.NET From India

What is this??

Anand Mukundan — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:04:47 PST

Take a look at this photos What do you think this is? A manufacturing facility, a water treatment plant (what with all of those tubes??) Well it is to do with computers and this belongs to Microsoft. These are pictures...

Location Aware Printing in Windows 7

Anand Mukundan — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:55:00 PDT

I like to call this Network Aware Printing as that is what it is. Basically what this allows you to do is to have different default printer settings based on the network you are connected to. This is a real...

Upgrade to Windows 7

Anand Mukundan — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:47:33 PDT

I have mostly installed Win 7 on a clean machine till now (many number of times counting the Beta and the RCs). I have usually found the clean install very fast and straight forward. I am yet to come across...

PPTPlex – A Tool for Non-Sequential Presentations

Anand Mukundan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:51:45 PDT

PowerPoint is a very powerful tool and when used well can really have a great impact during a presentation. But the biggest problem when using Powerpoint is the sequential flow of thoughts. When you had a presentation where you are...

Win XP Mode .vhd and other Virtualization software

Anand Mukundan — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:52:45 PDT

When you buy Windows 7, you actually get a license for Windows XP to run the Win XP mode. So you install the Win XP mode and then download and install the VHD (the virtual hard drive file that actually...

Why the Windows XP Mode may disappoint you??

Anand Mukundan — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:07:49 PDT

Ok, you have read a lot about the Win XP mode in Windows 7 and think that you will able to play that old game that you have that will not run on Vista (Yes, I do have a number...

Make my 4GB into a 2GB

Anand Mukundan — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:07:35 PDT

I came across this piece of information when searching for something else. Suppose you have 4GB installed but for test purposes you want to have only 2 GB available for the OS, the normal way is to create a VPC/VM...

New Keyboard Shortcuts in Windows 7

Anand Mukundan — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:30:54 PDT

Found this post on the new Keyboard shortcuts added in Win 7. I find the Win+Shift combination interesting as I do keep moving windows between monitors and this should help a lot. If you want to know every keyboard shortcut...

.NET 4.0 - CLR Enhancements

Anand Mukundan — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:40:41 PDT

My co-architect Madhu has created a new Blog. Hoepfully he gets to stick to this one, as I think this is his second or third attempt at writing a blog. His first post is on .NET 4.0's CLR Enhancements.

.NET Journal from Polaris

Anand Mukundan — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:42:59 PDT

The Polaris website was updated a couple of days back and we have our first Polaris .NET Journal uploaded now. This contains around four very in-depth technical articles on many Microsoft technologies. Issue 1 contains the following Articles: Using Workflow...