iTMobile. Monitor your TMobile minutes on your iPhone FREE!!

The app is available free on the AppStore : Link will open in iTunes
Do you have an iPhone? Are you on TMobile? Do you wish there was an app which would keep you posted on the minutes you are using or SMS messages your have used.
Better…if it can alert you when you are past a [...]

How not to get your IPhone App rejected by ITunes App Store

Wrote my first iPhone app and it is selling in the ITunes app store now. These are a few things (from my personal experience) that you should avoid if you don’t want to get your iPhone app rejected by itunes app store :

Do not use a screenshot which shows your app running in an IPhone. [...]

Phone buddy for HTC Touch diamond and Touch PRO released !!!

UPDATES :

[3/3/2009] Added a new option which allows you to enable tilt even in darkness. I had deliberately disabled it for valid reasons, but some people thought the tilt feature suddenly stops working not realizing that it is intentionally disabled in darkness (i.e in your pocket)
[2/9/2009] Two major improvements. Added very precise calculation for the [...]

Get rid of Regsvr32, Regasm, Gacutil… A Shellextension for .Net and COM dlls

I had originally written a Shellextension for COM dlls, which would give you the option of registering/unregistering a dll (if it is a com dll) by right clicking on it. Here is the original post :http://nishantpant.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=11
After several years, I finally took out some time and created a Shellextension which works for .Net assemblies as well. [...]

An enhanced UpdateProgress control, which shows an animation at the point where mouse was clicked

WHY DO IT ???
Before you read the post, let us answer why did I waste time in changing the behavior of the UpdateProgress control. Here is the deal. Suppose, you have 5 or 6 controls on your page, which when clicked result in an Ajax call. You know that the UpdateProgress control is pretty much [...]

Recursive LDAP function to get nested groups

Here is a simple recursive function that I wrote which will give you nested groups and members for any given Active Directory group. Try it….it works! U can bind it to a tree later on to show it on the screen. I have also included an output of how it looks when bound to an [...]

Use declarative security to show a Security trimmed navigation Menu along with enforcing role based security for your website

Hi All,
Here is what we are trying to achieve in this article.

Provide side-wide security without writing a single line of code
Show navigation menus to the user, which automatically hide the options which the user doesn’t have access to (also called Security Trimming)
Use declarative syntax in web.config to tighten your security so that even if the [...]

AZMan Rolemanager keeps roles cached and does not reflect changes for a long time

If you have found this article, you already know who Mr. Azman is and what I am talking about here. So, I will not go into the details to explain you what asp.net 2.0 Rolemanager is and what all options it gives us to store role and membership information.
Here is the excerpt from my web.config [...]

How to provide ASP.NetWebadminfiles (WSAT) like user management for your hosted or online site

I recently was working on a ASP.net 2.0 website. I used the ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider and used the membership API along with Login controls to provide a nice experience to the user with features like Sign up as new user, change password, password reset, login and all related functionality which any website offers you.
When my code was [...]

Show multiple columns in a dropdown with proper alignment

The problem : We have an ID column and a Name column in our database. We want to show both in a dropdown but if you concatenate both, you will notice that the alignment goes out of whack.
eg. 1
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1 – Item one
2 – Item two
20 – Item twenty
100 -Item hundred
3 – Item 3
See what I [...]