Rachit's Blog
My technical journal...rant about technology...etc.
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Search in All Stored Procedures Views
For me, the following SQL syntax turned out very handy when I wanted to see where either a table or a view or a stored procedure is being referenced. I've so many stored procedures in one of the … more
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Broken Windows Update with IE8 Beta1
I'm using IE8 VPC (XP) and am trying to see how Windows Update site looks, I get this. :) Of course, if I turn on "Emulate IE7" button, it works. more
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Bad GUI Design
This is the screen shot from MS Visio 2007 Pro. What if I don't want to save a copy, there's no CANCEL option. Even if I click on the 'X', it pops up the "Save As" dialog. Bad GUI design, … more
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For Better Performance of Visual Studio
Update: I'm re-posting this as I accidentally deleted the original one. I noticed many times that the performance of the Visual Studio 2005/2008 is very sluggish. Also, the computer meets all the … more
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Online Alternative to Money and Quicken
I personally use Quicken 2007 to track my finances. I don't use for each and every thing like how much cash I use but use it for where I can sync my accounts online so I can have history. Quicken is … more
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VS2008 .designer.cs regenerating issue
Okay...I'm going nuts about this and don't know why this is happening. Why is "Generation of designer file failed"? I've a regular ASP.Net C# web application project in Visual Studio 2008. I've one … more
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VS2008 crashed - couple of times
I had to reboot the machine and now it's working fine. Rick is also facing some issues with VS 2008. Hopefully, this will be cured soon. more
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Sonic.exe access denied
I've started exploring SubSonic for one of my projects and found this issue. For a class library project, when you want to generate DAL off your sql db, you do the following at the command prompt:D:\ … more
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Windows Live Writer 2008 On Corporate Machine
Windows Live Writer 2008 installation on Windows XP & Vista (for Windows 2003, take a look here): You may NOT be able to install the Windows Live Writer 2008 if you try to run the … more
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IE8 CSS Compliance
Hopefully IE8 will solve all (and it better) the problems related to CSS hacks that we have faced in the present and the past. Well, it has passed ACID2 test as per this. Lets pray! Meanwhile I'll … more