Resume

Kumar Gaurav Khanna

Objective	= Architect technologies for the future that will redefine the future of software engineering.
Professional experience	·= ; &nbs= p; 28^th August 2006 – Present Working as Software Development Engineer (SDE) with the C= ommon Language Runtime (CLR) team at Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, USA= . This team creates the virtual machine for the .NET Framework and I work on the Execution Engine of the C= LR and in particular: o <= /span>I w= ork on the implementation of managed exception handling in the CLR= o <= /span>I w= ork on the implementation of CLR hosting o <= /span>I h= ave worked on various components of CoreCLR, the = mini CLR built for Silverlight, = on Windows and Mac OS X 10.4 ·= ; &nbs= p; 2^0th April 2004 – 2^7th August 2006 Working as Developer Evangelist with Microsoft Corporation India Pvt. Ltd where: o <= /span>Aw= arded the *Technical Passion of the Year= 2005* aw= ard by Director, Developer and Platform Evangelism, Microsoft India= – for the continued passion for technology shown by me via my techn= ical blogs, point-exemplification applications and components I developed in F= Y2004-FY2005. = o <= /span>Highest rated speaker in TechED 2005 India o <= /span>Awarded Microsoft Gold Star f= or my contributions towards Developer Evangelism in FY2004-2005. o <= /span>I a= m responsible for working with the developers/architects in SIs [Infosys, TCS, Saty= am, etc], ISVs, to help them build better products and services and be more productive by making them understand Microsoft developer technologies better. o <= /span>I a= m responsible for aligning the developers/architects in SIs with our future develop= er tools and technologies, by engaging in technical sessions and discussions with them, in order for them to have smooth migration to the next generat= ion developer technologies. o <= /span>I <= b>own and drive the technical content for the various developer events that Microsoft India conducts across the year. o <= /span>I w= ork with INETA (International .NET Association) India Chapter, indepen= dent developer communities, like the .NET User groups, SQL Server User groups,= to foster developer communities, working on Microsoft developer technologies, across the country. ·= ; &nbs= p; 4^th December 2002 – 16^th April 2004: Working as <= b>Software Engineer in the Microsoft Practices Team of Hewlett Packard= India Software Operations, Bangalore: o&= nbsp; <= span style=3D'font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From September 2003 – A= pril 2004, at Bangalore, India: § <= span style=3D'font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Team Member of the FMSClient team involved in optimization and bug-fixes of the FMS versi= on 9, developed at Littleton. o&= nbsp; From March 2003 – September 2003, at Littleton, MA, U= SA: § Team Member of th= e FMSClient team that developed the ver= sion 9.0 of the client side MFC application which interacts with Hewlett Packard’s leading solution for managing telecom frauds, the HP FMS = (Fraud Management System). § Development Lead of FMSConfig, an application that was us= ed to extract the system database state of HP’s leading fraud management system, FMS, for the telecom domain, and restore the extracted system on fresh server to replicate system state. I lead the team in the design and= implementation of this application, that was written using VC#, and Microsoft’s managed provider for Oracle to interface with Oracle 9i. o&= nbsp; From January 2003 – February 2003, at Bangalore, India:<= br style=3D'mso-special-character:line-break'> § Development lead for a p= roof of concept (POC) that exemplified the power and capability of Windows Media Services (v9) SDK. The project used Windows Server 2003 = Beta 2 to stream live audio and video that was captured and published using= an application written in VC# to Windows Media Server publishing points,= for both live and on-demand view. This was done for India’s largest telec= om provider, the BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited). ·= ; &nbs= p; 8^th April, 2002 – 26^th November 2002: Working as <= b>Analyst Programmer with Dryden Technologies Incorporated, Australia, where my work involves designing web-based GIS systems using various technologi= es including .NET, C#, MFC, COM, ActiveX, ASP, VB, amongst others. Projects undertaken include: o&= nbsp; From July 2002 – November 2002, at Chandigarh, India: Development lead of VC++ based application to query spatial data files using open-source M= ITAB library, using MFC, ATL and Win32 API, for DigSAF= E Australia. o <= /span>From May 2002 – July 20= 02, at Chandigarh, India: Development lead of a distributed .NET project, to manage project bug reporting, involving the use of ASP.NET, .NET WebServices, Runtime code access security, with database access using ADO.NET, for Dryden Austra= lia. o <= /span>From April 2002 – May 2= 002, at Chandigarh, India: Development lead web-based technical support system for the organization, using ASP/COM/ADO, for = Dryden India<= /st1:country-region>. ·= ; &nbs= p; 4^th May, 2000 – 3^rd July 2000: As Contract Trainer for Satyam Computer Services Limited (http://www.satyam.com/), Hyderabad, India at Satyam Learning Center, Satyam = Technology Center= for a period of two months = where I did the following work: o <= /span>Lectured Satyam’s software developers on various topics, including VBScript, 3-tier/N-tier application architec= ture design, and accessing databases using VC++ and ADO and got a rating of 4+ on a scale of 1 to 5. o <= /span>Designed web accessible multi= -user aspect validation module for VisionCompass - = Satyam&#= 8217;s progress management tool. o <= /span>Case-studies for the various in-house proj= ects, for Emerging Technologies Boot Camp [ETBC], at Satyam Learning Center
Awards = ;	&Osl= ash; Awa= rded the Technical Passion of the Year 2005 awa= rd in FY2004-FY2005. &Osl= ash; Awa= rded Microsoft Gold Star for my contributions towards Developer Evangelism in FY2004-2005. Ø Selected as one of the ten outstanding Most Valuable Professio= nal - .NET, from 60+ MVPs in India, to be invited to the Global MVP Summ= it at Redmond, USA, in April 2004. Ø Awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) – C#, in 2003-2004, by Microsoft Corporation, Redmond USA, = for my technical expertise and global developer community sharing initiatives in= the C# programming language. Ø Awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) - .NET, in 2002-2003, by Microsoft Corporation, Redmond USA, = for my technical expertise and global developer community sharing initiatives in= the .NET framework. Ø Selected as one of the six outstanding Most Valuable Professional - .NET, from 33 = MVPs in India, to be invi= ted to the Global MVP Summit at Red= mond, USA, in February 2003 Ø <= span style=3D'font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>One of the highest rated spea= kers in TechED 2004 India with an average rating of 7.3+ out of 9 across 12 breakout sessions. Ø <= span style=3D'font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Delivered the highest rated l= ab, in TechED 2004 India, on .NET Code Access Security (CAS).
Professional Qualifications	Ø Microsoft Certified Applications Developer [.NET] Ø Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (Windows 2000 track) Ø Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (NT 4.0 track) Ø Microsoft Certified Professional + In= ternet Ø Microsoft Certified Professional
Professional Activities	· Writing for PC Quest= , on various Microsoft Technologies, since March 2001 · Expert host at MSDN Expert Chats · <= span style=3D'font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Speaker at Microsoft India TechMela 2007 · <= span style=3D'font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Speaker at Microsoft TechED 2006 India · <= span style=3D'font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Speaker at Microsoft TechED 2005 Sri Lanka · <= span style=3D'font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Speaker at Intel Developer Fo= rum 2005 · <= span style=3D'font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Speaker at Microsoft TechED 2005 India= · <= span style=3D'font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Speaker at Microsoft Software Architect Forum 2004 · <= span style=3D'font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Speaker at Microsoft TechED 2004 India · <= span style=3D'font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Speaker at Microsoft DevDays 2004 India · <= span style=3D'font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Speaker at Microsoft Mobile a= nd Embedded Developer Conference 2004 India · <= span style=3D'font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Speaker at Microsoft Develope= rs Network (MSDN) Sessions · <= span style=3D'font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Speaker at IPv6 Forum 2005 · Beta tester for Microsoft for the Windows Update web application · Beta tester for Microsoft for Microsoft Office 2003 program<= /p> · Beta tester for Microsoft for Visual Studio Whidbey program<= /p> · Beta tester for Microsoft for Whidbey Visual J# program, working with Visual J# development team at Microsoft India Development Center<= /p> · Extended Rotor, Microsoft’s Shared So= urce CLI implementation, with the details of my work available at http://www.wintoolzone.com/sh= owpage.aspx?url=3Drotor.aspx · <= span style=3D'font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Founder/Active Member/Present= er of India’s largest .NET User Group, the Bangalore .NET User Group (http://groups.msn.com/bdotnet= /) · <= span style=3D'font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Founder/Member of Chandigarh .NET User Group (http://groups.msn.com/cnug/)
