Usefull Google Tools

1. http://www.google.com/analytics

Google Analytics is the web analytics solution that gives you rich insights into your website traffic and marketing effectiveness

2. http://www.google.com/webmasters

Get data about crawling, indexing and search traffic

3. http://www.google.com/insights/search/

With Google Insights for Search, you can compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, time frames and properties

4. https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

Adding Project to Team Foundation Server 2010

1. Install Team Foundation Server

2. Open Visual Studio 2010, click File -> New -> Team Project

3. Select a Team Foundation Server, it can either network or local server

4. Select Team Project Collection, by default DefaultCollection is selected.
Click Connect

5. Enter name and description of the team project and click Next

6. Select a Process Template. There are two project templates available by default, additional Process Templates can be downloaded from Microsoft website. Default project templates are

(i) MSF for Agile Software Development v5.0
(ii)MSF for CMMI Process Improvement v5.0

After selecting the project template click Finish

7. Open Visual Studio 2010 project. Right click project solution in the solution explorer window and click Add Solution to Project.

Create links to Yahoo Maps for website

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Creating Links to Maps
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* Map URL Example:
Map 2030 Main St. Glastonbury, CT 06033 (English U.S. site):
http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?addr=2030+main+st&csz=glastonbury+ct+06033&country=us

* URL Construction
Base URL: English U.S. – http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?
Spanish U.S. – http://espanol.maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?
English Canada – http://ca.maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?
French Canada – http://cf.maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?

* Input Parameters:
Check addresses before creating links
addr= street address and number
csz= city, state and/or ZIP
country= country (valid entries are US or CA only)

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Creating Links to Driving Directions
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* Directions Example
Directions To: 2030 Main St. Glastonbury, CT 06033 (English U.S. site)
http://maps.yahoo.com/dd?taddr=2030+Main+St&tcsz=Glastonbury%2C+CT+06033&tcountry=us

* URL Construction
Base URL: English U.S. - http://maps.yahoo.com/dd?
Spanish U.S. - http://espanol.maps.yahoo.com/dd?
English Canada - http://ca.maps.yahoo.com/dd?
French Canada - http://cf.maps.yahoo.com/dd?

* Input Parameters:
Check addresses before creating links
taddr=[destination street address number]+[destination street name]+[destination street type].

tcsz=[destination city name]+[destination state/province]+[optional destination zip or zip+4]

tcountry=[origin US or CA]

Reference: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/maps/links/maps-26.html

What Are Generics?

Think of Generics in this manner. We can refer to a class, where we don't force it to be related to any specific Type, but we can still perform work with it in a Type-Safe manner. A perfect example of where we would need Generics is in dealing with collections of items (integers, strings, Orders etc.). We can create a generic collection than can handle any Type in a generic and Type-Safe manner. For example, we can have a single array class that we can use to store a list of Users or even a list of Products, and when we actually use it, we will be able to access the items in the collection directly as a list of Users or Products, and not as objects (with boxing/unboxing, casting).

"Generic" Collections as we see them today

Currently, if we want to handle our Types in a generic manner, we always need to cast them to a System.Object, and we lose any benefit of a rich-typed development experience. For example, I'm sure most of us are familiar with the System.Collection.ArrayList class in Framework v1 and v1.1. If you have used it at all, you will notice a few things about it:

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public class Col
{
T t;

public T Val
{
get
{
return t;
}
set
{
t = value;
}
}
}

public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Col cStr = new Col();
cStr.Val = "some text";
this.listBox1.Items.Add(cStr.Val.ToString());
this.listBox1.Items.Add(cStr.GetType().ToString());

Col cInt = new Col();
cInt.Val = 100;
this.listBox1.Items.Add(cInt.Val.ToString());
this.listBox1.Items.Add(cInt.GetType().ToString());
}
}
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Reference: http://www.15seconds.com/issue/031024.htm

What is WPF good for?

WPF is not only for creating visual appealing interfaces but is also good for

1. Skinned User Interface
2. Binding XML data
3. Dynamically loading different portions of UI using web services
4. Creating a desktop application with a web like interface

html to pdf & html to ps

Following are the two excellent resources

http://www.digitaljunkies.ca/dompdf/

http://www.tufat.com/s_html2ps_html2pdf.htm

Happy converting!