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RADSplit – Mutiple code windows for RadStudio

Senthil Kumar — Sun, 20 May 2012 15:27:48 +0000

Visual Studio 2010 has this cool feature that lets the developers have multiple code windows open. You can now have the similar kind of feature in RadStudio too RADSplit is a plugin for Rad Studio by Simon Stuart that enables the developers to make multiple code Windows into dock able editor windows like Visual Studio… Later, you can organize and dock the windows as per your needs. Download RADSplit – Read More....

Webinar – Developing Windows 8 Metro Applications with Embarcadero Prism

Senthil Kumar — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:38:26 +0000

Embarcadero is organizing a webinar on the topic Developing Windows 8 Metro Applications with Embarcadero Prism on May 29, 2012 from 6.00 AM PDT. The Webinar – Developing Windows 8 Metro Applications with Embarcadero Prism will be presented by Jim McKeeth. In this session, you will learn how to use the latest features in Embarcadero Prism XE2.5 that was released few days back to build Windows 8 Metro Apps and Read More....

Embarcadero Prism XE2.5 Released – Now develop Windows 8 apps…

Senthil Kumar — Thu, 17 May 2012 15:46:30 +0000

Today, Embarcadero has released the Embarcadero Prism XE2.5. Embarcadero Prism XE2.5 is a Pascal development environment for .NET and Mono and provides a Delphi like programming language for developing the following Applications .NET Mono ASP.NET Data Driven applications for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. With the release of Embarcadero Prism XE2.5, the early support for developing Windows 8 Metro App is also provi Read More....

Xamarin Designer for Android released for Visual Studio and MonoDevelop

Senthil Kumar — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:14:29 +0000

Xamarin Designer for Android was released few days back that enables the Android developers to create some cool layouts for the Apps from Visual Studio and MonoDevelop. With the Xamarin Designer for Android available for Visual Studio, the developers can get some what experience that is closer to the C# developers expecting from the Visual Studio IDE. Want to know more about Xamarin Designer for Android, Check the Read More....

Microsoft Bizspark Startup Challenge 2012

Senthil Kumar — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:35:31 +0000

Microsoft Bizspark Startup Challenge, a Microsoft Initiative Challenge to find entrepreneurs with innovative business ideas and that can significantly impact their markets. Microsoft Bizspark Startup Challenge 2012 includes the Cloud Computing and Mobile Application category and includes the following below winning criteria. Innovation Market Potential Management Capability GScore Microsoft Bizspark Startup Chall Read More....

Fix for IntelliSense feature in SQL Server Management Studio 2008 R2 may stop working after you install Visual Studio 2010 SP1

Senthil Kumar — Sun, 13 May 2012 11:33:09 +0000

Today , i encountered a wiered thing in my SQL Server Management Studio 2008 R2 where the intellisense was somehow not working in SSMS 2008 R2 . I had only SQL Server 2008 R2 Express installed on my machine and had recently installed the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 on my Windows 7 System and assumed that this could have caused the issue . If you are one of those users who faced the same issue , th Read More....

Excel 2010 specifications and limits

Senthil Kumar — Sat, 12 May 2012 17:03:15 +0000

Found this interesting post on the Excel specification and limits for Microsoft Excel 2010 . The Excel specification and limits talks about various specifications and limits for Microsoft Excel 2010 that includes Worksheet and workbook specifications and limits Calculation specifications and limits Charting specifications and limits PivotTable and PivotChart report specifications and limits Shared workbook specifi Read More....

Download – White Paper for Integrating FireMonkey into Your VCL, C# and C++ Applications

Senthil Kumar — Thu, 10 May 2012 17:05:14 +0000

If you are one of the developers who work on C# , C++ or VCL in Delphi and interesting in developing for Mac via FireMonkey , here’s a free White Paper for Integrating FireMonkey into Your VCL, C# and C++ Applications that is available for download . What is FireMonkey ? “FireMonkey is the first native CPU and GPU powered platform for rich business applications. In this paper, we will look at what is re Read More....

Free Live learning events from LearnDevNow

Senthil Kumar — Wed, 09 May 2012 17:00:00 +0000

In one of my previous blog posts , i wrote about some interesting online training websites and here comes a free Live training events from one of them . LearnDevNow has partnered with AppDev to bring couple of free online training events . These events includes Building Metro Style Applications for Windows 8 using JavaScript and HTML – Part 2 of 2 – Ken Getz User Experience (UX) Design and the Microsof Read More....

Webinar – Live Tiles and Notifications in Windows 8 by @silverlightshow

Senthil Kumar — Wed, 09 May 2012 15:28:56 +0000

SilverlightShow is organising a webinar on the topic “Live Tiles and Notifications in Windows 8″ on May 17 , 2012 at 10 am (PST) . This webinar will be presented by Gill Cleeren and will intriduce some cool features in Windows 8 specially the Live Tiles and Notifications . Live Tiles concept in Windows 8 is also same as the one in Windows 8 and get a chance to explore the LIve Tiles and Notifications in Read More....

Useful online training sites on Software Development

Senthil Kumar — Mon, 07 May 2012 17:02:32 +0000

Online training or video tutorials are a great and easy way to learn . Some times , i feel watching a video tutorial makes things more easier than reading a book . I was a subscriber to LearnVisualStudio.net and tried a trial version of Pluralsight and both looks simply awesome . Pluralsight has some good collection of video tutorials and interesting thing is that the development and release of new video is done fr Read More....

Use Internet Explorer in Google Chrome

Senthil Kumar — Mon, 07 May 2012 16:23:11 +0000

Here’s an interesting extension to Google Chrome called “IETab” that lets you use Internet Explorer from Google Chrome browser. To use Internet Explorer in Google Chrome , download and install the IETab Extension for Chrome . You can now start using Interner Explorer directly from Google Chrome without opening Internet Explorer You can also configure Internet Options with this extension. Once yo Read More....

How to recover a lost file in Word 2007 or in Word 2003 ?

Senthil Kumar — Sun, 06 May 2012 11:47:13 +0000

What do you do when the Word document that you were working is lost because of some power interruption .? If you want to recover a lost file in Word 2007 or in Word 2003 , you can follow the one of the steps below as described in the Microsoft Support website . How to recover a lost file in Word 2007 or in Word 2003 ? Method 1: Search for the original document Method 2: Search for Word backup files Method 3: Force Read More....

DevFestX – An Independently Organized DevFest

Senthil Kumar — Sat, 05 May 2012 16:51:00 +0000

DevFestX – An Independently Organized DevFest is scheduled to be held on May 19 , 2012 in Bangalore . DevFestX provides an opportunity for the audience to know more about Google technologies . DevFestX, is an extension of Google devfest events. This event is purely managed by local google developer community (GTUG) with help & support from Google. Launch your idea with Google App Engine App Engine Gurmin Read More....

Metro theme for jQuery Mobile

Senthil Kumar — Tue, 01 May 2012 15:06:22 +0000

Metro styled theme is now made available jQuery Mobile by Microsoft Open Technologies . jQuery Mobile is a open source Mobile UI framework , touch optimized framework that involves HTML5 and jQuery Javascript library. Abu Obeida in the interoperability @ microsoft blog stated that “The theme enables HTML5 pages to adapt automatically to the Metro design style when rendered on Windows Phone 7.5,”. Mobil Read More....

Microsoft Windows Identity Foundation Cookbook by Sandeep Chandra published

Senthil Kumar — Tue, 01 May 2012 14:12:47 +0000

Microsoft Windows Identity Foundation Cookbook from PackPub and written by Sandeep Chandra is now published and is available for purchase . Sandeep Chandra is a Microsoft National Systems Integrator , Gold Certified Partner and Director of Solutions , Neudesic. His expertise lies in several Microsoft Technologies and has authored many articles in online developer magazine. Service Oriented Computing, Pervasive Comp Read More....

Webinar – Introduction to Test Driven Development (TDD)

Senthil Kumar — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:37:33 +0000

Typemock is organising a webinar on the topic “Introduction to Test Driven Development (TDD)” on April 18 , 2012 at 19.30 (Indian time). This webinar will be presented by Gil Zilberfeld, Product Manager, Typemock. In order to prevent bugs and release quality code to market, you also need developer testing, including test driven development (TDD). Discover what test driven development is and how it can h Read More....

Metro UI for Microsoft Dynamics

Senthil Kumar — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:14:18 +0000

Microsoft used the Metro UI for Windows Phone , Windows 8 and few more products and now its the Microsoft Dynamics business to get the Metro UI . Few weeks back at Convergence , Microsoft’s annual gathering of Dynamics partners , Microsoft provided a sneak preview of Microsoft Dynamics with Metro User Interface. Kees Hertogh , in his blog explains how the Metro UI provides a better user experience with Live Read More....

Webinar – DotNetNuke Explained: Upgrades

Senthil Kumar — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:34:44 +0000

DotNetNuke is organising a webinar on the topic “DotNetNuke Explained: Upgrades” on May 1 , 2012 from 9.00 am – 10.00 am (PDT). This session will be hosted by Chris Hammond , DotNetNuke Corporation. This webinar will make you understand how to easily upgrade your website to the new version of DotNetNuke and also keeping the features and security of the existing DotNetNuke website current. Get to k Read More....

5 Things Programmers Can’t Live without

Senthil Kumar — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:39:57 +0000

What are the 5 things that a programmer can’t live without ? Below are few list of things that i feel as a Programmer can’t live without . I know there are lot of things 1. Caffeine (Coffee) / Tea 2. Desktop ( Probably Windows PC ) 3. Meetings / Interactions / Code Reviews 4. Teams / Customers / Company 5. Google for searching Each and every one consider few things that are important to them and the s Read More....

Bangalore DotNet User Group (BDotNet) UG meet with Atley Hunter

Senthil Kumar — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:45:24 +0000

Atley Hunter – a Microsoft MVP in Windows Phone Development and Telerik Insider will be presenting few interesting topics on Windows Phone during the Bangalore DotNet User Group (BDotNet) UG meet to be held on April 28 , 2012 from 10.30 am at Microsoft Corporation , Signature Building , 4th Florr – Hamilton Hall , Bangalore. “Atley Hunter is a passionate mobile developer with over 15 years’ Read More....

Overcoming Burnout for Programmers …

Senthil Kumar — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:58:28 +0000

Just came across this interesting and good article on Burnout by Scott Boms . I have already read this some time back and might be a bit old article too but the content mentioned in it is definitely worth reading specially for Programmers . Scott explains the term “Burnout” and explains Freudenberger’s research on it and differentiates Burnout and depression. Scott also explains how Burnout happ Read More....

How to block Ads in Internet Explorer 9 ?

Senthil Kumar — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:58:53 +0000

If you are one of those users who wants to block Ads in Internet Explorer 9 , you can do it easily with the Tracking Protection feature . “Tracking Protection helps you stay in control of your privacy as you browse the web.” You can enable the Tracking Protection Lists in Internet Explorer by following the below steps 1. Navigate to Settings -> Manage Add-ons How to block Ads in Internet Explorer 9 ? Read More....

HardlyWork – Check your Facebook Updates in Microsoft Excel Format

Senthil Kumar — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 05:32:26 +0000

Are you a Hard(ly) working employee and most of the time you are on Facebook during work ? . If yes , then this is for you . Have you ever thought how to check the Facebook updates in your office without getting caught by your project manager or colleague ? . HardlyWork.in will help you do that easily . HardlyWork.in is a website that displays your all your and your friends Facebook status updates and photos in a Read More....

Find your Windows 7 Product Key with Windows Product Key Finder

Senthil Kumar — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:32:22 +0000

If you want to know the Windows 7 Product key or Serial key directly on your PC, here’s a simple software that lets you find it easily. It is called Windows Product Key Finder. Windows Product Key Finder is a tool that lets you find out what is your Windows Product Key. So in case you want to reinstall your Windows and forgot your Windows 7 Serial Key or License Key, you can use the Windows Product Key Finder Read More....

Open DBDiff for SQL Server 2008

Senthil Kumar — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:53:16 +0000

Last few weeks , i have been playing around with this cool tool called Open DBDiff . As the name suggests Open DBDiff tool lets you compare the database schema for SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server 2008 . Its a simple and effectve tool for database schema comparision . Open DBDiff is a open source tool and reports differences between two database schemas and provides the SQL Script that synchronizes both databases so Read More....

Maxthon scores better than other browsers in HTML5 test ?

Senthil Kumar — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:36:04 +0000

Just noticed something interesting in the HTML5test.com website . HTML5Test is a website that lets the users to compare the browser support for different web technologies . There are different browsers available in the market like Google Chrome , Microsoft’s Internet Explorer , Mozilla Firefox , Opera , Safari , Maxthon etc. I have heard of the Maxthon browser but was not much familiar with it , but noticed t Read More....

Webinar – Introduction to DotNetNuke Professional Edition

Senthil Kumar — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:07:02 +0000

DotNetNuke is organising a webinar on the topic “Introduction to DotNetNuke Professional Edition” on April 18 , 2012 at 9.00 am (PDT) . This webinar will be hosted by Will Strohl , Sales Engineer , DotNetNuke Corporation . DotNetNuke comes in 3 flavours DotNetNuke Community Edition DotNetNuke Professional Edition DotNetNuke Enterprise Edition DotNetNuke Professional Edition and DotNetNuke Enter Read More....

Different ways to open the Command Prompt in Windows 8 in Metro UI ?

Senthil Kumar — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 15:37:19 +0000

If you are one of those users who use command prompt more frequently , then below are different ways to open the Command Prompt in Windows 8 . Different ways to open the Command Prompt in Windows 8 in Metro UI ? 1. Press the Windows Key + R and type cmd in the “Run” Window . 2. Press Windows Key + X .This will open a context menu where you could select the “Command Prompt” or “Command Read More....

VisualHG – Mercurial Plugin for Visual Studio

Senthil Kumar — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:22:34 +0000

Mercurial is a free , cross platform, distributed source control management tool for software developers . VisualHG is a source control Mercurial Plugin for Visual Studio and works with Visual Studio 2005 , Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 . VisualHG enabled the developers to quickly verify the file status and access everything within Visual Studio Environment and supports Mercurial Subrepositories . Explo Read More....

How to Close Metro App in Windows 8 ?

Senthil Kumar — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:58:46 +0000

In this blog post , i will share a small tip on how to Close Metro App in Windows 8 . I have been using Windows 8 Consumer Preview on one of the Virtual Machine and have often used the below shortcuts to close the Metro App . First one is the traditional Windows shortcut (Alt + F4) which works in Windows 7 and now in Windows 8 Consumer Preview too . The Other way to close the Metro App in Windows 8 is to hover the Read More....

Webinar – Introduction to Test Driven Development (TDD)

Senthil Kumar — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:38:03 +0000

Typemock is organising a webinar on the topic Introduction to Test Driven Development (TDD) on April 18 , 2012 at 19.30 (India) . This webinar will be presented by Gil Zilberfeld, Product Manager, Typemock . This webinar will help you discover what test driven development is and how it can help you to write better code. You will also learn The difference between unit testing and test driven development (TDD). The Read More....

Happy Hour – Global Dart Hackathon Event

Senthil Kumar — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:41:15 +0000

Happy Hour is the first global Dart hackathon sponsored by Google and produced by the community . The event is scheduled to be held in various locations worldwide during April-May 2012 . The locations include Silicon Valley , Tel Aviv Israel , Tokyo – Japan , Seoul – Korea , Prague – Szech Republic , Chandigarh , Goa and Karnataka , London – England . Happy Hour - Global Dart Hackathon Event Read More....

How to find the Top 5 largest files in Windows 7 ?

Senthil Kumar — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 13:50:57 +0000

I learnt something with the PowerShell today when searching for a largest file on my Windows 7 PC If you are one of the users who want to find 5 largest file in Windows 7, you could use the below code in PowerShell… You can launch PowerShell from Start -> Accessories -> Windows PowerShell folder. gci -r D:\ -ea 0 | sort Length -desc | select -f 5 The above example will search for the files in D: drive Read More....

Connect Neurons to use Open source for Learning.

Senthil Kumar — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 12:44:44 +0000

In the age of cloud computing, citizen media and social networking, so many organizations across the world are progressing with open source technologies. Whether it is using Linux, Ubuntu kind of software tools or Android kind of apps – the cool technologies are ever reliable like the licensed softwares of the past. Empowering the likeminded developers, these techno tools are spreading furiously across the glob Read More....

Webinar – DotNetNuke Explained: Basic Skinning

Senthil Kumar — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:07:14 +0000

DotnetNuke is organising a webinar on the topic “DotNetNuke Explained: Basic Skinning” on April 10, 2012 from 9:00 – 10:00 am (PDT) . This webinar will be hosted by Chris Hammond , Director of Training Programs, DotNetNuke Corporation and will help you to understand the contents of the skin package and make minor changes for an existing skin in DotNetNuke and how one can apply skins or themes for a DotNetNu Read More....

Event – Reliving TechEd India 2012 with Vinod

Senthil Kumar — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:08:36 +0000

Here’s a User Group meet with the combined efforts of BDotNet and BITPro on some interesting topics to be presented by Vinod. The event is titled as “Reliving TechEd India 2012 with Vinod” will be held on April 7, 2012 from 10.30 am to 1.30 pm at Microsoft, Krishna Hall, Embassy Building, 3rd Floor, Domlur, Bangalore. Currently, 2 sessions are planned Understanding Windows with SysInternals Tools Read More....

Auto generate change scripts in SQL Server Management Studio

Senthil Kumar — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 17:59:34 +0000

SQL Server Management Studio has a feature that lets you to automatically generate Create or Alter scripts when using the table designer . By deafult , this option is disabled . You can enable it by following the below steps 1. Start SQL Server Management Studio 2. Click Tools -> Options Auto generate change scripts in SQL Server Management Studio - 1 3. Click Designers in the TreeList in the Options Dialog and Read More....

How to find if your Compuer is a boy or a Girl in your Windows PC ?

Senthil Kumar — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 05:40:07 +0000

Here’s an interesting blog post that helps you to find if your Computer is a boy or a Girl … Although , its a pretty old one , wanted to share it here There are 2 ways to find this . 1. Open Speech Recognition in your Windows 7 Control Panel and then click “Text to Speech” from the left sidebar . You will see a Dialog “Speech Properties” . In this Screen , you will only find an Read More....

What’s your favourite Programming tool ?

Senthil Kumar — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:03:53 +0000

During the Great Indian Developer Summit ( GIDS ) every year , Saltmarch Media honors and awards technologies , frameworks , platforms , toolc etc that makes the developers life easier . The voting to pick the winners in each categories has started and you could vote and also possibly see your favourite tool getting selected as winner in the categories defined by GIDS . These Categories includes Content Management Read More....

Webinar – Introduction to Unit Testing

Senthil Kumar — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:41:44 +0000

Typemock is organising a webinar on the topic “Introduction to Unit Testing” on April 4 , 2012 from 7.30 PM to 8.30 PM ( Indian Standard Time). Software testing isn’t just a task for QA. In order to prevent bugs and release quality code to market, you also need developer testing, including unit testing. Discover why you should start unit testing, and how you can get started with automated tests quickl Read More....

Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) Workshop Video Tutorials

Senthil Kumar — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:06:23 +0000

Below are links to the videos that lets the developers know more about Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) and Claims-Based Identity . Its a series of videos titled “WIF Workshop 1…10″ . The videos were posted by Vittorio Bertocci at Channel 9 long time back but is definitely a good one to leran about Windows Identity Foundation (WIF). WIF Workshop 1: Introduction to Claims-Based Identity and WIF Read More....

