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Quartz.NET Job Scheduler Error: Failure occurred during job recovery

By kadasani | December 19, 2011

So, I was trying to hook up Quartz.NET with a Windows Service to provide a scheduled job that would execute on a daily trigger. I am using SQL Server as the persistence store for the jobs and triggers created by quartz.
I deployed and tested it on my local box and everything was working great until [...]

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Could not load file or assembly ‘AjaxControlToolkit’ or one of its dependencies. Access is denied.

By kadasani | September 1, 2009

Problem: Recently i came across this problem while switching to a new Windows 7 64 bit m/c. The web site at hand was working fine on my previous m/c Windows 7 64 bit RC1. The error and the event log were basically not very helpful either.
Resolution:
So here is what I did to fix the issue [...]

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RESTFul Services in Silverlight – CT Code Camp June 2009

By kadasani | June 19, 2009

Downloade the Presentation and CodeÂ
The Connecticut User Group organized a full day code camp event in Bloomfield, CT. The topic I presented on was “RESTFul Services and Silverlight”. The presentation was organized around the following main topics:

Web Services via SOAP
RESTFul Services
Creating a WCF RESTFul Service
Consuming a Custom WCF RESTFul Service in Silverlight

The attached slide deck will [...]

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Creating Databound Silverlight 2.0 Web Applications

By kadasani | February 20, 2009

This topic was presented during the February CTDOTNET user group meeting in Farmington, CT.
The attached presentation (Slide Deck) and source code (Source Code) provide an introduction to creating databound application using silverlight 2.0
Requirements

Visual Studio 2008
Silveright Tools (SDK, Controls, Templates). http://silveright.net/GetStarted
SQl Server 2005 and AdventureWorks Sample Database: To run the web service example.

Overview

Basic Data Binding

Data Context
BindingProperty

Data [...]

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Compression using the GZipStream and DeflateStream in .NET

By kadasani | July 16, 2008

What is GZipStream and DeflateStream?
There are two basic compression methods that are exposed in the .NET I/O Framework i.e. System.IO namespace : GZIP and DEFLATE. They (Compression methods) are exposed via streams and support both compression and decompression (which ofcourse makes sense!).
Compression Streams in .NET

System.IO.Compression.GZipStream
System.IO.Compression.DeflateStream

Important Facts
The compression streams in .NET support compression of streams with [...]

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Working with Isolated Storage in .NET

By kadasani | July 16, 2008

What is Isolated Storage and Why use It?
Putting it simply, an isolated storage is a “place” where an application can store its state information- things such as user settings, some assembly and application configuration information, and other application/assembly state information. So what is so different about that right?
Well a few things and some of these [...]

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