Validating an Australian drivers license number using Regex

February 2nd, 2010

The following code snippet demonstrates validation of an Australian drivers license using Regex.

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VirtualWiFi - The Basics

December 4th, 2009

In basic terms, VirtualWiFi in Windows 7 is nothing but, connecting to multiple IEEE 802.11 networks using one WiFi card.

VirtualWiFi is a project Microsoft have been working on from 2002. Not being worked on now, not event supported by Microsoft research. They have provided VirtualWiFi OID support in Windows 7.
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SQL - Returning table with unknown columns

November 29th, 2009

Ever wanted to return a table with unknown set of columns from your SQL stored procedure? Yes, you can. Say thanks to SQL XML.
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DotnetSpider Web-master

November 15th, 2009

It’s been a very busy time for me, these past few weeks. Wanted to share some good news. I have been elected as a Web-master at DNS.
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VS 2010 Go live

October 27th, 2009

VS 2010 Beta 2 has been announced the Go live version.

From msdn blogs,
We are pleased to declare Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4
a “go live” release (read more about it on Soma’s blog). This means that Beta 2 has met high standards of quality for pre-release software, and we are licensing it for developing and deploying production applications.

MSDN

ASP.Net Detecting Bots, Crawlers

October 25th, 2009

This article discusses a method to detect bot and crawler visits to your site.

Recently, I was developing a model to collect visitor information to the site. The stats showed a mind boggling 10,000 visits a day. Stunned! This was highly unlikely for us. I tracked this through Google Analytics which showed a different number i.e. 2000. Well, we all are aware of the difference in script based (Google analytics) and server log based tracking arguments. I was experiencing the same. Reading through and understanding the concept, I got very suspicious on spider and crawler visits. Well, so the journey started to find out the and categorize the bot/crawler visits.
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DNS Winner of the week

September 14th, 2009

Awesome. Congratulate me. I am the winner of the week on Dotnet Spider this week.

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Site Coordinator on MSDotnetHeaven

September 9th, 2009

I have been elected as a Site Cooridnator on MSDotNetHeaven, more fondly called MSDnh.

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DNS on Twitter

September 4th, 2009

DNS is on Twitter.

Follow it to get the latest news,happening and announcements on DNS.

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MsDnh on Twitter

September 4th, 2009

I have added a Twitter account for MsDnh.

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