Write Your Own IM Bot

This quick tutorial will show you how to develop your own functional IM bot that works with Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live and all other popular instant messaging clients.
To get started, all you need to know are some very basic programming skills (any language would do) and web space to host your “bot”.
 
For this [...]

CreateUserWizard using email as username

A very common scenario is to use email address as login id instead of a username. Here I will show you my approach to that CreateUserWizard tweaking:
The idea was first to somehow hide the username field, and in the event CreateUserWizard1_CreatingUser set the UserName to the Email. Well, that didn’t work out since the UserName [...]

ASP.NET 2.0 RSS Tool-Kit

 RSS Toolkit for ASP.NET 2.0 provides a ton of great support for both consuming and exposing RSS from ASP.NET 2.0 applications, and ships with full source code.
Updatedl download here. 
Some of the features/scenarios in the new RSS Toolkit include: 
RSS Data-binding Control Support 
You can now declaratively databind any ASP.NET control to the new RSSDataSource control provided in the toolkit.  For [...]

How to upload a .SQL file to a Hoster and Execute it to Deploy a SQL Database

 Database Publishing Wizard is designed to make it much, much easier to upload and deploy SQL Express and SQL Server databases in a web hoster environment.

Steps to Deploy a SQL Database to a Remote SQL Server without using an Admin Tool
Below are the steps to take to deploy a local database to a remote hoster without [...]

Google Chrome

Chrome is smooth, well refined (as of limited usage I have done) and manages the migration process flawlessly by importing every bit of important data from IE or Firefox. The innovative placement of tab bar, lack of title bar (that’s right, no title bar for Chrome), omnibar (that is what Google calls Chrome’s search-cum-address bar) [...]