akjoshi's Blog

Disabling LinkButton, HyperLink and ImageButton completely

akjoshi — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:32:56 GMT

I was just going through one of my previous project and saw some code to disable the LinkButton, HyperLink and ImageButton; after going through it I remembered the issues we had faced with different browsers trying to disable these controls(with proper...(read more)

Doloto – A new AJAX application optimization tool from MS

akjoshi — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:09:00 GMT

Doloto is an AJAX application optimization tool, especially useful for large and complex Web 2.0 applications that contain a lot of code, such as Bing Maps, Hotmail, etc. Doloto analyzes AJAX application workloads and automatically performs code splitting...(read more)

Auto formatting the XAML

akjoshi — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:00:20 GMT

Formatting XAML manually is very painful work and if you are used to read neatly formatted markup/code then it becomes impossible to go through other developers code. To solve this problem we thought to use Dimebrain Markup Tamer to auto format code and...(read more)

Tech cheat sheets

akjoshi — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 06:34:00 GMT

Just wanted to move these links from my bookmarks Agile Agile Work Resources .Net .NET Cheat Sheet The skinny on 1.1, 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5. C# and VB.NET Comparison Cheat Sheet Microsoft® Visual C#® Default Keybindings ASP.Net Microsoft AJAX Library Cheat...(read more)

Using RS Scripter to create deployment script for reporting services

akjoshi — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:01:00 GMT

If you are using SSRS then chances are high to come across a scenario where you want to deploy reports developed on development machine to the production server, there are various ways to do this and one of them is to use RS Scripter tool. Here are the...(read more)

Lets travel back to 2001 with Google

akjoshi — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:04:50 GMT

Google always comes up with something out of the box which makes you say wow , this time they have given whole world a chance to go back into the past and see how the world of web looked like in year 2001, interesting isn't it. Wouldn't you like to see...(read more)

Microsoft ICE - Image Composite Editor from Microsoft Research

akjoshi — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:29:54 GMT

Here comes another cool tool from Microsoft research, Image Composite Editor - Microsoft Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image stitcher. You shoot a set of overlapping photographs of a scene from a single location, and Image Composite...(read more)

Failed to access IIS metabase error after installing reporting services

akjoshi — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:15:00 GMT

"Failed to access IIS metabase error" after installing reporting services...(read more)

Google Chrome: Will It be a Killer

akjoshi — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:31:00 GMT

So Google jumped into one more field( web browsing) to take on Microsoft, cool; But will it be able to become the next killer browser, provided MS is putting a great efforts to improve IE(with IE 8 beta2 released) and Firefox capturing the market quickly...(read more)

Startup Delayer - A cool tool to save your time after you reboot your machine

akjoshi — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 08:55:00 GMT

Speed up your computer's startup time by delaying applications to start at a later time....(read more)

The page cannot be displayed problem with classic asp pages under IIS

akjoshi — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:47:00 GMT

Today I was working on a requirement to use an aspx page with my classic asp application, so I created an asp.net solution, added one website project and added my old asp files to it. When I tried running my old asp pages I got "Internet Explorer cannot...(read more)

VS 2005 Report Designer Glitch II

akjoshi — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:41:00 GMT

Glitches with visual studio report designer...(read more)

Firebug Lite : Firebug for IE, Safari, and Opera

akjoshi — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:46:00 GMT

Firebug Lite, a JavaScript file you can insert into your pages to simulate some Firebug features in browsers other then "Firefox". ...(read more)

tsvn:logtemplate : Enforcing strict format to SVN check-in mails.

akjoshi — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:28:00 GMT

TortoiseSVN is a free open-source client for the Subversion version control system. Sometimes you want to have a more detailed information about a file/directory than just the icon overlay. Tortoise SVN provides some very useful properties for this purpose; tsvn:logtemplate is one of them ...(read more)

Debugging classic ASP web application with Visual Studio 2005

akjoshi — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:34:00 GMT

How to debug Active Server Pages (ASP) Web applications using Visual Studio debugging capabilities....(read more)