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Blog of Shital Shah (shitals) on .Net, machine learning, life at Microsoft, physics, mathematics and such stuff

BadImageFormatException - This assembly is built by a runtime newer than the currently loaded

Strange thing happened today. I upgraded one of the internal tool to .Net 4.0 without any issues but...

Date: 04/23/2012

A Day in SQL Tuning

Today I got in to some heavy weight TSQL tuning. This time the target was a legendary sproc that was...

Date: 01/27/2010

Test Results Windows and Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation

Just a note… if you are getting “Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation” message...

Date: 12/31/2009

What to do on dreaded error CS0003: Out of memory

I’ve spent way too much of time today (again!) on this error so here’s blog post for future reminder...

Date: 12/31/2009

Silencing Exceptions in a Little Better Way

Some of the most disastrous code usually takes the following form try { //some code } catch { }...

Date: 12/07/2009

Find Path of a Command Line Tool

Many times you work on different machines, execute a command line tool but often wonder where that...

Date: 10/29/2009

How to Right Align Address in Word Document

May be the silliest thing but how do you align address on the right side of a letter in Microsoft...

Date: 10/09/2009

Selecting Random Row From SQL Server Table

It is important to make sure your automated tests covers various real-world data combinations (for...

Date: 10/05/2009

Solving Shared Notebook Sync Issue With OneNote 2010

Since about 3 years we used Groove to share calendar, notes and files within family – until I...

Date: 08/07/2009

Twitter Dishing Out 417 - Expectation Failed to .Net Clients

My little Twitter app was broke since past few days with error 417 - Expectation Failed. Infect most...

Date: 12/27/2008

Space Elevator Conference

They do have Space Elevator Conference, complete with a blog! Looks like MSR is participating too...

Date: 06/28/2008

Why would you still get "Strong name validation failed"?

There are not many web pages mentioning this so I would just post this so it comes up in search....

Date: 05/01/2008

A quicker way to Twitter

Past weekend, I finally thought about giving Twitter a try and started looking for a client app that...

Date: 04/22/2008

Run As... is back in Vista!

Yes, this dearly missed shell context menu item is now available again in Windows Vista, thanks to...

Date: 04/22/2008

Phun With Physics Simulations

This addictive program can easily keep you busy for rest of the weekend so be careful :). Phun is a...

Date: 03/08/2008

Hello Word

Hello, I'm Shital Shah. I currently work with NGIM team at Microsoft as SDE. I intend to use my MSDN...

Date: 03/07/2008