Deep Insights in Microsoft .NET

I am traveling in India and even though I got a 3G data plan, I was unable to use the 3G network no matter what I tried. Turns out in my area, Airtel does not provide 3G service, but Idea provides 3G service for Airtel. So, I had to manually select IDEA from my carrier list and then it showed up as Airtel network with 3G.

For me this was happening due to hard disk corruption in my SAN. This was a VM whose hard disk was on the SAN. To fix it, I used: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2509997 Method 4

I was stuck on this since last week. http://blogs.technet.com/b/jhoward/archive/2013/11/04/hyper-v-generation-2-virtual-machines-part-7.aspx Q: Why don’t we support 64-bit Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 as a guest operating system in generation 2 virtual machines? A: Certainly it is true that Windows 7 support UEFI, the first requirement for generation 2 virtual machines. However, Windows 7 has a hardware dependency on a Programmable Interrupt Controller (PIC) which is not present in generation 2 virtual machines. Even if Secure Boot is disabled, an attempt to install Windows 7 will result in an apparent hang at “Starting Windows” shortly after boot, consuming 100% VP utilisation. A similar effect to this will be seen if attempting a network install from a WDS server which has a Windows 7 era boot PE image – network boot will appear to hang as well. For that reason (along with the keyboard issue in Windows 8 PE) I strongly recommend any WDS server are upgraded to th...

It will ask you to add another dll which conflicts with this one. To resolve this problem, you need to add the other dll and use the steps mentioned here to give it an alias so that both dlls can be referenced without conflicting with each other: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ansonh/archive/2006/09/27/774692.aspx Nobody else gives you a straight answer of how to do this.

Got a used macbook pro 13 late 2010 model, was trying to install mavericks from usb - failed with weird error cannot be verified. Did the below to get it to work: http://blog.mconserv.net/2013/10/install-os-x-mavericks-application-cant.html

This is not straightforward if you are new to MVC. For this, you need to reference Json.NET from the package manager. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10869724/return-multiple-objects-using-json-net

My PC is an extremely new dell workstation with 16GB RAM and Intel Xeon Core i7 CPU. It was dog slow. No idea why - turns out to be the video card. Replaced it with a $60 year old video card with 1GB RAM - super speedy now. Visual Studio does not hang with refactor enabled.