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How to go to a specific row in Excel 2010?

admin — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:34:00 +0000

If you want to focus or go to a certain row in Excel, you can use the GoTo Dialog window to achieve it. How to go to a specific row in Excel 2010? 1. Press Ctrl + G. This will open a small Dialog Window. 2. Enter the row number that you wish to go to. For example, if the row number is 25, then you should enter 25:25 in the GoTo textbox. Random ArticlesHow to Create PDF files with Excel 2010 ?How to save excel as x

How to disable the Windows 7 from decreasing the volume on detecting applications?

Senthil Kumar — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:37:10 +0000

Have you noticed this small feature in Windows 7 that decreases the volume of the application when it detects another application that uses the sound? This is a feature in Windows 7 which automatically decreases the speaker volume when it finds out some kind of communication activity. You can disable this feature by following the below steps How to disable the Windows 7 from decreasing the volume on detecting appli

How to create a blog post in Word 2010?

Senthil Kumar — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:58:08 +0000

Do you want to create a blog post in Microsoft Word? If yes, then you are in the right place. Microsoft Word 2010 provides various blogging platforms like Blogger, Word Press etc. With the powerful editor like Word, things can be very easy to write and format a blog post than any other editor. Follow the steps below to create a blog post in Word 2010. How to create a blog post in Word 2010? 1. Open Word 2010 and na

Webinar – How to design Windows Phone applications with Expression Blend

admin — Thu, 10 May 2012 17:44:20 +0000

Here’s a webinar on Windows Phone which is part of Nokia Developer Webinars and is scheduled to be held on May 22 , 2012 ( Indian Time). The topic for this session is “How to design Windows Phone applications with Expression Blend” . Read more about Webinar – How to design Windows Phone applications with Expression Blend @ Windowsphonerocks.com Recently Searched terms :microsoft onenote mobile androi

How to change the page color in Word 2010 ?

admin — Wed, 09 May 2012 18:31:29 +0000

If you want to change the background color or page color in Word 2010 , you can do it easily by changing the Page color option in the Page Layout tab . How to change the page color in Word 2010 ? 1. Navigate to the Page Background group in the Page Layout tab . 2. Click the drop down list “Page Color” and then select the desired color for the page . How to change the page color in Word 2010 ? Random Art

Multi line text from Excel to Notepad

admin — Wed, 09 May 2012 16:31:28 +0000

Here’s something that i noticed today when working with Excel and notepad . When a multi line text is created in a cell in Excel and then copied to a different text editor , you will find that the double quotes is added around the string . For example , assume the below multi line text in a excel sheet cell . Multi line text from Excel to Notepad - 1 Copying it to a notepad will lead to the following Multi li

Shortcut key to insert a date in Excel

admin — Tue, 08 May 2012 17:43:55 +0000

Want a quick and easy way to insert the current date into a Excel sheet cell ? Below is a shortcut that lets you to insert the current date “Control Key” + “;” The Control Key and Semicolon key will insert the current date to the selected cell in a Excel Spreadsheet. Recently Searched terms :Powered by Article Dashboard uninstalling internet explorer 8Random ArticlesMulti line text from Exce

Compare Excel , Word and PDF documents with xdocdiff plugin for WinMerge

admin — Mon, 07 May 2012 18:20:14 +0000

Just came across a plugin fot WinMerge called xdocdiff that lets you to compare Excel , Word and PDF documents . If you are new to WinMerge . Below is a short description about WinMerge from the product website What is WinMerge ? WinMerge is an Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows. WinMerge can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual text format that is easy to understand

How to find the number of chararcters in a word document ?

admin — Sun, 06 May 2012 13:28:05 +0000

In Word 2010 , you can find the number of characters in the word document by clicking on the Words : button that is visible in the bottom bar of the Word document . How to find the number of chararcters in a word document ? - 1 This will display the Word count window that shows you the characters counts including (With spaces and no spaces ) How to find the number of chararcters in a word document ?

How to Add a new library in Windows 7 ?

admin — Thu, 03 May 2012 16:51:32 +0000

Windows 7 has a cool feature called Windows 7 called Library that lets you to store data like documents , pictures , videos etc . You can easily add a new library in Windows 7 by following the below steps How to Add a new library in Windows 7 ? 1. Navigate to the Libraries folder . 2. Right Click on the Libraries and select New -> Library How to Add a new library in Windows 7 ? - 1 3. Now, Right click on the new

Silence or mute the Click Sound in Windows 7

admin — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 16:57:04 +0000

By default , when you click in Windows 7 , you will hear a sound . You can Silence this sound or mute the Click Sound in Windows 7 by changing the setting in the Control Panel. How to Silence or mute the Click Sound in Windows 7 ? 1. Navigate to Control Panel -> Sound . 2. In the Sound Window Dialog , click the Sounds tab. Select Start Navigation in the Program and in the Sounds dropdown , select None and Click

5 Things Programmers Can’t Live without

Senthil Kumar — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 04:05:12 +0000

What are the 5 things that a programmer can’t live without ? Below are few list of things that i feel as a Programmer can’t live without . I know there are lot of things… Read more about 5 Things Programmers Can’t Live without here Random Articles10 General Programming Tips for ProgrammersWhy Hello World is the first program that most programmers write ?My Top 10 Programming Quotes

Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone – Article #7 – Using Custom Objects in RadAutoCompleteBox

Senthil Kumar — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:29:53 +0000

In one of my earlier blog post , i explained about RadAutoCompleteBox showing how to display suggestions using a List of string . I had a requirement to bind custom object to the Suggestion List to the RadAutoCompleteBox and had to take help of the Telerik Support Team to get it done. To put it simple , Telerik’s Support Team is simply super . Read more about Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone – Article #7 �

How do display distinct values of a column in Excel ?

admin — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:34:32 +0000

If you want to find the distinct values in a column , you can find that using the Sort and Filter Section in Excel. How do display distinct values of a column in Excel ? To display distinct values of a column in Excel , follow the below steps 1. Navigate to the Data Ribbon Menu. 2. Click the Advanced Button in the Sort and Filter Section. 3. Select “Copy to another location” and enter the Copy to Textb

10 useful Internet Explorer 9 Keyboard Shortcuts to remember

admin — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 14:56:28 +0000

If you are a Internet Explorer 9 user and frequently use few functionalities , it would be easier to use keyboard shortcuts instead of using the mouse and clicking the menu… Below are 10 useful Internet Explorer 9 shortcuts that increases your productivity when using Internet Explorer. 1. Alt + X – Opens the Settings / Tools menu 2. Ctrl + Shift + Delete – Deletes the browsing history 3. Alt + C &

How to change the background color of the Page in Word 2010 ?

admin — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:35:35 +0000

I was looking at some options to change the background color of the Page in Word 2010 but was finding it difficult . There is no direct way or option in Microsoft Word to change the background color of the pages . But if you want the background color to be different , you can do it by adding a textbox or shape and cover it entirely on the page and then fill it with the color. How to change the background col

Maxthon scores better than other browsers in HTML5 test ?

admin — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:55:47 +0000

Just noticed something interesting in the HTML5test.com website . HTML5Test is a website that lets the users to compare the browser support for different web technologies . There are different browsers available in the market like Google Chrome , Microsoft’s Internet Explorer , Mozilla Firefox , Opera , Safari , Maxthon etc. Read more about Maxthon scores better than other browsers in HTML5 test ? here Recently S

Interesting .NET Links – April 20 , 2012

Senthil Kumar — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:35:57 +0000

A Match Made in Http Heaven – ASP.NET Web Forms and WebAPI – Joshua Holt Maxthon scores better than other browsers in HTML5 test ? ASP.NET Web API: Extending content negotiation with new formats – Gunnar Peipman EvenTiles and 256-MB Windows Phone Devices – Maarten Struys Find your Windows 7 Product Key with Windows Product Key Finder Open DBDiff for SQL Server 2008 null is not fals

