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I think it would be cool if Visual Studio editor in a lightweight format (so augmentation of the Visual Studio Shell) launch automagically when you do view source in IE8. Thus its time for Microsoft to replace Notepad:) as an update. I think this would be awesome for the not so technically to pull up html or xml and it look approachable. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I have an application that I occasionally want to notify me when some things happen. I figured I'd use RSS, since I check my feeds regularly. However, I can't seem to figure out how to subscribe to it. If I open the XML file in IE, it simply shows me the XML, not the RSS reader. Does the file need to be served via http for IE to pick it up or something? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> WinInfo Short Takes: Week of March 31, 2008 Windows IT Pro, CO - 26 minutes ago But that will at least give me time to catch up on my writing: I'm updating Windows Vista Secrets for Service Pack 1 (SP1), IE 8, and other new Vista ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

i See now Direct X 9.22.1284** and* System Requirements Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000; Windows 2000 Advanced Server; Windows 2000 Professional Edition ; Windows 2000 Server; Windows 2000 Service Pack 2; Windows 2000 Service Pack 3; Windows 2000 Service Pack 4; Windows 98; Windows 98 Second Edition; Windows Home Server; Windows ME; Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-Bit x86); Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter Edition (32-Bit x86); Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter x64 Edition; Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition (32-Bit x86); Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition; Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition (32-bit x86); Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard x64 Edition ; Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 editions; Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1; Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2; Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 x64 Edition; Windows Server 2003 x64 editions; Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition (32-bit x86); Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition (32-bit x86); Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit x86); Windows Server 2003, Web Edition; Windows Server 2008; Windows Server 2008 Datacenter; Windows Server 2008 Datacenter without Hyper-V; Windows Server 2008 Enterprise; Windows Server 2008 Enterprise without Hyper-V; Windows Server 2008 Standard; Windows Server 2008 Standard without Hyper-V; Windows Small Business Server 2003 ; Windows Vista; Windows Vista 64-bit Editions Service Pack 1; Windows Vista Business; Windows Vista Business 64-bit edition; Windows Vista Business N; Windows Vista Enterprise; Windows Vista Enterprise 64-bit edition; Windows Vista Home Basic; Windows Vista Home Basic 64-bit edition; Windows Vista Home Basic N; Windows Vista Home Premium; Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit edition; Windows Vista Service Pack 1; Windows Vista Starter; Windows Vista Starter N; Windows Vista Ultimate; Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit edition; Windows Web Server 2008; Windows XP; Windows XP 64-bit; Windows XP Home Edition ; Windows XP Home Edition N; Windows XP Media Center Edition; Windows XP Professional Edition ; Windows XP Professional N; Windows XP Professional x64 Edition ; Windows XP Service Pack 1; Windows XP Service Pack 2; Windows XP Service Pack 3; Windows XP Starter Edition; Windows XP Tablet PC Edition * Recommended also Windows Vista ??? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsofties weigh in on Apple security news seattlepi.com Microsoft blog - 10 minutes ago It might not rise to the level of gloating, but in light of the beating that Windows Vista is taking in Apple's TV ads, it's clear that some members of ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

In my VB projects, I can add tags that VSS will update with information, including a running log of changes. Like this: ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' '' ''* PageName.vb ''* Description ''* ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' 'Source Control '$Archive:* $ '$Date:* $ '$Modtime:* $ '$Author:* $ '$Revision:* $ '$Workfile:* $ #Region " Modification History " '$Log:* $ ' #End Region How can I get the same in C# files? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I'll try to keep this short.* I have about 4 inserts I'm doing. The first insert is into a users table in a users database. The second insert is into a customers table in a billing database, that returns a customer id. The next 3 inserts are into other tables that have customerid as a foreign key. The odd thing is the first two are fine.* Which are an addresses table insert and a credit card table insert.* I pass in the customerid and it inserts fine. However, the one I'm having trouble with is a table called product subscriptions. These are all simple inserts.* The product subscriptions doesn't have anymore relationships than the others, and the relationships it does have doesn't have any relationships to the customers or other tables.* It only has a relationship to products, etc. Now, to backup, all of these are controlled by a sqltransaction ado.net object. When first debugging, I commented out hte product subscriptoins insert, and it worked fine and didn't hang. I also tried moving it up before the other two inserts, but then it hung. Also, what is odd is I did a select on all tables with no locking and the product subscriptions insert is happening, the data is there. To get it to work, I modified the relationship to NOT ENFORCE RI on inserts or updates. So, it's now working.* However, it doesn't make any sense.* The ONLY difference I can see between the product subscriptions insert and others, is that I pass in a CODE, that I then do a select on the product tables for the product id,*the other two I just pass in directly the ID. I know it's hard to debug this without anyone seeing the actual code.* I thought I'd post this to see if anyone ran across a similar problem. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Bruce Kyle of Microsoft and Stuart Celarier of CheckFree explore the new languages features in C#. It's a whirlwind tour of the important language features since C# 1. Stuart describes the feature and why it is useful. But doesn't get into best practices nor suggested usages. Just the facts about the feature. Whirlwinds are bite-sized webcasts, each is shorter than 15 minutes. You can start anywhere in the series to learn about the parts you're most interested in. Part 5 is about automatically implemented properties, type inference, and initializers. These are features that can save you tons of typing. These features are part of C# 3 in .NET 3.5. Duraton: 10:56 Other Whirlwind episodes: What's new in C# 2 Whirlwind 1 - Generics Whirlwind 2 - Iterators Whirlwind 3 - Partial types, Anonymous methods Whirlwind 4 - Accessors, Static Classes, Nullable Types http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/393414.jpg Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I'm not looking for obfuscators.. I use commercial dotfuscator and it seems to do the job that all dotfuscators do.. However, what other options are there from preventing our .net exe's being reversed? I know of solutions like: thinstall remotesoft But are there any others? I know some say to put your protected IP into native .dll's and invoke them, however if your calling .net exe is still reversable, the methods of accessing/using that .dll are still visible. Thanks. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Join Jim Mateer, a Program Manager on the .NET Micro Frakework team as he talks through the nexw (and exciting!) features in the .NET Micro Framework 2.5 release. - Mikehttp://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/393405.jpg Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

