Deployment Issue: Crystal Reports embedded with .NET web application

2009-10-05T19:04:00.001+06:00

Lot of people comes across the issue of Crystal Report deployment on production server. When they run the web application with reports embedded in to it, developed using Crystal Reports, it works fine on their machine but when they deploy the same web application on deployment machine, it gives exception as soon as any report is opened. The problem here is that you have the CR runtime assemblies

VS2008: Adding Web Service Reference, not hosted at default 80 port

2009-09-22T15:38:00.002+06:00

Today I come across an issue while trying to consume a third party web service for B2B integration project. The web service has been hosted on some port i.e. 8097 other then default 80 port for IIS. When I try to add the web service reference in to my VS 2008/ ASP.Net 2.0 project it gives me this error:Metadata contains a reference that cannot be resolved: 'http://test.org/myservice/service.asmx?

Web.Config: Element

2009-09-08T14:42:00.004+06:00

Here is the web.config snippet to allow access to only one user to web site or web service and deny access to all other users either authenticated or anonymous.Allow Access to only one domain userAllow access to any autheticated domain user

Translation as a Service: Microsoft; Bing Translator vs. Google Translator

2009-09-03T17:05:00.003+06:00

I just come across Bing Translator from Microsoft; I have been working on a multilingual web portal, so I have been using Google Translate quite extensively. I have also placed a code snippet in my previous post that can help anyone to translate variable names, web service response and error messages at run time from Google supported languages to English.Today for the first time I come across

GMail goes down once again!

2009-09-03T16:11:00.005+06:00

Gmail is down again, and what's the excuse this time :)But this error seems unfair to the user, there should be a specific error message for it going down.

Gmail Account Lockdown for 24 hours! Reasons Unknown!

2009-09-01T16:15:00.004+06:00

I come across an interesting situation today, while I was going through my emails on Gmail after three daysJ. My Gmail account is locked down for 24 hours without any reasons! That's bad, so anyone have any idea what might be the reason for that.

Google Translate: Web Services written in languages other than English

2009-08-28T22:43:00.002+06:00

A utility function that can be used when dealing with web services written in languages other than English that returns value in foreign language like french, even the variable names are in that language and the error messages returned. With this utility function it's very easy to debug the application. Just add this function in one of the utility class in yur project.public string

Silverlight: What is CoreCLR?

2009-07-23T21:34:00.013+06:00

Do you know what is CoreCLR? If not then keep reading this article, if yes then do contribute to help others understand it better.CoreCLR is a scaled version of the original CLR that has been encapsulated within Silverlight2, Don't you think its amazing? Well i find it very interesting, with access to BCL (Base Class Libraries) you can write classic applications using Silverlight2 and now

Silverlight Ideas: Making a silverlight application run out of web browser

2009-07-23T20:39:00.012+06:00

Here I'm getting started with Sliverlight, learning the architecture, looking at demos,and sample applications.I come across the details of running a silvelight application, out of IE and to make it a separate application running right from your desktop, just like a Flash application, it will be useful for a completely offloaded application like a single player game, or an online application that

PTCL Broadband, not proving to be a wise decision

2009-07-17T22:44:00.005+06:00

I got PTCL broadband for home a 1MB link; I thought that it's a good choice at a reasonable cost, due to their student package. Not to mention the hassle of getting it installed at my place it took me a complete month, around 50 reminder calls to their call-centre, with follow-ups to the exchange directly, and the final warning of cancelling my order, it worked though :). While I was in

.NET Tricks - alterante folder for project assemblies

2009-05-19T00:02:00.001+06:00

Few days back at work i came across a scenario in which i have lot of third party assemblies used by my C# windows application project, i wanted to put them in a separate sub folder instead of the main folder. By putting them in a sub folder it will make my life lot easier when it comes to deployment and other post release stuff.Luckily .NET framework provides us with a tag in APP.CONFIG where we

Star Performer Award @ TRG

2008-07-17T19:15:00.000+06:00

Star Perfomer Award @ TRG :D, awarded to me for year 2007 at Annual Employee Day!

