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Microsoft TechEd India 2012 21-23 March

2012-01-25T12:39:00.005+05:30

Microsoft TechEd India 2012,

HI friends,

This if just for your information that the Microsoft TechEd India 2012, is scheduled on 21-23 March in Bengaluru. The Registration for the same is open. It is one of the most popular events organized by Microsoft for the techies, where there will a lot of session, Presentation and discussion on the latest topics and technology.

If you willing to participate in TechEd to gain some knowledge about the latest technologies and come and join us in Bengaluru on March 23. You will get chance to meet some of the biggest person of the Microsoft community, Microsoft MVP’s and the other geeks. You will get a chance to get and share your views on the topics.

Some of the Big names who is going to be speaker for the session is

1. Aviraj Ajgekar Technology Evangelist - DPE, Microsoft Corporation

2. Girish Joshi Breadth and Mobile Ecosystem Lead – DPE, Microsoft Corporation

3. Ramaprasanna Chellamuthu Developer Evangelist – DPE, Microsoft Corporation

4. Harish Vaidyanathan Director – Evangelism, DPE, Microsoft

5. Sandeep J Alur Enterprise Architect Advisor – DPE, Microsoft Corporation

6. Harish Ranganathan Web Developer Evangelist – DPE, Microsoft Corporation

7. Saranya Sriram Developer Evangelist – DPE, Microsoft Corporation

8. Pinal Dave Technology Evangelist (Database and BI) – DPE, Microsoft Corporation

9. Pratima Amonkar Director, Audience Marketing – DPE, Microsoft Corporation

10. Rajashekaran Vengalil Developer Evangelist – DPE, Microsoft Corporation

11. Aditee Rele Architect Evangelist - DPE, Microsoft Corporation

12. Balaji Kesavaraj Director – Developer Marketing, DPE, Microsoft Corporation

The Registration is started as a few seats are available for the same REGISTER HERE.

Topics

Windows 8 Client
Web Development
Visual Studio 11
Windows Azure
Windows Phone
SQL Server 2012 Windows 8 Client
Windows Server 8
System Center 2012
Enterprise Security
SQL Server 2012
Unified Communications
Messaging & Collaboration
Office 365

Venue

Nestled amidst 10 acres of manicured lawns and a verdant landscape, the LaLiT Ashok’s ambience is in keeping with the environs of India’s Garden City, Bengaluru (Bangalore).

One of Bengaluru’s finest five-star luxury hotels, the LaLiT Ashok has welcomed guests from all over the world for over three decades to enjoy contemporary and relaxed home-like comfort. The hotel is strategically located in a highly secured diplomatic enclave, while sharing its wall with the house of the chief minister of Bengaluru. It also offers a lovely view of the sprawling Bangalore Golf Club.

Bengaluru city is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. It used to be known among locals as a pensioner's paradise mainly due to the pleasant climate it enjoys all year round. Today, Bengaluru is more famous as a hub for India's information technology sector, housing many Fortune 50 companies, therefore earning the title, 'Silicon Valley of India'. Amusement parks, technology parks, country clubs, resorts, golf courses, cyber cafes, pubs, discos, bowling alleys, billiards rooms, bustling shopping malls, high-rises and a cosmopolitan, tech-savvy populace embody the spirit of modern Bengaluru.

You might find it interesting to check out the Department of Tourism website to make the most of your time in the city.

Kumara Krupa High Grounds
Bengaluru - 560001, Karnataka, India.

REGISTER HERE.

Thank You.

Anil Kumar Pandey

Microsoft MVP Visual C#

Windows 8

2012-01-17T18:13:00.005+05:30

Hi friends,
This is just to inform you all that Windows 8 developer preview is ready to use. We can download the beta version of the same. But there is a restriction in that you can not un- install it. You can Download the Setup from here Download

We have some cool new features in it like.

1. Personalized Lock screen.

2. The tiles of Start screen &

3. A New Touch key pad.

You can also download the Guide for the new windows 8 and can explore the features in it. Please download the Guide from here. Download

So friends Enjoy the new version of the windows and please feel free to post the comment in comment section so that we can send the error logs and new requirement to Windows team.

Cheers!!!!!!

Anil Kumar Pandey
MVP Visual C#

New MVP's are announced for Jan 2012

2012-01-02T21:13:00.002+05:30

Hi friends,

Wish you all a very Happy New Year 2012 and may we all be blessed with love, happiness and prosperity and have a wonderful year ahead. As we all know that every quarter the MVPs are recognized which continues to grow and evolve to reflect the development of Microsoft technologies.Microsoft recently announced the quarterly recipients of the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award, which recognizes exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who foster the free and objective exchange of knowledge by actively sharing their real world expertise with users and Microsoft.

MVP expertise is expansive and impressive, covering more than 90 technologies that range from Windows and Silverlight to PowerPoint and Dynamics CRM. Microsoft MVPs are passionate about technology and influence the technical community by participating in newsgroups and online forums, hosting user groups, authoring books and articles, speaking at conferences, etc. MVPs also help to improve Microsoft products and services based on feedback gained from their respective communities and their own vast knowledge of certain products. Additionally, MVPs often receive early access to product information from Microsoft and are invited to an annual summit in Redmond, Wash., during which Microsoft product groups typically present several hundred technical sessions. Microsoft uses feedback from MVPs at Summit and beyond to better understand its customers, make product changes and create new technologies.

Congratulations to the new MVPs, and welcome back to renewed MVPs. We are very excited to recognize your amazing accomplishments!

Please find below the list of new MVPs and renewed MVPs:

Abhishek Sur	Client App Dev
Adavesh Managaon	Visual C#
AMIT CHOUDHARY	Visual C#
Arunachalam Danasekarane	Visual Basic
DESTIN N JOY	SharePoint Server
Gaurav Khanna	Visual Basic
Gaurav Mantri	Windows Azure
Mahesh Mitkari	ASP.NET/IIS
Nauzad Kapadia	SQL Server
Paritosh Mohapatra	ASP.NET/IIS
Prabu Kumar Kesavan	Windows Embedded
Purnachandra R Duggirala	Excel
Rami Vemula	ASP.NET/IIS
ROHIT SHARMA	BizTalk
Rohit Srivastwa	Enterprise Security
Roohi Shaikh	Dynamics CRM
Sandeep Mewara	ASP.NET/IIS
Shravan Kumar Kasagoni	ASP.NET/IIS
Shyam Sasindran	Windows Expert-IT Pro
SIDDHARTH KAUSHIK MEHTA	SQL Server
Sohel Rana	SharePoint Server
Sorna Kumar Muthuraj	SQL Server
Sundararajan Narasiman	SharePoint Server
Vadivel M	SQL Server
Vasu Jain	Windows Expert-Consumer
Vasudev Gurumurthy	Windows Live
Visakh Murukesan	SQL Server

Congratulations to all the new and renewed MVP's. Keep Rocking!!

Thanks

Anil Kumar Pandey

MVP,MCC,MVM

New Features in Visual Studio 2012

2011-11-25T16:16:00.003+05:30

Hi Friends,
I am eagerly waiting for the latest version of the visual studio. Meanwhile I came to know that some cool features that are included in the latest version(It might be rumors). Here are some of the new features:

Code window re size

With this New feature we can Maximize the code window and minimize it as and when required. This can be set On or Off to get a more workspace or to see all other windows at a time.

