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Hello all, I have written a windows service in vb.net using VS 2005. Only after completion, was I given the specification that there is a chance that it will have to work on .net framework 1.1 :| Is there a way of finding out which parts of my code need 2.0? I have a feeling that I won't be able to downgrade it but thought I may as well ask here before ruling it out. Any information you could provide would be greatly appreciated. Colonel-yum-yum More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft/Windows Windows XP SP3 Woes Especially Affect AMD Systems Top Tech News, CA - 12 hours ago Users who thought the Windows XP operating system would be more reliable than its younger sibling Vista are being buffeted by reports that the latest update ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> XP SP3 Glitch So Far Limited To HP CRN, NY - 11 hours ago "Microsoft is aware of a reboot issue experienced by some users who have attempted to install Windows XP SP3. While the root cause of this issue is complex, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows XP SP3: Problems, Performance Gains OS News - 49 minutes 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 ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Vista vs. Windows 2000... which one is more secure? Geekzone, New Zealand - May 12, 2008 The much touted Windows Vista with it's slightly nagging useful UAC and also it's newer network protection methods apparently still doesn't make it better ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Just wondering if this problem's as tricky as I was making it earlier today (and yes, I did solve it...* I'm not trying to get you to do my work for me or anything, just curious how others go about solving it): A background image in {insert 2D-graphics based video game console} is stored as a list of tiles, each tile an 8x8 square of pixels and arranged such that each tile's indices progress from left-to-right and top-to-bottom as in reading order.* These tiles are all appended to each other in a 1-dimensional array, which would result in the array being arranged like so (if you had four 2x2 tiles): +---+---+---+---+ | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | +---+---+---+---+ | 2 | 3 | 6 | 7 | +---+---+---+---+ | 8 | 9 | 12| 13| +---+---+---+---+ | 10| 11| 14| 15| +---+---+---+---+ The index shown is the index that would correspond to that pixel in the tile data array.* The red lines indicate the borders between tiles. The problem I was working on today: Transform an 8-bit 512x512 bitmap to this tile format.* Since each tile is 8x8 pixels, this gives you 64x64=4096 tiles and a total of 262144 pixels. Given: unsigned char bitmap[262144]; //existing bitmap is stored here, retrieved from file or something unsigned char tilemap_Tiles[262144]; //tile data is to be copied into this array More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Looking at this page, do you guys think it is a good way to showcase features and howtos for other products? Would you like to see more? Is it a waste of time? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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*** Anyone know of an easy way to subscribe to the video (zune) rss feed for a show?* They provide a feed of all the video shows (I don't want all the shows).* They provide a feed of individual shows (defaults to mp3 only in Zune software and links to video downloads are mixed in with the show description) Unless I missed something (quite possible), it appears to me that there may be some ulterior motive to not allowing users to subscribe to the video content on this site for a particular show. Doesn't make sense to me... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

mine does. i notice it off and on. double click a jpg on desktop - the preview thingy wont open drag to photoshop to open*- no prob reboot - vista photo thingy works again.. anyone else see/have this? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

You've heard all about the improvements and new features in WPF 3.5 SP1, now its time to see the new stuff.* David Teitlebaum takes us on a tour of graphic applications that take advantage of*the new and improved*Effects, DirectX Interop, WriteableBitmap*and more. There is a bit of discussion in the beginning, so if you want to skip right to the demos jump to 05:45 in the video.* I'm smitten. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

