On IIS 7 if you have the report not rendering correctly like

but the same application renders the report perfectly in the development version this may be one of the issue. You may check this link and get the issue solved.

Microsoft giant Mr. Bill Gates is here in India to celebrate the 5th anniversary of MICROSOFT RESEARCH INDIA. Mr. Bill Gates will also attend an event on "Research and Innovation - The Keys to India's Future" today.

Mr. Bill Gates will also be accepting the Indira gandhi prize for peace and disarmament on behalf  Bill and Melinda gates foundation.

The whole event can be viewed over here.

CodePlex now has a open source that can help C#.Net developers to Zip files and folders without using 3rd party tools or dll's. It is free of cost. Documentation for the library can be viewed here.

Following are what DotNetZip says that we can accomplish with their dll.

1. an ASP.NET app that dynamically creates ZIP files and allows a browser to download them
2. a Windows Service that periodically zips up a directory for backup and archival purposes
3. a WPF program that modifies an existing archive - renaming entries, removing entries from an archive, or adding new entries to an archive
4. a Windows Forms app that creates AES-encrypted zip archives for privacy of archived content.
   An administrative script in PowerShell or VBScript that performs backup and archival.
   a WCF service that receives a zip file as an attachment, and dynamically unpacks the zip to a stream for analysis
5. creating zip files from stream content, saving to a stream, extracting to a stream, reading from a stream
6. creation of self-extracting archives.

All this can be achieved using a free dll that the open source provides. And if you want to customize the control, you can go ahead and do it.

Example code on how to use this library is available here.

I was facing an issue in referencing a JS file in Master pages. Here is an solution if you are facing an issue.

Wow, Microsoft product demos and session on the second day.

The second agenda is as follows,

Some of the new features to talk about in the various new products are

1. Windows workflow foundation
   • Domain that they support
     • CRM
     • Sharepoint
     • Speech server
     • IT mgmt tools
2. Faulting and compensations
3. Rich design time experience when working with database
4. Cloud computing
   • Windows Azure - the new Cloud OS
   • Support for
     • .Net
     • SQL server
     • MS office
     • ...
5. unlimited storage for web sites - better scalability in 7 (SEVEN) or less minutes
6. SQL Server 2008
   • CLR support for stored procedures (C# / VB / C++)
   • Store images
   • Sparse columns
   • file streams
   • Filtered index
   • Spatial data
   • Hierarchal data
7. Exchange server 2010
   • Outlook live (renamed from Web outlook access)
     • Create user on AD from outlook live in minutes
   • Client access
   • database changes
   • server roles
8. Windows server 2008 R2
   • IIS 7.5
   • Virtualization
   • Solid foundation for enterprise workload
   • Hot add CPU
   • Active directory services with recycle bin support
   • better control on Windows 7 clients
9. Virtualization
   • Inter operability
   • better management
   • application control
   • better infrastructure with minimal expenditure
   • HyperVisor or code name Hyper-V (the new base of foundation for better Virtualization settings.

Presentars from various companies and groups who were the pillar for and the main reason for the success and the rich information content of the sessions. ( Including the volunteers after a tiring hard work to make the session a success)

A part of the audience (though not clear, some camera issues :( )

My first day session details is here and some photos here

A great day ahead with more advanced topics to be covered.

The stage is set and ready waiting for the session to start.

More @ the lunch session

I was part of the TechEd event that happened on June 20th organized by bdotnet.in in Bangalore J.P Nagar, R V Dental college.

The Event agenda was as follows

• Windows session covered some items like improved RAC controls and other wonderfull feature of Windows 7 (version of 6.1)
• ASP.Net session by Chaitra, Intel was wonderful which was an eye opener on the various new features like
• Asp.Net
• Ajax
• WCF
• dynamic controls
• BizTalk session by Kashi was about challenges that will be faced during integration.
• BizTalk server and WCF integration was a wonderful session by Meena from SymIndia. (Though a session after lunch time, I guess nobody would have dozed off :). That kind of interesting and informative session).
• Silverlight session from Vic was a eye-opener on the new features of the latest version (i.e Silverlight 3)

On the closing note and to go by the proverb LAST BUT NOT LEAST style, management session by Sanath (not Sanath Jayasuriya :)  ) from SymIndia was an hair rising session. Though the name tells management session, it was not a management session in my perspective. It was a personal development session or a confidence booster session.

One information from the session is about Nick Vujicic, a person WITHOUT arms or legs and who came successful in life. You can visit his site. A Video on Nick in YouTube here.

Interested people can subscribe to the group at this site.

Waiting eagerly for the next session on June  21st.

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Talking about Worm infecting MS Windows may fool on April 1 - National News – News – MSN India - News
Conficker, a new breed of self-updating PC worms that has infiltrated nearly every Windows 2000 and XP machines, has largely affected users in countries like China, Brazil, Russia, and India which also have some of the highest numbers of pirated copies of Windows in the world. Almost 607,172 IPs (internet addresses) in India and overall 10 million IPs have been affected by Conficker, according to estimates made by researchers at SRI International.

The brain behind this device is the 28-year-old Indian-born Pranav Mistry, a researcher at the Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

The "Sixth Sense" device (patented by MIT) comprises a pocket projector, mirror and web camera bundled in a wearable pendant-like mobile. The projector can turn anything into a touch screen. The webcam (and colour-coded finger-gloves worn on the index finger and thumb) can recognise the movements of a user's hands, which enables gesture-commands.

Every individual, every client, every project and every company has its / his / her own style of coding standards. I have a style of commenting code when I create a aspx file, like when it was created / modified, who create / modified and why. With this in practice sometimes it was tough to copy and paste format and content from any of the old files.

Normal aspx.cs format that VS would add.

My desired format of aspx.cs when I add a file.

I tried various methods for this.

I added my content in to the template that VS uses when creating any new items like aspx, aspx.cs,.cs.... files and there it goes. Whenever I add a file I get the default format that I want.

Location where you can find this templates in your system are

• if it is an web application project, then make the changes in this folder
  (<installation drive>\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplatesCache\CSharp\Web\1033\WebApplicationProject.zip)
• if it is an web site do the changes here
  (<installation drive>\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplatesCache\CSharp\Web\1033\WebForm.zip  )

You can modify any of the following new item templates

Note: Please back up the content that you modify before doing any changes as VS may stop working as desired because of an incorrect change