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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> NBC-Vista copy-protection snafu reminds us why DRM stinks Ars Technica, MA - 13 minutes ago By Jacqui Cheng | Published: May 14, 2008 - 11:54AM CT Handfuls of Windows Vista Media Center users found themselves blocked from making recordings of their ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> FAQ: Windows XP SP3 reboot hell (and how to get out of it) Computerworld, MA - 35 minutes ago First it was a reboot ad infinitum in February, brought on by a flawed update to Windows Vista. Now the same thing's happening to some users who have ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> VBA Will Return To Mac Office Slashdot - 1 hour ago The blog post calls for feedback on what features of VBA and Windows interoperability are most important to people. slashdotwriter writes "Macworld features ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

The funniest ones are always true. http://www.businesspundit.com/sub-prime/ More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft hits out at Vista insecurity claims Techworld.com, UK - 41 minutes ago XP came top for vulnerabilities, suffering 1021 over the last half year or so, with Windows 2000 on 586, and Vista on 639. According to a new blog by ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> VBA Will Return To Mac Office Slashdot - 21 minutes ago The blog post calls for feedback on what features of VBA and Windows interoperability are most important to people. slashdotwriter writes "Macworld features ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hopefully. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7398517.stm I must say that this is great news and I would love to see it go ahead. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Good morning, folks. Got a bit of a javascript problem, and I hate javascript, so I figured I'll call for help. I have an ASP.NET 2.0 app that relies on a lot of custom javascript on the client side. One of the things that happen is a window_onload event that checks data that came in from the server and populates some fields. Everything works fine. Now we're trying to run our app inside an IFRAME, hosted inside a bigger site. Everything works - all the javascript, AJAXish calls, everything - except for that window_onload call in the beginning. We pass in initial parameters but nothing gets populated. I realize that this is due to some security restrictions on IFRAMEs - the hosting app is on a different server than our app - but there's got to be some way to get this to work, right? Most everything else does seem to work. Does anyone know of any javascript hacks, tricks, workarounds or solutions to this problem? Googling around I mostly found tricks to have my host's window_onload be aware of when the inner IFRAME is finished loading, but this isn't exactly my scenario. Thanks. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista Crashes Big, And Why I Wish It Was Five Years From Now NetworkWorld.com, MA - 13 minutes ago Vista boots but doesn't load all the typical start up programs and other than Windows Explorer, Firefox and Notepad, virtually no other Vista features I've ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Last Friday, I met a prospective client to have a little chat about some problems the business had, what they would like changed to their current system, and what their expectations were. The meeting went really well, but as is always the case with business,*one is not at liberty to discuss various aspects of the requirements process. It may give a competitor insight into current*processes, and hence an advantage. Business intelligence is now so important, that most companies are pretty much like a micro version of the Ministry of Defence when it comes to their information and processes. This was a first for me because I'm usually the back end server guy and not a schmoozer. The meeting went on for over an hour-and-a-half, as we 'drilled down' to the requirements process, modelling and analysis. I happened to have had a mock up application prepared, which was excellent because it illustrated my competencies i.e. they could see something that worked, and also a good conceptual springboard. My overall impression was that they were impressed with my demonstration, but I made the mistake of trying to wow them with technical proficiency. I did however make the following observations. At no point was the fact that I was using the latest Office 2007 user interface, and really pretty icons come into the discussion. The points I was grilled about*(and it was a grilling)*was what was missing. Can you make it do this? Can you make it do that? We are unable to proceed with this unless you address issue x and y and z. This basically mitigated the dichotomy in choosing either Windows Forms or Windows Presentation Foundation. Always*make sure when your are dealing with decision makers and senior management to include lots of statistics. I did have a couple of forms with various statistics, but changed the demo around a bit before the meeting just to structure it better and these were missing. The less you have to explain in a meeting and the more you have to show the better. A picture is worth a thousand words and management love statistics. I will be holding secondary meetings and this is an area I will be fully up to speed on. Charting , gauges, etc. (It being WPF week, still no datagrid, 3rd party ISV's components are soooo slow and somewhat lacking at present) Try to make sure that your application is clever, and has features. By this I mean ensure it does as much of the repetitive stuff as possible. Clever insofar as with windows forms for example,*the designer does a lot of the tedious stuff like creating a button and aligning it. Features insofar as**a mobile phone with a camera, radio, .mp3 player etc It is so important that a user gets predicable behaviour from your components. I had not enabled copy and paste in my data grid view and then one of the users tried to it did not work. Not a big deal, but again I needed to explain why not Don't include too many half baked features, that throw unhandled*exceptions. My demo threw a few of these and it did not look so good. The program crashed and froze and I needed to restartWould anyone else venture to suggest any other useful advice when making preparations to client face? I have also watched all the WPF videos and there are very very exciting developments, but for this project, everything I need is in windows forms. It may not look as pretty, but it's not bad, and more importantly componets are available now. Not in 6 months time. *I would have to inflate the budget significantly to accommodate the features in the beta for no ROI. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hello, ** I get this error while migrating an ASP.net project from 2003 to 2008 'AlertHistoryList' does not contain a definition for 'Context' and no extension method 'Context' accepting a first argument of type 'AlertHistoryList' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)*** c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files\webs1a4bcbb75ec\App_Web_ovwv6t_f.16.cs*** The project build without errors (some warnings though), but when i try to publish it , i get 12 erros from different controls i have in the web site. Any ideas ? Thanks in advance! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi all, I have a problem* (dont we all have)... so here's the story. I'm currently evaluating the feasibility of using Web Services rather than manually XSD and SOAP parsing solution that a system have. I have a problem that I have multiple definitions for the same class or enumerations but in different namespaces. So I would have something like: namespace A { ***public enum Status { *********Happy, *********Sad, *********Stressed, *********BadlyDamagedBeyondRepair ***} } and namespace B { ***public enum Status { ******Rich, ******Poor, ******Standard ***} } and maybe a class like namespace C { ***public class EmployeeCondition { *********private Status mood =*Status.Sad; *********public Status Mood { get.. set..} *********private*B.Status*monetary = B.Status.Poor; *********public B.Status Monetary { get...set.. } ***} } then I have a web service that expose a web method: public EmployeeCondition getEmployeeCondition ( String name ) { *.... } Now, my question is. Is this doable? Because when we are doing this via XSD, we used namespaces to avoid the naming problems. But it seems that .Net instead of creating new namespaces, it modifies the name of the class or enumerations (to Status1 for instance). If it is doable, can anyone tell me how? My coleague tried to test this on Java and I havent really tried it in .net (coz he has the server, and I dont). But the result is that Java completely ignores the second Status class so that the second enum Status doesnt appear in the web service wsdl or in the class definitions. It just disappears... :s Thanks in advance More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ CNet News.com Blog <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Read all 'XPS M1730' posts in News Blog CNet News.com Blog - 45 minutes ago The PC is Red on the inside, too, with a special edition of Windows Vista Ultimate edition that includes specially themed desktop wallpaper and sidebar ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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My message to Channel 8 got bounced by their spam filter and since the message ("When will Expression Studio 2.0 be posted on DreamSpark?") does not contain obscene language, graphics, and trimming the message further is almost impossible, I'm posting my question here since I know that many of us are students: When will Expression Studio 2.0 be posted on DreamSpark? Does anyone know? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ eFluxMedia <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows XP SP3: Problems, Performance Gains OS News - 21 hours ago SP3 is also twice as fast as Vista SP1, according to these tests. ExtremeTech compared game test results from SP3 to those of Windows Vista SP1 (and ... XP SP3 Glitch So Far Limited To HP CRN A wide variety of boot problems have been reported with Windows XP ... DailyTech Microsoft/Windows Windows XP SP3 Woes Especially Affect AMD Systems Top Tech News PC Magazine - Computerworld all 78 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hello and welcome to another Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 screencast. In this presentation*I talk about workflow and how*it can help your organization keep everyone working to the same standard. In addition I show where an ISV can add value to the workflow system. Enjoy the show! John O'Donnell Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist Microsoft Corporation http://blogs.msdn.com/jodonnell http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/404104.jpg Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

In this first part of a series looking at Microsoft's upcoming small business and mid-market server solutions, I examine the pricing and licensing for Windows SBS 2008 and Essential Business Server 2008! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft shoots back on Vista claim SC Magazine US - 1 hour ago Microsoft has refuted a claim made earlier this week by PC Tools that Windows 2000 is less susceptible to malware than Vista. In a blog posting, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

...man, life is overrated. I'm getting all extistentialist in my old age. 20 today, whoop-de-woo... And here comes the depressing photo: http://w3bdevil.com/misc/private/BirthdayPortrait.jpg The depressing part is that I've now reached a quarter of my expected lifespan. Any tips for the next 60 years? I hope they don't fly by so fast as the past 20. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

In this episode of geekSpeak, Steven Borg shares the merits of using Team Build 2008 to radically improve the quality of the code you write. Steven gives a great overview of how to set up automated builds and a build server, and the benefits of investing the time to do it right. Steven also spends a bit of time talking about why he loves Test-Driven Development (TDD) - but pragmatically rather than zealously. Nonetheless, things like work items, build reports, logs and changesets available with Team Foundation Server can help developers zero in on bugs that "break the build". Breaking the build is bad, and we have a good chuckle about some of the stiff "penalties" that various development teams (even some within Microsoft) come up with for that infraction. Also in this geekSpeak, get the scoop on what's on the horizon for setup and deployment projects, and hear about a great tool called WIX which makes building projects into MSI files super easy. Steven goes so far as to say that WIX actually changed the way he works, listen to him explain why. Steven also gives tips on how many of you already have access to Team Foundation Server (and therefore, Team Build) and don't even know it. So it's easy to incorporate these tools into your software build process and, through the Continuous Integration they afford, drive up quality and enhance team involvement. As Steven says, it's like "a little bit of magic." This geekSpeak was hosted by Lynn Langit and Mithun Dhar. About our guest: Steven Borg Steven Borg, a Northwest Cadence principal and the Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) practice lead, works with corporations to improve their automated build process and overall software development process. In addition, Steven assists the Team System community as a Team System Most Valuable Professional (MVP), and was a founding member of the Seattle-based VSTS User Group. Northwest Cadence is a Microsoft Certified Partner and VSTS Inner Circle partner that focuses exclusively on helping companies improve their Application Lifecycle Management using Visual Studio Team System. http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/404076.jpg Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hello, I have a MacBook Pro w/ 15" LCD (don't worry, I am running Windows and OS X -- I know this is a MS Forum ;-) ). But for software development, I need a bigger monitor, and going dual with the built in MacBook Pro would be nice. What do you recommend for an external monitor? I was thinking 22" would be a sweet spot, but I would consider 20" or 24". I just want something of great quality, that shows images and text with excellent crispness, good color, no weird buzzing coming from the back of the monitor, all that stuff. My current leaning is the Dell SP2208WPF, but I hear from some that the text doesn't show all that well -- and it is a glossy screen (not sure if that is bad for software development or not). I would appreciate any advice or real-world stories you may have. Thanks. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft shoots back on Vista claim SC Magazine US - 33 minutes ago Microsoft has refuted a claim made earlier this week by PC Tools that Windows 2000 is less susceptible to malware than Vista. In a blog posting, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Listen to TechNet Radio and learn how you can leverage the benefits of the Windows Live platform for your organization. We discuss Windows Live ID; Microsoft Silverlight Streaming; and the Windows Live Admin Center, which allows you to manage a slice of Windows Live.* We also have our May 2008 Security Bulletin Eric Ostrowski - Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer Angus Logan – Senior Product Manager, Windows Live Nam Ng – Senior Security Strategist Bill Sisk – Response Communications Manager, Trustworthy Computing Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Refutes Windows Vista Vulnerability Report InformationWeek, NY - 2 hours ago By Thomas Claburn If Windows Vista is a malware magnet, it's not Microsoft's fault. In a recent post on the Microsoft Developer Network blog, Austin Wilson, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds