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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 of corporations in the next few years to come. I really love the demo, its quite impresive. View Source

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 me). Read at source

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. A direct competitor of the Macromedia suite which was purchased by Adobe. Read More

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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 tends to re-compile your .Net Assembly (.exe, .dll) to produce a native image of that assembly in your computer and store in a cache. As you might have already known, the assemblies that we are compiling in Visual Studio are not the native exe that is

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 us for very long. So it’s not quite easy to scrap a long-time proven technology. Some also believed that the .Net technology replaces the ActiveX in all applications. Well, sadly this is not true. I was awakened by this reality when I handled a code

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 for disabling, instead you would just use a loop for disabling these certain controls. In the Visual Basic 6.0 era, creating control arrays are just a snap. Creating controls with the same name would automatically array your controls. But in the .Net

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 upon the introduction of Visual Studio 2005. This matter has already been questioned a number of times in the MSDN forums . And I guess it’s time for me to blog about this. As I have mentioned earlier, this is a simple thing in Visual Studio 2003

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 for easy deployment. It’s a file based Sql Server that caters desktop and mobile applications. So what’s its difference with Sql Server Express? Sql Server Everywhere is designed to be used only by a single application. It means that it doesn’t support