This site went into hibernation in October and since then I have not pushed the resume button. Why such a delay? There are reasons which you are not interested in reading and I’m not interested in writing. So I will skip all the oooh I couldn’t blog because I was sooo busy yada yada yada [...]

ASP.NET 4 allows developers to customize Client Id which gets generated by ASP.NET. Up until now Client Id generated by ASP.NET has been ummm just plain ugly. Other than aesthetics they are also hard to work with in client side scripts. ASP.NET solves this issue to a degree by providing ClientIDMode property. In this post [...]

Channel 9 which happens to be my favourite media station now has a section for courses. And if you have downloaded Visual Studio 2010 then this is the place to get yourself some VS 2010 training. Topics covered in this online course are:

Managed Languages
ASP.NET 4.0
Data Platform
WCF & WF
Parallel Computing
ALM

Link to Visual Studio 2010 and .NET [...]

This post shows you how to use Breakpoints in Visual Studio with a hit count. Breakpoints can be described as bread and butter of debugging. They allow you to stop execution at any statement in your code. By doing this you can examine values in your variables, look at call stack, change values in variables [...]

This is a very smart commercial for Windows 7. A clever way to praise a product without taking a dig on others. Maybe Apple will learn a thing or two from this. Enjoy.

These days I am working on a personal project which I call “my precious”. This projects involves transforming XML documents into HTML using XSLT. Things were going smooth till I decided to output DOCTYPE from XSLT. This is what I did.
  
XSLT parser does not like the code above and gives me this error.

After [...]

Keynote for TechEd Australia started a bit slow with too much concentration on words such as innovation, excitement and productivity. Keynote was saved by awesome presentations by Sara Ford and Sarah Vaughan. Rest of the day was fantastic. A combination of excellent topics and superb presentation skills made it a worthy learning day.
The best [...]

Some of you may know that author of this site (that’s me in case you are thinking) is attending his first ever TechEd. TechEd to me is like woodstock for developers and other IT people who come in masses for this amazing and full of geek energy event. Over next few posts I will write [...]

This post shows you how to output data to a Console in a Windows Forms Application. I use this technique religiously when developing Windows Forms applications. Debugging is much simpler when you can see information on what your application is doing in a Console. Of course the onus is on you as developer to output [...]

In this post we will look at Logical Operators in ADO.NET Data Services. These operators can be used as filter expressions in our requests and ADO.NET Data Services applies the filter before results are returned. We will use Data Services generated over Adventureworks Lite database. If you are new to ADO.NET Data Services and would [...]

Introduction
In an earlier article I looked at how DO.NET Data Services can be used with ASP.NET. In this post I will talk about using ADO.NET Data Services to retrieve data via SQL Server stored procedure. Doing this is simple and I will follow a similar approach to hook everything up as I did in my [...]

Riviera is a sample application for Windows Azure available on MSDN Code Gallery for download. Riviera has been developed by Platform Evangelism group in collaboration with Cumulx who are a Cloud ISV partner. Key features of Riviera are:

Multi-tenant data store based on Azure Table Storage as well as SQL Azure.
Per tenant customization of data model
Per [...]