Microsoft has launched a new web site targeted at Web developers and web professionals. The goal of this site is to showcase blogs, products events etc. This web site will also be home for Microsoft Web Platform Installer and Microsoft Web Application Installer. What’s most interesting is that the site will also showcase open source [...]

To give Live Services a well deserved push Microsoft has organised Live Services Jumpstart 2009. The event is a 2 day training session to be held across 11 cities around the world. The sessions will be an opportunity for some in-depth technical training for Live Services. In Sydney Live Services Jumpstart will be held [...]

An exciting news in last few days has been announcements of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0. The actual products may be more than a year away. To get the ball rolling, Microsoft has posted many videos on Channel9 which give you a sneak peak into some features. Can’t wait to get my hands [...]

My SD Card which I use between my PC and PDA was giving me Error 0×80070052. The error would occur when I created a new folder on the card. Initially I suspected this to be a virus but I also wanted to explore other options. And I discovered the solution pretty much by accident.
Solution
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I could be the last one to spot this. I just saw that the official Windows site on microsoft.com has a new look with Deepak Chopra’s (no relation) image looking into your eyes and telling you that he is a PC. The new look is refreshing. Much better than the old Microsoft.com look with too [...]

Back at PDC 2004 Microsoft announced Longhorn which eventually became Vista. Those who attended PDC in 2004 got an early build of Vista to play with. Microsoft will continue the tradition and will give an early build of Windows 7 at PDC 2008. As of today you can find screenshots of Windows 7 build [...]

After many months I attended SBTUG today. I have always found the presentations at SBTUG to be informative and more importantly entertaining. There are times when I feel like consuming content which is bit light on programming but still related to IT. And SBTUG provides that perfect mix. Today’s presentations were Predicting the Past: Emotional [...]

In my previous post I showed you three different ways to capture the T-SQL query generated by LINQ To SQL. A comment on the post reminded me that I forgot to mention a fourth way i.e. using Linqpad. In Linqpad when you have executed the query you can click on the SQL tab next to [...]

While working with LINQ To SQL there are times when you are interested in looking at the query which will be executed on the database.  This post will cover different ways you can capture the query generated by LINQ To SQL.
SQL Server Profiler
SQL Profile has long been a preferred tool to capture activity on a [...]

As per Beta Exams blog Exam 71-433 TS: Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Database Development is now open to all. you can find more details about it here.

While browsing forums today I came across a question which asked for a solution to download a file from a web server programmatically. The solution is very simple and below is the code which achieves the goal. Here I am downloading a file asynchronously on Button Click.

1: private void buttonDownloadFile_Click(object sender, EventArgs [...]

Microsoft India is running an online event called Virtual TechDays. They are covering some good content on the latest goodies from Microsoft .Net 3.5 SP1, LINQ etc. I am particularly interested in sessions on LINQ and Parallel Extensions.