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Bangalore TechEd 2009

2009-06-23T03:14:00.000-07:00

Last weekend I had been to B.Net session. I had lot of expectations on the session, with lot of enthusiasm I got up at 7.00 am and drove to the RV Dental college premises.

For the first few hours, I was impressed with Mr. Ram Kumar about the infrastructure evolution that’s going on in the industry. It was really information until the presentation team started pulling him out. I wouldn't have minded, if I had to sit one hour late @ the end of the day to cover up what he wanted to say. Bechara, he had to leave the session in between. I am sure; he wouldn't have got himself convinced with the kind of half-baked session he gave.

Coming next to Windows session by Vijay and Vic. I would say these guys enjoyed the presentation themselves more than anybody else. They knew what they were talking, they had worked on it and they knew how to convince the crowd of around 600 people. They were onto perfection in what they were saying. They key what the crowd was looking for. They picked the best examples what a developer would look for. Live demos, live examples make developers happy, as they want to try and see these things.

Next was Chaitra, the lady was well prepared. Now is when I started feeling sleepy. The session would have worked, if I was on any Microsoft webcast, but not in this kind of place. I felt that she was reading some ppt presentation. I personally felt that she has to learn a lot on presentation skills. Teaching is an art and not book reading.

A coffee break.... I got the relief, I came out of the sleep and had a cup of coffee and a cig, went back onto the auditorium on time.

Mr. Kashi started off with generic concepts and started going into Biztalk. I recalled back, what he said on the first set of slides. This is not about biztalk (something like that) and he went on and on into biztalk. @ One point I was recalling one of the old times when there was no synchronization with audio and video and this was a classical example for that.

I felt that’s it, let me go back home and sleep. I was hungry and could not wait any longer. I got up by 12.45 and drove back home.

Summary: I am not saying some were good and some were bad. The overall objective I personally felt was not met by B.Net team. Yes, Organizing and making people sit for 2 days and giving some goodies is not what B.Net should aim for. The vision and mission has to be relooked @ what should be done.

I don’t blame the organizers; they always would like to get the best people. But unfortunately there is a limitation under which they have to work.

Yes, we always follow what is being done than how best or how different it can be done.

It’s time for revival.

Defining Responsibility

2008-10-14T08:08:00.000-07:00

Today, When I was having a team meeting, one of my boys asked me to define the responsibility. Being in the industry for 8 years, I was not able to convience him with what I defined.

So, I started looking out for the definition on google, read some 50-60 links on the results it provided. Then I got few links which gave nice explination of what it meant.

Here is what I found

Definition by meaning
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/responsibility

Layman’s meaning
http://www.eruptingmind.com/what-is-responsibility/

Complicated meaning
http://defineresponsibility.com/

All the above talk about the same thing in different words, different perceptions and in different ways.

The bottom line is very simple “It is what you do and how you move with success”

Set Path for Command-Line Tools for SharePoint Developers

2007-12-31T06:19:00.000-08:00

Learn about a Visual Studio .NET shortcut that opens the command line window, runs a batch file, then remains open for further use.

I do a lot of development for MOSS 2007 and always find myself in the command-line tool doing a lot of change directories to get to stsadm.exe and gacutil.exe. Visual Studio .NET installs a command prompt shortcut called Visual Studio .NET 2003/2005 Command Prompt. This shortcut opens the command line processor, runs a batch file, then remains open for further use.
The Visual Studio team built a .BAT file that includes file directories for the most commonly referenced paths Visual Studio developers use. For example, if you open the command prompt using the Visual Studio .NET 2003/2005 Command Prompt shortcut, you can simply type in "gacutil" with the appropriate parameters without having to specify the path to the executable.
To apply this same option to WSS tools, such as stsadm.exe, I modified the .BAT file to include two paths I use frequently. You can include other paths as needed.

To locate the vsvars32.bat file by viewing the properties of the Visual Studio .NET 2003/2005 Command Prompt shortcut, modify the vsvars32.bat file by adding the following lines at the beginning of the file:

@SET SPBINDIR=C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\60\BIN
@SET SPTOOLSDIR=C:\Program Files\SharePoint Portal Server\Bin
Next locate the line starting with "@set PATH=" and insert "%SPBINDIR%;%SPTOOLSDIR%;,

so the line looks like:

@set PATH=%SPBINDIR%;%SPTOOLSDIR%;%DevEnvDir%;…

Save vsvars32.bat. The next time you use the command line, the Visual Studio .NET 2003/2005 Command Prompt will have the path properly set for Visual Studio and SharePoint development.

