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SQL SERVER 2012

2012-01-05T12:12:00.003-05:00

Do you want to know more about SQL Server 2012? Come in and enjoy an evening with Kevin Goff, who would go over the features and capabilities of SQL Server 2012. When: January 17th, Tuesday 2012. 5:30 to 7:30 PM. Where: Computer Aid Inc office, Harrisburg PA. Details at http://www.central-penn.net.

Sweet Mango

2011-11-09T08:49:00.003-05:00

John Baird is coming back to our .net user group, with a presentation of the new Windows Phone Mango features. Not to be missed. Details at http://www.central-penn.net. UPDATE THIS MEETING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. A deer hit John's car and the car is badly damaged. John is fine. We will try to get him in January 2012.

Car Wash Management

2011-07-28T09:23:00.006-05:00

Disclaimer: This post has nothing to do with washing or repairing cars. Well, I have been pondering over Managers and Management for long - as long as I can remember. Every software developer does, in my opinion. I treat myself as a Manager's developer (akin to Director's actor :)). Having said that, I have flourished under stupid managers too (you have to believe me :)). Developers who

Windows Azure - A nice post

2011-07-28T08:25:00.000-05:00

Stephen Walther explains about creating a WCF service in Windows Azure - a step-by-step guide. Have a look at it here. You will enjoy, for sure. I did.

A Session on XNA

2011-06-16T08:59:00.001-05:00

As of today, I have 3 WP7 apps in the marketplace. And 3 are coming... I have been developing the apps using Silverlight only, and keeping my fingers away from XNA. I haven't had much time pondering on XNA, so I have been procrastinating on it. Next Tuesday, 21st that is, Chris Gomez is coming to Harrisburg PA, for presenting a session on XNA for WP7, for our user group. He has promised me to

Windows Phone 7 Development

2011-05-03T17:43:00.002-05:00

I have already dived into the ocean of Windows Phone 7 development. Not alone, but with one of my friends Rajeev Venkitaraman. He is also a .NET enthusiast and technologist. We already developed two apps, for kids, Shapes4Kids and Alphabets4Kids. To track our progress, and also to share our experiences, we have created a blog - http://hubapps.blogspot.com/. Please visit this site and plant your

What I have been upto

2011-03-21T14:32:00.004-05:00

I haven't been blogging much lately... just posting activity updates of our .NET User Group. What I have been upto? I have been: Learning Silverlight I have made several attempts to learn SL in the past, but for some obvious and not-so obvious reasons, I had to drop it. The obvious reason was for the fact that SL was not "enterprise" ready. But this time, I have had it all sorted out. With the

Windows Phone presentation

2011-02-18T09:04:00.002-05:00

It was an amazing evening this tuesday. John started of with this statement: Silverlight (and WPF for that matter) makes easy things harder and hard things easier. It couldn't have been explained better.

Windows Phone 7 Development

2011-01-10T13:20:00.007-05:00

.NET developers are very much excited with the release of Windows Phone 7. The users like it's interface as much as they hate (that's a strong word, I know. Read it as "dislike") the 6.x version. John Baird is coming to Harrisburg (once again), for his much awaited presentation on Windows Phone 7 development. I have known John for quite a long time. I have attended his presentations in

Circus with DataPager and ListView

2010-09-23T18:17:00.001-05:00

I have been playing with ListView and DataPager a lot lately. One reason is I have read a quite lot on these controls and thought very high of it. The combination gives us a light weight data control with Pagination facility. What more can you ask for, right? To a vanilla page (with no gimmicks), these controls behave very nice. But once, you start your circus, they don't bend. The magic of

ABCs of WCF - Coming Soon

2010-09-22T05:41:00.000-05:00

This year, our user group had very few topics for novices. The only ones we had were run by our President, Judy Calla. I would be presenting a beginner's session on WCF on November 16th - yes, that Whys and the Whats. And of course, the Hows! :) If you are from Harrisburg or would be visiting during the month, come on in and join for a fun filled 2 hours of WCF.

