tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34729442011-04-22T01:56:56.009+05:30A blog on what is happening in the .NET world in India.Anandnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2731100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1061383875131749342003-08-20T18:21:00.000+05:302003-08-20T18:21:15.206+05:30

I have moved over fulltime to Typepad now and so will not be posting regularly here. So this is just going to be an archieve for my older posts and maybe a post now and then.

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1060854408758984082003-08-14T15:16:00.000+05:302003-08-14T15:21:25.660+05:30

I have been having some problem posting in Blogger. So I kind of post most of the stuff in my Typepad blog now. I think over time I would move over to that blog as I find it more and more difficult to keep two sets of blogs up to date.

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1060854247704925922003-08-14T15:14:00.000+05:302003-08-14T15:18:44.613+05:30

My interview about User groups in India and specifically CNUG has appeared in todays FE. Check it out at Usergroups Can Help Members Become More Productive

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1060580919429282002003-08-11T11:18:00.000+05:302003-08-11T11:18:39.460+05:30

Scott Mitchel has started a new website which lists free ASP.NET components. There are also reviews and screenshots.

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1060579718515471732003-08-11T10:58:00.000+05:302003-08-11T10:58:38.636+05:30

Adam pointed to this SF project in his post. This is a remoting channel that allows you to access CORBA objects from your .NET Apps. I think this is cool and really ups the interop value of .NET. Now you can access those CORBA objects without learning anything new. The site says any IIOP object, I suppose it is not really restricted to CORBA alone. This is still in intial stages and so you may

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1060432651701919032003-08-09T18:07:00.000+05:302003-08-09T18:07:31.716+05:30

From Raymond's blog: Why is a registry file called a "hive"? Because one of the original developers of Windows NT hated bees. So the developer who was responsible for the registry snuck in as many bee references as he could. A registry file is called a "hive", and registry data are stored in "cells", which is what honeycombs are made of.

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1060342399255055242003-08-08T17:03:00.000+05:302003-08-08T17:03:19.253+05:30

MS India has just announced some information on TechEd India 2003. They seem to have got this idea that three days together is too much time for people to take off and so have split the whole event into three months(1 day/month). This is, in my opinion, a very bad way of doing things. First of all, the idea of spreading it over three months means, people will lose the thread. There are usually

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1060258793546452542003-08-07T17:49:00.000+05:302003-08-07T17:49:53.553+05:30

I have now become a full fledged Typepad user. The price is quite high by Indian standards, but with their special offer for beta testers I decided to go with it... Not to mention, I have kinda got hooked to this thing now....:-)

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1060251039638481732003-08-07T15:40:00.000+05:302003-08-07T15:40:39.643+05:30

Howl is an implementation of the ZeroConf standard for networking for Windows and *nix. It is open source and also contains an SDK to integrage ZeroConf support into Windows apps(Currently is a C library. Anyone interested in writing a Managed SDK??). ZeroConf aims are plug-and-play networking, where you just connect two computers and they automatically are able to communicate without the need

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1060244546427526082003-08-07T13:52:00.000+05:302003-08-07T13:52:26.413+05:30

Well so many blogs on the PDC and with Scoble singing its praises... They even have a I will be at PDC logo to put on the blogs. I won't be there, though I would love to. It is just not viable to fly in for a event from India, unless you are being sponsored...:-) So I become a proud member of the won't be there band..

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1060167388460399192003-08-06T16:26:00.000+05:302003-08-06T16:26:28.306+05:30

Well this is nothing to do with the Adam of Adam & Eve fame, but rather Active Directory Application Mode...:-) If you use Active Directory, then you may find this useful..

