Word Entropy
Blog of Shital Shah (shitals) on .Net, machine learning, life at Microsoft, physics, mathematics and such stuff
BadImageFormatException - This assembly is built by a runtime newer than the currently loaded
Strange thing happened today. I upgraded one of the internal tool to .Net 4.0 without any issues but...
Author: Shital Shah Date: 04/23/2012
A Day in SQL Tuning
Today I got in to some heavy weight TSQL tuning. This time the target was a legendary sproc that was...
Author: Shital Shah Date: 01/27/2010
Test Results Windows and Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation
Just a note… if you are getting “Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation” message...
Author: Shital Shah Date: 12/31/2009
What to do on dreaded error CS0003: Out of memory
I’ve spent way too much of time today (again!) on this error so here’s blog post for future reminder...
Author: Shital Shah Date: 12/31/2009
Silencing Exceptions in a Little Better Way
Some of the most disastrous code usually takes the following form try { //some code } catch { }...
Author: Shital Shah Date: 12/07/2009
Find Path of a Command Line Tool
Many times you work on different machines, execute a command line tool but often wonder where that...
Author: Shital Shah Date: 10/29/2009
How to Right Align Address in Word Document
May be the silliest thing but how do you align address on the right side of a letter in Microsoft...
Author: Shital Shah Date: 10/09/2009
Selecting Random Row From SQL Server Table
It is important to make sure your automated tests covers various real-world data combinations (for...
Author: Shital Shah Date: 10/05/2009
Solving Shared Notebook Sync Issue With OneNote 2010
Since about 3 years we used Groove to share calendar, notes and files within family – until I...
Author: Shital Shah Date: 08/07/2009
Twitter Dishing Out 417 - Expectation Failed to .Net Clients
My little Twitter app was broke since past few days with error 417 - Expectation Failed. Infect most...
Author: Shital Shah Date: 12/27/2008
Space Elevator Conference
They do have Space Elevator Conference, complete with a blog! Looks like MSR is participating too...
Author: Shital Shah Date: 06/28/2008
Why would you still get "Strong name validation failed"?
There are not many web pages mentioning this so I would just post this so it comes up in search....
Author: Shital Shah Date: 05/01/2008
A quicker way to Twitter
Past weekend, I finally thought about giving Twitter a try and started looking for a client app that...
Author: Shital Shah Date: 04/22/2008
Run As... is back in Vista!
Yes, this dearly missed shell context menu item is now available again in Windows Vista, thanks to...
Author: Shital Shah Date: 04/22/2008
Phun With Physics Simulations
This addictive program can easily keep you busy for rest of the weekend so be careful :). Phun is a...
Author: Shital Shah Date: 03/08/2008
Hello Word
Hello, I'm Shital Shah. I currently work with NGIM team at Microsoft as SDE. I intend to use my MSDN...
Author: Shital Shah Date: 03/07/2008