Ashutosh Nilkanth's .NET Blog

DavidM is running some interesting notes on DataTable Relational Operators (in C#) -- Introduction, JOIN, UNION, DISTINCT helper method, DIFFERENCE / MINUS, PRODUCT, DIVIDE, PROJECT. Each of these methods have various overloaded signatures and could easily be extended. David will dedicate a post for each of these operators.

Brendan Tompkins shares his approach (called Sticky Draggable Divs or SDDs) on creating Modal WebForms in ASP.NET. Although I personally don't like the idea of using excessive JavaScript and DHTML in project implementations except for some basic validation routines, but Brendan's concept reminded me of another neat idea, a client-side database modeler (e-store example) by davdstudio, which incorporates DHTML/JavaScript to produce similar draggable popup windows. Client-side GUI development sure is eye-candy but also comes with its baggage of browser incompatibility and usage inconsistency. WebOS should be a great start ...

Finally, back to where I left in December. The holiday season was great and it was fun to spend quality time with family & friends. Anyways, I'm back at work - immediately attending to an "interesting" vulnerability in a client's application (more on it later). Well, last year (2003) was not quite eventful but satisfactory. I was able to ...

Worst Technology of 2003 - Paperless Voting

SQLite is an embeddable SQL database engine which can perform upto two times faster than PostgreSQL and MySQL for many common operations. With a small memory footprint and support for databases upto 2 terabyte, its an ideal option for embedded and small to medium-scale deployments. And SQLite works like a charm with the .NET Framework. Following are some of the options available to interact with the SQLite server from your .NET code:

Amazon.com's feature for searching within books, introduced in October, now has competition. Google, the leading search engine, is testing a similar, unnamed service, introduced about two weeks ago with no publicity. When used with regular Google searches, the feature returns links to passages within books. It can also be used separately. For example, to see references within books to quilts, a visitor would type quilts site:print.google.com

The Delhi .NET Developers Group presents interactive sessions on Assemblies and .NET Remoting, on 21st December 2003.