My TechPatch

My First WP7 App

Ankit — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 19:31:26 +0000

Last week I attended TechEdIn, India’s biggest techno-event, in Bangalore. It was an amazing personal, professional and learning experience for me. TechEdIn was a three-day event and my employer sponsored me for it. On day 2 and 3 of the event, they had tracks on Windows Phone development, which I was waiting for eagerly. Earlier [ more.....]

A SQL View with CHECK option

Ankit — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:17:05 +0000

The question (read requirement) on today’s sunrise meeting was “You want users to be able to view only products (from an inventory table) who have a Status column value as ‘Available’” ==> Quite simple. Create a View. Now next part was bit interesting, “User must be able to update columns in table through above [ more.....]

RSS: Feed Generator & Aggregator

Ankit — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 08:42:25 +0000

Nope, its not Digvijay Singh’s RSS! Here RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication”, which helps content publishers such as bloggers to sync up their latest updates with their readers. Here you need 2 things, a RSS feed generator, which generates feeds for latest contents and an aggregator, which catches up the generated feeds. There are [ more.....]

Cleaner Approach for fetching AppSettings

Ankit — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 09:10:07 +0000

Yup, I agree! there are many coding styles to fetch the AppSettings from Config files but last week I came across to a diligent code (forgot the source), which I want to share. Although there is nothing great about it but I liked its simplicity. (Keep your expectation low from this post if you were [ more.....]

Back to basics: Website Vs WebApp

Ankit — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:22:01 +0000

Well I am back on my blog… so hope few more post in coming days. Got one decent article on the one of the basic questions on VS “Whats the diff. b/w Website and Web App”. Here is the link of the post. Although the post is pretty old but its carrying lot of info/experience [ more.....]

TechEd on the Road

Ankit — Mon, 23 May 2011 18:41:46 +0000

Last sunday, I attended “TechEd on the Road”. I went there for Pinal Dave’s session, but thanks to time-mismanagement of organisers I missed almost the whole session. Somehow managed to hear him for the last 10 minutes. But wait! that’s not over. I was able to get the feel of passion and knowledge of “SQLAuthority”. [ more.....]

SQL Server – Denali

Ankit — Mon, 16 May 2011 18:22:29 +0000

The next Version of SQL Server, Code-named as Denali is already in CTP stage. You can download it from here. You can also register for the notification for next CTP release here I have just started working on it and first thing which I liked about it was The VS2010-liked Tabs in Management Studio . [ more.....]

SQL Queries – beyond TRUE and FALSE

Ankit — Sun, 15 May 2011 18:30:55 +0000

Last week my article “SQL Queries – beyond TRUE and FALSE” got published in a prominent SQL site http://www.sqlservercurry.com/ . Here is the link BTW, this is just a beginning. Wait for few more… Share/Bookmark

Rendering the whole SSRS report in a single page

Ankit — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:45:10 +0000

Sometimes users wish to have all the records/rows of SSRS report on a single page irrespective of the number of rows. This trick demonstrates how to configure the report to be rendered as a single page report In the report properties, there is a property named “InteractiveSize”. By default, it will be equal to PageSize [ more.....]

ASP.NET Server Controls

Ankit — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:05:10 +0000

Server controls are central to the ASP.NET Web Forms model. The output of an ASP.NET page is defined using a mix of HTML literals and mark-up for ASP.NET server controls. A server control is a component with a public interface that can be configured using mark-up tags, child tags, and attributes. Each server control [ more.....]