Mahesh Chand's contributions

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 attached source code provides faded affects of four graphics polygons using XAML.

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).

You may get this error when using a typed DataSet. This tip shows how to fix it.

In one of my applications, I needed Operating System version, service pack and other details. Here is the code snippet that shows how to use the Environment class to get Operating System data.

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.

In one of my recent projects, we had to decide whether we should write our application as a Windows Forms application or an ASP.NET Web application. Here are some of the points that can help deciding if you should write your application as a Windows Forms application or an ASP.NET Web application.

This 25 pages book discusses the ReportViewer control and how to generate some simple reports using the ReportViewer control and Visual Studio 2005.

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Microsoft OneCare provides all-in-one including AntiVirus, Firewall, Antospyware, Anti-phishing, backup and restore and more.

This blog talks about some basic rules of building a great and successful website.

Programming XML with C# is a 65 pages book written for C# programmers who wish to learn how to work with XML documents using C# language. In this book, you will learn the basic elements of XML and classes and objects available in .NET Framework to work with XML.

This tip shows how to set the position of an ASP.NET control dynamically from your code.