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I've got a table of items with prices. Nothing special really: CREATE TABLE Variants ( [Name] nvarchar(50), [MonthlyPrice] money ) I need to get a query which gets all the entries that meet all the WHERE clauses, but such that all the items with a MonthlyPrice of 0 are placed below the items with a price. So something like: SELECT * FROM Variants WHERE (existingClauses) AND MonthlyPrice > 0 ORDER BY [Name] ASC UNION SELECT * FROM Variants WHERE (existingClauses) AND MonthlyPrice = 0 ORDER BY [Name] ASC Is it possible to do it without a UNION? Because the table definition and existing clauses are already pretty complicated, and I don't want to have to duplicate the tables. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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I would like to thank everybody for downloading my software WinBubble. Now, WinBubble got more recognitions and Awards!!! and the number of downloads*now approaching 100,000 :) here's my thread here: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=402615 Good morning in U.S. Good Afternoon in U.K. and Good Evening in Japan!!! Also, Happy Bday to my Father!!! This is very useful especially to all the people that always forget many little things in their everyday life. I'm one of them! A little Registry input will help. It let's you put some Greetings or Any Messages before entering the Welcome Screen which is fun if your family is using a common PC. Here's the Guide! 1. Open or Run Regedit.exe (Registry Editor) as administrator How? Type Regedit in Start Menu Search. Press CTRL-SHIFT+Enter or simply Right-Click and Run as administrator 2. Go to the Path below: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System 3. Find these strings: legalnoticecaption legalnoticetext Double-Click Any of them and write any Greetings, Reminders or Any Messages. To restore, just remove your messages. Easy? Enjoy!!!

I just found this piece of software http://datadraw.sourceforge.net/ with this example use of it http://netfs.sourceforge.net/ What do you think of it? "Internetservers also benefit from DataDraw.* A DataDraw backed applicationcan process 100X to 1000X more transactions per second than a LAMPbased application.* This makes DataDraw a good choice for SIPservers, BitTorrent, and other applications supporting thousands ofsimultaneous connections.* Embedded web servers could also benefitfrom DataDraw's small memory footprint, power efficient datamanipulation, and ultra-high speed.* Telephony applications, andother CPU intensive tasks are potentially a good fit. *Editors ofall kinds are a good fit with DataDraw, because of it's infiniteundo/redo automation." I'm going to take a closer look. :-) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

There is a small link to maps.live.com at the bottom,*I guess our outburst from*last time has been forgotton. :| More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft ISV Brings SharePoint Services To Vista CRN, NY - 16 hours ago In a Friday blog post, Chris Johnson, a program manager in the Windows SharePoint Services team at Microsoft, acknowledged the usefulness of Bamboo's tool, ... Vista Called as Vulnerable as Predecessors PC World all 2 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista Called as Vulnerable as Predecessors PC World - 22 minutes ago ... revealed that Vista was as likely to be hit with software vulnerabilities as Windows 2000, a claim that was denied by a Microsoft staffer in a blog. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

This is just awesome. Opera has released the first issue of Opera Magazine, a traditional lifestyle magazine. You can order a free copy, or download it as a 19.2MB PDF. Via Opera Magazine, they try to show*us*how their products give people real value in their daily lives. It looks, feels and smells like a traditional glossy magazine which feels a but surreal. Here's an excerpt from the Inbox-page where they answer people's questions. Just hillarious: Dear Opera, I was in Barcelona this past winter and saw a group of MINI Clubmans. They were covered with the Opera Mini logo. I may have been mistaken, but I think that I may have seen Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner in one of them. Is it possible for him to fi t into a MINI? How tall is Jon von Tetzchner anyway? (From Munich, Germany) Jon is 195 cm, or 6'5", the perfect size for the MINI Clubman, which is spacier than the MINI Cooper. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

A very interesting idea for video viewer which alllows*user to drag*objects in the video to move the time line. The video they created is very cool. May be very useful in Video editing packages. http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/22/dimp-a-direct-manipulation-video-player/ http://www.docstoc.com/docs/615949/Video-Browsing-by-Direct-Manipulation More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

So, I was out helping someone with their purchase of a replacement computer, today, and they were almost completely convinced that they wanted a Mac (one of the 24" combined ones). Now I'm easy with this. But the sales guy blerted out (in a rather smug way) that Macs don't viruses, and are intrinsicly secure. After a short pause, responded, " yeah, and men don't get raped all that often...". I did apologise, a few seconds later. But I'm starting to get flash-backs, and smirking...*[A] Anybody care to share similar quips ? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I have managed to get a WCF service / client running fine. The callback works also good. However, I need to pass more than one parameters to my callback procedure. Not sure how to do this, since : SynchronizationContext.Post( MYCALLBACK, ) ... ;( More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Lets see if I can explain what I need... I got a form with a lot of visual stuff inside a couple of Tabs inside a "TabControl", being used to Delphi I remember I could put some sort of "frame" inside my main form which pointed back to other forms in order to be able to handle the code better. Is there anything similar in Visual C#? I mean, right now I'm using #region Bla - #endregion to group my code better for each "TabPage". Is it possible to like, cut a source code file into two or more pieces? Right now, I'm getting this huge huge long source code file of my "main" form which isn't too fun. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