Edit code while it executes

This is the most important features which we wanted to be included int our application that we can edit the code at run time using the break points, and the compiler will take care of newly added part. This was the common in the time of VB6.

*Automatically add semicolons.

By this the Semicolon and the Braces will be added automatically in our code.

Advanced copy and pasting of code

It will also help you to adjust the code you have pasted as per your current requirement, it will judge which value need to be returned and what must be the control name.

Evil Code Monkey

If there is any code that is very poorly written a suggestion will appear and will point to the part of code that need to be written again in a well manner.

Add Reference dialog

And importantly the process of adding the new reference to the application will become much faster and intelligent.

I hope we will see all of the above mentioned features in the new Visual studio 2012 version. Which will make the developers life more simpler and easier. All the best.

Thanks
Anil Kumar Pandey

Windows Mango smartphone by HTC

2011-11-07T15:57:00.001+05:30

Microsoft India has unveiled its second Windows Phone 7.5 smartphone, HTC Radar, in India. The device runs on the most recent version of Windows Phone code-named Mango.

Microsoft claims to have added over 500 new features in Windows Phone 7.5. Of these the key additions are: Custom ringtones, visual voicemail, new speech commands, Linked inboxes, conversation view in email, multitasking, video sharing, picture tagging, Smart DJ and sync with SkyDrive.

Another new feature called All Windows Phones, gives users the ability to use any web browser to log in to and locate their lost phone on a map, have it sound the ringer, lock it, or wipe it.

The conventional application icons have been replaced by Live Tiles on the Windows Phone start screen. The Live Tiles come to life with real-time updates from the Web such as news, appointments or the status of friends. The integrated experiences are achieved through 'hubs' which bring together related content into a single view to simplify common tasks. These Hubs include, People, Pictures, Games, Music & Video, MarketPlace and Office.

With Windows Phone 7.5, Microsoft's Web Marketplace also makes its debut in India. This gives Windows Phone users the opportunity to surf for apps online just like Android and iOS users.

HTC Radar sports a 3.8-inch LCD touch screen display and is powered by a 1 GHz Snapdragon processor.

A dedicated camera button provides easy access to the Radar's 5-megapixel camera, even if the smartphone is locked. It comes in at 4.7 by 2.4 by 0.4 inches, and has 8GB of on-board storage. It packs 1520 mAh non-removable battery, which is claimed to last up to 10 hours of talktime on GSM and up to 8 hours on 3G. The smartphone is priced at Rs 23,999.

Another Windows Phone 7.5 phone unveiled recently is Samsung Omnia W i8350. The smartphone is priced at Rs 19,990.

Source by Times of INDIA. Read the main article here.

Thanks
Anil Kumar Pandey
Microsoft MVP, Microsoft MCC

Hattrick of MVP Award!!!!!!

2011-10-03T11:08:00.002+05:30

Hi Friends,
I am very very happy to inform you all that I have got the prestigious MVP award for the third time in a row. I am feeling top of the world now. I would like to thanks all my friends who sup[ported me to be a active member in the community. Here is the email which I got from Microsoft yesterday.

Dear Anil Pandey,

Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2011 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. We appreciate your outstanding contributions in Visual C# technical communities during the past year.

The Microsoft MVP Award provides us the unique opportunity to celebrate and honor your significant contributions and say "Thank you for your technical leadership."

Toby Richards
General Manager
Community & Online Support

Thanks every one who supported me all the time. Thanks a lot.

Anil Kumar Pandey
MVP Visual C#

New MVP Announced for October 2011

2011-10-03T10:57:00.003+05:30

Hi Friends,
Here are the names new MVP that are announced for the October 2011 quarter. There are only 4 out of which 3 are for ASP.NET.

1. Sheo Narayan – ASP.NET
2. Karthikeyan Anbarasan – ASP.NET
3. Lohith G. Nagaraj – ASP.NET
4. Mohana Krishna Yadav – Dynamics NAV

And below are the name of the MVP's who will join the community as alumni.

1. Anand Naranswamy

2. Ashish Khandelwal

3. Amit Agarwal

4. Jijo Raj

5. Madhur Verma

6. Radhakrishna MV

7. Vijay Samavedam

8. Shanmuga Sundara Raman

9. Sumit Datta

10. Uday Kumar Ethirajulu

11. Venkata RaviKumar Pidikiti

12. Vijay Mukhi

13. Abhishek Bhatnagar

14. Amit Bhawani

15. Ankur Mittal

16. Abhishek Joshi

17. Vishal Gupta

18. Omkarnath Pathak

I would like to wish all the new and Renewed MVP. Keep rocking in the community.

Thanks

Anil Kumar Pandey

IE9 Most Secure Browser (NSS LAB)

2011-08-26T11:03:00.005+05:30

Internet Explorer 9 blocks 99% malware attacks: NSS Lab study!

IE9 continues to protect consumers

With one third of internet users in Asia-Pacific alone becoming victims of threats like malware, the need for online security is more relevant than ever. To address these online concerns, Microsoft created their latest browser Internet Explorer 9, which provides a safe, secure yet beautiful and speedy browsing experience. Today, NSS Labs released two reports which show that SmartScreen feature in Internet Explorer continues to offer industry leading protection against socially engineered malware. As per the report “Internet Explorer 9 blocks an exceptional 99% malware. 96% of the live threats were caught with SmartScreen URL reputation in IE9, and an additional 3.2% with Application Reputation.”

What’s more, since the October 2010 NSS report, the average time taken by SmartScreen filter to block a threat has gotten 28% faster, if Application Reputation is considered, then the average time has improved by 85%. The graph below compares the test results from various browsers and shows that Internet Explorer blocks 5X more malware than competitive browsers.

The other reports looked at socially engineered malware targeted towards people living in Asia Pacific region and in Europe. As you can see below, in each region the results remained consistent – Internet Explorer 9 maintains a lead in protecting users from live threats.

* You check out the entire web browser security report by NSS Labs by clicking here: https://www.nsslabs.com/assets/noreg-reports/2011/nss%20labs_q3_2011_browsersem%20GLOBAL-FINAL.pdf.

It is no surprise that a browser is the first line of defense against attacks from the web and it plays an important role to help keep you safe online. Internet Explorer is designed with your security and privacy in mind. The new browser has a robust set of built-in security, privacy, and reliability technologies that helps keep consumers safe and their browsing experience virtually uninterrupted. With IE9, we have introduced new functionalities like Tracking Protection, Tracking Protection Lists, ActiveX Filtering to name a few. IE9 makes browsing the web even safer & protected experience from here on.

IE9 has received positive feedback from consumers globally. As of today, Internet Explorer 9 has over 18% usage share worldwide on Windows 7. You can download Internet Explorer 9 to see how you can enjoy a more beautiful – and trusted web!

Thanks

Anil Kumar Pandey

Asynchronous Programming in C#

2011-08-16T21:18:00.004+05:30

Hi All,

A few days back I was searching the roadmap for the new C#5.0, I come up with a MSDN article which was describing the "Asynchronous" method. The another way of programming for the Asynchronous operation. I saw a White paper on this technology, so I am just presenting the content of the same in front of you.

Definition : -

When your user interface is unresponsive or your server doesn’t scale, chances are you need your code to be more asynchronous. With today’s .NET Framework and language features, though, that is easier said than done.

