Came Too Far

End of an Era!

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:09:02 +0100

Finally, An Era has come to an End. The world’s most successfully and inspired legend has passed away!

Enable/Disable multi-core JIT compilation in ASP.NET vNext

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 18:35:42 +0100

One of the feature implemented as part of performance improvement in ASP.NET vNext is – multi-core JIT compilation. This give a better performance boost specially after a cold site boot (e.g.. AppPool recycle, etc). This functionality is implemented in System.Runtime.ProfileOptimization.StartProfile method.

Thankfully, this feature is enabled by default. You don’t have to make your hands dirty to enable it. And, if you want to turn-off this feature, then do include the below code in your website’s web.config file.

        1: <system.web> 

       2:     <compilation profileGuidedOptimizations="None"  />

       3: </system.web>

Thanks.

ASP.NET vNext

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 17:55:26 +0100

Did you hear that? ASP.NET vNext is around the corner!

Check out here to know what’s new in ASP.NET vNext. I’m so impressed with the new set of features tied with the ASP.NET framework.

Get Ready! Sharpen your tools!

Oxford Dictionary IE Accelerator with Preview

Mon, 05 Sep 2011 20:13:32 +0100

Yup! It’s true! Google has shutdown their Dictionary Service and no announcements have been made further. So, what’s next? Where you’ll go for authentic definition services?

Note: If you are still using accelerator Google Define with preview, then please install this service; since Google has shutdown their dictionary service and the accelerator won’t be functioning anymore!

Here we go - Oxford Dictionary Service. The same big and the pocket-size book which we usually referred when we were school going kids.

Yes, I had come up with my next IE Accelerator Service – Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary with Preview.

Install your Accelerator here:

Preview Enabled

Add To Internet Explorer

Now, checking for definition is so easy:

select the text
click the accelerator button
mouse-over Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary Accelerator and preview the definitions.

Don’t know what an accelerator is? Check here or here.

Cool…! Isn’t it?

CameTooFar Service-Area launched

Sat, 03 Sep 2011 17:06:31 +0100

Very happy to announce that CameTooFar has launched the Service Area. Hereafter, all the web-services, addons and downloads will be listed here.

All services are free to use and experience. So use it, feel it and experience it. And don’t forget to drop in your comments, suggestions, critics and feedbacks.

Hope you find this useful and watch this space for more useful services.

Thank you for your every support.

See you there!

I confess, I blogged about Apple

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 04:13:00 +0100

One year back, I registered CameTooFar because of my unstoppable and uncontrollable passion towards Microsoft .NET Technologies. Since then, what all I had dreamt, yelled and blogged was all about Microsoft Technologies that always made me say - Wow!. Slowly, I start listening to every reel in the IT industry – acquisitions, challenges, competitions, excitement, innovations, inspirations and suing.

Today, I break my promise! I confess! This blog post is about Steve Jobs - The Legendary CEO of Apple - The Legend who swiftly and steadily drived Apple and narrated what Innovation really means!

It’s he who saved Apple from drowning with the famous MacWorld Boston 1997 Deal by which Apple entered into a partnership with Microsoft. As he quoted:

“If we want to move forward and see Apple healthy and prospering again, we have to let go of a few things here. We have to let go of this notion that for Apple to win, Microsoft has to lose. We have to embrace a notion that for Apple to win, Apple has to do a really good job. And if others are going to help us that's great, because we need all the help we can get, and if we screw up and we don't do a good job, it's not somebody else's fault, it's our fault. So I think that is a very important perspective. If we want Microsoft Office on the Mac, we better treat the company that puts it out with a little bit of gratitude; we like their software.

So, the era of setting this up as a competition between Apple and Microsoft is over as far as I'm concerned. This is about getting Apple healthy, this is about Apple being able to make incredibly great contributions to the industry and to get healthy and prosper again.”

Now, The Legend has stepped down from the Apple’s CEO hot-seat, with a beautiful emotional and inspiring letter to both Apple and Apple Community:

“To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community:

I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.

I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee.

As far as my successor goes, I strongly recommend that we execute our succession plan and name Tim Cook as CEO of Apple.

I believe Apple's brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it. And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new role.

