Sidharth Sehgal's blog

New technologies, Code samples, Automation examples, best practices.

Date: 09/21/2012

  Ever wondered what the red and white colored numbers on the top right side of Windows Phone...

Date: 07/17/2012

This blog post walks you through an app which captures image from the device camera using the...

Date: 02/03/2012

In this post, we will create a simple Windows Phone app which uses Bing map control. We will then...

Date: 02/02/2012

  <Update: 6 Feb 2012> Code walkthrough for apps shown during my session on “Developing...

Date: 01/27/2012

I just finished my session on Windows Phone 7 Development during CommunityTechDays Hyderabad. I am...

Date: 12/18/2010

With the release of Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools RTM, you may see the below message if you try to...

Date: 10/21/2010

Can’t make it to the New York Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Firestarter? Watch it online :...

Date: 06/17/2010

Now you can embed Bing twitter maps on your site and scope a search by @user, location or keyword....

Date: 03/16/2010

Are you graduating from college soon and feel ill-prepared to enter the workforce directly out of an...

Date: 02/21/2010

The Beta release of System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Dashboard is out. The Configuration...

Date: 02/04/2010

Addicted to Scripting? The Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog (https://bit.ly/hsgblog) will be publishing seven...

Date: 02/04/2010

What comes to your mind when you think about Product Launch: Roadshows? Celebrity performances?...

Date: 10/29/2009

Microsoft Virtual TechDays is back – don’t miss on this opportunity to get trained on the latest...

Date: 08/20/2009

Registrations for Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is now open. Register before September 15...

Date: 08/07/2009

Pay your tribute to Michael Jackson and watch his memorial live from the Staples Center in Los...

Date: 07/07/2009

You don't need to worry if you want to catch up budget session live and don't have a Television set...

Date: 07/05/2009

Recently we changed the Identity of an App Pool in IIS 6, from Network Service to a Domain account....

Date: 06/23/2009

Microsoft Global Foundation Services and BPOS team has provided the following resources to assist in...

Date: 06/17/2009

The company’s  resident IT professional extraordinaire has just returned from a much-deserved...

Date: 06/15/2009

Learn more about Azure with free How Do I videos at...

Date: 06/15/2009

Mark Russinovich will host a virtual roundtable for IT pros worldwide to discuss Windows 7...

Date: 06/04/2009

Configuring the properties of a Windows Service using command prompt and scripting it in a batch...

Date: 06/01/2009

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Date: 06/01/2009

After updating and deleting element from an XML config file, lets see how to add new elements at the...

Date: 05/30/2009

This post talks about removing an existing XML element from the config file. Consider a scenario...

Date: 05/29/2009

This post contains the Powershell script to modify already existing config key values in a config...

Date: 05/28/2009

Microsoft Learning has recently launched free eLearning Clinics targeted towards different...

Date: 05/28/2009

TechNet Magazine published this special online-only Green IT issue for IT Pros earlier this evening....

Date: 04/22/2009

Tired of typing the phone numbers on a business card to your phone address book? Saw an...

Date: 04/22/2009

In the next few posts, I am going to write about ways to automate configuration file updates using...

Date: 04/12/2009

Forgot to take IIS7 configuration backup, but want to restore back to a recent configuration? IIS7...

Date: 04/04/2009

SQL Server 2005/2008 provides a command line utility SQLCMD, which can be used to perform basic SQL...

Date: 04/03/2009

Here are ready to use SQL scripts For Enabling XP_cmdshell: USE master EXECUTE sp_configure 'show...

Date: 03/11/2009

Ever wished you had a way to capture the installation configurations you specify while installing...

Date: 03/10/2009

Hi, This is the first blog entry for this blog and if you can see this, it means my blog is already...

Date: 03/07/2009