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1060156677294875202003-08-06T13:27:00.000+05:302003-08-06T13:27:57.113+05:30

Another one of those Google anomalies.... This blog is the #1 hit for the search "why .net is bad"... Well maybe Sun will now offer me a job, for doing something they have not yet been succesful in doing...:-) (This post most probably is going to change the ratings)

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1060156159130663982003-08-06T13:19:00.000+05:302003-08-06T13:19:19.050+05:30

This seems interesting. Should be a good idea at those event stalls where geeks go to look at the latest technologies. But will it be successful. Only if it is ok for day to day use. And that only time will tell. Thanks to Scoble for the link.

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1060154746388908272003-08-06T12:55:00.000+05:302003-08-06T12:55:46.426+05:30

From Early and Adopter: " ~" Searches You may want to search not only for a particular keyword, but also for its synonyms. Indicate a search for both by placing the tilde sign ("~") immediately in front of the keyword. Pretty cool.

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1060080834045405072003-08-05T16:23:00.000+05:302003-08-05T16:23:54.130+05:30

I was just reading Chris Maunder's article on the VSLive session on Whidbey. The one of the things there really reminded me of somethings we had been talking in an NDA event. I was real happy when I saw that the My stuff has really got into the Whidbey release of VB.NET. This is something that I really thought will add higher productivity to VB.NET. You put all the related stuff in one easily

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1060080171026245462003-08-05T16:12:00.000+05:302003-08-05T16:12:51.090+05:30

Well Google has changed back to normal...:-) Now google.co.in has the english interface and has links to pages with the other five major indian languages that google supports. I have seen this issue being reported in a lot of India blogs and also seem some say they mails people in google. There was a real uproar in the Indian blogosphere. I suppose enough dust was raised for the people in

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1060071818706677082003-08-05T13:53:00.000+05:302003-08-05T13:53:38.760+05:30

I was just reading this post from Martin Fowler on the common complaint that Patterns are not new. Fowler says Not just is this true, but it's the whole point of patterns. Patterns are there to capture knowledge from the field, not to present original ideas. As a result it's inevitable that patterns books aren't going to add stunning new ideas to those who have been working in a field for a

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1060068950443726742003-08-05T13:05:00.000+05:302003-08-05T13:05:50.493+05:30

Raymond warns all those tweakers against changing the Windows Boot Logo: DO NOT DO THIS ON A PRODUCTION MACHINE OR YOU WILL REGRET IT. If you hack the bitmap everything will seem fine until six months down the road when you decide to install the latest service pack. The service pack installer will not upgrade your ntoskrnl because it looks at the file and says "Hm, this isn't the standard

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1060061817211519902003-08-05T11:06:00.000+05:302003-08-05T11:06:57.270+05:30

Paul V points to Chris Sells' post on an article that talks about people who are incompetent. The main point the article stresses is that incompetent people are unaware of the fact that they are incompetent and so are unable to improve their skills.

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1059991905141559932003-08-04T15:41:00.000+05:302003-08-04T15:41:45.223+05:30

Joel has written a wonderful foreword for the book titled In Search of Stupidity: Over 20 Years of High-Tech Marketing Disasters. Seems like a good read, but it usually takes a few months before books land up in India. So I have to wait...:-(

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1059984382382707342003-08-04T13:36:00.000+05:302003-08-04T13:36:22.440+05:30

Well, here is PaulV with his version

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1059982496744631352003-08-04T13:04:00.000+05:302003-08-04T13:04:56.713+05:30

From Thinking About Computing In 1960, a researcher interviewed 1500 business-school students and classified them in two categories: those who were in it for the money – 1245 of them – and those who were going to use the degree to do something they cared deeply about – the other 255 people. Twenty years later, the researcher checked on the graduates and found that 101 of them were millionaires

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1059976690549787852003-08-04T11:28:00.000+05:302003-08-04T12:39:27.746+05:30

Erik Porter has a post on why he speaks at user groups. Some interesting thougt. I did post a comment there, then thought I could blog about it too. 1. It makes me read up stuff I usually skip due to laziness. So it forces me to keep up to date. (Another thing that does this is keeping this blog alive...:-)) 2. When you discuss a topic with people, you start looking at different perspectives of

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1059838112410589902003-08-02T20:58:00.000+05:302003-08-02T20:59:36.260+05:30

The people in Google seems to have a confused idea of India. They did something which they think is a wonderful thing. When you visit Google from India, it redirects you to the Hindi version of Google... Hello there, not everybody in India speaks Hindi. We have 18+ official languages in India... Thankfully someone there have got some sense and google is back to English now...

