Important FAQ on WPF and SilverLight

There is a great article with nice explanation is available at “The Code Project“.

I don’t want to copy the content, but here is the summary of what was there. You can find the link to the original article by Shivprasad Koirala at the end.

This article addresses the following …

• What is the need of WPF when we had GDI, GDI+ and DirectX?
• Overall architecture of WPF
• Architecture of SilverLight
• How can we separate code and XAML
• The relationship between WPF, XAML & SilverLight
• Video demonstration One Way, Two Way and One Time Bindings using Silver light
• Other SilverLight FAQ!

All these were explained with great illustrations — a must read for WPF / SilverLight programmers.

Link: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/WPFSilverLight.aspx

Change login password when in Remote Desktop

My work demands me to log in into remote machines(WinXP, Win7, WinServer).

It happened one day that my password expired and I want to change it there it self! When I am looking for simplest immediate solutions … I came to know this, which worked like a charm.

Using CTRL+ALT+DEL, always pops up your local machine “Windows Security” window

Using CTRL+ALT+END pops up remote machine “Windows Security” window