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New Product Editions for Visual Studio 2010
Oh, that's quite long since I blogged. Personal problems pulled my energy level badly and took my focus away from my regular work/life. So bad that I felt I never existed in this technology world. Everything seems to be new to me! Well, I hope it's...
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Mon, Oct 19 2009 15:45
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Siva M
One More Training Kit...
Yet another training kit focused on developers: Windows 7 RC Training Kit for Developers .
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Tue, Jun 9 2009 11:59
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Siva M
Training Kits
I most of the time forget what offline free training resources are available from Micrsoft when someone asks for them. Now, I have a place to point them to: http://weblogs.asp.net/gunnarpeipman/archive/2009/06/04/list-of-microsoft-training-kits.aspx ...
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Fri, Jun 5 2009 8:05
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Siva M
WPF Grid from Xceed
Microsoft has a WPF version of the DataGrid control outside its standard .NET Framework release 3.0+. This off-branch data grid is part of the WPF Toolkit maintained/released at CodePlex . However, a better one (in terms of features/ease of use, so far...
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Sat, May 23 2009 15:34
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Siva M
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WPF
Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007 Now Free!
To be honest, when I came across this news bit few days ago, I thought it was a 4/1 prank sort of thing and never got the instinct to check it. When I saw the same news again, I decided to verify it thinking if Microsoft too could do such things. Wow...
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Mon, Apr 6 2009 7:20
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Siva M
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Office 2007
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Design
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SharePoint
data: URI Scheme - Part 2
In Part 1 , I discussed what the data: URI scheme is all about, its various usage scenarios and available browser support. Let's see few examples in this post. Just copy and paste the following HTML code into a HTML file and open it any of Firefox...
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Thu, Apr 2 2009 10:24
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Siva M
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JavaScript
Power of JavaScript!
Almost no one doubts it, but still how powerful it is? Just go to http://www.chromeexperiments.com and see it for yourself! These awesome visuals use only JS and JS-based frameworks (such as Prototype & JQuery); no Adobe Flash or Microsoft Silverlight...
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Tue, Mar 31 2009 13:32
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Siva M
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JavaScript
ASP.NET MVC Training Kit
After other Microsoft developer training kits, now is a new one: ASP.NET MVC Training Kit . Get it (~12 MB)!
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Tue, Mar 31 2009 13:04
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Siva M
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ASP.NET MVC
data: URI Scheme - Part 1
One of the new features introduced in IE8 is support for the data: protocol. Though IE8's support this protocol is a welcome one, it is very limited in terms of features and usage compared to other browsers that have been supporting this protocol...
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Mon, Mar 23 2009 8:39
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Siva M
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Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer 8 RTW
The final version of Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 has been released at last. I am not a big fan of alpha & CTP releases and never bother to install them and play around and read up stuff others have written about such releases - just to catch up...
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Sun, Mar 22 2009 8:32
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Siva M
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Internet Explorer
Server-side Automation of MS Office Applications
I usually don't talk too much about or discuss things that are commonly known to everyone. Why add noise unnecessarily when something has already been discussed overwhelmingly by the internet community and all it takes is an internet search to find...
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Sun, Mar 22 2009 5:35
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Siva M
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Office 2007
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Office
On Twitter Now!
I am on Twitter now!...
Published
Wed, Mar 18 2009 15:26
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Siva M
WCF Security Guide
After the beta-2 June this year, v1 of the WCF security guidance from Microsoft Patterns & Practices team is available now. Get it from its CodePlex site.
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Wed, Aug 6 2008 12:12
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Siva M
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Design
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XML Utility Method in .NET BCL
XML has a set of special characters that cannot appear in element/attribute names and values: &, <, >, " and '. For example, <entityText>Mark & Spencer's</entityText> is not valid. The valid equivalent is <companyName>Mark...
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Wed, Aug 6 2008 4:23
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Siva M
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.NET
Unity 1.1 Download
Microsoft's version of dependency injection (DI) container, Unity (a.k.a., Unity Application Block) v1.1 is available for download . As you might remember 1.0 was released just back in April 2008. The documentation for v1.1 is here (VS 2005) and here...
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Fri, May 16 2008 9:54
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Siva M
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Design
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Visual Studio
Microsoft Enterprise Library 4.0 - Here Comes!
The latest version of Microsoft Enterprise Library, v4.0, is finally here for download ! The most important additions in this release for me are VS 2008 support and integration of Unity dependency injection container (Unity Application Block). Go grab...
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Fri, May 16 2008 9:51
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Siva M
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.NET
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Design
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Visual Studio
Visual Studio 2008 Edition Feature Comparison
You know Visual Studio 2008 comes in many editions but ever wanted to know the features available with these editions? Microsoft has a comprehensive feature matrix (for quite some time) here . A downloadable copy is also available here . If you are deciding...
Published
Fri, May 16 2008 9:27
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Siva M
Filed under:
Visual Studio
.NET Training Kits - Free Download
Couple of training kits available for download from Microsoft: .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit
Published
Tue, Apr 22 2008 8:12
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Siva M
Filed under:
.NET
Response.WriteLine()
Even today, many developers use the classic debugging 'tool', Response.Write() , when developing ASP/ASP.NET applications. Typically, this is the choice when someone wants to do quick debugging in a page - check variable values at runtime, write...
Published
Tue, Apr 22 2008 7:55
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Siva M
Filed under:
ASP.NET
.NET Framework 3.5 Common Namespaces and Types Poster
Came across this recently: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7b645f3a-6d22-4548-a0d8-c2a27e1917f8&displaylang=en&tm Available in both XPS and PDF forms, each with one large size and split/tiled format.
Published
Fri, Mar 14 2008 12:49
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Siva M
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.NET
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