Nikhil's Blog

About VSTO and random technology tidbits

Shortcut tip: Ctrl + shift + Esc and Ctrl + alt + end

I recently learnt a new shortcut to get to the task manager: Ctrl + shift + Esc. It's especially...

Author: Nikhil Khandelwal - MSFT Date: 04/15/2008

InfoPath forms deployment, SharePoint workflow in VS 2008

A number of developers who have tried the SharePoint workflow features in VS 2008 wanted to know...

Author: Nikhil Khandelwal - MSFT Date: 01/22/2008

SharePoint Workflow feature in VS 2008 (Part II)

I will continue from my last post on authoring SharePoint workflows in VS 2008 by providing a...

Author: Nikhil Khandelwal - MSFT Date: 01/19/2008

SharePoint Workflow feature in VS 2008

As mentioned in earlier posts, I was one of the developers on the SharePoint Workflow feature in VS...

Author: Nikhil Khandelwal - MSFT Date: 01/15/2008

Visual Studio 2008 released

With a lot of fanfare, VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 released on Nov. 19th. Talking to customers and early...

Author: Nikhil Khandelwal - MSFT Date: 12/04/2007

Performance tips for the BCL

This is a good article on performance tips of the .NET Framework Base Class Library -...

Author: Nikhil Khandelwal - MSFT Date: 11/07/2007

VS 2008 and SharePoint Workflow

The "Orcas" release train has been keeping me busy. For a long time I have been thinking of blogging...

Author: Nikhil Khandelwal - MSFT Date: 09/11/2007

VSTO file type mapping is lost

Some people have been running into this issue with VS2008 Beta 2 as posted on the MSDN forum. I am...

Author: Nikhil Khandelwal - MSFT Date: 08/27/2007

VS 2008 Beta 2 has released

This is a significant milestone in the VS 2008 development cycle. Almost all our features have...

Author: Nikhil Khandelwal - MSFT Date: 07/27/2007

What have I been reading?

A good read for developers: How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary....

Author: Nikhil Khandelwal - MSFT Date: 06/19/2007

Bill Gates' Harvard commencement speech

I'll take an exception form the technical tone of this blog and comment on a a great speech by Bill...

Author: Nikhil Khandelwal - MSFT Date: 06/18/2007

Enabling remote desktop remotely

I do not remember how many times I have tried to connect to a remote desktop using terminal...

Author: Nikhil Khandelwal - MSFT Date: 06/14/2007

Give feedback on "Orcas" feature specifications

In the last few years, blogs have been largely instrumental in increasing transparency into...

Author: Nikhil Khandelwal - MSFT Date: 06/06/2007

VSTO 2008 Beta 1 - What's in there?

VS 2008 Beta 1 has been out for a while, and there are ton of features in it. Lately, people have...

Author: Nikhil Khandelwal - MSFT Date: 06/06/2007

Enabling and Disabling AutoRun in windows explorer

I use an external hard drive on my Windows XP box at home. What bothers me is that everytime I turn...

Author: Nikhil Khandelwal - MSFT Date: 11/19/2006

This is where i work - Visual studio building

Visual Studio Building - Building 41 - Image added using Windows Live Writer. I decided to try some...

Author: Nikhil Khandelwal - MSFT Date: 11/17/2006

Office 2007 Developer Roadmap

The Office 2007 system is a truly extensible platform for creating applications. There are some...

Author: Nikhil Khandelwal - MSFT Date: 11/14/2006

VSTO 2005 SE BETA is out!!

VSTO 2005 Second Edition (SE) Beta (codenamed "Cypress") has been released on the web. I had been...

Author: Nikhil Khandelwal - MSFT Date: 09/15/2006

Windows live writer

This is my first post using the Windows Live Writer. I found this tool really slick - extremely...

Author: Nikhil Khandelwal - MSFT Date: 08/28/2006

Refreshing assembly being loaded by IIS

Recently I have been working with a project that requires me to place an updated assembly in the GAC...

Author: Nikhil Khandelwal - MSFT Date: 08/03/2006

Cypress - Between Whidbey and Orcas

Recently I had been working on VSTO 2.5 codenamed "Cypress", which includes runtime support to...

Author: Nikhil Khandelwal - MSFT Date: 07/18/2006

Singleton Pattern- Non-trivial implementation concerns?

Back again to blogging - lets see how long will this spurt last. Hopefully for a longer duration as...

Author: Nikhil Khandelwal - MSFT Date: 06/13/2006

Complex databinding in detail

Currently, I am working on the ListObject control, one of the view controls shipped as part of VSTO...

Author: Nikhil Khandelwal - MSFT Date: 02/21/2006

.NET developers in great demand

From the time .NET Framework v1.0 was released in 2002, it has surely become very popular. I have...

Author: Nikhil Khandelwal - MSFT Date: 02/06/2006

VSTA is out!!

So Visual Studio Tools for Applications is out! I am excited about the product and Im sure it will...

Author: Nikhil Khandelwal - MSFT Date: 02/05/2006

First real post

Its been a while since I posted anything. Let me start by talking about the team I work in and the...

Author: Nikhil Khandelwal - MSFT Date: 01/26/2006

My first entry: HelloWorld!

Finally, I have gotten started to blogging @MS. I used toblog previously at...

Author: Nikhil Khandelwal - MSFT Date: 11/03/2005