The Microsoft Visual Studio Async CTP proposes a new language feature in C# and VB, and a new framework pattern to go with it, that will make asynchronous programming similar to – and about as straightforward as –synchronous programming.

For decades programming with remote resources has presented a conundrum. As the level of abstraction in “local” programming has been steadily rising, there has been a push for transparency of remote operations – they should look just like local ones, so that a developer doesn't need to grapple with conceptual overhead, architectural impedance mismatch and leaky abstractions.

The problem is that remote operations are different from local ones. They have orders of magnitude more latency even at the best of times, may fail in new ways or simply never come back, depend on a variety of external factors beyond the developer’s control or even perception, etc. So while they can be represented like “just method calls,” it is not desirable to do so because the developer is left without handles to manage the special conditions arising from their remoteness – managing cancellation and timeouts, preserving threading resources during blocking waits, predicting and handling threats to responsiveness, etc.

On .NET we have not ignored this challenge. In fact we have not just one butseveral patterns for how to do asynchronous programming; that is, dealing with I/O and similar high latency operations without blocking threads. Most often there is both a synchronous (i.e. blocking transparently) and an asynchronous (i.e. latency-explicit) way of doing things. The problem is that these current patterns are very disruptive to program structure, leading to exceedingly complex and error prone code or (more commonly) developers giving up and using the blocking approach, taking a responsiveness and performance hit instead.

The goal should be to bring the asynchronous development experience as close to the synchronous paradigm as possible, without letting go of the ability to handle the asynchrony-specific situations. Asynchrony should be explicit and non-transparent, but in a very lightweight and non-disruptive manner. Composability, abstraction and control structures should all work as simply and intuitively as with synchronous code.

This is the goal of the features of the Async CTP.

public int SumPageSizes(IList<Uri> uris) {

  int total = 0;

  foreach (var uri in uris) {

      statusText.Text = string.Format("Found {0} bytes ...", total);

      var data = new WebClient().DownloadData(uri);

      total += data.Length;

  }

  statusText.Text = string.Format("Found {0} bytes total", total);

  return total;

}

What Might be the Good approach for the saeme??The problem: Asynchronous code totally blows up your control flow. The call you back part needs a callback – a delegate describing what comes after. But what if you wanted to “wait” inside a while loop? An if statement? A try block orusing block? How do you then describe “what comes after”?

Look at this simple example:

public async Task<int> SumPageSizesAsync(IList<Uri> uris) {
int total = 0;
foreach (var uri in uris) {
statusText.Text = string.Format("Found {0} bytes ...", total);
var data = await new WebClient().DownloadDataAsync(uri);
total += data.Length;
}
statusText.Text = string.Format("Found {0} bytes total", total);
return total;
}

Notice first how similar it is to the synchronous code. The highlighted parts are added, the rest stays the same. The control flow is completely unaltered, and there are no callbacks in sight. That doesn’t mean that there are no callbacks, but the compiler takes care of creating and signing them up, as we shall see.

The method is asynchronous by virtue of returning a Task instead of an int. The Task andTask types are in the framework today, and are good at representing ongoing work. The caller of SumPageSizesAsync can later use the returned Task to inquire whether the work is complete, wait for the int result synchronously or sign up callbacks to get it when it is ready. So instead of taking a callback as a parameter, an asynchronous method now returns a representation of the ongoing work.

The asynchronous method has no extra parameters. By convention and to distinguish it from its synchronous counterpart (if we keep that in our code) we append “Async” to the method name.

The method is also marked as async. This means that the method body is compiled specially, allowing parts of it to be turned into callbacks, and automatically creating theTask that is returned.

Hope You have liked this peiece of infrmation, I thought it might be useful for all the developers. You can read the complete White paper from the below location. WhitePaper

Please Do Post Your Comment on the same.

Thanks

Anil Kumar Pandey

MVP,MCC,MVM

Google + (New Features)

2011-07-08T16:11:00.002+05:30

The latest sensation in the social networking field these days is the Google new product that is Google +. The Google + is launched recently by Google to overcome the fame of FB as every one is knowing that the Facebook too came in the market by overcoming the Google old social networking product that is ORKUT. The Google also try to capture the market with some other products like "Buzz", and "Wave", but Google wasn't succeed. Now this time Google came up with another product that they are saying that gone become more popular than the Facebook.

To try the product in the market the Beta version of the application is release and for joining or creating the Google+ circle you must need an INVITATION, yeah you guess it right the same funda that Google has adopted at the time when it launches the grate product that is GMAIL. Google has sent a few request to some of its user to join the circle and send there feed back. Luckily I too have got an Invitation from one of my India's friend. And I manage to create an account in the Google+, at the first look it look very Interesting and Exciting, I like the way the User interface is designed for the same.

After searching a lot about the new features that Google's say that they will leads us to become the market leader in the social networking fields, I come up with some. And I think these features are missing from the face book. Google Plus come up with the idea that we do not want to share every thing with every one so there are ways using that we can create various categories in the network to mange our contacts separately. Below are some of them.

1. Easy sharing of things among Circles

Circles of Google+ gives us the facility to sort out our close one very quickly unlike facebook. We can easily customize the groups even though we can also do it in Facebook but there is a limited option present. In Google+ we can select the Friends easily but clicking nthe images of the friends we want to share the post.

2. Video Chat option (Hangouts)

This is the most exciting feature in any of the Social networking site that was missing, and even not there in face book till now. recently Facebook also announce to add the features in the site with the help of Skype. But Google come up with the idea first. Using this we can plan an Outing who's name given by Google as "Hangout" we can communicates Live with video chat with our circle friends to chat and discuss live on any event planing.

3.YouTube video sharing

This is the cool new features that let the user not only video chat but can also share the YouTube video real time. The Google plus having a control using which we can share the video we are watching live with all our connected friends.

4. Spark

Spark is also a cool new feature of Gogle+ that let us arrange our intrest and liking in a good manner. The facebook too have this like feature but that is not that uch powerful than this SPARK. Using Spark we can have the Articles, News, Blogs of our own intrest in the site. We can easily arrange them and can share them with any of the circles in our account.

5. Cloud

This features lets us to upload any of the photos or video to the Google Cloud system and we can upload them to our profile any time we want to share them. The intermediate storing in the system is a good option as some time we doesn't have the complete information to share but we want to store what ever we have currently. Thus using Cloud Google let it possible

6. Delete Account

At the end the important feature we can close the account any time we want and there is no restriction at all we can simply delete the account from the site completely. However in Facebook doesn't let you delete the account completely the friends can again invite us to join the network.

I think these features are enough to divert any ones attention, so I must say get an Invite from any one of your friend that is already got one invitation and create you circle. I Hope you will enjoy all this new features and join Google+ just like me. Please do send your feedback to me.

Thanks

Anil Kumar Pandey
MVP,MCC,MVM

New MVP's for July 2011

2011-07-01T21:01:00.003+05:30

Hello Friends,

I am very happy to see the list of new MVP for the July 2011 Quarter. This time the list is a bit long.. Congratulations Guys..I would like to welcome the following MVPs amongst the elite south Asia MVP group.

Ajay Vijayvargiya	Visual C++
Awinish Vishwakarma	Directory Services
Jivtesh Singh	Dynamics GP
AMBILY K K	Connected System Developer
Pavan Pareta	Device Application Development
Abhimanyu Singhal	Visual Studio ALM
Ashutosh Singh	SharePoint Server
Sapna Shukla	Project
Shabbir Ahmed	Exchange Server
Ashish Koul	Excel
Brij Bhushan Mishra	ASP.NET/IIS
Siddharth Rout	Visual Basic
Pratik Vyas	SharePoint Server
Dhirendra R. Yadav	SharePoint Server

And here are the list of MVP's which we would like to give a very warm farewell. Like to see you guys soon in the List.

Deepak Kumar Vasudevan	ASP.NET/IIS
Satheesh Babu	ASP.NET/IIS
Rajesh R Subramanian	Visual C++
Suresh M. Chandren	Windows Expert-IT Pro
Krishnan Rajagopal	Xbox
Praveen Kumar	Client App Dev
Kalpesh J Parmar	Client App Dev
Vidhya Sagar	SQL Server
Arjun Paudel	Visual Basic
Sateesh Arveti	Visual C#
Nitin Gupta	Exchange Server
Meetu Choudhary	ASP.NET/IIS
Rajesh Sitaraman	SharePoint Server
Ramesh Swaminathan	ASP.NET/IIS
Vinoth Rajagopalan	Windows Embedded
Krishna Kumar R	PowerShell

A MVP is always an MVP! For all other MVP's friend who's name is not in the farewell list, this simply means that there status has been renewed.. SO Congrats again.

Thanks

Anil Kumar Pandey

Interview with DNS,

2011-07-01T15:40:00.003+05:30

One of the leading .NET site in INDIA, is published my Interview in there site, as I am the Most Valuable Member (MVM) of the site for 3 years in a row. I shared some of my inner thoughts and details about the journey from starting days to the place where I am the top member of the site.

I hope you are gone like this interview. You can read it from here.

Please share what you like and what you dislike about me, this blog or about the .NET

Thanks All

Cheeeeeeeeeeers!!!!!

Anil Kumar Pandey

Microsoft Office 365

2011-06-30T19:44:00.001+05:30

Microsoft Office 365 is a new software service that is having a set of Microsoft., The Starter plan is with the organization which are having 25 or less person and an there is a Enterprise subscription bigger than 25. Office 365 is publically launched on 28 June 2011.

There are a lot of service included in the Office 365 , MS Office,MS Exchange Server, MS Share Point Server and One more MS Lync Server. These can be access over the net, thus started a step towards the second generation Cloud computing.

Here are some of the Important features as said to be there in the Microsoft Office 365.

Office 365 delivers user productivity you can count on

All Office 365 plans provide users with virtually anywhere-access to email, important documents, contacts, and calendars on nearly any device (including PC, Mac, Windows Phone, iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry)*.

Office 365 works with the software your users already know and use like Word, Excel, OneNote and PowerPoint.

Using Office Web Apps in Office 365 you can view your Office documents with great document fidelity and consistent formatting, do basic editing, and create new documents using the familiar Office interface.

With select midsize business and enterprise plans (Plans E3 and E4) you are also able to run always-up-to-date versions of Office Professional Plus.

Office 365 takes the worry out of IT

An easy-to-use administration console allows IT administrators to stay in control of user accounts, access rights, and organization-wide deployment.
Office 365 is a hosted online service within best-of-breed data centers that have received SAS 70 and ISO 27001 certification. Read the Office 365 security whitepaper (English-only).
Office 365 maintains the latest defenses against viruses and spam.
Information is safeguarded with globally-redundant servers to provide enterprise-grade reliability. Disaster recovery is handled via multiple datacenters and automatic failovers.
Office 365 reduces the time and cost IT would spend patching, upgrading, or updating servers.
You can count on Microsoft, an industry leader in productivity, for reliability. Microsoft provides a financially-backed 99.9% uptime guarantee.
For midsize businesses and enterprise plans, Microsoft provides access 24 hours a day, seven days a week to IT-level support over the phone, the web, or email.

You can download the trial version of this application from the below location. Download.

Hope You got some good Information from the above article. Please share your view along with other Members too.

Thanks

Anil Kumar Pandey

An e-Book on "WMI Query Language via PowerShell"

2011-06-14T14:37:00.004+05:30

Hello Friends,
Here is a News that I came to know from South Asia MVP site. The News is that one of our fellow MVP has published an e-Book. Please Read the below details and Download it.

Ravikanth Chaganti, a Windows PowerShell MVP from Bangalore, India, has authored an ebook - WMI Query Language via PowerShell – which has been very popular, and is available as a free download.

The ebook has 9 chapters (56 pages of WMI and PowerShell goodness) and here is the high-level content outline:

Introduction
Tools for the job
WMI Data queries
WMI Event Queries: Introduction
Intrinsic Event Queries
Extrinsic Event Queries
Timer Events
WMI Schema Queries
WMI Event consumers

Download id free. Hope You will Like this Book..

Thanks

Anil Kumar Pandey

Model- View- ViewModel (MVVM in WPF)

2011-05-25T14:47:00.002+05:30

Model, View, ViewModel (MVVM) is a Design pattern used to create application. This is the result of evolution over the MVP (Model View presenter) by Microsoft.MVP which was majorly based in the Model-view-controller pattern (MVC). This MVVM is designed after keeping the modern UI development platforms (Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight) . This is highly preferred by the application developer of the WPF as this MVVM is most suited for the WPF application developers. The binding feature in the WPF is so powerful and that made so easy in the MVVM.

Model
The Model is defined as the data or business logic, Model is fully independent for the View, It is the separate entity and not directly related with the View. The Model can be created using the coding or it may be a pure XML for and other data file say as a Table.

View
A View is defined in XAML( Extensible Application Markup Language), the XAML does not contain ant logic in the code-behind. The XAML used to design the screen layout and the controls in the form. View is bind to the view-model with the help of data binding. The data binding is a very popular and strong feature of the MVVM patterns. Thus the Model data can be directly bind to the view using the Data binding and can be edited very easily if the binding is specified as the Two Way binding.

ViewModel
ViewModel simply referred as the “Model of a View”, it can have seen as an abstraction of the view, but ViewModel also include the Model by which the View can be bind. ViewModel contains the logic that converts the Model types into View types, and it also has the various Commands that are use to to perform operation in the View. The ViewModel exposes public properties, commands, and abstractions.

Model <<---------------- ViewModel ------------------>> View

Please check the sample application by Josh Smith that is a Very good example from here. Example. Thanks for reading my article.

Thanks,

Anil Kumar Pandey

MVP (Visual C# 2009-2010)

Member of the Year in DNS.....

2011-05-07T11:52:00.005+05:30

Hi Friends,

This time again I am sharing an Information that i have been selected for the "Member of the Year" award for three year in a row, from leading net technical site India that is I would like to thanks all my friends who supported and to entire DNS .

Here is the certificate for that along with this the Certificate for the Winner of the Week...

Thanks,

Anil Kumar Pandey

MVP (Visual C# 2009-2010)

Microsoft Community Contributor Award 2011

2011-04-29T10:26:00.003+05:30

Hello Friends,
I am very much Happy to inform you guys that I have been awarded the Microsoft Community Contributor Award 2011. This is another happiest moment in my life. I can not express that how much happy I am. I would like to thanks all my friends, who have supported me in each and every part of my life and my family for supporting me, and a Special thanks to the Entire Dotnetspider team, by which I got this much name and fame in the .Net technical community. Here is the Certificate which I received from the Microsoft.

