Heros to Happen -Quiz Contest Winner

Have you ever heard about Heros to Happen Contest?
I came to know about it while surfing and I just participated in the quiz on oneday.
To my surprize, I got a mail from Microsoft that I was winner for the daily quiz contest on that day.(27/1/2008) After a week I got a certificate for participating in Heros to Happen contest and a NiKE gift vocher worth Rs 1000 for winning the quiz.

But Some of the suggetions that need to be considered are:
Many people(even MVPs) are not aware of this contest but actually it was very good concept that has nice goodies.
Even after I posted my story I never got communication from the Heroes to Happen team
saying that my story was published.

Bar camp ! @ Google

I attended bar camp on 16th of February @ google campus Hyderabad.
I was little late and entered into the office @ 11:00 .There was no much time that's taken for registration.Simply they have given my registration number by checking ID proof. They arranged in Canteen and the people who came for the bar camp
are more than 300 and most of them are IIIT students .It was a good turn up compared to other bar camps.

I enjoyed the session Lighting the Web by M.S.V. Janaki Ram(Jonny).
It mainly concentrated on Silverlight and its usage .He also explained about collaboration of developers and designers with the help of MS Expression web, XAML ,Silverlight and Visual Studio.I really liked his demo that was on Google maps using Silverlight that shows movie trailers upon selecting movie theaters in Hyderabad.
The next session is Amit’s Session. Though we know each other I never met him before.
He was cool and simple. He travlled all the way from Agra to Hyderabad to attend barcamp. Thanks a lot AmitA few things about Amit (MVP) ,he blogs at labonol.org .He was a pure techie guy when he started his carrier and later he quitted his JOB and became a professional blogger and now he is blogging all the time 24x7
He talked about how to build a successful blog, online Plagiarism, Originality of content, adsense, Page Rank .All these things are definitely useful for bloggers.

Kavitha Vemuri’s Session is about Women in Entrepreneur ship. This really helps in how to be mature enough in one’s views about fellow women employees.
The next 2 sessions were very bored and one of them looks like promoting or marketing their social networking website. The next session was related to Web2.0 technology and Purple Bytes and how it works? After this we had nice lunch and got our goodies. It was a nice day spending time at bar camp. When will be the next one?

Ready for Bar Camp? On 16th February @Google Campus

Fifth Bar Camp Hyderabad will be held at google campus on 16th of February. The event is hosted and sponsored by Google India.

Let’s all speak, discuss, argue and enjoy technically the whole day.
The event starts at 10:00 AM sharp .You need to register here


The key for invitation is c4mp. If you are interested in knowing about Blogging, Ad Sense, Online Plagiarism, SEO betting on Web2.0, Social web, Semantics Web then its nice event to participate.

HTML source validation in Visual web developer 2005

It’s a good practice be to find HTML errors or warnings carefully and fix them. For example a missing the closing of TD could result in a warning, but it would affect the entire code to dysfunctional. You are unable to find out where is the root cause upon debugging. So its always nice practice not to ignore warnings or HTML errors.

To set these validations



Go to tools menu-> Options menu item in VS or Visual Web Developer.
Select the Text Editor->Html->Validation tree option in the left-hand side of the options window,
Select the target as XHTML 1.0 transitional (Netscape7, opera 7, InternetExplorer 6) and check the “Show Errors” checkbox:


Note: HTML validation errors will not block a web application from compiling / running.

Multi Targeting Support in VS 2008

Introduction

Vs 2008 is the MS latest IDE for developing Windows, Web, Smart Device Applications. It comes along with .NET Framework 3.5, C# 3.0, LINQ, ASP.NET AJAX and VSTO . Now with the power of VS 2008 we can target multiple versions of .NET Framework.
Installation steps here

VS 2008 Multi-Targeting Support:

Previously every VisualStudio release supports its own specific version of .NET Framework.
That is VS 2002 with .NET 1.0
VS 2003 with .NET 1.1
VS 2005 with .NET 2.0
VS2008 now supports 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 Frameworks.

For example if we want to run /create /modify ASP.NET 2.0 application from VS 2008, we can easily do that. The advanced features, projects, controls and assembly references that don't work with 2.0 Version of the framework will be hidden. When we build our application we'll be able to take the compiled output and copy it onto a machine that only has a 2.0 version of the .NET Framework installed. No doubt the application works.


And now we will be able to take advantage with our existing projects without having to upgrade our framework/ASP.NET version.

These features are
1. JavaScript intellisence
2. JavaScript debugging that is not possible in previous versions
3. Nested ASP.NET master page support at design-time
4. CSS editing and layout support within designer
5. Split-view designer for having both source and design views open on a page at the same
6. AJAX Control Extender support etc.

Upgrading to new version using VS2008

Click on Project Properties in Solution Exploere. Now Click on Application We can change the "Target Framework" dropdown to select the version of the framework we want the project to target. After selecting the framework will cause VS to automatically update compiler settings and references for the project to use the correct framework version. System.Core, System.Web.Extensions, System.Xml.Linq are the 3 new dll references that are added I 3.5 framework. There are also newly added controls like ListView and LinqDaraSource in VS 2008 . We can see these controls once we upgrade to 3.5 Frame work.
NET 3.5 which delivers new ASP.NET controls/runtime features and provides built-in ASP.NET AJAX support .
We are no longer need to download the separate ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 install as its built-in with the .NET 3.5 setup

Limitation:

Multi-targeting support works with versions .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0 and .NET 3.5 only. That means it will not work for .NET 1.0 or .NET 1.1 versions. The reason is that there were significant CLR engine changes between .NET 1.x and 2.x. This makes debugging difficult to support. We can run VS 2003, and VS 2002 targeting 1.0 or 1.1 Framework on the same machine as VS 2008.

Conclusion:

Multi- Targeting in VS 2008 is explained clearly
Note
Download VS2008 from here

Internet Quiz --Scored 100%

Just few hours back it happened to visit my fellow mvp vadivel's blog and I participated in online internet quiz. To my surprize I scored 100% . Here is the link



To be frank I guessed answers to 2 of the questions and luckily they are correct

VS 2008('ORCAS' ) Installation steps

I installed VS 2008 professional edition and Here are the installtion steps that I would like to share with by blog readers.

Product Description: Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition and Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition IDES helps developers to deliver web ,windows,mobile and applications that take advantage of the latest technology while meeting business goals efficiently.

Note: You need to have 3.9 GB of free harddisk space in order to install full version while custom verison might require 3 GIG. 3 gb of memory is not an easy issue if you have a lot of softwares.

Here are the quick installation steps.
Step 1 : Insert VS2008 DVD and double Click on VS2008 installation



Step2: Click on next to accept license terms and conditions


Step 3 : VS 2008 requires the free hard disk space of 3.9 GB .In this step it checks for space in your system. If you have in sufficient space in the hard disk, you will get an alert message.

There are 3 types Default ,Custom and Full .Select the choice of yours.



Step 4: Click on next Set up will install required Components



Step 5: Set up is installing required Components


Set up mat takeup to one hour ddepending on your system configuration for installation.

Step6 :Click on Finish.


Ready to go!!!