Interesting tech stuff I come across day-to-day. Mainly around Biztalk and .NET 3.0

IntelliSense for SQL Queries on Query Analyser, VS 2003, SQL 2005 Management Studio + few more

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

One of the feature I anticipated in SQL 2005 management studio was some kind of Intellisense when you type the queries. But, surprisingly there was no support for it.

Red Gate software came with a very cleaner solution, a single application which supports SQL intellisense on QueryAnalyser, Enterprise manager, Management Studio, VS 2003, VS 2005, UltraEdit and Editplus2.

My favorite feature is SQL Snippet, similar to VS 2005 code snippet concept. Just type
“SSF” on the query analyser, which translates to “SELECT * FROM “ awesome. You can add your own snippets, this will definitely make life easier for some developers/DBA's.

Labels:



CodePlex is online now.

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

We all know the problems we had with gotdotnet and people tend to move their open source projects to SourceForge. Here is the reply from Microsoft towards open source community CodePlex.

As I mentioned in my previous post Microsoft launched a new portal to know about the people, insights, and analysis from the Microsoft Open Source Software Lab.

It clearly shows Microsoft positive approach towards open source community, big applause for the guys over there who made it happen.

I already contacted James Newkirk to bring my SQL Service Broker Management studio 2005 project into open source community, since CodePlex is in BETA now, you cannot add projects directly.

Labels:



Port 25, Microsofts Open Source Division

Monday, May 15, 2006

Microsoft opened a new blog site port25.technet.com to bring the people, insights, and analysis from the Microsoft Open Source Software Lab.

Labels:



Web site updated

Sunday, January 15, 2006

Since my current contract is comming to an end in 2 months time, I thought it's a good Opportunity to update my web site as well my CV and with my current availability status.

Labels:



Fabulous PDC Infrastructure

Monday, September 26, 2005

I was quite amazed by the infrastructure provided to PDC Attendees. When I saw the email from CSDeveloper competition chair saying my DVD is corrupted and asking me to send it by email or another copy of DVD, I was in panic attack, that's my 5 months hard work utilizing all my weekends and if I can't submit it by next day, my entry is going to be invalid.

All I had is my laptop with all the files (around 20MB), funny bit is I left my power adapter in the hotel thinking I have enough power to check my email whole day.

Ok, now I need to do something drastic to get the files there, I borrowed a Dell power supply from a MS employee (didn't even notice his name!!), when I plugged my laptop into the adpater it came with a warning saying incompatible power input, one of my ex-collegue(Paul watson) said, its quite normal, so I just continued working.

I downloaded WS-FTP trial version (around 10mb)
Installed it, and started uploading my files to my file server (around 20 mb)
In the mean time I wrote 5 split emails(each containing part of the solution) and manage to replicate it.

I had a blank DVD in my bag, managed to copy all the files into it, tested it on Paul's laptop, went to business services desk in the LA convention centre and send it through FedEx overnight post.

So, I managed to send around 50mb of data and all the DVD activites within 30 minutes, I was really amazed.

Now, fingers crossed. Will wait and see where I'll be!!

Its all good fun.

Labels:



Cool Visual Studio Editor hack

Friday, July 29, 2005

Visual Studio Editor Code Guidelines
Guidelines are visible column indicators for the Vistual Studio 2003/2005 Editor.

In the registry, under '[HKEY_CURRENT_USER]\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\7.1\Text Editor' (replace 7.1 by 8.0 for VS2005), create the following String Value (REG_SZ):

RGB(255,255,255) 4,8,12,16,20,24,28

Where RGB(255,255,255) indicates the color
and 4,8,12,16,24,28 are the positions (you can have up to 13).

Labels: ,



Back again

Hello all, I haven't written anything for a long time now, bit busy with CS Developer competition project. I booked my PDC 05 tickets, its bit of a pain nobody to sponsor you :-) never mind.

Labels:



My Blog moved to new location

Saturday, April 16, 2005

Hello All,
Thinking in a long term perspective, I've decided to move my blog to my own domain. So, in the future it gives me more flexibility to add more stuff.

Have done the job this weekend. Please update your subscription url to

http://www.digitaldeposit.net/blog

Cheers.

Labels:



Windows 2003/XP Laptop /LCD screen users

Saturday, April 02, 2005

Have you heard of ClearType?

ClearType is a font smoothing technology build on XP/2003. I been using Windows 2003 for a while now in my laptop, but haven't used this feature till I came across a post by accident when I was looking for some Biztalk Resources.

Follow this simple steps and I'm sure you'll be so delighted to see your screen after this.

Right click on the desktop and go to Properties
Click the Appearance tab
Click the Effects button
Select ClearType in the drop down list associated with "Use the following method to smooth ..."
Click Apply or OK

Enjoying using your screen now :)

Labels:



C:\>whoami

Wednesday, March 09, 2005

DigitalDepositLtd\Saravana.Kumar

I'm Saravana (hard core Microsoft Guy!!). To keep it simple serious lover of .NET/Biztalk, worked with the products for a long time now. Lucky enough to get into some of the exiciting projects.

My project experience includes working with Microsoft, Accenture, BT Syntegra, MarchFirst, Unilog, Thales, Axa, Inchcape and few more

Some of my career highlights:
MCAD Charter Member ( One among the first 50 to clear in UK in 2002).
Written some articles for Wrox (now Apress) during the beginning days of .NET (alpha/beta). http://www.asptoday.com/Authors.aspx?ID=553

There are quite few great guys around in this area. Let me try to add something, I come across in day to day learning.

Labels: