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5 Quick Steps to Get Introduced with VSTS and TFS 2010 Beta 1

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:15:00 GMT

As the Beta 1 releases is pretty infant, there are very limited resources available in the web and community, so I just wanted to gather all of the useful resources with respect to these two tool in one places, so that anyone can move forward from installation to first "Hello VSTS/TFS" excitement smoothly.

Perform batch inserts in sql server 2005 using XML

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:16:05 GMT

My current project requires me to download huge amounts of data from a remote server in the form of XML and save them to our local database. Lets see if we can do this using just one simple T-SQL stored procedure.

Agile Software Development: More About Human Ideology, Rather Machine

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:01:15 GMT

To be benefited from Agile concept, developers and managers needs to take it as an ideology, rather considering it as technology. The very basic concept is, keep it simple, provide the working samples in iterative manner, work with trust and discover the future risk factors by discussing with team members (not just spending hundreds of hours to read and write documentation's!). Why Agile projects are successful? This encourages HUMAN effort and motivation, not on machines! And it's been absolutely proven is HUMAN is the most powerful process in the universe!

Debate: Do We Really Need Three Layer Architecture?

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:46:09 GMT

How many of you changed your database vendor (i.e. Sql Server, Access) after developing an application? How many of your data entities include business logic? I could say, less than 10% in both cases for my case. I found the similar statistics for my other known developers. I guess this is true for less that 10% of the developers around the world.

How to convince developers and management to use automated unit test f

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:01:51 GMT

Introducing automated unit testing in the middle of your product development is hard, especially when you have a live product without thousands of features and being sold to customers. It's incredibly hard to take some break in development and invest the time in building automated unit test where everyone is so forced to build new features only. This article tells you about some ways to convince Developers and then senior Management to take the time to write automated unit tests for a better future.

Best practices for creating websites in IIS 6

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:46:02 GMT

A list of steps that I always take while creating ASP.NET websites in IIS 6. It ensures better performance maintainability, and scalability of your application.

.NET Application Modeling Language (nAML) Specification and Tools

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:31:03 GMT

Understanding the architecture and code in software application plays as major factors while building good software products. This free e-book introduces a new visual modeling technique, termed as "nAML" (.NET Application Modeling Language) which overcomes the limitation of typical modeling languages by providing revolutionary way! Nothing much to say, just download it and you can get to know how POWERFUL it is!

10 Tools Which I Still Use, Even I Have VSTS 2008

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:31:11 GMT

In my last post, titled "10 Tools Which I Left After Using VSTS 2008", I have included a list of 10 tools which I am not using currently, as I have the corresponding features available in Visual Studio Team System 2008. However, on the other hand, I am still using few tools even I have VSTS 2008!

10 Tools Which I Left After Using VSTS 2008

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:01:08 GMT

I have started using Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) 2008, recently. Previously I worked with Visual Studio 2005. As a matter of fact I had to use lots of external tools to perform and speedup my development process. However, while working with VSTS 2008, it's very exciting for me that, I found replacements for most of the external tools there. Here are 10 tools which I left after using VSTS 2008.

Performing Long Running Operation with Async Page in ASP.NET 2.0

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:01:03 GMT

Before the asp.net 2.0 ages, creating an asynchronous model was very complex and time consuming along with several over-heads. ASP.NET 2.0 comes with a new nice feature, where we can declare and use a page easily in asynchronous style. Besides the easy implementation model, ASP.NET asynchronous page utilizes ASP.NET threads efficiently.

Object Oriented Tagging : Adding Power to Web 2.0 Tags!

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 01:31:02 GMT

An object oriented approach to add power in 'tags' of web contents.