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Why is Facebook not reading OG tags?

Shailesh — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:34:38 +0000

I have all open graph tags rendered properly in my web page even though Facebook wasn’t reading those OG tags. I used Facebook debugger tool to see what Facebook sees exactly when it scrapes my web page. I got the message…

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How to track website with multiple Google Analytics accounts

Shailesh — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:16:30 +0000

We have built the product that our clients can easily build website and feed content into it without requiring any technology background. Our client is using Google Analytics to measure user interaction with website. We also want to track all…

How to convert shape file to kml file using GDAL utilities

Shailesh — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 22:59:21 +0000

I will show you in this article how you could convert shapefile (.shp) to KML file for use in Google Earth or Google Maps. Many government entities release some portion of their GIS data for public use. But many of…

USA State, Counties and Zipcode Boundaries in .shp and .kml formats

Shailesh — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:46:23 +0000

Your search ended up here so you may be looking for USA State, Counties or ZipCode boundaries. I do have USA State, Counties and ZipCode boundaries in .shp and .kml format. If you are using Google Maps, you…

Cross Domain ASP.NET Web API Call Using ajax

Shailesh — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:04:01 +0000

If you have created RESTful API (using ASP.NET Web API) and creating a nice UI using jQuery ajax call, you may be running into cross domain ajax call issue. Under the same origin policy, you CAN’T make a call to…

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What is RESful service and designning RESTful service using ASP.NET

Shailesh — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:21:00 +0000

REST stands for Representational State Transfer. REST is an architecture style for designing networked applications. RESTful applications use HTTP requests to post data (either insert or update), read data, and delete data. Thus, REST uses HTTP for all four CRUD…

TFS Build strategies for large projects

Shailesh — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:59:55 +0000

For large projects that has multiple solutions and many dozens class library projects, Scheduled build or Continuous Integration build often takes lot of time to build entire projects. The reason not to use Continuous Integration build often leads to build…

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Red “X” on TFS Documents and Reports

Shailesh — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:38:27 +0000

There are two different permission needs to be set to be able to access “Documents” and “Reports”. Documents are hosted on sharepoint site so you need to give user permission to sharepoint site and “Reports” is sql server reports so…

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Tips for your TFS 2010 migration, more lesson learned

Shailesh — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:30:47 +0000

Last couple weeks I have been busy migrating TFS 2008 to TFS 2010. I would like to share my experience and other website links/posts that helped me a lot. Here are couple useful links. Whats new in TFS and visual…

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ASP.NET jQuery Banner Rotator

Shailesh — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 20:24:14 +0000

Recently I have created a simple jQuery banner rotator using ASP.NET that has following features. 1) Bind dynamic data 2) Rotates banner in every 5 seconds (configurable) 3) Pager 3) Jump to any banner by clicking on page number 4)…

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Forms authentication doesn’t work in IE

Shailesh — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 18:06:39 +0000

I have found interesting thing about IE that I would like to share with you. I was using forms authentication for login page. After successful login, ASP.NET creates an authenticated cookie and sends it to browser. That authenticated cookie is…

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How to find child control’s position in a parent repeater

Shailesh — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:24:50 +0000

If you have repeater inside a repeater, in some situation you may need to find position of control( that’s inside child repeater) in parent repeater. Let’s take an example. Here is what I have. As you can see in sample code…

how to handle control’s event inside of nested repeater

Shailesh — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:21:36 +0000

In this article I will show you how can you handle control’s event that is inside of nested repeater control and pass informative message from user control to main page(f.e success/failure message). I had a user control that submit the data…

Getting Started with Silverlight PivotViewer control

Shailesh — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:36:21 +0000

Microsft LiveLabs team released very useful Silverlight “PivotViewer” control that enables you to visualize data information in a DeepZoom type experience. In this article, I will walk you through the steps how to build simple Silverlight PivotViewer app. You need…

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Silverlight 4 DataGrid Example with Add Edit Delete using Linq WCF

Shailesh — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:46:42 +0000

In my previous article , I have explain in details how you can bind data, update and delete record in silverlight data grid. But it has missing feature to add a new record. I took some time to update the…

Howto: Pass own argument as a custom attribute to a specified control from code behind

Shailesh — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 22:41:35 +0000

I learn something new today that I want to share with you. How can you pass your own argument to any JavaScript Element object from code behind that you can access it like property of that object from JavaScript? For…

Howto: Fire an ASP.NET Validator from JavaScript

Shailesh — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:25:06 +0000

Let’s take an example of my previous post and make it little bit user friendly. Here is the demo page link to see in live action. In the example(#1. Without ValidatorEnable), Custom validator fires and shows a validation message only…

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ASP.NET Custom Validator Validation not firing