Interview Questions: Quality Engineer

2008-04-14T17:19:00.001+05:00

After a long time i'm posting on this blog, i'm in middle of a QA interview right now, so i though to publish some QA questions, that any QA engineer should expect as part of their technical evaluation. As before i'll not be posting the answer i want you to look for the answers on your own: What are functional requirements?What is a sequence diagram?What is regression testing?What is smoke

Open Source: Chat Engine

2007-11-13T15:05:00.002+05:00

Today i uploaded the code and executable for the secure multi threaded chat & P2P client application that i developed using C# 1.1 as a university project for one of my friend on Google Code.I have made this application as an open source so anyone interested can take the code and update it according to his/her needs.You can download the application from here.Drop an email @ basit.tanveer@

Hotmail shoots to 5 GB

2007-09-25T12:19:00.000+05:00

Today while opening my hot mail account through web browser after such a long time instead of messenger, i noticed that my email size is now 5 GB and i am just using 1% of it. Yea thats true how can i use more then 1% of it when for all my communications i prefer Gmail... Gmail rocks!!

Webpage Screenshot Utility - IECapt

2007-09-24T13:38:00.000+05:00

I come across a nice command line utility IECapt for capturing the IE rendering of a URL in the form of a screen shot, it support saving a web page into a BMP, JPEG or PNG image file.The usage is quite simple:IECapt {web URL} {image name along with path}I find this utility quite handy, hope you would love it too.

A new look to my blog - back to blogging

2007-09-12T21:13:00.000+05:00

{old template}Same old routine along with same old template for my blog for such a longer period of time with no blogging, Not Acceptable now :). Today i updated my blog template and gave it a new look altogether.Hope you guys will like it!

Interesting Measures for Mining Association Rules

2007-01-09T20:21:00.000+05:00

Back in 2004 while studying Data Mining course by Mr. Liaquat Majeed Sheikh, during my BS at FAST-NU wrote a paper on the Interestingness of Different Measures in Data Mining which was presented in IEEE-INMIC 2004 and published in its proceedings.____________________________________________________________Abstract:Discovering association rules is one of the most important tasks in data mining and

C# : Interview Questions

2006-09-07T12:16:00.000+05:00

Hi,I have uploaded the list of ASP.NET questions in my previous post, now i am uploading the list of questsion for C# interviews, Hope it will help someone in interviews :)C#* Does C# supports multiple inheritence?* What is a delegate?* What are setallite assemblies?* Differences between Namespace, Class, Assembly?* What is the difference between managed and unmanaged code?* What is serialization

AJAX without XML

2006-08-11T14:05:00.000+05:00

JSON is Java Script Object Notation, a lightweight data interchange format over the internet and is language independent.But Why we need JSON when we have XML, the biggest issue with the XML is its parsing . while JSON is easy to parse and it gives us object which are easy to maintain and manipulate.JSON contains:Objects with comma seperated Key/Value pair,Arrays with comma seperated Value.=>

patterns & practices Guidance Explorer

2006-07-01T22:44:00.000+05:00

Guidence Explorer is a handy tool, for searching relevent microsoft patterns & practices guidance. It includes Guidlines, Anti Pattern, Checklists, Code Samples, Patterns, Test Cases.You can customize the views of your own choice. You can also create different search views according to your requirements. Each and every topic is tagged according to Technology (asp.net 1.1 / asp.net 2.0 e.t.c.) ,

Online Office

2006-06-12T10:39:00.000+05:00

Have you ever worked with online office suite? Do you know you can create word/ spread sheets / HTML pages online and you can save them online moreover you can also share it with your friends and family (collaboration) . Google spread sheet provide another interesting feature along with just sharing i.e. live chatting with the people collaborating with you on the same document.List of few known

WiMax in Pakistan

2006-06-09T11:56:00.000+05:00

WiMax wide spread in Pakistanread more | digg story

Making width and height of ASP:ImageButton to work with Safari and other browsers

2006-05-25T13:53:00.000+05:00

If you ever come across the problem of using with specified width and height, it will work fine with the IE but the image dimensions will not be set for other browers like safari, the reason behind it is, whenever you specify the width and height of the it genertaes the Style attribute whenever HTML is rendered and embed the width and height in to it, which works fine in case of IE only.So what

ASP.NET: Interview Questions

2006-05-08T16:12:00.000+05:00

Hi, These are the typical questions that i usually asks while taking an ASP.NET specific interview. Hope these might help someone :)*What is View State?*Can you read the View State?*What is the difference between encoding and encryption? Which is easy to break?*Can we disable the view state application wide?*can we disable it on page wide?*can we disable it for a control?*What is provider Model?*

RSS Puller in ASP

2006-05-07T17:55:00.000+05:00

I have created a sample asp page that pulls the data from RSS and displays it on the page, using an XSL fro formatting the output. You just need to change the URL of RSS in:<%= getXML(" RSS_URL ") %>Where:RSS_URL: URL of the RSS whose contents we want to see.You can change the output of the RSS by updating the XSL file.ASP RSS Puller

ASP.NET 2.0 Magic: Asynchronous Web Pages

2006-04-27T16:13:00.000+05:00

The classic and inherently synchronous processing model of ASP.NET pages is simply unfit. Asynchronous HTTP handlers have existed since ASP.NET 1.0, but the ASP.NET 2.0 provides an easy to use API for managing Asynchronous Web Pages. If we have an I/O incentive operation then the ASP.NET synchronous page is blocked waiting for the I/O to complete, which leaves the end user waiting. In case of

Speed Up your web sites with HTTP Compression

2006-03-06T18:13:00.000+05:00

Need of HTTP Compression:1. Increase the speed of web page retrieval (effectively the speed of your web site).2. Reduce the bandwidth utilization.How to achieve all these??You can achieve the above goal by decreasing the size of your HTML pages, JS, CSS which can be done be a technique known as HTTP Compression.Idea behind HTTP Compression:The idea is to compress data being sent out from your Web

Home automation in the Netherlands

2006-02-02T11:55:00.000+05:00

This guy is monitoring everything he can: phone, energy, water, gas usage... This is crazy.... check it out!read more | digg story

Some Useful Web Links

2006-01-27T12:38:00.000+05:00

Hi,One of my colleague accumulated a list of useful links on the web , i have uploaded that document on the Writely . It you want to collaborate on this document to add more useful links, please send me your email address so that i can add you in the collaborator list.Its URL is:http://www.writely.com/Doc.aspx?id=bcsw8fz74pfHope it will be useful for you you guys.Acknowledgments:Adeel Anwar

Virtual Karma: Complete List of Web 2.0 Applications | Rian's blog

2006-01-25T13:31:00.000+05:00

Virtual Karma: Complete List of Web 2.0 Applications | Rian's blog

Posting data to another ASPX Page

2006-01-18T11:30:00.000+05:00

Posting data to another ASPX Page:One of the common problems faced by the JSP and ASP developers while developing application in ASP.NET is posting data to another ASPX page. By Default if you have a server side form tag in an aspx page then it will post the data to the same page.I Came across a very easy to understand article for doing this, hope it will also help you in understanding the

How to use Microsoft Indexing Service?

2005-12-19T16:49:00.000+05:00

Using Microsoft Indexing Service:Want to add document search in your application, you can use microsoft indexing service to do that. You can create a Catlog in the Microsoft indexing service on the folder whose document you want to search from your application. I will guide you on how to use microsoft indexing service from your ASP.NET page.Go to Computer Management->Services and Application->

What is .Resx file in Dot Net?

2005-12-16T12:16:00.000+05:00

What is .Resx file in Dot Net??It is an XML based file, with key value pair.Reading from .Resx File:You can access the .Resx file using this code:ResXResourceReader reader = new ResXResourceReader(Server.MapPath("test.resx"));IDictionaryEnumerator rsxr = reader.GetEnumerator();foreach (DictionaryEntry d in reader){Console.WriteLine(d.Key.ToString() + ":\t" + d.Value.ToString());}//Close the

AJAX : Todays Buzzword

2005-11-29T19:31:00.001+05:00

AJAX: Today becoming very common, and you will see lot of people talking about it. Microsoft has also launched an ATLAS Framework which is the implementation of AJAX.What AJAX is all about??Want to get the bigger picture, I hope these slide will help you a lot, If not then do write to me for any assistence.http://www.geocities.com/basit_tanveer/Data/AJAX.ppt

Executable Jar File in JAVA.