This Week on Channel 9: XNA Community Games Beta, New "Pointing Device," Algorithms a This Week on Channel 9, Brian and Ed cover: - Channel 9 v4 beta (0:35) - Beta of Community Games on Xbox LIVE*(2:10) - Silverlight 2 beta 1 screencasts by Mike Taulty and Mike Ormond (4:35) - Innovative*Pointing Device, "Place to Pee" (5:35) - Preview of Dynamix AX 2009 (7:28) - "Desert Island Tools" featuring top tools pics from Ed Kaim, Scott Hanselman, and Clint Rutkas: (9:25) Ed: (11:40) 1. Script# 2. Firebug 3. Sandcastle 4. Reflector 5. IE 7 Developer Toolbar Scott: (13:07) 1. ZoomIt 2. FeedDemon 3. del.icio.us 4. Live Mesh 5. Dark Room More of Scott's favorites here. Clint: (15:35) 1. ReSharper 2. Ultramon 3. Firebug 4. Synergy 5. Windows Live Writer More of Clint's favorites here. - Ed's pick of the week, Russell Hadley: The Route to C++ Code Optimization. (19:20) - Brian's pick of the week, Mike Swanson's*Genetic Session Scheduler and Mladen Jankovic's Genetic Algorithm Library. (22:50) - Scott showing off his awesome monitor rig (27:00) - Low res version - MP4 version Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Seeks Testers For Home Server Patch CRN, NY - 29 minutes ago According to a post earlier this week on the Windows Home Server team blog, Microsoft intends to launch the Power Pack 1 beta in early June and will allow ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft ISV Brings SharePoint Services To Vista CRN, NY - 15 minutes ago In a Friday blog post, Chris Johnson, a program manager in the Windows SharePoint Services team at Microsoft, acknowledged the usefulness of Bamboo's tool, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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I've read about some OpenSource programs by Microsoft. Sounds beautiful, but some people write the M$ wanna make open soft that is not portable to any platform except WinDoze. Does anyone know more? For some reasons, Microsoft would be perhaps in first line interested in that some of it's products are portable to anything. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Home Server Bug Fix Available In Beta InformationWeek, NY - 44 minutes ago The glitch can occur if the files are transferred using a number of specific Microsoft programs, including Vista Photo Gallery, Office OneNote 2007, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

A ltittle question: imagine, a group of comuter junkees have some ideas, and there is something MS perhaps would benefit from, too. Would they have a chance to get any support on promotioning their ideas or project from MS? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I've read partners of Microsoft have access to Windows source code. Does anyone know more? What should a partner of Microsoft do to get that access? What may a partner of MS do with WIndows source? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Home Server Bug Fix Available In Beta InformationWeek, NY - 12 minutes ago The glitch can occur if the files are transferred using a number of specific Microsoft programs, including Vista Photo Gallery, Office OneNote 2007, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> WinInfo Short Takes: Week of May 26, 2008 Windows IT Pro, CO - 2 hours ago ... the next 24 hours I should have (finally) completed the main writing phase of "Windows Vista Secrets 2nd edition," or whatever Wiley deigns to name it. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I recently brought an OCZ 64GB SATA-II SSD. I brought it because my laptop's battery life was poor, I did not want to buy a new one until my current one is five years old and buying it is a cheaper solution than buying a new laptop specifically customized for long battery life. The specifications for SSDs typically place their power draw (regardless of whether they are in use or not) as being greater than that of mechanical hard drives, but when a mechanical hard drive is in use, the power draw is easily an order of magnitude greater than that of a SSD. I noticed that my laptop was accessing the hard disk every few seconds, so I expect that my new SSD will be better in terms of power draw when those accesses occur. Also, I expect that the lower latencies and higher bandwidth of my SSD will make me more productive when I am working, so while the battery life might not improve significantly, the amount of stuff that I can do in that time span will. I plan to use my SSD for something like the next 20 years, for two reasons. One, is that its performance is so good that I would be insane to let it collect dust after I retire my current laptop. Two, it cost so much money that I feel the need to justify that expenditure and I intend to accomplish that through using my SSD for an absurdly long period of time. Given how cheap SSDs will be in the future because of early adopters like me, I will likely have second thoughts about this in 10 years, but that is the figure that I will go by for now. Since I plan to use my SSD for so long, I was concerned that NTFS' last access time stamp updates would wear out my SSD before I retired it. I looked up the registry setting that controlled NTFS' last access timestamp updates (NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate) and found it in: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem I had to create it as a DWORD value and set it to 0. While I was there, I also noticed NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation and Win95TruncatedExtensions. I used Google to discover what they did and I promptly executed an =^ 1 on both of them. I did not like how Win95TruncatedExtensions would make del *.htm delete .html files and I saw no need for DOS 8.3 names. I also really liked the possibly of getting better filesystem performance, as was mentioned in the pages on Microsoft's website that I had found via Google. I made the changes and I rebooted my computer. With my SSD, Windows already booted very quickly, but with these changes, windows seemed to boot even faster. I had to restart a second time to verify my feeling that Windows was booting faster and I honestly believe that it does. If anyone using Windows XP wants better filesystem performance, I highly recommend making these changes (provided you do not use legacy software). These changes might also help on Vista, provided Microsoft did not already make them, which I doubt as Microsoft does everything it can for backwards compatibility, even to the point where it can be a bad thing. Next, I would love to find a way to remove the Last Access Timestamp from being shown in the properties dialog, as I do not want to see stale information. I also am going to look into disabling the Windows prefetch, as it seems like a waste of space, CPU cycles, I/O and memory when one has an a SSD. Any thoughts? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft slates new desktop virtualization for next year NetworkWorld.com, MA - 34 minutes ago ... is fundamental to broad corporate use of desktop virtualization,” wrote Shanen Boettcher, GM of Windows product management, on the Vista Team Blog. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> WinInfo Short Takes: Week of May 26, 2008 Windows IT Pro, CO - 45 minutes ago ... the next 24 hours I should have (finally) completed the main writing phase of "Windows Vista Secrets 2nd edition," or whatever Wiley deigns to name it. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds