Archive for August, 2010

Fix for Visual Studio 2010 – Hangs when debugging ASP.Net 3.5 Web application

Joel Varty , in his blog highlights fix for the users of Visual Studio 2010 who have problems with the IDE that hangs when debugging ASP.NET 3.5 applications. The Bug information can be found in the Microsoft's Connect site .

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - August 29, 2010 at 12:23 pm

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How fast is the Windows Phone 7 Start up???

A video by pocketpc from youtube that is embedded in the blog post with a Windows Phone 7 prototype Device ( LG ) compares the boot up time of different devices like Windows Phone 7 prototype ( LG Panther ), Android , Nexus One and iPhone 4 and HTC HD2. Watch this video on YouTube Embedded with WP YouTube Lyte. Good news is that , the the LG Panther ( Windows Phone 7 Prototype Device ) starts up pretty faster than Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - August 28, 2010 at 9:33 pm

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Getting started with Windows Phone Development in F#

Just found this nice template that helps to start the Windows Phone 7 Development in F# in the Visual Studio Gallery The template was created by Daniel Mohl To Install and use the template , follow the steps as described below ....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - August 25, 2010 at 9:20 pm

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Error when processing Crystal Report “Operation illegal on linked parameter”

I was recently caught up with this Error “Operation illegal on linked parameter” when working with the Crystal Reports and solution seems to be pretty simple too . When you run a Crystal Report which inturn contains the SubReports , the Crystal Report issues the following error: Operation illegal on linked parameter The Error Message is preceded by the ReportName that is processed. var infolink_pid Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - August 24, 2010 at 8:24 pm

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Delphi Technical Sessions and Get together with John Kaster in India

John Kaster, EDN Program Manager at Embarcadero Technologies will be in India for RAD technical sessions. In the Sessions, you will get to know more about Cloud Computing development with RAD Studio Developing Social Network and Web 2.0 applications Secure Multi-Tier development with DataSnap The latest in agile software development using RAD Studio Meet with other Delphi and C++Builder professionals var inf Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - August 22, 2010 at 4:22 pm

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David I Underwater Challenge and Embarcedero

Embarcedero has started a new marketing site (http://www.embarcadero-xe.com/) that features David I. There is a paper based games that you can download as pdf from http://www.embarcadero-xe.com/fun/index.html The other games includes the trivia and a underwater game that you can play and save David from fishes and sharks .The game was written using Adobe Flash...

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - August 21, 2010 at 2:30 pm

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Windows Phone 7 Jumstart Sessions – Training Videos now Available

Microsoft has published the new training content led by the MVPs like Rob Miles , Andy Wigley that focusses on getting developers trained up on building great application for Windows Phone 7 . Below are the sessions and the corresponding links for the material . This includes 12 sessions with each session rannging about 50 minutes in length Windows Phone 7 Jump Start (Session 1 of 12): Introduction Windows Phone 7 Jump Start (Session 2 of 12): Building a Silverlight Application, Part 1 Windows Phone 7 Jump Start (Session 3 of 12): Building a Silverlight Application, Part 2 Windows Phone 7 Jump Start (Session 4 of 12): Building Games for the Windows Phone 7 Platform .........

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - August 19, 2010 at 7:12 pm

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Visual Studio 2010 is faster if the Windows Automation API 3.0 is installed

Does your Visual Studio 2010 run slow ??? Here's David Berg , in his Developer Division Performance Engineering blog explains how to make your VisualStudio 2010 run faster on Windows XP machine by installing the new version of the Windows Automation API.

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - August 17, 2010 at 10:50 pm

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Windows Phone Design Day – Recorded Videos

Jaime Rodriguez , WPF Technical Evangelist at Microsoft has posted some videos from the recent Windows Phone Design Day in the MSDN Channel 9 . If you are currently developing Windows Phone 7 Applications or planning to do it any time soon, then its a much watchable videos as it provides a lot of information about Windows Phone 7 . Here are the list of sessions… 1. Windows Phone Design Days – Perceived Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - August 15, 2010 at 11:03 am

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9th Edition of Microsoft’s Virtual Techdays

Microsoft Virtual Techdays is back . It is one of the India’s premier online technical event and this time its the 9th Edition and will be held from August 18-20 , 2010 . The Microsoft’s Virtual Techdays is an Online event and will have about 30 sessions everyday and is completely FREE. The tracks are categorized by targetting Developers , IT / Infrastructure Professionals , Enterprise Developers etc & Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - August 13, 2010 at 11:33 pm

Categories: .NET, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, C#, Compact Framework / Windows Mobile, Entity Framework, Events, F#, Mono, Security, Visual Studio 2010, Windows Application, Windows Phone 7   Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

RAD Studio XE Preview and Links to know more on the upcoming version

RAD Studio XE is the upcoming 2011 release of RAD Studio by Embarcadero that will include Delphi XE, C++Builder XE, Delphi Prism XE and RadPHP XE . Did you notice XE ??? It is the new badge for all new major Embarcadero product releases where X signifies heterogeneous and E for Embarcadero . Here's a Video on the RAD Studio XE Preview - Productivity Enhancements

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - August 12, 2010 at 11:13 pm

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Skype and Delphi . What’s the Relation ??? and the Quality Applications built with Delphi

Skype is a software that allows users to make voice , video calls or sent text messages over internet. I never realised that the application that i use ( skype ) was developed using Delphi . I found this information in the following links Good Quality Applications Built with Delphi Skype Shop Here is the further information on the skype .

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - August 9, 2010 at 9:25 pm

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Which one Should i Choose ??? .NET or Delphi

Recently , i was in discussion with My manager as well the client in moving an application from Delphi to .NET ( Visual Studio 2010 ) and thought myself Which one is Better?? and was struck up with no clear answer. Here's i compare two technologies ( Not Technically but just about what i feel ) and this is just my opinion and others might well disagree with me too . Here we go . Anders Hejlsberg was involved in C# and for Delphi too and this puts me in a quetion on there might be similarities too ... C# / .NET C# is a simple and very well defined language . Its from Microsoft and .NET is the future for Development on the Microsoft Platform. Visual Studio's Code Editor and the Options of the Extensions / Addons to the IDE brings me more functions to be brought together in single IDE / Place especially Code Compare too and Data Compare tool etc Excellent Community Support for .NET . Check the following sites

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - August 8, 2010 at 1:18 pm

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Programming Windows Phone 7 eBook – Special Draft Preview – 2

Charles Petzold 's Programming Windows Phone 7 Special Draft Preview - 2 is now Available! The first preview was released couple of months back and this is one of the first books that is available for Windows Phone 7 as far as my knowledge is concerned .

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - August 4, 2010 at 11:05 pm

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Local Database Support for Windows Phone 7

I Was Searching for some Local Database support for Windows Phone 7 in Google and Ended up with the list here . 1. db4o - Windows Phone database db4o is an object based database that can be used in the silverlight applications / Windows Phone Application .It offers you a lightweight persistence engine that stays close to your .NET objects and is a 100% .NET native code . The db4o site also states that

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

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SMS Server Toolkit for Windows Mobile

Found this nice SDK for the Windows Mobile that can be used with the PC to act as the SMS Server . The Project is from the MSRIndia and allows the developers to write the SMS Applications using their Windows Mobile and the PC . The Project also includes a collection of samples that allows the users to use the Excel and send bulk sms. var infolink_pid = 373515; var infolink_wsid = 1; Prerequisites To Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - August 2, 2010 at 10:35 pm

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