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Ive been trying to find a working code version of that 3d carousel thing Like the one in the Longhorn Control panel video - and more recently - on the main screen of live mesh i have found many really good flash ones - but im hoping to find just code - ive tried dynamic drive and searched for javascript rotate carousel 3d etc - but everything is cheesy there was also a pretty good one under silverlight demos but it doesnt work how youd think (sort of silly actually) anyone know of a free hackable code one? (not flash/SL) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft offers hope for people who want to keep XP The Associated Press - 2 hours ago They trumpet its superiority to Windows Vista, Microsoft's latest PC operating system, whose consumer launch last January was greeted with lukewarm reviews. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Well... it won't quite be Live Mesh's Killer App and it's not a new idea as there's a popular Firefox Addin that it does it but what if.... IE8 came with 'Favorites' persistance, easily configured by any user and brought to you by LiveMeshTM . All*delivered seamlessly out of the box when a punter installs IE8. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> An investigation of GUI changes found in Windows Vista SP1 TechRepublic, KY - Apr 23, 2008 This download is also available as an entry in the TechRepublic Microsoft Windows blog. (Is this item miscategorized? Does it need more tags? Let us know.) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft May Reconsider XP Plans Wall Street Journal - 33 minutes ago ... the Internet with blog posts, cartoons and petitions recently. They trumpet its superiority to Windows Vista, Microsoft's latest PC operating system, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Yesterday, I received a official offer for a position at University of Victoria*(BC Canada) for a big genome project*and I will accept. I'm really happy about this job and looking forward to gain new experience in overseas (and of course to improve my english). So now I'm wondering how many C9'er live on Vancouver Island. Maybe we can drink a beer together. :D More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ ZDNet <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 ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Anyone used this? * We're*doing ASP.NET development in VS2005 at the moment, and having an easy way of unit testing the web layer would be teh awesome. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista, the mistake the guides the future NetworkWorld.com, MA - 6 hours ago The word "seven" (as in Windows 7 ) was never mentioned. He also neglected to talk about Vista, explaining instead that his presentation was geared toward ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Told Ya So - Virtualization On The Desktop NetworkWorld.com, MA - 39 minutes ago It was so gratifying reading John Fontanta's guest blog post about the editors meeting with Shanen Boettcher, GM of Windows product management. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi all, I am facing a very problem and I am not able to trace the exact reason behind this problem. I am working on a winform application having late bind excel object. 1) Application is running and excel object is not created yet. ******* if user opens any office document with double-click it opens up in 2-3 seconds. 2) Application is running and excel object has been created. ******* if user opens the office document with doubleclick it takes 1 minute.* ******* if user opens the same document with File>Open it opens in 2-3 seconds.. Please give some suggestion. Thanks in advance. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Automatic Distribution of Windows Vista SP1 Begins HULIQ (press release), NC - 23 minutes ago Wednesday, in a post on the Windows Vista Team Blog, Microsoft announced that they had begun automatic distribution of Windows Vista SP1. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

My aunt is looking to get a new laptop and it doesn't need to be ultra portable. It's almost always plugged in. I've been looking around online and haven't been able to find a better deal than the Dell XPS M1530 with the GeForce 8600M GT. Are any of you using a 1530? Is there anything annoying on them like special wireless software or other specialized stuff that replaces*something perfectly good that's already built into Vista that would be impossible to turn off. Whenever someone I know buys a new computer I bring it home first and disable all the "shovelware" and trial versions I can find. I recently setup*an inspiron desktop system and it wasn't too much trouble but laptops have far more specialized hardware that sometimes has horrible software that goes along with it. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista, the mistake the guides the future NetworkWorld.com, MA - 44 minutes ago The word "seven" (as in Windows 7 ) was never mentioned. He also neglected to talk about Vista, explaining instead that his presentation was geared toward ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Switch background color: CNET Blogs, CA - 1 hour ago To use the kit, you need Windows Vista Premium or Ultimate. (Rumor has it there's a hack that'll allow it to work with the XP version of Media Center; ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft starts Vista SP1 auto delivery Computerworld, MA - 39 minutes ago By Gregg Keizer April 23, 2008 (Computerworld) Microsoft today flipped the switch to start automatically upgrading some copies of Windows Vista to Service ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I do allot of programming both at Work and at home. I'm looking for a way I can I have one central location where all my Projects are located and can open them from Home and Work via the WAN. The home PC is the best place for this, since it's a desktop and is always on. I don't want something that takes tons of steps. Like Remote Desktop in, Download the project, make changes re-upload. I don't want to use a USB key because I'm forgetful and may not backup that key. I've lost these in the past and have also ran them through a washer and dryer destroying all data. I've tried sharing out Folders on the home PC and using port forward for the file sharing Windows uses. That just didn't work and I didn't expect it to. VPN is not an option, as work blocks those ports. Virtual Directory using IIS isn't an option because I believe [correct me if I'm wrong] that's read only. Plus how should it know where the other files are located? I don't need any type of locking scheme for files, as I'm the only developer. Any ideas would be great!!! Thanks and look forward to hearing some suggestions. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Have you ever seen this dialog while surfing the web in Internet Explorer? http://ieblog.members.winisp.net/images/ie7_operation_aborted.png You browse to your favorite news site. The content starts loading, you've already started reading the headline, and then it happens. Those of you familiar with the operation aborted dialog know that it spells sudden doom for the website you're currently viewing. Unsuspecting users have no idea what it means and simply click 'OK' and then watch in horror as the web page they were just reading disappears; only to be replaced by an navigation error screen. More savvy users move the dialog out of the way so that they can finish reading what was visible before they too accept the inevitable... This dialog (and its side-effects) is gone in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1. What caused the operation aborted error? The operation aborted dialog in Internet Explorer 7 is triggered by an HTML parsing exception that occurs when all the following specific conditions are met: The HTML file is being parsed Script is executing The executing script attempts to add, or remove an element from an unclosed ancestor in the markup tree (not including the script block's immediate parent element).You can see that each of these conditions is true in the following example markup: var newElem = document.createElement('foo'); document.body.appendChild(newElem); The HTML file is being parsed, and encounters a script block. The script block contains inline script which creates a new element and attempts to add it to the BODY (document.body.appendChild(newElem)) element before the closing BODY tag has been encountered by the parser. Note that if I removed the highlighted DIV element, then this problem would not occur because the script block's immediate parent would be BODY, and the script block's immediate parent is immune to this problem. Unfortunately the operation aborted dialog was always thrown at the top-level of a web page, even if the problem occured in an iframe. In fact, in most scenarios that we encountered, ad injection in an iframe was usually the root cause of this error. After the user dismissed the error dialog, Internet Explorer would navigate away from the page. What we did in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 http://ieblog.members.winisp.net/images/ie8_script_error_notification.png In Internet Explorer 8, our goal is to change the behavior that previously caused the following problems: The operation aborted error was a modal dialog. The dialog was not actionable by any user. Dismissing the operation aborted dialog caused Internet Explorer to navigate to an error page. This prevented any potential debugging of the affected page.When the HTML parser throws the operation aborted exception, rather than announce this error to the world, Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 discreetly tucks this information away into the list of script errors associated with the webpage and stops parsing HTML and running script at that point. We also tried to provide a little more help to those developers who encounter this error (but don't read the IE blog) by including the KB article number in the text that describes this problem: HTML Parsing Error: Unable to modify the parent container element before the child element is closed (KB927917) A simple web search for "KB927917" in major search engines will usually turn up the corresponding Knowledge Base article as the first hit. That article describes the specifics of this problem and available workarounds. Interoperability observations and feedback request It's intriguing to observe the parsing behavior of various browsers in these situations, as it's not universally consistent. For the scenarios involving adding elements to an open container (e.g., appendChild), the appropriate behavior seems very straightforward--just add the element. Future markup encountered by the HTML parser (after execution of the script block) should then be appended to the existing in-memory DOM. Other browsers tend to agree on this point. In the case where a parent element is removed (e.g., removeChild, innerHTML, outerHTML) and parsing resumes, the big question becomes: what is the parser's new context? Different