January 2005 - Posts
Microsoft's Patterns & Practices has launched a consolidated library of all Application Blocks along with Source and Unit Tests. I still remember guys from Microsoft User Group, Hyderabad (MUGH) asking a question to Sandy Khaund, Group Product Manager, P&P, on consolidating the application blocks and publishing them as cool examples for various patterns implemented and well documented. That was well heard by P & P guys i think :-)
MSDN Article about Enterprise Library
GDN Workspace for Enterprise Library
This release of Enterprise Library will include the follwing Application Blocks (From MSDN)
Caching Application Block Configuration Application Block Data Access Application Block Cryptography Application Block Exception Handling Application Block Logging and Instrumentation Application Block Security Application Block
Read the original post here (My MSN Space)
Today I got my Optical Desktop with Finger Print Reader. I have'nt checked it or tested it yet, but it looks very sexy :-) Still have to check it's ergonomics. It has a wireless mouse integrated with although the keyboard is wired. I think the Key board itself works like a wireless transmitter ..coool 
This mouse is very interesting one...Microsoft has re-invented the wheel again 
...it has got a Tilt Wheel (not sure whether they got it TM'ed or not...) technology, where the little wheel can be tilted horizantally to scroll in windows all the ways..I found and felt the wheel as soft as a finger of woman, kudos to the technology. But the mouse is still based on 2 AA batteries...I heard there are some products in this range coming up with no-battery.
The best feature of keyboard is it's "Finger Print Reader". No more typing your user id and password to login to your machine...find more about it here
I will be back with more on this once I start exploring these gadgets...
IT departments were alreated today on a new Viral Outbreak via MSN Messenger downloads.
W32.Bropia is worm that spreads via MSN messenger and drops a variant of W32.Spybot.Worm
Via Symantec....Becareful..!
Yep, Today I have called this method once again, decided to blog on my personal rants and concerns on the world around me. Here I will shout on people, my country, the system built around me to control me to be "Sudhakar" rather than some real one whome I should be. :-)
I have started this
SPACE with a sensational news that my buddy anil made few days back.
It's gonna create more waves I guess...
What is the default encoding used by ASP.NET ? Very trivial question huh ;-)
I found this as one of the most ignored thing in Web Application developement using ASP.NET
by any developer. Since VS.NET does a smart job by setting up a default encoding in web application
configuration, they need to bother about it....until unless they get a problem with 'characters' display
somewhere.
Today one of my buddy has got one weird problem with Japanese characters display while
exporting the reports to excel. It means somewhere the encoding set by VS.NET at application level
was overriden explicitly and Response was formed with the overriden encoding to the stream.
I tried to dig more in to this and found some interesting stuff here and here
ASP.NET's default encoding will be "iso-8859-1" (Western Europe) for both Response and Request.
i.e.. If Response/Request encoding is not specified in a machine.config or web.config file, encoding defaults to the
machine's Regional Options >> locale setting.
But Visual Studio.NET creates a section called <Globalization> and creates a default value "utf-8" to override the actual response/request encoding defaults. This makes our life happy enough to ignore the crux of encoding for our application.
<configuration>
<system.web>
<globalization
requestEncoding="utf-8"
responseEncoding="utf-8" />
</system.web>
</configuration>
You can find more on this section here
I have always been a fan to the way IBM builds tutorials. Very much readable and cool to eyes.
Read How to :
01. Building Web Services with C# and DB2
02. Developing DB2 CLR Procedures in VS.NET
Yeh, you can...but never with Internet Explorer :-(
I tried this on a windows 2000 prof machine, and everytime I start MSN web messenger in IE, my machine started behaving like a sloth in performance.
then I tried my next alternative, FireFox...Amazingly , MSN web messenger is lively, instant and faster than ever in FireFox. Seems, they tuned it for FireFox and not for IE...
An interesting and crazy thing from my Buddy's blog (www.javablogs.net)
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