TRIGGER – Cross Platform framework for Android and iOS

Senthil Kumar — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:14:36 +0000

Just came across this Development Platform for iOS and Android and hence wanted to share them here. TRIGGER is a Cross Platform app framework to build iOS , Android and Web Apps using HTML5. TRIGGER , the name sounds very powerful isn’t it ? Some of the features of TRIGGER includes Access to the native feature of the mobile platform via JavaScript Simple development setup process. Distribute in multiple nati Read More....

Telerik Sample Apps, Resources and Giveaways for Windows Phone Developers

Senthil Kumar — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:11:12 +0000

The RadControls for Windows Phone is simple to use and provides rich set of functionalities to develop windows phone App easily. You can download the trial version of RadControls for Windows Phone here If you want to win a copy of the RadControls for Windows Phone , Check the GiveAway details @WindowsPhoneRocks.com Participating in the GiveAway is easy . Just Tweet the below text Telerik Sample Apps, Resources and Read More....

Microsoft Design case study: iPad to Windows 8 Metro style app

Senthil Kumar — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 11:51:47 +0000

Microsoft in its Windows Developer Center has posted a design case study documentation that compares iPad App development with Windows 8 Metro style app development. The Design case study documentation is more of a design comparision of iPad and Windows 8 Metro style app showing hoe iPas based photo journal app works and compared with the Windows 8 tablet. The case study also explains that “In this case study Read More....

Webinar – DotNetNuke Explained: Basic Installation

Senthil Kumar — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:45:21 +0000

DotnetNuke is organising a webinar on the topic “DotNetNuke Explained: Basic Installation” on March 27,2012 from 9 am – 10 am (PDT) . This webinar will be hosted by Chris Hammond , Director of Training Programs, DotNetNuke Corporation and will help you to understand the prerequisites for DotNetNuke and how one can configure the database and website and get your DotNetNuke website up and running. C Read More....

Webinar – .NET Development in RAD Studio with Embarcadero Prism

Senthil Kumar — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:51:19 +0000

Embarcadero is organising a webinar on the topic .NET Development in RAD Studio with Embarcadero Prism on March 28 , 2012 at 6:00am PDT / 9:00am EDT / 2:00pm CET / 1300 GMT. Embarcadero Prism is part of RAD Studio provides the Object Pascal programming language and IDE for .NET and Mono Development . This enables the Delphi developers to easily work in .NET . The Webinar – .NET Development in RAD Studio with Read More....

How to add My Computer to the Start Screen in Windows 8 Consumer Preview ?

Guest — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 10:36:31 +0000

If you want to add My Computer to the Start Screen (Metro UI) in Windows 8 Consumer Preview . You can do that by pinning it to the start screen . To Pin My Computer to the Start Screen in Windows 8 , follow the below steps 1. From the Windows 8 Metro Start Screen , open Windows Explorer using the shartcut key Windows Key + E . You will now see the Windows Explorer opened with the screen “Computer”. 2. R Read More....

Google Play

Senthil Kumar — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:17:15 +0000

Google’s Android Market has changed its name. Its new name being Google Play. Many experts believe their re-branding is due to the fact that the previous market place did not offer Android users a complete solution or ‘ecosystem’. Whilst preaching the virtues of the Android OS at WMC this year, Eric Schmidt, Google’s executive chairman, too made this point. It is his and the big G’s po Read More....

Robotics Developer Studio 4 and Kinect Follow Me Robot

Senthil Kumar — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 09:13:00 +0000

Few days back , Microsoft had released Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 4 which is now available for download from the Microsoft Robotics website. Apart from fixing number of issues in the Robotics Developer Studio 4 , the team also have updated Robotics Developer Studio 4 to work with the release version of Kinect for Windows SDK. Robotics Developer Studio 4 also adds support for Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 X Read More....