Varad, The .NET Guy!

.NET Rocks - Great Source for all of us!

2006-09-10T17:13:00Z

Thanks very much to Carl Franklin and Richard Chambell for bringing this valuable resource to everyone's desktop. .NET Rocks is one of the important / more useful resource for all IT savvy to know more about the .NET Technology and software development in general. There are around 177 shows currently, all are much valuable and contains rich information about the technology. I already subscribed to the shows and downloaded each. Its good to spend enough time everyday by listening to each show...(read more)

Visual Studio 2003 Service Pack 1 Now Available

2006-09-08T02:17:00Z

After 3 years of its release, a service pack for Visual Studio 2003 is made available by Microsoft on 8/17/06. More Info: List of bugs that are fixed in Visual Studio .NET 2003 Service Pack 1 Visual Studio .NET 2003 Service Pack 1 release notes Check out Microsoft Servicing site for information about other service releases of MS Products....(read more)

Timeout Expired - Max Connection Pool

2006-08-07T17:32:00Z

We are using Enterpise Library June 2005 relase for .NET Framework 1.1 in our application, having a Oracle 10g database. We are getting the following error often, =============================================================================================================== Message : Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to obtaining a connection from the pool. This may have occurred because all pooled connections were in use and max pool size was reached. Source : System.Data.OracleClient...(read more)

The IT Profession - 2010

2006-07-29T23:53:00Z

Read the computer world's recent special report on IT field in next four years. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleTOC&articleId=112367...(read more)

Free Download: MSDN Library May 2006 Edition

2006-07-27T02:53:00Z

This is definitely a good news for all MS developers. Check out the news at Rob Caron's Blog Download MSDN Library May 2006 Edition here...(read more)

New Oracle Data Provider for .NET 2.0 [ODP.NET]

2006-07-21T01:56:00Z

I just got this over e-mail and keeping it here for reference. The new version of ODP.NET is released by Oracle Corporation, the download is available here The features include the following: ODP.NET -- ADO.NET 2.0 Support Factory and DbCommon Classes Connection String Builder DataAdapter Batch Processing Schema Discovery Server Enumeration Oracle Developer Tools (ODT) for Visual Studio .NET Visual Studio 2005 Integration Integrated PL/SQL Debugging (Visual Studio 2003 and 2005) Oracle Database Extensions...(read more)

LINQ and more..

2006-07-16T16:00:00Z

Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) is a technology that eliminates the mismatch among different data domains. With LINQ, there is no need to learn separate query syntaxes when querying over diverse data domains such as XML, Relational and Objects. Check out the MSDN Channel9 Session on LINQ. More information is available at The LINQ project site. Blinq is one of the exciting tool for ASP.NET and SQL. Looks like its better use Blinq for creating Admin modules to manage the Master Tables in an application...(read more)

.NET Framework 3.0, It's (Beta) arrived!

2006-07-13T02:21:00Z

James has just posted these links. Keeping it here for self reference [I] Microsoft .NET 3.0 MSDN Site Download .NET 3.0 .NET Framework 3.0 FAQ Whitepaper (Deploying Microsoft .NET Framework Version 3.0) And here are some additions Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Community Clearing the confusion...(read more)

TD.NET Enterprise and Professional Version!

2006-07-11T01:05:00Z

Today's HOT Topic in .NET Blogsphere is that TestDriven.NET of Jamie goes commercial. We have been using his TD.NET extensively in most of our projects and are amazed with its features. It is AWESOME! Read more here TestDriven.NET Enterprise & Professional I will go for the personal edition quickly and need to follow-up with my BOSS on getting the Enterprise version :) I still remember the day Jamie helped us (over mail) on resolving an issue we had with NUnit & NCover while generating...(read more)

Microsoft CodePlex

2006-07-08T22:19:00Z

Microsoft Launches CodePlex , Vehicle for Sharing Source Code. Read more here...(read more)

Executing Oracle Stored Proc from SQL+

2006-06-29T18:59:00Z

Just for self! To execute an Oracle stored procedure in a package that returns a refcursor follow the below command: SQL> set num 2 SQL> set linesize 1500 SQL> var refc refcursor SQL> exec pkg_report.sp_get_bdg_clnt_grd_smry_det(2899, :refc); PL/SQL procedure successfully completed. To print the executed results, use the below command: SQL> print refc...(read more)

Atlas At Last!

2006-06-17T19:05:00Z

This recent article on July'06 MSDN Magazine details about the features of ASP.NET ATLAS . The detailed explanation on overview, Atlas architecture and usage of Atlas with web services is very informative for all developers. Thanks to Matt for this great article! Also check out ScottGu's blog for more information and useful posts on Atlas . Its worth to subscribe/bookmark the Atlas tag of his blog. There are many stuffs about Atlas at Nikhils blog as well. All good set of resources for ASP.NET developers...(read more)

Where is BillG going??

2006-06-16T01:54:00Z

Today's HOT News is that Bill Gates is stepping down from its day to day job activities and going to concentrate/involve more on his Gates Foundation..

Big news from Bill G > View the video

The Man behind Microsoft is now going to serve for Humanity! All the very best Bill!

Real World patterns and practices - Satyam Computer Services

2006-06-01T00:28:00Z

I am very much happy to see a white paper / success story of Satyam Computer Services (my previous company, I can say my Parent Company!) about implementing Enterprise Library in delivering a complex system for CheckFree.

Read the complete story here patterns & practices Partners: Satyam

I had a good time working for Satyam (5 yrs) in Microsoft Solutions Group :)

.NET Framework 2.0 Certifications are Now Available

2006-05-01T23:06:00Z

Exams are available from today (05/01/06). If you received a certification voucher at a (VS 2005) Launch event, your first exam is free.

Get more info..