Sheo Narayan's Blog

Interest in Organic / Natural farming

2012-01-18T18:26:00.001+05:30

Recently I got interest in Organic / Natural farming and looking for waste land. There are lots of benefit of organic farming over chemical (fertilizer) farming and it is beneficial for human lives as well as for the environment. Along with this I will also educate farmers of nearby area about the benefit of organic farming and how to do it. I am planning to do it not as a business but as a

Alternate of high intensity vehicle horn - proposal to horn manufacturer

2011-11-21T23:25:00.000+05:30

WIthout writing too much of Intro, I am directly coming to the point. Many a times I feel the vehicle horn too much irritating and sometimes its intensity is too much that it hits the brain and ears badly. I have thought of an alternate of this traditional horn and I am going to propose this to the vehicle horn designers Image courtesy: http://www.ottsworld.com/blogs/the-motorbike-diaries-vol-

Received most prestigious award from Microsoft

2011-10-21T17:14:00.000+05:30

Hello friends, I am happy to inform that recently I have been awarded with Microsoft most prestigious award for .NET community "Microsoft MVP", read more about this http://www.dotnetfunda.com/articles/article1620-sheo-narayan-received-microsoft-mvp-award-thanks.aspx Thanks

WCF Interview Questions

2011-04-23T05:41:00.001+05:30

I personally do not believe in preparing for the Interview rather I believe in gaining detailed knowledge that automatically helps in the Interview. Those who are looking for WCF related knowledge even can visit http://www.dotnetfunda.com/interview/showcatquestion.aspx?category=74 This page and related links on these page very useful for the gaining knowledge on WCF. Thanks

My Star Entrepreneur Award in Picture

2011-03-06T21:07:00.003+05:30

Here are some of the pictures of the Indira Innovation Summit where I was awarded as "Star Entrepreneur". For more details on this, please visit this post - Sheo Narayan received "Star Entrepreneur Award", Thanks! posted on DotNetFunda.com. As mentioned in my post at DotNetFunda.com, Thank you very much everybody for support and encouragement.

Received Start Entrepreneur Award

2011-02-01T20:51:00.000+05:30

Dear All, I am happy to inform that I have been awarded with "Star Entrepreneur Award" on 28-Jan-2011. More details on http://www.dotnetfunda.com/articles/article1148-sheo-narayan-received-star-entrepreneur-award-thanks-.aspx

My car

2010-06-14T08:08:00.001+05:30

DotNetFunda.Com 3rd anniversary - Article Writing Competitioin

2010-04-19T07:41:00.002+05:30

Dear All, I am happy to inform that we have launched a fantastic "Article Writing Competition" on DotNetFunda.Com on its 3rd birth anniversary. This competition has a lot of prizes to win, apart from winning iPod Nano, Videocon v1750, iPod Shuffle, Microsoft Lifecam and other gifts there are many other prizes from the sponsors like DevXpress, LearnVisualStudio.NET. More information about this

My interview

2010-02-12T00:10:00.002+05:30

Recently one more interview of mind was published in a famous site www.YourStory.in, you can read it at http://www.yourstory.in/entrepreneurs/tech-entrepreneurs/4165-sheo-narayan-founder-dotnet-fundacom Here is the link of my interview that was taken by Indian Start Up Arena http://startupvilla.blogspot.com/ a while back. Thank you. Best regards, Sheo Narayan

How to Overcome Fear and Face the Enemies Within

2010-01-27T20:00:00.001+05:30

How to Overcome Fear and Face the Enemies Within: Doubt Worry Timidness Indifference Indecision Build Courage to Face the Enemies Within "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." Franklin D. Roosevelt, U.S. President Found a good article on Fear and wanted to share http://www.myfavoriteezines.com/articles/fear-courage-how-to.html Thanks

The difference between HEALTH and WEALTH

2009-12-18T14:04:00.001+05:30

Got a thought while I was in my office cafeteria and coming out after lunch. There was a banner where "Health" and "Wealth" was written and the common characters in these two words "alth" striked me and tried a digged a bit dipper to figure out if I could get something out of these two words and Aha I figured out in few seconds of thinking. HEalth : WEalth The similarity: Both are assets The