Interesting .NET Links – April 18 , 2012

Senthil Kumar — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:04:54 +0000

Building Expression Evaluator with Expression Trees in C# – Improving the Api – Giorgi Dalakishvili Using Parallel.ForEach To Aggregate Results From JSON Files Stored in Windows Azure Blob Storage – Karsten Januszewski How to display Suggestions in ‘on screen keyboard’ for a textbox in Windows Phone app? Compiling Same Code on Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8 Metro – Joel Ivory Johns

Interesting .NET Links – April 13 , 2012

Senthil Kumar — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:04:01 +0000

Windows Phone 7 – A Simple Clock App in 10-15 Minutes – Paresh Mayani Writing integration tests for ASP .NET with Selenium – Part 1 – Nizar Beware of big Task Parallel Library Operations – Oren Eini Beginner’s Guide To Using Google Plus .NET API Part 1: Profile Data – Surinder Bhomra Tips for Entity Framework Migrations – Jarod Ferguson Your own sports news site with ESPN

Interesting .NET Links – April 10 , 2012

Senthil Kumar — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:06:07 +0000

Data Driven Coded UI Test using Visual Studio 11 – Gouri Sohoni A Refactoring Experiment – K. Scott Allen Update to Windows Phone Control Kit – ZuneCard – Den Delimarsky Using BackgroundWorker with WPF Write Faster Code by Adding VIM to Visual Studio – Ian Davis Windows 8 and the future of XAML: Part 4: Contracts in WinRT/Windows 8 Windows 8 Metro style simple music app examp

How to display Suggestions in ‘on screen keyboard’ for a textbox in Windows Phone app?

admin — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 12:30:29 +0000

In the standard Windows Phone functions like messaging or Email App, when you enter a text, you will see the list of suggestions for the text you are typing in the top of on screen keyboard. Similarly, we can display the suggestions for a textbox in the on screen keyboard in our Windows Phone App too with the help of Input Scope(Chat or Text InputScopeName). Read more about How to display Suggestions in ‘on scree

How to set different ‘default’ folder for Windows Explorer icon pinned in Windows 7 taskbar ?

admin — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 10:41:38 +0000

In windows 7 , you could pin the Windows Explorer icon to your taskbar . When you click the Windows Explorer icon in your taskbar , it will open the Libraries folder . You can change this behaviour by setting a different folder to be opened whn you click the Windows Explorer pinned in Windows 7 taskbar . 1. Close all the open Windows Explorer windows . 2. Press Shift Key and then Right-Click on the Windows Explorer

Interesting .NET Links – April 6 , 2012

Senthil Kumar — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:43:03 +0000

Improve JavaServer Pages Performance with Caching Lowercase JSON with ASP.NET Web API – Alexander Zeitler 7 Deadly Sins for Windows Phone Developers: Wrath – Samidip Basu Read Web.Config Using JavaScript – Amit Jain Everything you wanted to know about databinding in WPF, Silverlight and WP7 (Part One) – Colin Eberhardt What is Metro, really? – Brandon Satrom Script to add table

Interesting .NET Links – April 5 , 2012

Senthil Kumar — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:15:05 +0000

Script to add table in existing publication in transactional replication – SQL Server – Paresh Windows 8 Metro: Create your apps with simplicity in mind – drea Boschin A recipe for Dev to Production with ASP.NET MVC and RavenDB – RobertTheGrey Windows 8 Development News section is now Live – Windows Phone Geek Indecent things with Mono.Cecil – An alternative to ILMerge fo

Interesting .NET Links – April 4 , 2012

Senthil Kumar — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:45:53 +0000

Windows 8 Metro: Create your apps with simplicity in mind – Andrea Boschin “April 2012 Updates to Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Beta (x86 and x64)” available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads (from VS 11.0.50214.1 BETAREL to 11.0.50323.1 QRELB) – Greg Duncan Windows 8 Metro: Create your apps with simplicity in mind – Andrea Boschin Use Faker.NET To Fake Your Data – Roopesh Shenoy

