This has been one of the really famous plug-ins that I wrote a while ago (more than 11K downloads as of 17th June, 2009). The intent was to use smileys in my posts easily from the blogging tool itself. Since I used Microsoft - Windows Live Writer (which IMHO, is the best blog editor currently) I was quite easily attracted by the plug-in model it exposed. Later on, I created more plug-ins which pretty much uses the same code base, called Fancy Bullets plug-in, and Quotations plug-in. I don’t w... [More]

If you have been following my posts, you might have noticed that almost all the posts contains a famous quote. Well, searching is not what I do or prefer. Here is the secret, revealed… I use a simple little plug-in which is gets me a few quotes to select from. Select any of the quotes and click on Ok. Here is what I just got… Quote of the day: It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything. - Unknown Pretty simple, right? Okay, go ahead and download it. Enjoy! Rah... [More]

Just re-installed Visual Studio 2008 SP1 on my brand new Windows 7 RC, along with SQL Server 2005. I was struggling with the following error for a while, since I wanted to create a Database Diagram. TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio ------------------------------ Database diagram support objects cannot be installed because this database does not have a valid owner.  To continue, first use the Files page of the Database Properties dialog box or the ALTER AUTHORIZATION sta... [More]