Sidharth Sehgal's blog

New technologies, Code samples, Automation examples, best practices.

Windows 8 App Fest live photoblog

Author: Sidharth Sehgal Date: 09/21/2012

Windows Phone Emulator frame rate counters

  Ever wondered what the red and white colored numbers on the top right side of Windows Phone...

Author: Sidharth Sehgal Date: 07/17/2012

Windows Phone code sample: Capturing image from camera and updating live tile

This blog post walks you through an app which captures image from the device camera using the...

Author: Sidharth Sehgal Date: 02/03/2012

Windows Phone code sample : showing current location on map and sharing it using Email

In this post, we will create a simple Windows Phone app which uses Bing map control. We will then...

Author: Sidharth Sehgal Date: 02/02/2012

Windows Phone Camps resources

  <Update: 6 Feb 2012> Code walkthrough for apps shown during my session on “Developing...

Author: Sidharth Sehgal Date: 01/27/2012

Windows Phone 7 development : CTD Hyderabad session resources

I just finished my session on Windows Phone 7 Development during CommunityTechDays Hyderabad. I am...

Author: Sidharth Sehgal Date: 12/18/2010

Loading April CTP Refresh Windows Phone 7 projects using Developer Tools RTM

With the release of Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools RTM, you may see the below message if you try to...

Author: Sidharth Sehgal Date: 10/21/2010

Learn about WCF, watch WCF FireStarter Deep Dive Simulcast

Can’t make it to the New York Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Firestarter? Watch it online :...

Author: Sidharth Sehgal Date: 06/17/2010

Bing Twitter Maps for your site

Now you can embed Bing twitter maps on your site and scope a search by @user, location or keyword....

Author: Sidharth Sehgal Date: 03/16/2010

Free Technical and Soft skills Webcasts this Fall for students

Are you graduating from college soon and feel ill-prepared to enter the workforce directly out of an...

Author: Sidharth Sehgal Date: 02/21/2010

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Dashboard

The Beta release of System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Dashboard is out. The Configuration...

Author: Sidharth Sehgal Date: 02/04/2010

Get more of Scripting Guy!

Addicted to Scripting? The Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog (https://bit.ly/hsgblog) will be publishing seven...

Author: Sidharth Sehgal Date: 02/04/2010

7000 Dominoes mark Windows 7 Launch

What comes to your mind when you think about Product Launch: Roadshows? Celebrity performances?...

Author: Sidharth Sehgal Date: 10/29/2009

Virtual TechDays is back

Microsoft Virtual TechDays is back – don’t miss on this opportunity to get trained on the latest...

Author: Sidharth Sehgal Date: 08/20/2009

Register for PDC ‘09

Registrations for Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is now open. Register before September 15...

Author: Sidharth Sehgal Date: 08/07/2009

Pay your tributes to the King of Pop

Pay your tribute to Michael Jackson and watch his memorial live from the Staples Center in Los...

Author: Sidharth Sehgal Date: 07/07/2009

India Union Budget 2009 live on net, thanks to Silverlight

You don't need to worry if you want to catch up budget session live and don't have a Television set...

Author: Sidharth Sehgal Date: 07/05/2009

Running IIS6 App Pools under a Domain account Identity

Recently we changed the Identity of an App Pool in IIS 6, from Network Service to a Domain account....

Author: Sidharth Sehgal Date: 06/23/2009

Securing the Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure & Microsoft Online Services

Microsoft Global Foundation Services and BPOS team has provided the following resources to assist in...

Author: Sidharth Sehgal Date: 06/17/2009

Are you ready for Server Quest II ?

The company’s  resident IT professional extraordinaire has just returned from a much-deserved...

Author: Sidharth Sehgal Date: 06/15/2009

Azure “How Do I” videos

Learn more about Azure with free How Do I videos at...

Author: Sidharth Sehgal Date: 06/15/2009

Springboard Virtual Roundtable - Windows 7 Application Compatibility, Part 1

Mark Russinovich will host a virtual roundtable for IT pros worldwide to discuss Windows 7...

Author: Sidharth Sehgal Date: 06/04/2009

Configuring Windows services using Command Prompt

Configuring the properties of a Windows Service using command prompt and scripting it in a batch...

Author: Sidharth Sehgal Date: 06/01/2009

Bing webcast on June 1 @10 PM pacific time

[Taken from...

Author: Sidharth Sehgal Date: 06/01/2009

Automating config file changes : Part 4 – Adding a new element to an XML file

After updating and deleting element from an XML config file, lets see how to add new elements at the...

Author: Sidharth Sehgal Date: 05/30/2009

Automating config file changes : Part 3 – Deleting an element from an XML file

This post talks about removing an existing XML element from the config file. Consider a scenario...

Author: Sidharth Sehgal Date: 05/29/2009

Automating config file changes : Part 2 – modifying already existing config keys

This post contains the Powershell script to modify already existing config key values in a config...

Author: Sidharth Sehgal Date: 05/28/2009

Free Windows 7 Trainings

Microsoft Learning has recently launched free eLearning Clinics targeted towards different...

Author: Sidharth Sehgal Date: 05/28/2009

TechNet goes Green

TechNet Magazine published this special online-only Green IT issue for IT Pros earlier this evening....

Author: Sidharth Sehgal Date: 04/22/2009

Just Tag It

Tired of typing the phone numbers on a business card to your phone address book? Saw an...

Author: Sidharth Sehgal Date: 04/22/2009

Automating config file changes : Part 1 – Installing Microsoft Windows Powershell

In the next few posts, I am going to write about ways to automate configuration file updates using...

Author: Sidharth Sehgal Date: 04/12/2009

Restoring IIS7 Configuration snapshots

Forgot to take IIS7 configuration backup, but want to restore back to a recent configuration? IIS7...

Author: Sidharth Sehgal Date: 04/04/2009

Passing parameters to SQL script using batch files

SQL Server 2005/2008 provides a command line utility SQLCMD, which can be used to perform basic SQL...

Author: Sidharth Sehgal Date: 04/03/2009

Quick Bytes: Configuring XP_cmdshell and Agent XPs in SQL Server 2008

Here are ready to use SQL scripts For Enabling XP_cmdshell: USE master EXECUTE sp_configure 'show...

Author: Sidharth Sehgal Date: 03/11/2009

Automating SQL Server 2008 installations

Ever wished you had a way to capture the installation configurations you specify while installing...

Author: Sidharth Sehgal Date: 03/10/2009

About this blog

Hi, This is the first blog entry for this blog and if you can see this, it means my blog is already...

Author: Sidharth Sehgal Date: 03/07/2009