Check below link to read how bigger applications like Amason, eBay, Flickr, Google etc. lives with high traffic.
http://highscalability.com/links/weblink/24
Interesting website for architects.
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Inspiration was a question in my kidoos forum. Here is the quick script:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
 
namespace WindowsFormsApplication4
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }
 
        private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            string text = "NinethSense";
 
            Image img = Image.FromFile(@"C:\Users\Public\Pictures\Sample Pictures\Tree.jpg");
 
            WaterMark(text, img);
            img.Save(@"C:\test.jpg");
            img.Dispose();
        }
 
        [...]

Old but a frequently asked question. Here is the answer:

Right click any .aspx page in solution explorer
Choose “Browse with…”

From the “Browse With” dialog, select your browser and click “Set Default”

Click Cancel (or Browse).

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Well posted new article regarding Infragistics WebDataGrid to CodeProject and Kidoos. Her are the links:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/ig_persist_selections.aspx
http://kidoos.net/content/PersistselectionsInfragisticsGridpaging.aspx

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Applies to:
Infragistics NetAdvantage .NET CLR 3.x
Assembly: Infragistics35.Web.v8.3
Runtime Version: v2.0.50727
Version: 8.3.20083.2039
Visual Studio 2008
ASP.NET 3.5, C#
 
Infragistics components helps us to develop stylish applications with nice functionalities. But still requirements are very wide and sometimes we will not get what we need. In that times, we will need to implement our own ways to fulfill the requirements.
We cannot [...]

There is no direct IN equivalent in linq. Instead you can use Contains() or any other trick to implement the same. Here is a sample using .Conains():

string[] s = new string[5];
s[0] = "34";
s[1] = "12";
s[2] = "55";
s[3] = "4";
s[4] = "61";
 
var result1 = from d in context.TableName
[...]

Hmmm I was working on a project with Visual Studio till 11:00pm yesterday and now it says I am using this for first time?
Not sure what is going on. I did not install any updates and automatic update is not yet switched on.
News Update:
Well, forcibly ended program using Windows Task Manager and restarted Visual [...]

Developers from India, sorry to say, are what I call “Code Donkeys”. They do crud, boring, repetitive nothing innovative business applications and in many occasions they need blue prints and directions on how to start

An interesting blog here.
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Well, not a new thing. Service Broker is a feature which was introduced in Microsoft SQL Server 2005.
The basic idea is simply "messaging". This feature makes a platform for communication that enables distributed applications (components) function as whole.
Service Broker allows asynchronous programming.
Here are useful links:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms166043(SQL.90).aspx
http://www.developer.com/db/article.php/3640771

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