A peep into the world of computers

iPod power charging Issues

vikramjb — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:11:02 +0000

After a really long time, I took out my iPod to load some songs and listen to them. To my surprise, it was not charging and adding to it the computer was not really able to detect the device properly. It kept loading and unloading the device. After a lot searching this is what I [...]

Reading and Writing an Xml File the Simple Way

vikramjb — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 09:37:52 +0000

Introduction This FAQ introduces you to the world of XML in DotNet. It demonstrates how to use two built-in classes in the dotnet framework for reading and writing xmls. The classes, XmlTextReader and XmlTextWriter, help you to read and write to xmls in a very simple manner. Requirements Language : Visual Basic.Net Framework : .Net Framework version 1 [...]

Debugging JavaScript code in MS CRM 4.0

geethapriya — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:23:09 +0000

It was real tough not knowing how to debug JavaScript Code in MS CRM 4.0. Every time I had to publish the forms and test with Alert Messages. It really got on my nerves and thought I better find a way out of this and that is when Stunnware helped me. I wanted to share [...]

Beginner’s Guide to Visual Basic 6 – Part 2

vikramjb — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:14:13 +0000

In Part 1 we touched the basic’s, now we will move to the next step. System Defined Functions: Now the second chapter, we will deal first with some of the system-defined functions in vb. What is this “function” ? Well a function is a special type of procedure that returns a value each time it is [...]

Beginners Guide to Visual Basic 6 – Part 1

vikramjb — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:09:08 +0000

I’ve seen couple of posts in the site where people have like asked the basic questions about VB. For instance, is there a need to declare a variable and what is the use of a module and so on. So this is tutorial is first of the series that I am writing. Now I will [...]

Automatic Time Tracking an Overview

vikramjb — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:45:30 +0000

A lot of times, i have felt I have worked more than my body can handle but when I took tool of the tasks, it seems most of them were not completed or was in a very bad state. I was not sure where i was going wrong, I had a fair idea that my [...]

Happy New Year !!!

vikramjb — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:14:29 +0000

Let us welcome 2009 with a big bang and a big heart . I wish all my reader’s a Happy New Year and have rocking new year’s party and a great year ahead . Let us give peace a change from this new year and stop fighting over communal and religious issues or [...]

Using Property Collection in MS CRM 4.0

vikramjb — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 08:40:40 +0000

While using Properties in MS CRM 4.0 one has to be careful as to which dotnet namespace you are instantiating it from. For MS CRM purposes, you need to make sure you instantiate it from Microsoft.crm.sdk and not from System.Data namespace. If you type the following code PropertyCollection pc_Dummy = new PropertyCollection(); In the above line the [...]

Working with Custom Entites in MS CRM 4.0

vikramjb — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 16:01:34 +0000

Working with Custom Entities has been a little tough on me because of the High Learning curve involved. Finally I did win over and learnt quite a bit about using these entities in custom pages. It’s actually quite simple to work with the custom entities. Here’s a piece of code which will get the custom [...]

Using Dynamic Entity in MS CRM 4.0

vikramjb — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:18:58 +0000

The other day, I was helping my wife with one of the issues she was facing in MS CRM 4.0. The code was basically trying to get an instance to the running crmwebservice and use that instance to create a contact or a update a contact in MS CRM. The issue we where facing in [...]