Rachit's Blog

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 intended to run on Windows 7). Very simple, very good job Alan!

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.

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:

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.

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. We don’t care about Expression Web or SuperPreview or Encoder or Design. Give me freaking only Blend + Sketchflow.

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 Excel 2010 ONLY, not in Excel 2007 which the most of the world may still use next few years (i.e. Enterprises/small-medium businesses which can’t afford to upgrade to Office 2010).

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.

Flot is an awesome library to produce the simple charts based on the great JQuery.