I like to work with scripting languages be it PowerShell or Batch or VB… One of the reasons for liking is it gives me “false sense” of Linux environment … But the main reason I like scripting because I am lazy by nature and scripts are great way to automate lot of things which are
Parameter caching in SSRS
This week I ran into strange issue. Out of no where my Who Is report stopped working. To be exact, InfoDB API stopped working ! With little digging I found that it needs to have format=xml not XML !! For some reasons InfoDB guys just decided that it has to be in lower case, but
Endless road :)
Few weeks back I went to North Dakota at one customer site, that town was literally in middle of nowhere. And roads were just flat straight line. Being long time resident of CT, I find it difficult to drive when I have to drive in one straight line for 70-80 miles
Traveling to customers …
Past few weeks have been super busy for me, and I have not got enough time to do any “experiment” or prepare better post. So think of this as a “filler” post … Due to change in my role in our company, I had to do traveling on different customer locations for installation projects and
Prototyping using Expression Blend, Sketchflow – Part I
Prototyping in terms of software development can be seen as a process of modeling concept of a software with some interaction. In some cases it could be totally different than final product but in general it is really helpful process because it gives developers / product owners better idea about what to expect from product
Export–Import Windows Firewall Setting using PowerShell
Something I really hate is to do same thing again and again manually … and so I always try to automate that task using scripting … weather it is simple Batch Script … VB Script … Bash .. or my new favorite PowerShell . What I really like about PowerShell is, it exposes whole .NET
Send emails using Database Mail … from SQL Server
Back in Pre SQL Server 2005 editions of SQL Server there was nice feature called SQL Mail which basically allowed users to send email from within database server. But that system has many dependencies and major one was requirement of Microsoft Exchange… thus usage was severely limited to enterprise customers who has resources to setup