Friday, September 19, 2008

Microsoft Live Mesh

Have you seen Microsoft's latest Live product? Its named as Live Mesh.
Live mesh is all about seamlessly connecting to people, information, devices and programs that you care about from wherever you are.
Have a Live Mesh tour to get to know more about the product by using the following link.
Interested about it? Then you better visit the Live Mesh site.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

How to login to more than one Google Talk Session

Did you ever had the requirement to login to more than one Google accounts using Google Talk simultaneously?
I had since our office used Google accounts and I needed to be online in the official chat as well as in my personal account, and I found a way how to do it. So I thouoght it is better to share it with you.
This can be achieved by simply passing a parameter while initiating Google Talk (GTalk).

1. If you don't have a shortcut for GTalk create one by actions such as right clicking and clicking on Send To -> Desktop (create shortcut).
2. Right click on top of the created shortcut and click on Properties.
3. Type /nomutex after the googletalk.exe path in the Target field as shown below.
4. Press Ok to save the change.
5. Now start GTalk by double clicking on top of the shortcut. Now you will be able to open up many GTalk sessions and login to different accounts simultaneously.

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Windows Server 2008

 
The next version of Windows Server is here. Windows Server 2008. Check what it offers for you. By visiting Microsoft.
You can even download a trial from Microsoft.

Monday, August 11, 2008

HTML Meta Tags

Do you know what can be done with HTML Meta tags?
If not then you will also struggle when trying to do a page refresh or a redirect.
To get more details on how to please refer the following web site.
http://webdesign.about.com/od/metataglibraries/a/aa080300a.htm

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Implementing a File Download in ASP.NET

Recently I gave some help to a colleague of mine implementing a file download. So I thought of sharing it with you.
If you need to make a web site user to download a file from your site you have to use HTTPResponse.Page.Response object. By using this you will be able to make the user download numerous kinds of files to their machines. The code required is as follows.

// This defines the type of the file that you are allowing to download.
Response.ContentType = "application/vnd.ms-excel";
// Path to the file to be downloaded.
string FilePath = MapPath("Xcel.xlsx");
// Initiating the file download.
Response.WriteFile(FilePath);
Response.End();

The above code will let the user download an Excel file named Xcel. Aprt from Excel you can use other file types as well by changin the Response.ContentType to the required file type.
A list of available content types are as follows.

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

SQL Server Native Client Cannot be Found

Recently when I try to install SQL Server 2005 I got the following error saying that Microsoft SQL Server Native Client cannot be found. A screen shot of the error is as follows.This error is due if the SQL Server Native Client is already installed using a different edition of SQL Server.
The resolution for this is to uninstall all the SQL related stuff (specially SQL Native Client) which are installed in the computer and try the SQL installation again after doing a system restart.

Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Creating a Crossover Cable

A crossover cable is a special cable we use when we needs to connect two computers together directly. But the thing is when creating the crossover cable you have to create it properly. As of the name suggests we have to cross some cables when clipping the network cable.

The following image will show how to do the cross.

If you have additional time you can visit the following site which is a good site explaining different color code standards.
http://www.patraswireless.net/tutorial/basic%20tutorial/tut-equipemt/cable_utp.htm

If you already have an existing network cable and if you would like to make it a crossover cable, the following site will be useful since there you can change the wires (by changing the color drop down controls) as it is clipped in one end and can find out the way the other end needs to be clipped.

http://www.davidj.org/tools/cabler/cabler.html