Shailesh — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 23:01:16 +0000

I have been using ASP.NET CustomValidator when I want to validate field based on values of other fields. For example, User must provide other contact info if selected. For this let says we have other contact info check box and…

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Can’t drag and drop Song/Video file in iTunes

Shailesh — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 19:47:20 +0000

Usually I just drag and drop music(mp3) files into itune when want to add music file into my iPhone 4. But suddenly I can not drag and drop songs in iTunes after updating iTune software to version 10.1. The only…

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Howto: Set page focus to message after Ajax update

Shailesh — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:27:18 +0000

There are so many good things about AJAX but we need to tweak it some times to make it even user experience. Let me explain my situation first. I have a datagrid that has a edit button tied to each…

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File upload control fails first time, then works on subsequent submits

Shailesh — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 21:20:18 +0000

As everybody knows that FileUpload control doesn’t work inside update panel, there are some work around and in fact I have posted post about that as well. Here is my post link just in case you got here and…

Join Video files(mpg, flv) using DOS command

Shailesh — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 23:49:41 +0000

I have downloaded couples flv files and I wanted to join those files so that I can watch video file by just opening one video file. I was looking for freeware software I can use to join mpg or flv…

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ASP.NET color converter tool

Shailesh — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 20:00:03 +0000

Wants to convert HEX to RGB or RGB to HEX in C# ASP.NET application? I have created Color Converter ASP.NET application. You can convert HEX color code values to RGB Color. It’s free tool. I have also included source code…

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why does Modalpopup close on postback?

Shailesh — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:53:51 +0000

ads: Watch Indian TV Serials Online I thought modalpopup control is very easy to use but it’s not. It took me whole day to figure it out why ModalPopup Extender closes down during page postback. You should have to keep…

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Response.Redirect() throws an error when called inside Update Panel

Shailesh — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:15:03 +0000

When I tried to call Response.Redirect() inside a UpdatePanel, it was throwing me an AJAX error. Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManagerParserErrorException: The message received from the server could not be parsed. Common causes for this error are when the response is modified by calls…

How to define Enum in JavaScript

Shailesh — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:03:09 +0000

Everybody familiar with Enum in server side scripting language. I was wondering if we can define Enum type in JavaScript and I found that we can define type as Enum. Here is the syntax to define Enum. Here is example…

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How to: Bind Jagged array or Single dimension array to repeater control

Shailesh — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:58:35 +0000

In this article I will show you how you can bind Jagged array or single dimension array to the repeater control. 1) Jagged array Let’s create Jagged array first. Create repeater control on the aspx page. Bind Jagged array to…

Session is null in ASHX handler

Shailesh — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:25:34 +0000

I was trying to access session inside ASHX page but I was getting a null reference exception. I think session should be available on every request but it’s not the case with ASHX handler. I was wrong there. If you…

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ModalPopupExtender without TargetControlID

Shailesh — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 18:33:31 +0000

You need to specify Control ID (clicking on this control trigger to open modal popup) to TargetControlID property of ModalPopupExtender control and TargetControlID is required property. If you don’t set value to TargetControlID property or you set empty value, you…

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Difference between “throw” and “throw ex”

Shailesh — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:49:21 +0000

Have you ever wonder what’s difference between “throw ex” and “throw’? I used to do “throw ex” from inside catch block rather than “throw”. But it’s really need to know the different between those two. Let’s create a sample web…

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Generic Method – How to specify type constraint on T for enum type

Shailesh — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 21:15:59 +0000

In my current application I really need to write a generic method that accept any enum type as a parameter. Let me first explain my situation why I need generic method. Here is the method that I need to convert into generic…

Error while trying to view work item

Shailesh — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:41:56 +0000

I recently installed SP1 for Visual Studio 2008. When I try to open any work item, I ended up getting the following error. Could not load type ‘Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Client.WorkItemTypeDeniedOrNotExistException’ from assembly ’Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Client, Version=9.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a’. I can see the list of work…

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Understanding Silverlight Basics

Shailesh — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:04:43 +0000

In this article I will give you an overview of how browser renders Silverlight application and what are the main components that involves during the execution of Silverlight application. Let’s create sample Silverlight application. Open the visual studio 2008 IDE. …

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Case Insensitive String Replace

Shailesh — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:35:44 +0000

When we do string comparison or string replacement, it’s good practice to compare/replace string ignoring the case of string unless there is a need of it. It’s very simple when you want to compare two string ignoring the case of…

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Fatal Execution Engine Error (7A036050) (80131506)

Shailesh — Mon, 17 May 2010 18:45:53 +0000

I recently installed PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and after that whenever I open any existing project’s solution, Visual studio crashes immediately. I looked at the event log to see if something is being logged or not. I saw…

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Troubleshooting Scrum for Team System v2.2 installation in TFS 2008

