tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26295216Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:57:03 +0000Too much perfection Disrupts creative spirit: Build progressivelyhttp://jomit.blogspot.com/jomit@rediffmail.com (Jomit Vaghela)Blogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26295216.post-8552692548086836348Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:20:00 +00002009-06-20T08:57:03.752-07:00 Opera Unite : “A new technology that shakes up the old client-server computing model of the Web”.Opera unite provides the following services: Here is good post on installing and configuring these services. The only service that I felt interesting was the ‘Web Server’. So I tried it and the first cut really went well. Below is the link of a file hosted on my laptop by unite:http://http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Jomit/~3/10M9DPYVMb0/opera-unite-reinventing-web.htmljomit@rediffmail.com (Jomit Vaghela)0http://jomit.blogspot.com/2009/06/opera-unite-reinventing-web.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26295216.post-1289579596100962456Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:41:00 +00002009-06-19T04:35:22.082-07:00microsoft sharepointachievementSince last couple of months I, along with my wonderful team including Todd, Vivek, Meeta and Ritu had been working with Tony on rebuilding the Microsoft's SharePoint web site.The web site went live last month : http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint . . . .and now, there is also a 'How we did it' article on MSDN describing goals and technicals details of how we developed all the pieces and fitted ithttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Jomit/~3/cyUuMTHUWyg/rebuilding-microsoftcomsharepoint.htmljomit@rediffmail.com (Jomit Vaghela)0http://jomit.blogspot.com/2009/06/rebuilding-microsoftcomsharepoint.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26295216.post-1859928041833468415Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:54:00 +00002009-06-02T06:54:37.277-07:00PRISMSilverlight One of the challenges of porting large business applications on silverlight is the size of .xap file. A typical business app would have multiple screens, rich data visualization and lots of user interaction which would in turn increase the overall size of the xap file. Also it would have users with multiple roles and each role would have specific permissions to specific screens.  So wouldn’t http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Jomit/~3/ySZWqVxq9Z4/loading-xap-files-ondemand-using.htmljomit@rediffmail.com (Jomit Vaghela)0http://jomit.blogspot.com/2009/06/loading-xap-files-ondemand-using.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26295216.post-2663097860732549672Mon, 11 May 2009 04:32:00 +00002009-05-10T21:32:04.151-07:00 Internet is like a deep ocean with many hidden gems so I just thought to wear my scuba suit and find those gems and share them. This is what I found last month : 10 Tips to Improve your LINQ to SQL Application Performance SOAP vs. REST: Complements or Competitors? Cloud Platforms Today: A Perspective Performance of content aggregation queries on multiple lists http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Jomit/~3/kXdzWdypVpI/diving-exploration.htmljomit@rediffmail.com (Jomit Vaghela)0http://jomit.blogspot.com/2009/05/diving-exploration.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26295216.post-28477335558393972Mon, 16 Mar 2009 04:02:00 +00002009-03-15T21:02:06.226-07:00 While creating a Virtual Disk (.VHD) for Virtual PC we need to allocate a maximum size for both Dynamic and Fixed sized disks. Now once we set this size it’s really difficult to change it. I had a similar issue last week and luckily I happen to find a solution for it which I am going to share here. Firstly we would need the Vhd Resizer tool from the vmToolkit. This tool would copy sector by http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Jomit/~3/DvllJe4kDVk/re-sizing-vhd-files.htmljomit@rediffmail.com (Jomit Vaghela)1http://jomit.blogspot.com/2009/03/re-sizing-vhd-files.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26295216.post-1613653790100501131Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:25:00 +00002009-03-06T02:34:46.212-08:00JavascriptSilverlight Context menus & right click event is something which is not out of the box supported in silverlight but I think they prove to be very crucial while developing LOB applications. So here is a workaround on how you can create them. Basically I am using HTML/Javascript to create and render menus on top of silverlight but it involves a few tweaks which are listed below. First tweak is – How to http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Jomit/~3/7Av25pVJ5UM/how-to-create-context-menus-and-capture.htmljomit@rediffmail.com (Jomit Vaghela)0http://jomit.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-to-create-context-menus-and-capture.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26295216.post-7969843346324157087Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:18:00 +00002009-03-02T20:12:59.402-08:00 I have deployed the first bits of my OneNote application on Cloud. Currently I have created a very basic version with Pen / Text for writing the notes. Overall the aim is to get the know how of Windows Azure platform including .Net Services, Mesh Enabled Web Applications (MEWA) and SQL Data Services.   I have already created the SDS Proxy WCF Service. So the next step is to http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Jomit/~3/ckSeC6xlOE4/onenote-on-cloud-first-bits-deployed-on.htmljomit@rediffmail.com (Jomit Vaghela)0http://jomit.blogspot.com/2009/02/onenote-on-cloud-first-bits-deployed-on.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26295216.post-1939572714181589710Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:50:00 +00002009-02-18T05:50:53.752-08:00 “OneNote on Cloud”…  This is something I have started exploring on since last couple of days.  The idea is to have a OneNote type application experience on web, using Silverlight and SQL Data Services. The first hurdle was to access SDS from silverlight. We can’t directly use the SDS from silverlight because of some known limitations. So the option that I thought of was to use some http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Jomit/~3/8-3OuZ91Qic/accessing-sql-data-services-from.htmljomit@rediffmail.com (Jomit Vaghela)0http://jomit.blogspot.com/2009/02/accessing-sql-data-services-from.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26295216.post-7423143101556256886Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:16:00 +00002009-02-06T00:16:08.366-08:00 This week I went on a roller coaster ride of formatting & configuring my laptop for Surface development. I will just brief out the steps that I had to do before installing the Surface SDK 1.0 : Install Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (If you get any errors while installing SP1 than first install the System Update Readiness Tool for Vista and than try installing the SP1 again. My machine http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Jomit/~3/jp97wPLGzvw/getting-started-with-microsoft-surface.htmljomit@rediffmail.com (Jomit Vaghela)0http://jomit.blogspot.com/2009/02/getting-started-with-microsoft-surface.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26295216.post-9187109209986173866Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:32:00 +00002009-01-29T23:33:01.330-08:00Sharepoint 2007WSS Here is an excellent article by Roger Lamb explaining the various design patterns to be used for disposing various SharePoint and WSS objects before deploying to the production environment. Some of these may cause serious implications and memory leaks if not addressed correctly. In particular there are 3 objects to be taken care of,  Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite , Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWebhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Jomit/~3/XWNeKUSUZNw/disposing-sharepoint-2007-and-wss-30.htmljomit@rediffmail.com (Jomit Vaghela)2http://jomit.blogspot.com/2009/01/disposing-sharepoint-2007-and-wss-30.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26295216.post-6362790149186579559Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:31:00 +00002009-01-23T04:31:26.005-08:00Live MeshLive ServicesCloud Computing I just installed the Live Framework SDK and started playing around with the Live Mesh and came up with some interesting things to share. The first thing to remember is that "Live Mesh Beta" and "Live Mesh CTP" are two different Mesh Environments. The Live Mesh CTP : https://developer.mesh-ctp.com/ installed from the Live Framework SDK is a developer sandbox environment with http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Jomit/~3/dUa8-hryZkc/live-mesh-beta-live-mesh-tech-preview.htmljomit@rediffmail.com (Jomit Vaghela)0http://jomit.blogspot.com/2009/01/live-mesh-beta-live-mesh-tech-preview.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26295216.post-3771395129594890572Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:16:00 +00002009-01-08T22:16:15.253-08:00  (From : Wriju's BLOG ) · Application Architecture Guidance · Enterprise Library · Guidance Explorer · Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications · Smart Client Guidance · Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server · WCF Security Guidance   · Acceptance Test Engineering Guidance · Common Service Locator · Composite Application Guidance for WPF · Design http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Jomit/~3/yPybDwLfzNI/free-ebooks-at-codeplex.htmljomit@rediffmail.com (Jomit Vaghela)0http://jomit.blogspot.com/2009/01/free-ebooks-at-codeplex.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26295216.post-6018702817557872075Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:07:00 +00002009-01-06T05:01:33.038-08:00Windows AzureCloud Computing So What is Cloud Computing ? "Cloud computing is Internet-based ("cloud") development and use of computer technology ("computing"). The cloud is a metaphor for the Internet, based on how it is depicted in computer network diagrams, and is an abstraction for the complex infrastructure it conceals." Live Services, Live Mesh, Live Platform, Windows Azure, SQL Services, .Net Services . .http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Jomit/~3/3UzXE5Mvz04/bits-on-computing.htmljomit@rediffmail.com (Jomit Vaghela)0http://jomit.blogspot.com/2009/01/bits-on-computing.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26295216.post-7892241573159088160Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:54:00 +00002009-01-06T05:02:27.030-08:00.Net Recently we developed a tool for Inspecting whether the system has the required components for Silverlight SharePoint Integration. This tool provides a checklist of things which are required & not installed on the users system and then allow the user to install them and re-run the Inspection. The tricky part was to re-run the inspection for the assemblies in GAC. We were using the http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Jomit/~3/xJjECFBakB4/get-updated-list-of-assemblies-from-gac.htmljomit@rediffmail.com (Jomit Vaghela)0http://jomit.blogspot.com/2008/12/get-updated-list-of-assemblies-from-gac.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26295216.post-4316331625499350437Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:14:00 +00002008-12-03T02:18:58.812-08:00SilverlightFor one of our Data Visualization projects I wanted to create a Tag Cloud type UI in Silverlight. Googling around I found this very nice article on this.I decided to reproduce the user control so I could learn more about Silverlight and also added few customizations and some mouse enter and leave events to highlight the selected tag.I also made some other small modifications to clean up the code http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Jomit/~3/0cfrdI1vbV0/creating-tag-cloud-in-silverlight.htmljomit@rediffmail.com (Jomit Vaghela)0http://jomit.blogspot.com/2008/12/creating-tag-cloud-in-silverlight.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26295216.post-7946610390510713243Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:17:00 +00002008-11-30T21:22:16.108-08:00best practices.net 4.0Parallel ExtensionsarchitectConcurrency is one of the biggest challenges the industry is working on now days. Anders mentioned about the details of this in his talk ‘Future of C#’ at PDC.So what’s the problem about?Concurrency is about doing multiple tasks simultaneously. Most of our applications today do this asynchronous programming using multiple threads/processes but they all work on a Single CPU.This worked fine until http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Jomit/~3/KZGNyJI25ww/concurrency-elephant-in-room.htmljomit@rediffmail.com (Jomit Vaghela)0http://jomit.blogspot.com/2008/11/concurrency-elephant-in-room.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26295216.post-6820170282504494763Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:53:00 +00002008-11-17T20:58:06.763-08:00Install Experience : Its just a 2 step pretty smooth installation procedure. Took me about an hour to finish the entire thing.The theme and the UX looks similar to Vista with a few tweaks here and there.The wordpad has the office ribbons and the calculator has a new UI with additional modes : Another good feature is the new search capabilities.Open the search and type this " How much RAM is onhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Jomit/~3/fA-InbBVD_8/first-look-at-7.htmljomit@rediffmail.com (Jomit Vaghela)0http://jomit.blogspot.com/2008/11/first-look-at-7.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26295216.post-365465595794428920Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:43:00 +00002008-11-10T23:47:11.875-08:00VS2010 Finally I got my hands on all the materials from this year’s PDC including the VPC with VS 2010 CTP, Oslo, WF & WCF 4.0 and other bits.The first thing I wanted to try out was the new ‘dynamic’ keyword and the creation of dynamic classes but I found that I can’t seem to refer to the ‘System.Dynamic’ namespace as mentioned in Anders Session.Googling around I found the resolution around this issue http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Jomit/~3/buUePPQ6XCc/namespace-missing-on-vs2010-ctp.htmljomit@rediffmail.com (Jomit Vaghela)0http://jomit.blogspot.com/2008/11/namespace-missing-on-vs2010-ctp.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26295216.post-802096627918979435Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:00:00 +00002008-11-09T20:11:09.509-08:00.net 4.0OsloDublinWFWCFJust found these 2 webcasts by Alan Smith reviewing some of the recent bits provided from PDC 08 :Oslo Technologies-Repository Database-“M” Modelling Language-“Quadrant” modelling tool.net 4.0-Sequence Designer-Flowchart Designer-Declarative ServicesDublin-Process Server Management ConsoleOslo - PDC-08 CSD Bits ReviewOslo - Data Modelling in "M"Enjoy Learning !!!http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Jomit/~3/f_VH5ARBCZc/webcasts-on-oslo-wcf-wf-40-dublin.htmljomit@rediffmail.com (Jomit Vaghela)1http://jomit.blogspot.com/2008/11/webcasts-on-oslo-wcf-wf-40-dublin.