Having got the newly released “Visual Studio 2017” installed in my PC, I decided to try...
Category - Coding
Visual Basic 6.0
Almost after two decades, today I ran “Visual Basic 6.0” installer and setup the...
Welcome, Visual Studio 2017
Today is the 20th birthday of Microsoft’s Visual Studio which has remained the environment of...
Software design, little has changed in the last 70 years
On 19 February 1946 Alan Turing designed the first well-known software for a stored program...
Online Payment options in India
The other day a friend of mine asked me on how he can receive payments online for a small website...
eWIT – APIs rule the world
Last week I got an invite from SPIN Chennai for an event today organized by eWIT titled “Why...
Windows 10 upgrade and OneDrive icon not appearing
I have been using Windows 10 preview builds under Windows Insider program for quite few months in...
Visual Studio 2015 installs Google Chrome
As a Microsoft technology enthusiasts for over two decades, I thought I had seen them all. But with...
Microsoft Project Spartan Browser
It was in August 1995, that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser got released along with...
Teaching my son to write software
The other day my 11-year-old son asked me to teach him on how to write apps. I was thinking on what...
Learning Python
I have been reading about Python (programming language) for last few years and wanted to learn it...
MSDOS.NET
(Backdated Post: 25/08/2000) Being April 1st, it is appropriate for this post. In late 2000 when...
Innovspark record program
Few months back J.Venkatesan Prabhu who was a Microsoft MVP from 2008-2013 contacted me about a...
Password Expiry setting in Windows 7
I know that you can configure the password expiry (how long before user is prompted to reset their...
Clipper Programming Language
I have written earlier about my first experience with FoxBase & Clipper here & it is no...
I was a MCP in 1996
The other day I got an email from Microsoft Certified Learning reminding me to sign-in to the site...
What are FaceBookUpdate & GoogleUpdate?
Compared to architecting & releasing web applications, Windows Apps (client apps in general)...
Running 32-Bit COM components in x64 IIS Server
Recently we upgraded one Web Application for a client from a server running Windows Server 2003 to...
How SQL Injection saved a day
The incident happened more than a decade back, should be in 1998 or 99. At that time I was a...
Beware of Indian Income Tax Spoof emails
In the past I have seen many bogus emails claiming to be from US Income Tax (IRS) Department, most...