spicy.net: June 2006

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Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Gizmos to our site

Guys if we want to add some cool techniques to our site. Please visit this cool site where we can add online dictionary, Quatation of the day, Games, Alerts etc...Then the main we can do this with one or two line of code.

Monday, June 19, 2006

Teched 2006

This is the first time I am attending the Microsoft TechEd. I enrolled for Developer track which has few session in Vista, VSTS, XAML etc. I came to know some important teminologies from VS 2007.
  1. Powershell - Object Orienented command prompt where we can invoke .NET framework from Power shell command.
  2. WCF - Windows Configuration Foundtion is methodology where we can going create pluggings for different protocols and our business logic will sit at the top.For Example Business logic will sit at the top and we can pluggin lot of protocols like MSMQ, Web services etc.
  3. WWF - Windows Workflow foundation is a new technique where we can create workflow and the working pattern based on to our business logic.
  4. WPF - Windows Persentation Foundation is new techniqu where we can create User Friendly UI using rich tools within .NET. It is nothing but MS has incorporated the ADOBE Photoshot in it.
  5. VSTS - Visual Studio Team System is a very good tool where we can map the tasks with Versioning of controls, and it is easy to keep track on the resources.
  6. XAML is a markup language which is used to draw friendly UI for users.

Another excellent stuff was the GRT Granddays food and the highlight of the day was Nauzad’s session on BizTalk Server 2006. He almost took the session like it will understand for dummies and it was really useful.

Thursday, June 01, 2006

Cute Tool to convert any .bmp to .ico file

If we want to put a icon in windows application we mostly use vector files (.ico) , but it is rare to get any free .ico files over the NET. Then I spend some time in the NET to find a tool to convert any .bmp files to .ico files... Here it is where we can download the tool, and another cool thing is absolutly free.. :-)