Microsoft has made available a CTP version of VS 2010. This version features .net framework 4.0 (C# 4.0, etc.) Link -> https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/content/content.aspx?ContentID=9790
Monthly Archives: October 2008
Microsoft’s new Cloud Computing Platform: Azure
“Cloud Computing”, a buzzword we’ve been hearing for some time, in a world, where everything and anything is served as a service, cloud serves as the endpoint where we need to connect to! Latest news related to this is unveiling of Microsoft’s new Azure Cloud Services Platform. I am sure that in the coming days, we will all be reading a lot about Azure, and trying to figure out where it fits into our life …
Using Popup Extender – Some tips
Popup extender is a very useful control included in AJAX Control tool kit. You can find many articles and blogs if you search internet for this. You can download toolkit from here. and you can see controls in action live from here. Here is some of my observations: When you use Popup Extender, if there is any dropdown list controls in your parent page, when popup is displayes, extender will automatically make the dropdowns invisible. …
Using JSON – Some observations
When using JSON with Web Services (classic web service or WCF service), you might get an error “JSON JavaScriptSerializer. The length of the string exceeds the value set on the maxJsonLength property.” when your json string is too big. If you are using JavaScriptSerializer class to serilaize your object, then there is a property ser.MaxJsonLength that you can set to allow for more size. But somehow, I still got the error, and I had to …
Cohesion and Coupling
Any software engineering book you read, there is atleast some notes on how to write code with high cohesion and low coupling. Lot of developers I see, knows in theory what is this, but fails to practise it when they coding. Current issue of MSDN mag has a good article on this topic. Its a good read. Here is the link

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