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http://ms-os.com/ Lifehacker Australia <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Create a Post-SP1 Vista Install DVD with vLite Lifehacker Australia, Australia - 1 hour ago The Digital Inspiration blog has a timely step-by-step tutorial on creating a "slipstreamed" Vista installation DVD that has all the fixes and tweaks from ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

From the wonder that is Channel 10. http://on10.net/blogs/tina/Silverlight-Rehab/ Thought I'd share it, given its brilliance. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/03/31/microsoft-to-snub-standards-compliant-mode-in-ie8 Perhaps web developers could fight against this by blocking all versions of Internet Explorer greater than version 7 from accessing their websites. That way, Internet Explorer 8 adoption will never happen and web developers will not have to implement hacks to get things to work in IE8. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Don’t expect MinWin in Windows 7 ZDNet - 37 minutes ago 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

http://ms-os.com/ Lifehacker Australia <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Create a Post-SP1 Vista Install DVD with vLite Lifehacker Australia, Australia - 4 minutes ago The Digital Inspiration blog has a timely step-by-step tutorial on creating a "slipstreamed" Vista installation DVD that has all the fixes and tweaks from ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Don’t expect MinWin in Windows 7 ZDNet - 6 minutes ago 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"> Microsoft previews desktop search update InfoWorld, CA - 34 minutes ago According to a post on Microsoft's Windows Vista Team blog, Windows Search 4.0 fixes most of the bugs "causing a majority of distractions" for Vista users, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Ok, so it's not mine, it's my schools - but it's still pretty impressive. http://www.speedtest.net/result/253164723.png More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Windows desktop computer search 33 percent faster IT Vendors Directory, Canada - 18 minutes ago According to a post on Microsoft's Windows Vista Team blog, Windows Search 4.0 fixes most of the bugs "causing a majority of distractions" for Vista users, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

So, I have precisely this problem. In that, installing virtual PC kills networking dead on Vista x64. Now I'll grant you, that problem has been reported on the connect site for the Workflow Foundation, so it's hardly the correct place. But there is no connect site for VPC now, the beta is closed. And there appears to be only a forum there anyway. It's frustrating to the point of apopletic rage, and the fact there's no feedback route, and I'm not the only person with this problem just makes the whole thing so much worse. I've always regarded MS relatively kindly, probably because of my obtuse manner of doing the exact opposite of everyone around me. But over the last few days is the closest I've come to physically damaging my PC over software problems. I'm seriously considering moving Apple. It's not just this though, at the moment I have the following issues: Vista x64 machine won't go to sleep or hibernate, by itself or when I tell it. The aforementioned VPC networking problem. Expression blend is PAINFULLY slow inside a VPC. The laptop won't resume from sleep reliably, which is even more irritating when using hybrid sleep and it turns on, stores the hibernation file and remains on until the battery dies or the end of time. (Depending on whether it's plugged in.) Anyway, I'm going to blow things up, because at least games work, most of the time. Plus numerous other things which aren't with microsoft products. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ The Tech Herald <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> CanSecWest: Vista taken down – Linux last one standing The Tech Herald, IN - 21 minutes ago The MacBook Air was the first to fall, and the second laptop to be hacked for this years contest was the Fujitsu U810 running Windows Vista Ultimate with ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I have to say that before I got my hands on VS 2008 and really sat down to write serious code, I wasn't that excited about LINQ. I thought the DB access would be great for small or one-off apps and the XML stuff was nothing new. Some of the LINQ to objects stuff looked alright but I*still wasn't that impressed. Now that I've spent some time with it, I love it. The amount of operations that we do that can be expressed as set operations (projection via Select(), filtering via Where(), grouping, etc.) is nuts. I can rewrite entire methods as one-liners that just use query clauses properly. I'm writing a World of Warcraft combat log parser at home and so far it's basically 2 lines: create a RegEx, run a query that parses the file into an object graph. Extension methods are quite nice as well. I can write Converter classes that move between our internal representations, for example Entry, to an external proxy object, Post, for returning from Web Services. The beauty is that Entry and Post have no idea about each other but I can still write thisEntry.ToPost(). I get awesome separation of objects and great syntax. Anyone else out there having a good (or bad) time with LINQ? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> LIVE EVENT: The Tower Technology Summit Dark Reading, NY - 46 minutes ago Shane Macauley from Security Objectives compromised the Windows Vista SP1 laptop with some help from Derek Callaway and Alexander Sotirov by using an ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I, like many others probably, am subscribed to Scoble on Twitter, so I constantly get messages about his where-abouts, and stuff. I'm just curious as to what people thing regarding his attractfulness now...if it's increased, or degreased with time. I mean, he left MS to go to podtech, which if I'm not mistaken isn't as financially successful as he had hoped? And now he's with "FastCompany" or something? Does it seem like his candle is fading, or am I just drifting away from its luminescence? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Betsy Hjort, principal program manager, turns the camera on Jennifer & Charles (literally!) as she tells us about her role on the Windows Server team and reflects about her tenure at the company over the last 12 years. Way back in the day Betsy was a Pascal coder, but things started to change when she got hired at Microsoft. Betsy joined the Exchange team in 1996, and in this lively interview she shares stories including how Microsoft allowed astronauts out on mission in space to have private communications with their spouses for the first time (being able to say “I love you” privately to your wife is a great example of the power of technology changing people’s lives), and how she and Bill Gates sang “Islands in the Stream” to each other (well, not really, but you gotta hear the story – it’s a classic!). This is one of Jennifer’s favorite interviews; watch it all the way through to see Charles get schooled by Betsy! It’s worth the entire 37 minutes, we promise. Low res file here. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Since I started with Continental 8 a few months back, we've been working on some interesting stuff. However, since I discovered I wouldn't be able to become an MSP properly, I kindof lost heart... but that heart is back :) I decided to do a few Expression Blend tutorials, as a way of keeping interest in the project up - because there are definately some interesting things to come. So, I hope you enjoy my first part of what will probably be a 10-15 part series. Download the PDF Here. I'll probably have Part 2 done in a couple of hours, so keep an eye out! edit: fixed link More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I have with me a 2.5" 40GB SATA HDD from a laptop. I ran Norton Ghost 2003 to clone the disk onto a 2.5" 120GB SATA HDD. The cloning operation went by without any problems, except now the volume isn't bootable. After POST the computer just sits there with a flashing/blinking underscore cursor in the top left. I've ran, in the following order: fixboot, fixmbr, bootconfig /rebuild, and fdisk /mbr ....all to no avail. Any ideas? This is kinda urgent. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> LIVE EVENT: The Tower Technology Summit Dark Reading, NY - 9 minutes ago Shane Macauley from Security Objectives compromised the Windows Vista SP1 laptop with some help from Derek Callaway and Alexander Sotirov by using an ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> • So long and thanks for all the dish InfoWorld, CA - 47 minutes ago I tried focusing on controversial topics-- evolution, terrorism, Scientology, Windows Vista -- anything to stir the pot and goose the readers. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows needs tune-ups too Peninsula On-line, Qatar - 19 hours ago “Many Windows Vista users are complaining about the miserable speed of their systems,” says Oliver Schloebe von vista-blog.de. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> • So long and thanks for all the dish InfoWorld, CA - 5 minutes ago I tried focusing on controversial topics-- evolution, terrorism, Scientology, Windows Vista -- anything to stir the pot and goose the readers. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

