Here is a step by step guide to turn on MSDTC on Windows 7. MSDTC settings are somewhat hidden in Windows 7 and I could not get to them as I did on Windows XP or Server 2003. I found a way and I’m putting it out here.
Step 1
Run dcomcnfg. This will open MMC [...]

Running XP mode on Windows 7 requires Hardware Virtualization to be enabled. You set this through BIOS settings. But what if your machine does not support Hardware Virtualization. Yes such machines do exist and I have one. My SONY Vaio does not allow Hardware Virtualization. Why? Because it’s a SONY.
A good news for me and [...]

After using notepad++ for many years, I recently switched over to HippoEDIT as my preferred text editor. I find HippoEdit to be snappier than other text editor and the UI also looks appealing. Just wanted to give them a plug here.
Download HippoEDIT and see it for yourself.

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 [...]

I’ve been using Bing as my main search engine for sometime and I’m very happy with it. Within that plain search box lies a lot of power and many ways to search for information. Here I am sharing some of the ways I use Bing on daily bases. You may find these interesting and see [...]

As a web developer it is hard to ignore the popularity of JQuery. The issue however is that there are too many JQuery plugins available and at times it is hard to decide which one to chose. The Ultimate JQuery List is a fantastic web site which lists hundreds of JQuery plugins with examples.
This will [...]

One of the things that you will notice when you open an Office 2010 application is that the orb has a new look. This is what the orb looks like in Word 2007

This look has slightly changed now. Here is the orb in Word 2010

The look has also changed when you click on [...]

Microsoft is interested in feedback from those who have access to Office 2010 Technical Preview. And they are asking for it in a nice way. When you install the Technical Preview, you will notice two icons in your Icon Tray.

Don’t they look cute? As you can see that there is a smile icon and [...]

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 [...]

What is the first thing you do when you open the control panel in Windows Vista? I always switch it to Classic View and most people I know do the same. Microsoft got it so right with the Classic View and I cannot understand whey they are trying to convince people to move away from [...]