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1059635426161916222003-07-31T12:40:00.000+05:302003-07-31T12:40:26.216+05:30

Robert A. Wlodarczyk points to the new TMC benchmarks of .NET vs. Java. The first benchmark showed that .NET was 2-3x faster that Java and this resulted in a lot of critisisms form the Java camp. TMC has now redone the whole thing with the involvement of the Java community etc. The report is avbl at the TMC Site. This time Java has performed better and in some cases the performances are almost

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1059633563287311132003-07-31T12:09:00.000+05:302003-07-31T12:09:23.196+05:30

DonXML says Edit and Continue Leads to Bad Programming Habits? Well, first thing is all us VBers are used to doing this a lot. With reason of course. Most of the time, you made a small error(remember VB supports late binding and so you have a higher chance of errors at runtime. Yes late binding is not a good thing, but we do use it in real life...) and it is such a pain having to restart

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1059550486765992372003-07-30T13:04:00.000+05:302003-07-30T13:04:46.760+05:30

From Windows and .NET Magazine... Fun Facts and Figures from Microsoft Last week, Microsoft held its annual financial analysts meeting, which always provides a wellspring of information for people interested in how the company has performed and what it plans for the coming years. I'm still pouring over the videos, transcripts, and Microsoft PowerPoint presentations that came out of the event,

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1059543388729327802003-07-30T11:06:00.000+05:302003-07-30T11:07:33.896+05:30

If you want to know what to expect in Whidbey (and Orcas), take a look at the recently released Developer Roadmap at Microsoft Developer Tools Roadmap 2003-2005 For VB.NET.... - Visual Basic Whidbey will suggest corrections for common syntax errors. - New runtime objects and methods will provide direct access to the most frequently used functionality within the .NET Framework - With the

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1059540597028694942003-07-30T10:19:00.000+05:302003-07-30T10:19:56.990+05:30

If you had used ADOMD (MultiDimension) in the older COM days, then you have the .NET equivalent avbl for download now. This is the beta version and is avbl at Adomd.Net (Beta)

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1059481898230676872003-07-29T18:01:00.000+05:302003-07-29T18:01:38.256+05:30

The Chennai .NET User Group is celebrating its first anniversary and we are having a special half day event for that. So I have been running around doing stuff for that and so am not sure if I will be able to blog regularly... So till monday, posts will be irregular.....

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1059383775149543522003-07-28T14:46:00.000+05:302003-07-28T14:46:15.193+05:30

Yesterday's final count for .NET Truth after that Scoble mention is 230. And today too seems to be going good...

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1059371725815283552003-07-28T11:25:00.000+05:302003-07-28T11:25:25.670+05:30

Here is another .NET based blogging software from Clemens Vasters called Das Blog

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1059370333071789262003-07-28T11:02:00.000+05:302003-07-28T11:02:13.020+05:30

I found the reason for the sudden spurt of hits on .NET Truth. Scoble mentioned the blog and there goes up the traffic meter. Thanks Scoble, hope you could do the same for this blog too....:-)

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1059133180981774322003-07-25T17:09:00.000+05:302003-07-25T17:09:40.973+05:30

My .NET Truth weblog just got 117 hists today. I am not sure whether something is wrong with the Typepad statistics page, but really, from an average of 16 pages per day to 117!!!

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1059132590630039342003-07-25T16:59:00.000+05:302003-07-25T16:59:50.620+05:30

If you want to do something cool with Enums, then check this post by Richard Blewett...

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1059124966041587282003-07-25T14:52:00.000+05:302003-07-25T14:52:46.090+05:30

Have you ever needed a quick email id to register for a website, but didnt want to use your true one for fear of SPAM. Then you have a easy way to get one now at Mailinator. No registrations here. Any mail sent to any @mailinator account is accepted and you can go to the site and read the mail. Cool stuff!!!!!

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1059121897308614592003-07-25T14:01:00.000+05:302003-07-25T14:01:37.350+05:30

Eric's effort to be a software legend seems to have been futile. So he became Not a Legend...:-) Eric, Can I be a notalegend too?????:-)

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1059117800609871552003-07-25T12:53:00.000+05:302003-07-25T12:53:20.643+05:30

Mike has a post on how to get more visitors into your blogs...:-) It contain a few things I was not aware of.. Well I have been blogging for sometime and have done most things to get visitors in, but Mike still suprises me with something new. Good one Mike. Another thing Mike did miss was, put a link to your blog in your email signature. That all ways increases your traffic and it does'nt cost

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1059116405933619622003-07-25T12:30:00.000+05:302003-07-25T12:30:05.960+05:30

In an editorial in DevX Russell Jones talks about the VB experience and how other languages have taken so many features from VB at You Just Can't Kill Visual Basic For most of these programmers, the language differences are welcome, making VB.NET the only likely threat to classic VB.

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1058970201217422012003-07-23T19:53:00.000+05:302003-07-23T19:53:21.186+05:30

Just got a mail saying that BO was taking over Crystal Decisions. I am not sure whether this is a good or bad thing. I dont use Crystal reports much except the version that ships free with the VS tools. Lets wait and see....

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1058969040734604412003-07-23T19:34:00.000+05:302003-07-23T19:34:00.693+05:30

Today has been a bad day as I have had a lot of problems with my internet connection. I would also not be posting much tomm as the company I work for Polaris, celebrates its annual day tomm.

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1058946971914654982003-07-23T13:26:00.000+05:302003-07-23T13:26:11.760+05:30

Got this from a mail I received from a friend. This lists the reason how some of the big companies we know got their names. Adobe - came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache - It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1058943673355369712003-07-23T12:31:00.000+05:302003-07-23T12:31:13.203+05:30

A new MSDN article is avbl on programming with WSE 2.0 at Programming with Web Services Enhancements 2.0

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1058940334860507222003-07-23T11:35:00.000+05:302003-07-23T11:35:34.816+05:30

Have you ever felt the need to link up a .cs file into multiple projects and but don't want to have multiple copies of it around. Something like a #include. Shawn Van Ness has a post on some of C#'s little know feature that will allow you to do this...

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1058937752863953712003-07-23T10:52:00.000+05:302003-07-23T10:52:32.880+05:30

Hooray... Another blog from a VB.NET team member. After Paul it is now Cameron.... Cameron Beccario is blogging at http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/cambecc/

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1058854970901600442003-07-22T11:52:00.000+05:302003-07-22T11:52:50.893+05:30

The new ad for the Power Mac G5 is quite amusing...

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1058853050358577362003-07-22T11:20:00.000+05:302003-07-22T11:20:50.240+05:30

I read Phil Greenspun's blog more for his views on economics and other stuff, but not for technology. So I was quite suprised to see a post on this subject from him. Well now that is someone who uses computers, telling about his experiences with Linux....:-)

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1058775160602508092003-07-21T13:42:00.000+05:302003-07-21T13:42:40.646+05:30

And another analysis of my stats got me this even stranger results. A search in google.co.uk(also at google.com) for "weblog directcast" lists my blog as the first entry.. And even stranger, Paul Vick is at position 4, with 2 other blogs, one of which refers to his post, listed higher... And the blogspot blog came in fifth. Atlast I have a search where I am at the top, that too without any

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1058773232513017822003-07-21T13:10:00.000+05:302003-07-21T13:13:25.783+05:30

I was reading Eric's web log and found his post on Google can be *so* unfair. It was just what I had been thinking today morning. I was having a look at my stats for my typepad blog and I found a google search for DirectCast that had sent a visitor. I had blogged on this topic, where I had talked about Paul Vick's blog on the same topic and pointed readers to that blog. I just ran the same

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1058767277468651232003-07-21T11:31:00.000+05:302003-07-21T11:31:17.310+05:30

This kept me laughing for quite a while...:-) Thanks to Eric Gunnerson for the link...