My whole life is dedicated to you Mamma

2009-08-24T07:54:00.003+05:30

Today, 9 years ago my beloved Mamma (http://www.rameshwari.com/) left me because she was suffering from Cancer. Mamma, I miss you a lot and sometimes become very emotional remembering you. I am so unfortunate that I couldn't get opportunity to serve you the way I wanted to server you all. With your blessing and guidance I have got many things in life but always miss your presence. My whole life

Nothing is free - everything needs to be paid

2009-08-09T03:08:00.002+05:30

Just a thought randomly came in my mind once when I had some time to think and tried to understand a quote that every one knows "Nothing is free, everything needs to be paid". This might be of no value for others but decided to express this whatever I thought here - in my blog.I tried to see my surroundings of whatever we do, wherever we live - be it be in home, office, family, whatever we have

Some of my thought that was laying on my earlier website

2009-07-15T17:06:00.002+05:30

Some of my thought that was written about 4-5 years ago that was laying on my earlier website (http://bb.domaindlx.com/sheo/). Few days before I felt I need to revisit this website and see what I used to think earlier and what I think now. Amazingly its almost same !You can achieve anything by doing hard work, but to use that thing, there must be the God grace and then it's called success. - 06th

I’m asked, how did you learn what you know ?

2009-07-01T22:55:00.003+05:30

Today I read "I’m asked, how did you learn what you know ?" from Joe Stagner and this inspired me a lot. This is a great inspirational post for everyone, Some of the points are applicable for all whether they are into Software field or not.A must read for everyone, Please read http://misfitgeek.com/blog/i-rsquo-m-asked-how-did-you-learn-what-you-know/Thanks to Joe for sharing these his tips for

Michael Jackson died in debt

2009-06-28T09:07:00.003+05:30

Heard the news that Michael Jackson died, despite I am not too much involved in music stuff I feel its a great loss for Pop world as a lot of people says.It was unfortunate I should say that just before 2 days of his death I heard that Michael Jackson is going to perform in O2 Arena in London in July. I was staying beside 02 Arena when I was in London few days before.One real pain that forced me

In York, London, England

2009-06-15T02:01:00.006+05:30

Is in York, about 2 hours from London city. York is very historic and beautiful city, though it is very small I enjoyed it. I could visit its most of the placce in a single day in few hours. Its amazing experience. I guess its one the beautiful place I visited in the rececnt past. I enjoyed the snow for the first time in my life in York, Thanks York :) for that. It was unforgettable

Read my interview on Indian Startup Arena

2009-06-15T01:50:00.003+05:30

Few days back my interview has got published in Indian Startup Arena (Though it was given several months back but have been published recently).Read it here.Thanks

Finally bought a new flat in Hyderabad

2009-06-06T21:24:00.004+05:30

After a great patience and hassle, finally bought a new flat in Hyderabad. It was a mixed experience for me and happened in just a few days.I wanted to thank to the Bank Manager of State Bank of Indore, Miyapur (Mr. Gautam) for arranging loan in just 2-3 days and guiding me in the process of buying the flat as I had to fly to UK just after few days of submitting the documents.Due to many works

Success of companies in the time of difficulties

2009-03-09T17:06:00.005+05:30

Had sometime to think about this time of difficulties when everyone is not feeling comfortable. I think the key of companies to be in growing stage even in this difficult time is to focus on the existing client more than trying to get new clients in house. Now a days whenever any clients get a feeling that his vendor is not doing proper justice to his investment, they making quick decision and

Know Your VALUE..!!!!

2008-12-23T12:17:00.001+05:30

A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a Rupee 500 note.In the room of 200, he asked, "Who would like this Rupee 500 note?"Hands started going up. He said, "I am going to give this note to one of you but first let me do this." He proceeded to crumple the note up. He then asked, "Who still wants it?"Still the hands were up in the air."Well," he replied, "What if I do this?" And

Exercise for neck pain

2008-12-09T22:09:00.005+05:30

At times after few years of working on computer, you may feel severe neck pain. You can feel severe pain in moving your head up or down or left and right.I had this problem long back after my 3-4 years of software professional career. I started neck exercise and after few days of starting this, I feel great result.If you or anyone nearby you has the same problem, you can do this exercise.Process

Priceless Quote from NR Narayana Murthy

2008-11-12T11:16:00.000+05:30

I came across a precious interview from Narayan Murthy, please have a look at it (http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/news/market-outlook/greed-leading-to-disasters-nr-narayana-murthy/365775) Complete article is precious, however there are priceless words that touched me are below. That’s why at Infosys we say at 9:00 am when every one of our people is working the marketcap maybe whatever it is

My new blog address

2008-10-19T14:51:00.003+05:30

My new blog address is on the cool domain - myfunda.net. http://sheonarayan.myfunda.net I noticed that moving blog address from blogspot.com domain to any custom domain makes a lot of difference for users as well as search engines.

It's all about dream - Part 1

2008-10-19T13:53:00.006+05:30

I remember our ex-president Abdul Kalam always used to tell about dream and what role this can play in one's life. I am a dreamy person from the beginning of my life. When I was young in Xth class, I used to dream about my career as an engineer, because of some financial reason at that time, I could n't do this. Then started dreaming about Chartered accountant career but after one year I again

List of article got published on www.asp.net & www.windowsclient.net

2008-09-08T22:33:00.006+05:30

List of articles got published on www.asp.net (Microsoft's official website for ASP.NET) as "Article of the Day" in last 3 weeks How to pass a User Control value to the PageSunday, September 07, 2008 by Sheo NarayanIn the process of developing an application, there are situations when you need to pass a particular value from user control to its calling page. This article describes solution to

How fortunate I am

2008-08-13T16:30:00.002+05:30

Below is the part of an email sent by one of my collegue. This shows how fortunate I am that I have people like him around me.-------------------------------Hi, Sheo Brother"Dua hai Ki Kamyabi ke har sikhar pe aap ka naam hoga,aapke har kadam par duniya ka salam hoga,Himat se mushkilon ka samana karnahamari dua hai ki waqt bhi ek din aapka gulam hoga"--Anant-------------------------------

Receiving a lot of emails from DotNetFunda.com visitors

2008-08-06T08:12:00.006+05:30

Dear DotNetFunda.com Visitors, Daily, I am receiving a lot of emails from visitors of www.dotnetfunda.com coveying their thanks, appreciation for the article I have written and sometimes asking some questions. I acknowledge all thanks and appreciation from everybody who sent me a personal email (Sorry from those whom I couldn't manage to reply personally). I sincerely request to all

A Leader Should Know How to Manage Failure

2008-07-18T04:12:00.002+05:30

'A Leader Should Know How to Manage Failure' (Former President of IndiaAPJ Abdul Kalam at Wharton IndiaEconomic forum ,Philadelphia , March 22,2008) Question: Could you give an example, from your own experience, of how leaders should manage failure? Kalam: Let me tell you about my experience. In 1973 I became the project director of India 's satellite launch vehicle program,

Government of India online Grievance forum

2008-06-02T17:58:00.000+05:30

Dear All,Government of India has an online Grievance forum at http://pgportal.gov.in/Can you imagine this is happening in INDIA? The govt. wants people to use this tool to highlight the problems they faced while dealing with Government officials or departments like Passport Office, Electricity board, BSNL/MTNL, Railways etc. I know many people will say that these things don't work in India, but

New Google Favicon

2008-06-02T17:49:00.003+05:30

Many people noticed a small change: Google has a new favicon. A favicon is a small image that is generally used to reflect the identity of a web site. You can find it in the address bar, in your browser's tabs, in the list of bookmarks or in some feed readers like Bloglines.Google's favicon is hosted at google.com/favicon.ico and it's a 16x16 pixels image, a standard size for favicons. Google

.NET Interview Questions (Microsoft technology interview questions)

2008-05-22T17:31:00.000+05:30

Basic .NET Framework questions What is IL? (Twist :- What is MSIL or CIL , What is JIT?) What is the CLR? What is the CTS? What is CLS(Common Language Specification)? What is Managed Code? What is Assembly ? What are different types of Assembly? What is NameSpace? What is Difference between NameSpace and Assembly? If you want to view a Assembly how to you go about it (Twist : What is ILDASM ?)

Is overloading method by return type permitted in C#?

