Hi All!! I am moved

Hi All:

I am moved to my new spacious home http://it.ksaw.me

Yes IT is ksawme

See you all there


Regards,
Swami K

jQuery – a real Write Less, Do More javascript library

For the past couple of months, we have started implementing jQuery in our projects and boy…. we all became a fan of it.

It really makes our life easier. Their tag line is

jQuery The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library

which is very much true

Lot of things for which we used to write lines and lines of code in JavaScript can be done in jQuery in just couple of lines and very easily..

Trust me… I mean it…

If you still don’t believe it, click here

Believe that what you are seeing now has been done in jQuery in just few lines!!!

Watch out for this space as I am going to publish How to jQuery in coming days…

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 shipped !!!

For all Visual Studio fans, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 has been shipped!!!

• Head onto http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx for more info
• Goto http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd441784.aspx for walk through

If you are kind of a guy who says

ok thanks… but I just need the download info…

Well..here it is

Visual Studio 2010 Professional Beta 1

Visual Studio Team System 2010 Team Suite Beta 1

Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 1

Happy .NETing…

Tweet# – awesome C# wrapper for Twitter API

Most of us already are aware of the power of Twitter, an awesome social networking service.

For our projects, I have been looking out for C# wrapper for the Twitter API which led me to Tweet# developed by Daniel Crenna of Dimebrain

Tweet# is a feature-complete library for the Twitter API. Use this library in your client applications to enable a simple, discoverable fluent interface for building Twitter queries, as well as additional features like asynchronous processing, server-side caching, url shortening, and rate throttling.

Just downloaded it and within minutes of trying out the library, I became fan of this library.

You can download the API library here

Update

Go here to download for latest API library. Thanks for the update Daniel :)

At this moment, documentation & code sample for this library is limited.

I have planned to write some code samples on using the Tweet# library in the coming days.

Stay tuned…

Go Twittering & .NET’ing….. :)

Crystal Reports Merge Modules for Visual Studio 2008

Are you one among the web developers wondering why the Crystal Reports in your asp.net website works well in dev environment but having lot of issues when deployed in Live environment…

I faced the same issue couples of years back and at last found out that Crystal Report merge modules aka runtimes should be installed in the live server. And the worst thing is..you cannot find these runtimes in you dev machine..

Then where can I find it???

I had the same question two years back and ended up asking Business object support where a CS representative gave me the access details of it..

Please give me the link..you may ask

Sorry..it won’t be useful..as that link will return ‘404 Page Not found’ now..Business object keeps on moving this Merge Module link quite frequently to make sure we always run around the corners searching for it :(

Enough talk..tell me where it is now…

Well..it is here

And please make sure…you download it as soon as possible as there is a possibility that this page also might return ‘404 Page Not found’ any time in the near future :(

Visual Studio 2008 Keyboard shortcut posters

Today I googled to find out if there are any shortcut tables available for Visual Studio 2008. Surprisingly, Microsoft itself have released the shortcuts as posters..

Here they are..

You can download Visual C# 2008 Keyboard Shortcut Reference Poster here

You can download Visual Basic 2008 Keyboard Shortcut Reference Poster here

What about Visual Studio 2005 users???

I know you will ask that question :-)

Here they are

You can download Visual C# 2005 Keyboard Shortcut Reference Poster here

You can download Visual Basic 2005 Keyboard Shortcut Reference Poster here

Update on Feb 7, 2009

Some of the readers asked on how the poster look like. We have pasted the poster on our Engg IT deparment and here is how beautifully it looks :)

Happy shortcutting!!!! & of course go .NETing :-)

How to use MS Build to compile websites – for beginners

Most of .NET developers are interested in compiling applications using MS Build. But disappointingly, there are no such good pointers/references available in the web which talks about step by step instructions for beginners on how to use MS Build to compile websites

Then I came across an interesting video tutorial over here where Chris Pels just demonstrates on how to use MS Build to compile websites. Video is so simple to follow and give us step by step idea on how to go about it.

Alternatively you can download video here and C# source, VB.NET source here

Try it out and Go .NET-ing :)