Rachit's Blog
My technical journal...rant about technology...etc.
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Turning off the comments due to spams
I'm getting many spams lately and that's why turning off the comments. more
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VS 2008 Web Tests on Windows 7
I faced tons of problem on IIS 7/Windows 7 with the web tests (ASP.Net) using Visual Studio 2008. The following blog post from Alan really makes it clear how to make it work (although it is not … more
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StreamInsight Error - AuthorizationManager Check Failed
In order to learn the complex event processing, I have started looking into Microsoft StreamInsight lately. My first impressions of the StreamInsight is so far good and it looks promising. To the … more
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Unable to open the physical file - Access is denied
I’m an using Admin account on Windows 7 and try to attach umbraco database to my local SQL 2008 R2 instance. I’m getting the following error: Unable to open the physical file "D:\Tech\umbraco\ … more
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Awesome WebGL Demo from Google
I’m speechless when I saw this last night. I wonder how this will shack the Flash/Silverlight world. By looking at the source & the fiddler, a great use of canvas object of HTML5 WebGL. Use the … more
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No choice of getting Expression Blend 4 by itself
Our team is interested in pursuing the development for SL4 with Blend 4. But the sales model from MS is such that we have to buy Expression Studio Ultimate 4 for $599 per license. That’s a bull crap. … more
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oData consumable in Excel 2007
oData is an Open Data Protocol for querying and updating data. You can view a few demos here. The PowerPivot is one of the most useful/HOT features in my view. Only drawback is it’ll be consumed in … more
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SharePoint 2010 VHD Available now
I tried to create my own virtual machine to test and play with SharePoint 2010 but I was unsuccessful every time due to some errors and finally it became frustrating and I gave up. Now, Microsoft … more
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JQuery Flot Charts with Time Series
Flot is an awesome library to produce the simple charts based on the great JQuery. Using the date/time data (e.g. X-axis data type) is a little difficult to get working right but after exchanging … more
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Silverlight UI Creation
We’ve been looking to get a short-term Silverlight UI person (with of course a little experience integrating C#/Web Service experience) and I don’t know why it’s so hard to find a candidate. … more