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You gotta kinda love Vista sometimes.. but not very much. Scenario: I develop software at home, upload application to office via a VPN on my ADSL router and the office's router. Both are Netgear. All working fine with XP copy to Win2003 server. Upgraded my dev box to Vista x64 and the problems started. I've now found what is happening is that small file copies (say less than 100k) go over the VPN, no problem. However, copy a 6MB zip file over the VPN, and it copies a bit, then my router loses its ADSL connection (note: all ADSL drops, not just the VPN!!!).. it reconnects, the VPN reconnects... the copy resumes on Vista.. then again the same scenario. Basically it drops and reconnects DSL about every 1.5MB of data or so. What is wierd is this does not happen if I copy from an XP box on my LAN to the Win2003 box - I do a copy over the VPN and itw works as expected, no dropped DSL. This means something in the Vista copy code / protocols is "crashing" the router. I might think it was specific to this router but I've already replaced my older "consumer" router with a DGFV338 and it persists. Since I would regard this as a router issue I logged it with NETGEAR, who were not very helpful. At my suggestion that dropping Netgear would be the best solution, they agreed..!?! But I don't want to keep buying routers .. But what really annoys is that it's Vista that is doing something. I've tried disabling IPv6, and the sliding window stuff.* I happened on plan Vista and is still happening on Vista SP1. Come on Microsoft, what is going on here??? :@ More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

With FolderShare :D Any other FolderShare lovers out there? Appropos will there be a way to browse folders inside the application itself? (Not that the web experience is bad, it's actually remarkably nice! - but you can't argue with drag'n'drop and shell integration) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ bit-tech.net <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft rings alarm on Windows rights bug Computerworld, MA - Apr 18, 2008 The bug affects Windows XP Professional SP2, and all versions of Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and the brand-new Windows Server 2008. ... AT&T Small Business Offerings Expand HostingTech.com all 26 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I just verified something I've suspected for a while now. If you use a Win32-based TextBox control (this also includes*the*WinForms TextBox control) for entering passwords, external applications can get the password by simply sending the WM_GETTEXT message to it. That's how most password revealers work and you can verify this very easily with Spy++ that's installed with Visual Studio. It is however very easy to protect against this type of attack. Which makes me wonder why the WinForms TextBox isn't protected and why I haven't*read more about this. If you develop Windows Forms applications and you use the standard TextBox to let the user enter a password, you should definitely read the blog post I wrote about this: Making your password TextBox more secure. This is so typical: you can secure your applications, encrypt your data, encrypt your communication, and then something very simple like this circumvents your entire security system. Apparently even Outlook 2003 (haven't checked 2007 yet) is vulnerable to this. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

The link that tell... ummm I don't know what to say. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

So at work we've been doing scrum and sprints for the last few months.* We now have a system of documenting our sprints using excel. The basic's of which is an excel spreadsheet containing columns of a sprint item number, a product backlog number (if relevant), the status and team member doing it and the amount of hours it has left to complete. it's fairly basic but works pretty well, though i'm notw thinking it needs some linking so that items bought in from previous sprints can be easily referenced.* eg. some dev work needs to be done and the analysys was done in the previous sprint. so how are you doing and documenting your sprints?* whats the best method you've seen and the worst. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi, Could anyone please tell me how to hide an unbound column in datatable. I have tried dt.Columns["name"].ColumnMapping = MappingType.Hidden; But it is not working.... Regards Naeem More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Decision times for Windows and Mac OS X InfoWorld, CA - 1 hour ago For example, the Enterprise Windows blog focuses more on server aspects of the Windows platform. Another is through our new Windows Sentinel service, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Decision times for Windows and Mac OS X InfoWorld, CA - 34 minutes ago For example, the Enterprise Windows blog focuses more on server aspects of the Windows platform. Another is through our new Windows Sentinel service, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

It's a Seattle-based company that creates "Schtickers" for laptops and iPods, etc. Pretty neat idea,* It's*a good way to advertise your business or your services when you're out and about with your laptop (park, starbucks, meetings, etc). I just ordered one for my company, pretty neat stuff! Check it out. http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/9282/stickerfk7.th.jpg More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

It's been 2 years since their last episode release. Anyone heard about whether they're making new episodes? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

As... we have (in general) check points for picking one: - Brand - Series - Operating Freq - Socket - 32/64 bit support - FSB - L2 Cache and especially this - Core So how many of you go with "Core" architecture of the CPU? Seriously... believe me.. I go with general filters like Op.Freq and Brand, never taken the specifications too deeply for making one choice. Following the articles on "Core" of CPUs from past few months on Wolfdale (intel), which is making a difference in the performance to it's previous architectures. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Apple makes minor concession on pushing Safari to Windows users Computerworld, MA - Apr 17, 2008 On Windows Vista, however, the installed tool carries a date stamp of April 11. "In this latest release we have made it easier for customers to identify ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi, I found this forum haphazzardly and noticed it was full of programmers like myself. I just wanted to say hi. What great and wonderfully entertaining videos are stored here. Great stuff. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I probably shouldn't admit this in public, but I get a really euphoric*rush out of seeing a courier van arrive with an Amazon parcel. Today it is "Learning WCF" and "Professional ASP.NET 3.5". Neighbours seem to be staring out their windows suspiciously as I rush inside licking my lips with my "discrete, plain brown box" parcel tucked under my arm. Sadly I think they are correct, this is indeed a fetish. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I am just curious, of the people that are here, what are your favorite programming languages and what programming languages do you use to write code? My favorite language is C/C++. However, I have been writing code in Java and I expect to be doing much more of it in the future because the Computer Science department removed C++ from the curriculum, opting to teach Java instead. [C] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

