Well, please don't consider this a comparison between WP7 (Mango - HTC Mozart) and iPhone. I work for Microsoft, and it is quite possible that you will consider my views biased. Nevertheless, I just wanted to let you know that these are my personal views and I am not a marketing guy . The reason I am sharing my experience is because I have used iPhone for a long time, and it is almost 6 months [as on 10th September, 2011] since I switched over from an iPhone. I thought it would be a good exerci... [More]

My team, Premier Field Engineering (India) recently created a group on LinkedIn. - http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3761475&trk=hb_side_g Membership is open to all, so I welcome you to take this opportunity to connect with us! This LinkedIn group offers a common forum for the employees and customers of Microsoft India Premier Field Engineering to connect, share experiences, comments, feedback etc. about PFE services. In addition we will also use this forum to promote upcoming offerings... [More]

You think you are smart? You think you can explain the concepts of your technology really well? Do you like sharing your knowledge? Do you like travelling? Are you self-driven? Do you like being in touch with geeks who love technology and love to share their knowledge in order to learn more? Do you consider yourself a champ in SQL or IIS/ASP.NET? If your answer is "yes" to all of these, and you are interested in joining Microsoft Premier Field Engineering team&he... [More]

I don’t personally want this browser war to end… seriously! And that’s simply because each day the things are becoming simpler and simpler. I tried Google Chrome extensions and can easily see experience how easy things have become for me now. Let’s say you want to twitter a link that you just found. Going to a any URL Shortening service and submitting the link is fine, but just needs a little more dedication, especially for lazy guys like me. What I have now is Google Extensions which looks so... [More]

I thought of doing this many times, but due to the kind of lazy bum that I am… I kept on procrastinating it (until today). And yes, thanks to Vivek for pointing out that the design really isn’t as good as it could be. So, from a site that used to look like this till today, will look as you are looking now. If you are in an RSS Feed reader… this is what you need to click on. Please feel to pass on any constructive feedback at rahul@dotnetscraps.com. I am not a designer, but with whatever limi... [More]

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 writing hurts, but more because it is much easier to show something than type it out. Taking screen capture using software for demo/training/sharing is nothing new. I personally feel that when it comes to ... [More]

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 am writing simply because I am fed up of being in the bed for over a 10 days now. I underwent a couple of surgeries this week and trying to get back to my normal routine. This upper abdomen pain kept... [More]

…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 application that you would like to activate.     Quick Launch is missing – And although I was a very big fan of it, I don’t miss it at all. You have an option to Pin/Unpin the applicatio... [More]

Requirement > You have a lot of play lists (m3u) and you want to burn all the songs in any play list to some media of your choice (CD, DVD, USB, etc). How do you do it currently? Well, I used to take a look at the file information and copy the files one by one manually. Recently, I wanted to burn a CD for my car audio, and had some 200 odd songs in my play list. It would have taken a long time for me, so I thought of spending a few minutes in writing this piece of code. My Solution >>&g... [More]

It all started last evening when I turned on my PC. I used to have a lot of partitions (Total 9) in my 2 160 GB HDD. Today when I started my PC, it showed me only 6 drives. The other HDD was present and Windows could recognize the HARD DISK. The problem was that although the Disk Management utility was showing the DISK 1 below as OFFLINE. The screenshot above shows when everything was working fine. When I saw the DISK 1 offline, I tried to bring it online but it threw an error message. I chec... [More]