1. Sign into mail.live.com (Firefox 3.0b5) 2. Use Sign Out link. Add-ons: {987311C6-B504-4aa2-90BF-60CC49808D42}:1.8,refractor@developer.mozilla.org:0.2,{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}:2.0 BuildID: 2008032619 CrashTime: 1210640856 InstallTime: 1207362721 ProductName: Firefox SecondsSinceLastCrash: 11822 StartupTime: 1210629052 Theme: classic/1.0 URL: http://login.live.com/logout.srf?ct=1210640849&rver=4.5.2130.0&lc=1033&id=64855&ru=http:%2F%2Fby117w.bay117.mail.live.com%2Fmail%2Flogout.aspx%3Fredirect%3Dtrue%26mkt%3Den-US UserID: Vendor: Mozilla Version: 3.0b5 Anyone on OSX able to repro this, during the redirection to MSN.com? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> XP SP3 Glitch So Far Limited To HP CRN, NY - 45 minutes ago "Microsoft is aware of a reboot issue experienced by some users who have attempted to install Windows XP SP3. While the root cause of this issue is complex, ... 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 Continuous Reboots Plague Windows XP SP3 Users PC Magazine Computerworld - CRN all 52 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ Lifehacker Australia <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Change Command Prompt's Default Font for Easier Reading Lifehacker Australia, Australia - 18 minutes ago The Digital Inspiration blog runs down how to set Consolas as the default font in your command prompt. Vista users can perform a registry hack to enable ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I just came across this little gem while perusing the code of someone who recently left the company: SELECT TOP 1 * from tblSomething WHERE 1=0 Can anyone tell me what would be the motivation here? Am I missing something? Seems to me they're looking for column names... which I would expect to look more like: SELECT TOP*0 * from tblSomething Wouldn't that do exactly the same thing, but with less load on the SQL server? Edit: More did you say? with mySqlCommand *.CommandText = "... do stuff..." *.Connection = mySqlConnection *.ExecuteNonQuery() end with with mySqlCommand* 'The same one! *.CommandText = "... do something else..." *.Connection = mySqlConnection *.ExecuteNonQuery() end with It can't be me... It has to be the rest of the world... Bah, it's time to go rant on the blog... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Any good recommendations on a mid-grade managed 24-port switch?* I was thinking NetGear, but have not bought switches in some time.* TIA More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi all, Last week, I blogged about installing Windows XP SP3 and how it affects different versions of Internet Explorer (See my earlier blog post here). Today I will be discussing installing branded/custom versions of IE7 on machines with Windows XP SP3 installed. This post is primarily aimed towards folks who use the Internet Explorer Administration Kit 7 (IEAK7) to create custom IE7 packages, like Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and web developers. If you ever installed the IEAK7, built a custom version of IE7 or distributed a version of IE7 to others, this post is for you. When installing a branded version of IE7 (like the one you get on a Comcast or Qwest CD when you sign up for their services) on Windows XP SP3 machine for the first time, the IE7 install might fail with the following error: “Process 'xmllitesetup.exe /quiet /norestart /er /log:C:\WINDOWS' exited with exit code 61681” The reason is that the IE7 package you are trying to install uses old IE7 files. As you may recall, in October of 2007 we released an IE7 update, which in addition to turning on the menu bar by default and removing WGA validation also addresses the XMLLite issue above. XMLLite.dll is one of the components that ships with IE7. This DLL is necessary to run IE7, and IE Setup installs this component as part of IE7 installation. XPSP3 contains an updated version of XMLLite.dll, so when you try to install an older version of IE7 on XPSP3 machines, IE Setup fails to install XMLLite since it’s already on your system; hence, you get the error. In the IE7 update, we modified the install logic to only install XMLLite if it’s not already present on the system. Call To Action If you produce custom IE7 packages, you need to ensure that those packages will install successfully on Windows XP SP3. You can either try installing IE7 on a Windows XP SP3 system, or for a quick test, you can verify the cache of the IE7 files that were downloaded when generating custom IE7 packages. To verify the cache, on the machine that has the IEAK7 installed, go to C:\Program Files\Microsoft IEAK 7\Download\Win32\\iebin and search for IESetup.msi or IEBrand.msi. If those files are not present, then you need to perform the following: Download the new IEAK7 available at TechNet. Run the new IEAK7 wizard. Open the INS file you generated for custom IE7 packages. (You can re-use an existing ins file or create a new one, in which case this step is optional.) On the Automatic Version Synchronization screen, click on the Synchronize button. This step downloads the latest IE7 setup files that it will use to generate a new branded package. Complete the rest of the wizard, and click Finish.The new packages will be created in the directory you specified during the beginning of the IEAK Wizard. These new packages will work on XPSP3, so you are ready to distribute them to all your customers. Thanks, Jane Maliouta Program Manager http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8495886 More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> How's Windows XP SP3 treating you? engadget, CA - 29 minutes ago by Paul Miller, posted May 12th 2008 at 3:23PM Well, Microsoft finally got SP3 out the door for you stubborn Vista-resistant XP users, and we're dying to ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I'm looking for a game that I can play on my laptop on the train to pass the time.* Something that isn't super graphics & processor intensive and also a bit mindless. Also, I only have dial-up while I am on the train, so anything that requires*a network is out. I liked the Final Fantasy games back in the day, But I can't find any current versions for the PC. Can anyone recommend something similar? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> GBM Interview: An IM Conversation with Dennis Moore, CEO of OQO Gotta Be Mobile, CO - 45 minutes ago We've done a lot of work on optimizing our Windows Vista and Windows XP distributions, and adding our own software to make these products much more usable ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

* En una sesión plenaria del Evolution Show, Antonio Gómez, jefe de producto de herramientas de desarrollo y diseño de Microsoft Ibérica, nos presenta Visual Studio Team System. Posteriormente, Bruno Capuano, Rodrigo Corral y Luis Fraile nos enseñan el significado de ALM, qué tipo de herramientas son y las novedades que presenta en este ámbito Visual Studio 2008. Bruno Capuano es MVP de Team System* y* un experimentado desarrollador y arquitecto software especializado en soluciones .NET y tecnologías de Microsoft. Rodrigo Corral es MVP de Team System y, además, socio fundador de Plain Concepts, donde trabaja como arquitecto de software y mentor de proyectos Scrum, Team System, patrones de software, gestión de la configuración… y muchas otras materias. Luis Fraile es MVP de Team System y actualmente trabaja como consultor independiente en metodologías de desarrollo de software y dirección de proyectos. Si te interesa, puedes descargar también la presentación que utilizaron durante la ponencia. http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/403779.jpg Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

En una de las sesiones plenarias del Evolution Show, José Manuel Alarcón hace un repaso de las novedades que introducen* en el desarrollo web* ASP.NET 3.5 y Visual Studio 2008. Durante la charla repasa la evolución en el desarrollo web, CSS, AJAX, ListView, DataPager, LinqDataSource, JavaScript, multitarteting… y muchas otras materias. José Manuel* Alarcón es MVP de ASP.NET y, además, es CTO en Krasis También puedes descargar la presentación. http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/403781.jpg Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> FAQ: What you should know before installing Windows XP SP3 Computerworld, MA - May 7, 2008 To do otherwise, according to a long post to the IE development team blog, would invite stability problems. Microsoft recommends that users who want to ... Microsoft to issue critical fixes for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 SearchSecurity.com all 27 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ DailyTech <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> A wide variety of boot problems have been reported with Windows XP ... DailyTech, IL - 3 hours ago Similar problems occurred with Windows Vista SP1, though in that case the blame ended up resting with a Microsoft pre-install update. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ eFluxMedia <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Fixing Windows Vista, Part 3: Top Troubleshooting Tools ZDNet - May 6, 2008 ... even blog about it), because everyone knows that Vista sucks. Right? I believe you have every right to expect excellent performance from Windows Vista, ... Hot off the wire: Windows XP SP3 available from Windows Update ZDNet Blogs all 39 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds