Our man Scott Guthrie has come up(actually a long time back) with the list of articles on Security. Check it out.

7/14/2006 4:19:50 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)    Comments [0] 

There are two new namespaces in .Net for handling/sending mails.

• System.Web.Mail 
• System.Net.Mail

You have to be using MailMessage and SmtpClient classes.

There are properties to set the mail server, pass user credentials for the SMTP server(thru NetworkCredential class).
You can also send email through SSL, send emails asynchronous, send emails with alternate views( text emails for email clients that block HTML email display), email with linked image resources

Please refer here for more information

7/14/2006 3:52:53 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)    Comments [0] 

I find it very funny how people non-native(is that the word) english speakers(sometimes native speakers too) get involved in an agitated english conversation. There are many instances where I have laughed at myself for pronouncing things the way no one else in the world has ever did. I can see Chris nodding his head. I take no offense at this(hope no one else does) and what's life without being able to laugh at yourself eh?

I can still remember, how i cracked up the gal sitting next to me in the flight on my first trip to Wisconsin, when she asked me to pronoucne some cities of Wisconsin. By the way what's up with these names(and why cannot I type short statements)

I came across one such thing, Take a look at this telephone prank. Kinda reminds me about similar prank calls we did when I was a kid...

7/10/2006 5:43:27 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)    Comments [0] 

Federer won his 4th consecutive Wimbledon. The so called "is the greatest ever" is finding tough these days from Nadal.  Men's tennis had been pretty lame for the last 2 years with no one posing any serious threat to Federer's dominance. Now, the Spaniard has arrived. The rivalry is pretty good for the game, something to look forward in the upcoming US open. By the way, what are the rest of the players doing?

News of the year would be Italy winning the World Cup[through penalty kicks]. Both teams were equally good and deserve to win. Zidane would have gone as a legend in the record books, if he had not have proved everyone that he does not deserve such a credit. I am not sure how he is gonna live rest of his life explaining why behaved like such an idiot. It is beyond regrettable.

With NBA season not until November, I think the curtains are down for this years sports.-for me.

7/10/2006 5:09:36 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)    Comments [0] 

I came across this top 10 strangest gadgets from Japan. Japanese as ever are interesting people from the legends of Samurais', Zen(Though Zen originated in India), Kaizen etc.

It makes it more inteteresting when I have a handful of friends living there.

6/26/2006 2:32:23 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)    Comments [0] 

WinFX becomes .Net 3.0. I am not sure if they are going to have all the LINQ features with this release.

The much hyped WinFS is DEAD?

6/26/2006 2:23:17 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)    Comments [0] 

Bill Gates has announced that he is going to gradually relinquish his position in Microsoft and become the Chairman + Part time employee by 2008. I have always admired him. He was rich but never pompous. It is great to see a man keeping up his words and joining forces to create a better world.

I landed on How BillG does his review meetings. It is a pretty goood write up take a look at it.

6/25/2006 3:12:46 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)    Comments [0] 

Scott Guthrie just seems relentless on posting information on Atlas and everything that is happening on .Net platform. Here is the list of resources he has compiled for ATLAS. I am very excited about it. Going forward, i guess Microsoft just wants to get away with Ajax.Net.

6/22/2006 4:02:36 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)    Comments [0] 

if you are interested in learning cool features of ASP.Net 2.0. Do not look further, How Do I?Video series. the videos are short and very understandable. Virtual Labs are cool too, if you want to have on hands experience

6/19/2006 3:32:19 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)    Comments [0] 

As input validation is gaining importance day by day, usage of Captcha is getting very prevalent. Here are some examples of CAPTCHA used in ASP.Net pages.

http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/CaptchaControl.asp

Usage of LoginControl with the above Captcha server control in .Net 2.0

Also, if you have a connection string ending with an apostraphe, check this out.

6/15/2006 4:27:44 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)    Comments [0] 

French Open is underway - expecting another Nadal Vs Federer showdown.
NBA Finals are On. Miami Vs Dallas, should be an interesting finals. I cant wait to see Wade come out of the shadows
of "The King" and Kobe and become "Da Man". Also, awaiting FIFA(the real football) worldcup to begin.

Office 2007 UI rocks.(period). I guess there might take a little time for adjustment to everyone to get used to it. but i think it would be worth it.

Web Parts, Atlas , AJAX, SQL 2005 Integration services all are cool, but need a alot of time to get to know. I am not sure which is gonna stand the test of time.

As with everything in life, it just looks stunning from a distance but the questions is do you want to get closer or pretend you dont care?

6/6/2006 3:55:43 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)    Comments [0] 

Couple of the issues i had faced recently

DataKeys sent automatically to storedprocedure

if you are using SQL Datasource in any of your data bindings, and if you are trying to do any db operations- the datakey field is automatically sent to the stored procedure you are using to do the db operations. this means, whether you want or not the  (first) parameter in your stored procedure should be your datakey.

This is pretty cool if you already knew this or pretty awful if you had to try to figure it out for atleast an hour.

SQLDatasource Controlparameter and the table Null Value problem

if you are basing your query on a user entry in a textbox, you might sometimes want to display all the records if there is no entry in the textbox.(if there is no validation). This simple things did give me and probably many more developers a tough time. What complicates the issue is there is an option to set the default value to be null, which does not seem to take care of the problem. Hannes Preishuber offers a neat solution.(thru Doug Reilly)

Also i found/experienced/heard about this weird sql2005 bug. SQL2005 server cannot be started/connected through remote desktop in a windows xp machine

6/6/2006 3:32:33 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)    Comments [0]