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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft's Vista Blogger Quits As Redmond Exodus Builds InformationWeek, NY - 17 minutes ago "It's deflating to know that this constitutes my last post to the Windows Vista team blog," said White, a Vista product manager. White is leaving Microsoft ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Are there any decent examples of advanced formula solving (regressions,etc) done in F#? I am unable to locate any. I am trying to push for F# adoption and integrated into*our process (currently it is a seperate layer/process tasked by matlab). People are asking for examples and* questioning what other (if any) research / quantative groups are using F# as a replacement / complement to Matlab. We have thousands of matlab functions and everyone here is very comfortable with matlab, but it would be very, very helpful if we were able to leverage our matlab skills in-process with our application code. Help? Anybody? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Well it seems that we finally got upgraded to the latest and greatest sharepoint. Now however our team has a blank slate of what we can put on our site. Just curious to those who use sharepoint on a daily basis what webparts you use and what new features you are taking/not taking advantage of? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Visual LINQ Query Builder :P http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/vlinq More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft's Vista Blogger Quits As Redmond Exodus Builds InformationWeek, NY - 21 minutes ago "It's deflating to know that this constitutes my last post to the Windows Vista team blog," said White, a Vista product manager. White is leaving Microsoft ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Court filing: Symantec, Microsoft end suit Seattle Post Intelligencer - 7 minutes ago Symantec had alleged that Microsoft wrongly incorporated the technology into programs including Windows Vista. For background, see our original story about ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

What's the best way these days to playback an audio file (mp3/wma)*in .Net 3.5?** I need start, stop, pause and progresss information and end events. I had a google and found the managed DirectX stuff but that does not seem to work anymore AudioVideoPlayback.Audio mp3 = new AudioVideoPlayback.Audio(mySong.mp3); mp3.Play(); Throws LoaderLock exceptions and is no longer developed. So what's the new option, WPF/XNA?* Anyone got any links? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Anyone able to tell me what's wrong with this formula?: http://ms-os.com/Themes/AlmostGlass/images/icon-quote.gif OpenOffice.Org Calc wrote:=IF((B3)AND(C3)AND(D3)AND(E3)AND(F3)AND(G3)1);then_"true";otherwise_"false" I'm trying to put TRUE as the test for cells B>G but OO keeps changing it to 1. All the cells I put it in read "#name?" Man, I should get a decent office suite. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hello everyone. I wish someone would take time to read and help me with my problem. You see, I have a barcode scanner. Now, the scanner that I have has a serial port. When I connect it to the serial port on my desktop, it is working fine. The problem is, I have to do the programming part in my laptop. My laptop does not have any serial ports, so I purchased a connector that will convert it to usb. I tested the connector in the desktop, all ps/2 devices (ex. mouse) works fine. But when it comes to the barcode scanner, the computer cannot read the device. Which is weird. It can read the device when I connect it to the serial port, but it does not read the device when I connect it to the USB via a connector or converter. :( Any ideas? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Adobe releases beta of Lightroom 2.0 photo editing tool BetaNews - 1 hour ago In addition to being the first Adobe product to support 64-bit Windows Vista and OS X 10.5 (Intel), Lightroom 2.0 extends the non-destructive editing ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista notebook falls in hacker challenge Computerworld, MA - Mar 31, 2008 By Gregg Keizer Harold Fernandez says: Definitely the PC writers has a special interest to attack Windows Vista. Why the main article and title is "Windows. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi ! I have a problem with two custom controls that I want to make : *the first one is a Page derived controls, which contains a TabControl. the second one is a HeaderedContentControl, made to be contained by the first one.The purpose is to navigate to a page and directly display a tab. So, the navigation to a tab is not a problem. The problem is to have different pages with different tabs... :( I have made this classes (I just copy relevant code) : [ContentProperty("MyTabs")] public class MyPage : Page { *** public List MyTabs *** { ******* get { return (List)GetValue(MyTabsProperty); } ******* set { SetValue(MyTabsProperty, value); } *** } *** public static readonly DependencyProperty MyTabsProperty = ******* DependencyProperty.Register("MyTabs", typeof(List), typeof(FrameworkElement), new FrameworkPropertyMetadata(new List())); *** static MyPage() *** { ******* DefaultStyleKeyProperty.OverrideMetadata(typeof(MyPage), new FrameworkPropertyMetadata(typeof(MyPage))); *** } *** public MyPage() : base() { } *** public override void OnApplyTemplate() *** { ******* base.OnApplyTemplate(); ******* TabControl tabControl = GetTemplateChild("PART_TabControl") as TabControl; ******* if (tabControl != null) ******* { *********** Binding tabsBinding = new Binding(); *********** tabsBinding.Source = this.MyTabs; *********** tabControl.SetBinding(TabControl.ItemsSourceProperty, tabsBinding); ******* } *** } } public class MyTab : HeaderedContentControl { *** static MyTab() *** { ******* //DefaultStyleKeyProperty.OverrideMetadata(typeof(MyTab), new FrameworkPropertyMetadata(typeof(MyTab))); *** } *** public void Reset() *** { ******* //... *** } *** public void Compute() *** { ******* //... *** } } And, when I use this classes like this : *** ******* ******* *** ******* ******* ******* ******* ******* ******* ******* ... my two frames contain the all seven tabs. Actually, when I add a tab in MyPage1 or MyPage2, the tab is added in the MyTabs property in MyPage... I don't know how to tell WPF that the MyTabs property is different for each derived class. Somebody have an answer ? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I want to prototype a DetailView with data I manually put in my code just to demo the page. I thought I could just build a public Dataset and design the Detail View using that, but you can no longer drag-and-drop a Dataset to a form, even if you have an .xsd file. So, what I want to do is have my fields/tables in my dataset to match what WILL EVENTUALLY come from an actual database. And use this dataset to design the layout of the DetailView. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Adobe releases beta of Lightroom 2.0 photo editing tool BetaNews - 26 minutes ago In addition to being the first Adobe product to support 64-bit Windows Vista and OS X 10.5 (Intel), Lightroom 2.0 extends the non-destructive editing ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

For the Phantom Book Buyer -- thank you again for the book, here's a review. Visualising Data, Ben Fry, O’Reilly The first thing to note is that this book was not quite what I was expecting:* I was expecting a theoretical look at how to visualise data with lots of nice diagrams showing visualisations and techniques for visualisations.* That’s not what’s in the book.* The book is full of code! The books sub-title should have given me a better clue: ‘Exploring and Explaining Data with the Processing Environment’.* Note the last part ‘the Processing Environment’. The Processing Environment is actually a programming IDE and language based on Java (see http://processing.org/). Each chapter of the book consists of an extended example, talking through most of the code and adding extending the code as the chapter progresses. The book is actually based on the PhD thesis of the author, so I find it strange that is consists of a series of specific examples, with less information on the basic principles. OK, so I’ve recovered from the unexpected contents of the book.* Onwards and upwards. The first four chapters were something of a disappointment to me.* I have a science background, so I have done some data visualisation before and the basics covered here were nothing new (chapter three is basically how to draw a data plot over time).* However there were a couple of information gems buried in there amongst all the code. Chapter 5 was where is started to get interesting for me.* The initial parts of the chapter concerning screen scraping from a website were nothing thrilling if you’ve ever parsed data before, but once this part was done came the interesting bit: representing data in a novel way and animating it to display the data over time.* Hooray, finally something to grasp my interest. Chapter 6 – a scatter plot of US ZipCodes.* Yawn. Chapter 7 – Ooh! Treemaps!* Interesting again. Unfortunately, as with many places in this book, the code of interest to me (to actually create the treemap) is imported as an existing library and the example serves to show how to use the library. Chapter 8 – Graphs!* Everyone loves graphs! Don’t they?* Ok, the first part of the chapter deals with importing Java code into Processing.* Hmm.* Anyway, at least we’re drawing Graphs, perhaps we can cover some of the complicated options. At this point the book takes a turn to complexity and starts using a library called ‘anenome’ do draw some advanced graphs.* At this point, the book steps out of the Processing IDE and uses Eclipse.* This chapter feels a bit more like it. Proper programming, a proper task (analysing Apache Log files), and some data representation that I’d never seen before. Shame it was so short! Chapters 9 and 10 deal with acquiring and parsing data.* I’ve you’ve ever done anything like this before, it’s interesting to see how someone else has done it.* However, at about 20% of the page count it felt out of place in a book on visualisation. Overall I spent most of my time with this book thinking ‘I could do this in WPF! Perhaps I should start a C# library?’, *rather than being educated about data visualisation techniques. Overall score: 6/10. Summary:* too much example and not enough meat.* I would have liked to spend less time reading through specific code examples and more time on the underlying principles. If you’ve never done any data visualisation or data parsing, this book might be of use. Herbie More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Widgets 101: what it means for advertisers and marketers Bizcommunity.com, South Africa - 4 hours ago The most familiar types of widgets are Facebook applications, Windows Vista Gadgets and Google Gadgets. Essentially, they all serve the same purpose; ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I've seen it done before, but I'm not a javascript master, so any advice would help. I have a poll pop-up on a parent page. When the user submits the poll,I want the pop-up to close after the poll information is sent to theprocessing page and the parent page to redirect to the results page. Any ideas? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Installing UT3 on Windows Server 2008 Planet Unreal, CA - 6 minutes ago The Windows Server 2008 Workstation blog has a guide to help you install Unreal Tournament 3 on a Windows Server 2008 machine, getting around the installer ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Widgets 101: what it means for advertisers and marketers Bizcommunity.com, South Africa - 1 hour ago The most familiar types of widgets are Facebook applications, Windows Vista Gadgets and Google Gadgets. Essentially, they all serve the same purpose; ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Widgets 101: what it means for advertisers and marketers Bizcommunity.com, South Africa - 25 minutes ago The most familiar types of widgets are Facebook applications, Windows Vista Gadgets and Google Gadgets. Essentially, they all serve the same purpose; ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

A disease of spreading on the Intarwebs. More and more authors, mainly from a certain north-western hemisphere country have taken to using "I/we/they could care less" when they really mean "I/we/they couldn't care less" This sad state of affairs is not confined to the web, no, it also makes appearances in popular music, television, and more besides. This is a terrible affront to the English language. End it now! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

So the UK festival season is nearly upon us. Glasto is selling tickets on sunday and most other festivals are already selling their tickets. So who is going to what.** I shall be at Bestival and 02 Wireless Saturday. I think i shall skip Glasto this year, the crowds really do make it hard work and if it pours down again like last year it does become unenjoyable More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi, everyone. I found this step by step DRM demo on youtube, refers to a product called http://www.wmatomp3-converter.com/digital-media-converter.html Digital Media Converter. I think it should be used for some downloading softwares which have DRM technology like Napster, Rhapsody, limewire, iTune, bearshare....... . And if any ideas about the DRM or the relevant softwares please feel free to post it below. I need some info. thx. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

How to add new value: -before first -in the middle -at the end C# code: string[] s = new string[] {"one","three"}; How to ? -add zerro -add two -add four Thx More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds