What i've been up to...

It's been a long time, i'm not doing blogging. I know i'm not very good at it but i really wana keep doing it because it helps in different ways like keeping track of what you've done so far, what you were doing at particular time in the year, your interests etc.

Initially i started writing blog by picking stories/articles i like so i can share them with every one but i think that's not the main purpose of blogs. So now i've deicided instead of going for 5-6 short posts every month i'll do just 1-2 posts a month but that would be totally mine.

Lets see if i can stick to this plan, as i plan alot but it's very few i implement. But at least i do implement few, isn't it? :)

Microsoft commitment to OpenSource

Microsoft has launched a new site to narrow the gap between Microsoft and OpenSource community, have a look.

AJAX and SilverLight confused?

It's a nice article discussing AJAX and SilverLight similarities and dissimilarities.

Rock it!

TeamPlain goes official as Microsoft Team System Web Access

Great tool! one of the major missing component from Team System is there now!

throw vs throw e

A major difference, beware!

Generics type full name representation

Folks,

Just got to know how generics are represented internally, you might need it while using reflection or with WCF proxy generation or whenever you need to know your custom defined generic type.

List as
System.Collections.Generic.List`1[[System.Int32]]

Dictionary> as System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2[[System.String],[System.Collections.Generic.List`1[[System.Int32]]]]

The weird '1 shows that it expects 1 parameter and '2 it expects 2 parameters, isn't it bizarre.

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Cool checkin policy

Nice idea for controlling methods comments.

Have Fun!

Serialization in WCF

WCF has made possible to transmit IList, IDictionary etc which was not possible in WebServices. Its a nice article discussing WCF Serialization in detail.

Google Maps gettings better and better and better

The new drag n drop your route is awesome, whenever you drag particular road to other it automatically calculates the directions for you.