Using Workflow Foundation in creating dynamic navigation applications in ASP.NET

ASP.NET
— There are a few things to think about when using Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) in ASP.NET and this article is going to cover creating a simple wizard application using lessons learned from a large-scale application using these technologies. The basis of this article and the companion code is a wizard used to enter employee expenses and relies on WF to control what page to display and to provide data for the page. Before we get into the code, let me explain the application in a little more detail.

Guide to Setting Up an Ergonomic Computer Station

Two useful open source utils

Windows alt-tab replacer TaskSwitchXP

Do you have two desktops on the same desk, but short of mouse and keyboard space? Check Synergy out...

The future of CPU and computer power

This is not the type of blogging I do but I could not keep it in myself. I just can't figure out what will be the the future computer power. As they tell high end cpu power double every 12-16 months for the avarage consumer for the last 10-15 years. In the past we had slow bootups , slow application switches and slow multitasking. Then the cpu producers manufactured faster cpus, chip makers manufactured bigger rams and for some period we had decent computers. Then operating systems slowed down and we had to buy newer cpus. Games always demanded high end systems. Now if you are not a gamer and you are not in a computer power demanding business(RD etc.) what you get in the last 3 years as a computer system will mostly suffice what you need. I just can't understand why an average home user would need a dual-core, quad-core xGb ram , 500gb disk. I may seem like someone who told 640kb system ram would be sufficient, but this is like it. It is like driving a 800hp truck for carrying some couple of books. You just dont need it. Now as MS does always you should buy a pretty decent hardware for running Vista, but why would I need Vista. It is prettier but that has never been the motive for me , at least for an operating system :).

Using The Office 2007 OCR Component in C#

A simple WSS 3.0 application backup script

FOR /F "TOKENS=1* DELIMS= " %%A IN ('DATE/T') DO SET CDATE=%%B

FOR /F "TOKENS=1,2 eol=/ DELIMS=/ " %%A IN ('DATE/T') DO SET mm=%%B

FOR /F "TOKENS=1,2 DELIMS=/ eol=/" %%A IN ('echo %CDATE%') DO SET dd=%%B

FOR /F "TOKENS=2,3 DELIMS=/ " %%A IN ('echo %CDATE%') DO SET yyyy=%%B

SET LocalFolder=%mm%%dd%%yyyy%

SET RemoteFolder=

mkdir %LocalFolder%

mkdir %RemoteFolder%

stsadm -o backup -directory %LocalFolder% -backupmethod full -item "Windows Sharepoint Services Web Application"

xcopy %LocalFolder% %RemoteFolder% /E /Y