I think when we are student, we always try to find ways to save money so we can spend more in weekends … but on the other end we are always required to be on edge with tools and technologies. Hence sometimes we end up paying for tools that we really need for study just
Author: Gaurang
First thing I would like to write is a question .... Why the hack people write their bio in 3rd person ?
I am Gaurang. I work as DBA / DEV for local company in CT. When I am not working, I am either reading other blogs n news OR "researching" / "experimenting" about things that I can do at home / at work OR tinkering with some new hardware/software OR playing games on my desktop.
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SQL Agent Error : Unable to start JobManager thread for job XXXX
This week, we had really really strange error in one of our production databases. We had few jobs running internally (SQL Agent) and externally (Windows Scheduler) for usual data fetching and feeding. But yesterday, we got notification from our watchdog application (which basically monitors our system/job status) start sending us alert messages that jobs are
Open one XAML page from another XAML page …
Recently, I was required to dig lot deeper into new Silverlight 4 because of my work. I’ve been playing with previous versions but it was not “that” serious engagement, as it was never part of my “job” … I was just doing it to satisfy my craving for new technologies. But now I am required
Hartford SharePoint Saturday …. after shock !!
Well, finally event is over and as I expected … I had got chance to attend few pretty interesting sessions, and some were really boring (not because of presenter but merely because of my lack of understanding of subject ) … They had six tracks of there were few really hard choices for me to
SharePoint Saturday @ Connecticut …
I am lucky to be resident of a state which has one of the most active Microsoft user groups … and these great guys frequently arrange super great seminars, presentations, camps and other events. I happen to participate in many of those events whenever possible. I think it is always a great idea to take
Sorting in GridView
Sorting is kind of very useful information if we want to quickly analyze bunch of data based on columns. And being one of most used control to display data in ASP.NET, GridView can implement easily with few more line of codes (who doesn’t love to write more … right ?? )… And in today’s post
Custom error pages in ASP.NET …
If you have designed even a single application, then you know that it is very difficult if not impossible to code an application that will not generate any sort of exceptions. No matter how hard a developer can try to cover all holes, users will always find way to crash your application and ASP.NET is