June 2005 - Posts
I am moving to a new blog - http://geekswithblogs.net/suniljagadish/ after bearing with comment spam for quite sometime and also suggesting to the admins to include CAPTCHA to prevent comment spam. No response so far. Its irritating when you find an email saying - “XYZ has posted a comment on your blog” and then you find out that its only a list of sites where you can play online casino.
I know its really annoying to ask someone to open their blog roll or their RSS agregator to update the feed link to my blog/feed. Please take the trouble of updating your links. I thought it would be a good idea to use feedburner to manage my RSS feeds. So here is the new RSS feed url - http://feeds.feedburner.com/geekswithblogs/suniljagadish
With me moving to a new blog, you will definitely find me posting good amount of code apart from the tech bytes. Thanks to dotnetjunkies for hosting my blog all these days.
Cya!
Moral of the story: User experience is very important.
Sorry if you mistook this to be a Microsoft VB6 event which was coming up. :)
If you are a VB6 fan and feel that you have been over-shadowed or drowned in the world of the “uncivilized semi-colon” languages (as Raj calls it), check this out - Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Run.
This reminds me of the VB6 projects that I had done. It was about 3.5 years back when I thought of learning Visual Basic 6. I purchased the Visual Basic 6 Bible which is no way a recommended book for beginers. I tried to follow the samples given in the book but was not completely successful with it. After a short term course, I set out writing small applications including an Astrology software, IVRS Voicemail retrival system and stuff like that.
I had a very good time working on iCafe' Manager - an exhaustive Internet Cafe' management appllication which Sharath and I had done as a part of our academic project, for which we ended-up with an ultra-cool UI (3D bars, shadows, animated menus, etc.) . Thanks to Photoshop and the Visual Basic timer control. We had used almost 10 timer controls to animate the scrolling of menus and other parts of the UI which could be hidden/minimized. It was more of fun doing this though we didnt get much time to optimize the code we wrote.
I did some serious development using VB6 for my final semester project (BCA) which was a ready-to-market 'Email Management over SMS' suite. It was targetted at corporates who wanted to give their employees Email access on the move (when GPRS wasnt as affordable as they are now). This was the first time did some serious development with Winsock (in contrast to winsock chat applications where one usually starts off). Socket based communication with POP and SMTP servers are not always straight-forward. Thanks to Kurian and JK of Xtend Technologies, Cochin, I used their XSMS platform to communicate with the GSM world. I very badly needed to use multi-threading when I was developing this but a VB6 developer would know what that means. Thanks to .NET. Life has changed.
Offlate I have been trying to experiment with the Microsoft Windows Embedded Shared Source Tools - Bluetooth library. I have been facing some referencing problems with it, but will be out of it soon.
I installed the .NET Passport 2.5 SDK, to enable SSI on one of the portals I am developing. One good thing about version 2.5 of the SDK is that it has support for managed development in C#. I wanted to host this portal on my ASPXConnection webspace. Unfortunately ASPXConnection doesnt give access to some resources which may be required in special cases such as this. To install the Symmetric Key given by the Passport Services Manager, I needed command line accees to install the key. :-(
I had installed the .NET Passport 2.5 SDK on my system and uninstalled the same after realizing that I would not be able to do this with my webspace. The next time hit F5 in VS.NET 2003 to run my web application, it said:
“Unable to start debugging on webserver”
I run the web application without debugging and it was ok. Conclusion was that my Web.config was ok. I didnt want to research for a very long time on this issue, so went ahead with the good old “KB306160”. I reinstalled the .NET Framework and everything was back to normal.
Update: Article 306172 seems to be a better place to start off, if you have ASP.NET & IIS issues