Here is the mail content I recieved from Mr. "Nestor Portillo, Director "Community & Online Support, Microsoft ".

Dear Contributor,

Congratulations! We’re pleased to inform you that your contributions to Microsoft online technical communities have been recognized with the Microsoft Community Contributor Award.

The Microsoft Community Contributor Award is reserved for participants who have made notable contributions in Microsoft online community forums such as TechNet, MSDN and Answers. The value of these resources is greatly enhanced by participants like you, who voluntarily contribute your time and energy to improve the online community experience for others.

Becoming a Microsoft Community Contributor Award recipient includes access to important benefits, such as complimentary resources to support you in your commitment to Microsoft online communities. To find out more about the Microsoft Community Contributor Award and to claim your recognition, please visit this site: http://www.microsoftcommunitycontributor.com/

Thanks Once again to every one for supporting me.. And thanks to Microsoft for giving me this Honor.

Thanks a lot.

Anil Kumar Pandey

MVP (Visual C# 2009-2010)

Best Forum Supporter Award in DNS again..

2011-04-19T21:31:00.003+05:30

Hello Friend,

with the grace of GOD and by all my friends Well wishes I am selected for the "Best Forum Supporter" award in one of the leading site of .NET in India that is dotnetspider. I would like to thanks all my frinds for there support and help in each and every minute of my life..

Here is the certificate from the DNS

Thanks,

Anil Kumar Pandey

MVP (Visual C# 2009-2010)

SilverLight 5 Beta

2011-04-14T11:03:00.004+05:30

Hello All ,

The New Silverlight 5 (Beta) is available to download. You can download it from the below location. There are almost 40 new features are added in this new version. Some of them are listed below. Download from here.

There are a lot of new features has been added to this version for ease of developing some very good application. Some of the new features are as follows.

XAML Debugging with breakpoints for binding debugging
Implicit data templates for easy UI reuse
Double (and multi) click support
GPU-accelerated XNA-compatible 3D and immediate-mode 2D API
Low-latency sound effects and WAV support
Real operating system windows and multi-display support
Significant performance improvements, fixes and much more

Please check this details document of the new features available in Silverlight 5 Download
Here you can find the details Description of the new features of silverlight 5.

I hope You are going to have a look on this New Silverlight 5. Waiting for all your valuable comments on this new version of Silverlight and o suggestions as well.

Thanks,

Anil Kumar Pandey

MVP (Visual C# 2009-2010)

Free Windows Azure Camp

2011-04-08T17:05:00.003+05:30

Hello Friends,
The Microsoft MVP community is organizing the camp on Windows Azure, Entry is free so you can make this opportunity as a Big one and Enroll for the same.








For any query mail-to: i-abhib@microsoft.com

Thanks

Anil Kumar Pandey

New MVP's Announcement for Apr- 2011

2011-04-01T14:21:00.003+05:30

Hello Friends,
Here are the list of new MVP(Most Valuable Professional) announce for this quarter. I like to welcome all the new MVP's in this elite group of community leader.

Sunil Kumar Singh	Project
Ahsan Murshed	ASP.NET
Gouri Subodh Sohoni	Visual Studio ALM
Sameer Desai	Xbox
Kartik Mudgal	Xbox

Hoping to see some more name in the Field if Visual C# and ASP.NET for the next quarter.

Thanks,

Anil Kumar Pandey

MVP (Visual C# 2009-2010)

Google Search API & Bing Search API in C#

2011-03-21T22:28:00.005+05:30

Hi all,
Making use of the Google search or Bing search in our business application is a very common and general task, with the help of these search API's we can make our application very effective and user friendly. The 2 top search engine that are Google and Bing has provided API that can be easily used in our application. What is required is a class that can handle the response from these search engine. here I am going to explain the general search result class that can be used to accommodate both the search engines. here is the sample code for the same.

public class result
{
public string url;
public string title;
public string content;
public Engine engine;

public enum Engine { bing,google };

public Result(string url, string title, string content, Engine engine)
{
this.url = url;
this.title = title;
this.content = content;
this.engine = engine;
}
}

this is a sample Wrapper for the result handling. Class having a constructor that can initialize all its member, having normal member variables like URL, Content, Engine and the Title. Both the search engines result contains all these field values so I have simply created a warper using the above fields..

Now Lets c the main API accommodation of the Google search API

public class result
{
public string url;
public string title;
public string content;
public FindingEngine engine;

public enum Engine { bing,google };

public Result(string url, string title, string content, Engine engine)
{
this.url = url;
this.title = title;
this.content = content;
this.engine = engine;
}public static List<Result> GoogleSearch(string expression,
Dictionary<string, object> stats_dict)
{
var template = "http://mannpandey.blogspot.com";

Uri search_url;
var results_list = new List<SearchResult>();

int[] offsets = { 0, 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48 };

foreach (var offset in offsets)
{
searchuri = new Uri(string.Format(template, expression, offset));

var page = new WebClient().DownloadString(searchuri);

JObject obj = (JObject) JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(page);

var results =
from result in obj["responseData"]["results"].Children()
select new SearchResult(
url: result.Value<string>("url").ToString(),
title: result.Value<string>("title").ToString(),
content: result.Value<string>("content").ToString(),
engine: SearchResult.FindingEngine.google
);

foreach (var result in results)
results_list.Add(result);
}

return results_list;
}
}

In this class we are simply passing the search expression and the dictionary object. Where the URL is passed and the response coming from the API is deserialize using the JSON deserialization.

What ever member variable we have used in the above class are coming from the APi result. like TITLE, CONTENT etc. The de serilizer can be found in the JSOn library that is Json.NET .

Here is the API accommodation for the Bing search

public static List<SearchResult> BingSearch(string expression, Dictionary<string, object> stats_dict)
{
var template = "http://mannpandey.blogspot.com";

var offset_template = "&Web.Offset={1}";
var listresult= new List<Result>();
Uri search_url;
int[] offsets = { 0, 50, 100, 150 };

foreach (var offset in offsets)
{
if (offset == 0)
searchurl = new Uri(string.Format(template, search_expression));
else
searchurl = new Uri(string.Format(template + offset_template, expression, offset));

var page = new WebClient().DownloadString(searchurl);

JObject obj = (JObject)JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(page);

var results_query =
from result in obj["SearchResponse"]["Web"]["Results"].Children()
select new SearchResult
(
url: result.Value<string>("Url").ToString(),
title: result.Value<string>("Title").ToString(),
content: result.Value<string>("Description").ToString(),
engine: SearchResult.FindingEngine.bing
);

foreach (var result in results_query)
listresults.Add(result);
}

return listresult;
}

Bing search API is also similar to the Google API except some difference in there Offset, here also I am making use of the JSON serializer because its very easy to use and can be found in our .net library..

Now you can easily create the object of these classes or put them under separate project that can be used as a DLL. The idea for the same article was taken from one of the popular publishing site "Oreilly", that publishes so many books in the C# and ASP. You can found the details here. URL

I Hope you like this article, if you have any Query please feel free to contact me.. Thanks.

Anil Kumar Pandey

MVP (Visual C# 2009-2010)

Tracking and Loging using Google Analytics

2011-02-18T17:35:00.003+05:30

Hello Every one,
This is very important to check the popularity the site frequently, and for maintaining the same we can make use of the Tracking and Loging facility. What we do is simply get the Information that,

1 How many Members are coming to our site?
2. What is the geographical position of them?
3 What was the channel for them to visit our site?
4. And having the statistics in our hand for the performance measurement.

All this activity can be simply manage by using the Google Analytic. It is an enterprise class that let us know that what is the traffic in our site, How many new and old user are visiting our site, and many more, in a very easy way.

The Google Analytic handle all the headache of maintaining the traffic records and we can also view the report based in the Daily, Weekly and Monthly basic. What we have to do is , we just need to Registered into the site, to have an account where we can watch the activity, and a small piece of JavaScript code we need to put in our application that can track the page.

Now, Here the most important things is that if you just want to maintain the list of user that visited the site only, you can post the code in the Default or the Home page only, but if you wish to maintain the list of all the pages then place the code in all the pages.

If you are making use of the Master Pages, simply put them inside the master page so that they can appear on all the pages.

I will provide you the information that how can you set up the Google Analytic in your .NET application.

Step 1. Registration

You first have to Create an account with the Google Analytic for that make use of the URL.

SignUp

Provide the details there like Your UserId and password and other details and create an account.

Step 2. Confirmation Account

An email will be sent to you on the email address that you have provided while registration to activate the account. The email will contain a link and as you click that link your account will be activated.

Step 3. Sign-up to the account

SignUp to the account by using the User name and the password Provided by you at the time of registration.

Step 4. Provide the Website details

As you login to the site first time a page will be opened where you need to provide the information like your time zone and the website details.

Step 5 . Google Analytics Code

Once you fill that information you will come with a page where you will get a User id as UID.
This is your Unique Identification page that you must use inside the script of your page.

Step 6. Write the Script int the Code just below the End of Form Tag

You need to put the Script inside the page just before the end tag of the form tag, because this is the fixed location,. if there are any Master pages, put them just before the Form End tag.

In the Below line You have to Provide the ID generated or given by the Google at the time of registration.

_gaq.push(['UID']);

In Place of UID post your Unique Identification No.

Thanks all, You Tracking and login code is ready, you may wish to view the traffic by simply login to the Google Analytic site and viewing the reports.

I hope You have understood all the step as these are very easy to do and clear steps. If you want any more information you can log in to the official Google Analytic site.

Hope You have Like this Post, If there are any Queried please feel free to post a Comment.

Thanks

Anil Kumar Pandey

Sorting a DropDownList using Array list

2011-02-01T23:24:00.002+05:30

Hello All,
We frequently make use of the Dropdownlost to display some list items, that may be country name, city name, Postcode , User Name and so many other things. At time we do not have the option to SORT all the list item. In this Code snippet, With the help of the ArrayList we can sort the items inside a DropDown.

The Array List is having a Inbuilt Sorting method which we can make use to sort any list. We simply Copy the Text and Value field of the Dropdown items inside 2 separate ArrayList and then We will add the Items from the Arry List to the DropDown.

Here is the Sample Code.


SortDropDown(ref ddlName); //Calling Method


private void SortDropDown(ref DropDownList objDDL)
    {
      // Decalre 2 ArryList to Hold the Text and Value of Items
       ArrayList alText= new ArrayList();
       ArrayList alValue = new ArrayList();


       //Copy the Text field in the First Arry List
       foreach (ListItem li in objDDL.Items)
       {
           alTextt.Add(li.Text);
       }   

       alText.Sort(); //Sort the First Array List


 //Copy the value field in the Second Array List based on First ArrayList value
       foreach (object item in alText)
       {
           string val = objDDL.Items.FindByText(item.ToString()).Value;
           alValue.Add(val);
       }
       objDDL.Items.Clear(); //Clear the Dropdown

//Finally Add the Sorted Value in DropDown
   for(int intIndex = 0; intIndex < textList.Count; intIndex++)
       {
           ListItem itm = new ListItem(alText[intIndex].ToString(), alValue[intIndex].ToString());
           objDDL.Items.Add(itm);
       }
    }

Hope you got this Clear idea about sorting the Arraylist. In cvase of Any issue Please send a Message.

Thanks

Anil Kumare Pandey

A Chance To become MVP....

2011-01-10T10:16:00.002+05:30

Hello All,
here is your chance to become the Community leader and get recognized as the MVP. A chance to be a part of the community leader across the globe. MVP, Please go through the below details and Nominate your self..

Yes, you are good...perhaps the best! You deserve to be with the best -networking and sharing to build the technology the way you know its best!

As MVP nominees, you need to undergo a review and evaluation process. You will be evaluated by a panel that comprises members of the MVP team and Microsoft product groups basis your technical expertise and voluntary community contributions for the past 12 months. The panel would consider the quality, quantity and impact of your contributions in the community.

Participate in closed Betas/ Alphas of Microsoft Software and give feedback to shape up future technology

Network with Product Teams over exclusive MVP Only webcasts and mailing lists

Network with MVPs worldwide with exclusive MVP Private Forums

Nominate yourself by registering here to become Microsoft MVP. The closing date for nominations is 21^st January, 2011.

For details on MVP program, joins us for an exclusive session on 13^th January, 2011 at 1.00 PM

Topic: How to get the Microsoft MVP Award by Abhishek Kant
Time: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

At Microsoft, we believe technical communities enhance people’s lives and the industry’s success every day.

The Microsoft MVP Award recognizes exceptional technical community leaders who foster the free and objective exchange of knowledge by actively sharing their real world expertise with the community and Microsoft.

Thanks,
Anil Kumar Pandey
MVP (Visual C# 2009-2011)

New MVP announced for Januray 2011

2011-01-04T15:46:00.004+05:30

A Very Happy New Year to you all. Here are the list of new MVP's announced for the january 2011.

DESTIN N JOY -- SharePoint Server -- PATHANAMTHITTA

Sohel Rana -- SharePoint Server -- Dhaka

Diptimaya Patra -- Client App Dev -- Cuttack

Abhishek Sur -- Client App Dev -- Kolkata

Dilip Kumar Pandey-- Excel -- New Delhi

Prabu Kumar Kesavan--Windows Embedded--

Shyam Sasindran -- Windows Expert-IT Pro-- Chennai

SIDDHARTH MEHTA-- SQL Server -- Mumbai

Vinoth Balasubramanian-- Dynamics CRM -- Chennai

Soumya Sengupta -- Windows Expert-Consumer--Kolkata

Gaurav Mantri -- Windows Azure -- Udaipur

Ravi Vermula -- ASP.NET -- Hyderabad

Alwyn Duraisingh -- ASP.NET -- Chennai

Congratulation to all the new MVP's. Keep rocking in the respective community...

Thanks,

Anil Kumar Pandey

MVP (Visual C# 2009-2011)

Abbreviation for Twitter, FB and Texting

2010-12-16T10:20:00.004+05:30

Hello Friends,
Now a days almost every one used Face Book, Twitter or SMS, the very common language used in all these are the abbreviated for of the Words. Most of the peoples know these few words and lot more is unknown. While surfing on net I come across a web site where so many abbreviation were specified, so I am presenting some of the Words here which you can read and come to know...

