Personal Tech Journal

Read this article about Domain-Driven Design at http://msdn.microsoft.com/hi-in/magazine/dd419654(en-us).aspx Happy Reading... Cheers!!!

I tried to install Sql Server 2008 on Windows 7 ... result is ... it was such a smooth installation. No issues at all.. Cheers!!!

Nice articles to build enterprise apps using silverlight. Part 1 - http://msdn.microsoft.com/hi-in/magazine/2009.01.entslpt1(en-us).aspx Part 2 - http://msdn.microsoft.com/hi-in/magazine/dd434653(en-us).aspx Happy Reading..... Cheers!!!

Nice articles on AJAX Architecture Part 1 - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163363.aspx Part 2 - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163347.aspx Cheers!!!

One of my friend had this issue to run classic ASP on IIS 7.0 . Then i just searched the web and got the excellent article. Bingo it worked ...... The link is http://www.alexthissen.nl/blogs/main/archive/2008/02/18/running-classic-asp-on-iis-7.aspx Really a good help. Cheers!!!

2009 Technology of the Year Awards: Application Development go to SilverLight and check out for more details here http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/2009/01/195-2009_technology-6.html Cheers!!!

Joyce Meyer's Meetings was really a true blessing. There was 3 days of morning conference and 4 days evening meetings. The morning conference was truely amazing as various great preachers had preached. They were 1. Joyce Meyer 2. Tommy Barnett 3. Darlene Zschech 4. Paul Thangiah 5. Mohan and few more.. There was amazing worship from Delirious and HillSong . As we worshipped there was a anointing of god flowing in the place. I feel great to have been there. Cheers!!!

When we are using Fault Contracts, We would be having in the Catch block as catch (Exception ex) { MySampleFault fault = new MySampleFault(); fault.Reason = "Error Message is " + ex.Message.ToString(); throw new FaultException (fault); } But at the throw, an error is displayed "The creator of this fault did not specify a reason". On checking various options, the error goes only when you rewrite it as throw new FaultException (fault, new FaultReason(ex.Message.ToString())); Cheers!!!

Check out What's new in Windows 7 at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/whats-new.aspx Cheers!!!

I installed windows 7 yesterday on my VPC 2007. Looks good. Need to still explore on it. Cheers!!!

I was trying to create a proxy for a WCF console application, but whenever i gave this command svcutil http://localhost/servicename I used to get an error and the proxy was not getting created . The i browsed the url and found that it was not enabled. So i had to add the "behaviors' node to the web.config of the host console application as Once this was done and also added the attribute "behaviorConfiguration="mybehaviors"" to the service node . Bingo the proxy was generated .. Cheers!!!

The svcutil utility is a one used to create the proxy for a WCF service svcutil url more on svcutil can be seen at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa347733.aspx Cheers!!!

While working on WCF application, i encountered an error but could not see the message . I was only getting this message " The server was unable to process the request due to an internal error. For more information about the error, either turn on IncludeExceptionDetailInFaults (either from ServiceBehaviorAttribute or from the configuration behavior) on the server in order to send the exception information back to the client, or turn on tracing as per the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 SDK documentation and inspect the server trace logs." To enable to see the error , go to the web.config and set the includeExceptionDetailInFaults to true . Cheers!!!

I was getting this error when running my WCF application "This configuration section cannot be used at this path. This happens when the section is locked at a parent level. Locking is either by default (overrideModeDefault="Deny"), or set explicitly by a location tag with overrideMode="Deny" or the legacy allowOverride="false"." Then i searched in google and found this post http://forums.asp.net/t/1220987.aspx . This was helpful. But even i gave the allow permission it did not work. Then i did a aspnet_regiis -u and the aspnet_regiis -i . Bingo, it worked.. Cheers!!!

Its another year ... 2008 has passed by with the memories both good and bad. On 31st Dec, i had been to our church worship at 10 Pm and it a great time to be in the presence of god . Hope that this year 2009 will be a great year ahead. Wishing one and all a Happy and Prosperous New Year. Cheers!!!

Wish you a Merry Christmas. Let all have a christ centered Christmas. Cheers!!!

Service Pack 3 for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is now available. SQL Server 2005 service packs are cumulative, and this service pack upgrades all service levels of SQL Server 2005 to SP3. You can use these packages to upgrade any of the following SQL Server 2005 editions: Enterprise Enterprise Evaluation Developer Standard Workgroup You can download the same from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=AE7387C3-348C-4FAA-8AE5-949FDFBE59C4&displaylang=en Cheers!!!

A nice session at PDC from Sriram K on Windows Azure: Cloud Service Development Best Practice Cheers!!!

On the December 10th, we had our FGAG Businessmen/Corporates Fellowship which was the last one for the year. It all began with a worship and followed by a skit and carols. It was a amazing time of worship. Then we had a few testimonies. Amazing to hear. Then our chief pastor gave a message on "Law of Speed". This was a great session and i believe i am truly blessed. Waiting for more sessions in the coming new year 2009. Cheers!!!

It was Saturday (07/12) 10:00 AM, I realized of the BDOTNET session happening today. I just wrapped up my other works so that I could be at 4 PM . Reached "ThoughWorks" at about 3:50 PM . I was waiting for the lift to show up and there I see Vinod Kumar walking across. It nice meeting him after some time. The bodtnet sessions for the day was on Application Deployment and Disaster Recovery. The first session was to be handled by a new comer (Vijay Raj) to Bdotnet but he is a MVP :) . In fact vinod also had not seen him , but eventually he was the first guy there. I was not sure of what was it going to be in the first session, I did not have much expectations. The first session got started from Vijay Raj. It was the normal Presentations which he began with . All were very silent and I must admit the alertness of vijay in jumping over to a demo on MSI and I think that was a turning point which brought all the people in the room together. The session was amazing. I never ever...