Latish Sehgal

Working with Visual Studio on a Mac

latish — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:56:00 GMT

When I recently purchased a Macbook Pro , I had a couple of options to set up my .Net development environment on there. I could use a Virtual Machine based solution such as Parallels or VMware Fusion , or run Windows natively using BootCamp . My first...(read more)

Using a productivity tool like ReSharper or CodeRush

latish — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 21:05:44 GMT

At the C# SIG meeting in Dallas last week, David mentioned something really interesting about using a productivity add-on such as ReSharper or CodeRush . I think his exact quote was: “If your not using a productivity tool, you’re ripping off your customers...(read more)

The Big Design Conference in Dallas

latish — Sun, 31 May 2009 01:26:37 GMT

I just came back from the Big Design Conference held today in Dallas, and my brain is just flooded right now with all the information I picked up on different design and development topics. It was one of the most well organized conferences I have been...(read more)

My Dot Net Developer’s tools list, and more…

latish — Sat, 23 May 2009 23:54:32 GMT

I gave a brownbag presentation at my current client recently about the common tools (in addition to Visual Studio), that I use on a regular basis for working with .NET or web development in general. I also threw in some non-development tools that are...(read more)

Creating MSDN like help using Sandcastle

latish — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:21:00 GMT

Just follow these simple steps ( I am using the Ajaxcontroltoolkit library as an example here) 1. Download Sandcastle ( http://www.codeplex.com/Sandcastle ). 2. Download and install Sandcastle Help File Builder ( http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx...(read more)

"We Are Microsoft Charity Challenge".Equals("Awesome Geeking weekend")

latish — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 02:07:00 GMT

I was one of the participants last week at the We Are Microsoft Charity Challenge Weekend here in Dallas. The event was organized very well by Toi Wright with support from MS Developer Evangelist Chris Koening . The idea was to build or enhance a charity...(read more)

JavaScriptSerializer - UnDeprecated with .Net 3.5 SP1

latish — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:39:03 GMT

Just wanted to mention that JavaScriptSerializer , which was marked as obsolete in .Net 3.5, seems to be restored back to normal status with SP1. Besides checking in the object browser, the only confirmation I found for this was a comment by Scott Gu...(read more)

Dallas TechDays - Developer Track

latish — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:08:26 GMT

I just came back after attending the developer track at Dallas TechDays. It was a really good session. Zain Naboulsi was the main presenter, and man can this guy talk! He gave a 3 part presentation by himself that spanned to almost 4 hours. Here's a picture...(read more)

Removing unused CSS Classes from your web application

latish — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:47:57 GMT

Most of you might have seen that while working on a Website project, the CSS gets harder to maintain as the site ages. This might be due to new developers coming in to the project, removal of UI elements (but not the corresponding CSS), refactoring and...(read more)

Asp.Net Session Timeout control

latish — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:30:04 GMT

As web application developers, we depend on the Session to store data pertaining to the user. It's a common scenario that the user might take a half an hour break to take a phone call or a meal while using the application and come back to find out the...(read more)

Fixing Gaps in Corners while using Ajax control toolkit RoundedCorners Extender

latish — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:08:36 GMT

We noticed gaps in the borders for some of our controls while using the RoundedCorners Extender . This was a big headache since it seemed to work fine on some pages. I have included a sample image below. We finally figured out that on the pages where...(read more)

Cool Silverlight app

latish — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:38:12 GMT

Check out the Silverlight implementation of John Conway's game of Life . Keep an eye on your browser CPU Usage :)....(read more)

Get free Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework Training kit

latish — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:58:46 GMT

Get it here . This kit includes presentations, labs and demos. Now only if I could find time to go through this :(....(read more)

Hello from the DotNetSurfer

latish — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:02:03 GMT

Hello, my fellow Bloggers and blog readers!!

My name is Latish Sehgal and I blog currently at http://dotnetsurfers.com/blog/. I am a dot net web developer, technology enthusiast and an avid blog reader. I already have a few readers subscribed to my existing blog (Hi Mom!), and I am very excited to have this opportunity to blog at asp.net (Thanks Joe).

I currently live and work in the beautiful (and cold) state of Colorado, and hope to relocate to Atlanta, Georgia soon. I'll see you guys around in posts and comments.

Till next time

-the DotNetSurfer

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