Rohit Dhand

LINQ is the new way of accesing the databases in .NET. Through this method the programmer can use the conventional syntax of querying objects in a dataset and formulate queries like they are framed in the RDBMS. The future of the database access through front end is going a sea change with the introduction of technologies like: LINQ. Will be talking about LINQ in the coming posts. Keep tuned.

Yes!!!. I am back from the campus placement drive. They are institutions of National Importance. What a culture they have.... Few pictures of the trip, please follow the link. http://picasaweb.google.co.in/dhandrohit/IITKharagpurAndIITGuwahatiPlacementDrive?authkey=Gv1sRgCOLl9ee75_mf2wE&feat=directlink

I am off to IIT Kharagpur and IIT Guwahiti for Campus placements. Blogging will be less from 23rd March to 27th March, 2010. .....

There has been a problem notified by multiple users that their USB Pen Drives dont allow them to write or delete any data because of the Write Protection Error. Even this doesnot allow the formatting of the USB Pen Drive. The reason of this problem is a virus that gets injected into the USB Pen drive and makes all the data readonly. Even the virus scanners are able to scan the virus, but they fail to clear/remove the same. In order to solve the problem download the following link: http://www.transcendusa.com/Support/DLCenter/index.asp?#Detail You select the type of USB Pen drive and size. And there will be a link for the same: Online Recovery tool . Download the tool and use it. Make sure the internet is connected at that time because it uses some files from it original server.

Organisations using Smartermail as an email solution face a problem of database backup restoration. After the restoration of the database some emails are shown blank. This is because of the indexing issue. Solution is to copy the inbox folder without copying a file called "mailbox.cfg" that is the configuration file. So delete the file and open the email account. Smartermail will automatically create this file again. This will solve the problem of blank corrupted emails.

Sometimes the user wants to run a 32 Bit application on 64 Bit server. For e.g. running smartermail 32 Bit loaded on 64 Bit windows requires certain tweak to be done. This is feasible through CORFLAGS.exe, a file that comes with the SDK of .NET Framework and and acts a utility to change the header information of .NET assembly. The following command can be used to do the same: corflags.exe /32Bit+ (if we want to convert it to 32 mode) corflags.exe /32Bit- (if we want to reverse the same) This can be used for other software also which requires this kind of tweak.