The ASP.NET Control syntax is nice and all, but ultimately it's a mix of server and client side put together, along with a dollop of presentation logic. I was wondering if anyone created an XForms->ASP.NET engine, or something simpler: if there's a simple XML document defining a boring data entry form in terms of the data it collects (with no regard to the surrounding XHTML). A simple conversion process converts it to an ASP.NET Web form either at compile-time or Application_Start-type. So rather than having to define the form's markup and all the fields within and mess around with control adapters and validators and the like you just have: *** Which converts it nicely to: FieldValue Your Name Your address Actions Send form Waaay more readable, but just as functional, and compensates for ASP.NET's at-times verbose syntax. Of course you could swap out my generator for one that spits out ugly, presentational HTML with elements, but that's your call ;) And you could easy get it to render the same form using WinForms controls as well. But ultimately it's a kind of "XForms Lite", but given the lare number of "boring forms" people are tasked with creating I reckon it would be of use. ....would you use it? And has anyone done it already? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft rings alarm on Windows rights bug Computerworld, MA - Apr 18, 2008 The bug affects Windows XP Professional SP2, and all versions of Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and the brand-new Windows Server 2008. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

The Windows Weekly podcast returns with Leo and I discussing Windows 7 build 6519, Gartner's Windows collapse prediction, UAC created to annoy users, and the Linux-based Shuttle KPC! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I have this WinForms program that I'm writing, and recently I pulled a bunch of back-end code out and put it in a separate class library.* That seemed like the organized thing to do, and it allows me to more-easily port the program to Media Center when I get the time. :) I was about to publish the application to my website, but I realized that the code that I put in the separate class library is no longer included in the exe file, but rather is put into a DLL.* That would be fine if the program was for installing, but the program is supposed to be ultra portable, and a single file makes that simpler. Does anyone know how to force Visual Studio (I'm using C#) to put all of the necessary information into a single executable file? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> The pillars of Defensive Computing CNET Blogs, CA - 15 minutes ago Windows users are best served by avoiding Vista, if for no other reason than it will suffer from more hardware and software incompatibilities than XP for ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

So back in the days i would reinstall my Windows once a month and spend*a day installing everything again, just to keep things clean. Sadly, as i have increased amount of data, as well as games on steam i don't want to reinstall, it's not an option.But everybody knows the feeling, after a while Windows just starts feeling bloated. I feel overwhelmed by all the different things i do, and i just don't really wanna get attacked by all these things i have installed. It's probably just in my head all of it. But even if i do install a program, i always have in the back of my head how it would affect performance, it would clutter up my computer with all kinds of processes running in the background, write a (I need to watch my language) ton of things to the registry. And even if i use the installer that it comes with, to uninstall it, it just doesn't feel clean anymore. There's always a feeling of this things being totally impossible to remove.I have been playing with Ubuntu, and i must admit i enjoy apt-get and how i know what is installed, where the configuration is and all that. *But i just CAN'T do this on windows. There will always be these programs like Visual Studio which i can't move around due to its registries, yet i want to. The grass is greener on the other side, but i can't go across, yet. So how do you guys keep your system "clean"? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

How do I know if I need my web visitors to have JavaScript and/or Cookies enabled to use my asp.net 2.0 site? Do I need both JavaScript AND Cookies enabled? What is the best way to test for this/these in asp.net 2.0? Do I NEED JavaScript and Cookies enabled to use the asp.net Session object and session variables? Do I need either or both of these enabled for an ASP.Net AJAX enabled site? It seems that a lot of people don't like to have cookies enabled and/or JavaScript enabled.* Are these not important and needed, though, for ASP.Net 2.0 sites? What are the requirements a visitor should have for an ASP.Net 2.0 AJAX enabled site? Any help appreciated. Thanks - Darren More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I have spent an inordinate amount of time meticulously adding xml comments to my school team's first real C# project. I am using Sandcastle Help File Builder (SCHB) to build an html based documentation site. But it adds to all my namespaces: [Missing namespace summary documentation for N:Namespace] Where can i specify this? i tried adding it above the namespace definition in one of the code files, but it didn't like that... Also, we would like to generate an installer, the requirements would be that it copy the application files, install fonts, install directx 9 if required and install .NET 2.0 distribution if required... any idea how i might go about generating such an installer? Edit: I forgot to mention, we are using Visual Studio 2008 Pro, and our budget is 0$, 0£ or 0€, for those of you who have difficulty with the currency conversion. Edit 2: This actually an interesting project, i think, it will be posted to codeplex within a couple weeks, I'll post the link here for anyone who is interested. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft rings alarm on Windows rights bug Computerworld, MA - Apr 18, 2008 The bug affects Windows XP Professional SP2, and all versions of Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and the brand-new Windows Server 2008. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds