Installing Android on Windows
Now that's a deadly combination specially if you are trying this out at half past one at midnight (just like I did). Running two Operating Systems on a sing...
Parallel Programming in .NET 4.0
Which machine do you have? Intel Core 2 Duo, Quad Processor, AMD Turion? All these machines and many more in the market are multi-core machines, but not all ...
Webinar: Features of .NET 4.0
Today, I delivered a Webinar on 'Features of .NET 4.0' Total duration of webinar: 1 hour Total participants: 200 Take away from the session: Features of .NE...
Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing
Recently conducted a free session on Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing at NIRMA University, Ahmedabad on 10th April, 2010 Workshop Duration: 2 hours Date & Tim...
Silverlight Interview Questions - I
Hello folks, Marching forward, I will post a series of Interview Questions on Silverlight. This will cover questions at each level - easy, intermediate and ...
Customizing Splash Screen in Silverlight
Customizing Splash Screen (a screen that loads before the Silverlight application loads) requires some development effort in the host application (could be H...
ClientAccessPolicy Sample
Recently I have delivered a 4-day training session on Silverlight 4 and many participants asked for a sample ClientAccessPolicy.xml file. So this is for thos...
NotificationWindow in Silverlight (Out of Browser Apps)
Silverlight 4 brings another feature to desk - NotificationWindow. NotificationWindow is different from PopUp in following ways: NotificationWindow opens a...
Winds, Woods, Water and Clouds!
Winds, Woods, Water and Clouds! Two of my photographs of Thor Lake, Ahmedabad figure in thumbnails in – The Ahmedabad Mirror, The Times of India (TOI) - ht...
Right Click in Silverlight 4
Let's discuss yet another feature of Silverlight 4 - right click! This was most wanted feature and Microsoft has really blessed the Silverlight world by givi...
Fix: SQL Server Setup cannot install files to the compressed or encrypted folder
This error often pops up while installing SQL Server Express / Full edition on machine. Fix: Right Click the folder (say, C:Sql2005) in which you wish to in...
Printing in Silverlight 4
Another cool feature that Microsoft has included in Silverlight 4 is the ability to Print any UI Element to any printer and that too, without any complicated...
Certificate Signing in ClickOnce
Why do we need to sign the ClickOnce Deployment using a certificate? Signing the deployment is just another way to ensure that the local version agrees with ...
C# Collections we rarely use: Queue, Stack
There are several Collections supported by C# language, some of which we rarely use in our projects & assignments. Let's focus on two such collections - ...
Loading ResourceDictionary in Silverlight
ResourceDictionary in Silverlight consists of styles, pallates, and other static resources. These static resources - styles - can be bound to UIElements in t...