The post will be updated whenever I come across a new shortcut.

• Ctrl + M + O – Collapse all code snippets (functions)
• Ctrl + M + L – will expand all snippets
• Ctrl + M + P – will expand all and disable outlining
• Ctrl + K + D – indents the code.
• Ctrl + E + C – will comment the selected section of code
• Ctrl + E + U – will un-comment the selected section of code
• Ctrl + Shift + S – Save All


Error: Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {91493441-5A91-11CF-8700-00AA0060263B} failed due to the following error: 80070005 Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED)).


You will come across this error only when you deploy it to IIS. It would work smooth on the local host. This is because the IIS user doesn’t have permission to access the COM/DCOMs

Solution:

1. Go to component services

2. Click on Computers

3. Select DCOM config

4. Find the DCOM object that you are using, in my case it was Presentation object

5.

6. Click on Add

7.

8.

Add IIS_USRS. Grant it local/Remote access.

It should work properly now.

The error trace was:

Insufficient available memory to meet the expected demands of an operation at this time, possibly due to virtual address space fragmentation. Please try again later.


Solution:

Microsoft has released a hotfix that corrects this error. The patch can be found here :- Patch

Installing and executing the exe solves the problem

I was very obliged and happy to be given a chance to attend the Visual Studio Team Suite 2010 Pitfall at Hyatt Regency on the 7 of October. It was a good learning experience, though most part of the session was not actually meant for students, but yeah, it was a learning experience. I would love to share the details (how much ever, I could grasp) with you.

Well, the event went off with a thought, “Where do you want to go?” This perhaps had been Microsoft’s campaign few years back. The speaker had given a lot of stress on this, throughout the seminar. It was thought-provoking. It made me think too.

Well, all he wanted to do was to highlight how things have simplified, moving from traditional compilers and editors to IDE’s to, now, Team Suite’s and Team Foundation Server. It has indeed simplified the entire process of product development.

Evolution:
Separate Editors and Compilers had been the developer’s tools in 1970′s. With editing the code in one environment to moving to a different, for compiling and testing. This gave way to IDE’s in 1990′s.
The scenario, then, was, having IDE’s built over various Build Tools, Test Tool and Source Code management Tools. This simplified the work to a good extent, however, there wasn’t any sense of comfort when it came to developing collaboratively in a Team environment.

Probably, this paved way for the development of Team Suite and Team Foundation Server. Although there was a VSTS 2008, VSTS 2010 is believed to be a much scaled version of 2008 including many functionalities which 2008 didn’t have.

VSTS Internals:
VSTS, at the core, contains a Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, that serves as the single Repository for all tools that are used by the IDE.

To name a few, the tools included in the Foundation Server are:
1. Tools for Work Item Tracking
2. Project Management
3. Version Controlling
4. Build Automation

And above all this, is the very enhanced Reporting Services (I shall mention about it, later).

This is the Architecture Diagram (or the Stadium Diagram, as they call it, probably since it looks more like a stadium)

the Architecture Diagram

As shown in this diagram, VSTS includes several API’s for Architecture Designing, Development, Test and Test Essentials.

And apart from this, it has the usual support for Sharepoint Services, Office Applications etc. As one of the speaker had put it, VSTS was more like a SOA in a Box. Well, it does look like one. All the plugins (or whatever they can be called) are services.

One thing I loved about the discussion was the simplified Versioning tools. VSTS 2010 can also do UX/UI versioning.

The debugging of the projects have been simplified to a great extent. VSTS has something known as Historical Debugger. As one of the speaker said, “With Historical Debugger, While Application runs, it can collect any form of data; viz. registers, logs etc and can be monitored. It also gives suggestions regarding how/why/when did it fail”

One more exciting feature showcased was the Lab Management feature. Using this, we can create a pool of Virtual Machines. Each machine could be used to run different instances of different servers. All this can be used extensively for testing purposes. An example of this could be, Suppose I want to test my application and I want to utilize SQL Server, BizTalk and things like that, so Lab Management can help me create virtual machines of each of the server instances and I could test my project on the single Foundation Server itself.

Reporting:

This was something very catchy. The reporting tools have been improved a lot. The sample reporting that I was shown was something like this. It was a report for a product development that had spanned for some 3 odd months. The report was a graphical representation of the work progressed since inception. The demarcations were Active Work, Resolved Work and Ended Work. I wish I could show you the snapshot of it, but I am afraid I don’t have one now.

But anyways, the report was so simplified and self explanatory. It could be used quite effectively for tracking the progress of the product.

In that report, there was this sample bulge in the area covering “Resolved” and decline in the area spanned by “Ended”. So this makes sense that during that time period of the development, the development team had resolved most of the bugs while the Testing team was yet to authenticate or pass the changes. Well, It might not seem to be some Big-Deal when you read it here, but believe me, it would be a great tool in analyzing the progress of the product development.

Well Guys, this is all I can write, as of now, about VSTS 2010. I would do more research and use it and update you further.

