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Rakhi Poems

Rakhi Poems
Heart touching collection of affectionate Rakhi Poems for Brothers and Sisters! These Rakhi Poetry will make you feel the essence of Rakhi Festival for brothers and sisters in India. Send these Rakhi Poem to your brother or sister on Raksha Bandhan to make them feel special and loved.

Rakhi Poem No. 1

Rakhi Day is Righteous Day
by
President of India
A.P.J.Abdul Kalam





This full moon day our hearts are in brim
Feeling of faith and serenity in mind.
We light the lamps and our hears glow
Radiance of happiness and peace are in flow.
Harmonious homes are like streams of joy
Flowing and flourishing the landscape en route.
Nobility in heart and character in deed
Righteous homes alone make a beautiful State.
Sisters will tie the thread on the brothers
Abiding them to do only what is right and clean.
Put the Kumkum and blessed rice on the head
Where will dwell right thoughts and noble action.

Rakhi Poem No. 2

Here's To My Brother

Here's to my brother
Remember every day
No matter what I've said
Here's what I'd like to say
I will always love you
Be with you till the end
When no one else is around
I will be your friend
I love my brother
and I always will
I'm proud to be your brother
that's how I feel
And someday when we're far away
And the miles keep us apart
I'm gonna whisper
I love my brother
And you'll know it in your heart

Rakhi Poem No. 3

A Brother Just Like You

I just want to let you know
You mean the world to me
Only a heart as dear as yours
Would give so unselfishly

The many things you've done
All the times that you were there
Help me know deep down inside
How much you really care

Even though I might not say
I appreciate all you do
Richly blessed is how I feel
Having a brother just like you.

Rakhi Poem No. 4

Rakhi ke is pavitra taar sa
bandhan hai ye prem bhaav ka

ek ek doar mein lipta pyar
tumse hi khilta sansaar

sneh tumhara babul jaisa
usi jal se mujhe hai seencha

bachpan ki woh bheeni smriti
umhari khatti meethi prakrati

baat baat par tumhara jhirakna
phir woh roothna aur manana

apne naam ko sarthak karte
Rajeev ki tarah hi sadaa tum khilte

ishwar ki rahe sadaa dayaa
mere saath rahe yeh saaya

rakshabandhan ke paawan parv par
aur kya doon is ashish key siwa

Rakhi Poem No. 5

A Sister Like You

Someone who will understand
Who knows the way I feel
In every situation
Her concern is very real

Someone who has walked my ways
Who knows my every need
Times when she would see me cry
Her heart would nearly bleed

Everyone should have a sister
Just the way I do
Richly blessed is what I am
To have a sister like you
A Sister is Forever
by Bruce B. Wilmer

A sister's a sister forever,
A bond that diminishes never,
A friend who is kindly and caring,
A sibling God chooses for sharing.
Few ties as deep and profound
And with so much affection abound
Though some thoughts are seldom expressed
Love endures and survives every test.
Of the constants that rest in the heart,
A sister's a primary part.
She'll always be there when you need her-
You listen, you value, you heed her.
As growth, independence you ponder,
Your feelings grow deeper and fonder;
And life tells you one thing that is true:
A sister's a large part of you.

Rakhi Poems

Rakhi Poems
Heart touching collection of affectionate Rakhi Poems for Brothers and Sisters! These Rakhi Poetry will make you feel the essence of Rakhi Festival for brothers and sisters in India. Send these Rakhi Poem to your brother or sister on Raksha Bandhan to make them feel special and loved.

Rakhi Poem No. 1

Rakhi Day is Righteous Day
by
President of India
A.P.J.Abdul Kalam





This full moon day our hearts are in brim
Feeling of faith and serenity in mind.
We light the lamps and our hears glow
Radiance of happiness and peace are in flow.
Harmonious homes are like streams of joy
Flowing and flourishing the landscape en route.
Nobility in heart and character in deed
Righteous homes alone make a beautiful State.
Sisters will tie the thread on the brothers
Abiding them to do only what is right and clean.
Put the Kumkum and blessed rice on the head
Where will dwell right thoughts and noble action.

Rakhi Poem No. 2

Here's To My Brother

Here's to my brother
Remember every day
No matter what I've said
Here's what I'd like to say
I will always love you
Be with you till the end
When no one else is around
I will be your friend
I love my brother
and I always will
I'm proud to be your brother
that's how I feel
And someday when we're far away
And the miles keep us apart
I'm gonna whisper
I love my brother
And you'll know it in your heart

Rakhi Poem No. 3

A Brother Just Like You

I just want to let you know
You mean the world to me
Only a heart as dear as yours
Would give so unselfishly

The many things you've done
All the times that you were there
Help me know deep down inside
How much you really care

Even though I might not say
I appreciate all you do
Richly blessed is how I feel
Having a brother just like you.

Rakhi Poem No. 4

Rakhi ke is pavitra taar sa
bandhan hai ye prem bhaav ka

ek ek doar mein lipta pyar
tumse hi khilta sansaar

sneh tumhara babul jaisa
usi jal se mujhe hai seencha

bachpan ki woh bheeni smriti
umhari khatti meethi prakrati

baat baat par tumhara jhirakna
phir woh roothna aur manana

apne naam ko sarthak karte
Rajeev ki tarah hi sadaa tum khilte

ishwar ki rahe sadaa dayaa
mere saath rahe yeh saaya

rakshabandhan ke paawan parv par
aur kya doon is ashish key siwa

Rakhi Poem No. 5

A Sister Like You

Someone who will understand
Who knows the way I feel
In every situation
Her concern is very real

Someone who has walked my ways
Who knows my every need
Times when she would see me cry
Her heart would nearly bleed

Everyone should have a sister
Just the way I do
Richly blessed is what I am
To have a sister like you
A Sister is Forever
by Bruce B. Wilmer

A sister's a sister forever,
A bond that diminishes never,
A friend who is kindly and caring,
A sibling God chooses for sharing.
Few ties as deep and profound
And with so much affection abound
Though some thoughts are seldom expressed
Love endures and survives every test.
Of the constants that rest in the heart,
A sister's a primary part.
She'll always be there when you need her-
You listen, you value, you heed her.
As growth, independence you ponder,
Your feelings grow deeper and fonder;
And life tells you one thing that is true:
A sister's a large part of you.

Rakhi History

Who Tied the First Rakhi? As every traditional festivity is associated with ancient legends and myths, Rakhi is no exception to it. Here you would find the tales and stories related to the Rakhi festival which tells us about the great devotion and the affectionate bond between brothers and sisters:Rakhi in Mythology
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Yama and Yamuna:According to a mythological tale, Yama, the lord of death, was blessed with eternity as his sister Yamuna tied up a Rakhi thread on his wrist. Since that time the festival of Raksha Bandhan is associated with tying of Rakhi thread.
The Tale of Lord Bali and Goddess Laxmi:According to the tale King Bali one day approached to the Lord Vishnu to get his kingdom safeguarded from its enemies. Lord Vishnu decided to help his great devotee and was set to leave his heavenly home. Goddess Lakshmi, the wife of Lord Vishnu, did not want her lord to leave the home and reached to the Bali's mansion in disguise of Brahmin woman to seek shelter. On the auspicious day of Shravan Purnima Laxmi ji while tying a revered thread on Bali's wrist told her purpose for being there. Touched by the tender feelings of Lakshmi ji for her family, Kind Bali requested Lord Vishnu to not leave his abode. Therefore the Rakhi festival is also called 'Baleva' that means the devotion of King Bali to Lord Vishnu.
Indra and Sachi: Indra, the king of devtas, had lost his kingdom to the asura Vritra. Indra's wife Sachi than tied a thread around her husband's wrist to ensure his victory in the upcoming war between him and Vrita. This was done at the behest of guru Brihaspati.
Draupadi and Krishna: Lord Krishna was left with a bleeding finger, after Shishupal's death. To stop the flow of blood, Draupadi, the wife of the Pandavas, had torn a strip of silk off her sari and tied it around Krishna's wrist. Touched by her concern, Krishna declared himself to protect her and promised to repay the debt manifold, and spent the next 25 years of his life doing just that. Rakhi in History
King Porus and Alexandar's wife:Another rakhi tale comes from the battle between Alexander the Greek king, and Porus, the Hindu king. Wife of Alexander sent a sacred thread to Porus, asking him not to harm her husband in battle. In accordance with Hindu traditions, Porus gave full respect to rakhi. In the battlefield, when Porus was about to deliver a final blow on Alexander, he saw the rakhi on his hand and restrained himself from attacking Alexander personally.
Humayun and Queen Karmavati: Queen Karmavati of Chittor had sent a Rakhi to Humayun to protect her from Bahadur Shah. Humayun, then engaged in an expedition against Bengal, turned back to carry out his sacred brotherly duty and tried to protect her but was too late. Chittor had already fallen and the Rani had immolated herself in the Rajput custom of Jauhar.
Rabindranath Tagore's call to nation: During the partition of Bengal in 1905, Rabindranath Tagore, the Nobel laureate poet used the occasion of the Raksha Bandhan as a community festival and gave a call to tie a rakhi amongst all Hindus and Muslims so as to maintain peace and harmony between them and spread the nationalist spirit among people from different ethnic backgrounds. This is how Raksha Bandhan came into existence in the ages of old Hindu mythology and has moved into the modern ages as a symbol of universal brotherhood and goodwill.

Saawan Ka Mausam Tha

Saawan ka mausam tha Poonam ki raat thi Mein uske paas tha Woh mere karib thi Fir woh mere paas aayi Aur thodi si ghabraayi Jab meine uska haath pakada To woh thodi si sharmaayi Usne kaha aaj hum Aise bandhan me bandh jaaye Jise duniya ki Koi taakat na tod paaye Meri khushi ka andaaza Lagana mushkil tha Par iske aage jo hua Woh batana bhi mushkil hai Usne mera haath Haatho me lekar kaha Yeh to janam janmo Ka bandhan hai Phir mujhe yaad aaya Woh Saawan ka mausam Woh poonam ki raat Yeh to Raksha Bandhan hai!

365 day

Bhagwan Hamari Jodi hamasha Aisa hi banaye rakhe. Aur Har saal ke 365 th day ye aise hi banaye.

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Files in VB .NET Working with Files
File handling in Visual Basic is based on System.IO namespace with a class library that supports string, character and file manipulation. These classes contain properties, methods and events for creating, copying, moving, and deleting files. Since both strings and numeric data types are supported, they also allow us to incorporate data types in files. The most commonly used classes are FileStream, BinaryReader, BinaryWriter, StreamReader and StreamWriter.
FileStream Class
This class provides access to standard input and output files. We use the members of FileAccess, FileMode and FileShare Enumerations with the constructors of this class to create or open a file. After a file is opened it's FileStream object can be passed to the Binary Reader, BinaryWriter, Streamreader and StreamWriter classes to work with the data in the file. We can also use the FileStreamSeek method to move to various locations in a file which allows to break a file into records each of the same length.
StreamReader and StreamWriter Class
The StreamReader and StreamWriter classes enables us to read or write a sequential stream of characters to or from a file.
BinaryReader and BinaryWriter Class
The BinaryReader and BinaryWriter classes enable us to read and write binary data, raw 0's and 1's, the form in which data is stored on the computer.
The following examples puts some code to work with textual data using FileStream and StreamReader and StreamWriter classes.
Code to create a File
Imports System.IO'NameSpace required to be imported to work with files

Public Class Form1 Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form

Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e_As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

Dim fs as New FileStream("file.doc", FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write)

'declaring a FileStream and creating a word document file named file with

'access mode of writing

Dim s as new StreamWriter(fs)

'creating a new StreamWriter and passing the filestream

object fs as arguments.BaseStream.Seek(0,SeekOrigin.End)

'the seek method is used to move the cursor to next position to avoid text to be

'overwrittens.WriteLine("This is an example of using file handling concepts in VB .NET.")s.WriteLine("This concept is interesting.")

'writing text to the newly created

files.Close()

'closing the file

End Sub

End Class
The default location where the files we create are saved is the bin directory of the Windows Application with which we are working. The image below displays that.
Code to create a file and read from it
Drag a Button and a RichTextBox control onto the form. Paste the following code which is shown below.
Imports System.IO'NameSpace required to be imported to work with files

Public Class Form1 Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal....., Byval.....)Handles Button1.Click

Dim fs as New FileStream("file.doc", FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write)

'declaring a FileStream and creating a document file named file with 'access mode of writing

Dim s as new StreamWriter(fs)

'creating a new StreamWriter and passing the filestream

object fs as arguments.WriteLine("This is an example of using file handling concepts in VB .NET.")

s.WriteLine("This concept is interesting.")

'writing text to the newly created

files.Close()

'closing the file

fs=New FileStream("file.doc",FileMode.Open,FileAccess.Read)

'declaring a FileStream to open the file named file.doc with access mode of reading

Dim d as new StreamReader(fs)

'creating a new StreamReader and passing the filestream

object fs as argumentd.BaseStream.Seek(0,SeekOrigin.Begin)

'Seek method is used to move the cursor to different positions in a file, in this code, to 'the beginning

while d.peek()>-1

'peek method of StreamReader object tells how much more data is left in the file

RichTextbox1.Text &= d.readLine()

'displaying text from doc file in the RichTextBox

End while

d.close()

End Sub

Know Something about .NET

NET Defined

Before getting deeply into the subject we will first know how Businesses are related to Internet, what .NET means to them and what exactly .NET is built upon. As per the product documentation from a Business perspective, there are three phases of the Internet. The First phase gets back to the early 1990's when Internet first came into general use and which brought a big revolution for Businesses. In the First phase of the Internet Businesses designed and launched their Website's and focused on the number of hits to know how many customers were visiting their site and interested in their products, etc. The Second phase is what we are in right now and in this phase Businesses are generating revenue through Online Transactions. We are now moving into the Third phase of the Internet where profit is the main priority. The focus here is to Businesses effectively communicate with their customers and partners who are geographically isolated, participate in Digital Economy and deliver a wide range of services. How can that be possible? The answer, with .NET.

What is .NET ?

Many people reckon that it's Microsoft's way of controlling the Internet, which is false. .NET is Microsoft's strategy of software that provides services to people any time, any place, on any device. An accurate definition of .NET is, it's an XML Web Services platform which allows us to build rich .NET applications, which allows users to interact with the Internet using wide range of smart devices (tablet devices, pocket PC's, web phones etc), which allows to build and integrate Web Services and which comes with many rich set of tools like Visual Studio to fully develop and build those applications.

What are Web Services?

Web Services are the applications that run on a Web Server and communicate with other applications. It uses a series of protocols to respond to different requests. The protocols on which Web Services are built are summarized below:

UDDI: Stands for Universal Discovery and Description Integration. It's said to be the Yellow Pages of Web Services which allows Businesses to search for other Businesses allowing them to search for the services it needs, know about the services and contact them.

WSDL: Stands for Web Services Description Language, often called as whiz-dull. WSDL is an XML document that describes a set of SOAP messages and how those messages are exchanged.

SOAP: Stands for Simple Object Access Protocol. It's the communication protocol for Web Services.

XML, HTTP and SMTP: Stands for Extensible Markup Language, Hyper Text Transfer Protocol and Simple Message Transfer Protocol respectively. UDDI, WSDL and SOAP rely on these protocols for communication.

The image below shows the order of the protocols on which Web Services are built:



Example of a Web Services Application

Let's say a customer accesses a Website and buys something. The Web services of the business will communicate with the inventory system to see if there is enough stock to fulfill the order. If not, the system can communicate with the suppliers to find one or all of the parts that make up the order before filling the order. At all stages the customer will be kept informed via messages. The end result is a seamless system communicating and exchanging information easily regardless of the platform they are all running on. The business don't need to worry about going to the wrong supplier because it asks the Web service running on the supplier system what it does. And the business doesn't have to worry about the other system's methods of handling data because they communicate via SOAP and XML.

Real World Application

Microsoft's passport service is an example of a .NET service. Passport is a Web-based service designed to make signing in to Websites fast and easy. Passport enables participating sites to authenticate a user with a single set of sign-in credentials eliminating the need for users to remember numerous passwords and sign-in names. You can use one name and password to sign in to all .NET Passport-participating sites and services. You can store personal information in your .NET Passport profile and, if you choose, automatically share that information when you sign in so that participating sites can provide you with personalized services. If you use Hotmail for your email needs then you should be very much familiar with the passport service.

To find out more about how Businesses are implementing Web Services and the advantages it is providing please visit Microsoft's Website and check out the case studies published.

What is .NET Built On?

.NET is built on the Windows Server System to take major advantage of the OS and which comes with a host of different servers which allows for building, deploying, managing and maintaining Web-based solutions. The Windows Server System is designed with performance as priority and it provides scalability, reliability, and manageability for the global, Web-enabled enterprise. The Windows Server System integrated software products are built for interoperability using open Web standards such as XML and SOAP.

Core Windows Server System Products include :

SQL Server2000: This Database Server is Web enabled and is designed with priority for .NET based applications. It is scalable, easy to manage and has a native XML store.

Application Center 2000: This product is designed to manage Web Applications.

Commerce Server 2000: This powerful Server is designed for creating E-Commerce based applications.

Mobile Information Server: This Server provides real-time access for the mobile community. Now Outlook users can use their Pocket PC's to access all their Outlook data while they are moving.

Exchange Server 2000: This is a messaging system Server and allows applications on any device to access information and collaborate using XML.

BizTalk Server 2000: This is the first product created for .NET which is XML based and allows to build business process that integrate with other services in the organization or with other Businesses.

Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2000: This Server provides Security and Protection for machines. It is an integrated firewall and Web cache server built to make the Web-enabled enterprise safer, faster, and more manageable.

Host Integration Server 2000: This Server allows for the Integration of mainframe systems with .NET.

When developing real world projects if you don't know how to use the above mentioned Server's which are built for .NET based applications do not worry. Your System Administrator is always there to help you.

.NET and XML

There is a lot of connection between XML and .NET. XML is the glue that holds .NET together. XML looks similar to HTML which is readable and text-based. XML is a method of putting structured data into a text file. XML is the specification for defining the structure of the document. Around this specification a whole family of optional modules are being developed. The reason why XML is linked so much to .NET is, it's platform independent and is well supported on any environment. To move the data contained in an XML file around different organizations using different software on different platforms it should be packed it into something. That something is a protocol like SOAP.

About SOAP

SOAP, Simple Object Access Protocol is a simple, lightweight protocol for exchanging information between peers in a decentralized, distributed environment. It is an XML based protocol that consists of three parts: an envelop that describes what is in the message and how it should be processed, a set of encoding rules and a convention for representing remote procedure calls and responses.

.NET vs Java

Many of us wonder what .NET has to do with Java. Is there any relation between them? Are they similar? and so on. I even hear some people say .NET is Microsoft's answer to Java. I think every language has its own pros and cons. Java is one of the greatest programming languages created by humans. Java doesn't have a visual interface and requires us to write heaps of code to develop applications. On the other hand, with .NET, the Framework supports around 20 different programming languages which are better and focus only on business logic leaving all other aspects to the Framework. Visual Studio .NET comes with a rich visual interface and supports drag and drop. Many applications were developed, tested and maintained to compare the differences between .NET and Java and the end result was a particular application developed using .NET requires less lines of code, less time to develop and lower deployment costs along with other important issues. Personally, I don't mean to say that Java is gone or .NET based applications are going to dominate the Internet but I think .NET definitely has an extra edge as it is packed with features that simplify application development.

I hope the information above puts some light on the technology aspects behind .NET and helps you in getting started.