tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35084635270999627952011-07-28T18:41:24.884+05:30My contribution to software developers network by providing some useful tips & tricks. Articles here are based on my experience and difficulties I came across and found solutions to while developing high-end web solutions.Parag Nairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598839664520986742noreply@blogger.comBlogger51100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3508463527099962795.post-78117799493149939712010-02-07T23:47:00.010+05:302010-03-05T01:51:36.071+05:30

I recently started looking at LINQ on .Net 3.5 and came across the concept of Lambda expressions and realized they are the perfect replacement to anonymous methods we used in .Net 2.0 Scenario: Lets assume we have a room where there is some kind of celebration going on and we want to give some special gifts to all the senior citizens who have attended this celebration. So we add a list of people

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Ever come across this error while trying to import data into SQL Server 2005 from Excel? "Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code page.". (SQL Server Import and Export Wizard) I came across this and googled with no luck. I realized I had faced this same situation some time earlier and my rescue was MS Access. It seems MS Excel is more friendlier to MS

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You work from 9 am to 6 pm and around 4 someone comes up to you and says "We got a problem. We need the backup of all 50 databases on our server and I want you to do that before you leave for the day." What is your reaction to that? And guess what, you are not even a Database Administrator. All you know is this: Open SQL Server Management Studio. Connect to a Database Engine. Right click on the

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So ever tried to setup visual studio 2005 on a new machine and all you want to do is just debug a application in IIS? I recently attemped doing this and got the friendly error message: unable to start debugging on web server. the web server is not configured correctly vs2005 Does not help does it? The message too generic and the thing(s) that caused it unknown So after googling for over 3 hrs

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How many times have you spend hours to fix a bug (technical jargon) and you know that it is something small you have missed that's causing this to fail only to realise later that it was some small thing you missed. Well, now that you have the solution for the small error you made, can you remember it for a later time? say an year or maybe even few months. Its not always that you remember the

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