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We have moved! 21 Jan 2013 | 02:58 pm
To take advantage of the proper name of half-cooked tutorials and to utilise this domain name for the purpose it was originally set for, we have moved to a new home: half-cooked tutorials. In the comi...
.Net and Office Outlook 11 May 2012 | 08:16 pm
So I am working in a small project where I have to work with .Net and Office Outlook. This was a 2 pronged project. 1. A .Net based desktop application to manage templates (basic only) 2. An Outlook a...
XML, CSV and DataSet 30 Jan 2012 | 06:30 pm
I have seen people get stuck with reading XML files and make some hard-coded assumptions on which node has relevant data. Then again there are people who keep asking about saving to CSV. Both of these...
Using SQL Server Compact in Windows Phone 7.1 apps – Part 4 3 Jan 2012 | 05:29 pm
The first part of the series talked about the ability of Windows Phone 7.1 to connect to SQL Server Compact Edition. The second part walked through how to create the database and the database layer. T...
Using SQL Server Compact in Windows Phone 7.1 apps – Part 3 30 Dec 2011 | 02:16 pm
The first part of the series talked about the ability of Windows Phone 7.1 to connect to SQL Server Compact Edition. The second part walked through how to create the database and the database layer. T...
Using SQL Server Compact in Windows Phone 7.1 apps – Part 2 20 Nov 2011 | 03:03 am
The first part of this series talked about the ability of Windows Phone 7.1 to be able to support SQL Server Compact Edition. There I wrote about the differences between the SQL Server in desktops and...
Using SQL Server Compact in Windows Phone 7.1 apps – Part 1 9 Nov 2011 | 11:38 am
Windows Phone app development was a bit of a problem in version 7. It had no support for local database. Windows Phone 7 had support for Isolated Storage and XML but no database. The strategy was to k...
New low priced tablets on the horizon 2 Sep 2011 | 11:10 am
The firesale went well for HP, once the price of their touchpad went down to $99 and $149, they sold like hotcakes. An estimated 400,000 units sold out in a single weekend, though people knew that the...
Internet Explorer blocks more malware – but at what cost? 31 Aug 2011 | 10:52 am
Source: NSS Labs, August 2011 – Global Socially Engineered Malware Protection The independent security research and testing organization, NSS Labs, released two reports that say Internet Explorer ...
Microsoft showcase – Windows 8 demo and quad core ARM processor 30 Aug 2011 | 11:04 am
Last week in Tech Ed, Microsoft showcased some of the features of Windows 8. They showed off how the Windows 8 platform can work with the tablets as well as the desktop environment based on 2 differen...
