It’s new year again. It’s time to buy calendars. I may get few calendars as gifts along with PC World and other partners though I’m not sure about it. Anyway, I decided to spend the balance of my pending Amazon gift bucks for calendars and I’ve ordered some of them. One of them is [...] Continue Reading…

WinVistaClub, a premier portal delivering news and content related to Windows Vista in association with Mr. Ramesh Kumar, Microsoft MVP has released a free Tweak software for Vista.

This freeware tweaker, christened as Ultimate Windows Tweaker has over 130 registry tweaks, but is yet, just a 370 KB .exe file which does not require an [...] Continue Reading…

I received an email from Microsoft with the following statement

Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2009 Microsoft MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others.

I am excited and hope this award will help me to work more for [...] Continue Reading…

Today is Thiruvonam, the second day of the Onam festival. People used to wear new clothes, sing songs, play games and a great delicious feast (see screenshot below) consisting of Adapradaman, Upperi, Curries, Pappads, 4 variants of Payasams, Achar and much more.

You will find more information about the preparation of various items shown above [...] Continue Reading…

I have been a big fan of the Dummies book series for the last 8 years. I can still remember the day when I picked up my first dummies book from a local book shop. I recently came to know that Ken Cox has been involved in writing a dummies title for ASP.NET 3.5 [...] Continue Reading…

A number reports have suggested that Microsoft co-founder and formerly the richest man in the world, Bill Gates will step down from his daily involvement in Microsoft – the world’s biggest software producer. Although Mr. Gates will remain Chairman of Microsoft, his involvement in the company will be reduced to “special projects” and his [...] Continue Reading…

A brand new Nokia N82 which I purchased is now in my hands. It looks cool. I will post a review after testing it.

I recently installed .NET Framework 3.5 and now whenever I try to install an executable file a message box prompts which says Regasm.exe not found. Microsoft should prevent these kind of issuesfrom happening to reduce the pain of developers. I will update this post once I fixed this issue.

Update: I resolved the issue temporarily [...] Continue Reading…

Microsoft ADO.NET 3.5 is the latest data access technology from Microsoft. It’s a collection of classes that are part of the .NET Framework, and is designed to provide consistent access to data in loosely coupled n-tier application architectures such as web services. “Data access is a key part of all business and other application [...] Continue Reading…

Murach’s C# 2008 is the latest edition of best-selling C# book. The content continues to evolve with the language, of course, but one thing has stayed the same over the years: We still call this “the C# book you’ll wish you’d bought first” because it gets you developing professional Windows Forms applications without any [...] Continue Reading…