Introducing you the “Martin Fowler” : The king of Software Development

Martin Fowler is an author and international speaker on software development, specializing in object-oriented analysis and design, UML, patterns, and agile software development methodologies, including extreme programming. Martin Fowler Fowler is a member of the Agile Alliance and helped create the Manifesto for Agile Software Development in 2001, along with more than 15 co-authors. He… Continue reading

sqlncli_x64.msi cannot be found while installing SQL Server 2005 64bit on Windows Server 2008 R2

Recently while installing SQL Server 2005 64bit on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise 64bit an error message displays that “An installation package for the product Microsoft SQL Server Native Client cannot be found. Try the installation again using a valid copy of the installation package ‘sqlncli_x64.msi’.” as shown below. After that, the Microsoft SQL… Continue reading

Windows Server 2008 R2 – NetGear WN111 Wireless-N300 USB adapter – Crazy Driver Error – Code 19

Few months back in a heavy lightning my motherboard(MSI K9A2-Platinum v2) got fried a bit. My onboard network card and few USB ports of the mother board got affected because of it. Remaining everything working smoothly. So I do not have any other option other than start using a Wireless-N300 USB adaptor. I opted for… Continue reading

Microsoft’s New Certification for MCPD on Windows Azure

Microsoft has released another certification for MCPD on Windows Azure  -  PRO: Designing and Developing Windows Azure Applications. The Exam Code is: 70-583 (Designing and Developing Windows Azure Applications) For more information please visit: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/Exam.aspx?ID=70-583&Locale=en-us

Generating WCF/WebService proxy class using SvcUtil.exe

Introduction This article  prepared based on my recent explorations on creating generic WCF/WebService proxy class using SvcUtil.exe tool which is part of .NET Framework Runtime. SvcUtil.exe helps me in creating a single Proxy Stub class for my WCF/web service, which can be directly reused in any project when necessary, without the need to Add Web… Continue reading