Personal Tech Journal

I have been missing from blogging for sometime since April. I am mostly on twitter @shaju or on facebook @ shajuthomas . But I intend to come back to blogging which i started way back in 2003. I was quite busy with my daily work schedules, but i know thats not a good reason from staying away. Hope to gain the momentum back again. See you all........ Happy Weekend.... God Bless you all....... Cheers!!!

Visual Studio & .NET 4.0 has been Released. T o know more read Scott Hanselman blog.   Cheers!!!     The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential and protected from disclosure under applicable law. It is intended only for the individual to whom or entity to which it is addressed as shown at the beginning of the message. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or if the employee or agent responsible for delivering the message is not an employee or agent of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution, use, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail and permanently delete this message and your reply to the extent it includes this message. Any views or opinions presented in this message or attachments are those of the author and do not necessarily repre...

I was hosting my WCF services built on .NET 4.0 in IIS 7. It failed with the error   System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type 'System.ServiceModel.Activation.HttpModule' from assembly 'System.ServiceModel, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'.   I tried the aspnet_regiis –iru and Bingo it worked.   Hope this helps someone.   Cheers!!!

There is a new look for http://www.asp.net/ . Check out..   Cheers!!!

I just happened to see this on Scott Hanselman’s blog that ASP.NET MVC 2 is released . It can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c9ba1fe1-3ba8-439a-9e21-def90a8615a9&displaylang=en   Cheers!!!

URL Routing in ASP.NET 4.0 is a excellent which helps in SEO . For more info please read @ http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/012710-1.aspx    

Response.RedirectPermanent is a way to redirect using HTTP 301 (permanently) response.   For more Info Check : http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/01/05/asp-net-4-seo-improvements-vs-2010-and-net-4-0-series.aspx  

Check about more on the new Apple IPad at   http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/the-apple-ipad/   http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/apple-ipad-event-video-now-online/      

The past year may be filled with lows and high, but remember all things happens for good. Hope the new year brings in all the best of things and take you to the next level.   Hope you all have a Christ Centred,  Joyous and Prosperous Happy New Year 2010.   Cheers  

This weekend finally I made some time and tried hands on some samples which I hosted on Windows Azure. It’s simply cool. You can put on stage and then if its fine move to production. It’s simply cool.   Cheers!!!

Some of the products I picked up during the Black Friday sale.   Microsoft Wireless Laser Desktop 4000 - http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/productdetails.aspx?pid=094   HP Wireless Comfort Mouse - http://www.shopping.hp.com/product/computer/categories/mice_keyboards/1/accessories/FQ422AA%2523ABA   HP 8 GB USB Flash - http://www.shopping.hp.com/product/computer/categories/storage_solutions/1/accessories/FQ434AA%2523ABA   Cheers!!!  

ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta is available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4817cdb2-88ea-4af4-a455-f06b4c90fd2c&displaylang=en   Cheers!!!  

SilverLight 4 Beta was announced at PDC . Read the blog entry from Tim Heuer’s blog at http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2009/11/18/whats-new-in-silverlight-4-complete-guide-new-features.aspx   Cheers!!!

Reached US this afternoon after some hectic journey. The long 16hrs flight from Dubai to Los Angeles was a little crazy. Had a good dinner at an Italian place .   Cheers!!!

I happened to see this on scott gu’s twitter feed , If your intellisense don’t work on VS2010 Beta 2 for Javascript/HTML follow the guidelines from http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2009/10/23/visual-studio-2010-beta-2-intellisense-issue-in-javascript-html.aspx   Cheers!!!

Just saw this on Scott Gu’s Blog that VS 2010 Beta 2 is available for MSDN Subscribers . Check out http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/10/19/vs-2010-and-net-4-0-beta-2.aspx   Cheers!!!

I was wondering where is NetMeeting option in Vista. Then I found that it was replaced by Windows Meeting Space. But i wanted to get this installed , so I searched on google and found this interesting blog http://www.ehow.com/how_5156786_use-netmeeting-vista.html . You can download the NetMeeting from this place http://www.microsoft.com/DownLoads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=26c9da7c-f778-4422-a6f4-efb8abba021e   Hope this helps some vista users..   Cheers!!!

I started to work with ADO.NET Entity Framework last week evaluating it from my future projects. While working on it I came up with couple of hurdles but all these were short comings in the version 1.0. It’s expected that it is all going to be fixed by 4.0 (.NET 4.0 Version release). Some of the learning’s  I wanted to illustrate are as follows   1. Use of Stored Procedures                 When we use Stored Procedures and want to map this to any entity. Assume that we have created a SP for inserting data into a table. After we do a function import of the SP. When we do a function mapping of SP there are three options as shown below       But we may have only the Insert Stored Procedure and there is no need for Update and Delete. In this case we cannot use this function mapping because as per Ver 1.0, all the three is a must. The workaround for this is to crea...

I was trying to connect to VPN from a Vista loaded PC. But for some reason it was taking a lot of time and throwing a error message "Reason 442: Failed to Enable Virtual Adapter" . I was searching this in internet and found the solution at this link http://www.verier.co.uk/subtext/archive/2008/01/09/reason-442-failed-to-enable-virtual-adapter-with-cisco-vpn.aspx I followed the steps and bingo it worked. This post was very useful. Cheers!!!

The 5 steps while praying are 1. Confession 2. Praise 3. ThanksGiving 4. Petition 5. Intercession Cheers!!!