Recently, In one of the mailing list I came across a question that is very commonly asked by many enterprise customers: Now that we have SharePoint deployed, How do I train my users?  These users can be Business end users, Helpdesk staff, IT teams etc.   Here are the three links... [More]

I had been looking for a light weight charting library that I could use with my ASP.NET application for a while now. There are a number of charting libraries with jQuery but I found the jQuery wrapper for Google Charts by Massimiliano Balestrieri to be efficient and simple to use.   In this t... [More]

I believe LINQ is a very nice advancement in creating database oriented applications as it allows us to separate application logic from the database. I have been using LINQ to SQL in my recent reporting application and have used various queries with ease.   With the power of Anonymous Types,... [More]

In one of my recent project, I had to retrieve Minimum and Maximum date from the result set using LINQ to SQL. I was really surprised how easy it was: //Retrieve Minimum Date var MinDate = (from d in dataRows select d.Date).Min(); //Retrieve Maximum Date var MaxDate = (from d in dataRows selec... [More]

Introducing BlackNewspaper a free BlogEngine.NET theme. This theme is a modified version of an existing theme called Newspaper v1.1 by jankoatwrapspeed.com.   BlackNewspaper theme is a simple White on Black theme with cleaner boundaries and gray sidebar text to give more emphasis to the... [More]

I recently bought an Acer One Netbook which comes with Windows XP preloaded. Since these Netbooks come without built in DVD drives, upgrading to another OS is a challenge. With the high storage capacity USB drives becoming cheaper by the day it is a perfect medium to installing Windows.  Althou... [More]

The Big Bang Theory is a US comedy TV series that circles around the geekiness of two physicist Leonard and Sheldon. About the Show Leonard and Sheldon are brilliant physicists, the kind of "beautiful minds" that understand how the universe works. But none of that genius helps them... [More]

It has been possible to update your Facebook Status from Twitter using the official twitter application on Facebook. But if you don’t want your friends to go crazy and comment on every tweet you publish, there is another Facebook application – Selective Twitter.   Here is what you do in 4 ea... [More]

Recently I had to re-format my work laptop and I decided to fix one of the most annoying thing that I dealt with everyday but I was too lazy to research.   My company has a group policy setup for UAC. We need to have it enabled at all times but the pain of entering the username (domain\usern... [More]

Following my series of retrieving HTML from SharePoint - I had to recently retrieve the HTML from the Blog post in SharePoint.   One again - it is pretty straight forward but as the Blogs are a different site compared to SharePoint MySite - you will need to develop a feature at a Site Collecti... [More]