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Coffee, smoke and techilicious burps at 3.47 AM

Some half baked ideas by Nilotpal about Tao, Zen and the art of converting coffee into code...

The last blog post...

My last communique has always been quite important for me in all my previous organizations. And I...

Date: 11/20/2009

Visual Studio 2008 Unit tests… Error loading *.vsmdi: *.vsmdi

I got this error. I got no information on the internet as to how to get around it… 3 hours earlier:...

Date: 09/22/2009

Left outer join in Entity Framework

This evening I heard someone say that Left Outer Joins are not possible in Entity Framework or...

Date: 08/18/2009

To query the local object context

When faced with the dilemma that what if I wanted to insert something and before I actually saved...

Date: 07/28/2009

Your user profile was not loaded correctly! You have been logged on with a temporary profile.

This is not a problem that I feel you would encounter on a regular basis. I think I had a unique...

Date: 04/22/2009

Function Point Analysis (FPA) Glossary

Internal Logical File (ILF): An internal logical file (ILF) is a user identifiable group of...

Date: 04/08/2009

Update an entity in Repository Pattern

Look around the web. You will find no Update method in the repository patterns for entity framework...

Date: 03/17/2009

Repository Pattern – The purpose

We decided to implement the repository pattern for the Entity Framework Implementation in our...

Date: 03/16/2009

Function Import and Loading of referenced data

Why do Entity Framework Function Imports do not have eager loading? Because when you use Entity SQL...

Date: 02/20/2009

Are you Eager? Or are you Lazy? Or are you both on a case to case basis...??

Entity Framework, Eager Loading and Lazy Loading, my own 2 cents. For those new to Entity Framework,...

Date: 01/28/2009

StyleCop and Good Code

So you are serious about your code quality huh... well StyleCop is a fantastic tool to ensure that....

Date: 01/15/2009

Entity Framework FAQ

Lately everyone in my team and around my bay have been talking about Entity Framework. Well since I...

Date: 01/09/2009

It's all there in the cloud...!!

So what's this new buzz word... everyone has been talking about it... Essentially what we are doing...

Date: 12/17/2008

Hot fix for the Entity Framework Bug

I had recently posted about a bug on SQL CE Entity Framework. Please note that the links mentioned...

Date: 12/14/2008

SQL Server Compact Edition / Entity Framework bug

I am working on this really smart, smart client application installer. Which smartly installs other...

Date: 11/26/2008

Best RSS Feed Reader

My wife is a writer, and a pretty good one for that matter. Recently she went for a job interview,...

Date: 11/24/2008

Downloading and installing AdventureWorks Database

I am assuming that you want to write a prototype of some sort for which you want a sample database...

Date: 11/19/2008

Marriage and the movie maker

I am getting married. That's right. Well I don't know about the other parts of the world, but 32 is...

Date: 09/19/2008

Hosting a WCF Service on IIS

Look for this topic on the Internet. The first thing that you will see is the implementation of the...

Date: 09/18/2008

How much are you worth after all...?

Well It has been a really long time since I blogged about anything. Lots of things happened in the...

Date: 08/29/2008

Is Code Folding that bad...?

I am a huge fan of Jeff Atwood and Coding Horror. I usually like his stuff. But I somehow didn't...

Date: 07/11/2008

Do it smart: Shortcut Keys

Most interesting short cut keys on Visual Studio 2008: Ctrl + R + R: Rename whatever is selected...

Date: 07/04/2008

Funny Behavior of Google Talk

I was booting up my machine. I had just logged in and all the apps were firing up one by one. So I...

Date: 07/03/2008

Planning to join Google...? Think again.

Sarang just posted on his blog about this post. And it really impressed me. So I thought it has to...

Date: 07/03/2008

Joins in LINQ... What do I return?

I want to write a select query that returns all the data in a table? this is how it would go:...

Date: 04/28/2008

Command Copy exited with Code 1

If you get that error message, it is usually because you have configured your application to run...

Date: 04/09/2008

login failed for user (Microsoft SQL Server error: 18456)

So you had some problems with your installation of the SQL Server 2005 installation on your machine...

Date: 04/08/2008

Microsoft Rocks...!

Everyone talks about the workplace of Google... and just look and pictures and say ooh la la...!...

Date: 03/21/2008

Who are you...?

There was a senior manager from the leadership who had a meeting with the entire team today. He was...

Date: 03/14/2008

Blogger stops working with Live Writer

I use Microsoft live Writer. I maintain a no. of blogs. One about tech, one about gadgets, one about...

Date: 03/07/2008

Google Calendar Sync... Bro ha ha...

Google launches Calendar Synch. This provides 2 way Synch with your Outlook Calendar. So every time...

Date: 03/07/2008

Windows Mobiles Rule...!

For a long period of time there was a fad that windows is bad. Open source and anything anti windows...

Date: 03/04/2008

Netgear wireless router at home - Issues and Solutions.

Hi, I have a Sify Broadband connection at home. And I have a Net Gear wireless router. So now we...

Date: 02/27/2008

Why can't the developer not think like a user...?

Usability... Microsoft is known for it. She (Microsoft) has given birth to some of the most user...

Date: 02/21/2008

Code Performance:

I read coding horror. It is a good blog. I just read about the Graphics Programing Black Book. Yes...

Date: 02/21/2008

Mobile Phone Design Challenges...

So what are the challenges Facts. Typing on a soft keyboard is not ergonomic at all. Hard keyboard...

Date: 02/20/2008

Now That's what I call a phone... A Phone...? Err... Ahem...!

Now This is what I call a phone... A Phone...?? err... Ahem...!!! It's been almost a year since we...

Date: 02/08/2008

Do it Smart: SVCUTIL Error

Ok, this is a complete no brainer... SVCUTIL Error: "'svcutil' is not recognized as an internal or...

Date: 01/25/2008

Do it Smart: Switch between Windows (Vista)

Now this is a smart looking feature... if you look at your quick launch tool bar on your Vista...

Date: 01/23/2008

Configuring ASP.Net 3.5 applications for IIS 7 on Vista

Ok, it is complicated... There are some issues. So I am logging everything that I can as I do it....

Date: 01/10/2008

Coding Horror: The Danger of Naïveté

Coding Horror: The Danger of Naïveté

Date: 01/08/2008

Software Quality Metrics

I attended a session by one of our senior managers. He defines Software quality metrics as 2 things....

Date: 01/03/2008

Puzzle...

One of my managers, who also happens to be a pretty smart guy, and I were having a discussion today....

Date: 01/03/2008

Would you call this a hack...?

Look at this piece of code... Select * into #Constant from SCM3DConstant WHERE 0=1 Would you call...

Date: 12/28/2007

Do it Smart: Navigating between Windows

We all know how to navigate between windows... it is Alt + Tab... and we also know how to navigate...

Date: 12/26/2007

Do it smart: Some Interesting Shortcut Keys

Help Shortcut Keys Ctrl + Alt + F1 displays the content window for the documentation contained in...

Date: 12/26/2007

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