2008-05-18T00:19:00.004+05:30

No, overloading methods by return type is not permitted in C# void Method();void Method(int a); //ok: different parameter setvoid Method(string a, int b);//ok againvoid Method(string h, int t);//error same parameter set as previous method int Method(int g); //error: can't overload based on return type only

Writing SEO friendly url using HttpHandlers in ASP.NET

2008-05-11T21:47:00.001+05:30

In general it is recommend to not use querystring in the url as search engines doesn't rank those pages well and give very low priority. To avoid querystring there are several third party component that can be used like ISAPI, url rewriter. However in this article, I am going to show you how to rewrite url using ASP.NET built in HttpHandler. Introduction HttpHandler is the low level

How to use Connection object efficiently

2008-05-11T10:10:00.000+05:30

In this article, I am going to show how to use Connection object efficiently and what are the standard practices we should follow while working with connection objects. Irrespective of what .NET data provider we are using we should consider following points. 1. Open the database connection as late as possible, Just open it before you are going to use it. 2. Use the connection object for

When to use of DataSet, SqlDataReader and XmlReader

2008-05-11T10:08:00.001+05:30

To efficiently write the code of Data Access Layer we must be aware about the functionality/features of DataSet, SqlDataReader and XmlReader. In this article, I am trying to describe which objects fits in what scenario. Introduction When we need to retrive mutliple records from databsae, we have following options 1. DataSet or DataTable. use SqlDataAdapter to generate it 2. SqlDataReader

How to get value from TextBox, RadioButtonList, DropDownList, CheckBox through JavaScript

2008-05-08T18:35:00.000+05:30

In this article I am going to show how to get value from asp.net controls like TextBox, RadioButtonList, DropDownList, CheckBoxes. Introduction In day to day life generally we need to get values from asp.net server controls through JavaScript while developing web applications. I found several questions on the internet for the same subject. In this article I am going to show how to get

Loading Multiple Versions of same Assembly

2008-05-08T16:43:00.000+05:30

Very Good and Unique Stuff – Copied from http://www.infosysblogs.com/microsoft/2007/04/loading_multiple_versions_of_s.html Thanks to Atul for sharing withh us. The author of this article is: Atul Gupta The other day a colleague asked if there was a way he could work with different versions of the same assembly in his code i.e. could he invoke say Method A on Version 1.0 and Method B on

Data Types of SQL 2000 and SQL Server 2005

2008-05-07T17:15:00.000+05:30

Exact numerics Type From To bigint -9,223,372,036,854,775,808 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 int -2,147,483,648 2,147,483,647 smallint -32,768 32,767 tinyint 0 255 bit 0 1 decimal -10^38 +1 10^38 –1

What is ASP.NET 2.0 Page Life Cycle?

2008-05-07T14:36:00.000+05:30

Main Events ============= 1. OnPreInit 2. OnInit 3. OnInitComplete 4. LoadViewState 5. OnPreLoad 6. OnLoad 7. RaisePostBackEvent 8. OnLoadComplete 9. OnPreRender 10. OnPreRenderComplete 11. SaveViewState 12. OnRender 13. OnUnload Detailed Events ============ 1. Constructor 2. Construct 3. TestDeviceFilter 4. AddParsedSubObject 5. DeterminePostBackMode 6. OnPreInit 7.

Looping through all rows of the DataTable

2008-05-07T12:57:00.001+05:30

Simply writeDataTable dTable = dSet.Tables[0];foreach (DataRow row in dTable.Rows){ myValule = row["ColumnName"].ToString();}

Dynamically writing Meta tags on Master page from a User Control or any other class file

2008-05-06T20:48:00.002+05:30

While developing web sites, you must have came across situations where you need to write Meta tags from the user control or any class files.At first look it seems very difficult but I think it is not that much.In My example I am writing Meta contents of my page from a utility class file.Lets say my following method is in utility.cs file// method that will write meta tags for keyword and

Generating Ms Word document in ASP.NET and C#

2008-05-06T20:45:00.002+05:30

It is very frequntly asked question in any of the forum or question-answer section on websites. So I decided to write a very compact article with source code.It is as simple as 123.Lets start with creating a simple .aspx page where we will give a text box to enter user's Name and a button to click on. After clicking on the button Ms Word document will be generated..aspx pageThe code will be