IM - Thin client

I had not used Yahoo Messenger for a long time, and when i decided to change that and statr reaching ppl, my network group policy didn't allow me to run that in my office machine. I was wondering if there was a thin client yahoo client out there that i can use. And did found few e-Messenger & Meebo.

4/10 update: Today i was thinking what can be done if corporate proxy blocks this site, i renamed yPager.exe to iPager.exe and hmm it seems to work by-passing windows GPO !

Remembering Marshall, MN --continued--

R4 Install day















Release 3 Install day












Diwali '04 @ YMCA















Snow @ Independance park
















Goosberry Falls, Duluth




















A Rest area @ South Dakota




















Upper Sioux Agrncy SP, Granite Falls

Remembering Marshall, MN --continued--

Palisade Head, Duluth















Valley Fair






















Sunset @ Lake Sarah

















Garvin Park
















Split Rock Creek Lighthouse, Duluth




















Glacial Lake ?















Home @ Winter















Ice scrapping !!!



















Home just before Winter














Last flight from FSD to ORD



















Leaving Marshall, MN (Last day to FSD)

Remembering Marshall, MN

-- My first American soil --
-- Photo credits Gg --

Wind Mills before Pipestone















Two Harbors, Duluth















Glacial Lake SP















Rainy eve @ Camden SP















Sunset @ Independeance park















Mt. Rushmore















Sioux Falls















Frozen Lake Shetek















Sunset @ Camden SP















July 4th Independance park















Rainy Eve @ Lake Bendon

C# and VB.NET

After developing .NET apps using C# for a long time, i'm now into VB.NET. I recollect old days where i was forced into C# from VB and my initial aversion over VB coming from C++. All along my .NET years i presumed VB.NET is C# w/o a ;.

Being developer for quite some time, i think language preference (especially .NET langs, JAVA) is mere personal adoration, i didn't had privilege to choose .NET over J2EE. Reason why Microsoft prefers to code in C# may be due to the fact, they have lot of C++ developers and hence transistion to C# should have been easy. And my first annoyance with VB.NET, feature go to matching ending brace with keyboard shortcut Ctrl + [ is not working or may be i don't know that. Speaking of VS.NET shortcuts, you may want to look at O'Reilly's Mastering Visual Studio .NET Shortcut Key Guide

My googling on Syntactical differences and comparison between VB.NET and C#.

Microsoft white paper on Differences Between Visual Basic .NET and Visual C# .NET

MSDN Language Equivalents comparing different .NET languages

Frank McCown's, C# and VB.NET Comparison quick reference guide
Steven Swafford's, C# and VB.NET Comparison Cheat Sheet a derivative of Frank’s comparison, option to download the material in PDF or Word doc.

There is hell a lot of code translators out there and I doubt full fledged use, but a good tool for developer who moves from one (.NET) language to another,
Alex Lowe's http://authors.aspalliance.com/aldotnet/examples/translate.aspx
Kamal Patel's http://www.kamalpatel.net/ConvertCSharp2VB.aspx
Carlos Aguilar Mares's Translation (VB.NET to C# and vice versa)
http://carlosag.net/Tools/CodeTranslator/Default.aspx
& a commercial tool http://www.remotesoft.com/octopus/try.html

Moving on

I am moving on, from the RSG program to my next assignment in a paper tissue manufacturing company. Hope life takes me on a road to more better place, and quote in signature of sign-off email dedicated to Mr KD.

The wise man learns more from the fool than the fool learns from the wise man. - Marcus Aurelius