Wishes of Microsoft Songwriter 2005 and Mincrosoft Photographer 2005.

This week we have exhibited artworks of Mehdi Saadati.

Iran finished Paralympics Games of Athens 2004 23rd with 7 Gold Medals, 3 Silver Medals and 13 Bronze Medals, totally 23 Medals.

Welcome to the Visual Studio 2005 Beta Documentation.

Guardian: "The triumphant spirit of the most successful Paralympics to date gave way to mourning yesterday after seven schoolchildren died in a coach crash on their way to the games. Today's closing ceremony, which was to have been a joyful celebration of two weeks of athletic excellence, has been toned down as a mark of respect. The organisers have cancelled the musical entertainment and firework display that had been planned in the 70,000-seat Olympic stadium in Athens. Instead, there will be a brief athletes' parade, a speech by the International Paralympic Committee chief, and the handing over of the flag to Beijing, the host of the 2008 Olympic and Paralympic Games."

More on how to globally register a User Control in ASP.NET 2.0.

Watch Jay Roxe show how the streamlined IDE of Visual Basic Express makes development approachable to novice developers but still allows the power of the Windows Forms designers and Visual Basic language.

DotNetToolPak v1.01 includes:
Denis Bauer's ASP.NET Version Switcher
Brian Scott's Cropper
NDoc
NUnit
Roy Osherove's Regulator
Lutz Roeder's .NET Reflector

dScribe 1.50 released.

"Google's index should be growing exponentially to keep up with the growing size of the web. Google's main page indicates that it searches 4,285,199,774 web pages, and this number has remained the same for the last year and seven months, since around February 8-14, 2003. I bet they are suffering from a 4-byte limit with their URL identifiers. With 4 bytes, which is the natural word-size for the inexpensive ia32/x86-compatible processors they are using, they can store 32 bits, and that means 232 different values, or 4,294,967,296."
Interesting! Via Santomania.

New Delhi, Sept 24, IRNA -- Iran defeated South Korea 89-86 in the finals of the 18th Asian Junior Basketball Championships at the Sree Kanteerava Indoor Stadium in the Southern Indian state of Karnataka on Thursday evening.

CyberCEO might be interested in reading what it takes to be a good CEO blogger.

BBC: Hundreds of Iranian online journals have been protesting against media censorship by renaming their websites after pro-reformist newspapers and websites that have been banned or shut down by the authorities. Many of the websites, known as blogs or weblogs, have also posted news items from the banned publications on their websites. The protest was started by blogger Hossein Derakhshan, a student at Toronto university in Canada. He told the BBC that although he felt the action was symbolic, he wanted to show Iranian authorities "that they would not be able to censor the internet in the same way as they have managed to control other media". He said he was delighted with the response. The hardline Iranian press has published a personal attack on him, he said, "which is proof that the authorities must be worried by the bloggers' protest".

Nice article from Bipin Joshi.
"In almost all of the web sites which have e-commerce features, you need to validate the credit card number entered by the end user. When it comes to validation you have two options - either perform client side validation using JavaScript or perform server side validation via VB.NET or C# code. If you are like me you can develop your own custom control that can be reused across multiple projects. In this article we will see how to create a custom server control that extends the ASP.NET validation mechanism and allows you to perform client as well as server side validation." Via Shaju Thomas.

Congratulation! In the men’s competition, Iran proved their power again beating Germany 3-0 in sets and are now at the top of pool A. In the second match of pool A, Finland beat Japan 3-0. Read More . . .

This week's artist is Alireza Nourazar.

Is Google's future, a Web Based OS? Is it walking on the path Microsoft did long time ago? Discuss it on Channel9.

Kevin Listoa: "If you're into developing applications for mobile devices (esp. the Windows Mobile platform) you'll probably want this. Its a great remote display application that supports many different device profiles and skins. Great for showing demos instead of having all your customers crowding around your small screen."

