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If anyone want to know about the new features and improvements in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4, there will be no better person to follow then Scott Guthrie, Corporate VP in the Microsoft Developer Division. He is posting a series of blog posts titled VS 2010 and .NET 4 Series . Till date he has written 11 posts and more will be coming. Following is the link to be followed -

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/08/25/vs-2010-and-net-4-series.aspx

Enjoy Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4.

I have tried my best to kept my promise of regular bloging but could not as usual. It is becoming very difficult to fetch some time for doing so. I have wrote my last post when I have got new assignment for developing a Java ME application and now I am happy to write that it has been completed. It was a nice experience of getting hands dirty in Java ME, bluetooth api (JSR82), RFCOMM protocal, btspp etc. Now after 4 months of experience it feels very good that we are able to develop a Java ME application in house. And this feel even more happier when I know that we are a team of working only in .NET platform so far.

Last six months were very busy so I could not be regular to write for my blog. During this time Supply Chain Management application was converted to ASP.NET web-based online application from Windows Forms desktop offline application. Now in next step this application has to be developed for handheld devices and we have zerod upon low-cost Java enabled mobile phone as our handheld. The handheld will interact with a bluetooth printer for printing receipts. So after working in pure .Net technologies for last 4 years this time I will work on Java ME. I have started to work last week on this and so far I am very happy. I have to do a lot of R&D for this purpose and I hope it will be a nice journey for coming months.I will try to keep updating…..

I was waiting for this since morning and checking google.com/chrome every 15 minutes and suddenly before I was going for sleep I have found it there. Now I am downloading it…..

Today there was a requirement for adding dropdown list in one excel document. Then google search has given the following link that solved my problem. I realised that there is a lot to learn in excel.

Create a drop-down list from a range of cells – Excel – Microsoft Office Online

Today one of my office mate comes to me and shown me that in his internet explorer now every excel file opens in browser instead of excel. I have looked every option in internet explorer but could not find a option for this. I have reset the browser settings but it could not solve the problem. Finally I googled about it and find the solution on following link-
How to configure Internet Explorer to open Office documents in the appropriate Office program instead of in Internet Explorer

Today I have read a very nice article about JavaFX, in which the author had told about the history of Java and JavaFX an then tried to conclude about the future of JavaFX.
Have a look -
Will JavaFX become a viable RIA technology?

Finally I am back to Delhi after 10 days. I have visited Mathura once more in past when I was just 12 years old with my father so some memories were still there in my mind. I was wishing to see some places this time also. It was a busy tour but anyhow I have managed to visit some places at Mathura in one fine evening with colleague Sandeep . First we have gone to Vishram Ghat which is bank of river Yamuna. I was shocked to see the condition of Yamuna, the water was all black coloured due to garbage. I have seen same here at Delhi but honestly I was not hoping for the same at Mathura. Government should do something to clean our old and holy rivers like Yamuna. To see the boats with colourfull patters were very good feeling at Vishram Ghat. After that we have gone to see the temple Dwarikadheesh which was very near to Vishram Ghat. The temple was good but it was having a lot of crowd because when we have entered there it was daily aarti (worship) time. The temple location itself is very busy with a lot of crowd on road. After Dwarikadheesh  temple we have gone to the famous Shri Krishna Janmasthan. We have faced some problem into entry of this temple because of heavy checking by police and we have to deposit our items including mobile phones at reception. But after entering the place it was a delightful watch. The area is very big so even after a lot of crowd it did not feel crowdy place. We have spent around one hour there and although we were wishing more to stay there but we have to move because it was very late and we wanted to cover one more site. So after inquiring from local people we have decided to go to Geeta Mandir. When we reach there is was already dark so we could not view it properly but it was a nice place. There were very few people there and I hope that next time whenever I go to Mathura I will go there in day time.
That was the end of our Mathura site seeing. And for the purpose of my this visit to Mathura as I have discussed in previous post it was successful. A lot of things have been learned by watching the software application being used live which I think will not possible while sitting and developing it in office.