Once again i felt that i am not alone.

Thanks for all the people who remembered the day... :)

Back !!!

OH! I haven't come here for more than one month.I think I have really miss my blog hehehe.So wazz up with me? mmmmmmm

well I have moved in to C#.Net.(You was waiting to hear it from me. isn't it charith ? lol)I was working with VB.Net more than 2 years.But because of the new project that we have got we had to move in to C#.I have no choice.anyway it's pretty cool thing.

I miss Deep dive .NET 3.0 I always missing important things I do not know what's wrong with me.anyway hope to be alive with ma blog again.and bring up new things here.

cheers !!!

Microsoft has announced Light Weight Open Source Applications(Online)

October 30th Microsoft has released a free downloadable accounting program called Office Accounting Express 2007. This software focuses on integrating with online sites like eBay, PayPal and Office Live. See for comparison Google’s partnership with Intuit.

And 31st of October they have announced that the first version of Office Live will come as beta version on the 14th of November. Office Live is a free service with premium services for small businesses. It includes online storage, webmail and calendaring.

What will be next.....

Read more at Techcrunch.

The Difference ...

Found a Nice story from my emails today..... I just wanted to bring it out here ,because I feel it's special.

Little girl and her father were crossing a bridge.
The father was kind of scared so he asked his little daughter, "Sweetheart, please hold my hand so that you don't fall into the river."
The little girl said, "No, Dad. You hold my hand."
"What's the difference?" Asked the puzzled father. "There's a big difference," replied the little girl.

"If I hold your hand and something happens to me, chances are that I may let your hand go. But if you hold my hand, I know for sure that no matter what happens, you will never let my hand go."

In any relationship, the essence of trust is not in its bind, but in its bond .
So hold the hand of the person whom you love rather than expecting them to hold urs...

Nikhil Kothari's Ajax.net presentation on JAOO 2006 Conference

Here is the link for nikhil Kothari's presentation on ASP.NET AJAX at the JAOO 2006 conference in Denmark.(In case you didnt visit Nikhil's Blog recently ;-))

And you can download the video of it from.....

http://channel9.msdn.com/Screencasts/243775_JAOOLapAroundAtlas.wmv

Save Your eyes !!!

Normally I use anti-reflect Lenses when I am working.But last 2 days I forgot to bring it. So I feel bit uncomfortable when I am working.One of my office buddy gave me a article about what you can do with your Monitor to Save your Eyes. So I felt it's worth while to bring out some information out here......

By side staring at my monitor hour after hour Cause headaches and eye fatigue.according to the article one of simple thing we can do to help this problem is to raise the refresh rate. Monitors often come with refresh rates set too low, I.e. 60 Hz which causes flickering. A higher refresh rate helps reduce the flickering effect and lessen eye strain.(More than 75Hz).(You can usually set your refresh rate under display properties/settings. Also, RefreshForce is a free tool that lets you quickly change the monitor's refresh rate.)

Another cause of eye strain that many people tend to just live with is font size. Higher resolutions on monitors can cause quite small fonts. Also, many web sites use small fonts. If you catch yourself leaning toward the monitor, or squinting uncomfortably, right click on your desktop to bring up display properties, select appearance, and choose font size. You can further adjust the font you see when surfing by choosing text size from Internet Explorer's view menu and selecting your preference. This may cause some of your favorite web pages to display a little oddly, but at least you'll be able to read them!

Make sure you have proper lighting on your monitor (it's more effective to have a light shining from behind your shoulder or above the monitor than behind the desk).

Even using these measures, we should take frequent breaks from the computer. Look away from your monitor at least once every fifteen minutes; preferably, step away from the computer altogether.

So try to take care of your eyes too,while you are working

After the silence....

Well, I couldn't write anything during the last 2 ,3 weeks. Many changes have been going on in ma life since that period(still the same :)). I never thought this will happen to me. For the first time I'm fed up with ma Job. And I have to tnx all my friends who were with me for all this time. It helped me a lot. I got loads of advice what I have to do in such a situation.

Anyway that's enough about that. The good news is two of my buddies have started their own Blogs. (Suresh and vajira). So good luck yo buddies. Welcome to blogging.. lol..

So now what I have to do is try to cheer up and continue my life. Isnt it?? But I'm still trying ....

Ashi has came back...

One of ma good friend; ashini(Akki) has came back to blogging again ('coz of my request. ;-) ) She's a very close friend of mine and a good sister for me. I always try to accept all her advice ;) (even though you think you are not a good adviser. lol...) and those advice is worth for me. I have changed some qualities of mine. he he he... As my knowledge we don't know how much we are worth for others. So you have to start a new blog life with all your thoughts, and with your knowledge (which is being updated daily... ). So wish you all the best Akki !!!

You can visit her blog.... http://ashinie.blogspot.com/

Common Table Expression(CTE)

This is a new Enhancement of SQL server 2005(as my knowledge).we can think CTE's as a simple and more powerful alternative to derived Tables.In my case Now I am using CTE's where I used Temporary Tables before and I replaced so many views.

A CTE can be defined as a temporary named result set, which is derived from a simple query and defined within the execution scope of a SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE statement. It is important to note that the scope of a CTE is just the statement in which it is declared. The CTE named result set is not available after the statement in which it is declared and used.

Here I am putting a code sample for CTE witch I have taken from AdventureWorks Database then you all can check this SQL script in your SQL server 2005(if you have installed AdventureWorks DB.)

WITH YearlyOrderAmtCTE(OrderYear, TotalAmount)
AS
(
SELECT YEAR(OrderDate), SUM(OrderQty*UnitPrice)
FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader AS H JOIN Sales.SalesOrderDetail AS D
ON H.SalesOrderID = D.SalesOrderID
GROUP BY YEAR(OrderDate)
),
SalesTrendCTE(OrderYear, Amount, AmtYearBefore, AmtDifference, DiffPerc)
AS
(
SELECT thisYear.OrderYear, thisYear.TotalAmount,
lastYear.TotalAmount,
thisYear.TotalAmount - lastYear.TotalAmount,
(thisYear.TotalAmount/lastYear.TotalAmount - 1) * 100
FROM YearlyOrderAmtCTE AS thisYear
LEFT OUTER JOIN YearlyOrderAmtCTE AS lastYear
ON thisYear.OrderYear = lastYear.OrderYear + 1
)
SELECT * FROM SalesTrendCTE
GO

Down with a fever... and now Gastritis....

Now I feel bit better after the fever since last Wednesday. I wanted to be @ office last thursday and friday coz I had to complete something with new SQL Report server. But I couldn't make it. After the fever last friday i got Gastritis also. Now I have to take medicine for Gastritis too.That's a damn sickness. NowI feel bit better. And now I am trying to Eat on time. And I am warning you all my buddies. Please take care of your meals. Simply EAT ON TIME.

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0

Microst has Released Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0(pre-Released) for the general public.(May be this an Old news ;) ).We can download new framework and Related resources from here. and also we can download RC1 SDK tooo.Wow.....

Tutorials on Enterprise Library

These days i got a chance to start working with one of the tool witch i was dreaming to work with.Enterprise Library.When i am Searching for Tutorials for Enterprise Library i found Some great Great articles.So i thought to share them with you all.

The Enterprise Library Data Access Application Block

Online Tutorials about Enterprise Library

Using the Enterprise Library Data Access Block for .NET 2.0

And some Links was available in Angelos Petropoulos' WebLog

(archive Tutorials on using Enterprise Library )

Upuli got Married

One of ma good friend Upuli got Married y’day.wedding was @ koggala beach Hotel.

Hmmm very nice to see you as a bride buddy. Hope you will get all the happy things in your new life.

Best wishes to both of you !!!!.

The best Is yet to come lu ne????

Congrats..... !!!

I just started photo sharing

I started my old habit again.but still didnt feel much comfortable on it.anyway hope you all will help me to improve.i always welcome your comments on it.I just started my photosharing at flickr.com.And click here to go to my photo sharing at flickr.com.


cheers

What can we do for this?As a Sri Lankan

Here are some pics witch i have got from one of my friend.can u understand how much Tamil people are in Canada supporting to establish "EELAM" as their homeland. See how our flag has been disgraced by Tamils can we call them as Sri Lankans ?????

Creating thumbnail Image(VB.NET)

I wanted To Create a thumbnail Image from Original Picture And save it in Employee Data.I used image.GetThumbnailImage function to sort this out.So i thught to Publish it here ,it will be a Help for someone else.

' Photo path(Actual path to Uploaded Pic) Public Shared Function CreateThumbnail(ByVal imagePath As String, ByVal Folder As String) As Boolean Dim createdThumbnail As Boolean = False Dim thumbnail As Image Dim image As Bitmap Try ' get full path to the thumbnail image Dim thumbnailPath As String = Path.Combine(Folder, GetThumbnailName(imagePath)) ' check thumbnail already exist If Not File.Exists(thumbnailPath) Then image = New Bitmap(imagePath) ' create thumbnail image thumbnail =GetThumbnail(image, 120) ' save thumbnail thumbnail.Save(thumbnailPath, ImageFormat.Jpeg) createdThumbnail = True End If Catch ex As Exception ' an error occurred, return null Finally ' clean up If Not thumbnail Is Nothing Then thumbnail.Dispose() If Not (image Is Nothing) Then image.Dispose() End Try Return createdThumbnail End Function Public Shared Function GetThumbnail(ByVal image As Bitmap, ByVal longestSide As Integer) As Image Dim thumbnail As Image Try ' determine scale of the image Dim scale As Single = CSng(IIf(image.Width > image.Height, _ longestSide / image.Width, longestSide / image.Height)) Dim width As Integer = CInt(image.Width * scale) Dim height As Integer = CInt(image.Height * scale) thumbnail = image.GetThumbnailImage(width, height, Nothing, IntPtr.Zero) Catch ex As Exception ' an error occurred, return null End Try Return thumbnail End Function

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Am I working too Hard ???

Well..... now I feel my happy life has come to an end. I have been selected for a new project… and it’s the end of ma life of fun….. Hmmm. what to do? Have to go ahead with our life noh.... And these days I am learning alot of things again. Crystal Report again lol…. Even though I have used Crystal Report b4 now I am learning alot more things on it. Now I feel like I didn’t know anything about it. From next week our Project has to be online and we have to work with live data (Gone mad…. ;) ).I never thought this would happen to me.. lol..

Got stuck with ASP.NET Popup Windows: With Return Values???

I am sure we have written so many Java scrpits to open a popup window and return values to the parent page. In my case I have used this line within the Java script to get values from the popup Window.
document.getElementById('txtDateValue').innerText=returnVal._date

This Code works perfect in normal forms but I got a javascript error when the Parent page uses a master page(wich is in VS2005), I was wondering. Got through.... ;)

Problem is because ASP adds the name of the content placeholder to the front of the text box when generating the html. If you do a right-click, 'view source' on the parent page, scroll down to where the html is for the text box and look at the ID. Thats what we have to specify as the name in the document.getelementbyid command.

For a Example :

<asp:Content ID="Content1" ContentPlaceHolderID="ContentPlaceHolder1" Runat="Server">

For this ContentPlaceHolder, Your java script shold be:

document.getElementById('ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$txtDateValue').value = returnVal._date;

Consolas Font Pack for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005

Consolas is one of the new fonts included in Vista. It is cleartype font designed specifically to make code more readable. You can download it from Microsoft Download Center .

I'M Back !!!

May and June 2006 were those empty days for my blog.Oh!!! I forgot!, June 2006 is the first anniversary of my blogging.Have to thank my buddy charith who made me start blogging.
Anyway "Today" is a Bigday for me, coz it's my first day @ my new job.I resigned from my previous one last May and had a fantastic time with ma family and my friends.I think now it's back to work......Hope everything will be fine this time. So? Will c :-)