Code Camp 2010 - Another Milestone

2010-09-22T05:35:00.005-05:00

I should thank all the speakers who participated in our code camp and made it a successful one. The participants (attendees) had a full day of technical infotainment and had absolutely enjoyed. Raffle books at the code camp Code Camp 2010 has become another golden feather on our user group's hat. Many kudos go to the organisers who made it possible and Judy Calla, our President, who lead us

Code Camp 2010 Preparations

2010-08-10T11:30:00.002-05:00

Finally, I am finished with organizing speakers for the upcoming .NET Code Camp. The list is still unpublished (is that a word?) as the speakers are reviewing their schedule. But I promise you, we have a beautiful line up, as it was last time. Code Camp Registration is still open and you would want to visit http://www.central-penn.net/ for details. The event is on September 11, 2010 and would

BEGINNER'S MONTH

2010-08-10T08:25:00.000-05:00

I have so many friends who are yet to jump to open systems. They are stuck in mainframe and mainframe like systems and are not ready to roll on to new and upcoming technology. I have helped many by introducing them to .NET. Central Penn .NET User Group is conducting a .NET BEGINNER'S MONTH. This session would cover only basics of object oriented programming in .NET. If you are a beginner and

VS2010 Community Launch

2010-07-06T07:53:00.001-05:00

On July 20, 2010, Central Penn .NET User Group is organizing VS2010 Community Launch event. This would be held on our regular meeting hours (5:30 PM to 7:30 PM). You are all welcome!

ASP.NET 4.0

2010-03-10T18:40:00.000-05:00

On April 12 of this year, VS2010 and .NET 4.0 would be released to the world. And that would be an exciting day indeed! If you want to get a scoop on what ASP.NET 4.0 holds, please visit Dan Maharry's series of posts in ASP.NET 4.0 COMETH! I am already enjoying VS2010 Beta! :)

A Sneak Peak into Visual Studio 2010

2009-03-13T19:51:00.011-05:00

I am still wandering along VS2008. And I should admit that I have reached nowhere. And then I learn this news about the launch of VS2010 at PDC 2008.Well, being a geek, I had no other option than to check it out. :)And here I am pondering on the new IDE. And also the new language features in VB.NET 10.It is a CTP, granted.I am doing a presentation on the new cool features of VS2010 and VB.NET 10

Applying Styles on EditCommandColumn buttons

2009-01-17T17:58:00.004-05:00

Every button looked good. I mean, according to the project standards. Every button had that blue gradient background, with bold text. Every button looked good. Except that of the datagrid's EditCommandColumns and ButtonColumns.Mmmhh... intelligent me, I immediately got down to work and applied the stylesheet property (CssClass, that is) to each buttons on ItemDataBound event of the datagrid.Neh,

Another New Year

2009-01-01T11:24:00.004-05:00

Another New Year!2008 was not a good one for me as a blogger. That's because I have not been blogging a lot lately. Have been very busy selling my old house, buying a new one, recovering from a lyme-disease attack, and settling in the new house.Even if you (and I) don't see any comments on my blog entries, I have lot of fans (:)), known as readers :) And they complain a lot (through emails and

CODE CAMP 2008

2008-12-03T22:02:00.004-05:00

CODE CAMP 2008. Its almost here!!Yes, it's almost here!Saturday, December 6th.Harrisburg University Campus, Strawberry Sq, Harrisburg Downtown.The latest schedule can be found at our .NET User Group web site. We have our regulars Dan Clark, Kevin Goff and Dani Diaz.Its gonna be fun, I know, with lots of cool topics!And raffles, of course :)I am excited.If you live in Harrisburg area or be in

A practical solution to Slow VS.NET 2008 IDE

2008-11-25T22:02:00.004-05:00

At my work, we recently migrated our codebase to ASP.NET 3.5, using VS.NET 2008 as our IDE. Needless to say, all developers were (and tosome extent are) excited. Days passed by and our hopes started diminishing. Reason? The IDE being DEAD SLOW! Our Web Project is humungous and a Ctrl-S on a file would compel us to take a break!! Believe it or not, it is that bad!I started researching. Googling,

BEIJING OLYMPICS Opening Ceremony

2008-08-08T20:16:00.001-05:00

Inspired. Really!

Disabling Menu Item

2008-07-02T08:32:00.003-05:00

A recent post by Joel Spolsky suggests to display the reason why the menu item is not accessible by the user.http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/07/01.htmlI disagree.The reason is, this kind of behavior would confuse the user more than disabling the menu item.I would go with the recommended approach of hiding the menu item entirely as the user would not see the item and he would not be

Happy New Year 2008

2007-12-31T12:38:00.000-05:00

Wish all my readers and visitors of my blog a very happy and prosperous new year 2008!!!

Ice Rain in Harrisburg

2007-12-17T11:06:00.000-05:00