.Net Geek: A blog by Aakash Jain

Microsoft launched its WorldWide Telescope, bringing the free Web-based program for zooming around the universe to a broad audience. The image above shows how the Earth looks like at night,  taken from this utility. visit here

Visual Studio 2008 with .Net 3.5 has been released on November 19, 2007 and available for download at Microsoft’s Website. It is not an ordinary release with some common updates and extensions. VS2008 comes up with lots of exciting features for developers. Some of the main features are:

VS 2008 Multi-Targeting Support.
ASP.NET AJAX and JavaScript Support.
VS 2008 Web Designer and CSS Support.
Language Improvements and LINQ.
Data Access Improvements with LINQ to SQL.
Browsing the .NET Framework Library Source using Visual Studio.

You can find the detail explanation of above features at ScottGu’s Blog.

1. Boot the computer in to Windows XP.
2. Insert the Windows Vista DVD in the DVD Drive.
3. Go to "Start" and "Run". Type in "d:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt52 ALL /force" (without quotes, d: is the DVD drive letter.).
4. Restart the computer, and you will notice the boot selection menu is gone.
5. Format the partition/drive where you had Vista installed.
6. Remove two files (Boot.BAK & Bootsect.BAK) on XP root folder (C

With the launch of office 2007 Microsoft has introduced a new format for office files. Microsoft office 2007 system use XML based file format. In office 2007 doc file is docx file and ppt and xls files are pptx and xlsx files respectively. These files are based on Office Open XML format. New file formats are zipped packages where settings, style, format and content is in xml format inside. The most important feature of this format is interoperability. Now any application that supports XML can work with the data in new file format. The development of office documents like power point presentation would be easier on the server side without any office component or software installation. You even don’t need to install office 2007 on a web server to create these documents.

Well, the thing is that We need to create a solution for our client where we need to generate the PPTs and XlSs files on the fly. We have decided to use this new file format for this task. As this is new thing around, so there is not much help available on the net. So I am much like eating the Microsoft's document on the subject.

Here is a counter to those people who look down at Indian IT industry and think it is producing software of  low quality. I have read people discussing in forums about the low cost in Indian software market. They end up with the conclusion that India produces Inferior software with low cost. That is groundless opinion, I’d say.

On the contrary, Indian companies have won the faith of clients all over the world. Most of the big banking projects are handled by domestic Indian companies. Lets not go too far, Consider Microsoft’s Vista operating system which is launched in the market recently. Almost 40 patents have been filed my Microsoft India, Hyderabad where about 330 software engineers developed important features of operating system. And this is not first time.

Much awaited Microsoft’s new Windows Vista has been launched. It is a major release of an operating system after Windows XP in 2001 by Microsoft.

This edition of Windows contains new improved features. Security is better than previous versions. It has IE7 already installed, which is more secure from Internet threats.

Windows Vista is based on a totally new 3D look and feel, Windows Aero

Other new features in Vista include easier searches, gadget sidebars, and increased security. Windows vista will be available in six versions. Checkout some cool features here

more later, soon I am gonna have it for my PC.