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1058766371106600392003-07-21T11:16:00.000+05:302003-07-21T11:16:10.983+05:30

Greg Fee has a post on how to optimize security in managed applications. Easy to remember Rules: Use imperative Demand()s Use declarative Assert()s, Deny()s, and PermitOnly()s

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1058765512573749452003-07-21T11:01:00.000+05:302003-07-21T11:02:42.936+05:30

Duncan Mackenzie has blogged his experiences of using the Application Updater Block in an application. A must read if you plan to use the block in you application.

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1058518377790306902003-07-18T14:22:00.000+05:302003-07-18T14:22:57.826+05:30

Do you want to know how to say your name in Japanes? Then check this site. Mine turned out easy as Anando Thanks to Debashish for the link.

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1058516243036952892003-07-18T13:47:00.000+05:302003-07-18T13:47:23.076+05:30

Found a link at Kingsley's Site: Roger Ebert's glossary of movie terms: Ali MacGraw's DiseaseMovie illness in which only symptom is that the sufferer grows more beautiful as death approaches. Joel Silver RuleAll women in action-adventure flicks are extraneous to the plot unless naked or dead. One-at-a-time Attack RuleIn any situation where the hero is alone, surrounded by dozens of bad guys,

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1058514818760344612003-07-18T13:23:00.000+05:302003-07-18T13:23:38.796+05:30

Here are the SQL focused blogs. Thanks to Scoble for the link.

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1058430769168070102003-07-17T14:02:00.000+05:302003-07-17T14:02:49.136+05:30

I don't remember where I read this, but it was in one of the newsgroups. This is another of those things hidden in VB.NET, which a lot of people do not know about. This is similar to the Me reference, but rather will return a reference only to the containing class, irrespective of the type of the holding variable. Thus even if a method is overridden, using MyClass will always call the method in

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1058426224421106792003-07-17T12:47:00.000+05:302003-07-17T12:47:04.440+05:30

Joel on city of Munich moving to Linux

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1058420924587459742003-07-17T11:18:00.000+05:302003-07-17T11:19:43.323+05:30

It's Time for Language Divergence an editorial by Patrick Meader, looks at how C# and VB.NET are currently and he recommends that they start diverging now so that VB.NET can retain its uniqueness. Paul rebuts here. I agree with both of them to certain extent. Yes VB developers wanted more power and VB.NET gave it to them. And yes, VB.NET is not as RAD as VB. But these are some small hiccups

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1058354423183100072003-07-16T16:50:00.000+05:302003-07-16T16:50:23.210+05:30

I am just back from the release function of Rational Rapid Developer in Chennai. I was hoping to catch what they have done to give VS.NET a run for the money, but apparently, they don't yet have a .NET version. It was a full Java thing, but I think, the Java developers are gonna like this a lot (if they can afford it). I can see they have put in a lot of effort in there and the demos were quite

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1058353384531740372003-07-16T16:33:00.000+05:302003-07-16T16:33:04.456+05:30

Ok, I accept that.. I am a 100% VB guy and I like working with VB.NET rather than those curly braces of C#. But when I say this post, I was really suprised. I had never heard of this particular operator in VB. Then I realized it was the old "!" operator, which not many people know about (U would know this operator, if you had worked with DAO, but there are so few of us left). But I never knew it

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1058272049923853412003-07-15T17:57:00.000+05:302003-07-15T17:57:29.926+05:30

