Extending Cluster Administrator in Windows Server 2003

A very good article about writing your own Cluster Resource Extension DLLs.

Debugging: Root Out Elusive Production Bugs with These Effective Techniques -- MSDN Magazine, July 2005

A very good article about WinDbg. I ahve been searching for some good User mode WinDbg articles for a long time without any success. This article is exactly what I wanted.

Google to have 3D Maps

I dont know how this is going to help if you are using it on a desktop. If I can see this map on my SmartPhone, that would be really something!!

Back in the USA

I am back after a hectic India trip.

I hope to update this blog frequently from now on.

C# code snippet for sending email using .NET

Forget MAPI, SMTP and POP3 protocols and the complexity they bring with them. .NET wraps all those functionality and makes programming fun again.


using System.Web.Mail;
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SmtpMail.SmtpServer = "your-smtp-server.com";

MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();

mail.From = "from@email.com";
mail.To = "recepient@email.com";
mail.Subject = "Mail Subject";
mail.Body = "Sending a mail using .NET is only few lines of code.";
mail.BodyFormat = MailFormat.Html;

//Optional Attachment

MailAttachment att = new MailAttachment("c:\\temp\\attachment.doc");
mail.Attachments.Add(att);

//Your mail is on the way
SmtpMail.Send(mail);

Travelling to Bangalore next week.

I will be travelling to Bangalore for a long deserved vacation. I will be vacationing in Bangalore for 3 weeks. I will keep this blog updated with my take on Bangalore. I will also be posting some pictures from by Bangalore trip.

Well, its not really a vacation as Bangalore my city of birth. But being away from Bangalore for many years, it sure feels like a vacation.

Florin Lazar's WebLog : Using Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP1 and MSDTC on Clusters

I would like to experiment this when I get some spare time
Florin Lazar's WebLog : Using Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP1 and MSDTC on Clusters

How cluster reserves a disk and brings a disk online

A behind the scenes look at how a "Physical Disk"resource works in a Cluste Environment
How cluster reserves a disk and brings a disk online