Educational Qualifications	· Completed my Bachelor’s in Computer Applications, from Panjab University, Chandigarh, in June 2001, with distinction, scoring 76.2%
Skills	Systems Programming using C/C++, well versed in = Windows OS Internals, strong 32bit and 64bit programming ski= lls, very well versed with exception handling internals of Windows OS/Mac OS X/CRT/CLR, experience in virtual machine development, we= ll conversant with debugging using = WinDBG and GDB, skilled in multithreaded design and development, distributed programming using native and managed (.NET based) frameworks, quick in learning new development frameworks and identifying their areas of application, st= rong communication and presentation s= kills, well versant in Windows serv= er side (systems and application level) development
Proficiency in….	Operating Systems<= /span>	DOS, Windows 9X, Windows NT/ = 2000/XP/Server 2003, Windows CE 4.2/5.0, Windows Vista/Server 2008, Mac OS X 10.4
Environments	16bit Real mode, Win32/Win64,= WinSock, Windows Mobile PocketPC and SmartPhone, Common Language Runtime (CLR)
Languages	C, C++, VC#, VB, VB.NET, Managed C++
Scripting	VBScript, JavaScript, ASP
Technologies and Frameworks	COM/DCOM/COM+, ActiveX, ADO/A= DO.NET, Rotor, ASP.NET 1.0/2.0, WebServices, WS-* sta= ndards, Windows Communication Foundation/Indigo, Detours, Sa= feCRT, ATL, .NET Framework 1.0/1.1/2.0, .NET Compact Framework 1.0/2.0, Windows Mobile 2003/5.0/6.0
Tools	Windows SDK, Visual Studio, M= icrosoft Project, Office System Development Platform, Visual Studio Team System, <= span class=3DSpellE>WinDBG, GDB, PreFAST
Database	SQL Server 7.0, SQL Server 20= 05
Servers=	IIS, Windows Server 2003=
Publications	Developer 2.0 http://www.developer2.com/ o<= span style=3D'font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> <= /span>“Using DNS in Windows 2000/XP” – April 2002 Developer IQ http://www.developeriq.com/ o<= span style=3D'font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> <= /span>“Hosting the CLR” – April 2003 Windows Developer Journal (WDJ), CMP Publications, USA<= /st1:place> http://www.wdj.com/ o&= nbsp; “Using ADO f= rom VC++” – January, 2001 Microsoft India<= /st1:country-region>’s eXPerience.NET Portal http://www.experiencedotnet.com o&= nbsp; “Image Format Conversion in .NET” – July, 2002 o&= nbsp; “Asynchronous Communication with .NET WebServices” &#= 8211; June, 2002 Microsoft’s MSDN Online Peer Journal o<= span style=3D'font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> <= /span>“Windows 95/98 Address = Space Organization” – 26^th June 2000 <= /span> o<= span style=3D'font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> <= /span>“Windows Private Address Spaces” – 30^th May 2000 PC= Quest http://www.pcquest.com/ o&= nbsp; “State Notification in Windows Mo= bile 5.0” – August 2006 o&= nbsp; “SMS Interception in Windows Mobile 5.0” – March 2006 o&= nbsp; “Introducing Windows Mobile 5.0” – October 2005 o&= nbsp; “Build a SmartPhone= 2003 Dialer” – July 2005 o&= nbsp; “On Demand Security with CAS” R= 11; February 2005 o&= nbsp; “Code Access Security” – = January 2005 o&= nbsp; “Customized Security Roles in .NET” – December 2004 o&= nbsp; “Role based Security in .NET Framework” – November 2004 o&= nbsp; “What’s new in Microsoft Visual St= udio 2005” – August 2004 o&= nbsp; “Introducing ADO.NET Whidbey” R= 11; May 2004 o&= nbsp; “Whidbey: Working with Iterators” – April 2004 o&= nbsp; “Generics in Whidbey” – F= ebruary 2004 o&= nbsp; “Whidbey: .NET’s upcoming version” – January 2004 o&= nbsp; “Targetting Handhelds” – July 2003 o&= nbsp; “.NET for Pocket Devices” – June 2003 o&= nbsp; “WebServices: Tips and Tricks” – May = 2003 o&= nbsp; “Asynchronous Communications” – April 2003 o&= nbsp; “New Controls in WinForms” – March = 2003 o&= nbsp; “Work with WinForms” – February 2003= o&= nbsp; “Moving from VB to VB.NET̶= 1; – December 2002 o&= nbsp; “.NET: The Developer’s Perspective” – November 2002 o&= nbsp; “.NET and the Web” – November 2002 o&= nbsp; “Understanding WinForms” – November 2002= o&= nbsp; “Platform Invocation Services: .NET Calling Win32” – October 2002 o&= nbsp; “Customizing Serialization in .NET” – October 2002 o&= nbsp; “Serialization in .NET” – September 2002 o&= nbsp; “Inside NetStat” – August, 2002 o&= nbsp; “Working with Registry in .NET” – June 2002 o&= nbsp; “Doing an MX Lookup - III” – March 2002 o&= nbsp; “Doing an MX Lookup - II” – February 2002 o&= nbsp; “Doing an MX Lookup - I” – January 2002 o&= nbsp; “Virtual Functions and Unsafe Programming” - December 2001= o&= nbsp; “Understanding Methods” – November 2001 o&= nbsp; “Exception Handling in C#̶= 1; – October 2001 o&= nbsp; “Program Control in C#” – September 2001 o&= nbsp; “C# Arrays – Part IIR= 21; – September 2001 o&= nbsp; “C# Arrays – Part I̶= 1; – August 2001 o&= nbsp; “Understanding CTS in .NET” – August 2001 o&= nbsp; “Designing Threaded Applications – Part III” – August 2001= o<= span style=3D'font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> <= /span>“Understanding .NET” – July 2001 o<= span style=3D'font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> <= /span>“Programming in C#” R= 11; July 2001 o<= span style=3D'font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> <= /span>“Designing Threaded Applications – Part II “ - July 2001= o<= span style=3D'font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> <= /span> “Designing Threaded Applicatio= ns – Part I” – June 2001 o<= span style=3D'font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> <= /span>“How POP3 Works”<= b> – May 2001 o<= span style=3D'font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> <= /span> “Coding a POP3 Client in C#” – May 2001 o<= span style=3D'font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> <= /span>“How Email Works”= – April 2001 o<= span style=3D'font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> <= /span>“Coding a Mail client in C#” – April 2001 o<= span style=3D'font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> <= /span>“How MTS Components Work” – March 2001 The Tribune (a regional newspaper, published from Chandigarh, India)<= b> o&= nbsp; “FAT32: A Boon or a Bane ?”– 28^{th<= /sup> May, 1998}
Spoken at…	= TechMela 2007 I pr= esented on architectural differences between CoreCLR, the CLR used in Silverlight 2.0, and the Desktop CLR and how it imp= acts managed code developers = TechED 2006 India At D= elhi, Pune, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore where I presented on CLR Hosting, WCF, .NET MicroFramework, .NET Compact Frame= work Memory Management Internals and Windows CE 6.0. Mobile and Embedded Developers Conference [MEDC] 2006 India At <= st1:place w:st=3D"on">Bangalore, India, in April 2006 = where I presented on Ext= ending ActiveSync Sta= te and Notification Broker in Windows Mobile 5.0 GPS= APIs in Windows Mobile 5.0 Sym= bian/J2= ME vs Windows Mobile/.NET Compact Framework Deli= vered the highest rated session = *on <= /span>Windows Mobile 5.0*<= strong> Windows Communication Foundation (Indigo) Tour At Bangalore, Pune, Chennai and Hyderabad,= in November 2005, where I spoke on the future of distributed computing= on Microsoft’s developer platform using WCF (codenamed Indigo), = part of WinFX, and understanding how WS-I protocols and Service Orientation are a core part of the same.= = TechED 2005 Sri Lank= a At <= st1:place w:st=3D"on">Colombo, Sri Lanka, in October= 2005 Intel Developer Forum 2005, by Intel Corporation At <= st1:City w:st=3D"on">Bangalore= in October 2005 where I spoke on Spelunking CLR 2.0. = TechED 2005 India, by Microsoft India o&= nbsp; at Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai, Hyderabad and New Delhi, in J= une-July 2005. For more details, visit http://www.t= echedindia.com/. Was the highest rated speaker acros= s the country. · MSDN Session on Building Connected Systems for the F= uture, by Microsoft India** o&= nbsp; at = New Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Pune in April= 2005, where I talked about the essence of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), = how Microsoft's existing distributed stacks line up against the same and how = Indigo, the upcoming distributed communication subsystem, will get the best of COM+, MSMQ, ASMX and Remoting and build upon the tenets of SOA. · MSDN Session on Building Secure Web Applications using ASP.NET 2.0, by Microsoft India o <= /span>at Hyderabad, New Delhi and Bangalore, India in February 2005 where I talked about how ASP.NET 2.0 enhances the meaning of security by adding the Membership and = RoleManager APIs that not only reduce the plumbing work done by many web develope= rs but also provide a secure and extensible methodology of web application d= esign. · Microsoft Mobile and Embed= ded DevCon 2004, by Microsoft India= o&= nbsp; at= Bangalore, India in December 2004. I talked about how .NET Compact Framework Whidb= ey is going to enhance mobile development, alongwith discussing how the Windows CE Remote API (RAPI) can be used