Have you been confused with all the different things that SourceSafe can do? This includes stuff like Label, Share, Pin, Branch, Merge etc. These are some of the terms that can make a person stick to only checkout and checkins only. Eric, the CEO of SourceGear, talks about these and explains them at Beyond CheckOut and CheckIn

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1058267481366207122003-07-15T16:41:00.000+05:302003-07-15T16:41:21.426+05:30

Have you ever wondered what makes MS tick. Maybe this is the answer.. The 12 Simple Secrets of Microsoft Management

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One of the most common questions I have faced is on why do you need two proxies, when you could do with one. Chris Brumme has as usual come up with an wonderful article on Proxies and how the CLR manages call to different kinds of objects. A must read... The answer in 1 para is : The TP is pure magic. Its job is to fool all the CLR code that performs casting, field access, method dispatch, etc.

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There was a MVP dinner during TechEd 2003 at Dallas. Here is one of the picture, with me and other MVPs enjoying our dinner....:-) (Edited Size of Image to become more viewable in lower resolutions)

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The lastest edition of the MSDN Mag has an article by Sten Sundblad and Per Sundblad on the Architecture of an Autonomous Application

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Harry Potter is again setting a new record of sorts. It seems to have become the first of the major books that has got Pirates interested. Check this NY Times article. Sometimes an ebook is very useful. Especially if you have extra time in hand at office..:-)

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The third installment of Brad's Library Design Guidelines for .NET is here...

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The Managed Quake seems to have interested a lot of people. David Notario, a member of the JIT team seems to be quite happy with his work. The original Q2 has optimized x86 assembly rasterizers, these were one of the fastest of their time, and they played with cunning tricks such as explicitely paralellizing x86 and x87 instructions to achieve maximum speed (for example, the division for

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The Chennai .NET User Group hit the 1000 member mark mid last week...:-)

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If you are a regular at Starbucks and have your favorites then check the Starbucks Oracle to see what the Oracle says about you based on your choice of coffee...:-) Very Amusing...:-)

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Quake was a game that created a whole new meaning to computer gaming. The people at vetigo softwares have created a managed version of Quake based on the id software's original C code. They have ported the code from C to managed C++, with hardly any performance hits. That is quite an encouraging thing and another thing I need to check out. (Well Quake was never one of my favourite games though.

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This ZDNet article talks about new chips(Prescott, Dothan, Tejas) that are gonna come out of Intel later this year and early next year. Prescott, the next big desktop chip from Intel, is slated to come out at 3.4GHz, while Dothan, an energy-efficient chip for slim notebooks, will have a server-size cache and is expected to debut at 1.8GHz, according to computer industry sources.

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90% of VB.NET programmers have never heard of this particular function, but it is something that is used quite often in MS code and even in some samples....:-) Paul Vick has a post on this DirectCast Reveled

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The latest issue of the MSDN Mag contains an interview with Ken Getz, who is also a member of INETA speaker bureue.

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I had already posted on my other blog at Typepad. I was thinking of puting in a few posts there a day to check it out. But as I use it I am liking it more and more. So I am currently posting stuff on both the blogs. So if you want to use the RSS feed from Typepad, go ahead, you will get the same information as I post here, till Typepad gets out of Beta(That will be the day of reckoning..:-)).

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Eric has a wonderful blog on marketing. The latest in a series of articles titled Marketing for Geeks is here. The third article in this series is Act Your Age. A must read if you do anything that is remotely related to marketing a product.

