I recently got Lenovo X220 laptop . I always kept wondering about the different colors of USB ports it supplied. What does each color signifies ?

Once I found out meaning for each port color. Thought it would be worth sharing with you :

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Time to rollup your sleeves and get ready to dirty your hands with TFS 2012. [More]

If you are participating in Microsoft App Fest I would like to meet you in person. Venue: KPTO , WhiteField , Bangalore An Official attempt to make Guinness World Record Started making waves http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/microsoft-eyes-guinness-record-for-its-bangalore-coding-marathon/187700/on

ASP.NET 4 introduces the inbuilt charting controls for the Web Forms with Visual Studio 2010. These controls were available as a separate download and can be used with Visual Studio 2008.

Here are the steps to add the chart to your application:


Add the Chart control to you page The Chart control is available under the Toolbox -> Data.

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As the saying goes, Prevention is better than cure. It is always better to check whether file is in use before doing any file operation on it to avoid any unexpected IOException during the runtime.

Exception in question

System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file 'C:\Inetpub\XXX.jpg' because it is being used by another process.
at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
at System.IO.FileStream.Init(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, Int32 rights, Boolean useRights,…)
at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode)



Here is simple code

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Sometime back I reviewed the few of the sample for automating task in IIS (6, 7.x) using MWA, WMI , ADSI. You can download the sample code (c#, vb.net)

Admin IIS7.x using MWA (C#)
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Today I decided to install Windows 8 (Release Preview) as the secondary OS option on my home laptop which is up and running with Windows 7 Ultimate .

My Requirement : I want to have dual boot on the same box. So Windows 7 is installed on C:\ for Windows 8 I want to install it on G:\ drive. (I already have partition created earlier C: , D:, F: , G:)

Steps to create Dual boot :

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You can download (either in EPUB | MOBI | PDF format )existing and new content for ASP.NET, Office, SQL Server, Windows Azure, SharePoint Server and other Microsoft technologies in e-book formats. All the e-books are free. [More]

C# has sizeof operator which is used to obtain the size in bytes for a value type and not of reference type

// cs_operator_sizeof.cs
// compile with: /unsafe

// Using the sizeof operator
using System;
class SizeClass
{
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The world’s largest Software Jam – the Windows 8 AppFest - is coming to Bangalore India on September 21 – 22

· 5,000 developers

· 24 hours

· 1500 apps

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