Entries categorized 'Blog'

Some important events this week

There’s been a bit of buzz on the web around this time of year.. Well for starters   Microsoft had their PDC taking place in LA which always ensure that one or more exciting news is making headways. This year’s keynote presentations ( Keynote 2 ),  revolved around  three screens ...

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Posted by Sunny Nagi on Friday, November 20 2009 No Comments

VS2010 Beta 2 ISO downloads available now

Following the release of VS2010 and .Net 4 Beta 2 two days ago they are now available for general download . Following are some of the ISOs that have been made available Visual Studio Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate (web bootstrapper) Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate (.ISO) Visual Studio 2010 Premium (web bootstrapper...

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Posted by Sunny Nagi on Thursday, October 22 2009 No Comments

VS2010 and .Net 4.0 Beta 2 available, end of the road for SourceSafe ?

Today Microsoft announced release of Beta 2 of visual studio 2010 and .net framework 4. This is immediately available to all MSDN subscribers . Most importantly this release also includes “go-live” license which means you can start using the products for production projects. Interesting thing to note...

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Posted by Sunny Nagi on Tuesday, October 20 2009 No Comments

Google Wave invite

Anyone after a google wave invite I have about 4 left. Email me your gmail address.

Posted by Sunny Nagi on Wednesday, October 14 2009 No Comments

Secure password

With recent attacks on Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo! mail accounts need for secure passwords has become much more evident. Gmail team have put together a really nice blog entry about some of the best practices that should get utilised when choosing a secure password. There are also many software out on the...

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Posted by Sunny Nagi on Wednesday, October 07 2009 1 Comment

History of Visual Studio

Following up from history of Microsoft videos, channel 9 are about to embark on series of documentary videos explaining the history of Visual studio. For those who don’t know about Visual Studio , it is considered one of the most critical tools that all microsoft platform developers have used for years...

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Posted by Sunny Nagi on Friday, October 02 2009 No Comments

Office 2010: Outlook First impression

For last week or so, I have been running Office 2010 Technical preview now. I received my connect invite over a week ago and after hour long download and install process I got my office 2010 32 bit version working on win 7 install :). One thing that you will notice straightaway is that Outlook now has...

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Posted by Sunny Nagi on Wednesday, July 29 2009 No Comments

History of Microsoft Part 2

Following up from my previous post about series on channel9 about world’s most amazing software development firm. Here are some of the recent episodes: 1989 , 1990 , 1991 , 1992 , 1993 , 1994 , 1995 , 1996 , 1997 , 1998 Enjoy :)...

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Posted by Sunny Nagi on Wednesday, July 29 2009 No Comments

Windows 7 developer contest

Microsoft have announced a developer contest ( code7contest ) that challenges developers to write an “amazing windows 7 application” the competition price is trip to LA for PDC09 and upto $17,777 in cash. According to windows team blog “ To enter, you must: Build an original, consumer-oriented client...

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Posted by Sunny Nagi on Thursday, July 16 2009 No Comments

ERROR: WCF deployment on shared hosting: This collection already contains an address with scheme http

I have been lately working on a WCF version of the gallery engine that I use for my photo gallery. Since I  have been using shared hosting server, I had few issues in getting WCF services working on my account. First up seems like few of the DLL’s were missing, and I when I finished up sorting everything...

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Posted by Sunny Nagi on Tuesday, July 14 2009 No Comments