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I really have trouble finding my 'happy place' when Windows decides to reboot due to updates and toss out what I've been working on. It thinks it knows better than me, such arrogance. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Is Your Car the Ultimate 'Mobile Computer'? PC World - 29 minutes ago You may hate Windows Vista, laugh at the Zune media player and completely ignore Windows Mobile, but Microsoft seems to be making all the right decisions ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Researcher Finds New Flaw in QuickTime for Windows PC World - Apr 28, 2008 A security think tank says it has found a vulnerability in Apple's QuickTime multimedia player that can be exploited remotely to compromise Windows Vista ... Quicktime Flaw Makes Windows Vulnerable to Attack Wired News all 20 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Ever had that when trying to start the Windows Explorer in Vista (SP1 and all patches applied)? --------------------------- explorer.exe - Application Error --------------------------- The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005). Click OK to terminate the application. --------------------------- OK** --------------------------- The system was installed 3 days ago... weird! Event log is having nothing... boy this is strange. A reboot fixed it for now. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Microsoft has recently announced that there are over 5000 products that has the Microsoft Certified logo. In their statement:As of April, we currently have over 5,000 products that are Certified for Windows Vista. Since last July, the amount of Certified for Windows Vista products has almost doubled! As you can see—we’ve seen quite a bit [...] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Windows Media Player Basics in Windows Vista (Informit)Gates: Vista is doing just fine (News)Vista security credentials tarnished in malware survey (TheRegister)Clamoring for Microsoft to keep XP alive (MarketWatch)Tags: Microsoft, Vista, WindowsShare This More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

This YouTube Video shows how to open a Vista Package. I never had a chance to see what a Vista package looks like because my laptop came with an opened packaged and the one in the office are volume licenses.Anyways, I find this cool!Tags: Microsoft, Vista, WindowsShare This More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

The latest Gartner statistic as published by Internet News are as follows:On a global basis, projected use of Windows 2000 fell from 15 percent of the installed base in 2007 to eight percent in 2008, and Gartner predicts it will fall to only four percent in 2009, according to summary data from the report. At [...] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

What are your thoughts on TDD? I find that writing tests first helps me determine the behavior of legacy systems when writing software to integrate with them. Unexpected and undocumented behaviors in legacy software are exposed through testing. Truth. It seems that these same anomalies would have taken much longer to surface without TDD. Writing tests first also seems to*yeild more time to consider design patterns to use in new code. What is certainly true is that once a threshhold is passed, somewhere along the path of adopting TDD, it is much too compelling to stop using it. It's fun and it builds confidence that new code is a best possible design. Those who have not tried TDD seem, to a person, to bring three arguments against it: 1) it takes too much time, 2) it does not add any inherent value to the deliverable, 3) it breaks the object-oriented design principles into more procedural designs. Only argument 3 has any possible merit, but it is also false. TDD*leads*many to*a change of philosophy to simplify object models. Single-purpose classes are more readily testable and simplicity proves best design regardless of the rationale. Monolithic objects now appear the way flat-table designs did after the widespread switch to relational database designs. The difficulty for TDD is how to test UI components' interaction with codebase. This one issue proves difficult for TDD advocates to "sell" to holdouts. The use of Model-View-Presenter does mean more code; seperating the UI from its state and events (in order to mock the UI programmatically in tests)*is more work. TDD coders are OK with more work, but those who don't want to start using TDD can argue to management that this is waste and attempt to obscure the benefit of TDD on argument 1 again. Good news is that management is becoming more primed to advocate adoption of TDD; "we're an Agile shop" is the bellweather. In summary,*have one sentence to use for kicking sand at others: 99% of programmers who reject TDD have never used it, and the other 1% are trying to save face. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Do you need to install Windows Vista Service Pack 1 right away? We have all been waiting for its release and now that its available should we install the pack immediately? Honestly, I haven’t done it myself yet because I don’t have immediate concerns that needs to be solved. My only Vista pains are the [...] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Down To Business: As IBM Reaches For Cloud, Where Next Microsoft? InformationWeek, NY - May 9, 2008 Microsoft's jewel, of course, is Windows, and Vista has exposed a glaring flaw. As software gets more bloated (Vista contains more than 50 million lines of ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

ThreatFire has done a study on Microsoft operating systems namely: Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP and Windows Vista. The number of threats allowed per a thousand computers are as follows:Windows 2000: 586Windows Server 2003: 478Windows XP: 1,021Windows Vista: 639Clearly, Windows Server 2003 is the most secure and Windows Vista is 37% less vulnerable [...] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

