Category Archives: Tip

Code Review will get a lot easier.

Posted on October 15, 2012 by Tushar Agarwal

If you are working on good development project with a team which you would like to support and maintain over a long period of time then code review is utmost important. No matter how good is your team, code review … Continue reading →

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Developing Metro apps for Windows 8

Posted on September 25, 2011 by Tushar Agarwal

Probably most of you would have seen the preview of Windows 8 – either at BUILD conference or online. For developers it’s time to start looking into what it takes to start developing Windows 8 applications. The apps would be … Continue reading →

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Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Released

Posted on February 23, 2011 by shekhar

  Microsoft released the first official service pack for Windows 7 today. This is an important update that includes previously released security, performance, and stability updates for Windows 7. SP1 also includes new improvements to features and services in Windows … Continue reading →

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Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Released

Posted on December 15, 2010 by shekhar

It would be a partial relief for thousands of developers who have been experiencing problems with Visual Studio 2010. The Visual Studio 2010 SP1 has been released for public now. The reason I am saying that it is a partial … Continue reading →

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Microsoft to Show Off Windows 7 Slider Tablet at CES

Posted on December 15, 2010 by shekhar

Steve Ballmer, Mircosoft’s CEO, will be demonstrating tablet PC running Windows 7. The New York Times reported this in a blog post. The Times didn’t name its source, but the person described the Samsung slate device as “similar in size … Continue reading →

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jQuery – Huge size of calendar widget

Posted on December 14, 2010 by shekhar

Most of you must be aware of jQuery – a Javascript framework. jQuery has an plugin for the UIs – jQueryUI. When you see the Demos on jQueryUI.com the calendar looks so elelgant and right sized. But when you download … Continue reading →

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SQL Server – Denali – The next version of SQL Server

Posted on December 13, 2010 by shekhar

Microsoft has recently announced the next version of SQL Server 2011. The code name for the product is ‘Denali‘ . The CTP1 for Denali is available for the download here. With SQL Server code-named ‘Denali’ customers will benefit from the … Continue reading →

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SQL Server – Getting Today’s Date only

Posted on December 11, 2010 by shekhar

It is quite common that you want to extract todays’ date component only in sql. The most obvious approach to do is use GETDATE(). This returns today’s date and time. To just get the date component use this select CONVERT(datetime, … Continue reading →

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