Month: August 2007

Recent development in my technical life is that, started working out with Orcas Beta 2. So, thought to blog about the latest happenings with C# language. The idea emerged to start a series of posts related to C# new features. This is the first of ever such kind of blogging specific to a topic. C# 3.0 has many-a-new features. To start with, let me take a concept of Implicitly Typed Variables. Implicitly Typed Variables In the good old days, the developer has to worry about the type of the variable. Say for instance, whether to use long or double for … Continue reading C# 3.0 – What’s New : {Implicit}-Part1

Tafiti, which means “do research” in Swahili, is an experimental search front-end from Microsoft, designed to help people use the Web for research projects that span multiple search queries and sessions by helping visualize, store, and share research results. Tafiti uses both Microsoft Silverlight and Live Search to explore the intersection of richer experiences on the Web and the increasing specialization of search. My experience with Tafiti is awesome. It is a great visual treat. The features as of now I found to be great is the type specific. In other words, as you could see here when you search … Continue reading Tafiti Search Engine from Microsoft

For the ASP.NET pages that has no user input it is a best practice to have the page register with EnableViewState=“false”. This will increase the response time to 200% of the default. Along with that, you can also do the one more important is that, anyhow these pages have no user input. Secondly, these will have data that is read-only from database. Thus, you are sure that there is no activity from the user that could be saved onto disk. Perhaps the user might work with the data that is available on the page. Hence, keeping all the above point … Continue reading Increase Web Pages Response time – tip

One of the frequently seen situations from a technical standpoint in a large scale of Business Layer objects is, invoking methods from different objects when they contain same method name. Today, am going to make it simple to give an example for Runtime Polymorphism. Leave your comments if am mistaken At this stage, I don’t think to mention about “Polymorphism”, as hope that you are aware of how polymorphic behavior can be fused using C#. If you want a start up, in simple words, implementation of one Method with many definitions, as mentioned below. class Employee{/// <summary>/// Invoked for the … Continue reading Runtime Polymorphism

Would like to bring this to your attention that, while searching at Google you could save some energy. Would you like to know “How?”, read further, not interested !!! Just Move on to next message. Consider that you query at Google.com (with White background as it is by default). And white pixels as full background will consume 74 watts. You seek some info at Google, and the search results remain on your screen for more than 10 seconds. The statistics from Google states that an approximate hit count for a day is at around 200 Million, that means there are about such … Continue reading Save Power by using Google in Black