I was thinking infusing copyright symbol in an email is as easy as just copying and pasting the © character

But it is not the case as it showed copyright as ? instead of ©

We breaked our head for an hour before we found the compatible mode to displaying copyright symbol in HTML mailer..It is very simple…

All that you have to do is place © where you want to place the copyright symbol.

Then you should be able to see a perfect © symbol in your HTML mailers

Happy Coding!!!

For the past couple of months, we have started implementing jQuery in our projects and boy?. we all became a fan of it.

It really makes our life easier. Their tag line is

jQuery The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library

which is very much true

Lot of things for which we used to write lines and lines of code in JavaScript can be done in jQuery in just couple of lines and very easily..

Trust me? I mean it?

Watch out for this space as I am going to publish How to jQuery in coming days?

• Head onto http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx for more info
• Goto http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd441784.aspx for walk through

If you are kind of a guy who says

ok thanks? but I just need the download info?

Well..here it is

Visual Studio 2010 Professional Beta 1

Visual Studio Team System 2010 Team Suite Beta 1

Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 1

Happy .NETing?

Tweet# is a feature-complete library for the Twitter API. Use this library in your client applications to enable a simple, discoverable fluent interface for building Twitter queries, as well as additional features like asynchronous processing, server-side caching, url shortening, and rate throttling.

Go Twittering & .NET?ing?..

I faced the same issue couples of years back and at last found out that Crystal Report merge modules aka runtimes should be installed in the live server. And the worst thing is..you cannot find these runtimes in you dev machine..

Then where can I find it???

I had the same question two years back and ended up asking Business object support where a CS representative gave me the access details of it..

Please give me the link..you may ask

Sorry..it won?t be useful..as that link will return ?404 Page Not found? now..Business object keeps on moving this Merge Module link quite frequently to make sure we always run around the corners searching for it

Enough talk..tell me where it is now?

Well..it is here

And please make sure?you download it as soon as possible as there is a possibility that this page also might return ?404 Page Not found? any time in the near future

Here they are..

You can download Visual C# 2008 Keyboard Shortcut Reference Poster here

You can download Visual Basic 2008 Keyboard Shortcut Reference Poster here

What about Visual Studio 2005 users???

I know you will ask that question

Here they are

You can download Visual C# 2005 Keyboard Shortcut Reference Poster here

You can download Visual Basic 2005 Keyboard Shortcut Reference Poster here

Update on Feb 7, 2009

Some of the readers asked on how the poster look like. We have pasted the poster on our Engg IT deparment and here is how beautifully it looks

Happy shortcutting!!!! & of course go .NETing

Then I came across an interesting video tutorial over here where Chris Pels just demonstrates on how to use MS Build to compile websites. Video is so simple to follow and give us step by step idea on how to go about it.

Alternatively you can download video here and C# source, VB.NET source here

Try it out and Go .NET-ing

To view the post, click here

To download the documents straight away, click here

Thanks Clint. It was indeed a great holiday gift

I don’t want to deploy the website with code behind and class source files. So, I googled on this and found interesting sources online.

Have consolidated and below are the steps to precompile/publish your websites in Visual Developer 2008 Express Edition

1. Launch Visual Web Developer Express Edition.
2. Select Tools > External Tools to access the External Tools dialog.
3. Type Pre-&Compile (non-updatable) in the Title text box. The ampersand in the title means that the character immediately after will be defined as a hotkey for the menu item.
4. Click the browse button next to the Command text box and browse to aspnet_compiler.exe in the Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727 directory.
5. Click Open to select the aspnet_compiler.exe application.
6. Type -p " in the Arguments text box.
7. Click the right-facing arrow button on the right edge of the Arguments text box and select Project Directory, as shown in below screenshot

You configure the arguments for aspnet_compiler.exe by using the menu to the right of the Arguments text box.

1. Enter a closing quote at the end of the arguments you’ve entered so far. At this point, the Arguments text box should contain the following text:

   -p "$(ProjectDir)" 

2. Press the spacebar to add a space at the end of the arguments you’ve entered so far, and then type -v / ".
3. Click the right-facing arrow button at the right edge of the Arguments text box again and select Project Directory.
4. Type \..\Compiled" after the existing arguments. At this point, the Arguments text box should contain the following text:

   -p "$(ProjectDir)" -v / "$(ProjectDir)\..\Compiled"

5. Check the Close on Exit check box.
6. Click OK to add the new external tool to the list.

You now have a new menu option in Visual Web Developer Express Edition (see below screenshot) that enables you to precompile your web application as a non-updatable application.

That’s it!!! Now compile/publish your websites in Visual Developer 2008 Express Edition and start rocking!!!

This is Swami welcoming you all to my technical blog. For now, I will writing more on .NET environment especially ASP.NET and C#

Will meet you soon?.

Regards,
Swami

P.S : If you are looking out for my personal blog, please jump to http://ksawme.blogspot.com where I talk about things that excites me. Just come here and chill out.