Green and Blue colors for files and Folders in Windows 7 ?

admin — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:11:27 +0000

Have you noticed a file in Windows 7 which of green or blue color like the one’s below ? Green and Blue colors for files and Folders in Windows 7 ? Wondering what does these mean ? Green color for a file or a folder means that the file is encrypted . Similarly , blue color for a file or folder in Windows 7 means , it is compressed . Recently Searched terms :file color for windows 7how to make files and folder

Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone – Article #6 – RadAutoCompleteBox

Senthil Kumar — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:13:49 +0000

RadAutoCompleteBox is a Autocomplete textbox that is part of the RadControls for Windows Phone . The RadAutoCompleteBox provides a textbox along with additional functionality of providing the suggestion based on the characters the user types in the textbox . To add the RadAutoCompleteBox to your Windows Phone App , you need to include the following dll’s to your project Telerik.Windows.Core.dll Telerik.Windows.C

Interesting .NET Links – April 3 , 2012

Senthil Kumar — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:58:07 +0000

ASP.NET MVC 4 AllowAnonymous Attribute and Authorize Attribute – David Hayden .NET Versioning and Multi-Targeting – .NET 4.5 is an in-place upgrade to .NET 4.0 – Scott Hanselman Wrapping Begin/End Async API Into C#5 Tasks – Toni Petrina Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone – Article #6 – RadAutoCompleteBox TFS 11 Power Tools Beta Available – Brian Harry New in ASP.NET MVC4: Bu

Decorated Eggs theme for Windows 7

admin — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:00:57 +0000

Here’s another beautiful theme for Windows 7 called as Decorated Eggs theme which is of download size of 13.7 MB which includes some 13 wallpapers displaying decorated eggs . Decorated Eggs theme for Windows 7 You won’t have to hunt long to find the brightly colored eggs in this free theme for Windows 7. Get all the fun of finding chocolate-covered, candy-coated goodness without the calories. Download Decor

Is this Windows Phone App statistics Real ?

admin — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:29:41 +0000

When i logged in to my AppHub account, I was surprised or rather shocked to see something in my AppHub Dashboard. It was the number of downloads for the Apps that i submitted to the Windows Phone Marketplace. I had submitted 3 Apps Read more about Is this Windows Phone App statistics Real ? here Random ArticlesHow to display Suggestions in ‘on screen keyboard’ for a textbox in Windows Phone app?TripAdvisor App

Is this Windows Phone Calculator Bug ?

admin — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:13:43 +0000

Just noticed one of the error in Windows Phone Calculator when performing an calculation … Below are steps to reproduce this 1. Open the Windows Phone Calculator and switch to the LandScape view. Read more about Is this Windows Phone Calculator Bug ? @windowsphonerocks.com Random ArticlesWebinar – How to design Windows Phone applications with Expression BlendTelerik RadControls for Windows Phone – Arti

Interesting .NET Links – April 2 , 2012

Senthil Kumar — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 17:08:26 +0000

Using the Implicit Operator in C# for Maximum Nerdy Good Times – Bobby Johnson Windows 8: flickR searching demo in .NET and JS – Mike Taulty A Quick Overview of .NET Reflector – Adam Driscoll Fun with ASP.NET Web API – push-like messaging from one application to multiple subscriber applications – Filip W Touch hardware and Windows 8 – Steven Sinofsky C#/.NET Little Wonders: S

How do increase or decrease the desktop icon size in Windows 7 ?

admin — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 13:05:40 +0000

If you are a Windows 7 user and want to increase or decrease the desktop icon size , You can easily do it by following one of the below steps 1. Right Click on the desktop and select View -> and (Large icons , Medium icons , Small icons). How do increase or decrease the desktop icon size in Windows 7 ? Select the appropriate one . 2. This is another way to increase or decrease the desktop icon size . Click on th