All in all, the event was a good learning curve. I enjoyed it, right from being asked by that cute receptionist about my business card (If any, but yeah I shared my IVY card) to ending the session with some awesome lunch.

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http://ivyventures.in || http://learneasy.in

All this while, people had been asking me to blog, not to forget my sweet classmates.

Well, I had been really tied up in setting up my First Startup. We call it IVY Ventures. IVY is all into Streaming Media over the internet.

IVY recently launched it’s first product, LearnEasy which I am really happy to share with you guys. LearnEasy is a revolutionary and innovative product which aims at simplifying the troubled, congested lives of Engineering Student.

It revolutionizes the way Engineering is taught.

With, taking lectures live (@ a moderate bandwidth internet connections) sitting on the couch of your home, sipping a coffee and thus enjoying studying, to learning concepts with Animations. It has it all.

Well, the offers leanreasy offer doesn’t end with just education. Our revolutionary model helps you to be fit for the corporate level! We don’t leave you once the semester is over. While in the vacations we offer you an option of taking Internships and Attending our very innovative Eight Steps to Corporate Program.

Yes, we leave you only when you have stepped into the corporate!

Visit LearnEasy for more details.

I would recommend all my readers to join us on Facebook @learneasy, which would be the most happening spot.

It’s my first startup, something emotionally attached to me. I need your wishes, your Good Lucks and all your support that you have always given me

Its again after a lot of gap that I resume blogging..

Have had a tough vacation, lots of things are happening around. Couldnt take time out for blogging.

Anyways, and one more reason for the lump in blogging is wordpress :@
The restrictions on most of the things in WP is irritating.

Well, planning to move out of WP and get started with a blogging website. Planning of a community driven blogging website, wherein people from varied domains can contribute to blogging.

Sounds exciting at first go, doesnt it?.

People interested in participating in the project can get in touch with me.

Lots of people have been asking me as to what is the use of providing DreamSpark verification keys when the dvd’s themselves have one in it?

There are 2 ways in which you could make use of your DreamSpark verification keys:

1. Use it to download stuff online:
You can potentially use your DreamSpark verification keys to download entire range of Microsoft Software at no cost for educational purposes.
The softwares available for download are quite exhaustive ranging from Visual Studio to Expression suites and SQL Server etc. It also includes DeepZoom, Photosynth etc.
You can find more information on the available softwares and more on DreamSpark Global and DreamSpark India

2. Use it to verify the software setups:
The second thing which you could do (I doubt whether doing this is official, but it is rather very helpful) is borrow a DreamSpark DVD from your friend and install the setup in your machine. Later get these software setup verified using the DreamSpark verification key.

Utilizing the DreamSpark verification keys is important because you generally don’t easily find a DreamSpark DVD (For hunting one, you need to go to the nearest NIIT or a Aptech centre and get a DVD by producing your I-Card.) However, if you know any of your friend having a DVD, its saves on your effort

For more information on DreamSpark and other academic initiatives, contact the Microsoft Student Partner of your college.

Try using Tiny Chat

It lets you create chat rooms at the run-time and also lets u invite any one in the room by just passing over the url of the newly formed room.

Though its relatively slower, but surely, a great piece of work.

Addicted to any particular website? Do you crawl over and over again to a website due to curiosity? Wanna be reminded every interval of not going to that website????

Jump over to this amazing web 2.0 product

Thanks to Jeetu Udasi for providing us the link.

Sorry for being out of blogging for around a month now. I had been facing some issues and was finding it hard to take time out.

I also got to hear a lot from some of the blog followers for not updating. Jeetu Udasi, my fellow MSP guys, ppl back in class! But the latest one from Masoom really bugged me, “Search Engines are tired of crawling over your Dead Blog” was his remark over my excuse of not taking out time to blog! , Okay, so this made me think.

Well, apart from this, I had been talking to masoom, this guy is a web 2.0 freak and a fellow MSP as well, so apparently, I always end up learning a lot from this guy whenever we talk. We were having a debate over the existence of the social networks.

While I believed that social networking is gradually becoming stale in people’s mind, this guy had some contradicting ideas. Many analyst believe that the era of social networking has seen a lot and that the time has come for them to vanish.

While Orkut has its presence still felt in many parts of Brazil and India, it has not seen much of popularity elsewhere. Contradicting to this, Facebook and Myspace etc. are still very active.

Many social networks are now trying to think different to make people be hooked on to their networks, some of the examples being the introduction of games and various other applications, wherein people in the network can play multi-player games over the networking sites.

However, while the discussion with masoom was still on, he provided me with one more effort of such networking sites to help them stay alive or in other words try to refresh the idea of social networking in the minds of people, which has of-late become stale!

You should read his blog, where he tells about the new Facebook + Bluetooth powered social network.

I would love to hear your comments on the “Existence of Social Networks”, the more you comment, the more you would learn and also let others learn!

Well, Jayesh Sidhwani’s Blog is now also on Twitter, to follow, go on to Twitter