Smileys plugin for Windows Live Writer - Update

by rahul 6/16/2009 5:26:19 PM

This has been one of the really famous plug-ins that I wrote a while ago (more than 11K downloads as of 17th June, 2009). The intent was to use smileys in my posts easily from the blogging tool itself. Since I used Microsoft - Windows Live Writer (which IMHO, is the best blog editor currently) I wa... [More]


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Quotation Plug-in for Windows Live Writer

by rahul 6/16/2009 5:23:14 PM

If you have been following my posts, you might have noticed that almost all the posts contains a famous quote. Well, searching is not what I do or prefer. Here is the secret, revealed… I use a simple little plug-in which is gets me a few quotes to select from. Select any of the quotes and cl... [More]


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Unable to create Database diagrams

by rahul 6/16/2009 4:21:17 PM

Just re-installed Visual Studio 2008 SP1 on my brand new Windows 7 RC, along with SQL Server 2005. I was struggling with the following error for a while, since I wanted to create a Database Diagram. TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio ------------------------------ Database diagram... [More]


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Screencast Software – Two free ones that I really liked…

by rahul 5/22/2009 5:43:14 PM

I have been pretty quiet for the last couple of months. There were two reasons for this hiatus. First, I was getting into a little more nitty-gritty of MOSS 2007 and getting my hands dirty with MOSS Development. Secondly, I was thinking about a new way of sharing the knowledge. Not that writin... [More]


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Sample ASPX page to show security details in ASP.NET

by rahul 4/4/2009 3:20:40 PM

This may come in handy if you are trying to troubleshoot security related issues in ASP.NET. I had this page posted here, but it was in VB.NET and I have been experiencing some issues with my previous blog site, so I am cross posting it here in C# for future reference. All you have to do is create a... [More]


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Win 7 - 4GB installed, but shows only 3GB!!

by rahul 3/26/2009 3:16:07 AM

Honestly, I never noticed it till date, and I was really surprised when I was working with a few Virtual Machines today on my Win 7 Laptop which has 4GB RAM. I was thinking that something must have gone wrong with my laptop. Finally, I did some research and found a few interesting things. First of a... [More]


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System.InvalidOperationException: Sequence contains no elements

by rahul 3/25/2009 2:26:00 PM

While using LINQ, let’s say you decide to do something similar to the following… NorthWindDataContext dc = new NorthWindDataContext(); Product p = dc.Products.First(p1 => p1.ProductName.StartsWith("My New Product")); if (p == null) return; dc.Products.... [More]


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Getting back to the normal routine…

by rahul 3/15/2009 2:55:31 PM

Somewhere deep down my heart, I know it doesn’t really matter whether I blog or not. But somehow, my mind says something different... probably, just to make myself feel a little better (yeah, everyone thinks he is special and I am no exception ) Nevertheless, this is one of those posts which I a... [More]


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Miscellany | Personal

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Fancy Bullets plugin for Windows Live Writer - Update

by rahul 2/24/2009 7:33:05 PM

For quite some time there were a couple of bugs reported, and I was not able to fix them until today. First one was a nasty one. Quite a lot of folks reported that the plug-in didn’t work directly. They had to run the Windows Live Writer as Administrator to make the plugin work fine. I have been p... [More]


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Windows 7 – Yeah, I joined the bandwagon too…

by rahul 2/7/2009 4:54:31 PM

…and I must say, I am VERY VERY happy that I did Here is what all I absolutely fell in love with…     Windows + T – If you press the Windows Key along with T, you can see the taskbar getting highlighted. Now, you can press T multiple times or use your arrow keys to move to the appli... [More]


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