Guardian: The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog today said he was not certain that Iran's nuclear ambitions were entirely peaceful - but added he had seen no evidence to back allegations that the country was attempting to build a bomb. ElBaradei said there was no smoking gun to back US claims that Iran was pursuing nuclear weapons. "Have we seen any proof of a weapons programme? Have we seen undeclared [uranium] enrichment? There is none of that," Mr ElBaradei said. "But are we in a position to say that everything is peaceful? Obviously we are not at this stage."

It seems as last night IRIB Channel 1 has shown "A Beautiful Mind", story of John Nash, 1994 Mathematics Nobel Prize winner. JraNil has been looking for what John said in the ceremony, here it is:
"I've always believed in numbers, the equation, logic will lead to reason. After a lifetime of such pursuit I ask what truth is logic, who decides reason. My quest has taken me to the physical, the metaphysical, the delusional and back and I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life. It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logical reasons can be found. I'm only here tonight because of my wife, she is the reason I am. She is all my reasons." Nobel Prize Ceremony Stockholm 1994.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United States has reached an agreement with key European allies, as well as Canada and Australia, on a draft resolution on Iran's nuclear program, the State Department has said. The resolution calls on Iran to clarify outstanding issues related to its nuclear program, including its highly enriched uranium program, by November 25, the next time the International Atomic Energy Agency board meets.

This page offers a place for people with Gmail invites and those who want them to come together with minimal effort and fuss. Via Channel9.

Take a look at Mehdi Rezaeian's artworks this week on Khyal Gallery.

An article from Paul Litwin in MSDN Magazine, September 2004 describing how to fight with SQL Injections.

Scott Watermasysk points us to the new blog of Steve Smith writing from Iraq. He has setup this blog so other soldiers there can have their blogs too.

Bayern Munich have announced that Iranian striker Vahid Hashemian will not travel to Israel for their Champions League clash at Maccabi Tel Aviv on Wednesday. The Bundesliga club say the forward has withdrawn from the squad because of a back injury. A Bayern spokesman told the BBC: “He’s got back pain and he couldn’t train. It would have made no sense for him to go.” Read More . . .

Another brand new release of the one and only Longhorn Transformation Pack. This small piece of software will transform your Windows XP (and SP2) or Windows Server 2003 into the best looking Longhorn port that is available right now, without any extra software! Read More . . . Via Geek Notes.

Jeff Jarvis writing his feeling of 3rd anniversy of 11th September: September 11, 2004: Crossfire.

Independent: "The British Museum is to lend Iran one of its most famous antiquities, which is regarded as the first charter of human rights, 30 years after its loan to the Shah triggered a fierce diplomatic row. The inscriptions on the clay drum known as the Cyrus Cylinder detail the conquest of the Babylon of Belshazzar and Nebuchadnezzar by the 6th-century BC Persian king, Cyrus the Great. It was the Iraq/Iran war of the time."

BBC: "Fans of Shakespeare are getting the chance to thumb through some of the earliest copies of the Bard's plays. The British Library is putting online 93 high-resolution digitised copies of 21 of Shakespeare's plays. The texts date from Shakespeare's lifetime and are pamphlet editions of plays prepared to be sold after performances had finished. The printed works show how the text evolved and cast doubt on the idea of definitive versions of his plays."

TSS.NET: "Jason Bock, a consultant with Magenic and author of several .NET books, has launched a new website devoted exclusively to the development of languages for the .NET platform, and includes a fairly comprehensive list of existing languages that already exist, including S#, Boo, and some links on changes that come as part of Whidbey. With the rise in interest in Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs), it's more and more likely that developers building a system will be more and more involved with language design and implementation, and this site (which includes a simply amazing listing of books related to language design and implementation, by the way, including Jason's own) provides a good start on existing languages that you might just reuse, as well as good starting points on building your own."

