If you have used the newest member of Internet Explorer family, aka IE 9 (not anymore after release of IE 10 preview ). With this newer IE, Microsoft has finally created a browser which can comply with W3C standards. Having web developing as my hobby and profession I had faced really weird issues with IE
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More beautiful Visual Studio
If you have been working around Microsoft domain then you probably have been using Visual Studio. A really great development environment for all Microsoft platforms like .NET, Windows, Mobile, Silverlight, SharePoint etc.. But some people like myself (in other words folks who always gets attracted to shiny things ) feels that just plain white background
Watermarked textbox in Silverlight
If you have worked with ASP.NET then you probably already familiar with Watermark control, which is available as a part of Ajax Control toolkit on Codeplex. I think it is one of the greatest tool to have as a control because, it lets you set a text in textbox as a watermark. It gives a
PAE … is it enabled ??
Last week I was asked by my boss that how do we know that if production server has PAE enabled ?? Since we are using Windows Server 2003 x86 with about 16Gb Ram, we’ve always assumed that we have it enabled because in task manager we can find that OS actually “see” all 16Gb ram.
Simple Backup Solution for SQL Server Express
So last week I was asked by one of our developers, if I can help them in setting up some sort of automated backup system which actually takes backup of database to a shared network drive at given time and also we need to retain past X day’s (or 3 day’s) backup copy just in
Microsoft DreamSpark … supporting students
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
SSRS Execution Account and Password Change Policy
It is standard enterprise practice to make users to change their password at every 30 days or so. No doubt it is really a good practice but it can cause some funny issues if you have applied same password expiration policy to service accounts or to accounts which are basically used to perform some sort