The New Async Programming Model in .Net

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VNC For Android!

 

 

This is one of THE most useful applications for remotely controlling your computer / remote system administration /  and lot of fun remote VNC sessions for the Home User!!!. You can realize the potential straight away, YES!! controlling a remote computer from your android phone!!

Now, I take absolutely no responsibility for this post but i would like to share a very quick way of configuring a remote computer to allow incoming VNC connections on a port and then use the ‘VNC for Android’ application to connect to it. (from anywhere in the world )

The indented audience are home users / geeks and enthusiasts.

1] Download Ultra VNC Server from here and Install it.

2] Download the ‘VNC For Android’  Application to your android phone. (Don’t start it just yet)

3] Configure you VNC Server. Set Passwords , Ports and User Impersonation. My advise is to use ‘A’ random port from the range and not just use 5900. (Although 5900 works completely fine, It’s anybody's guess when it’s comes to how secure your open ports are to the outside world ), because soon you will discover that you might have to open the port in your router to allow the communication via VNC.

4] Login to your Router’s administration page and forward the port no (which you just configured in step 3) to the machine which has the VNC Server application running on it.

5] Find your IP (WAN) from here, or your router’s administration page. (still better if you know it by heart). Note it down.

6] This is the best part..Open the VNC Viewer for Android application now on your android phone, and follow these steps

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Add a ‘Nickname’  - This is only to identify your connection.

Add the password of your VNC Server (Step 3)

Add the IP address of your VNC Server (Step 5)

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Choose a Color Format ( If you are on WIFI, Choose the 24-bit Color, If you are on 3G Select a lower color depth for performance )

This should be enough to get you started. Press the ‘Connect’ button, Wait for handshake  (default of 10 seconds) and authentication from your VNC Server and Voila, You’re done!!

Fore more, you can dig here.

Enjoy Remoting from you phone !, and if this helped you configure your device, post a comment below!

Windows Live Writer 2011

Yes, I am using the new windows live writer 2011. I don’t particularly like the year part in this software, don’t know why..2011 sounds like a strange figure to me, Strange for Microsoft software!. Visual Studio 2010, Office 2010, SharePoint 2010…………………you know what i mean ??, Anyhow, I like this version of the live writer and it has a bunch of improvements around UI and bits of bobs of functionality. Until later version, I’ll definitely be using Live Writer!

Enter the Cloud!

I’m migrating some of my test web applications a.k.a simple concept web apps to the windows cloud, a.k.a ‘The Windows Azure Platform’. I'm all excited to share my experiences with Windows Azure, SQL Azure and App Fabric.

I encourage you to download the Training Kit from Microsoft and give it a go.

The tools you might need to get started are

Either

1] Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio

or  Install Visual Web Developer 2010 Express.

or if you have another development language (Java,PHP,Ruby), try

2] This

JS Trick

Ever wondered how to close that damn browser window without getting a warning from the browser ?.

Well, I've gone through that many a times before when trying to close a window(subject)  from either the main window or any other window which did not create the subject.

and…and i remember the solution, which i had devised for IE. (not sure about other browsers and I'll leave that for you ).

You have to remember, the window.open method creates a reference to the window.opener ??    (Hint, Hint! )

function CloseWindow(){

//removes the previous window.opener reference and

//tricks the browser not to display the annoying warning message.

window.opener = ‘fake’;

window.close();

}