TEHRAN: Iran and South Korea have signed a $40 million deal for the provision of 100,000 broadband Internet lines to the Islamic Republic, Iranian press reports said Thursday. The accord, signed here in the presence of the telecommunications ministers of the two countries, involves the Iranian companies Asia-Tak and Arsh, and Korea Telecom. Reports said the lines will be provided to some 20 Iranian cities, with Asia-Tak designated as the private access provider. Iran began to offer ADSL Internet access earlier this year, but lines are still limited in number and geographical placement. The Islamic republic has an estimated three million Internet users.

AMMAN – Iran revived their hopes of qualifying for the FIFA World Cup 2006 as they claimed an important 2-0 victory in their Group A match against Jordan at the Amman International Stadium on Wednesday. The Iranians left it late as substitute Alireza Vahedinikbakht and skipper Ali Daei scored in the final 12 minutes to avenge a 1-0 loss to the same opponents in Tehran in June. The margin of victory also gives the Iranians the tiebreaker advantage in head-to-head meetings should the two teams finish level on points at the end of this qualification stage.

Recursion is one of the classic techniques all computer science majors learn, often by writing a "Towers of Hanoi" program. (For a trip down memory lane, see Q41154 for a QuickBasic 4.5 implementation of the Towers of Hanoi.) In this article, Alex Kozak explores recursion in T–SQL.

Scott shows us how to reguster a custom User Control in ASP.NET v2.0. It sounds easier than ASP.NET v1.x.

TSS.NET: "A new utility posted at CodeProject provides the same kind of auto-documentation for your SQL Server/MSDE database that Javadoc and the triple-slash comment documentation the C# compiler generates from source code. The key? It uses built-in metadata tables in SQL Server/MSDE to sniff out the pertinent parts of your database."

Google, Internet's operating system, has turned 6 today.

Forbes: "Is Linus Torvalds secretly working for Microsoft? That sounds crazy until you consider that lately, the free operating system he created, Linux, has been helping Microsoft close deals." Via Terry.

Gallina uses GMail messages (1 Gigabyte of free space) as entries and comments for the blog system, and it's built by using XML/XSLT and Libgmailer (Gmail-lite project) to connect to GMail. Obviously, you post on your Gmail Blog directly from your Gmail account... Via Stefano.

Our new artist is Hans Albek who has born in Germany, living in Iran.

It is now the time all old NT machines may start moving to Windows 2003 Server using IIS 6.0 Migration Tool.

While the Internet is a global phenomenon that connects different people in different countries, many sites fail to target their content or functionality to visitors who speak languages other than English, or who live outside countries with the largest Internet user bases, like America. But, with nations like China using the Internet more and more, English-only is no longer a smart decision. Read More . . .

Ralph Arvesen is showing us how to encode our email addresses in web pages to prevent spams.

Go and get the results of Masters Exam here: http://result.sanjesh.org/arshad/index.php.

Stefano says, Internet has become 35 years old today. Happy birthday :)

Although it is out, but I still prefer using my own WinAMP. Get WMP10 here.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said Thursday it would launch its first satellite into space by May 2005, state television reported. Mohammad Fathi, head of Iran's Scientific and Industrial Research Center, said the Mesbah (lantern) satellite was domestically produced and would be used for weather forecasting and locating natural resources.

In order to make a step up from MS Access, and learn the structure and use of a DataBase server, along with the fact that there is no added expense (MYSQL is free), here, we show how simple, coding-wise, it is, to make the transition.

Another nice article on TSS.NET by Jon Flanders:
"ASP.NET 1.0 was a revolutionary advance in developing Web Applications. With its fully complied, highly extensible Server-Side control model, it was one of the best applications of Microsoft’s .NET runtime. It solved many of the issues plaguing ASP developers, and kept the development-centric philosophy that made ASP such a huge hit amongst the web-client community."

I have faced these issues before and now Langleyben Leon not only goes to details but also gives us a solution on CodeProject.

Download the first Service Pack for Microsoft .NET Framework using Microsoft.com.
BTW, has anyone faced issue yet? I am not sure of updating of our servers to this new Service Pack at least for the coming month to make sure it's health.