IANAL but common sense says it's not a good idea to push your * (*msn &*live messenger) down the throat by both making it the default page on clean windows installs and plastering links to it over the start menu (previously outlook express)*and then block messaging of links to competitors and their service in your program. Seriously w t f? Anyway damage is almost done already, tech media even internationally*is raving about it right now, not just slashdot.*Unless it's intentional there better be some quick damage control.* http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/10/166204 There are few reports saying they are not getting blocked so it's possible the block is either regional or some bug in some servers. Some explaining is in order though in any case. Next thing you know all Microsoft pages are gone from Google. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Can anyone explain this to me?* Vista x64, Nvidia 9 series graphics, latest driver. How it is, how it should look How it is, how it should look If you look have a look you can see the control text is pure white, poblem also shows up in photoshop, things like outlook and Word are fine :s I'm at a loss! Thanks, Stephen.* More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Does anyone know the formula for working out Mortgage? I tried my best at googling but what i did find i really couldnt understand :s More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I am in the market for a mouse.I am looking for a wireless one. Doesn't have to be bluetooth. The ones with a USB dongle is just fine, but not a big clunky dongle like some come with. I like the ones that look like a small memory stick.A laser one would be optimal, but optical is fine if it is a good mouse.And definitely not one of those *notebook* mice. They are way to small. I am looking for a standard size mouse.Ergonomic would be a nice to have.Thanks for any recommendations. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Linkage Better or worse than "No one wants to look dumb"? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi, i have one question Live Mesh it's compatible with Windows Mobile 6.1 ?? (now in future) and symbian? THX More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ Canoe.ca <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Vista just can’t catch a break ZDNet - Apr 21, 2008 As Mary Jo Foley has pointed out in her blog, Vista may not be selling at twice the rate of Windows XP–Microsoft’s original goal–but if revenues in the ... Five reasons businesses need to get Vista --- now Computerworld PCs and Parenting: Tips for Making Them Perfect Together KRIS-TV High-Tech Display: a cutting edge to paper The News - International Playfeed all 61 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I have been reading the second*"Win32 to Cocoa" article that lead to the discussion*here on Channel 9. The author mentions three types of devs in there: http://ms-os.com/Themes/AlmostGlass/images/icon-quote.gif Article wrote: At one level, you have people who are basically business analysts; they're using Access or Excel or VB6 to write data analyzing/number crunching applications. These things are hugely important in the business world, totally unexciting to anyone else, and the people writing them aren't really "programmers." I mean, they are, in the sense that they're writing programs, but they're not especially interested in programming or anything like that. They don't really care about the quality of the libraries and tools they're using; they just want something simple enough that they can pick it up without too much difficulty. They'll never write the best code or the best programs in the world; they won't be elegant or well-structured or pretty to look at. But they'll work. Historically, as I said, these are the kind of people who Access is made for. Access is a great tool, quite unparalleled. Sure, it's a lousy database engine with a hideous programming language, but the power it gives these people is immense. So Access and VB6 and Excel macros are where it's at for these guys. At the next level, you have the journeyman developers. Now these people aren't "business" people—they are proper programmers. But it's just a job, and they'll tend to stick with what they know rather than try to do something better. They might be a bit more discerning about their tools than the business types, but they're not going to go out of their way to pick up new skills and learn new things. They might use VB6 or Java or C# or whatever; it doesn't really matter to them, as they'll use whatever offers them the best employment opportunities at any given moment. Their code will probably look more or less the same no matter what. They're not going to learn the idioms of whatever specific language they're using, because there's no need, so it's just not for them. [...] At the final level, you have the conscientious developers. These are people who care about what they're doing. They might be writing business apps somewhere (although they probably hate it, unless they are on a team of like-minded individuals) but, probably more likely, they're writing programs in their own time. They want to learn about what's cool and new; they want to do the right thing on their platforms; they want to learn new techniques and better solutions to existing problems. They might be using unusual development platforms, or they might be using C++, but they'll be writing good code that's appropriate to their tools. They'll heed UI guidelines (and only break them when appropriate); they'll use new features that the platform has to offer; they'll push things to the limit. In a good way, of course. I count myself more in the last category; but might be wrong. What kind of developer are you? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Down To Business: As IBM Reaches For Cloud, Where Next Microsoft? InformationWeek, NY - 13 hours ago Microsoft's jewel, of course, is Windows, and Vista has exposed a glaring flaw. As software gets more bloated (Vista contains more than 50 million lines of ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Like many this election season I've had a difficult time deciding who to support on either side both when the race was full of 20 some candidates or now when it is down to 3... at last now the choice is clear. Yes we can? Yes we will? Yes, we shall! http://ms-os.com/Themes/AlmostGlass/images/icon-quote.gif Cobra Commander wrote:We've been warned against using unstable nuclear devices to generate artificial earthquakes, But, in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything artificial about earthquakes. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Down To Business: As IBM Reaches For Cloud, Where Next Microsoft? InformationWeek, NY - 12 hours ago Microsoft's jewel, of course, is Windows, and Vista has exposed a glaring flaw. As software gets more bloated (Vista contains more than 50 million lines of ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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Hello all, I'm new here so please bear with me.* I've been writing a program that I need to store the contents of a text box in a file.* The code is pasted here.* I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.* (I've only been doing c# for 3 months....) Thanks Emyr ===== [ Code snippet ] ===== ******* private void saveAsToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) ******* { *********** SaveFileDialog save = new SaveFileDialog();*********** *********** save.Filter = "Expression Files(*.exp)|*.exp"; *********** try *********** { *************** if (save.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK) *************** { ******************* string y; ******************* y = textBox1.Text; ******************* //MessageBox.Show(y); ******************* FileStream aFile = new FileStream(save.FileName, FileMode.CreateNew); ******************* sw = new StreamWriter(save.FileName); ******************* //MessageBox.Show("File Saved"); ******************* sw.WriteLine(y); ******************* //saveFile(save.FileName); *************** } *********** } *********** catch (ArgumentException) *********** { *************** // Do nothing.* User canceled the operation *********** } *********** catch (IOException) *********** { *************** MessageBox.Show("There was an error in writing the file"); *********** } More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds