Blogs by Mahesh Chand

I just downloaded and start using Chrome. It took me seconds (literally) to install and now opening site in Chrome is so faster.

Any body download and tried Chrome yet? I have been looking for a download URL but can't find it.

Girls and boys, WPF DataGrid will full source code is here.

Recently, I've spent quite a bit time working on the site and doing lot of research on new .NET 3.0 and 3.5 technologies including WPF, Silverlight, WF, LINQ, and ASP.NET 3.5. Here are my thoughts.

Let us congratulate Praveen Kumar, editorial director of C# Corner on his MVP Award.

More and more I delve in .NET 3.0/3.5 a.k.a XAML, WPF, WCF, Silverlight, and ASP.NET 3.5 to find some clear blue water, more and more muddy and dirtier I get. I wonder if Microsoft experts and decision makers have totally failed us developers.

Several guys have asked me this question, “How they can author a technical book”. Just follow these steps and you will be on your way to become an author.

We have uploaded new forums with faster speed and better user experience. Also, should we provide an open source version of these forums? Let us know what you guys think.

You finally got published. So what is the next step? Promotion, promotion, and promotion. It's all about how you can promote yourself. Here are some tips.

The patterns & practices Enterprise Library is a collection of reusable software components (application blocks) designed to assist software developers with common enterprise development challenges (such as logging, validation, data access, exception handling, and many others). Application blocks are a type of guidance; they are provided as source code plus documentation that can be used "as is," extended, or modified by developers to use on complex, enterprise-level line-of-business development projects.

This blog sheds some lights on what future holds for Windows Forms and ASP.NET when WPF is already here.

On our forums, we have about 8000 unanswered questions and need your help.

Here is a list of some SEO related resources and free guides.

I didn't know Windows XP comes with a backup application.

I found it so annoying when you upgrade an evaluation version of VS 2008.

The growing popularity of the Agile Development, Feature Driven Development (FDD) and Extreme Programming and other Rapid Application Development (RAD) models pushing developers away from the traditional software development life cycle (SDLC) and system analysis and development (SAD).

In past 6 months, I have bought three new laptops (Sony, HP, and Toshiba) with Windows Vista, all with 2GB RAM and fully loaded such as better HDD and faster processors and I am still using my 3 years old Sony with 512 MB RAM to build my applications. What is wrong with this picture?

Are you tired of waiting on your DBA to do all database schema and data sync from your DEV environment to TEST or PROD environments? Guess what? No need to worry anymore. Read on..

Are you going to MVP Summit 2008? Let's plan to meet and probably stay close.

My new year 2008 started with MVP Award for 2008 from Microsoft. Has anyone else recieved their award yet?

If you remember working with CSS and JScript in the previous versions of Visual Studio, editing was a nightmare. Visual Studio 2008 provides a better support for CSS and JavaScript editing. How about intellisense in XML and XAML?

In this blog we see how VB.Net is better than c#.

I've been fond of ANTS Profiler for years now and I just downloaded SQL Prompt from RedGate Software. I have to admit, this is another tool I am liking a lot.