XML Notepad
If you are one who is involved in working/creating/viewing a lot of XML files and XSLT transforms – you need something more than Notepad & IE. You need a professional…
Software
Mute button in Flash Player
Every time I visit flash based web pages with audio content I wonder why there is no mute button in the right-click options of a flash file?. Why you may…
Renaming a machine running SQL Server
One of the lessons I have learned the hard-way over the years is to “Never rename a machine/server running SQL Server/IIS or any of the server software”. If you must…
Virtual Earth for India
About a year back (Jan 2005) I had written about MS Research India doing work on Digitizing India maps. Nearly a year later, recently I learned from these two blogs…
Plaxo – Access your outlook contacts anywhere
After hearing about the Plaxo.com service for several years; ignoring tons of update requests I keep getting from my contacts using Plaxo – finally, two weeks before I started using…
T-Mug Visual Studio Launch
T-Mug (Trivandrum Microsoft User Group) had conducted the community launch of VS2005 today. In the full day event, I presented for about an hour on ASP.NET v2.0 overview. The T-Mug…
VS 2005 – Auto Save
When you are programming the most frustrating moments are when your IDE crashes and you lose several hours of work. Since I started programming in the DOS days when this…
Visual Studio 2005 & SQL Server 2005 Launched!
Wearing my developer hat, I am super excited today on the launch (finally) of Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 & BizTalk Server 2006. I have been talking about the…