tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61099024283945912352011-12-16T09:25:50.454+05:30Technology Blog - Vikas GoyalVikas Goyalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10253625012938454368noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109902428394591235.post-72205270769223748212010-04-27T21:21:00.000+05:302010-04-27T21:21:00.403+05:30

Enterprise Library is one free code library which is recommended for every development team who wants to focus on writing business code instead of spending too much time on writing framework code. By using EL you automatically bring lots of best practices and patterns to your application. P&P team has announced the release of version 5.0.  Though no new block has been added, there are

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Having folder size not available in default view of Windows Explorer is always a challenge during investigation of disk space. Here is a free tool which you can use to find out how your disk space is utilized.   Download Folder Size tool

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MSDN team has launched the preview of Code Search. The target sites are MSDN Library, MSDN Code Gallery, and CodePlex. Some of the search attributes : Search by language.  Looking for ASP.NET examples?  Coding in C++?  Filter your search using the “Language” drop-down list. Search using qualifiers. Filter your search by function calls, definitions, and more. Search by technology area,

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MSDN team has added low bandwidth version also to various view options available for MSDN library pages. Standard View http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmlnode.aspx Low Bandwidth View http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmlnode(loband).aspx PDA http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmlnode(pda).aspx Robots http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/

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Few months back I with others participated in a deep-dive exercise on MSDN and TechNet search. We provided some feedback and I am happy to inform that Server and Tools Online group has released the new/improved features based on feedback received from participants. Much faster Better refinements Page titles fixed. Read full details on Chris’ blog http://blogs.msdn.com/cslemp/archive/

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CHESS is an automated tool from Microsoft Research for finding errors in multithreaded software by systematic exploration of thread schedules. It not only finds errors but also provides a fully repeatable execution of the program leading to the error, thus helping in debugging process. While it is already used by lot of internal groups, it will be showcased to outer world at this year’s PDC.

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MSDN just got better with the release of V1 of social bookmarking on MSDN social, TechNet Social and Expression Social. Now even the content outside of msdn can be aggregated and discovered on MSDN which will remove the need & dependency on external search engines altogether to find content on Microsoft Technologies. List of available features in this release : Organize your bookmarks

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Community Connection team @ Microsoft has released the July 08 CTP of Desktop Client for Microsoft forums which includes MSDN and Technet forums. This release is a read only client so you can subscribe and read the posts but not post. It uses Windows Live ID client sdk or authentication using Live ID and SQL Server CE 3.5 for local data store and synchronization. Authentication Window :  

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If you work on Microsoft Technologies and use Google Search to find related content, you are actually losing on productivity and good content. Let's assume you need introductory information on Microsoft's 'Smart Client'  technology. If I use Google to search .. here it is what I get. Keyword I have used is 'Microsoft Smart Client Application'. Here I am giving advantage to Google by using '

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6 years back working as a developer, i thought of creating a team site for my team. It took me almost one week to create basic html pages and linking them together. Today again I thought of creating a team collaboration site for my team and it took me just 30 minutes which includes complete integration with Corporate network, blogs , wikis, issue tracker, discussion boards, custom lists, etc.

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Over next few days, I will be discussing the implementation of GOF design patterns in CSharp. I wont be discussing the benefits of Design Patterns here ... you can read about them here : Design Patterns. In one line : "They bring best practice for solving common design problems to software development which helps in ensuring success of design and increase in productivity." Here is a quick

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Before continuing with this post, pls go through the following two posts in sequence as they form the basis for this post. Accelerating development using Visual Studio Templates Increasing Productivity/Discipline using Project Templates Consider a scenario where a company is into developing lot of console based utilities and want to display the copyright notice as soon as any of the utility is

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Visual Studio templates are a very efficient way of accelerating development by providing a startup infrastructure for new project creation and new item creations during the project. An excellent example of this is the 'Console Application' project template available in the new project dialog box of Visual Studio. When a new project is created using the 'Console Application' project template, all

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If your team/organization is  into developing lot of similar type of /applications components like libraries, console applications etc with similar structure like config files, then Project Templates feature of Visual Studio 2005 can bring lot of productivity improvements and discipline into your applications. Project templates are way of generating default base structure for similar kind of

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