Spreading the word here about IE 8 Beta 2 Release. You can download Beta 2 here. There is tons of information already available for this release. Before you decide to install it you should read this link which provides useful information on upgrading to Beta2. Internet Explorer 8 Readiness Toolkit is another great resource [...]

Working with LINQ to SQL I came across a need of writing a LINQ query equivalent of  T-SQL “Where IN” clause. This is what T-SQL query looks like.

SELECT CustomerID, CompanyName, ContactName, ContactTitle, Address,
City, Region, PostalCode, Country, Phone, Fax
FROM [...]

Virtual Desktop Manager is tool which lets you create virtual desktops. You can run different applications in different virtual desktops which reduces clutter. Once you get used to working with it you start loving it. I have been using it for a while now and I cannot do without it anymore. You can download Virtual [...]

Since MSDN forums started they have captured substantial share of online forums related to Microsoft technologies. I remember having a discussion with one of the softies about newsgroups and how MSDN forums will eventually replace them (in MS world of course). And now you can interact with Microsoft forums using a client application which is [...]

If there is one book I am looking forward to, it is Microsoft Visual Studio Tips by Sara Ford . I am a regular reader of Sara’s blog and I have learned a lot about Visual Studio by reading her blog. Her tips are simple, lightweight but above all very++ useful.
I expect her book to [...]

Two senior engineering managers for Windows 7, Jon DeVaan and Steven Sinofsky have started a blog called Engineering Windows 7. I am sure that this will be one of the most watched blogs till other Windows 7 related blogs/sites appear. Reading their first post I get an impression that their blog is an attempt to [...]

SQLBulkCopy class in ADO.NET can be used to do bulk copy operations from a .Net application. There are two ways data can be bulk copied using this class. You can either do a single bulk copy or a multiple bulk copy operation. In this post I will show you how to perform a single bulk [...]

How can we find duplicate occurrences of values in a collection? I will demonstrate this here using a collection of cities. City class looks like this:

public class City
{
public string Name { get; set; }
public string Country { get; set; }
}

Cities collection is initialised with this code:

List<City> cities [...]

No I am not spreading a rumour. This is as per a Microsoft site.

You may have noticed from my blog posts lately that these days I am spending considerable time working with LINQ. Although I mainly concentrate on LINQ To Objects and LINQ To XML, I often wander around and play with other flavors of LINQ as well. Today, just out of curiosity I wanted to see how [...]

While working, you will always find two things running on my machine. One is without any doubt Visual Studio and second is MSDN Library. Since this morning after installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1 I’ve been trying to get my hands on the latest MSDN Library. Thanks to Iftekhar who pointed me to the latest [...]

Introduction
At times us developers have to deal with delimited text files in our applications. Such files have been around since yonks and I often come across data import/export tasks where delimited files are used. Till now the common way in .NET has been to read each line and then extract data using some sort of [...]