How to undo or defer sent email in Microsoft Outlook ?

admin — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:04:28 +0000

Gmail has a feature that lets you undo a sent email with in some time if you have by mistake sent an email . You can achieve the similar functionality in Outlook by setting up a rule so that you can delay the delivery of your emails . 1. Create a new Rule via the Rules and Alerts from Rules button in the Home “Ribbon bar”. 2. Select “Apply rule on message I send” from the “Start from a

How to locate the MAC address of the Computer ?

admin — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 08:18:37 +0000

To locate the MAC address of the computer , you can use the command ipconfig or getmac . I got to know about getmac just now and hence sharing it here 1. Open the command Prompt. 2. type getmac and press enter key 3. You should see the Mac address of the PC… Recently Searched terms :facebookvideocalling_v1-1 jar per power macerror code 25028 vmware playerRandom ArticlesApple Mac and Windows PC Wallpaper ̵

Interesting .NET Links – March 31 , 2012

Senthil Kumar — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 04:53:49 +0000

Configuring Bundles in MVC 4 – Tom DuPont Is this Windows Phone Calculator Bug ? Define your own Collection class that support Iterator Pattern What’s your favourite Programming tool ? reCAPTCHA : Free Captcha service for ASP.NET – TechSamosa Mapping WPF HotKeys to Actions – Marcell Scarlett How to find if your Compuer is a boy or a Girl in your Windows PC ? Handling nasty Crystal

Interesting .NET Links – March 29 , 2012

Senthil Kumar — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:33:40 +0000

Visual Studio Ultimate Roadmap – Jason Zander Team Foundation Service – Build in the cloud! – Richard Erwin Some points to consider while working on ASP.NET MVC and jQuery – Rahul Bandopadhyaya Windows Phone Homebrew: The new Samsung Diagnostics app appears to be blocking GPRS profile switching – Den Delimarsky 10 Things you probably didn’t know about Windows 8 – Michael Crump Ann

Interesting .NET Links – March 27 , 2012

Senthil Kumar — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:49:19 +0000

Power Tools for TFS 11 Beta – Jonathan Allen Windows Phone Emulator in the 7.1.1 SDK – quick insights – Den Delimarsky Demystifying Windows Phone 7.5 Refresh and Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 Update – Nikita Polyakov Create Zip Files In Asp.Net – Amit Jain null is not false – Eric Lippert IQueryable is Tight Coupling – Mark Seemann Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 Update Now Ava

Interesting .NET Links – March 26 , 2012

Senthil Kumar — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:09:53 +0000

Integration of Third party login’s(like Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter) in Asp.net Automated Testing of ASP.NET MVC Applications – Artëm Smirnov Request Validation Mode in ASP .NET 4.5 – Nandip T-SQL features in SQL Server 2012 – Kalyan Bandarupalli SEO Optimization using Response.RedirectPermanent My Top 5 VS11 Designer Improvements for ASP.NET 4.5 Development – Teleri

Interesting .NET Links – March 23 , 2012

Senthil Kumar — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:19:40 +0000

Is this Windows Phone App statistics Real ? WPF Designer for F# – Steffen Forkmann Visual Studio 11 Express Beta for Web new features – Xinyang Qiu Source code for the OneNote Text Highlighting Extractor Powertoy – John Guin Windows Phone 7 Sample App : Hello World – OData – Anand Raja Squash Entity Framework startup time with pre-compiled views – Ward Bell Metro XAML a

Interesting .NET Links – March 22 , 2012

Senthil Kumar — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:24:55 +0000

ASP.NET Web API and Simple Value Parameters from POSTed data – Rick Strahl Delegate Variety in C# – Justin Greenwood Working with Encrypting Data for Security in Windows Phone – Karthik Anbarasan Telerik Sample Apps, Resources and Giveaways for Windows Phone Developers Extending the Visual Studio 11 Web Browser Chooser and Browse With Menu to include Developer Profiles – Scott Ha

Telerik Sample Apps, Resources and Giveaways for Windows Phone Developers

Senthil Kumar — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:26:19 +0000

Recently, I have started using the Telerik’s RadControls for Windows Phone for my personal projects as well as started writing blog articles on them too. The RadControls for Windows Phone is simple to use and provides rich set of functionalities to develop windows phone App easily. RadControls for Windows Phone is built from the ground up for the Windows Phone Operating System and includes large number of control

Interesting .NET Links – March 21 , 2012

Senthil Kumar — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:49:07 +0000

Telerik XAML Controls and the VS11 Beta Release Facebook C# SDK Accepted as Outercurve Foundation Project – Nathan Totten Creating the SilverlightShow Windows Phone App: Part 1 Keeping apps fast and fluid with asynchrony in the Windows Runtime – Jason Olson Does anyone actually care about WinRT? – Josh Smith Fixing the UnKnown Namespace Error for Windows Phone – Senthil Kumar ASP.NET

Interesting .NET Links – March 20 , 2012

Senthil Kumar — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:32:23 +0000

On Writing Unit Tests for C# – Patrick Smacchia Features NO ONE NOTICED in Visual Studio 11 Express Beta for Web – Scott Hanselman How not to join tables in LightSpeed – Ivan Towlson How BLD differs from ASP.NET Dynamic Data – Peter Blum @home with Windows Azure : Can I Deploy Multiple Instances? – Peter Laudati Correcting the Invisible Events Tab Issue in the Properties W

Interesting .NET Links – March 18 , 2012

Senthil Kumar — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 12:46:46 +0000

Getting Started with Windows Phone 7 programming – Getting Started with Windows Phone 7 – Part 1 – Overview and System Requirements for Windows Phone 7 – Karthikeyan Anbarasan Asynchronous programming in C# 5 – MindScape Double Wide Tiles in Windows Phone Drop default constraints of which you don’t know the name - Sergejack Getting Started with Windows Phone 7

How to change the Worksheet Direction in Excel 2007 – 2010 ?

admin — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 10:36:15 +0000

In Microsoft Excel , the default direction of the Worksheet is left to right . How to change the Worksheet Direction in Excel 2007 - 2010 ? - 1 You could easily modify this behaviour in Excel 2007 or Excel 2010 by changing the settings in Excel . 1. In Excel 2010 , Navigate to File -> Options 2. Click the Advanced link in the left sidebar 3. In the Display Group , you will find the default direction , select Rig

Double Wide Tiles in Windows Phone

Senthil Kumar — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:45:06 +0000

If you noticed the Windows Phone start screen , you will find that there are few double wide tiles there . These include Calender Pictures HTC Weather App Tile ( HTC Phones ) if installed . One of the tiles that provides double wide tiles when Read more about Double Wide Tiles in Windows Phone @ WindowsPhonerocks.com Recently Searched terms :wide tiles on windows phoneRandom ArticlesWebinar – How to design Wind

Interesting .NET Links – March 17 , 2012

Senthil Kumar — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:19:08 +0000

Visual Studio 11 Beta ALM DemoMates now available – Brian Keller Automating Undo/Redo with .NET Generics – Sergey Arhipenko JavaScript for the C# Guy: Scopes – Shawn Wildermuth Mads Torgersen, Donna Malayeri and Erik Meijer: (Re)Introducing Lang.NEXT – Charles Torre VS11 Beta JavaScript Feature comparison with VS2010sp1 – Xinyang Qiu How to add My Computer to the Start Screen i

How to Create PDF files with Excel 2010 ?

admin — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 08:36:45 +0000

Here’s a feature in Microsoft Excel 2010 that lets you to create Acrobat Reader PDF files . Infact , this feature was available in Microsoft Excel 2007 with the Microsoft Office Service Pack 2 installed . Enter some data in the Excel Worksheet and follow the below steps . 1. Click -> Save As How to Create PDF files with Excel 2010 ? 2. This will open a dialog that lets you to save the file . In the Save As