Personal Tech Journal

Silverlight 3 was released and download the same at http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/get-started/install/default.aspx   The following are some of the features in Silverlight 3 . To read more about it check out here http://silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight3/default.aspx Support for Higher Quality Video & Audio. Empowering Richer Experiences. Improving Rich Internet Application Productivity. Advanced Accessibility Features . Out of Browser Capabilities. Cheers!!!    

1. Always be happy in life under what ever circumstances 2. Always in Prayer. 3. Praise God in all Situation.

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Check out the World’s Oldest Bible in digital form at http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/manuscript.aspx Cheers!!!

I was trying to get the JQuery Intellisense working in VS 2008. But I was getting the error “Error updating JScript IntelliSense: Object doesn't support this property or method @ 2139:1” . I was wondering what was the problem. Then through this blog http://patrickyong.net/2009/05/08/error-updating-jscript-intellisense-object-doesnt-support-this-property-or-method-21391/ I found that the “jquery-1.3.2-vsdoc2.js” downloaded from the site has a 2 after “vsdoc” . So the file is not recoginized. So just remove that 2 and it works Cheers!!!

Its Sunday and day 2 of the Tech-ed . I am all excited to be there. Got up went to church and rushed to Tech-ed. There was a change in the schedule and the first session was on "Building custom activities in WF" by Gayathri. It was a really very informative session. The second session was something i was looking forward on "Introduction to Microsoft Azure services platform." by Jankiraman and Niraj. The session was simply superb. The audience was all glued to it. Great way to go on Microsoft Azure... This session followed by the a coffee/tea break. This was followed by the Session on "Introducting Infragistics" by who else Vic. It was good insight to all the Infragistics controls. Since i have used this in the past i know how good these controls are.. Good Job Team Infragistics..... This was followed by session on "Beyond Relational SQL Server 2008: Managing unstructured and semi structured Data" by Praveen . He is great speaker and its a priv...

Today being a saturday i woke up to the excitment of Tech-ed organised by Microsoft User groups BDOTNET and BITPRO. Reached the view at sharp 9 AM and there was a good crowd though being a saturday. It indicate the technology enthuasim in them . The keynote was to be addressed by Ram , Director of Microsoft Technology Center. But it was delayed by some logistics issues. Finally the event started around 9:15 AM with the keynote. It was a good keynote on the future of software, it was really a eye opener on some facts. But it was cut short due to the time factor. I really felt he should have been give a little more time. The second session was on "Windows 7 - Kernel Enhancements and Location Sensors" by Vic and Vijay. By the name of Vic, you can expect a good session. I am sure he is a big fan of windows 7 . Vijay gave a good introduction of some of the enhancements in Windows 7 and the best was on location sensors by Vic. The demo's was really cool ones. Awesome guys........

Started learning with the example from Scott Gu's blogs. Its a really good one. Check out at http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/pages/silverlight-2-end-to-end-tutorial-building-a-digg-search-client.aspx Cheers!!!

Today I was trying to get started with SilverLight. The necessary Installable is 1. VS 2008 with SP1 2. Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 . This can be installed from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=c22d6a7b-546f-4407-8ef6-d60c8ee221ed&displaylang=en 3. SilverLight Toolkit . This can downloaded from http://silverlight.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=20430 Additionally you can install Microsoft Expression Blend 2 . This can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5FF08106-B9F4-43CD-ABAD-4CC9D9C208D7&displaylang=en Deep Zoom Composer. This can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=457B17B7-52BF-4BDA-87A3-FA8A4673F8BF&displaylang=en Cheers!!!

I am more on twitter these days.. you can follow me at http://twitter.com/shaju Cheers!!!

This is a very common requirement that the user should not click on the button twice while submitting. The best option to use the below code on the page load PostBackOptions pbOptions = new PostBackOptions(btnSave); btnSave.OnClientClick = "this.disabled = true; this.style.cursor='wait';"; btnSave.OnClientClick += Page.ClientScript.GetPostBackEventReference(pbOptions); If you are using a Image button, instead of this use the document.getElementById('ctl00_btnSave') Hope this helps.. Cheers!!!

Check out the worldwide browser market share... IE and firefox still rules.... http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/05/april-2009-browser-stats-firefox-and-chrome-gain.ars Cheers!!!

Win 7 RC available for download at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/download.aspx Cheers!!!

I was away from blogging for sometime was having some hectic schedules. Hopefully i will better my frequency of blogging. Cheers!!!

When we use a ASP.NET checkbox and by default keep it disabled. If you see the view we will notice as seen below span disabled='disabled' > input type='checkbox' disabled='disabled' > Now if we say document.getElementById("chktest").disabled = false; . This will not work. The workaround is document.getElementById("chktest").disabled = false; document.getElementById("chktest").parentNode.disabled = false; Cheers!!!

When we use the ASP.NET AJAX, we have to ensure that the extensions are installed if you are using VS 2005. Also you have to ensure that the necessary web.config enteries are there. For the detailed enteries please look at this site http://geekswithblogs.net/ranganh/archive/2007/07/15/113963.aspx This is necessary when you are using the AJAX Toolkit Library. Cheers!!!

Just came across this good articles on design patterns http://blog.cumps.be/tags/design-patterns/ Cheers!!!

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!!!