I have made some of the best friends of my life at Apple, and I thank you all for the many years of being able to work alongside you.

- Steve”

Just like Bill Gates praised about Apple:

“To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different, it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.”

Do we hear one more – “But, there's one more thing...” ? Do we?

Lets wait for the next MacWorld Expo.

Till then Good Luck Steve, we’ll Miss you.

WP7 - Zune software is not launched. Retry after making sure that Zune software is launched.

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:41:51 +0100

Yup! I’s unable to control my excitement when I downloaded and installed Window Phone 7 SDK and Developer Tools. In a hurry and skipping my dinner, I opened the first sample project – Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 and hit Run (F5).

Bhoom! I’s damn surprised to see the error:

Zune software is not launched. Retry after making sure that Zune software is launched.

Because I haven’t written a single piece of code! Instead I run the project as it is!

A keen and close look pointed out the issue:

I have set my target to Windows Phone 7 Device instead of Windows Phone 7 Emulator. All you have to do is to change the target to Windows Phone 7 Emulator.

That’s it. Now hit F5 and Run.

I simply fall in love with Metro UI. What about you?

Start developing - http://create.msdn.com/en-US/

Control must be placed inside a form tag with runat=server

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:14:58 +0100

Oops…!!!

Last night, when i tried to call GridView.RenderControl(), I’s kicked with a runtime exception as below:

What surprised me more, that my GridView is inside the <form> tag, with runat=server attribute. I binged for a while and came to know that I’m not alone for this error. On deep searching, I find that Microsoft Connect has confirmed this as a bug. Which further take me to two other MSDN links:- Link1, Link2.

In the end, I got the fix.

All you’ve to do is to include the below empty-code in the code-behind

// [Code-Behind]

public override void VerifyRenderingInServerForm(Control control)

        //Empty Method

Thanks!

cannot load file or assembly microsoft.sqlserver.management.sdk.sfc

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:57:56 +0100

All of a sudden, my SQLDataSource connection failed with an error:

"Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Sdk.Sfc, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91′ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified."

All this happened, when i try to connect my GridView with SQLDataSource control. I's trying to connect SQL Server 2005 from Visual Studion 2008 SP1. The same can be solved my installing:

These are the executable from SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack- a list of standalone packages, that provide additional value to SQL Server 2008.

That's all for now.

Pass values between 2 MDI Child Forms using C# and VB.NET

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:49:35 +0100

Recently, I came across a situation where I need to pass value from one Child Form to another Child Form inside an MDI Parent. The scenario was like this. I have an MDI, whose MenuStrip pops out 2 Child Forms together. One child-form lists the Id and Name of all the Employees coming under certain criteria. On double clicking that particular employee, I need to display the value on the second child-form. In short, I need to pass the Id of the employee to the second child-form so that relevant details can be loaded. I’ll simulate the same scenario using a simple example.

Imagine I want to send a value from one of my Child form to display that in my second Child Form. The sample UI looks like this:

[Send Value] –> ChildForm1.cs

   1: /// <summary>

   2: /// Send Value

   3: /// </summary>

   4: /// <param name="sender"></param>

   5: /// <param name="e"></param>

   6: private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

   7: {

   8:     ChildForm2 formChild2 = (ChildForm2)this.MdiParent.MdiChildren[1];

   9:     formChild2.ReceiveValue(textBox1.Text);

  10: }

[Receive Value] –> ChildForm2.cs

   1: // Receive Value

   2: public void ReceiveValue(string value)

   3:         {

   4:             textBox1.Text = value;

   5:             this.Activate();

   6:             this.Refresh();

   7:         }

VB.NET

[Send Value] –> ChildForm1.vb

   1: Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

2:

   3:         Dim formChild2 As ChildForm2 = DirectCast(Me.MdiParent.MdiChildren(1), ChildForm2)

   4:         formChild2.ReceiveValue(TextBox1.Text)

5:

   6:     End Sub

[Receive Value] –> ChildForm2.vb

   1: Public Sub ReceiveValue(ByVal value As String)

   2:        TextBox1.Text = value

   3:        Me.Activate()

   4:        Me.Refresh()

   5:    End Sub

Hope this helps.

Thanks