.NET From India

If I had $1500 to blow away

I would stay at an underwater hotel.

The world's first underwater hotel is coming up at Bahamas and a days stay is gonna cost you approx USD1500.

Read more about Poseidon, which is the name of this resort.

If I remember right, Poseidon is the greek god of sea. [Who said, playing Age of Mythology does not have its uses..:-)] So they have got the name right, though it is also the name of a well known UML tool.

Bill Gates' Interview

A good interview of BillG in ABC News. Unlike normal marketing or press interviews, this one tries to get his personal reactions to a wide range of topics.

Study finds Windows more secure than Linux

The title says it all :-)

Read the Article

They compared Windows Server 2003 and Red Hat Enterprise Server 3 running databases, scripting engines and Web servers (Microsoft's on one, the open source Apache on the other).

Their criteria included the number of reported vulnerabilities and their severity, as well as the number of patches issued and days of risk — the period from when a vulnerability is first reported to when a patch is issued.

On average, the Windows setup had just over 30 days of risk versus 71 days for the Red Hat setup, their study found.

Eipca Awards

Naveen, a fellow MVP forwarded a link to an Italia Telecom ad, which had won an Epica award in 2004. A cool ad and the site has clips of all the winners in different categories.

Check out - TELECOM ITALIA S.P.A. "GANDHI"

and the main site Epica Awards

EDRA in Whidbey Source Uploaded

I have uploaded the converted source code for the EDRA (Shadofax) framework 1.1 to the EDRA workspace in gotdotnet.

This download contains the converted solution and project files (for VS 2005) as well as fixes for the APIs that have been obseleted in .NET 2.0

One security hole IE can protect you from!!

Quite suprised reading this post at Logu's blog..

Looks like, it does help being out of date :-)

Tweaking NTFS

A neat set of tips to speed up NTFS.

NTFS Performance Hacks

Well no major hacks here. A few like defragging are well known best practice. But some of them are things that I did not know about.

via Tejas

EDRA runs on Whidbey!!!

Got EDRA(shadowfax) to run on .NET 2.0.. Hurray...

Learning - don't rely on the VS.NET converter. In Nov CTP, if the converter is unable to convert a project (seems to have trouble with web service projects), it removes it from the solution. So when I converted the fully created 1.1 solution, I got a new 2.0 solution, which did not have a project or two.

The easiest way to get it to run:

1. Copy the source code of EDRA into a diff directory. This step is needed, so that the msi does not think that the install is corrupted and ask you to reinstall it etc..
2. Convert the EDRA source tree to 2.0. Most prob, you got errors when conversion of WebServiceDispatcher and it got removed from the solution. Go ahead and manually create this project and copy the source code over.
3. Get the framework to compile. You will get quite a few obsolete warnings. If you do have the time, do convert these to the equivalent 2.0 functions/classes. Not too difficult, just read the relevant pages from MSDN.
4. Create the web service, BA and the client project. I found it was faster just creating these projects, instead of converting the 1.1 equivalents.

EDRA and .NET 2.0

I have been looking in Enterprise Development Reference Architecture aka Shadowfax for a day or two now. I have not really given it too much time till now, but my current assignment may be a well suited candidate for EDRA. The only hitch is that I am developing on .NET 2.0, while EDRA is on 1.1.

Well, atleast it ships with source. So did a conversion and came up with 50 odd places where things have changed and so have been marked obselete. After converting everything, EDRA compiles in Whidbey. Now I need to get it to run. As of now that is a no-go. The most troublesome part is that EDRA is tightly integrated into EIF and EIF is 1.1 only. It also does not ship source and so I cannot convert it to 2.0.

Anyway, if you are using a lot of XML, be warned, you may have some work converting stuff to 2.0. Especially if you are using XSD (ValidatingReader) or XSLT. Anyway, this is my first experience really migrating stuff from 1.1 to 2.0. Till now it had been either 1.1 or 2.0 development.

Hmm... Let me see if I can get that to really work...