Abbreviation Meaning
<3>
404 I haven't a clue
A3 Anyplace, anywhere, anytime
ADN Any day now
AFAIK As far as I know
AFK Away from keyboard
ARE Acronym-rich environment
ASAP As soon as possible
A/S/L? Age/sex/location?
B4N Bye for now
BAK Back at the keyboard
BAS Big a** smile
BBIAB Be back in a bit
BBL Be back later
BBN Bye bye now
BBS Be back soon
BEG Big evil grin
BF Boy friend
BFD Big f***ing deal
BFN Bye for now
BG Big grin
BIBO Beer in, beer out
BIOYIOP Blow it out your I/O port
BL Belly laughing

BMGWL Busting my gut with laughter
BOTEC Back-of-the-envelope calculation
BRB Be right back
BTA But then again...
BTDT Been there, done that
BTW By the way
BWL Bursting with laughter
BWTHDIK But what the heck do I know...?
CICO Coffee in, coffee out
C&G Chuckle and grin
CNP Continued in next post
CRB Come right back
CRBT Crying real big tears
CU See you
CUL See you later
CUL8ER See you later
CYA See ya
CYA Cover your ass
CYO See you online
DBA Doing business as
DFLA Disenhanced four-letter acronym (that is, a TLA)
DL Dead link
DLTBBB Don't let the bed bugs bite
DIKU Do I know you?
DITYID Did I tell you I'm distressed?
DOM Dirty old man
DOS Dozing off soon
DQMOT Don't quote me on this
DTRT Do the right thing
DWB Don't write back
E2E exchange to exchange
E2E e-business to e-business
E2E employee to employee
E2E end to end
EG Evil grin
EMFBI Excuse me for butting in
EMSG E-mail message
EOM End of message
EOT End of thread (meaning: end of discussion)
ESAD Eat s**t and die
ETLA Extended three-letter acronym (that is, an FLA)
EWG evil wicked grin
F2F Face to face
FAQ Frequently-ask question(s)
FC Fingers crossed
FISH First in, still here
FLA Four-letter acronym
FMTYEWTK Far more than you ever wanted to know
FOMCL Falling off my chair laughing
FTBOMH From the bottom of my heart
FUBAR F***ed up beyond all repair or recognition
FUD Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt
FWIW For what it's worth
FYI For your information
G Grin
GA Go ahead
GAL Get a life
GIGO Garbage in, garbage out
GD&R Grinning, ducking, and running
GF Girlfriend
GFN Gone for now
GGP Gotta go pee
GIWIST Gee, I wish I'd said that
GL Good luck
GMAB Give me a break
GMTA Great minds think alike
GOL Giggling out loud
GTRM Going to read mail
GTSY Glad to see you
H&K Hug and kiss
HAGN Have a good night
HAND Have a nice day
HHIS Hanging head in shame
HIG How's it going
HT Hi there
HTH Hope this helps
HUB Head up butt
IAC In any case
IAE In any event
IANAL I am not a lawyer (but)
IAW I agree with or In accordance with
IC I see
IGP I gotta pee
IHA I hate acronyms
IHU I hear you
IIRC If I recall/remember/recollect correctly
ILU or ILY I love you
IM Immediate message
IMCO In my considered opinion
IMHO In my humble opinion
IMing Chatting with someone online usually while doing other things such as playing trivia or other interactive game
IMNSHO In my not so humble opinion
IMO In my opinion
IMS I am sorry
IOW In other words
IPN I'm posting naked
IRL In real life (that is, when not chatting)
ITA I totally agree
ITIGBS I think I'm going to be sick
IWALU I will always love you
IYSWIM If you see what I mean
J4G Just for grins
JBOD Just a bunch of disks (like redundant array of independent disks, etc.)
JIC Just in case
JK or j/k Just kidding
JMO Just my opinion
JTLYK Just to let you know
k ok
KISS Keep it simple stupid
KIT Keep in touch
KOTC Kiss on the cheek
KOTL Kiss on the lips
KWIM? Know what I mean?
L8R Later
L8R G8R Later gator
LD Later, dude
LDR Long-distance relationship
LHO Laughing head off
LLTA Lots and lots of thunderous applause
LMAFO Laughing my f**king a** off
LMAO Laughing my a** off
LMSO Laughing my socks off
LOL Laughing out loud
LRF Little Rubber Feet (the little pads on the bottom of displays and other equipment)
LSHMBH Laughing so hard my belly hurts
LTM Laugh to myself
LTNS Long time no see
LTR Long-term relationship
LULAB Love you like a brother
LULAS Love you like a sister
LUWAMH Love you with all my heart
LY Love ya
LY4E Love ya forever
MorF Male or female
MOSS Member of the same sex
MOTOS Member of the opposite sex
MTF More to follow
MUSM Miss you so much
NADT Not a darn thing
NFG No f*****g good
NFW No feasible way or no f*****g way
NIFOC Naked in front of computer
NP or N/P No problem
NRN No response necessary
OIC Oh, I see
OLL Online love
OMG Oh my God
OTF Off the floor
OTOH On the other hand
OTTOMH Off the top of my head
PANS Pretty awesome new stuff (as opposed to "POTS")
PAW Parents are watching
PCMCIA People can't master computer industry acronyms
PDA Public display of affection
PEBCAK Problem exists between chair and keyboard
PIBKAC Problem is between keyboard and chair
PITA Pain in the ass
PM Private message
PMFJIB Pardon me for jumping in but...
POAHF Put on a happy face
::POOF:: Goodbye (leaving the room)
POTS Plain old telephone service
PU That stinks!
QT Cutie
RL Real life (that is, when not chatting)
ROR Raffing out roud (Engrish for "laughing out loud")
ROTFL Rolling on the floor laughing
ROTFLMAO Rolling on the floor laughing my a** off
ROTFLMAOWPIMP Rolling on the floor laughing my a** off while peeing in my pants
ROTFLMBO Rolling on the floor laughing my butt off
RPG Role-playing games
RSN Real soon now
RT Real time
RTFM Read the f***ing manual
RYO Roll your own (write your own program; derived from cigarettes rolled yourself with tobacco and paper)
S^ S'up - what's up
S4L Spam for life (what you may get when you become someone's customer or client)
SHCOON Shoot hot coffee out of nose
SEG S***-eating grin
SETE Smiling ear to ear
SF Surfer-friendly (low-graphics Web site)
SHID Slaps head in disgust
SNAFU Situation normal, all f***ed up
SO Significant other
SOL Smilling out loud or sh*t out of luck
SOMY Sick of me yet?
SOT Short on time
SOTMG Short on time must go
STFU Shut the f**k up
STFW Search the f*****g Web
STW Search the Web
SU Shut up
SUAKM Shut up and kiss me
SUP What's up
SWAG Stupid wild-a** guess
SWAK Sealed with a kiss
SWL Screaming with laughter
SYS See you soon
TA Thanks again
TAFN That's all for now
TANSTAAFL There ain't no such thing as a free lunch
TCOY Take care of yourself
TFH Thread from hell (a discussion that just won't die and is often irrelevant to the purpose of the forum or group)
TGIF Thank God it's Friday
THX Thanks
TIA Thanks in advance (used if you post a question and are expecting a helpful reply)
TILII Tell it like it is
TLA Three-letter acronym
TLK2UL8R Talk to you later
TB4U Too bad for you
TMI Too much information
TNT Till next time
TOPCA Til our paths cross again (early Celtic chat term)
TOY Thinking of you
TPTB The powers that be
TTFN Ta-Ta for now
TTT Thought that, too (when someone types in what you were about to type)
TTYL Talk to you later
TU Thank you
TY Thank you
TYVM Thank you very much
UAPITA You're a pain in the ass
UAF Until further notice
UW You're welcome
VBG Very big grin
VBSEG Very big s***-eating grin
WAG Wild a** guess
WAYD What are you doing
WB Welcome back
WBS Write back soon
WDALYIC Who died and left you in charge?
WEG Wicked evil grin
WFM Works for me
WIBNI Wouldn't it be nice if
WT? What/who the ?
WTF What the F***!
WTFO What the F***! Over!
WTG Way to go!
WTGP? Want to go private?
WU? What's up?
WYSITWIRL What you see is TOTALLY WORTHLESS IN REAL LIFE!
WUF? Where are you from?
WYSIWYG What you see is what you get
YBS You'll be sorry
YGBSM You gotta be s***tin' me!
YMMV Your mileage may vary.
YW You're welcome

The Source of the Information is here

Enjoy!!!!!