to build desktop and server applications that talk with compact devices. For more details, visit http://www.microsoft.com/india/windows/embedded/mdc2004/= · MSDN Session on = Inside the ASP.NET Runtime, by Microsoft India= = o&= nbsp; at= Pune, New Delhi and Bangalore, India<= /st1:country-region> in November 2004 where I talked about the internal architecture of ASP.NET, how it works when installed on IIS 5 and IIS 6, and how its request pipeline can be customi= zed by writing HttpHandlers= , HttpModules and SoapExte= nsions. &m= iddot; &nbs= p; o <= /span>At Banga= lore, India in October 2004 where I talked about Indigo, Microsoft’s next generati= on distributed communication subsystem, its mapping to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) fundamentals and how Software Architects can take advantage of the same.· MSDN Session on = Inside the Guts of the CLR, by Microsoft India= = o&= nbsp; at= Hyderabad<= span style=3D'mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:= "Tahoma","sans-serif"'>, India<= /st1:country-region> in October 2004, where I discussed some of the core internal aspects of the CLR, including CLR Hosting, Garbage Collector, Weak References. · TechED 2004 India, by Microsoft= India= = o&= nbsp; at Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai and New Delh= i, in August 2004. For more details, visit = http://www.techedindia.com/.= · MSDN Session on What's comin= g up in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, by Microsoft= India = o&= nbsp; at Bangalore and Hyderabad, India, in July 2004, <= /span>where I talk= ed about the next version of the .NET Framework, version 2.0, and Microsoft = Visual Studio 2005. I discussed the enhancements in the CLR (like Generics), productivity enhancements in compilers (like Iterato= rs, Anonymous Methods, Partial Types), the new architecture of ASP.NET 2.0 and developer productivity with the newer controls and finally, close down taking a look at enhancements in WinForms for writing responsive async. Uis, usage of new DataGr= idView, amongst other things. · MSDN Session on Practical .N= ET Interoperability Strategies, by Microsoft India = o&= nbsp; at New Delhi, India, on 20th April 2004, where I discussed = how COM Interoperability and Platform Invocation Services help .NET Framework based applications interact with Win32 and COM based application, in addi= tion to how COM+ base development has been enhanced in .NET. Common interop pitfalls, mainta= in performance and build better interoperating applications and finallyexemplifying how .NET R= emoting can be leveraged to interoperate with Java applications. · MSDN Session on Developing .= NET Applications for Sharepoint Products and Tech= nologies, by Microsoft India o&= nbsp; at Bangalore, India<= /st1:country-region>, on 24th February 2004, where I talked about developing WebParts for SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services, understanding how they are architected over Windows Server 2003, how they= work internally and how Microsoft Visual Studio.NET can be used for developing= for the same. Demo code can be downloaded from = here. · MSDN Session on** SQL Server 2= 000 Reporting Services: Redefining the future of Reporting, <= strong>by Microsoft= India** = o&= nbsp; at Bangalore, India, in March 2004, where I talk= ed about how SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services are creating a new standard = in which you will want to produce reports from just about any data source, located on just about any data source across the Internet, how you can leverage the strength of Visual Studio.NET and design reports in the RAD = way, how to create nested/linked reports, how security fundamentals are built-= in to Reporting Services, leveraging the .NET security fundamentals and much more. · MSDN Session on Developing .= NET Applications for Sharepoint Products and Technologies, by Microsoft India = o&= nbsp; at Bangalore, India<= /st1:country-region>, on 24th February 2004, where I talked about developing WebParts for SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services, understanding how they are architected over Windows Server 2003, how they work internally and how Microsoft Visual Studio.NET can be used for developing for the same. MSDN Session (Level 300)= on How to Implement Security in .NET, at New Delhi, India, on 20th January 2004, where I talked about the various facets of implementing security when designing a .NET application, including Role-based security, Code ac= cess security, Evidence based security, Isolated Storage and Cryptography= . <= /p> ·= ; &nbs= p; MSDN Session (Level 200) on Best Pract= ices and Techniques for designing Secure ASP.NET Web