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

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 Page

Sunday, September 07, 2008 by Sheo Narayan

In 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 that type of problem in an easy to follow steps.\

SEO-Friendly Pagination Using the DataPager Control

Monday, September 01, 2008 by Sheo Narayan

This article shows how to paginate (SEO friendly) a ListView using the DataPager control without enabling ViewState.

How to Serialize and Deserialize an Object into XML

Sunday, August 24, 2008 by Sheo Narayan

In this article, I am going to show how to serialize and deserialize an object (can be a collection object) into XML format using the ASP.NET System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer class.

Difference between asp:LinkButton, asp:ImageButton, asp:Button an...

Saturday, August 23, 2008 by Sheo Narayan

In this article, I am going to describe what are the main differences between asp:LinkButton, asp:ImageButton, asp:Button and asp:HyperLink control and how/where to use them effectively.

List of articles got published on www.asp.net (Microsoft's official website for WPF and Window Forms) as "Article of the Day" this week

DataTable: Adding, Modifying, Deleting, Filtering, Sorting
Monday, September 08, 2008 by Sheo Narayan
Sheo Narayan explains how to add, modify, delete, sort, and filter DataTable rows, how to load data from and write data to XML files, and how to read and write DataTable XML schemas...

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Sheo Narayan

How fortunate I am

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.

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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 karna
hamari dua hai ki waqt bhi ek din aapka gulam hoga"

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Receiving a lot of emails from DotNetFunda.com visitors

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 visitors to not send an email to my personal email id and Respond to the article to convey your thanks, appreciation or comments.

To ask a question, please use Questions section of www.dotnetfunda.com

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Thanks and regards,

Sheo Narayan

A Leader Should Know How to Manage Failure

'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, commonly called the SLV-3. Our goal was to put India's "Rohini" satellite into orbit by 1980. I was given funds and human resources -- but was told clearly that by 1980 we had to launch the satellite into space. Thousands of people worked together in scientific and technical teams towards that goal.

By 1979 -- I think the month was August -- we thought we were ready. As the project director, I went to the control center for the launch. At four minutes before the satellite launch, the computer began to go through the checklist of items that needed to be checked. One minute later, the computer program put the launch on hold; the display showed that some control components were not in order. My experts -- I had four or five of them with me -- told me not to worry; they had done their calculations and there was

enough reserve fuel. So I bypassed the computer, switched to manual mode, and launched the rocket. In the first stage, everything worked fine. In the second stage, a problem developed. Instead of the satellite going into orbit, the whole rocket system plunged into the Bay of Bengal . It was a big failure.

That day, the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization, Prof. Satish D hawan, had called a press conference. The launch was at 7:00 am, and the press conference -- where journalists from around the world were present -- was at 7:45 am at ISRO's satellite launch range in Sriharikota [in Andhra Pradesh in southern India ]. Prof. Dhawan, the leader of the organization, conducted the press conference himself. He took responsibility for the failure -- he said that the team had worked very hard, but that it needed more technological support. He assured the media that in another

year, the team would definitely succeed. Now, I was the project director, and it was my failure, but instead, he took responsibility for the failure as chairman of the organization.

The next year, in July 1980, we tried again to launch the satellite – and this time we succeeded. The whole nation was jubilant. Again, there was a press conference. Prof. Dhawan called me aside and told me, "You conduct the press conference today."

I learned a very important lesson that day. When failure occurred, the leader of the organization owned that failure. When success came, he gave it to his team. The best management lesson I have learned did not come to me from reading a book; it came from that experience.

Never limit your challenges; challenge your limits....