Partition + Data recovery nightmare (Error C10000B6) - Thank God it is over!!!

by rahul 12/9/2008 3:21:15 PM
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 ... [More]


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You can now win with live Search - (Microsoft Initiative)

by rahul 12/7/2008 12:58:28 PM
I was pleasantly surprised to see this web-site today. http://www.winwithsearch.com/ This is an initiative by Microsoft to promote Live search. Check it out and enjoy. Cheers, RahulQuote of the day: The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor. - Wil... [More]


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Microsoft Autocollage – IS AWESOME!!!

by rahul 9/26/2008 5:03:32 PM
I like time saving utilities, and become specially excited if something is saving time and easy to use at the same time. Have a look at some of these collages… To create them I have spent about 15 minutes in total, and I loved the output   Read more about Autocollage 2008or do... [More]


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My last post (as an IIS/ASP.NET guy…)

by rahul 8/27/2008 9:10:36 PM
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” th... [More]


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Firefox 3 - Here comes the reason number #11

by rahul 6/30/2008 8:56:54 AM
Well here are the top 10 reasons, and today for the first time, I noticed that in Firefox 3 they have made the location bar even more robust. A little bit of story before I show the screen-shot… my 2 year old really likes some web pages, specially this one… Abracadabra. Today, she asked me to pla... [More]


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Firefox 3 - Top 10 reasons that makes me a Firefox fan

by Rahul 6/24/2008 10:19:59 PM
There are no surprises (for me, at least!) that Firefox has been downloaded more than 14 million times in just 7 days!!! I am a die-hard fan of Firefox since quite a few years, and I have experienced it getting better and better over the last few years. Today, in this post, I will share some of th... [More]


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C# Example for a File In Use

by praveen 6/13/2008 9:20:16 AM
Recently I was working on some code where it was required to open a file, write something to it and close it. I ran into a small problem while considering the code. Since this was a Doc file the problem was that how do I check if the file was already open or not?  If the file is already open fo... [More]


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Play with Colors - Part 2 - Check the font on a specific background using .NET reflection

by Rahul 6/12/2008 3:12:25 PM
I have already shown how to use .NET reflection to get the information about all the colors in .NET. Let's say you want to check out how a specific colored font would appear on any background, you may like to check this sample. Use the code which follows to get an output like the one below. ... [More]


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Welcome to .NetScraps!

by Rahul 6/8/2008 5:18:00 PM
Hi All... My name is Rahul Soni and when I started blogging in January 2006 at http://blogs.msdn.com/rahulso, I didn't realize that it would become such a gratifying experience for me. I have been able to be quite consistent with my blogging efforts, but of late I was facing some technic... [More]


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