Nikhil's Blog
About VSTO and random technology tidbits
Shortcut tip: Ctrl + shift + Esc and Ctrl + alt + end
I recently learnt a new shortcut to get to the task manager: Ctrl + shift + Esc. It's especially...
Date: 04/15/2008
InfoPath forms deployment, SharePoint workflow in VS 2008
A number of developers who have tried the SharePoint workflow features in VS 2008 wanted to know...
Date: 01/22/2008
SharePoint Workflow feature in VS 2008 (Part II)
I will continue from my last post on authoring SharePoint workflows in VS 2008 by providing a...
Date: 01/19/2008
SharePoint Workflow feature in VS 2008
As mentioned in earlier posts, I was one of the developers on the SharePoint Workflow feature in VS...
Date: 01/15/2008
Visual Studio 2008 released
With a lot of fanfare, VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 released on Nov. 19th. Talking to customers and early...
Date: 12/04/2007
Performance tips for the BCL
This is a good article on performance tips of the .NET Framework Base Class Library -...
Date: 11/07/2007
VS 2008 and SharePoint Workflow
The "Orcas" release train has been keeping me busy. For a long time I have been thinking of blogging...
Date: 09/11/2007
VSTO file type mapping is lost
Some people have been running into this issue with VS2008 Beta 2 as posted on the MSDN forum. I am...
Date: 08/27/2007
VS 2008 Beta 2 has released
This is a significant milestone in the VS 2008 development cycle. Almost all our features have...
Date: 07/27/2007
What have I been reading?
A good read for developers: How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary....
Date: 06/19/2007
Bill Gates' Harvard commencement speech
I'll take an exception form the technical tone of this blog and comment on a a great speech by Bill...
Date: 06/18/2007
Enabling remote desktop remotely
I do not remember how many times I have tried to connect to a remote desktop using terminal...
Date: 06/14/2007
Give feedback on "Orcas" feature specifications
In the last few years, blogs have been largely instrumental in increasing transparency into...
Date: 06/06/2007
VSTO 2008 Beta 1 - What's in there?
VS 2008 Beta 1 has been out for a while, and there are ton of features in it. Lately, people have...
Date: 06/06/2007
Enabling and Disabling AutoRun in windows explorer
I use an external hard drive on my Windows XP box at home. What bothers me is that everytime I turn...
Date: 11/19/2006
This is where i work - Visual studio building
Visual Studio Building - Building 41 - Image added using Windows Live Writer. I decided to try some...
Date: 11/17/2006
Office 2007 Developer Roadmap
The Office 2007 system is a truly extensible platform for creating applications. There are some...
Date: 11/14/2006
VSTO 2005 SE BETA is out!!
VSTO 2005 Second Edition (SE) Beta (codenamed "Cypress") has been released on the web. I had been...
Date: 09/15/2006
Windows live writer
This is my first post using the Windows Live Writer. I found this tool really slick - extremely...
Date: 08/28/2006
Refreshing assembly being loaded by IIS
Recently I have been working with a project that requires me to place an updated assembly in the GAC...
Date: 08/03/2006
Cypress - Between Whidbey and Orcas
Recently I had been working on VSTO 2.5 codenamed "Cypress", which includes runtime support to...
Date: 07/18/2006
Singleton Pattern- Non-trivial implementation concerns?
Back again to blogging - lets see how long will this spurt last. Hopefully for a longer duration as...
Date: 06/13/2006
Complex databinding in detail
Currently, I am working on the ListObject control, one of the view controls shipped as part of VSTO...
Date: 02/21/2006
.NET developers in great demand
From the time .NET Framework v1.0 was released in 2002, it has surely become very popular. I have...
Date: 02/06/2006
VSTA is out!!
So Visual Studio Tools for Applications is out! I am excited about the product and Im sure it will...
Date: 02/05/2006
First real post
Its been a while since I posted anything. Let me start by talking about the team I work in and the...
Date: 01/26/2006
My first entry: HelloWorld!
Finally, I have gotten started to blogging @MS. I used toblog previously at...
Date: 11/03/2005