This video is by far the best explanation I have seen. It cannot get any simpler and smarter. Original source of the video is Channel 9.

While writing Silverlight applications, I find it challenging to pick colors from the list of predefined colors supported by Silverlight. Honestly I don’t know what those fancy colors look like. There! I said it!. Happy? To overcome this issue in true developer style, I wrote a small utility which shows all predefined colors on a [...]

Wrap panel in Silverlight is missing out of the box, but this need is fulfilled by Silverlight Toolkit which also includes many other controls. In this post we will look at WrapPanel. I will show you how to use it and what it is used for.
To use wrap panel you have to install Silverlight Toolkit. [...]

Panels are basic layout mechanism in both Silverlight and WPF. They act as containers for other controls and each panel provides a different way of laying out controls on the screen. In this post we will look at Canvas Panel in Silverlight. Canvas allows us to put controls based on x and y  coordinates. This [...]

When creating a new ADO.NET Data Service you may find yourself with this error.

Don’t call it quits on ADO.NET Data Services because of this error. It is very easy to fix. Have a close look at the code generated by Visual Studio for you.

Here the code calls SetEntitySetAccessRule on “MyEntitySet” but most likely [...]

Today I visited ebay for I think the 5th time in my life and I found that they have a new sidebar for Internet Explorer 8. What’s cool about this side bar is that it uses Silverlight.. You can view your active auctions and get information on your bids. A cool addin for ebay users.
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During the course of a project we often end up adding elements to style sheets which do not get used. This causes css files to bloat which impacts performance. The best thing to do is to keep track of css elements which are not being used and remove them. This can become a strenuous task [...]

SQL Server 2008 Developer Training Kit is available for download from Microsoft. Here is some information about this training kit taken from Microsoft’s site.
The SQL Server 2008 Developer Training Kit will help you understand how to build web applications which deeply exploit the rich data types, programming models and new development paradigms in SQL Server [...]

I got a message on Facebook from my friend Rajnesh who said that while he was delighted to see my Twitter updates which were both motivational and inspiring, he found that the flow of wisdom was a bit too much . Okay, he did not say that exactly but basically my Twitter updates are showing [...]

I run Windows Server 2008 as my workstation and lately I found the need to search historic emails in Outlook. This resulted in a nag from Outlook telling me that Windows Search Service must be enabled. Thus I am writing this post as a future reference for myself in case I forget how to do [...]

For those who are following me on Twitter know how eager I was to get my hands on Visual Studio 2010 beta1. Today I downloaded it and installed it on my Windows 7 VM. This post is a random collection of my early observations. It is full of screenshots. Enjoy.
The start page had a new [...]

To get attention for any search engine all you need to do is say that it will give Google a run for its money. This surely worked for WolframAlpha and most definitely they have my attention. After reading about it today, I decided to give it a try. I conducted a couple of searches which [...]