Application Compatibility Series on Windows 7

Windows 7 has been made public and many users are moving towards adopting the same. From the application standpoint, Windows 7 is very similar to Windows Vista. This means that, we will need to work towards solving the compatibility issues which would arise. In this series of posts we will look at some common challenges around application compatibility when coming from a legacy operating system, why changes were made, compatibility technologies inside the OS and methods for getting incompatible applications to run on Windows 7.

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#13#10 in Delphi

These are the control characters in delphi that are used to format strings.
If a string value has to be entered in a multiline , we can use this .
Eg:
var
testString : String;

testString := ‘Senthil’ + #13#10 + ‘Kumar’;

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Microsoft’s VS ALM Challenge

Microsoft announced a quiz challenge for software developers on their new development suite Visual Studio 2010. Visual Studo 2010 is in now on Beta 2 stage. You can download and experience with Visual Studio 2010 from Microsoft MSDN website before participate in the challenge.

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Microsoft sponsored Imagine Cup 2010 in Poland

Are you technically savvy, a problem solver and ready to to test your skills against the best students in the world with a chance to win cash prizes.If so, registration for the Poland 2010 Imagine Cup sponsored by Microsoft is now open.

Imagine Cup 2010 world festival will be held in Warsaw, Poland in July 2010. Competition theme will remain the same as last year

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Silicon India Startup City @ Mumbai

From early-stage entrepreneurs and recent start-ups to well-established and fast growth technology companies, you can find them all at the Siliconindia Startup City.

The largest and most exciting event of its kind – offering more than ever in 2009, with 50 exhibitors, an outstanding range of speakers, 40 investors, 500 entrepreneurs and more than 4000 attendees.

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Autocomplete Extender Control in ASP.NET

AutoComplete is an ASP.NET AJAX extender that can be attached to any TextBox control, and will associate that control with a popup panel to display words that begin with the prefix typed into the textbox.

Extenders are server controls that allow to extend a set of ASP.NET server controls by adding client side functionality.

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Windows Mobile Developer Contest

Do you have a cool idea for a Mobile Application?

Here is a lifetime opportunity for you to showcase your development skills to the rest of the world and in the process, become a Millionaire. Pick any of the monthly themes and create a Windows Mobile Application which best showcases the versatility of the Windows Mobile platform. By doing it, you can help yourself win fabulous Cash Prizes, Phones, Certificates, Publicity

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Retreive User’s IP Address in ASP.NET

There may be a requirement of getting the user’s IP address using ASP.NET and C# or VB .NET when a user logs in to the webpage.

This can be achieved easily with the .NET Framework.

The IP Address can be retreived in the following ways.

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Yield keyword in C#

I got caught with this keyword recently.Very much unknown to me ,but when explored was able to know its real advantages.

It is used to iterate through objects ,create a enumerator returned by a method.

public static IEnumerable Test(int num)
{
for (int i = 0; i < num; i++)
{
yield return i;
}
yield break;
}

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First Certification Exam – MCTS 70-536.

After 2 Months of preparation for Microsoft Certification Exam , i finally got the opportunity to take up the Exam that too a free voucher from Microsoft Student Partners and cleared it in the first attemt.The Exam is none other than MCTS 070-536 ( Application Foundation ) ,the first exam of the .NET Series of Visual Studio 005 and 2008.

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