Archive for May, 2010

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - May 27, 2010 at 10:46 pm

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Anonymous Types in C#

This was introduced in C# 3.0. Anonymous types are on the fly classes or unnamed classes. For example i define a class with the following :

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - May 23, 2010 at 11:21 am

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5 things that you cannot do with a Local Type Inference in C#

The Local Type Inference is also called as Implicitly Types Local Variables in C# and is an easy way to create a variable without having to know the type. This is especially useful when using a LINQ via the var keyword . The var keyword only works with the local scope , you cannot return or reference a variable created with the var ouside the scope of the local method.

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - May 17, 2010 at 9:59 pm

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BDE and NVARCHAR . Should i go for ADO or dbExpress ?

Last week , i was working on a task that basically supports the use of SQL Server 2005 instead of Oracle . The following Interesting observations were made during this time . The Project used a lot of BDE components ( TQuery , TDatabase , TTable ) , which connects to the Oracle through the driver Oracle Driver that comes with the Delphi 7.

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - May 16, 2010 at 10:28 pm

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Microsoft’s List of Opensource Projects

Found this nice link on the Microsoft's opensource projects . There are plenty of project lists that are mentioned here like 3DTools,ADODB,ajaxdoc,Apache POI and Open XML File Formats,ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit,Azure Ruby SDK for .NET Services,Bing 404 Web Page Error Toolkit for PHP,Eclipse Tools for Silverlight,MobileMVC,PHP Toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services,Restlet Extension for WCF Data Services and many more ...

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - May 13, 2010 at 9:49 pm

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StyleCop 4.4 Beta is Ready.

Microsoft StyleCop is a source analysis tool to check the code against the coding styles .Thus it focuses on Documentation , Layout, Maintainability, Naming conventions , Readability , Spacing etc. The news on StyleCop going opensource is already been mentioned in few of the Blogs . Here's few of them .

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - May 9, 2010 at 8:54 pm

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Theming in Windows Phone 7

A theme is a visual appearance for the controls in the Operating System .Changing the themes in the Mobile , affects the appearance of the applications that has Theming in it .

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - May 8, 2010 at 11:19 pm

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Windows Phone Developer Training Kit April Refresh is now available for Download

The Windows Phone Developer Training Kit April Refresh is now released .The training kit can now be downloaded and viewed offline or one can also view it online on Channel 9 . This training kit now has the following : Windows Phone MIX10 videos Lab - Using Push Notifications

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - May 6, 2010 at 7:59 pm

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Why should i Blog ?

Recently , i was asked by one of my friend on why do i blog ? or rather why should one Blog.This forced me to think myself and write down the important points on why do i blog ? . Most Bloggers out there blog for more fun or perhaps could be a fan of an product and well end up in writing articles related to them .

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - May 3, 2010 at 10:50 pm

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No Support for Windows Mobile 6.X Development in Visual Studio 2010 ??…

Recently , i was trying to develop a smart device application in Visual Studio 2010 and found that the template to create them were missing in Visual Studio 2010 . Then with lots of search in Google , i found an interesting article in MSDN that states the following .

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - May 3, 2010 at 8:30 pm

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Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools can now work with Visual Studio 2010 Final Release

Most of the Windows Phone 7 developers might already be aware that the Windows Phone 7 Developer Toolkit CTP worked only with the Visual Studio 2010 Beta/ RC . The Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP April Refresh was released yesterday and can be downloaded now.

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - May 1, 2010 at 6:59 pm

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