Thanks,

Anil Kumar Pandey

MVP (Visual C# 2009-2010)

Get No. of Users On-line in ASP.net Membership

2010-12-15T16:46:00.005+05:30

Hello all,

In our web application many times we need to display, that how many numbers of users are on-line, This is become quite easy if we are making use of ASP.Net Membership in our application. The Membership is having a function which directly gives us the no. of users on-line in the web site. "Membership.GetNumberOfUsersOnline(); " this function gives us the list of users on-line.

Here is a implementation of this code in c#

System.Collections.Generic.List<string> lstUserOnline = new System.Collections.Generic.List<string>();

int intUsersOnline = Membership.GetNumberOfUsersOnline();

foreach(MembershipUser usr in Membership.GetAllUsers())
{
if(usr.IsOnline)
{
lstUserOnline.Items.Add(usr.UserName);
}
}

//Bind the List to the ListBox
ListBox1.DataSource = lstUserOnline;
ListBox1.DataBind();

But there are some cases which are hard to track, that Suppose if any users have Closed his browser window without Logging out from the application, in that the Users remains On-line so it will also come under the list. So to avoid this issue up to some extent we can make use of logout time setting in the web config file, where we can easily set the time-out for a user, if he is not active any more. The entry will be like this.

Hope You have like this small piece of code. Please feel free to post the comment or any issue regarding this code.

Thanks,

Anil Kumar Pandey

MVP (Visual C# 2009-2010)

Silverlight 5 Plans

2010-12-03T10:30:00.003+05:30

Hello All,

I got this news from one of my fellow Silverlight MVP, that the Microsoft is planning for the new version of silver light that is Version 5, with some new features and capability for helping the developer to create some good application.. I have seen the Blog of Timheuer here is the Blog link from where I have got these information. http://tinyurl.com/2wdx6ge

Here are some of the features For the Media side

Hardware Decode and presentation of H.264 media
“TrickPlay” allows video to be played at different speeds and supports fast-forward and rewind. At up to twice the speed, audio pitch correction allows users to watch videos while preserving a normal audio pitch.
Improved power awareness prevents the screen saver from being shown while watching video and allows the computer to sleep when video is not active.
Remote-control support allowing users to control media playback.
Digital rights management advancements allow seamless switching between DRM media sources.

And In the Application Development side.

Fluid user interface enables smoother animation within the UI. Layout transitions allow developers to specify animations to apply when elements are added, removed or re-ordered within a layout. This provides smoother user experiences when, for example, items are inserted into a list.
Text improvements make it possible to build rich magazine-style text layouts:

Multicolumn text and linked text container allow text to flow around other elements.
Tracking/leading set precisely how far apart each character is for full creative control.
Text clarity is improved with Pixel Snapping.
Text layout performance is significantly improved.
OpenType support has been enhanced.

Support for Postscript vector printing enables users to create reports and documents, including the ability to create a virtual print view different from what is shown on the screen.
Applications can now work the way users expect with added support for double-click and ComboBox type ahead.
Databinding enhancements allow more work to be done more easily via XAML:

Debugging support now allows breakpoints to be set on a binding, so you can step through binding failures.
Implicit DataTemplates allow templates to be created across an application to support a particular type by default.
Ancestor RelativeSource allows, for example, a DataTemplate to bind to a property on the control that contains it.
Binding in style setters allows bindings to be used within styles to reference other properties.
The DataContextChanged event is being introduced. Markup extensions allow code to be run at XAML parse time for both properties and event handlers, enabling cutting-edge MVVM support.

Networking and Windows Communication Foundation enhancements:

Reduced network latency by using a background thread for networking.
WS-Trust support: Security Assertion Markup Language authentication token.

Silverlight 5 performance improvements include these:

Reduced network latency by using a background thread for networking.
XAML parser improvements that speed up startup and runtime performance.
Support for 64-bit operating systems.

Graphics improvements

Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) accelerated 3-D application programming interface (API) provides rich graphics on the Web for building advanced data visualizations and rich user experience (UI).
Immediate mode graphics API allows direct rendering to the GPU.
Hardware acceleration is enabled in windowless mode with Internet Explorer 9.

Silverlight offers a new class of trusted applications that brings desktop capabilities to the browser for the first time. These features, when enabled via a group policy registry key and an application certificate, mean users won’t need to leave the browser to perform complex tasks:

Host HTML content as a Web browser control within the Silverlight application. HTML pages, such as help content or e-mail, can be integrated within the application.
Read and write files to the user’s My Documents folder, making it easier to find media files or create local copies of reports.
Launch Microsoft Office and other desktop programs. Users can open Microsoft Outlook and create an e-mail message, or send a report to Word utilizing the power of Office.
Access devices and other system capabilities by calling into application COM components. Users can access a USB security card reader or a bar-code scanner.
Enjoy full keyboard support in full screen, which enables richer kiosk and media viewing applications.
Call existing unmanaged code directly from within Silverlight with P/Invoke.

Out-of-browser trusted applications are further enhanced:

Existing unmanaged code can be called directly from within Silverlight with P/Invoke.
Child Window support allows multiple windows to be launched from the application.

You can read the detail article on this blog Here. And please post your comment and suggestion so that we can forward it to the silver light team.

Thanks,

Anil Kumar Pandey

MVP (Visual C#)

HTML 5 Rocks!

2010-11-22T12:15:00.004+05:30

Hello Guys,
HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) is the base of NET based programing, we came across several version of HTML in past years, Now we are having the latest version of the HTML that is HTML5. Here are the Evolution of HTML

1991---- HTML

1994---- HTML 2

1996----- CSS 1 + JavaScript

1997 -------HTML 4

1998------ CSS 2

2000---- XHTML 1

2002 -----Tableless Web Design

2005 ------AJAX

2009------ HTML 5

As you all know that HTML 5 is going to rock the INTERNET World soon. The new HTML5 is the combination of the 3 powerful technology that are HTML, CSS & JS API that means

HTML5 = HTML + CSS + JS API

While Surfing on net for HTML5 I came across a very good site that is describing the new feature of HTML5 is a very good manner you can have a look at this site.

HTML5

Please take a look and check the details and feature of the Rocking HTML5.

Thanks,

Anil Kumar Pandey

MVP (Visual C#)