Rachit's Blog

My technical journal...rant about technology...etc.

  • Javascript Debugging Feature Request

    Tags: ASP.Net, JavaScript

    It's very helpful to have the intellisense in the Visual studio 2008 for JavaScript. I thank MS a lot for it. I request if the intellisense can be also provided while debugging in the immediate … more

  • Download sucks on Live Meeting

    Tags: General, Software

    Why the heck is Internet Explorer necessary to download a webcast/presentation? You really can't download (so called Microsoft Office Live Meeting High-Fidelity Presentation) using Firefox. Forget … more

  • ASP.NET 4.0 ??

    Tags: ASP.Net

    As Bertrand Le Roy has mentioned here. ASP.Net Ajax vNext being a part of ASP.Net 4.0. Damn! I have just started looking at ASP.Net 3.5/Silverlight stuff a few days back. :) I thought I can catch up … more

  • Learning SQL Server Broker

    Tags: Service Broker, Software, SQL

    Working on some project, I have started delving a lot with Microsoft SQL Server Broker for 2005. I can see that the initial learning curve is very very steep and it's very easy to give up on SSB … more

  • Performance Object Showing Numbers instead of Names

    Tags: General

    I noticed a problem in our Dev Window 2003 box with the Performance Objects (PerfMon). One of our Windows Services uses the Performance Counter API in the code. It was failing because of not being … more

  • Windows XP Service Pack 3

    Tags: General

    The Windows XP Service Pack 3 is now available to download. It's 300MB+ in size. Happy downloading! more

  • SQL Server Service Broker & WCF

    Tags: Service Broker, WCF

    I've started digging into SQL Server Service Broker 2005 and how I can use WCF with it. My current project requires some kind of reliable queuing and I've two choices: MSMQ & SSB. So, I'm trying … more