.NET From India

ReFS–A new File System

Anand Mukundan — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:14:40 PST

ReFs, which stands for Resilient File System, is a new File Systems that will make an appearance in Windows 8 Server (and possibly into the client OS at a later date). This is the first major update to the FS...

A couple of photos from the Dec 2011 Lunar Eclipse

Anand Mukundan — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:08:05 PST

Technorati Tags: Lunar Eclipse,Dec 9 2011,India,Photos Just got around to moving some of the photos from the Dec 9th Lunar eclipse that was visible from India. Just a couple of photos from that here. Enjoy… Related articles Year's last total...

PowerView – SQL Server 2012 Feature

Anand Mukundan — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 22:03:21 PST

This seems to be a new feature in SQL 2012 ‘Denali’ RC0. The following blog post has more information. Seems quite interesting. They also have a sandbox where you can play around with it, but this site has been down...

Windows 8 Developers have a sense of humor!!

Anand Mukundan — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 19:27:37 PDT

Now that the Windows 8 Developer Preview is out, I got it installed on a VirtualBox instance. As I was reading thru some of the dialogs that popup during installation, I got a sense that since this is an early...

Age of Empire Online

Anand Mukundan — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 06:55:21 PDT

It has been quite sometime since the last Age of Empire came out. If I remember right it was the Asian Chiefs Expansion for AOE III a couple of years ago at least. Now Microsoft Games has come out with...

Fixing Bugcheck 6B in Windows 7

Anand Mukundan — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 07:15:37 PDT

I just got a new Laptop (well my older one conked out and had no choice :() I had just used it for 1 day and when I tried booting it today morning I was getting blue screen "Procces1_initialization_failed". So...

Why is Salesforce.com So Worried about Microsoft? Really??

Anand Mukundan — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:28:56 PDT

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/crm/archive/2011/06/09/why-is-salesforce-com-so-worried-about-microsoft.aspx Came across this.. Well MS CRM is growing fast, but does just saying we are better than x makes you better?? The post remainds me of a marketing collateral... :)

SOASchool.com Workshop in India

Anand Mukundan — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:41:35 PDT

As people who read my blog know, last year I completed the Certified SOA Architect certification. This is award by a company called soaschool.com, which is run by Thomas Erl, who is a well know author on SOA. They also...

Home Server 2011 Connector and Problems with .NET Framework..

Anand Mukundan — Tue, 03 May 2011 13:08:41 PDT

I had setup the new Home Server 2011 on one of my servers and have been transitioning stuff off my Home Server v1. So after all of the data has been transferred and I had setup the server in a...

Windows Virtual PC–Launching Virtual Machine Wizard Manually

Anand Mukundan — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 09:40:14 PDT

I use Windows Virtual PC for running some of the test VPCs and also for learning new features etc. Since I also play around with multiple versions of virtualization software (VirtBox, VMWare etc), I suddenly found that my Virtual PC...