2005-10-19T19:16:00.000+05:00

Creating an executable jar file is not that tough if it does not involve any external jars. Create a manifest file and mention the main class path in the manifest file. Place all the class files in a folder along with the manifest file and run the following command:jar -cfm [name of the jar file] [name of the manifest] *Flags Description:c: Create new archivef: Specify the archive namem: include

Camps & Medicines are needed more than anything else, Pakistan Intl. Airlines will carry donations for free.

2005-10-13T10:02:00.000+05:00

As you may already know, the disaster that struck Pakistan's Kashmir and NWFP areas has left at least 40,000 dead and 2.5 million homeless (full stats are not in yet, many areas are not accessible at all because of damaged roads due to landslides), there is dire need of clothes, food items, medicines and camping equipment for the survivors.http://news.google.com.pk/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&

DotNet Framework & IIS installation order

2005-10-06T20:47:00.000+05:00

If you ever install the dot net framework before the IIS, then your aspx pages would not work. The solution to this problem is that:open the command prompt [For windows Xp and greater]>>cd C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322>>aspnet_regiis.exe -iIn case you are using any other windows then search the aspnet_regiis.exe file and run this file from the command prompt with -i argument.Note:

2005-09-06T15:31:00.000+05:00

Turtle 1.0 is a cool utility by Xeus Technologies for playing around with files, like removing invalid characters from file names, replacing plain text/pattern from one or multiple files, stripping comments from source files etc. It support multiple file types.You must try this utility.http://xeustech.blogspot.com/2005/09/turtle-10.html

2005-08-26T15:21:00.000+05:00

This website offers ASP.NET 2.0 Beta hosting for free, till the ASP.NET 2.0 is released actually so you can try it...http://www.hostmysite.com/aspnet/Enjoy ASP.NET 2.0 free web hosting

2005-08-11T11:55:00.000+05:00

Added the chat link on my blog.... Hope it will work fine..

2005-08-09T19:19:00.000+05:00

Are you ever faced with a problem that you have to call a webservice from you C# windows application and the webservice is taking some time in returning the data? The user has to wait until the webservice returns. The user will be stuck until the webservice replies back, but what if you can't afford such delay. So here is the solution for that. Call the webservice asynchronously. Seems confused……

2005-08-05T15:53:00.000+05:00

What is the most furustrating thing in web applications, as compared to the dektop applications. It is the server trip, which most of the web application takes even if you change the seletion of a dropdownlist , it goes to the server to poulate another dropdownlist depending on the seletion we made.With google introducting their new technologies like Gmail , Google Suggest and now Google Maps. It

2005-08-03T11:59:00.000+05:00

Open source software are very useful at times. Some good open source resources for C# and Java.http://csharp-source.net/http://java-source.net/

Basit's tech bin

Deployment Issue: Crystal Reports embedded with .NET web application

VS2008: Adding Web Service Reference, not hosted at default 80 port

Web.Config: Element

Translation as a Service: Microsoft; Bing Translator vs. Google Translator

GMail goes down once again!

Gmail Account Lockdown for 24 hours! Reasons Unknown!

Google Translate: Web Services written in languages other than English

Silverlight: What is CoreCLR?

Silverlight Ideas: Making a silverlight application run out of web browser

PTCL Broadband, not proving to be a wise decision

.NET Tricks - alterante folder for project assemblies

Star Performer Award @ TRG

Interview Questions: Quality Engineer

Open Source: Chat Engine

Hotmail shoots to 5 GB

Webpage Screenshot Utility - IECapt

A new look to my blog - back to blogging

Interesting Measures for Mining Association Rules

C# : Interview Questions

AJAX without XML

patterns & practices Guidance Explorer

Online Office

WiMax in Pakistan

Making width and height of ASP:ImageButton to work with Safari and other browsers

ASP.NET: Interview Questions

RSS Puller in ASP

ASP.NET 2.0 Magic: Asynchronous Web Pages

Speed Up your web sites with HTTP Compression

Home automation in the Netherlands

Some Useful Web Links

Virtual Karma: Complete List of Web 2.0 Applications | Rian's blog

Posting data to another ASPX Page

How to use Microsoft Indexing Service?

What is .Resx file in Dot Net?

AJAX : Todays Buzzword

Executable Jar File in JAVA.

Camps & Medicines are needed more than anything else, Pakistan Intl. Airlines will carry donations for free.

DotNet Framework & IIS installation order