Thanks and Have a great holiday everyone

2007-12-31T06:15:00.000-08:00

I would like to wish you all a Happy Christmas and a great New Year. Thanks for all your support all these year on the forums.I am sure next year will be even better and look forward to have as many posts as possible.

IDE comparisions

2006-02-22T03:25:00.000-08:00

I have tried to compare ide’s for my project, which is on .net framework 1.1, the newer versions of these IDE’s have much more improved features almost similar to VS .Net.

I have taken VS .Net as the basis for my comparisons to set some basic standard and most of the people understand VS.Net features, so that my comparisons will be easy to explain.

Note : Please bear with me they are tab seperated.

Features MS VS.Net 2002 SharpDevelop WebMatrix

Creating Projects Present Present (Projects) Not Present
Creating Solutions (Group of Projects) Present Present (Combines) Not Present
Managing Multiple Solutions (Group of Projects) Not Present Present Not Present
Tabbed Documents Present Present Not Present
Auto Hide panes Present Present Not Present
Find and Replace Present Present Present
HTML Authoring Present Not Present Present
CSS Authoring Present Not Present Not Present
Object Browser Present Present Present
Class View Present Present Present
Deployment Tools (Windows Installer Support) Present Present Not Present
Macro Recording Present Not Present Not Present
MSDN Help integration with IDE Present Present Online Doc
IntelliSense Present Present Not Present
Debugging Tools Present Not Present Not Present
Comment System, Generating Doc from Code comments Present Present Not Present
Project Migration from Older Version of MS IDE Projects only Present Present Not Present
Syntax highlighting Present Present Present
Windows Form Designing Present Present Not Present
Debugging Running Windows Application in IDE Present Not Present Not Present
In Built Web Server Not Present Not Present Present
Web Service Projects Present Present Present
User Control Creation (ASP.Net) Present Not Present Present
VSS Integration with IDE Present Not Present Not Present
Database Explorer Present Present Present
Bookmark Present Present Not Present
Document Generation Present Not Present Not Present
In Built Browser Present Present Not Present
Copy Code Snippet as Clipboard ring Present Present Present
Reporting for Windows Application Not Present Present Not Present
Conversion between VB.Net to C# and vice versa Not Present Present Not Present
Mono Compatible Code compilation Not Present Present Not Present
Custom control for windows application Present Not Present Not Present
XML User Control Not Present Present Present
Code Auto Insert Not Present Present Not Present

IDE's for .Net

2006-01-31T05:37:00.000-08:00

Today I started looking for a IDE for my .net project.
Yes, true anytime Visual Studio is the best and the add-ins for that are simply amazing.

I have downloaded Webmatrix and SharpDevelop IDE's, which are basically popular and give most of the features required for a developer.

I will start evaluating these tools and give my comments on the same.

Ultimate Survey Enterprise Version 3.0 from Prezza Technologies

2005-12-26T06:01:00.000-08:00

Today, I was looking at the code of Ultimate Survey Enterprise Version 3.0 from Prezza Technologies.
It is a centralized application for all of your organizations web-based forms and surveys.

This tool looks too good. Application is so structured, they have completely used all most all the features of .net.

Microsoft ISV Community days - Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio Team System

2005-11-12T04:49:00.000-08:00

11 Nov 2005
Microsoft ISV Community days - Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio Team System

I attended this event in bangalore. The presentation by Gaurav Khanna was too good. The topics that he had covered
-Building high-performance applications using Visual Studio 2005
-Debugging Techniques for .NET Framework 2.0

The session looked too simple when i was listening during the course of the session, but when I came back and tried these, it was really help. For the things which I used to take hrs now got solved and can do it in minutes.

Migrating from SQL Server 2000 to 2005

2005-09-24T04:52:00.000-07:00

I am trying to move application (Product), that I am working on from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005. If any body has done this before, please do let me know, if there are any issues that you have face before.

Microsoft ISV Community Days - Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005

2005-09-23T08:20:00.000-07:00

I attended this event in bangalore.
The event was too good which talked about the key feature of Data binding and Reporting services.

I liked Rajiv Sodhi's talk on Data binding in winforms and Reporting services in SQL Server 2005.

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