This is a test
Published Sat, Sep 12 2009 19:44 | Paul June
testing 123 (Windows Live Writer)
Microsoft DigiDesk
Published Tue, May 8 2007 0:59 | Paul June
Ever watched StarTrek? Ever noticed the panels that they are using in the StarShip Enterprise? Well I guess this fiction wouldn’t be too fiction anyway. Microsoft introduced DigiDesk, their upcomming “futuristic” product that will let’s say, the trend...
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Bill eats at Hooters!
Published Mon, May 7 2007 17:38 | Paul June
I just found this picture of Bill Gates and Warren Buffet with the Hooters Girls . I guess both of the world’s richest men (Bill Gates - #1, Warren Buffet - #3) are having quite a good time. Though I’m not sure if its genuine (looks genuine enough for...
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Expression Blend Released!
Published Mon, May 7 2007 17:33 | Paul June
With the release of Silverlight beta Microsoft also released its FlashApp killer, Expression Blend. Witht this, Microsoft is now enroute to a head on collision with Adobe. Expression Blend is just one of the product contained on the Expression Suite....
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Blog Moved!
Published Tue, Oct 3 2006 19:34 | Paul June
Please refer to my new blogsite for some updated release. If you want to know just about programming in .Net then you can just subscribe to the Programming category... My new blog site: http://webmag.mvps.org/ All posts here were imported there. So all...
Optimizing your Startup
Published Wed, Aug 30 2006 4:10 | Paul June
Many .Net programmers, including me, have complained on the slow startup of .Net applications. I know that this only occurs during the first execution of your application. Why does this thing happen? It’s because of the JIT compiler. The JIT compiler...
Creating an ActiveX Control in Visual Studio 2005
Published Wed, Aug 16 2006 6:26 | Paul June
There have been misconceptions on technologies upon the arrival of .Net. Many programmers believe that the arrival of .Net means the scrapping of all previous technologies. Or in other word the COM technology. COM or ActiveX technology has been around...
Creating Control Arrays
Published Wed, Aug 2 2006 19:27 | Paul June
Control arrays are a very useful functionality in your application. They tend to simplify things that you are doing to a certain number of controls. For example, you want to disable a numerous number of textboxes, you wouldn’t have to code each textbox...
Multiple Projects in a Single Solution in VS2005
Published Wed, Aug 2 2006 18:02 | Paul June
Creating Multiple Projects in a Single Solution is a pretty quite simple thing to do in Visual Studio 2003. It’s a matter of right clicking your solution in the solution explorer then select “Add New Project”. Well this simplicity has completely vanished...
Sql Server 2005 Everywhere Edition
Published Sat, Jul 29 2006 2:53 | Paul June
Tired of deployment problems with Sql Server? Ever wished that your database is just contained in a single file? Well, your wished has just been granted! Welcome to Sql Server Everywhere! Sql Server Everywhere is a light-weight database solution designed...
SqlServer 2005 Service Pack 1
Published Mon, Apr 24 2006 21:43 | Paul June
SqlServer 2005 SP1 has just been released. Well a few days earlier I mean. Yep, since the release of SqlServer 2005 on November 2005, Microsoft releases the first its very first service pack. For the information of others, the service pack has been on...
The Database Express Editions Battle
Published Tue, Apr 18 2006 22:46 | Paul June
A mid-scale database solution is one of the booming businesses nowadays. Many mid-sized companies are now moving to the IT trend. One of the obstacles that a company might encounter is the cost of database systems. I mean it’s not quite feasible for a...
Record Paging in SQL Server
Published Mon, Apr 10 2006 22:49 | Paul June
One of the most common problems during a development of a database application is displaying large amounts of data. Fetching all of the data from your server and displaying it directly in your application is not a very good idea. Coz fetching large amounts...
Code Master Challenge
Published Thu, Apr 6 2006 18:20 | Paul June
Wonder what’s bugging this guy? It’s a new contest on Microsoft called the “Code Master Challenge”. Yet another contest to entice developers to develop apps using the new features of the Delayed, yet upcoming, Windows Vista. This contest comes with a...
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Code Refactoring
Published Sat, Apr 1 2006 17:26 | Paul June
Another great new tool provided in VS2005 is Code Refactoring. What is Refactoring? Well, it’s the ability to change the internal structure of your code without changing the external behavior of your code. Code Refactoring has 7 operations; you can use...
Creating Code Snippets
Published Sun, Mar 26 2006 21:01 | Paul June
My previous blog entry discusses the essentials on using Code Snippets to speed up your development. But as you would have noticed, not all snippets that are available would cater to your needs. In this scenario, you must create your own Code Snippets...
Using Code Snippets
Published Sat, Mar 25 2006 18:54 | Paul June
Visual Studio 2005 offers a great IDE for improving your coding speeds. One if the feature that would definitely boost your speed up is the Code Snippet. Code Snippets are pieces of code that you can automatically insert in your source code to avoid redundant...
Indexers
Published Thu, Mar 23 2006 16:33 | Paul June
I had just a run-in-review with this feature when my friend asked me how to enable your class to contain “angle bars []” to return a value from his class, much like an array. Well, the proper way of doing this is to use Indexers in your class. Indexers...
Previewing LinQ
Published Mon, Mar 20 2006 19:45 | Paul June
Just today, I tried previewing the LinQ project. If anyone of doesn’t know what the LinQ project is, it’s a new set of API’s to enable enhanced querying that is embedded to your code. LinQ stands for Language Integrated Query. The first preview was made...
Serialization
Published Fri, Mar 17 2006 20:26 | Paul June
I know that this is an old age technology in .Net. But I was surprised that some C# programmers still don’t know about serialization. So I’m creating this blog for the ones who still hasn’t got any idea on serialization. But if you already know this,...
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