Mahjayar's WebLog.
New year and new beginings
Hi, I have recently made the decision to start on a new adventure outside Microsoft. With me moving...
Author: mjayaram Date: 04/16/2011
Sync Framework 4.0 CTP Refresh Now Available
As mentioned in my earlier post the 4.0 CTP refresh is now available. It contains the UI Helper for...
Author: mjayaram Date: 11/18/2010
Announcing Sync Framework 4.0 CTP
Back in Mix 10 we showed an application built with the intention of extending the Sync Framework to...
Author: mjayaram Date: 11/09/2010
Announcing the availability of the MIX10 Session Planner (Beta)
Sorry for the radio silence the past couple of months. We have been working on our the next version...
Author: mjayaram Date: 03/01/2010
Software Engineer In Test Opportunities Available In The Microsoft Sync Framework team
If you are interested in the data synchronization space then we have opportunties available on the...
Author: mjayaram Date: 01/14/2010
SQL Azure Data Sync – Moving Schema from Compact Database to SQL Azure
Update 12/11: Fixing a typo in the code as pointed by the commenter. With yesterdays announcement of...
Author: mjayaram Date: 11/18/2009
Announcing Microsoft Sync Framework Power Pack For SQL Azure CTP
PDC 2009 starts today and Ray Ozzie and Bob Muglia kicked off todays keynote presentation. It gives...
Author: mjayaram Date: 11/17/2009
MSF V2 DeepDive – Batching Directory and Batch Files
This is a continuation from the previous post I did explaining the new memory based batching feature...
Author: mjayaram Date: 11/16/2009
PDC 2009 and Sync related sessions
PDC 2009 is next week and I wanted to have a quick post on some of the sessions about Microsoft Sync...
Author: mjayaram Date: 11/13/2009
MSF V2 CTP2 Deep Dive – Memory Based Batching
Its been quite a while since I posted about MSF v2 CTP2. As promised in my earlier posts I will be...
Author: mjayaram Date: 09/16/2009
Announcing Sync Framework 2.0 CTP2
We just released CTP2 of Microsoft Sync Framework V2. Check out the blog entry at...
Author: mjayaram Date: 06/05/2009
Looking for volunteers for Project Huron Early Adopter Program
Ever since we announced Project Huron at PDC last year we have been hard at work trying to scope out...
Author: mjayaram Date: 04/30/2009
SyncServicesADO.NET Survery
We are looking for some SyncServices for ADO.NET users (both Hub spoke and peer to peer toplogy) to...
Author: mjayaram Date: 04/07/2009
DbSyncProvider WCF Based Synchronization– Memory Performance Analysis Of DataSet Binary SerializationFormat Vs DataSet Surrogates
I had posted earlier about the memory performance when using default DataSet serialization behavior...
Author: mjayaram Date: 03/10/2009
New Microsoft Sync Framework case study data available.
We recently updated our official MSF blog with three new Customer Spotlight case study data...
Author: mjayaram Date: 02/25/2009
I am a PC and I am 4 1/2 – Cute!
Video: Kylie uses Windows Live Photo Gallery Cute..very cute.
Author: mjayaram Date: 02/12/2009
DbSyncProvider: Improving memory performance involving execissive conflicts.
This is the second post aimed at providing tips for improving runtime memory footprint when using...
Author: mjayaram Date: 01/15/2009
Updated GUI Tool to configure SSL on a given port using Httpcfg.exe
One of my first posts was a link to my managed UI wrapper that let users view/configure/edit SSL...
Author: mjayaram Date: 01/02/2009
Getting Windows Live Toolbar Favorities sync to work
Recently a commenter posted that they were unable to get Favorities sync to work (or show as an...
Author: mjayaram Date: 12/23/2008
Microsoft Sync Framework and Windows Live Favorites Sync
Windows Live team just released the beta for Windows Live Essentials. I wanted to quickly point out...
Author: mjayaram Date: 12/15/2008
PDC 08 Summary - Project "Huron" and MSF V2 CTP
PDC 08 was last week and I wanted to summarize the PDC sync specific announcements. Hope every one...
Author: mjayaram Date: 11/06/2008
No Re-release of Microsoft Sync Framework V1
Last week, Mary Jo Foley reported that we re-released Microsoft Sync Framework V1 with updated bits....
Author: mjayaram Date: 10/22/2008
PD 2008 – Sync Framework Sessions
We have 3 sessions planned for PDC. Details of the sessions: Microsoft Sync Framework Advances...
Author: mjayaram Date: 10/12/2008
DbSyncProvider: Improving Memory Performance In WCF Based Synchronization
Users have frequently wanted the ability to remotely synchronize relational nodes in a peer to peer...
Author: mjayaram Date: 10/01/2008
Announcing the release of Microsoft Sync Framework V1 and Sync Services for ADO.Net V2
Microsoft just released SQL Server 2008 and with that we have also released the golden versions of...
Author: mjayaram Date: 08/06/2008
Announcing availability of a new Sync sample - SQL Express Client Synchronization using Sync Services for ADO.NET
We have released a new sample on our Sync code gallery site that demonstrates use of Sql Express...
Author: mjayaram Date: 06/24/2008
Upgrading Silverlight Samples to Beta2
Cross posting from https://maheshwar.net/Blog Now that Silverlight Beta2 has been released I have...
Author: mjayaram Date: 06/20/2008
Live Mesh Invites - First come first serve
I have been using Live Mesh for quite some time now as they were our first Silverlight internal...
Author: mjayaram Date: 05/02/2008
Moving on: From Connected Systems to Sync.
After nearly 4 years with Connected Systems, I have decided to move to the Data Replication and Sync...
Author: mjayaram Date: 04/26/2008
Silverlight 2.0 - Rundown of WebServices related functionality in Beta1
Technorati Tags: Silverlight,WebServices Hope everyone had a chance to download and play with the...
Author: mjayaram Date: 03/11/2008
Step by Step Guide to Silverlight POX Proxy Sample.
Technorati Tags: Silverlight,POX,XmlSerializer,JSON Scott Guthrie laid out all the details regarding...
Author: mjayaram Date: 03/05/2008
Mix 08 and Silverlight 2
Mix 2008 is just hours away and I am very excited to talk about all the work we have been doing to...
Author: mjayaram Date: 03/04/2008
.Net 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 released
Just like that the .Net train continues to move along to the next version of the framework....
Author: mjayaram Date: 11/21/2007
Setup my personal blog on a new domain. Finally!!
After a lot of procrastination I finally got a new blog on my personal domain hosted at...
Author: mjayaram Date: 11/08/2007
Experimenting with the new MSN Messenger IM Control
Microsoft just announced the Messenger IM control. I took a quick look at it and found it to be...
Author: mjayaram Date: 11/06/2007
Microsoft releasing .NET framework source code
Microsoft is releasing the source code for the framework libraries. Read more about it here. Its not...
Author: mjayaram Date: 10/03/2007
Implications of using IPCServerChannel when connection from remote clients
In .Net 2.0 (Whidbey), Remoting introduced support for IPC channels. This was a quick way for local...
Author: mjayaram Date: 09/24/2007
Custom pick a Remoting channel based on Remote object Uri
One common question I see on Remoting forum is how to configure a proxy to use a particular channel...
Author: mjayaram Date: 09/15/2007
Recommendation for a good Windows based web hosting
I have always toyed with the idea of having my own domain and I am finally ready to move my blog off...
Author: mjayaram Date: 09/14/2007
Can you believe this!
Funny way to welcome your new employees. The video ends with one guy saying "this experience is...
Author: mjayaram Date: 06/30/2007
Silverlight and Connected Systems role in Silverlight
Microsoft recently announced Silverlight at the Mix 07 conference. Now that its released I can...
Author: mjayaram Date: 05/18/2007
Silverlight and CSD
Microsoft recently announced Silverlight at the Mix 07 conference. Now that its released I can...
Author: mjayaram Date: 05/18/2007
Funny clip
Came across this really funny clip on SoapBox. Enjoy. Tough Guy AuditionVideo: Tough Guy Audition
Author: mjayaram Date: 05/08/2007
Debugging the mystery of the crashing desktop - Part 2
Continued from Part 1: I enabled Driver verifier for Win32k.Sys and the video driver and then...
Author: mjayaram Date: 04/02/2007
Debugging the mystery of the crashing desktop
My home desktop running Vista would crash with a blue screen everytime I logged in the main console...
Author: mjayaram Date: 04/01/2007
WCF Extensibility - Plugging in custom message processing logic
I have talked a lot about WCF's extensibility model and I never knew how much of the core...
Author: mjayaram Date: 03/15/2007
WCF Runtime Components
After I posted my earlier entry on debugging WCF apps, I thought it would be a good idea to explain...
Author: mjayaram Date: 12/22/2006