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Prices Slashed - Community Server Quickly

anandn — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:21:00 GMT

Amazon.com has slashed the price of my book Community Server Quickly. It is now available for USD 35.99 with free super save shipping.

Please visit http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1847190871 to order today itself to take advantage of this special price.

Ambani overtakes BillG

anandn — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 05:34:00 GMT

With the yesterday's big Mumbai stock market boom, Mukesh Ambani has overtaken Bill Gates (Chairman of Microsoft Corporation, USA) to become world's richest person. I think this will be only for a short period of time as the stock market behaves pretty Up and Down. Let's see what happens!!!

Buy my book from http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1847190871

Amazing Amazon

anandn — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 04:44:00 GMT

Check out http://amaztype.tha.jp/US/Books/Title?q=community+server

See how the word Community Server is formed by powdering the cover pages of my book - Community Server Book and another one by Wrox. If you click on it then a large view will be displayed and relevant information regarding the site will be displayed. This site is a classic example of using Amazon web service.

Unfortunately, the system is not accepting my full name and hence I am unable to track the book with the Name.

Author of Community Server Quickly

ASP.NET Site redesigned

anandn — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 05:37:00 GMT

Microsoft has redesigned the official website of ASP.NET - http://www.asp.net/

The site looks cool and better now.

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10 lakh points and counting

anandn — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 05:21:00 GMT

I've so far earned 10 lakh points at community-credit.com since May 2006. Right now, I am in the second spot of All Time highers.

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My blog is now running under Community Server 2007

anandn — Wed, 02 May 2007 10:27:00 GMT

I was amazed to see that my blog at msmvps.com is enabled with Community Server 2007. I can see that most of the settings are same as CS 2.1 except the changes to user interface and theming system. So you can purchase my book - Community Server Quickly and use it without any fear. I already included the new features of CS 2007 on the book.

CRT Replaced with LCD

anandn — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:52:00 GMT

I replaced Samsung CRT with a new 19'' inch LG Flatron TFT LCD monitor. It occupies less space than CRT but the top portion is getting hotter upon usage. The bottom portion is not much hot. I feel that this is normal among all monitors but I will search on the web about this. I've to use it for some more days to get accustomed with it.

Community Server Quickly

Tools for powering Windows and Web Development

anandn — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:30:00 GMT

I received an e-mail from O'Reilly about the launch of the book Windows Developer Power Tools written by James Avery and Jim Holmes. They also requested me to blog about some of the tools which I use for simplifying the development task daily.

I love SourceFormatX which is available from http://www.textrush.com and I use the shareware version for formatting codes posted by ASPAlliance authors. I am using it for over one year now and it works like a breeze.

Some other products which attracted me a lot are as follows

Instant C# - converts VB code to C# http://www.tangiblesoftwaresolutions.com/Product_Details/Instant_CSharp/Instant_CSharp.htm

Instant VB - converts C# code to VB http://www.tangiblesoftwaresolutions.com/Product_Details/Instant_VB/Instant_VB.htm

The above two code conversion softwares enabled you to convery VB code into C# and C# code into VB very easily.

I also found some of the powerful ASP.NET Content Management Systems and tools.

DozingDogs - http://www.dozingdogs.com/
MojoPortal - http://www.mojoportal.com
EmagicCMS - http://www.emagiccms.com

Umbraco CMS for ASP.NET - http://www.umbraco.org
Cuyahoga CMS for ASP.NET - http://www.cuyahoga-project.org/

One of the nice features of all the above CMS applications is that all of them are free.

I also found the following two applications. I've not used it but planning to deploy them very soon.

JitBit Help Desk & Forum - http://www.jitbit.com

The authors have covered some of the applications oriented for Web development like DotNetNuke and Community Server but the title of the book doesn't reflect this.

Anand Narayanaswamy, Chief Technical Editor, ASPAlliance.com and Author of Community Server Quickly (http://tinyurl.com/yrattg)

Telligent featured Community Server Quickly

anandn — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 15:32:00 GMT

Telligent has showcased my book Community Server Quickly on their home page. I hope that this will boost sales of my book

It's easy with XCeed ZIP component

anandn — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:54:00 GMT

I was on a lookout for a good component which automatically extracts a ZIP file located on the server. Finally, I found Xceed ZIP for .NET, which performs the task with only few lines of code. I managed to unzip even a file with 5 MB in size very easily. I'm posting a tutorial with code snippet to illustrate how easy it is to unzip a ZIP file. Please note that you should ZIP the file using WINZIP.

You can easily extract the contents of a ZIP file on the server by following the steps given below.

Please note that in order to work with the example you should install XCeed ZIP for .NET which is available for download (45 days trial) from http://xceed.com/Zip_Net_Whatsnew.html

Step - 1

Copy the following DLL's to the BIN directory of your website. If there is no such directory, then you can create it

Xceed.Compression.dll
Xceed.Compression.Formats.dll
Xceed.FileSystem.dll
Xceed.Zip.dll

You can locate these DLL files from Program Files\Xceed Components\Bin\.NET folder

Step - 2

Add the following code to the Page_Load() event

Try
Xceed.Zip.Licenser.LicenseKey = "ZINXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXX"
Dim zip As New ZipArchive(New DiskFile(Server.MapPath(".") & "\Test.zip"))
Dim folder As New DiskFolder(Server.MapPath("."))
zip.CopyFilesTo(folder, True, True)
Response.Write("Files Unzipped Successfully")
Catch err As Exception
Response.Write(err.Message)
Finally
End Try

That's it. Execute the file and you will see a message "Files Unzipped Successfully". You should see a new folder named Test with the required file inside the root of your domain.

Please make sure to upload Test.Zip into the root directory before attempting to run the project

Amazon.com Issue Fixed

anandn — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 06:37:00 GMT

My book (Community Server Quickly) page at Amazon.com now displays the correct pricing along with its Availability. It took over 1 month to fix the issue. However, there are no discounts available from Amazon.com. There is some discount available for my book at Amazon.co.uk.

If you want to purchase my book at a huge discounted price then please visit BarnesandNobles.com or purchase directly from Packt Publishing.

I will update the book website with all purchase options soon.

Author Copies in Hand

anandn — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:52:00 GMT

Today, I received 5 copies of my book from Packt Publishing in a big giant box filled with packing papers. The book looks really nice and cool. Everything is perfect inside the book. I hope my book will help readers to learn more.

I'm waiting for the amazon to fix the price issue on their site and also to activate Amazon's Connect page. I'm also waiting to read the reviews posted by reviewers. I'm sure things will become really hot after New Year.

Book Released - Community Server Quickly

anandn — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:47:00 GMT

I am happy today because my book "Community Server Quickly" has been released today by Packt Publishing and is Available Now for purchase at 10% discount.

It will take some time for the book to be reflected at Amazon.com and bn.com but it is now officially available from http://www.packtpub.com/community-server/book

Cover Page of Community Server Quickly

anandn — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 05:28:00 GMT

Pre order now