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Next month I'll begin to dive into certain personal affair. I might not come as often as I used to. (Although I didn't talk much here, I did visit here at least once each workday) //Wish me good luck ;) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I just got in my desk and 22" monitor today. Got an awesome chair and peripherals. I am getting some kick-(I know, I know, language) speakers so I can rock out whilest I code. Sorry, kind of excited. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

After visiting the ALT.NET Open Spaces Conference in Seattle Scott Hanselman followed through on one of the open ideas there and created the ALT.NET Geek Code page.* After selecting from the list of processes and tools you are given a code.* Code which can be expressed in text like so: IOC(SM):IOC(CW):IOC(Nin):MOC(RM):MOC(MQ):MOC:MOC(!?):TDD(NU):TDD(Xu):TDD(Mb):SCC(Svn):SCC(Git):SCC(TFS):SCC(Lame):SCC(Gmail):ORM(NH):ORM(SS):ORM(L2S):XPP(++):DDD(T+):DDD(+):DDD(!?):JSL(Jq):JSL(MS):JSL(p+):JSL(s+):CIS(CC):CIS(psh+):CIS(bat-):GoF(++) That's a lot of text though, and looks*the right time for a little data visualization app built in*Silverlight 2.* This is the story of that little application that could. Download Video (WMV, MP4, Zune) Download Application Sourcehttp://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/401246.jpg Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Untruths about Windows Vista User Account Control (UAC) DABCC.com (press release), FL - 3 minutes ago If you follow my blog you may have read several posts that I've written about Vista's User Account Control (UAC). In these posts I expressed several ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I've added my first LINQ to SQL Class to my project and have written the related code to get the data using my stored procedure from SQL Server.* Cool and all that. However, I need to add another stored procedure to this project, and I want to use LINQ to SQL Class for that as well.* When I was using the O/R Designer it was clear I could probably have dragged other things from SQL onto the design surface, but I'm not sure if that is the best thing to do or not. So the question is, should I create a whole new LINQ to SQL Class for this other SP, or not? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

does Microsoft have in one of the buildings a place that has systems showing old versions of windows? like have a PC running Windows 1.0 next to a PC running Windows 2.0 next to... and so on? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ eWeek <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> A "hardy" Linux distro goes to work eWeek, NY - 14 minutes ago Lehrbaum, whose Black Tower computer was previously set up with Windows Vista and Kubuntu 7.10, offers some fundamental tips when upgrading or changing ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

No not really, just saw these in the grocery store and thought it was kinda funny... http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3168/2362090703_8f1b77abb7.jpg More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista SP1 auto updates also halted CNET News.com, CA - 13 minutes ago "We are temporarily holding any additional automatic distribution of Windows Vista SP1," Microsoft said in response to an inquiry from CNET News.com. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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I'm curious about the legacy WinFS schema and diagram. There was a humungous image of the entire WinFS schema and a visio document for it as well (lovely visio depiction at that). From a purely ontological perspective, I'm interested in that. Can anyone point me to a copy of those docs? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista SP1 auto updates also halted CNET News.com, CA - 11 minutes ago "We are temporarily holding any additional automatic distribution of Windows Vista SP1," Microsoft said in response to an inquiry from CNET News.com. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I'm generating an XML file based on a bunch of properties in my class, and I'm wondering what's the best way to deal with optional elements or attributes. Say I need an XML file like this: * *** Bas * Let's say that the age attribute is optional. Now, suppose I have a class that defines a Name and an Age property. You could generate the XML as follows: Person person = new Person(); [...] XDocument document = new XDocument( ***new XElement("persons", ******new XElement("person", *********new XAttribute("age", person.Age), *********new XElement("name", person.Name) ******** ) ***** ) ** ); This works fine if Age returns an actual value, but what if it's undefined, or a nullable type, for instance? Is there a way of making sure it only renders the age attribute if Age has an actual value without breaking up that single, smooth block into a mess of multiple if() statements? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

what is difference between VSTO and COM? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista Speech Macros Beta for Developers Released Redmond Channel Partner, CA - 1 hour ago The release of the technical preview was announced by the Windows Vista Team Blog on Saturday. When speech macros are created, the user can speak a word or ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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In this TechNet Radio session, you learn how Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 ensures that computers connecting to or communicating on the network meet the organization's requirements for system health. By implementing System Center Operations Manager 2007, Microsoft IT is able to enforce security and compliance, as well as target policies to specific forest and domains within Microsoft. Eric Ostrowski - Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer Chris Avis – IT Pro Evangelist Richard Dixon - Richard Dixon is a Microsoft IT Sr. Systems Engineer. He has worked in IT since 1990. He has been working with SMS/ConfigMgr for 8 years. He started out as a Help Desk Analyst, moved to Help Desk Supervisor and ultimately to Engineering and designing SMS/ConfigMgr.* His original acquired skills are in SQL Server DBA, Visual programming and report management and design which has greatly helped in designing and engineering ConfigMgr 2007 for NAP. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista Speech Macros Beta for Developers Released Redmond Channel Partner, CA - 34 minutes ago The release of the technical preview was announced by the Windows Vista Team Blog on Saturday. When speech macros are created, the user can speak a word or ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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On Mix Essentials Belgium (last week) MS announced the RTM of Expression Studio (incl. Blend). I cannot find anything online, though. MS sites still say Beta 2. Any hint? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I got off my morning train today to discover a line of at least 15 heavily armed troopers guarding the platform. I'm talking full to the hilt here, automatic assault rifles in hand, .9mm on the hip and .22 pistols around the boot. For some reason my train pulled ontot he same platform as the train that these guys were 'guarding' (even though all the other 10 platforms were available). As 600 people started to disembark from the train onto the platform to make our way into the station and then out into the city, the conductors from the other train began*yelling at everyone. It's not a nice feeling to be yelled at on your way to work by some jerk who is standing behind a line of armed men... All in all, it is a very depressing commentary on the state of contemporary America. And I am Afraid. Also, what is the deal with this new Cyber Crime Device from Microsoft? WTH? http://ms-os.com/Themes/AlmostGlass/images/icon-quote.gif Article wrote:Microsoft has developed a small plug-in device that investigators can use to quickly extract forensic data from computers that may have been used in crimes. ... The device contains 150 commands that can dramatically cut the time it takes to gather digital evidence, which is becoming more important in real-world crime, as well as cybercrime. It can decrypt passwords and analyze a computer's Internet activity, as well as data stored in the computer. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft: June 30 not end of Windows XP support Computerworld, MA - 8 minutes ago Some OEMs, however, have announced that they will factory-install XP Professional on new machines after June 30 by taking advantage of Windows Vista's ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows XP isn't dead yet InfoWorld, CA - 2 hours ago We've been writing about SP3 for nearly six months and speculating about its impact on Vista sales, but this is the real deal! ... XP SP3 ... tomorrow! Cnet Asia all 6 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I find myself perplexed.* Is there now way to parse both the strings below in .Net in a generic way*and get the date time and the timezone offset without resorting to RegEx? 2008-04-29T15:17:25+01:00 2008-04-29T15:17:25Z Seemes such a simple thing..... Cheers, Stephen More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Kraken Infiltration Revives "Friendly Worm" Debate Slashdot - 33 minutes ago The researchers have published a pair of blog entries: Owning Kraken Zombies and Kraken Botnet Infiltration. They dissect the botnet and go so far as to ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds