Deepak Raghavan

VPC Image for Performance Point 2007?

deepakvraghavan — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:17:00 GMT

I was searching for PPS 2k7 image and found Microsoft BI VPC here

Looks like the total download is > 4GB and the good thing is that it has MOSS+Sql Server and some samples too.

HTH,

Deepak.

Upcoming events in Twin Cities

deepakvraghavan — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:49:00 GMT

I signed up for a couple of events and am looking forward to attend them. First one is the ArcReady event on Feb 21 and the second one is the much awaited Launch 2008 coming up on April 1 2008. I will be attending the developers track in Launch 2008. There's also free software giveaways (VS 2k8, Sql Server 2k8 and Windows server 2k8) for the attendees.

See you there!

Deepak.

Twin Cities XNA User group

deepakvraghavan — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:50:00 GMT

If you are in Twin cities area and into XNA programming, you should sign up for the XNA user group, more information @ http://www.twincitiesxnausergroup.com/.

In the next meeting, Shawn Hargreaves is gonna talk about Network Games and Introduction to Shaders. The talk may be a little longer than usual but should be exciting.

Hope to see you there!

Emacs MS style?

deepakvraghavan — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:07:00 GMT

Just saw a blog that MS is working on a rich text Emacs editor. Here's a post with more details on the proposed editor.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2242809,00.asp

Looks like we would get to see more during the PDC 08, sounds fun!

Community credit?

deepakvraghavan — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:25:00 GMT

Does anyone know if blogging under weblogs.asp.net automatically registers the blog entries under community credit?

Thanks,

Deepak.

Pesky IIS Metabase bug.

deepakvraghavan — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 02:41:00 GMT

I was little frustrated with my WCF services not being hosted right on IIS. I kept getting the plain text .SVC file when requesting on IIS. I finally learnt that this is because of a nasty bug in the early WCF installation pieces. Looks like running the script given in the link fixes the problem

http://wcf.netfx3.com/files/folders/product_team/entry5648.aspx

Sigh....

Deepak.

DotNetSlackers Peers Contest

deepakvraghavan — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:49:00 GMT

Yesterday, I came to know that I won the third prize in DotNetSlackers Peers contest. Sonu is doing a great job on DNS. Thanks to him and rest of the DNS team. I am excited to read the new book by Scott, Jeff, Phil..and the gang. W00t!

Deepak.

This is Funny! Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music...

deepakvraghavan — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:41:00 GMT

Came across this KB article. lol...

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;261186

Deepak.

Troubleshooting help

deepakvraghavan — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:02:00 GMT

I was doing some troubleshooting recently and apart from looking @ DebugDiag, came across the below post from Steve.

http://blogs.orcsweb.com/steve/archive/2006/07/08/Troubleshooting-process.aspx

The blog lists some of the "Usual Suspects" when trying to trace down a unexpected crash/hang symptom

Here is one more link

HTH.

Thanks,
Deepak

OO and SOA for Dummies :)

deepakvraghavan — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:18:00 GMT

Sometimes, it is easier to explain a concept in layman terms. Came across this post which discusses the difference between Object Oriented design and SOA. This topic has been beaten to death by almost everyone! I like the way this interesting topic has been explained using a simple analogy.

Here is the post: http://blogs.msdn.com/smguest/archive/2004/01/29/64871.aspx

Good one there Simon.

Thanks!

Article on ASP.NET

deepakvraghavan — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:42:00 GMT

My recent article on DNS has been posted on the ASP.NET home page as article of the day. Yay!

Thanks team :)

Neat VS 2005 tip.

deepakvraghavan — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:32:00 GMT

I have done this a few times in the past as well. Typing Ctrl + C instead of Ctrl + V on a blank line and losing the data on the clipboard. I am sure this post will save me some time and frustration the next time I do it.

Nice one Sara.

Thanks.

Applications of Http Handlers

deepakvraghavan — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:46:00 GMT

Http Handlers can be helpful in many scenarios. I recently wrote a sample program demonstrating the use of handlers for water marking Pdf Documents. The article is listed on DotNetSlackers at http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/aspnet/WatermarkingPDFDocumentsUsingHttpHandlers.aspx

Give it a try and lemme know!

Thanks.

Performance statistics for Update Panel

deepakvraghavan — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:57:00 GMT

Came across this post by Damian at http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/atlas/The_UpdatePanel_opened_what_happens_behind_the_scenes.aspx

It says that in the debug mode, there are around 10,126 JavaScript statements executed and in the release mode, there are only 1448 of them!

Faster firefox when debugging with VS on Vista

deepakvraghavan — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:39:00 GMT

Great post by Dan at http://weblogs.asp.net/dwahlin/archive/2007/06/17/fixing-firefox-slowness-with-localhost-on-vista.aspx...

As Firefox has awesome extensions such as web developer and firebug, it helps to have it running at normal speed during debugging.