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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Is the Mac ready for the enterprise? InfoWorld, CA - 3 hours ago For a Windows pro like myself (that is, the author of this Enterprise Windows blog and the book "Tricks of the Vista Masters"), it may be too late. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Pick a non-empty folder in the root of your non-system drive in explorer so its contents are visible on the right hand side and the folder is selected on the left in the tree view. Now change the name of the folder in systematic manner (eg. fldra fldrb fldrc etc) and watch the right hand side where the folder contents are. Depending on the contents of the folder, its original name and orbit speed of the space station you should see anything from detail view columns changing width to columns disappearing to changing out of the detail view into icons/list/tiles view. :s :| More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Check out the first external build of Windows 7 in this screenshot gallery! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Public face of Windows Vista leaves Microsoft BetaNews - 52 minutes ago "It's a bit deflating to know that this constitutes my last post to the Windows Vista Team blog. But by the same token, I'm thrilled, amazed and humbled at ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Scott Guthrie has a great eight part series titled First Look at Silverlight 2 where he walks you through building a Silverlight 2 sample app from scratch.* The walkthrough highlights almost all of the key features of Silverlight 2 Beta 1.* The walkthrough is so comprehensive that I have been using a slightly modified version of it for my Silverlight 2 presentations.* Since I am a big fan of seeing vs. reading, I asked Scott if it would be ok if I turned his written walkthrough into a video walkthrough delivered as a Channel 9 screencast.* Scott gave me the thumbs up so I put together what turned out to be a three part screencast.* Here are the direct links for each part: Silverlight 2 DIGG Sample Part I Silverlight 2 DIGG Sample Part II Silverlight 2 DIGG Sample Part III I hope you find it useful!* The source code for the app is available at http://cid-1f72da7294089597.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/Silverlight%202/MyDiggSample_Silverlight2Beta1.zip.* http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/395035.jpg Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I am in need of some HTML help, it's shall we say, not one of my stronger points :) I have this: dsds sds More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I am in need of some HTML help, it's shall we say, not one of my stronger points :) http://www.grostech.com/tmp/siw/c9/strech.png It's a table, two columns wide.* In each is a custom control. The control has two images, one is normal and the other is alpha png for 'gloss', the one on the right is how it should look, but the text is now always 100px short of right edge.* The contents of each table cell looks like this ************** ***************** ******************** http://ms-os.com/images/albumNA.png ***************** ***************** ******************** *********************** http://ms-os.com/images/overlay.png ***************** ************** ************** ***************** ******************** Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (Final) ***************** ***************** *********************** ************************** Flaming Lips ************** *********** Any one able to show me how to get the wasted space back? For the moment I've just given up and render the gloss on the server but would like to know if it's possible! Thanks Stephen. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Scott Guthrie has a great eight part series titled First Look at Silverlight 2 where he walks you through building a Silverlight 2 sample app from scratch.* The walkthrough highlights almost all of the key features of Silverlight 2 Beta 1.* The walkthrough is so comprehensive that I have been using a slightly modified version of it for my Silverlight 2 presentations.* Since I am a big fan of seeing vs. reading, I asked Scott if it would be ok if I turned his written walkthrough into a video walkthrough delivered as a Channel 9 screencast.* Scott gave me the thumbs up so I put together what turned out to be a three part screencast.* Here are the direct links for each part: Silverlight 2 DIGG Sample Part I Silverlight 2 DIGG Sample Part II Silverlight 2 DIGG Sample Part III I hope you find it useful!* The source code for the app is available at http://cid-1f72da7294089597.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/Silverlight%202/MyDiggSample_Silverlight2Beta1.zip.* http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/395039.jpg Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Driver Foundation 1.7 slated for April 15 Ars Technica, MA - 1 hour ago WDF 1.7 was working fine for many users until KB 938371 was released, at which point KMDF 1.7 would no longer install on Windows Vista. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Scott Guthrie has a great eight part series titled First Look at Silverlight 2 where he walks you through building a Silverlight 2 sample app from scratch.* The walkthrough highlights almost all of the key features of Silverlight 2 Beta 1.* The walkthrough is so comprehensive that I have been using a slightly modified version of it for my Silverlight 2 presentations.* Since I am a big fan of seeing vs. reading, I asked Scott if it would be ok if I turned his written walkthrough into a video walkthrough delivered as a Channel 9 screencast.* Scott gave me the thumbs up so I put together what turned out to be a three part screencast.* Here are the direct links for each part: Silverlight 2 DIGG Sample Part I Silverlight 2 DIGG Sample Part II Silverlight 2 DIGG Sample Part III I hope you find it useful!* The source code for the app is available at http://cid-1f72da7294089597.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/Silverlight%202/MyDiggSample_Silverlight2Beta1.zip.* http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/395028.jpg Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Is the Mac ready for the enterprise? InfoWorld, CA - 1 hour ago For a Windows pro like myself (that is, the author of this Enterprise Windows blog and the book "Tricks of the Vista Masters"), it may be too late. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Is the Mac ready for the enterprise? InfoWorld, CA - 35 minutes ago For a Windows pro like myself (that is, the author of this Enterprise Windows blog and the book "Tricks of the Vista Masters"), it may be too late. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I'm not a fan of the new .NET 2.0 Configuration model, I find it's too long-winded and takes away the simplicity of .NET 1.x's ISectionHandler approach. ...that, plus the reflection makes me shudder. Anyway, here's my app.config: And here's my Configuration code public sealed class ManageThisSection : ConfigurationSection { public ManageThisSection() { } [ConfigurationProperty("competitions")] [ConfigurationCollection(typeof(ConfigurationElementCollection))] public CompetitionsElement Competitions { get { return (CompetitionsElement)base["competitions"]; } } public sealed class CompetitionsElement : ConfigurationElement { private CompetitionElementCollection _competitions; public CompetitionsElement() { _competitions = new CompetitionElementCollection(); } [ConfigurationProperty("", IsDefaultCollection=true)] public CompetitionElementCollection Competitions { get { return _competitions; } } public CompetitionElement GetCompetitionInfo(Int32 id) { foreach(CompetitionElement ele in _competitions) { if(ele.Id == id) return ele; } return null; } } public sealed class CompetitionElementCollection : ConfigurationElementCollection { public override ConfigurationElementCollectionType CollectionType { get { return ConfigurationElementCollectionType.AddRemoveClearMap; } } protected override ConfigurationElement CreateNewElement() { return new CompetitionElement(); } protected override Object GetElementKey(ConfigurationElement element) { return (element as CompetitionElement).Id; } public CompetitionElement this[int32 index] { get { return (CompetitionElement)BaseGet(index); } set { if( BaseGet(index) != null ) { BaseRemoveAt(index); } BaseAdd(index, value); } } public void Add(CompetitionElement element) { base.BaseAdd( element ); } public void Clear() { base.BaseClear(); } public void Remove(CompetitionElement element) { base.BaseRemove(element.Id); } public void Remove(Int32 id) { base.BaseRemove(id); } public void RemoveAt(Int32 index) { base.BaseRemoveAt(index); } } public sealed class CompetitionElement : ConfigurationElement { [ConfigurationProperty("id",IsKey=true,IsRequired=true)] public Int32 Id { get { return (Int32)base["id"]; } set { base["id"] = value; } } [ConfigurationProperty("name",IsRequired=true)] public String Name { get { return (String)base["name"]; } set { base["name"] = value; } } [ConfigurationProperty("path",IsRequired=true)] public String Path { get { return (String)base["path"]; } set { base["path"] = value; } } } } ...why isn't it working? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft's main Windows Vista blogger leaves the company BloggingStocks - 2 hours ago Note to Flores: be honest with your audience and don't become a simple mouthpiece for Windows Vista, Share in the joys and disappointments both. ... Microsoft's Vista Blogger Quits As Redmond Exodus Builds InformationWeek Vista desktop management software on tap NetworkWorld.com all 5 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ ZDNet <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> 64-bit Photoshop to be Windows only, at first ZDNet - 5 hours ago Photoshop Senior Project Manager John Nack posted a piece on his blog called Photoshop, Lightroom, and Adobe’s 64-bit roadmap where he divulges that ... Adobe: 64-bit Mac Creative Suite apps won't happen till v5.0 Apple Insider Adobe plans to ship 64-bit Photoshop CS4 for Windows only; no 64 ... MacDailyNews Google to cut DoubleClick jobs, sell Performics piece Washington Post Computerworld all 217 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Does anyone know whether the next version of MBS Dynamics NAV will be using Windows Forms or WPF? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ Ars Technica <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Live OneCare 2.5 public beta begins Ars Technica, MA - 27 minutes ago After the lengthy installation in which Windows Defender is turned off (assuming you're on Vista or you have it installed on XP), you'll be prompted to ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows XP to live until 2010... on the Eee engadget, CA - 19 minutes ago Here's my prediction: Windows XP will continue to be loved while Vista is treated like a bastard stepchild. Windows 7 will solve all the Vista horrors and ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft's main Windows Vista blogger leaves the company BloggingStocks - 1 hour ago Note to Flores: be honest with your audience and don't become a simple mouthpiece for Windows Vista, Share in the joys and disappointments both. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Adobe's announced that the upcoming Photoshop will be available in 64 bit, but only on Windows.* Why?* Because Apple surprised them by dropping Carbon for the 64 bit OS.* http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/04/photoshop_lr_64.html I really don't get this move by Apple.* I've never developed for the Mac, but if I understand things correctly, Cocoa is an Objective-C API and not accessible from more traditional languages such as C and C++.* This means Apple is effectively locking out cross platform GUI applications, correct?* Does that make sense to anyone else? Another interesting angle to this whole thing comes from a response by John Gruber: http://daringfireball.net/2008/04/64000_question.* The response is mostly fair, which if you read Daring Fireball you probably understand why this surprised me.* The guy is opinionated and his typical posts consist of calling people with different opinions names that wouldn't get by the C9 filters. So why is that post interesting?* Because he takes a swipe at Microsoft, and shows his own ignorance while doing so. http://ms-os.com/Themes/AlmostGlass/images/icon-quote.gif John Gruber wrote:It’s also the case that unlike Leopard, which is a single OS that can simultaneously run both 32- and 64-bit apps natively, Windows Vista comes in wholly separate 32- and 64-bit versions. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft's main Windows Vista blogger leaves the company BloggingStocks - 28 minutes ago Note to Flores: be honest with your audience and don't become a simple mouthpiece for Windows Vista, Share in the joys and disappointments both. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Adobe claims it knew of 'PWN To OWN' bug Computerworld, MA - 45 minutes ago ... 2008 (Computerworld) Security researchers at Adobe Systems Inc. claimed that they knew of a Flash bug before it was used to crack a Windows Vista laptop ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Head on over to 10! http://on10.net/ http://on10.net/blogs/laura/NeuroSky/ More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Don’t expect MinWin in Windows 7 ZDNet - Mar 31, 2008 Windows 7, the next version of the Windows platform, which will be the successor to Windows Vista, has its own kernel, MinWin. Microsoft — last we heard ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Make your Windows desktop more efficient with Aston TechRepublic, KY - 42 minutes ago This download is also available as an entry in the TechRepublic Windows blog. (Is this item miscategorized? Does it need more tags? Let us know.) Make your Windows desktop more efficient with Aston TechRepublic all 2 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds