Kiran Kumar Bheemarti

SOAP UI : Fastest way to test web services....Awesome tool

2011-02-18T23:12:00.000-05:00

--Kiran Bheemarti

My C# Quine

2011-01-26T23:44:00.001-05:00

I saw a java quine in HackerNews today, felt like writing my first quine in C#, here is an attempt of it.

Quine(){var s="Quine(){var s='''';Console.WriteLine(s.Insert(16,s));}";Console.WriteLine(s.Insert(16,s));}

It’s about 106 chars long  of course with anonymous methods, delegates, lambda expressions, new var types C# writes a whole lot of code behind the scenes, Thanks to C# I totally love coding in C#

--Kiran Bheemarti

Automapper sample

2011-01-19T01:44:00.001-05:00

Automapper is really awesome tool to map similar objects, especially useful when you want to copy the EF entities to WCF Serializable entities to avoid exposing the loaded EF entities. Here is a sample I worked out to try it out.

You can download Automapper from codeplex, it’s a simple single dll, which you can add to your project, set up few Mappers and you are done, you can copy entities to and from.

http://automapper.codeplex.com/

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using AutoMapper;

namespace AutoMapperSample
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            SetMapping();

            var class1Obj = new Class1()
                                {
                                    Male = true,
                                    Name = "Name",
                                    Number = 3,
                                    Cls3 = new Class3() {CurrentDate = DateTime.Now.AddDays(10)}
                                };

var class2Obj = Mapper.Map<Class1, Class2>(class1Obj);

}

        private static void SetMapping()
        {
            Mapper.CreateMap<Class1, Class2>()
                .ForMember(cl2 => cl2.FullName, cl1 => cl1.MapFrom(n => n.Name + " " + n.Name))
                .ForMember(cl2 => cl2.Male, m => m.ResolveUsing<MaleResolver>().FromMember(cl1 => cl1.Male))
                .ForMember(cl2 => cl2.Cls3CurrentDate, m => m.AddFormatter<DateFormatter>());
        }
    }

    public class Class1
    {
        public Class3 Cls3 { get; set; }

        public int Number { get; set; }
        public String Name { get; set; }
        public Boolean Male { get; set; }
    }

    public class Class2
    {
        public String Cls3CurrentDate { get; set; }

        public int Number { get; set; }
        public String Name { get; set; }
        public String Male { get; set; }
        public String FullName { get; set; }
    }

    public class Class3
    {
        public DateTime CurrentDate { get; set; }
    }

    public class MaleResolver : ValueResolver<bool, string>
    {
        protected override string ResolveCore(bool source)
        {
            return source ? "Y" : "N";
        }
    }

    public class DateFormatter : IValueFormatter
    {
        public string FormatValue(ResolutionContext context)
        {
            return ((DateTime)context.SourceValue).ToLongDateString();
        }
    }

}

--Kiran Bheemarti

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2010-11-16T00:00:00-08:00

P&P Symposium 2010 - jQuery, the way JavaScript should be - Damian Edwards | MichaelLehman | Channel 9

Cherohala Skyway.......

2010-10-12T07:55:00.000-04:00

JQuery Fundamentals Book

2010-10-07T01:55:00.001-04:00

Found this JQuery Fundamentals book free online http://jqfundamentals.com/book/book.html it’s all on a single page so you can use http://www.web2pdfconvert.com/ to convert the page as pdf (e-book) and download for free.

-- Kiran Bheemarti

Whole bunch of new releases from Microsoft

2010-10-07T01:28:00.001-04:00

Check out Scott’s posting on new releases http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/10/06/announcing-nupack-asp-net-mvc-3-beta-and-webmatrix-beta-2.aspx, most interesting is NuPack, more info on NuPack here http://devlicio.us/blogs/rob_reynolds/archive/2010/10/06/the-evolution-of-package-management-for-net.aspx

--Kiran Bheemarti

Facebook is down

2010-10-06T00:38:00.001-04:00

Wondering where will you share with your friends that Facebook is down

--Kiran Bheemarti

Just used the most useful feature of Google Voice (Freedom with numbers)

2010-10-04T00:21:00.001-04:00

Changed my Home phone number today and realized the advantage of Google Voice, although I knew it right from the day I registered for a invite from Google Voice, today I used for first time, two advantages, 1) I gave a damn to try to port from old home phone number from previous carrier to new one (Saved 40 bucks right there, thanks Google!!!) 2) Don’t have to mail all my friends my new home number

--Kiran Bheemarti

Great documentary about planet earth and current conditions

2010-10-01T02:14:00.000-04:00

A must watch.......

--Kiran Bheemarti

String formatting cheat sheet

2010-09-30T18:42:00.001-04:00

I found this nice cheat sheet, nice to have printout for fast look up on String formatting on www.dylanbeattie.net/cheatsheets

--Kiran Bheemarti

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2010-09-30T00:00:00-07:00

Balsamiq Mockups - Review

2010-09-30T01:09:00.000-04:00

Balsamiq is a fastest easiest way to do some awesome mock ups, check this tutorial on using Balsamiq......

--Kiran Bheemarti

Try Taskforce with your Gmail Account

2010-09-23T18:27:00.001-04:00

Taskforce is similar to Google Tasks inside your Gmail, but after giving few trials I was turned off from Google Tasks, Taskforce is very interesting sleek and neat add on to your Gmail. Currently its in invite only beta phase, register to get an invite here. Once you get an invite and you register on Taskforce with your Google account, you will down chrome extension or Firefox add-on provided on their site http://taskforceapp.com/pages/download, once done log out of your Gmail and log back in, you will immediately notice a Add on top right of the window.

You can also do forwarding setup and filters so that incoming mails can be added as tasks to Taskforce automatically. Setup instructions here. You can also add tasks from the control you can see “New” in the window above, or you can add tasks from the mail, if you open any mail you will notice few additional button on the top of the mail related to taskforce which can be used to add tasks, overall so far so good pretty satisfied with the app.

Signup for invite and have fun.

Kiran Bheemarti

How to Track and (Potentially) Recover Your Stolen Laptop or Android wit...

2010-09-23T00:03:00.001-04:00

Saw this cool posting on Lifehacker, check out the video its neat idea.

Kiran Bheemarti

Why do update if there is nothing to update

2010-09-22T23:56:00.001-04:00

I keep getting this mail from AddThis service which I subscribed for adding Share feature on my blog, I know we get cool stats by AddThis, that if any one ever share any of my posts but with low traffic on my naïve blog I doubt anybody ever share any post, but I still do get a mail regularly from AddThis saying “No updates” I wonder why send a update mail if there is nothing to update probably marketing decision on their end, I know I can unsubscribe from the mail still was wondering why do these mails in the first place. (Btw this post has nothing against the features AddThis has to provide, I am very satisfied with their service).

Kiran Bheemarti

120 GB USB External HDD for only $24 (lowest I ever saw)

2010-09-22T00:05:00.001-04:00

120 GB External HDD for only $24, I know 120GB is not much these days but $24 is the lowest price I ever saw. Grab it if 120GB something interests you.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136606&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&AID=10446076&PID=3705318&SID=skim1043X499650

Kiran Bheemarti

HTML5 : Up and Running

2010-09-21T12:47:00.001-04:00

Read this book for free here on Google Books.

Kiran Bheemarti

Why one should never select typical installation and always go for custom

2010-09-19T04:06:00.001-04:00

Today I rebuild my work machine and was installing VS2010 went to custom installation mode and deselected C++ as my chances of working with C++ to little to none, amazed to see a almost 2GB drop in Disk usage by unchecking C++ components, after all Visual Studio is our beloved Software image what would be the case with all those freeware's that come with tons of toolbars, antivirus app which do nothing. Lesson here is (of course we all know by now) never ever choose defaults while installation if a option is provided always to to Custom and see details.

Kiran Bheemarti

Getting Started with WCF REST

2010-09-17T18:21:00.001-04:00

Microsoft released a WCF REST starter kit and bunch of Screencasts to get us started with REST using WCF, once you install the starter kit new WCF REST project templates will be added (Although it did not happen on my VS2010 studio, I am still figure it out will follow up with another post once I do). But after you install the Starter Kit you can browse to the installation directory and you will see bunch of sample projects using WCF REST in there.

Links

* Starter Kit Download

* Developer’s Guide

* Release notes

* Screen Casts

* Try downloading Litware Training Mashup its a good place to start

* Nice Blog post to read on WCF REST

* Just in case if you are interested “Performance Comparison of WCF with Existing Distributed Communication Technologies”

* Another Screen cast “Getting Started with WCF REST Starter Kit Preview 2”

* I am listing this video kind of last but it is a great video to watch, only listing it last as the link is currently broken in Channel 9 hoping the link to be back or if I find an alternate one will post later http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/TL35

* Finally if we are hosting our Business on WCF REST we also need to lock it down security wise, codeplex has a good book (FREE) to download and read on Web Services Security download it here

--Kiran Bheemarti

Getting started with TDD using Rhino Mock

2010-09-16T03:23:00.001-04:00

If you are aware of what is TDD and never got into TDD for writing tests is time consuming and comes with its own set of issues and drawbacks give Rhino Mocks a try, there is a Rhino Mocks intro video which is really cool, you will get to see a TDD approach development. One thing though the person in the video codes like a machine he really demonstrate the power of ReSharper in the video for a while you might think you are running the video in 2x or 4x but no he just codes like a machine.

--Kiran Bheemarti

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2010-09-16T00:00:00-07:00

Online development environment

2010-09-15T22:34:00.001-04:00

Coderun is a neat idea, online IDE, not that we can ditch our desktop IDE’s and switch to online IDE but it’s a cool idea to write some code online from any public desktop and share it easily with integrated Social network sharing in the IDE, I did not see any project templates in CodeRun IDE to do Console app which in my view would be awesome to write small snippets and test online and share easily.

Try : http://coderun.com/ide/

--Kiran Bheemarti

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2010-09-15T00:00:00-07:00

Deploy your applications in seconds

2010-09-14T01:47:00.000-04:00

Build a web application in 4 mins!

2010-09-14T01:46:00.000-04:00

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2010-09-09T00:00:00-07:00

SSW Rules to Successful Projects

How to add additional mail inboxes to the outlook client (sounds simple but option is quite deeply buried)

2010-09-03T03:14:00.001-04:00

Adding additional mail inboxes for some reason is hidden deep deep in the obscure settings of outlook I don’t quite understand why is it so but just to keep a record how to do so I can find my own notes while helping others I am doing this blog. Here are steps involved to add additional inboxes.

Open Outlook (I am using 2007 but it applies to 2003 as well), go to Tools > Account Settings….

Window with you mail box account settings opens, hit Change (yes we are not changing anything that what is the obscure confusing part ignore the logic and do the steps as is )

When you hit change in the above window, below window pops up, Hit More Settings…..

More settings window like below will pop up, go to Advanced tab in this window

In the advanced tab hit Add

Give the inbox name you are trying to add in addition to your personal inbox, hit ok

You will see a additional inbox below your personal inbox in outlook, as I said quite a number of windows popup, none of them will make you feel like you are on the right path to finally getting the option of adding additional inbox, but believe me and my images above and keep going, if you don’t get to the final window where I added my additional inbox I am so sorry I could not help you

--Kiran Bheemarti

How to export the list of files modified in a Changeset

2010-09-03T02:36:00.001-04:00

One features I wish I had with the new Visual Studio and to my disappointment I did not is a export capability on the TFS windows, so you can go to a changeset view details of the files touched in that changeset and if required export them into a text file or excel or some formatted file so we can pass along in the team. I know this might not be a pushing feature, top of the list of nice to have features but I wish future releases come with a print/save buttons on the TFS dialog windows until then I found a workaround for this.

Workaround : Use Command line TFS, you can do almost everything from Command line in terms of TFS what you can do from the Studio

Example : Export the details of a change set into a text file

tf changeset /noprompt 35015 > "c:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Desktop\35015_Details.txt

notice we are making use of basic DOS functionality of export any DOS command results into a text file “>” this will do the job like c:>dir > c:\dir.txt

--Kiran Bheemarti

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2010-09-02T00:00:00-07:00

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2010-08-31T00:00:00-07:00

SQL Server Helper - Frequently Asked Questions - SQL Server Data Types

What is wireless adapter software radio and how disable it getting automatically turned off

2010-08-31T00:30:00.001-04:00

Many times laptops loose a wireless connection automatically and mostly they resume back for there is feature where if a wireless profile is available adapter connects automatically to it, but why a laptop loose connection frequently in first place, the answer to this question is mostly the power management scheme that all laptops use, under the power management laptops turn off devices when they are not made use of to save the battery life, excellent feature, but we are power freaks and like to manage our power on our own, and if you are like me then keep reading to turn off this feature so your laptop never looses a wireless connection again

Hit the wireless connection management icon in the tray, it will pop up a window like below.

Hit on “Open Network and Sharing Center” on the above dialog window, below window will get opened

Hit on “Manage wireless networks” or “Change adapter settings” in the left menu this will open the below window

Hit the “Adapter properties” in the above window, below window will pop up

Hit “Configure” on the above window which will open the below dialog window

Go to “Power Management” tab on the above window

Yep this is it no more windows :) menus, Uncheck “Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power” and hit OK.

Sometimes windows turns off the wireless adapter you can turn it on by doing the diagnostics on the “Network and Sharing Center” which will try to fix the problems automatically and turning on the wireless software radio is one of them.

--Kiran Bheemarti

Kiran Kumar Bheemarti

SOAP UI : Fastest way to test web services....Awesome tool

My C# Quine

Automapper sample

Links for 2010-11-15 [del.icio.us]

Cherohala Skyway.......

JQuery Fundamentals Book

Whole bunch of new releases from Microsoft

Facebook is down

Just used the most useful feature of Google Voice (Freedom with numbers)

Great documentary about planet earth and current conditions

String formatting cheat sheet

Links for 2010-09-29 [del.icio.us]

Balsamiq Mockups - Review

Try Taskforce with your Gmail Account

How to Track and (Potentially) Recover Your Stolen Laptop or Android wit...

Why do update if there is nothing to update

120 GB USB External HDD for only $24 (lowest I ever saw)

HTML5 : Up and Running

Why one should never select typical installation and always go for custom

Getting Started with WCF REST

Getting started with TDD using Rhino Mock

Rhino Mock Links :

MbUnit Links :

Dependency Injection (StructureMap) :

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Online development environment

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Deploy your applications in seconds

Build a web application in 4 mins!

Links for 2010-09-08 [del.icio.us]

How to add additional mail inboxes to the outlook client (sounds simple but option is quite deeply buried)

How to export the list of files modified in a Changeset

Links for 2010-09-01 [del.icio.us]

Links for 2010-08-30 [del.icio.us]

What is wireless adapter software radio and how disable it getting automatically turned off