browsers answer this question differently. By and large, most other browsers invalidate the parsed context from the point of deletion in the DOM, and "remember" what was deleted such that future parsed markup is ignored until the containing tree (now deleted in-memory) is closed. You can start to see the complexity in this approach, especially if the tree is not well-formed. On the other hand, other browsers take a different approach and "re-base" the parsing context of the current markup at the point of deletion. This results in future markup being inserted in "the wrong place" (a matter of perspective) in the in-memory DOM. For illustration purposes, consider the former as "approach A" and the latter as "approach B." Given the following markup, what do you as web developers expect? I tend to think that approach A is the saner model to follow: First block of text Second block of text Final DOM tree constructed using each approach mentioned above: Approach A Approach B html |-body |-div#container2html |-body |-span#span2 |-div#container2 What can you do? In any case, the moral of the story is to avoid getting yourself into this scenario if possible. Granted, in some cases it may be inevitable, especially if the content is not under your direct control (like ad-injection scenarios). Knowledge Base article 927917 mentions some workarounds, but additionally to avoid the problem, you simply need to ensure that your script doesn't meet all three of the conditions I outlined earlier. So, if possible, do the following to avoid an operation aborted error: Moving your script execution to a function that is invoked after parsing is complete (e.g., onload) Adding the defer boolean attribute to the script block (this defers execution of the script content until parsing is complete) Limiting your tree modifications to the script-element's immediate parent Moving the location of your script block to a child of the body (this usually solves most problems, while allowing the most flexibility in terms of scenarios).Always a pleasure, Travis Leithead Program Manager IE8 Object Model http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8417588 More... 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On their EC2 & S3 service... right when Live Mesh goes... um... live. Don't you just love competition? http://ms-os.com/Themes/AlmostGlass/images/icon-quote.gif Amazon wrote: Current data transfer price (through April 30, 2008) $0.100 per GB - data transfer in $0.180 per GB - first 10 TB / month data transfer out $0.160 per GB - next 40 TB / month data transfer out $0.130 per GB - data transfer out / month over 50 TB New data transfer price (effective May 1, 2008) $0.100 per GB - data transfer in $0.170 per GB - first 10 TB / month data transfer out $0.130 per GB - next 40 TB / month data transfer out $0.110 per GB - next 100 TB / month data transfer out $0.100 per GB - data transfer out / month over 150 TB More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Jeremy Mazner gives us a behind-the-scenes tour with the Live Mesh team. You’ll hear from Amit Mital, the Product Unit Manager for Live Mesh as well as from several developers, testers, and architects on the team. We also barge into a couple of offices to talk about some of the challenges in building Live Mesh and even drop in to the Live Mesh Shiproom and check out the server room that runs the Live Mesh development environment. Low Res file here MP4 file here For more Live Mesh coverage: - Watch the demo of the Live Mesh application on Channel 10* - Watch an interview with Abolade Gbadegesin on Live Mesh Architecture - Read the transcript and grab the audio from Jon Udell's perspective series. 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"> And In This Corner, Jason Perlow DaniWeb, VA - 56 minutes ago You may recognize Jason from his long-running stint as a regular columnist for Linux Magazine, his popular food blog site offthebroiler.com, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ The News - International <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> High-Tech Display: a cutting edge to paper The News - International, Pakistan - 21 minutes ago They trumpet its superiority to Windows Vista, Microsoft's latest PC operating system, whose consumer launch last January was greeted with lukewarm reviews. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Kiwi Microsoft blogger embroiled in XP service pack row Reseller News, New Zealand - 3 minutes ago In a repeat of a February donnybrook over Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows Vista, IT professionals and developers are blasting Microsoft's decision to ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

We're back with another update! This time we have a mix of content, including: Sampy talking about SQL optimization using indexed views Erik covering a relatively simple, but useful, web control and explaining a bit about how we build our UI components as he goes (and you can get the controls he demos right from here) Sampy showing off the wiki, in a unskinned but functional state (like any good demo, we even included a surprise error!) Me demoing nothing and generally blathering on in a managerial way Listen to the podcast(MP3) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> And In This Corner, Jason Perlow DaniWeb, VA - 21 minutes ago You may recognize Jason from his long-running stint as a regular columnist for Linux Magazine, his popular food blog site offthebroiler.com, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds