

• Dreams Unlimited Edition BETA 1.0 (Happiest Man on Earth)

  try { When I was young I thought Of so many things I would be And so practiced a lot of things To make a man of me Every action or decision I made Sparked an action in alternate plane Traveling down the Trousers of Time They were to me close, but not Read More... Posted Saturday, November 06, 2004 2:55 PM by saurabhv | 4 Comments Filed under: Weekend's Cooking

• Strictly for DB Developers

  SOMETHING VERY FUNNY- DBA: Do you want usernames to be unique? Developer: Yes (next day) DBA: Should passwords be unique as well? Developer: No (later that day) DBA: Shouldn't we require passwords to be unique? Developer: No DBA: Are you sure? Developer: Read More... Posted Saturday, November 06, 2004 2:42 PM by saurabhv | 6 Comments Filed under: Weekend's Cooking

• New Entry to the world of bloggers...

  Saturday: Today, I received an email from Betsy (MSDN). She guided me well and helped me setting my blog. Thanks Betsy and Andy. Read More... Posted Saturday, November 06, 2004 3:56 AM by saurabhv | 4 Comments Filed under: Weekend's Cooking