http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/funzone/games/default.mspx

I never heard about this before. Yeah, there is a scripting competition going on now. Australia is not looking good in stats somewhere down under.

Sql Server 2005 & DotLucene FullText Performance comparision

I wanted to compare Sql Server and DotLucene FullText, i didn’t find which was faster, so i started writing some code to do check the performances. DotLucene is very much loved by the community. Only difference between Sql Server & DotLucene is that, people think we can index documents using DotLucene but not with SQL [...]

Altas Quick Start tutorials

As everyone know, its Microsoft’s implementation of Ajax. It is doing some cool stuff. These tutorials tell us how to write less code to get thing working.
Cool features include…

Binding data/objects
Calling web services
Declarative programing model on top of normal code.

Invalid Cast Exception XMLElement

You wrote a class say StoredItemElement, that inherited from XmlElement class. When you open the document and try to cast the Element to StoredItemElement, you get an exception “Cannot cast ‘this.SelectSingleNode(“/WorkFlow/Messages”)’ (which has an actual type of ‘System.Xml.XmlElement’) to ‘Roadhouse.WorkFlow.Engine.Messages’”. In other words its “Specified cast is not valid” exception. Then do the following…
1. Don’t [...]

404 NET framework IIS6

I received 404 when i tried to open a ASP.NET app, after installing 1.1 & 2.0 frameworks on a virtual machine. To my suprise the following solution worked.

Open IIS
Expand [COMPUTER NAME]–> Web Service Extenstions
Select ASP.NET frameworks and click ‘Allow’

Imagine Cup 2006

There is a new competition going on now, called Imagine Cup 2006. Ohhh, i still haven’t started working on TopCoder Intel competition yet. The following is an extract of what is available in the competition.
We are working with Universities to integrate the Imagine Cup Software Design Invitational into course work for Semester 1 2006. [...]