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26295216.post-8992804977801339391Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:50:00 +00002008-10-01T04:53:10.113-07:00MEFManaged Extensions Framework Here is a excellent post from Brad Abrams explaining the Managed Extensions Framework (MEF) “The Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) is a new library in .NET that enables greater reuse of applications and components. Using MEF, .NET applications can make the shift from being statically compiled to dynamically composed.”Simple Introduction to Extensible Applications with the Managed Extensions http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Jomit/~3/FJP10owQAnM/simple-introduction-to-extensible.htmljomit@rediffmail.com (Jomit Vaghela)0http://jomit.blogspot.com/2008/10/simple-introduction-to-extensible.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26295216.post-1162675103397795140Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:46:00 +00002008-09-29T23:59:11.034-07:00Javascriptasp.netThere are 3 ways we can achieve this :1) Create a LinkButton and add both client side as well as server side onclick event handlers :<LinkButton ID="LinkButton1" runat="server" onclick="LinkButton1_Click>LinkButton <asp:LinkButton>protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e){LinkButton1.Attributes.Add("onclick", "window.open('test.aspx');");} protected void LinkButton1_Click(object sender, http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Jomit/~3/eD2_W0cIY8c/run-server-side-code-and-open-popup.htmljomit@rediffmail.com (Jomit Vaghela)0http://jomit.blogspot.com/2008/09/run-server-side-code-and-open-popup.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26295216.post-552507121716924896Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:56:00 +00002008-09-03T07:02:05.632-07:00Google Chrome This was the first message I got after installing google’s new browser Google Chrome . . . :-) But since then its working like a charm. . . . . Here are some of the features I like the most :Thumnail view of the ‘Most Visited’ sites when you first open the browser Opening ‘incognito window’ for private browing (seems similar to IE-8 privacy feature ) ‘Inspect Element’ to see the HTML source codehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Jomit/~3/YqarpkjFDdc/whoa-google-chrome-has-crashed-restart.htmljomit@rediffmail.com (Jomit Vaghela)0http://jomit.blogspot.com/2008/09/whoa-google-chrome-has-crashed-restart.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26295216.post-6212154256525781208Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:10:00 +00002008-09-01T23:11:31.738-07:00LifeRecently I got this email from one of my friend which really inspired me and gave a different vision of looking at life . . . . .Arthur Ashe, the legendary Wimbledon player was dying of AIDS which he got due to infected blood he received during a heart surgery in 1983. From world over, he received letters from his fans, one of which conveyed: "Why does GOD have to select you for such a bad http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Jomit/~3/xDfv1J7cKKE/paragraph-that-explains-life.htmljomit@rediffmail.com (Jomit Vaghela)0http://jomit.blogspot.com/2008/09/paragraph-that-explains-life.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26295216.post-8436699383459100087Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:44:00 +00002008-08-27T00:46:48.403-07:00WOW64C#CLRI am currenly reading ‘CLR via C#’ by Jeffrey Richter and would be posting some insights from it as I read along. “Windows 32-bit on Windows 64-bit (WoW64) is an emulation layer that enables 32-bit Windows applications to run seamlessly on 64-bit Windows platforms. Microsoft provides WoW64 to ease the burden of migrating to 64-bit platforms for application developers and to help encourage the http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Jomit/~3/UavDsaTJMAg/wow64-insights-from-clr-via-c.htmljomit@rediffmail.com (Jomit Vaghela)0http://jomit.blogspot.com/2008/08/wow64-insights-from-clr-via-c.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26295216.post-6579037784378891610Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:09:00 +00002008-08-04T23:14:49.226-07:00Javascriptasp.netSilverlightHow to call a JavaScript function from SilverLight ?The simplest way which I found is by calling the Invoke method of the HtmlWindow class using the HtmlPage object. As you can see the method take 2 arguments, first being the name of the function and second is the object array for parameters. HtmlPage class is available under System.Windows.Browser namespace.How to call a SilverLight function http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Jomit/~3/xLS1umtCBSU/interacting-between-javascript-and.htmljomit@rediffmail.com (Jomit Vaghela)2http://jomit.blogspot.com/2008/08/interacting-between-javascript-and.html