July 2008 - Posts
"Velocity" is a distributed in-memory application cache platform for developing scalable, high-performance applications. "Velocity" can be used to cache any CLR object and provides access through simple APIs. The primary goals for "Velocity" are performance,
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Windows Application and shortcut key are synonyms. People prefer to use shortcut keys for faster activity. Assume you are in a text box and you want to hit F5 to reload the form. You do not want to move your mouse cursor. So what you will be doing is
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Live.com you need to automate that in your Windows application. You will use the WebBrowser control. This is a very powerful control and allows us to control things through DOM. Here is a small code which insert values to the live.com’s seach text box
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ADO.NET is our contemporary data access component and now we have written many applications. Now there has been a lot of talk on LINQ to SQL. So we are little skeptical about this component and trying to find some relation between existing ADO.NET technology.
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Wow experience!!! 200+ posts on MSDN with millions of hits it’s a great pleasure being at Microsoft with additional takeaways. I never thought in my life that I would be blogging. I had a dream that one day I will become writer (was not sure on what though).
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I use Visual Studio 2008 code snippet a lot when I write code for my presentation. It saves a lot of time and it is very elegant. But I used to struggle a lot while changing my demo machine. Because I had to repeat the same process again and again from
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When I show demo using my desktop I often come across to the scenarios where things are very small. I was using Windows Magnifier. I found this tool later and this is very helpful. This tool was created by Microsoft Technical Fellow, Mark Russinovich.
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During my demos I have noticed that Class Diagram in Visual Studio gives a very detailed view with lot of information. Now this is hard for people sitting at the back of the room to see what is there. It’s very easy, if you press “CTRL” then scroll the
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ADO.NET and LINQ to SQL Describes the relationship of ADO.NET and LINQ to SQL. Analyzing LINQ to SQL Source Code Describes how to analyze LINQ to SQL mapping by generating and viewing source code from the Northwind sample database. Customizing Insert,
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Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:"";
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What happens if you install you Visual Studio then realize that you need IIS for you application to test and run. We often do this. I have seen people uninstalling Visual Studio and then installing it again after IIS to make sure ASP.NET works fine. Wow!!
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Many times we need to get the Public key token for a strongly named assembly in .NET. FAQ on that “how to get the public key token?”. Answer is very simple use the .NET Framework tools sn.exe. So open the Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt and then point
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ADO.NET Entity Framework have evolved since we have released it first time. Now with the Visual Studio 2008 if you install the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 you will get the fully functional version of ADO.NET Entity Framework. This
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