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I am not sure what happened, but there seems to be a sudden spurt in traffic coming into this blog. The last 3-4 days I have been getting 35-45 hits....:-)

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Russell on what can be the future of piracy.. Check his post on Mobile Piracy

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Scott seems to have done his homework well. If you are thinking of writing a computer book, then this post is a must read for you. Don't blame me if you decide to give up writing that book you had in mind due to this article. Main thing is don't do it for money...:-) As Scott also points out: While magazine writing is definitely more profitable, don't totally discount book writing. There's

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Got my Rise of Nations CD two days back. Have been playing it for two days. First thought, great graphics and a lot of options to keep the player in me interested. A lot more ages to develop and a lot more of technologies and weapons.. But something seems to be missing. I am not sure, but can it be it is too much like Age of empires?? I am not sure, but will blog it if I get it... Surely worth

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Patrick has a post on some problems he had when he tried to access a VB6 component from .NET. Main thing to keep in mind, if there is both a let and a set method to a property, .NET will by default always call the set method.

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We had a wonderful meet yesterday at CNUG. Naresh, an Office MVP talked about using Office 2003 from .NET and about the different ways to access office objects. It was different kind of session as Naresh had not PPTs but rather started off with showing code and talking about what he is trying to do with it. We are also 1 year old in July 2003.

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Today we reached 976 members in CNUG, making it the largest .NET User group in India....:-)

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Typepad is a new blog service. They are now in a limited beta cycle. I am a beta tester for this and my typepad blog is at manand.typepad.com. This will still remain my primary blog, but I will be posting a few entries there too to test out the system. Currently I am not allowed to publish my comments on the new system, till they come out of beta 1.

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Ever wondered how VB.NET supports static variables, when the CLI does not. Check out Patrick's article on how the complier does it behind the scenes.

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Part II of Brad's design guidelines is here.

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From Scott Gu's Web log The Online Slang Dictionary is a reference everybody needs sometime, especially those of us who find it increasingly hard to appear cool to our 9-year-old daughters.

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Four of my friends got married this weekend and so I was running around the city from one marriage to the other. That left me spent and so there was no blog posts yesterday...

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From Early and Adopter Blog: Go to Google type "Weapons of Mass Destruction" and hit the I'm Feeling Lucky button. You'll be presented with this as well as more... These Weapons of Mass Destruction cannot be displayed The weapons you are looking for are currently unavailable. The country might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your weapons inspectors mandate.

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From Brad Abram's blog Managed code makes it very easy to version your applications... Because we have gotten rid of the global registration (at least for apps) it is much easier to write a side by side application... That said there has been some internal folk asking about how to how to handle external resources (such as reg keys, file paths etc)... We dug up this whitepaper to address that and

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KGK has a article on how to host a CLR instance and interact with it from unmanaged code at Inside CLR Hosting

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BradA has a wonderful post on the best .NET coding practices at On Designing Good Libraries...

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How many of you knew that you had a deadlock situation in hand if you want to read both StandardError and StandardOutput from a spawned process. Scott has more details on this problem in his blog. This problem is also mentioned in two lines in MSDN (also mentioned in Scott's Blog), but I am sure, you never got so far...:-)

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Another of those what character are you kind of thing. But this is for people familiar with Age of Mythology. This is a mini quiz that find out which kind of God you are... Knowing my liking for all Age series of games, you would have guessed that I played. I was found to be the Greek god Hades, the god of death...:-) A misunderstood loner, Hades bears the burden of ruling the land of the

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Here is an MSDN TV episode of Visual Studio .NET and C# Tips and Tricks by Juval Lowey

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Well what can ASCII do now. Why no Unicode...:-) Take a look at amazing ASCII movies at ASCII Movies. And for a matrix fans like me there is even two Matrix ASCII movies there... (Thanks Scobeizer for the link)

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There was an article in Fortune mag that said that MS was becoming boring. BillG talks about this and the innovations that MS is doing at Gates on Microsoft, boredom and risk

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Yesterday was one of those days that you feel as if you want to take time off and not do anything. No Thoughts no posts...:-)

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A new version of the JCA is out...

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Yesterday night when I was just drifting into sleep, I had a sudden thought, are there different kinds of blogs? I know there are these technical and the personal blog stuff. But I am subscribed to only technical blogs, but still I find different kinds out there. There are these pure technical blogs, which seem to be a collection of small articles, mostly indepth or something the person has delt

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