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During development, its quite common to find out that SQL Server has eaten up all your RAM and other processes also keep ballooning. I tried simplest workaround for that and it worked well. Just write a couple of batch files to stop the services. You add/remove services as per your liking. Here is an example file that I sometime use when I am working on Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio or have to run Virtual Machine (VM) or when I am not in the “coding mode”: File1: StopServicesToRunVM.bat net stop "SQL Full-text Filter Daemon Launcher (MSSQLSERVER)" net stop "SQL Server (MSSQLSERVER)" net stop "SQL Server Agent (MSSQLSERVER)" net stop "SQL Server Analysis Services (MSSQLSERVER)" net stop "SQL Server Browser" net stop "SQL Server Integration Services 10.0" net stop "SQL Server Reporting Services (MSSQLSERVER)" net stop "SQL Server VSS Writer" net stop "SharePoint 2010 Adm...

Here are some Microsoft’s SharePoint 2010 Hands-on Labs to get started with the development. Very useful! Microsoft has worked really well to produce quality content to explain its products to all sorts of users. As more and more organizations have already adopted previous versions of SharePoint, there is plenty for content already published related to SharePoint 2010 for those who are jumping in now.

Microsoft took first step way ahead when it launched ASP.NET 1.1 after “Classic ASP”. Then moved back by providing ASP.NET MVC flavor and now WebMatrix is another step forward to speed up the web development. It is a nice step to reduce costs of projects. I expect WebMatrix to have the most project templates as compared to templates for other flavors of ASP.NET. What is WebMatrix?* WebMatrix is everything you need to build Web sites using Windows. It includes IIS Express (a development Web server), ASP.NET (a Web framework), and SQL Server Compact (an embedded database). It streamlines Web site development and makes it easy to start Web sites from popular open-source apps. The skills and code you develop with WebMatrix transition seamlessly to Visual Studio and SQL Server. Who is it for?* WebMatrix is for developers, students, or just about anyone who just wants a small and simple way to build Web sites. Start coding, testing, and deploying your own Web sites without having ...

Uploaded here is a nice and small book on WCF to get quick understanding of its architecture. http://en.csharp-online.net/WCF_Essentials%E2%80%94What_Is_WCF%3F

I am assuming that you already have WSS/MOSS installed on your system and you are using Visual Studio 2008. 1. Download and install VSeWSS (Visual Studio Extensions for WSS) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=B2C0B628-5CAB-48C1-8CAE-C34C1CCBDC0A&displaylang=en 2. Create new project and select SharePoint group on the left. Then select Empty from the templates (make sure SharePoint group of template is selected). Name the project "MyTest". (that means, this is also going be your assembly name). Select "Partial Trust" when it asks. 3. Add new class, say "MyNewHandler". 4. Inherit the new class from "System.Web.IHttpHandler". 5. Right click on the "System.Web.IHttpHandler" and click "Implement". 6. Modify your code to look like the following: public bool IsReusable { get { return false; } } public void ProcessRequest(HttpContext context) { context.Response.Writ...

Take a look at the SharePoint 2010 features! http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/default.aspx

Couldn’t find it easy to login every time on my blog and write an entry. On my laptop with Windows Vista, I never tried Windows Live Writer to create blogs quickly and easily until my colleague told me its usefulness. Now I will be able to write more regularly on what I have been doing in past few months and doing these days.