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Microsoft Website Spark and Web Application Toolkits

Shoban — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:30:08 +0000

I am sure you must have heard about Biz Spark and Dream Spark where start ups and students can get free software from Microsoft. Here is another useful program adding up to Biz Spark and Dream Spark. Microsoft announced Webspite Spark for Web developers and designers get free software from Microsoft.

Are you a professional Web Developer or Designer?
Does your company have 10 or fewer employees?

Then Website Spark is the program for you. You can get Free software, Training and Support from Microsoft. Sign up today and enjoy the benefits.

This is not all. Microsoft also announced the Web Application Toolkits for Web Developers.

The goal for the Web Application Toolkits is to provide Web Developers with resources such as project templates, controls, and code samples along with simplified documentation all in a consistent packaged format that is easy to download and run in a very short period of time.

Watch the introduction video in Channel9. As of now 7 Toolkits are released.

More details here.

Change Target Framework after creating a project in Visual Studio

Shoban — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:15:56 +0000

I am working on a new hobby project and accidentally I chose the Target Framework as .net framework 3.5 instead of 2.0. So how can I change the target framework version after creating the project? Here is how you do it.

Right Click the Project in the solution explorer and choose Properties
Go to Compile tab and click Advanced Compile Options
In the resulting Window, Choose the correct framework from the drop down Target Framework
Click ok

10 Useful Outlook 2007 Plug-ins and Tricks

Shoban — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:24:56 +0000

In this article, we will see 10 useful Outlook Plug-ins and Tricks that can be used with Outlook 2007. Some of them should even work in previous versions of Outlook.

Tip 1: Defer Email in Outlook: Sometimes we send an email and then realize that we missed an important part of the message. I always wished we had Ctrl + Z (Undo) in Outlook. But here is an easy trick to delay email messages even after you press the “Send” button. We achieve this by creating rules in Outlook. Here is how to do it.

Read the rest of my article in dotnetcurry.

Microsoft Web Platform Installer

Shoban — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:30:13 +0000

Microsoft Web Platform Installer is a must tool for every developer out there. No matter what programming language you use if you are using iis as a web serber then Microsoft Web Platform Installer is the right tool for you.

The Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 (Web PI) is a free tool that makes it simple to download, install and keep up-to-date with the latest components of the Microsoft Web Platform, including Internet Information Services (IIS), SQL Server Express, .NET Framework and Visual Web Developer. In addition, install popular open source ASP.NET and PHP web apps with the Web PI.

Download The Microsoft Web Platform Installer from Microsoft website. Its just a 1MB download and takes few seconds to download.

Run the downloaded file and it will start downloading the latest Web Platform products.

The Microsoft Web Platform Installer has three tabs

1. What’s New? : This tab lists new web platform extensions. You can select the required extensions and start installing them. Below screenshot show What’s new tab with ASP.net MVC, PHP and some other extensions.

2. Web Platform: The second tab allows you to manage your Web server, Frameworks and Runtimes, Database installations. This tab also allows you to install tools like Silverlight and Visual Web developer.

3. Web Applications : This is the most useful feature of The Microsoft Web Platform Installer. This tab has a list of useful Web applications which you install directly from your The Microsoft Web Platform Installer. Some of the Apps include BlogEngine.net, Acquia Drupal, Wordpress and lots more

My Session in K-MUG (Kerala Microsoft Users group)

Shoban — Mon, 25 May 2009 07:22:31 +0000

K-MUG conducted another UG session in Trivandrum on 23rd May 2009. Here is the link to ppt about my session on Visual Studio Tips, plugins and useful tools.

Thanks to Allianz Cornhill for letting us use the training room inspite of our last minute request

Security Policy in the v4 CLR

Shoban — Sat, 23 May 2009 14:06:34 +0000

One of the first changes that you might see to security in the v4 CLR is that we’ve overhauled the security policy system. In previous releases of the .NET Framework, CAS policy applied to all assemblies loaded into an application (except for in simple sandbox domains).

That lead to a lot of interesting problems. For instance, one of the more common issues people ran into was that they would develop an application on their local machine that they wanted to share with other people on the network. Once the application was working on their machine, they would share it out, but nobody could run it over the network because CAS policy provided a lower grant set to assemblies loaded from the intranet than it does to assemblies loaded from the local machine. The usual result was unexpected and unhandled SecurityExceptions when trying to use the application.

Generally, the only solution to this problem was to either manually update the CAS policy on each machine that wanted to run the application, deploy the application some other way (for instance via ClickOnce), or use native code.

One of the worst things about this problem was that the additional pain of not being able to just share a managed app over the network wasn’t actually buying any security. If an application wanted to attack your machine, it could bypass the sandbox that the CLR was setting up simply by being written in native code.

Read the rest.

Low bandwidth MSDN

Shoban — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:04:16 +0000

Low Bandwidth MSDN

Basically, instead of visiting:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmlnode.aspx

you could add “(loband)” to the URL, like:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmlnode(loband).aspx

Instead of the standard MSDN page:

You’d get a nice streamlined version. This is great for not only low-bandwidth situations, but also phones, pdas, screenreaders, etc. More on that in a second.

Interested in knowing more hidden features about mdsn? then check this link out.

Computer Programming Algorithms Directory

Shoban — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:03:08 +0000

http://www.algosort.com/ has a very useful list computer algorithms.

How many engineers does it take to create a cross browser button?

Shoban — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 03:24:42 +0000

You all must have noticed the new buttons in Gmail. Although it does not look like normal buttons there is an interesting story behind it. Interested in knowing more? Check this post in Ajaxian.

Show line numbers in Visual Studio

Shoban — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 07:45:00 +0000

Here is a how you can ebable Visual studio to show line numbers in the editor.

Got to Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> All Languages -> General
Check Line numbers

The above settings will show line numbers for all the Files. If you just want to see (or not see) the line numbers of a specific file, you can override this global setting by going to the Text Editor – – General page.

Via Sara Ford’s blog

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