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Friday, July 03, 2009 6:31 PM

Visual Studio (2010?) Keyboard Shortcut Trick (ala Resharper F12 and Alt+Enter)

I used to code using Resharper previously and have gotten used to the F12 key to navigate to the next problem area / errors in my code and then pressing Alt+Enter to quickly fix the problem. This is very useful and speed up my coding time considerably...
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Thursday, April 23, 2009 2:33 PM

How to Display Huge Amount of Data in a Web Grid Quickly

A Little Background A client was asking me for a potential solution on how to display huge amount of data (say 10,000 records) in a web grid quickly. They have implemented similar solution using ASP.NET AJAX and were complaining about its performance...
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Sunday, September 21, 2008 11:51 PM

How to Make Yet Another Forum.Net to Work with Telligent Graffiti CMS

In a recent project that I was handling, there was a requirement to have a forum on top of an existing Graffiti CMS . Instead of building one from scratch I decided to look for an open source .NET forum engine alternative. That's when I ran into Yet...
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Sunday, September 21, 2008 11:48 PM

100% Customized Development Effort vs Customization of Available Solutions

Sometimes, and I am also guilty at this as well, we tend to want to develop a fully 100% customized solution from the very beginning, may it be an ASP.NET website or otherwise. After all, what fun is it in trying to customize someone else's code,...
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Sunday, September 21, 2008 11:46 PM

Debugging Adventure Fun Episode eerr... Whatever

I was recently asked to debug a legacy Access 97 (YES, Access 97, lol) database frontend application that is connecting to a SQL Server 7 (Yes, SQL Server 7, lol) backend (Like I said... it's legacy, what do you expect ^_^). To make things worse,...
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Friday, February 29, 2008 5:46 PM

Service Principal Name Headache

Yet another post to remind myself just in case I forgot... again. Troubleshooting Kerberos authentication is a pain. Rules of thumb: "Thou shalt not have more than one service account delegating for the same service to the same server at one one...
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Thursday, November 22, 2007 4:25 PM

Lesson Learnt: Building & Running Application as Non Admin

Wow, it's been awhile since I add an entry to this blog. Been busy at work. I was contacted by one of my friends a couple days back. "I have a problem, " he said. "I have a smart client application that is storing its settings in the...
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Wednesday, October 18, 2006 4:29 AM

XP Task Manager missing Title & Menu Bar

My task manager suddenly not showing any menu and title bar. Didn't know what I did to it, but it was irritating as hell. Googling around, found the article below on how to fix it. Hehe, that sure was fun http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid...
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Saturday, April 30, 2005 12:21 AM

Poor Man VS 2003 Tips & Tricks

Using Regular Expression to automate Properties, and Parameter List Creation Often when creating classes for my application I find myself repeatingly doing the tedious task of converting the class' private members into properties and also as parameter...
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