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Top 2 things you should know about the Global Assembly Cache (GAC) in .NET 4.0

The Global Assembly Cache underwent a few changes in .NET 4.0. On your first few days with .NET 4.0...

Date: 06/07/2010

Live Mesh makes it easy for you to set your Windows Mobile Ringtones

I've not used anything but a Windows Mobile (oops Windows Phone!) for the past 7-8 years, even...

Date: 07/12/2009

27th June 2008

It’s a little over 2 years that we first heard of it ...today was the inevitable day. I wasn't...

Date: 06/27/2008

IIS 7 Mobile Admin

IIS 7 Mobile Admin lets you remotely administer a IIS 7 Web server right from your mobile phone. I...

Date: 03/24/2008

Assigning Keyboard Shortcut / Access Keys to your WPF Application

Assigning shortcut/access keys to say a button (So instead of click on the Next Button you can press...

Date: 12/15/2007

Speaking at Tech Ed, India this Saturday

Rajesh Sampath and I will be speaking at Tech ED India (or Techmela as it’s called in its new...

Date: 06/14/2007

"Common Language Runtime detected an invalid program" - InvalidProgramException - When your application has a really large method.

If you've written a whole bunch (and I mean a really big WHOLE bunch) of code inside a method,...

Date: 12/09/2006

Windows Powershell - Cooler than Cool!

As you probably know Windows Powershell has RTWed! You can find the download links and more...

Date: 11/14/2006

Thursday, 15th July 2006 - Hello New World

The world will never be the same - at least for me. Took me a while to let the dust settle in, and...

Date: 06/17/2006

Troubleshooting problems that arise after installing the update for Microsoft Security Bulletin MS05-051

If you are running XP / Windows 2000 / Windows 2003 - you MUST apply the update on...

Date: 10/14/2005

How ActiveSync can affect your Outlook Add-ins

If you develop / use Outlook Add-ins for quite some time you'll run into this fairly common issue...

Date: 08/26/2005

Top 3 Reasons for the "The server instance specified was not found. Please specify the server's address and port." Error

The easiest way to install web parts is probably to use this utility from Microsoft called Install...

Date: 03/05/2005

Using XPath with XML returned by SharePoint Web services

I've seen quite often people writing code that parses thru XML returned by SPS Web services as...

Date: 02/26/2005

Impersonation / Authentication issues when using Integrated Windows Authentication and SharePoint

With Integrated Authentication its fairly often that people find themselves in a situation where the...

Date: 12/07/2004

Creating a WebPart that works both as a consumer and a provider

If you ever have to create a web part that needs to act both like a provider and a consumer in which...

Date: 11/05/2004