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After an year of Hibernation at home we have decided for a quick get away over the first long week end of January which apparently coincides with the pongal festival !  Bidar is located at a distance of 150kms from Hyderabad and  it takes around 3 hours to reach this place.     If one is looking for a site seeing and a day tour then also Bidar has a rich historical places like Bidar fort, Nanak Jhira & few temples like Narasimha Jharna,Papanash Mahadev. Route from Hyderabad to Bidar is really nice and its a pleasent drive through NH 65 & Zaheerabad !   The Bidar Fort: As we entered Bidar We could see the walls of the Bidar fort boundaries . It is such a magnanimous fort giving the impression of glorified past of Indian history  of Bahamanis. There is an archeological museum inside the fort which displays the items collected and there is a history of Bidar on how the capital and fort has been changed from Gulbarga(Kalaburigi) to Bidar.  There ar...

Introduction to KnockOut.JS            Knockout.Js is a JavaScript library which helps in the creation of rich web UIs.  It is very interesting and the beauty of this is you don't even need any editor for developing this. You can just use your notepad and develop the applications. Other interesting features of this framework is You don't have to worry about which DOM elements need to be changed/added/removed - the framework can take care of synchronizing things for you. Also Many of the most modern web-based UIs have gone beyond traditional Ajax and have become single page applications(SPA's). KnockOut.Js helps you to build SPA very easily.  Knockout.js uses the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern. As most of you might already know that MVVM is a quite popular model which is used in WPF/Silverlight applications because of advantage that it provides the best separation of concerns, View is in charge of the visual representation while the non-vis...

What is SignalR?  ASP.NET SignalR is an asynchronous signaling library for ASP.NET developers’ for creating real-time web functionality to applications. Real-time web functionality is the ability to have server code push content to connected clients instantly as it becomes available, rather than having the server wait for a client to request new data. This new Microsoft API is very much helpful for replacing the earlier web applications where user has to refresh to see new data or a page uses "long polling" to retrieve new data. Examples for the application that you can consider for working with SignalR are  • Real-time gaming • Chat Application • Dashboards • Monitoring applications  • Collaborative applications • Real time forums • Job updates • Trading • Traffic updates etc…. Why SignalR and How it works? 1. SignalR handles connection management automatically, and lets you broadcast messages to all connected clients simultaneously 2. The connection bet...

Webcasts this September & October | Mon - Fri Webcasts on Mobile Messaging, Aspiring Architects and .NET 3.0 Attend these LIVE Webcasts by experts from Microsoft and get on to the edge of the steep-learning curve. Participate in the Webcast Contest during the Webcast and 4 lucky winners will win a Microsoft Press Book. Webcasts on Mobile Messaging Date Topic Sept 18, 2006 Device Configuration and End user guidance for Windows Mobile 5.0 and Exchange Server 2003 SP2 based Mobile Messaging Speaker: Ravi Sankar (IT Professional Evangelist, Microsoft India) Sept 19, 2006 Exchange On-the-Go: Mobile Access to an Exchange Server in 2003 SP2 – Part 1 Speaker: Ravi Sankar (IT Professional Evangelist, Microsoft India) Sept 20, 2006 Exchange On-the-Go: Mobile Access to an Exchange Server in 2003 SP2 – Part 2 Speaker: Ravi Sankar (IT Professional Evangelist, Microsoft India) Sept 21, 2006 Instant Messaging and Integrated Communications for Windows Mobile Speaker: Ravi Sankar (IT Professi...

Hi Folks, Webcasts this August & September | Mon - Fri Webcasts on Project 2003, Cryptography, Virtual Server 2005 R2 and more... Attend these LIVE Webcasts by experts from Microsoft and get on to the edge of the steep-learning curve. Participate in the Webcast Contest during the Webcast and 4 lucky winners will win a Microsoft Press Book. Webcasts on Project Professional 2003 Date Topic Aug 29, 2006 Project 2003 - A Managerial Perspective Speaker: Prof. Ajay Parasrampuria (MD, i2m) Sept 1, 2006 Enterprise PMO Tools: Are we ready for it ? Speaker: Prof. Ajay Parasrampuria (MD, i2m) Going Deeper into ASP.NET 2.0 and ATLAS Date Topic Aug 31, 2006 Going Deeper into ASP.NET 2.0 and ATLAS Speaker: Nahas Mohammed Webcasts on Cryptography Date Topic Sept 4, 2006 Cryptography 101 Speaker: Vineet Gupta (Technology Evangelist, Microsoft India) Sept 5, 2006 Hiding Secrets in Plain Sight Speaker: Vineet Gupta (Technology Evangelist, Microsoft India) Sept 6, 2006 Tamper Proof...

Folks -- Joe Stagner has been busy at work publishing more Atlas videos on the www.asp.net website (click here for the full video listing). Here are a few pointers to some of the recent Atlas videos he has posted: Add "Atlas" features to an existing ASP.NET web application : Learn how to easily add Atlas functionality to an existing ASP.NET application, and demonstrates how to add the Atlas assembly and configure it within a site (4 minutes, 33 seconds). Implement Dynamic Partial-Page Updates using Atlas : Learn how to to use the Timer control in Atlas to dynamically refresh portions of an ASP.NET page (5 minutes, 31 seconds). Using the Atlas Control Toolkit Cascading Dropdownlist Extender : Learn how to implement cascading drop-downlist UI with Atlas server controls, which enables you to have drop-down lists depend on values in another drop-down list on the client without requiring any postbacks to occur (19 minutes, 9 seconds). Make Client-Side Network Callbacks with At...

Hi Floks, Microsoft is giving away free Vista DVD/CDs if you can answer a small quiz. Click on Link Enjoy!!! Thanks, Padmasri.