Shailesh — Sun, 16 May 2010 17:44:36 +0000

We recently upgraded TFS 2005 to TFS 2008. Since we follow Agile-Scrum methodology, we had Scrum for Team System template installed in TFS 2005. It wasn’t so easy to migrate TFS 2005 to TFS 2008 so we had decided to…

Visual Studio 2010 Keyboard Shortcut Posters

Shailesh — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:55:49 +0000

I always hate to use mouse while writing code in Visual Studio to do certain things like go to line, bring up solution explorer/Team Explorer window, comment out code etc.. I prefer to use short cut that are available in…

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Add JavaScript inside Head at runtime

Shailesh — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:00:48 +0000

I was wondering how can I emit JavaScript within the <HEAD> element of ASP.NET page from code behind. I knew that we can insert JavaScript using RegisterClientScriptBlock and RegisterStartUpScript but those method is being used to add JavaScript block within…

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ASP.NET session expires before timeout value specified in Web.Config

Shailesh — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:20:47 +0000

Note: You can refer this article to know more about different ways to store session state. There are number of reasons why values stored in session being lost before session timeout value set in web.config. Are you using In-Proc Session…

IIS 404 Custom Error not working as expected

Shailesh — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:27:59 +0000

When I tried to access fake .aspx page to make sure IIS returns custom 404 error page, I saw .net specific error “The resource cannot be found”. Screenshot# 1 I was wondering why IIS custom 404 error page not being…

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Fiddler doesn’t capture IE web traffic

Shailesh — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:55:23 +0000

I was using Fiddler to capture web traffic. I was able to see all web traffic logs in Fiddler when I was using Firefox or safari browser but Fiddler wasn’t capturing web traffic while using IE (though worked for external…

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Page_load event fires twice with FireFox only

Shailesh — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:53:33 +0000

I came across weird behavior of Firefox 3.0.X that submits forms twice. Let me explain what I have seen. Main.ascx has a reference of UC1.ascx Main.ascx also has a UC2.ascx control reference. When I make the request to PageX.aspx that…

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Create a website, application pool programmatically using C#

Shailesh — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:42:14 +0000

I have talked about IIS metabase and how to change HTTPErrors in IIS6 in my previous post. This post will only give you sample code how you can programmatically create website create application pool and assign it to web…

Programmatically Change HTTPErrors in IIS6

Shailesh — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:58:52 +0000

Have you ever needed to setup IIS Custom Errors file path(HTTP Errors file path) in IIS6 programmatically? If yes, this post will give you an idea how you can set that up. We do have “website stand-up” web application…

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Two different version of ajaxtoolkit dll in same web application

Shailesh — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:10:36 +0000

Have you ever get one of the following error? Error#1: The server tag ‘ajaxControlToolkit:ControlX‘ is ambiguous. Please modify the associated registration that is causing ambiguity and pick a new tag prefix. Error #2: ‘ControlX‘ is ambiguous in the namespace ‘AjaxControlToolkit’.…

IncrementalGet and IncrementalBuild in Team Build 2008

Shailesh — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:33:14 +0000

I came across IncrementalGet and IncrementalBuild properties of MSBuild 3.5 while I was upgrading MSBuild 2.0 to MSBuild 3.5. I found it very useful for me so I thought let you guys give overview of those properties. Note: By default…

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How can I tell if SP1 has been installed on Team Foundation Server 2008?

Shailesh — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:47:42 +0000

We recently upgraded Team Foundation Server 2005 to Team Foundation Server 2008 and I was setting up build. I had to installed Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 to fix noisy build reports. I installed TFS 2008 SP1. If you…

ધરતીના સાદ – નાથાલાલ દવે

Shailesh — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:57:33 +0000

એવા આવે છે ધરતીના સાદ રે… હાલો ભેરુ ! ગામડે. ભીની માટીની ગંધ આવે યાદ રે… હાલો ભેરુ ! ગામડે. બોલાવે આજ એનાં ખુલ્લાં આકાશ, મીઠા પરોઢના અલબેલા ઉજાસ, ઘેરા ઘમ્મર વલોણાના નાદ રે… હાલો ભેરુ ! ચારીશું ગાવલડી ડુંગરના…

Noisy build logs and build reports in MSBuild 3.5 (Team Foundation Server 2008)

Shailesh — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:27:58 +0000

I recently upgraded TFS 2005 to TFS 2008. I just copied my TFS 2005 build project file over to TFS 2008 to give a shot how compatible it is with TFS 2008. It worked well except couple things that I have…

Howto: Get, Update, Delete in Silverlight DataGrid using WCF Service

Shailesh — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 01:55:56 +0000

Bollywood News, Movie Reviews, Watch new released hindi movies and TV Episodes online for free. If you want to know the features of Silverlight 3 datagrid and how to setup datagrid control in Silverlight application, here is my previous link.…