I still remember the day when I joined Microsoft in Oct 2004. I was excited to be in my dream company, and at the same time, quite tense that I would now be required to support ASP.NET. I was a pure WinForm guy then and since I came from a very small company, “I am a pretty good programmer” thought was getting etched somewhere deep in my mind. Boy, what a big frog I was in a really shallow well! I still thank God for getting me here and showing me the mirror. Not that I’ve become a genius ... [More]

If you work with a lot of samples, the chances are quite likely that you will end up in a rather dirty list of Recent Projects List in Visual Studio. I'm personally quite nit-picky and I really hate it when I find something like this... Now... I don't know which of these Samples should I click on (since I have two in the list!). Anyway, there are multiple reasons why you would like to remove the junk entries from this list. One way is to open the Registry and navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_US... [More]

One of the painful tasks for a MOSS Admin is to make a list of all site-collections, sub-sites and nested sites. If you have allowed your customers to create their own sub-sites off a site collection or root site, it can turn out to be a really tough trying to create a list of all those. Our production engineering team came across the exact same problem. Recently they were planning to migrate the production data to another Test server to do some testing. While planning this, we realized that the... [More]