Programming standards in India: Hard to find talent We are trying to hire a few high quality developers for our India office and are having a hard time finding skilled developers . I feel sad to see so many so-called "developers" responding to our job posts, but in reality most of them do not even know the basic foundations of software development. We have strict quality improvement guid...

I think there is a bug in VS 2008 (Professional Edition). I installed it on another new machine and this time I did not install Visual Web Developer (as it was not required at all). Everything went fine with the installation and after rebooting the machine, I got the shock of my life: I could not create a Website!! The menu was simply not there under File option! I tried using devenv /re...

Since many people would agree with me that Windows Vista has a lot of problems for developers, the only option is to revert back to Windows XP Pro on all these new pre-installed Vista laptops. But 90% of the time, upgrading poses this stumper: Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer To fix this issue, we need to change the SATA/ RAID mode one and disable cachin...

Recently I faced a strange issue: while working on a sample project in ASP.NET 2.0 and VS 2005(which just had one form loading records from a single table from a SQL Server 2005 DB), I face this error as soon as I form started loading in the browser: An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the ...

Step-by-step Guide on using Github with Visual Studio Source control is an integral part of software development, and a good source control tool not only increases developer productivity but also helps in managing your software development cycle more effectively. Throughout last 10 years I have used a variety of source control tools, from the "un-scalable" VSS (Visual Source Safe) to Sou...