Applications <= /b>at = New Delhi, India, on 18^th December 2003 where I discussed how important security design is when developing an ASP.NET based web-application, including strategies for designing secure web applications, including specifics of ASP.NET, Securi= ty protocols, Threat Modeling and more. ·= ; &nbs= p; MSDN Session on Office 2003: A Developer’s Perspective at Bangalore, India, 20^th November 2003, that discussed the new features of Office 2003 like Smart Documents, Research Pane, XML Support, InfoPath, VS.NET Tools for Office 2003 and mo= re. ·= ; &nbs= p; Hewlett Packard Global Software Forum 2003 at Chicago, USA, on 20^th Jun= e 2003 on .NET Interoperability Strategies where I discussed how Platform Invocation Services (PInvoke), COM Interopera= bility and Common Language Runtime (CLR) Hosting can be used to interoperate with the unmanaged code. ·= ; &nbs= p; MSDN India<= /st1:country-region> Expert Chats (http://www.microsoft.com/india/msdn/chat/)<= /a> o&= nbsp; Expert host for the chat on What’= s new with ASP.NET Whidbey, conducted on 22^nd January 2004<= /o:p> o&= nbsp; Expert host for the chat on Interprocess Communication in .NET, conducted on 18^th July 2003 o&= nbsp; Expert host for the chat on What’s new in .NET Framework 1.1, condu= cted on 2^nd May 2003 o&= nbsp; Expert host for the chat on Inside .NET Threads and Thre= adPools, conducted on 8^th November, 2002 o&= nbsp; Expert host for the chat on Managed Extensions for C++, conducted on 27th July, 2002 ·= ; &nbs= p; MSDN Session (Level 300) conducted by Microsoft India, at New Delhi on 19^th June 200= 2, on best practices for memory management and using Internet services in the .= NET framework. ·= ; &nbs= p; PC Quest-NIIT C# Seminars for India<= /st1:country-region>’s leading IT/Software Publication, PC Quest (http://www.pcquest.com/): o <= /span>at Pune<= /span>, on 28^th September 2001, discussing the .NET framework, new language specific features of C#, and advanced C# concepts<= /b> o&= nbsp; at New Delhi, on 18th September 2001, discussing the advanced C# concepts
Software Developed	Applications… Ø PCClean AntiVirus<= span style=3D'font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> – a DOS based anti-vir= us solution for detecting and disinfecting boot/partition and file viruses. Ø AppManager - a Windows 95/98 based process = and thread priority management utility. Ø Mail Alerter – a Windows 95/98/ME/NT utility which sits in the system tray and monitors configured POP3 accoun= ts for arrival of new mails and alerting the user about the same.= Ø Mail Manager - a Windows 95/98/ME based SMTP/= POP3 standard compliant email server. Ø Crash Monitor – a Windows 95/98 base= d tool which sits in the system tray and monitors threads for crashed, alerting = the user upon encountering one. Ø gPortXP – a graphical NetStat for Windows XP that uses undocumented X= P APIs to details out the status of the TCP/UDP ports on a system, alongwith the process using those ports.= Ø gProxy – a Windows 95/98/ME/NT based multithreaded HTTP/HTTPS proxy server with built-in firewall.<= /o:p> Ø gTools – a Windows 2000/XP ba= sed network utility with support for Finger, WhoIs, port scanning, email address verification and more. Ø gXPLogon – tool for Windows XP = that lets you change the Windows XP Welcome screen easily. Ø KReveal<= /span> – a tool for Windows 9X/ME/NT4/2000 based systems that can reveal the passwords hidden behind asterisks. Ø MemAnalysis – Windows NT architecture based tool to detect memory leaks in native applications when allocations are done via Virtual memory or process heap= s. It is based upon the Detours = framework from Microsoft Research. Ø Port Monitor – the network utility = that utilizes the IPHELPER APIs to display realtime status of the open local TCP ports and their corresponding, remote ports.= Ø Win32 GEH – a Windows NT 4.0/200= 0/XP based tool that transparently intercepts any kind of program faults gener= ated by an application, which go beyond the hands of its internal exception handling! Ø WhoOwns<= /span> – a Win32 application = that lets you determine, and optionally kill, the parent processes of modules = that might be in use. Especially useful when a DLL has been locked by a process and you wish to determine which process has done the same, and kill it to release the DLL! COM Components… Ø ASPResIP= – an in-process server= for resolving domain names to IP addresses. Ø DN2IP – ActiveX control for resolving domain names to IP addresses. Ø gMail – a fully-functional <= i>trial version set of email components, currently in its beta 1, supporting = the SMTP protocol completely, with support for attachments, mail receipts and more. Ø gSMTP – RFC 821 compliant Ac= tiveX control for sending email with attachments, priority, read/delivery recei= pts and more. Ø gTime/gDayTime – ActiveX controls for implementing the client side portion of the = Time and DayTime protocols. Ø NetEnum<= /span> – ActiveX control for enumerating resources on Microsoft Windows networks using the WNET API. Ø PnT – ActiveX control encapsulating the Process and Thread enumeration subset of the 32bit ToolHelp API. Ø Win32IO - ActiveX control for working wi= th privileged microprocessor registers and instructions from user mode. .NET Applications… Ø .NET Icon Extractor - Updated to extract BITMAP resources, .NET Icon Extractor (DIE) makes icon extraction a breeze, for icons contained within DLLs, OCXs, and any other resource containing file= s. Ø Assembly (un)Registration Wiz= ard - Assembly (un)Registration Wizard lets you register and unregister, graphically, publicly exposed managed types from an assembly, without using REGASM, for use by COM clie= nts. It even shows the COM ProgIDs to which the ma= naged types shall be mapped to! *Also available for download at Microsoft India’s eXPerience.NET Portal at* *<= span style=3D'font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>http://www.experiencedotnet.c= om* *and Microsoft’s GotDotNet Portal at* *http://www.gotdotnet.com/userarea/<= /a> Ø AutoRepl= y for Poc= ketPC is a PocketPC 5.0 based application that leverage= the System State Notification Broker of Windows Mobile 5.0 to automatically reply, as SMS, to callers whose calls you have missed. = Ø CECallLo= gManager is an application for the PocketPC that allows you to view the incoming, outg= oing and missed calls in a more simpler manner. You= get to see all the details which the built-in call log shows you, plus information like the total number of calls of a particular type (e.g. how many incoming calls), whether the call was made on roaming network or not, and even export the call log to XML and CSV for= mats! Ø CETaskMa= nager for Pocket PC that can be us= ed to manage running processes on the device, get their details and more.<= /o:p> Ø CodeConverter.NET<= span style=3D'font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> uses an open source CodeDOM hierarchy producer class library to read a VC# based source and construct the CodeDOM for the same. Once the VC# CodeDOM has been m= ade, CodeConverter.NET can be used to convert the C# source to source co= de of any CLR targeting language* that supports = CodeDOM. Ø CSPortSc= an – a TCP/UDP port scann= ing utility. Ø CSProces= sManager – a complete tool to g= ive you all the details regarding the threads, modules associated with any process running on a local or a remote system Ø HTTPTunn= el – a transparent proxy = client application that allows socket client softwares, like Microsoft Outlook, to connect to email servers across a firewall even when email ports are blocked, by using the HTTPS proxy server only!= Ø Image Converter.NET - Now with MDI, image rotati= on and zoom support, this .NET based image file conversion tool can convert to/f= rom 9 image file formats including BMP, GIF, JPG, TIFF, PNG, ICO and more! It= has been built using C#, exploiting GDI+. *Also available for download at Microsoft’s GotDotNet Portal at* *http://www.gotdotnet.com/userarea/<= /a> Ø IrDAList -= .NET Compact Framework 2.0 based application = for Pocket PC 2003 based systems that can detect IrDA connected devices and display the connection details. Ø MGZip – Application developed using Whidb= ey (.NET Framework 2.0) Beta 1 to exemplify the usage of the Compression APIs introduced in Whidbey – available with complete source code (VS 2005 based) Ø MSDN Fee= dReader for Compact Devices is an application for PocketPC/Windows CE= driven systems that shall connect to the MSDN Website and r= ead the RSS XML feeds to get details of the latest articles, publications and= announcements made on MSDN. Ø NICInfo.NET - Written using Visual J#, t= his .NET utility gets information about the installed network interface cards (NICs). Ø NotifyOn= Email – Written for Windows Mobile 5.0 based PocketPC* that will send an email incase you get a SMS or a missed call. Ø Registry Edit.NET<= span style=3D'font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> - Currently in its beta, Reg= istry Editor.NET sports a familiar look, feel, and functionality for working wi= th the registry in the world of .NET. Also supports backup and restore of registry hives. &Osl= ash; SCM.NET – The only tool to man= age both software and device services on local and remote Windows NT architec= ture based systems. Also available for download at Microsoft India= ’s eXPerience.NET Portal at http://www.experiencedotnet.c= om and Microsoft’s GotDotNet Portal at http://www.gotdotnet.com/userarea/ Ø WebServi= ce Tester - WebSe= rvice Tester is the tool that you can use to connect to any webservice, pass them parameters and test its exposed methods, without creating any intermediate proxy! Ø winWSDL<= /span> - Updated to convert a COM+ application, on a Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003 system, to a webservice without even modify the COM+ application, winWSDL is your graphical way of creating webservice proxy cl= asses with a single click, and better than Microsoft's WSDL utility. Why? Becau= se it can create webservice proxies for you in f= ive different languages, including Managed C++, using the magic of CodeDOM! Ø WS-Sudoku – Game of Sudoku imple= mented for multi-player mode using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), a.k.a= ., Indigo. Uses callback contract feature of WCF for game-server to game-cli= ent notifications. .NET WebServices…= Ø WSWhoIs<= /span> – C# source code for t= he complete domain-name WhoIs lookup service. Ø WSResDns= – resolves domain name= s to IP addresses, exemplifying the usage of the System.Net namespace. .NET Components… Ø BrowseDi= alog – a .NET component that allows your application to display a folder selection dialog box, using a single method call. And best of all, it doesn't uses the FolderBrowser class in the .NET framework, whic= h has been documented to be not to be used by the developers.= Ø Calendar= SP is a date-picker control for= the SmartPhone 2003 and later platforms. Ø CECallLo= g is a managed class library t= hat allows you to interface with the call log of the Windows CE device. Since= the .NET Compact Framework doesn't support such functionality, WinToolZone CECallLog i= s a simple way to get the details from the log. It allows you to enumerate all the details including phone number, number types, caller name, whether the call was missed or answered, whether call came on roaming or not, amongst other things. It comes with complete documentation with examples on usage= . Ø CERapi is a managed Windows CE Remo= te API (RAPI) implementation that allows you to work with Windows CE device from= the desktop and enumerate its OS and system level details, work with its file system and copy files to and from the device to the desktop. Ø CSLResDN= S – component to resolve= a domain name to all associated IP addresses, resolve the aliases and the hostname of the target system. Ø CSLMail<= /span> – Updated for .NET v2.= 0 RTM and PPC 2003/SP2003/WinCE 5.0/WM5.0 platforms, CSLMa= il is a RFC 821/RFC 1225 compliant SMTP/POP3 component for sending and recei= ving emails, with support for plaintext/html mails, email priority, request and delivery receipts, multiple email attachments, automatic email parsing wh= en fetched from POP3 server, BASE64 attachment decoding, and more. Complete documentation accompanies the component, with detailed exemplification of usage. Independent of System.Web.Mail that= uses CDO interoperability internally. Ø CSWhoIs<= /span> – component to perform= the WhoIs lookup for any domain name.= Ø DNSLookup – component to query D= NS servers for 17 different kinds of records, written using managed extensio= ns for C++, using the DNS Win32 API. Also available for download at Micro= soft India<= /st1:country-region>’s eXPerience.NET Portal at http://www.experiencedotnet.c= om and Microsoft’s GotDotNet Portal at http://www.gotdotnet.com/userarea/ &Os= lash; ImageVisualizer<= /span> &= #8211; a visualizer for the Visual Studio 2005 Debug= ger for the Image class objects. &Os= lash; NAI – component that retri= eves IP address details for all network adapters installed in a given system.<= i> &Os= lash; SMSCF -= .NET Compact Framework based component for sending SMS using the Windows CE SMS API. &Os= lash; ToolHelpCE - Ma= naged Windows CE class library to enumerate processes, get their details, terminate them and more. &Os= lash; WIVisualizer &= #8211; a visualizer for the Visual Studio 2005 Debug= ger for the WindowsIdentity class o= bjects.
Websites Managed	WinToolZone= http://www.wintoolzone.com/ WinToolZone is my effort to share the understanding and use of Microsoft technologies through different approac= hes. Besides articles, I also place on this site various solutions and compone= nts developed by me, which are available for free use by developers, designed using Microsoft technologies. Inside and Out… http://www.wintoolzone.com/blog/ Thi= s is my technical blog where I talk about various Microsoft Technologies and how = to use them better – its also the resource for downloading the free class libraries and software I write for the developer community, which can also be downloaded from WinToolZone.