Microsoft today finally released IE beta 2 :) and the release is loaded with cool new features! Well, by this time you might have found so many blogs speaking about all the new features available. I am not going to go through them now, but I am going to talk about the features that made me feel g... [More]

Today I downloaded RhinoMocks and referenced in my test project (Microsoft Visual Studio Testing Environment) and executed my unit tests. My tests failed with the same error (for all tests). Visual Studio was kind enough to find that the RhinoMocks.dll which I downloaded is not trusted and cannot b... [More]

I just noticed today in my Windows Live Account section that its been an year since I registered my email with Live Services. The Windows Live Services shows a nice icon and a message to remind you :) Below is the image :

Today I had the need to have optional parameters in my SQL stored procedure. And It wasn't that complex to implement :) Below is the code: ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[GetSampleRequests] @Org varchar(50), @Type varchar(50), @From DateTime, @To DateTime AS BEGIN &nb... [More]

Recently I had the necessity to do cross-tab report with the SQL Server data. First thin that comes into everybody's mind is to use the PIVOT functionality in SQL Server. But, being a programmer, I am not that fluent in writing and managing complex queries. I was looking out for some .NET implementa... [More]

Yesterday night was a big night for Intergen - Intergen won the Microsoft Partner of the Year 2008! Hear it straight from Tony's words : At the Microsoft Partner Awards ceremony in Auckland, in front of over 300 attendees, Intergen won the premier award of Partner of the Year for 2008. Microsoft... [More]