URL rewriting is a process of shortening URL of web pages and making them more user friendly. If you have been working with MVC then you probably already know what I am talking about. But what to do if your application is plain old Web application? Having user friendly URL really simplifies things for end
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.
If you ever wanted to contact me, I can be reached by meATgaurangpatel.net
Finally I got Beans !!!
With so much of hype, I was eagerly waiting for my chance to try latest Android OS on my phone. I must say it was one of the main reason I bought the Galaxy Nexus from Google … to have pure Google experience and always have support for latest OS release. Just now I got
Page level recovery in SQL Server 2012
Database corruption can be difficult to detect and sometimes it is very possible that you might not even notice it until you run DBCC command on your database to check logical and physical consistency of that database. It is very common practice to run DBCC CHECKDB without any additional options at regular intervals to make
Creating custom “Prerequisites” for installation
If you have ever installed any software in your machine, you know what I am talking about. A textbook meaning of Prerequisite is “A thing required as a prior condition for something else to happen” It case of software it usually means that to run some piece of software it need to have something else
Installation Project in Visual Studio … Installer 101
During past couple of weeks I was greatly involved in process of creating MSIs for our new products. The ultimate goal was (still is) to improve overall installation experience of customers. During this time I mainly tinkered with one the project type in VS which I had never ever used before, that was “Visual Studio
Sample data in WordPress … and beginning of new quest
Recently, I got interested in WordPress theme designing. Actually I’ve been using WordPress now over 2 years and I’ve always wanted to create my own theme for my blog. Honestly I don’t have what they call … a designer’s eye … but still I wanted to try. I have been exposed from web designing using
Setting up Email Subscriptions in SSRS
One of many things that I liked very much for SSRS over Crystal Reports is “Report Subscription”. At work we use Crystal Reports as our primary reporting system. And to provide scheduled report deliveries via email we have designed our own little .NET application that allows users to create schedule and manage automated report deliveries