Category Archives: Misc

We might be running our applications simultaneously in multiple application pools.  Every application pool is associated with a worker process.  Sometimes, to attach to a worker process using Visual Studio, we may not know which worker process (as no application … Continue reading →

  Every developer knows (at least, should know) that StringBuilder outperforms String when working with too many string concatenations (especially in a loop).  But, not everyone knows the worst method.   I ran a simple string concatenation test with other similar concatenation methodologies … Continue reading →

  As long as you have mails (or even mail backup) on your local computer, you should be able to push back to mail server.   The following are the steps:   If the account is configured as “Personal Folders”, … Continue reading →

  Intermittently, your external harddisk may turn to readonly mode.  I am talking about the harddisks which do not have any exclusive read-only switch/locks.  Even if you restart or plug-in to another computer, the readonly mode may not change.   … Continue reading →

  Hai Everyone,   Yesterday, I was lucky enough to receive first version of "Windows 7 Beta" installed successfully on my machine.  Definitely, it is the most exciting "Windows" release ever.  It is almost impossible to cover all of its … Continue reading →

  Hai,   My new article on "Two way Binding with Silverlight 2.0 controls to WCF" got published here http://www.aspfree.com/c/a/Windows-Scripting/Introducing-Two-Way-Data-Binding-using-Silverlight-20-WCF-and-LINQ-to-SQL/   Thanks, Jag

In depth guide to programming Windows Security using .NET is covered in ".NET Developer’s guide to Windows Security".  Best of all, it is available FREE to read it on-line.    It is available here http://www.pluralsight.com/wiki/default.aspx/Keith.GuideBook.HomePage   Thanks Keith, for helping .NET … Continue reading →

Hi, During a multi project/solution development, we would always copy DLLs or other executables from source folder to destination folder on every successful build.  We can configure our Visual Studio Project in such a way that it copies DLLs (or … Continue reading →

.NET Framework 3.5 Common Namespaces and Types http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/a/3/4a3c7c55-84ab-4588-84a4-f96424a7d82d/NET35_Namespaces_Poster_LORES.pdf   Microsoft® Silverlight™ 1.1 Alpha Developer Reference http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=811D8AD6-8D48-4684-B08C-686462D58A56&displaylang=en   Visual C# 2008 Keybinding Reference http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e5f902a8-5bb5-4cc6-907e-472809749973&displaylang=en   Visual Basic 2008 Keybinding Reference http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=255b8cf1-f6bd-4b55-bb42-dd1a69315833&displaylang=en   Visual C++ 2008 Keybinding Reference http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4411BBFC-0E3C-42B3-BD05-AF1D292C986F&displaylang=en   Visual C++ … Continue reading →