I will be participating in Microsoft TechEd India 2012. The official web-site has the details about programs and other associated events. I a very happy to announce that my idea got selected for Windows 8 Camp (Hackathon) which will be conducted along with TechEd. So dev folks, who are coming there?

Windows Phone is the latest mobile phone operating system from Microsoft. It has caught the attention of developers. This is due to the fact that the learning curve to start Windows Phone developments is minimal for those who are already familiar with .NET developments. People who master the developments of applications for Windows Phone stand [...]

Wikipedia 10th anniversary at Mysore

We had a fantastic Community Techday at JSS Center for Management Studies, SJCE Campus, Mysore on Feb 20, 2010. The program was scheduled to begin at 9:30am. People were already present by 9:45am. Pooran Prasad whose scheduled talk about ASP.NET 3.5 and WCF, called me previous night that since some relatives have come to his [...]

I have talked about LIPs earlier. They were referring to Windows XP. The hitch with those LIPs was that you can not toggle between Hindi and English. This problem is solved with Hindi LIP for Vista. It is available for download at Microsoft web-site. Click here for detials. I have given below some screenshots-

Recently I got a new laptop -HP Compaq nx6325. I partitioned the hard disk into three -C, E and F. I installed Windows XP SP2 in C and Windows Vista in E. Next was Office suite. I installed Office 2003 in C in the XP partition and Office 2007 in E in the Vista partition. I put the Outlook .PST file in F drive. Now I configured Outlook 2003 (part of Office 2003) and Outlook 2007 (part of Office 2007) to use the same .PST file. Surprisingly, both are working fine. Now I can work in XP or Vista and use my mailbox without any problem. I am thrilled.

I would like to wish a very happy and prosperous new year to the readers of Vishva Kannada. A lot of time was spent in re-installing all the software in my PC. Then again I had to reformat the system and again re-install everything. I will write why I had to do all these in a separate article. Till then, happy times.

After dragging for nearly one year, finally, the new site is up. But the contents are yet to come. As I am busy with so many things, it will take some time for all the sections to be filled up. Thanks should go to H P Nadig who did go thru so many content management servers (CMS) on the web and finally decided on Drupal. It took some time to figure out the pros and cons between different free and opensource CMSes available. Be patient and be with me while I convert and upload the old content into the new Unicode format.