Today I visited ebay for I think the 5th time in my life and I found that they have a new sidebar for Internet Explorer 8. What’s cool about this side bar is that it uses Silverlight.. You can view your active auctions and get information on your bids. A cool addin for ebay users. [...]

During the course of a project we often end up adding elements to style sheets which do not get used. This causes css files to bloat which impacts performance. The best thing to do is to keep track of css elements which are not being used and remove them. This can become a strenuous task [...]

SQL Server 2008 Developer Training Kit is available for download from Microsoft. Here is some information about this training kit taken from Microsoft’s site. The SQL Server 2008 Developer Training Kit will help you understand how to build web applications which deeply exploit the rich data types, programming models and new development paradigms in SQL [...]

I got a message on Facebook from my friend Rajnesh who said that while he was delighted to see my Twitter updates which were both motivational and inspiring, he found that the flow of wisdom was a bit too much . Okay, he did not say that exactly but basically my Twitter updates are showing [...]

I run Windows Server 2008 as my workstation and lately I found the need to search historic emails in Outlook. This resulted in a nag from Outlook telling me that Windows Search Service must be enabled. Thus I am writing this post as a future reference for myself in case I forget how to do [...]

For those who are following me on Twitter know how eager I was to get my hands on Visual Studio 2010 beta1. Today I downloaded it and installed it on my Windows 7 VM. This post is a random collection of my early observations. It is full of screenshots. Enjoy. The start page had a [...]

Microsoft will give customers a first look at Office 2010 through an invitation only Technical Preview program. They have put up a website where you can sign up for the invitation. Link to Office 2010 Technical Preview Registration.

Just wanted to let readers of this blog know that I will be presenting Cloud Computing for .Net Developers at WDNUG (Wollongong .Net User Group) on 13th May 2009. ADNUG (Adelaide .Net User Group) on 10th June 2009.   I look forward to meeting developers at these user groups and enjoy a geeky evening. If [...]

Last Thursday was the first meeting of vNext user group. I’d like to thank attendees for coming to the meeting and I hope that in return everyone learned something. Now to reflections. The turn out was about 50 people and we had plenty of toys to give out. I got great feedback on the presentation [...]

This snippet will show you how to get the currently logged in user on windows. System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity identity = System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent(); Console.WriteLine(identity.Name);

If you run a website then you assume the comfort that people from all over the world can browse your site. This may not be completely true. For example your site could be blocked or just not accessible from certain cities in the world. Just Ping is a service you can use to find out [...]

After releasing Office 2007 SP2, Microsoft has unveiled screenshots for Office 2010. Like all previous versions Office 2010 will also introduce UI innovations but the most interesting thing about Office 2010 is that most Office Suite applications will also have a corresponding web application. In simple terms this means that we will be able to [...]