We're getting an array (from somebody elses Web Service), which may contain arrays, which we'd like to dump to a datagrid/view. Is there any easy way to do this in 3.5? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Releases Vista Update This Day (subscription), Nigeria - Mar 26, 2008 On the Windows Vista blog, Nick White, Microsoft's product manager for the software, said thoseinstalling Service Pack One (SP1) may have to download and ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Free support doesn't lead to new love for Vista SP1 SearchSecurity.com, MA - Mar 27, 2008 By Bill Brenner, Senior News Writer Microsoft is working hard to nudge customers onto the Windows Vista bandwagon, offering free support to those migrating ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Got Vista's SP1? Some people have and would rather not Guardian, UK - Mar 26, 2008 ... Windows Vista SP1." If you want the full thinking on who does and who doesn't and should and shouldn't get SP1, it's on this Microsoft Vista blog post. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Okay, I can now see why a bar or a hotel may want some of these. But what are you going to do with one in your house? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

This Week on Channel 9 with guest host Ed Kaim, we cover -* Microsoft Partners with Top Social Networks (0:50 - 2:50) - ASP.NET MVC Source available for download (2:50 - *3:50) - Silverlight version of Visual Studio Express site launches (3:50 -*5:06)* - Martin Maly whiteboards how a statement in IronPython is converted into IL and an Expression Tree (5:06 - 9:27) - Giles Thomas shows using the ResolverOne spreadsheet to call a .NET class (9:27 - 11:20) - Scott Austin discusses how Xbox Live Arcade games are enable user-generated content for things like maps (11:20 - 14:05) - James Newton-King releases JSON.NET to CodePlex a simple wrapper to serialize JavaScript classes into .NET classes (14:05 - 16:20) - Derek Bartram's Code Project WPF Wizard Dialog (16:20 - 17:49) - UI Patterns Web site, via dotnetkicks.com*(17:49 - 18:40) - Dan's Pick of the Week: Eric Hadden's Code Project wrapper for burning CD/DVD Media (18:40 - 20:00) - Ed's Pick of the Week: Silverlight Streaming Ads Pilot where you host videos for free and make money*(20:00 - 22:29) 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"> Next Windows Search to have PC-to-PC search, increased speed TG Daily - 7 minutes ago The next-gen version of the feature, Windows Search 4.0, will bring more enhancements. In a preview on Microsoft's Vista blog, product manager Nick White ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

It is according to a survey carried out by market research firm, Corebrand. http://ms-os.com/Themes/AlmostGlass/images/icon-quote.gif InfoWorld wrote: Gregory said thata decline in and of itself is not indicative that a company is losingits mindshare or reputation among customers. However, what'ssignificant in Microsoft's case is that the decline has been consistentover a number of years and has plunged dramatically in a brief time. "When you see something decline with increasing velocity, it's a concern," he said ... now I think about it, this story rings a bell; has it been posted before? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> UI guidelines: one reason the Mac shines, Windows sucks ZDNet - Mar 26, 2008 He wrote about several differences between Windows Vista and Mac OS X and the user expectations for each platform. According to Kermadec, said some new ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

.... I guess if you were determined enough, you'd find away to use body jewelry to bring down an aircraft. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Backlash over Windows Vista SP1 driver woes PC Advisor, UK - Mar 25, 2008 Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) users have slammed Microsoft on the company's own Vista blog over the requirements for downloading the update. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

OK so we are back here again... lax moderation fr a while followed by a crackdown. Charles et al I appreciate that you have better things to do but can we have consistent, reasonable, moderation? Can we have people who are banned but come back with another nme and carry on banned? I fully expect this to be locked or marked as spam. Whatever. Im done. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Yes, he's being very bad again. :@ Bad boy, bad bad bad: http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/03/message_to_brad.html More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Excerpts from "CBT ~ eLearning English" Written in Japanese PDF format CBT (This is a manual for Japanese to learn Englsih by CBT.) :) [Links to CBT and*the Utilities] *CBT ~ Computer Based Training http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=71128 CBT-Group ~ Utility for collections of CBTs http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=131222 CBT-RemoteQuickSearchService ~ Utility for Remote Search http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=208222 http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/393285.jpg Download the project More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

My C/C++ professor mentioned in class that many compilers cannot properly evaluate the expression i++ + i and some permutations of it, so I decided to test that out in Visual Studio with a small program: #include int main ( void ) { *** int i = 4; *** printf("%i", i++ + i); *** return 0; } It returns 8. It should return 9. Why does it return 8? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds