Technical News and tips from My learning

Here is a document published by Yasser , who works for MS. This document is more similar to the session by Gaurav. By any chance, some one stole others information ... or it could be MS trained these two guys at the same time...

Today i found a blog from some one who is working with Microsoft from long time and specially working in the ISV Department. Here he blogs about the ISV related issues and latest developments

I heard of LANs (Local Area Network), WAN (Wide Area Networks), blah.. blah.. Surprised to read about HANs (Human Area Network). Here is the clear details about HAN

This post is from Microsoft office located at Kasturiba Road. I'm posting this message at the speed of 500bytes per second. The above picture tells you the download rate

What you see here is the Management Studio Console of SQL Server 2005. Note that Aggrigates are not available in SQL Server 2005 at the Database level.

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The launch tour of the 3 major products from Microsoft will kick start from Bangalore. Did you register for that? I did, here is my confirmation .

Here is the link for user forums maintained by MSDN.

While reading couple of technology for the Human body as Data Transfer media, came across of a news that is specific to RFIDs. The title of the news says that a man from Washington got operated his left hand and implanted an RFID for multipurpose. How different is this.. in the begin it felt an awesome feat .. as the news sink into my thoughts and the news is giving me a different thoughts as it diluted into my memory sink… There are many ways that a technology can be used.. specially the electronic gadgets can be used to the best of their abilities .. are we using this!!?? I don’t know.. and am sure I might not appreciate this kind of extra-normal operations. Read the comments from the link, they have all my mixture feelings.. anyhow, keeping the concept a part, let me share what I think would be better usage of RFID!! Scenario 1) the root of this scenario has dates from my trip to Mumbai during 2000. While working there, we used to travel from Vashi to AirIndia building. So, we

Aamir Khan !!!! Blogging !!! strange… I can never imagine that Aamir Khan will blog… Here you can find him blogging about Mangal Pandey. I’m not sure about, how true is this… but seems intresting…

Do you ever wonder how to handle your IT colleague? Here are the tips on ‘To get most of your IT Guy” This article looks decently good, and to some extent, I think that it really works out.

How many times we do think of uninstalling any software? If we require to format our system, do we unistall the software? I never thought that uninstallation of softwares is required if I’m formatting the hard disk drive. Think in this way, if a software like Photoshop which gets activation key from i-Net is not uninstalled, the next time you activate again, don’t you think that you are increasing your licence number by one? Where as you have formatted the system and the same is installed and used by one person only? So, finally, my advice to you all as to uninstall the sw before you format the hard disk drive…

How many of us knon about Jeeves? Many of us know Jeeves only as ‘askjeeves’, some where in Shakespeare’s novel I read about a character called, ‘Jeeves’, since then I’m confused. Whether the same is the root for now-a-days ‘Jeeves’ fictionous character? Incidentally, the answer is ‘YES’. Read here about the full story about ‘Jeeves’. Wikipedia has full explanation about the same and gives you full story line about this gentleman’s personal gentleman

The Data Sources in VS 2005 has got many a features, one among them is “Drag-Once Databinding”. This feature is all about draggin columns of their typed datasets directly to the form. Here is a cool article by Steve Lasker. A must read for every developer who works with ADO.NET

“Fuel from Plastic”, I’m really surprised. But infact it is a reality. Read here that Prof. Dr. Alka Umesh Zadgaonkar, has invented a process to produce fuel from the plasic waste. And the statistics are, a two wheeler which run for 44 KMs with a Ltr petrol has run for more 6 KMs (ie, 44 + 6 = 50 ) with the plastic fuel. Really amazing!!! Hope one day we will get outlets for plastic fuel. Bytheway, the statistics that show currently are, a ltr petrol costs us at the rate of Rs. 50.66/- but surprisingly, the plasic petrol will cost us only Rs. 30/- per ltr. How great it is?

That’s a great work, in other words a great effort to bring the MVPs to get to know and build a network, indeed it was awesome. Though it is my first appearence at such meet, it helped me to get to know many great professionals and got a chance to build a network with them. I recollect from Subhashini’s words, “this is one place to build the bridge between the other fellow MVPs”. I have a potpurri memories registered. Personalities like, Cally Ko, Venkat etc., created a long lasting image in my life, though they spent short time with me. I couldn’t really digest the fact that Celly is 40+ and still she is such a dynamic lady. In many occassions, she took the responsibility to kindle the community, not only that but by character too she is really down-to-earth. Infact, I hesitated a lot, to dance and mingle with many of you in the begin, but the way Cally Ko mingled with us and left me with no choice other than to go around with you all. Ravi Venkatesan, is one other gentle man I can ev

Near Field Communication (NFC) is the mechanism to communicate to the immidiate environment and will enable easy communication between electronic devices… There is a forum for this initiative, the meber ship costs vary from USD $ 1,000 to USD $ 50,000. If you are intrested, apply here . Hope this will become the next generation technology.

Microsoft TechNet UK team has made a video I saw this with 10kbps from our my work place, reasonably amusing: Microsoft's WSYP (We Share Your Pain) - Passport required to view this presentation, though you can download the ppt of this show, but the entire show is not ready for download. It will be good if the entire show is ready for offline viewing.

Provider Model Tool Kit and white papers are finally out and are available from MSDN. Click here to get the tool kit and other documentation.

I never realised that i would be awarded with MVP. I'm surprised to see my name at HERE The last week has got many unexpected things in my life...

Are you desinging apps that work closly with MOM 2005? Here is a good article that helps you to understand the WMI Architecture and also tells you, how to create MOM management pack that monitors instrumented ASP.NET applications. I found this article absolutely intresting and taken a hard copy for me. Did you?

Click here to find lots of web casts for Windows CE 5.0. I never realised that Microsoft will publish such kind of good and self explorative webcasts. Had these been available for me when I’m doing R&D on windows CE, for developing apps using SQL CE database, would be a great resource to learn quickly. Any how, better late than never, if you want to learn about Windows CE 5.0, this is the best resource for you. I bet this link will not dissppoint you. Enjoy the shows…

What is windows Vista? Do you want to know more about that? Click here to learn  more about Windows Vista. This site is aboslutely a great location to get to know about Vista from the end user point as well professional

The VS Beta and CTP uninstall tool has been updated and is now available at: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=47598 Please make sure you run this before installing any future version of Visual Studio 2005 (including the released version). Hopefully this works with only 2005 Previous versions.

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The way to add 0 (zeros) to the left hand side of your number in T-SQL by replace ( space (2- len (co_num))+ rtrim ( convert ( char (2), co_num )),' ','0') , where co_num is numeric data type

It is really a great evening with Andrew Lees. The fun part of this evening is, I never realized that I don’t have an invitation for this session till I reached the registration desk. Registration desk validated my credentials and confirmed me that I don’t have an invitation, but they let me in after taking my credentials. By the time I went in Lee just started his session. I found my self in a place comfortably and started understanding what Lee is presenting. The entire presentation is about Microsoft products and the road map for the next 2 years. It is good know a little deeper about that from the people who make decisions.Few highlights from the presentation are… 1) Security Vulnerabilities in Database as well as WebServer when compared to others The table for the database vulnerabilities are ... For Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server High - 27 Other - 36 For RedHat and MySql are High - 41 Other - 75 For RedHat and Oracle are High - 73 ( Unbreakable ?) Other - 134 If these deta

3 More (New) divisions in Microsoft According to Steve Ballmer, on 20th Sep 2005, Microsoft introduced 3 new Business groups are introduced for the better performance and speed of execution. The three new business units are titled as… 1) Microsoft Platform Products & Services Division 2) Microsoft Business Division 3) Microsoft Entertainment & Devices Division To read more about what these divisions do, click here Anyhow, that’s a good sign to learn that Microsoft is growing.

This is the post from MS Word. How simple is this… did you ever tried this? I did for the first time, how is this?

The titles is weird for me... but this site is really cool for the tips on Windows Vista. Read couple of tips, seems there is a loop whole in Microsoft. What do you say?

Hi, I found a good article on ASP.NET Architecture. Click here to open that article. The way the article goes, is really damn intresting. Thanks to Rick Strahl, it is a good work

Today, accedentally got to know about this tool... damn cool tool to scan your system towards all kinds of security. I liked the way of presenting the results for the security misconfigurations. This report not only tells me about what is not configured properly, and also about "how to correct" and "where to find the respective downloads". You don't believe if i mention that, i spent hrs to find some download on download.microsoft.com. This tool is cool for me to scan all the computers in our office, simply sitting from a single location. Did you try this? Click here to download and try on your location. I suggest you try this...

Did you tried this tool? This tool as the name says, removes any kind of Malicious softwares from your PC. I couldn't trusted that in the begin, then when i run that tool online, then i got to know how many programs are running on my PC with out my notice. I recomend every one to use this. You can download this from Mircrosoft website. Do it now...

It's great to conduct the 4th UG Meet with out any hurdle(s). An apprication from the group moderator is posted at the group. BTW did you see that? Click here to read that. And here to visit the group

Before i read this article, i'm confused with the title. But after reading, i felt that the title for the article makes sense. BTW did you read that?

Today, i got a mail on the Microsoft ISV Community Days - Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005. There is going to be an event at Le Meridien, 28 Sankey Road, on 20th Sep 2005. If you want to be there, register yourself by calling 2521 9852 / 53 or writing a mail to isvms@erfolgcs.com I'll be there... are you?

Though this article is published on March 31, 2005, is a good article that every IT Professional should read and have a back. A short description about this is quoted as... "Windows Server System™ Reference Architecture (WSSRA) is a documentation set that helps organizations design and deploy Microsoft® technologies to create the most integrated, standardized, and optimized Windows Server System platform..." So, it is a must read for every ITPro Did you read this?

Do you belive that this image could be of a Home computer? This is an image taken 50yrs ago How is this?

The test version of Windows Server 2003 R2, supports both 64-bit and x86 systems. This also bundles with the improved interoperability with Unix To learn more about that, click here

We never knew that this simple problem will eat up our whole 2 day's work. Do you face the Replication while synchronizing your directory with has ACL, read this KB Article 304286 from Microsoft We can take a full week end rest... Thank god and MS for documenting such issues..

Have you ever noticed that .NET is stronger than Java ? Here is a small piece of study from University of Virginia Computer Science Department. Why don't you have a copy for your self. I had one, if by any chance this link is not availble, pl mail me. I can give you that. Anyhow, i loved to read such news and articles.

I never thought this kind of competition can be found. Recently we have migrated one of our major database from Oracle to SQL Server 2005. I think the learning during that phase will help me to send my participation. My migration story is a lengthy one, let's see... By the way did you register ? All the best

Today, I have finished my second round of the Microsoft Technology Adopter Challenge Feel like great... Did you try?

Do you Dare? The tag line is really cool... Do you Dare to face the challenge? This is the best place to express your knowledge. Register, and explore to the world

Did you ever happen to meet your destroyer? Microsoft did... Yes, it did. Recently, Microsoft has conducted a conference. No official information from Microsoft as such about this till date. Microsoft called this conference as, “Blue Hat” – a reference to widely known “Black Hat” security conference To find more details, read the news from CNET Hope that makes Microsoft more secured

Did you ever got to know about WinFX ? Click Here to know about a detailed description byJohn Montgomery, Director, Developer Division Microsoft. Here is the full information with Documentation and Samples Here is the link to Windows Vista Developer Center Finally, here are the Resources for IT Professionals Do you any other links... ?

I recently discovered that the code genereated by the .NET compiler, the so called MSIL is very much smaller when compared to that of the runtime code, Native Code. In other words, with reference to the size point of view, the Native code is approx thrice the size of the MSIL code. Any observation as such by you? Pl update me if i'm mistaken or wrong .. Try your self..

HttpWatch integrates with Internet Explorer to provide unrivalled levels of HTTP monitoring without the need for separately configured proxies or network sniffers. Simply interact with a web site and HttpWatch will display a log of requests and responses alongside the web page itself. It even shows interactions between Internet Explorer and the browser cache. Why dont you try?

The situation is, i have a table with a column length 6 of Char data type. But the data will come with any length, i.e., with 4 chars length or 3 chars length.. For Example, CatName - Length Dany - 4 Chars Sam - 3 Chars Eltone - 6 Chars In the above sitation, how can i have the data, while fetching with a common legth? If you use "select replace(space(6-len(CatName))+CatName),' ','X') from table" you will always get the data with fixed length and padded with 'X' OutPut will be XXDany XXXSam Eltone One of my major problem is solved...

The main concept of this article is, a window's like message box for Web. The general practice by developers to show a message box by using the script tag along with alert in the Response.Write, like Response.Write("s c r 1 p t > a1ert('hi') / s c r 1 p t"). The main disadvantage of this kind of code is, the page will stop rendering till the user presses "OK" button, during which the background will be white and nothing will be visible. This could cause the client see nothing untill "OK" key is pressed. One can change this behaviour with RegisterStartupStript object. The explanation from MSDN on this object is, this method emits the script just before the closing tag of the Page object's <> element.. What you benifit out of this? and how can you implement this? The benifit is, the user can see the page and as well the message window. And you can make use of this object with the following example StringBuilder strMsg = new StringBui

One good article on Customizing your .NET deployment Projects And fundamentals of Deployment, Exploiting .NET's Advanced Deployment Features Usefull for deploying the .NET applications.

The day was really cool...