In a VS C# 2008 project, I've found a problem with piping console output to a file. For example, in the project settings, debug tab, start options, and command line arguments: If I try to pipe to a file like this: ExamineSTPErrorLogs > report.txt which is something that worked in VS 2005, the "> report.txt" is showing as a parameter to the console application. But the expected behavior is that this should be piped to a file. If I would have used: ExamineSTPErrorLogs ">" report.txt I would expect ">" and "report" to be used as command line parameters. Is there some kind of hack so this can be made to work correctly? Otherwise I'll have to downgrade. Upmh! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Is there a way I can keep the cursor when I Print Screen? I don't really want to install new things (SnagIt, etc.) in order to do such a simple task.. is there a way I can do it? I suppose I could just paste a picture of the cursor on top, but I have quite a lot of Screen capp'n to do, so that'd take too much time.. Thanks in advance :) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

The only BIDS d/l I can find installs VS 2005 on the PC and is crashing on Vista.* Is it possible to copy the report designer templates of BIDS for use in VS 2008?* If so, how?* Do I just copy IDE\PrivateAssemblies\Business* folders from ... Studio 8\Common7 to ... Studio 9.0\Common7? :| More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Background: Our app is C#. We're getting data from a Java app thru an Axis2 web service. We don't control the Java/Axis2 end. The WSDL declares one field as < xs : element name= "bytes" nillable="true" type="xs : base64Binary" / > which should be an array of bytes, representing a PDF. When we try to read it as ba se64Bin ary, we get an error trying to deserialize. (See this post: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=393100) If you view the service through a browser and pass valid data you get something like this: - < attachments xmlns = "http : //webservices. server.ecers.branaghgroup . com/xsd" > * 37 * 80 * 68 * 70 * 45 * 49 * 46 * 52 * 10 * 37 * -30 * -29 * -49 * -45 * 10 * 52 * 32 * 48 * 32 * 111 If I change my local WSDL to do an array of strings like this < xs : element maxOccurs="unbounded" name="bytes" nillable="true" type="xs : string" / > I get an array of strings: 37,80,68,70,45,49,46,52,10,37,-30,-29... Questions: 1) As a workaround, I'm getting the data into my app with the string method. Could I get that turned into my bytes that I could stream to a file or save in an SQL database? Encoding to byte would take 37 and give me the bytes for that string, not a byte of 37. 2) Am I getting the deserialization issue because I'm not getting 0037, 0080, 0068...? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds