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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Are You Taking Advantage of Web 2.0? New York Times, United States - 26 minutes ago Another example: When Microsoft was developing Windows Vista, it actually permitted its programmers to blog about their progress. There was a security blog, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Nick White**** Link To search for files on my PCs, I use Windows Search - Windows Vista's desktop search feature. I use Windows Search specifically to find photos that I've tagged in Windows Live Photo Gallery or important emails and Word documents. I also rely on saving specific searches that I can go back to later on. Searching and being able to find important files quickly on my PC is very important to me.* And Windows Search allows me to "find my stuff" whenever I need to. Today we get to see a little "preview" of the next step for Windows Search. The Windows Search Team is making available Windows Search 4.0 Preview - a preview of the next version of desktop search for Windows. Windows Search 4.0 introduces several improvements I'd like to call out making search even better in Windows Vista: With Windows Search 4.0, the Windows Search Team has fixed most of the reported bugs causing a majority of distractions users have seen since Windows Vista RTM - many of those bugs were reported by you. Great improvements have been made with regards to performance.Even now as Preview, Windows Search 4.0 has query response time about 33%faster than search queries in Windows Vista RTM. The Windows Search Team has extended Remote Index Discovery for PC-to-PC search to work onevery supported version of Windows. This makes finding information on other PCs running Windows Search 4.0 quick and less resource-consuming. Now Windows Search can find information shared on a remote PC by accessing an index on that PC - and you will open files only when relevant to your search. This will also work if the user's profile is redirected. The Windows Search Team has implemented Rollback Recovery where your search index will roll back to the last known good state (this is good in handling disc write errors). If an error occurs, your index isn't rebuilt from scratch; only the newly changed files are added to the index, making recovery from system errors not as disruptive to the machine or the user More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I just thought - seeing as you notice when i bury obscure songs in posts sometimes - that you might like this raw footage. www.lionshare.ca/ministers.wmv * pre vultures... live.. 1989? or so. rough footage - 1 day to teach bass player (stand in) etc I never liked it - of course 19 years later- its sort of interesting - pat on drums, jono on keys - me on guitar (mike on bass) * the only reason this is news at all is that the file is 460 megs... so ive never uploaded it before. I deleted a bunch of old client job zips - so ... hense the URL ..its long... bitty... bad sound.. but its all we've got footage*wise* of that ..era. i sing Crash, Sams New Car, Parliment Hill - there is also mr rollercoaster, easy street and love is my favourite torture. ok - back to c9 let me do it! SPAM! :) spam edit: did i mention how much i love acne? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Tech vendors and analysts dragged into Vista ‘junk’ PC case CRN Australia, Australia - 1 hour ago Both subpoenas were posted Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog on the Seattle Post Intelligencer site. One of the subpoenas stated: “documents which; reflected an ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista SP1 trips on popular Intel chipset drivers Eetasia.com (subscription) - Mar 26, 2008 A user named "Zandor" said on the Vista team blog that his company successfully upgraded 614 computers to Vista SP1. "Great job, Windows team," wrote Zandor ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

What sort of cool uses are*the Zune owners enjoying? How about the must have goods? Do tell... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Banishes Its Desktop Search Demons CRN, NY - 36 minutes ago In a Thursday blog post, Windows Vista product manager Nick White said the Windows Search Team has fixed most of the reported bugs that have been causing ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://tversity.com/support/quickstart/ Woot! I was so annoyed (and still am) that there is no concept of media sharing (ala xbox 360, ps3 and WMP) in Server 2008. Apparantly this little piece of software will make me happy! I am configuring it now on my 2008 Server, I'll post my results later. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I did an assignment where I had to read in a bunch of bank records from a file, sort them and then display them. When starting it in debug mode in Microsoft Visual Studio, I had trouble specifying the file that it was supposed to read. Every time I specified it, it would tell me that the file could not be read, unless I ran the program from the command prompt, in which case, it found the file, but did not help me much. I spent a long time debugging my program by going back and forth from Visual Studio, a secure file transfer application and a Unix shell where I would compile my program in GCC and run it, looking for indications of what was wrong by examining the output of printf statements I had inserted into the code. Needless to say, I need to familiarize myself with gdb. Anyway, a few bugs caused me huge headaches. One involved a file pointer, where I was passing ofp to a function where I should have passed ifp. The other involved scanf. I ended up writing a program in Visual Studio specifically to debug my usage of the format descriptors. Here is some example code where I am trying to scan what would have been a record from a file if I had not been trying to debug the thing: char * string = "Bob Jones&12/11/1965&854367451&30082.95", * s = string; sscanf(s, "%s %[^&]s&%2i/%2i/%4i & %i & %lf", list.first, list.last, *************** &list.month, &list.day, &list.year, *************** &list.accountNumber, &list.balance); That code will properly read the first two strings and then be able to read nothing else. Here is something I wrote (which I had to modify to be able to use with file pointers) that did work: char * string = "Bob Jones&12/11/1965&854367451&30082.95", * s = string; sscanf(s, "%s %[^&]s&", list.first, list.last); while (*s++ != '&'); sscanf(s, "%2i/%2i/%4i & %i & %lf", ******* &list.month, &list.day, &list.year, ******* &list.accountNumber, &list.balance); Because of problems I was having, for the final implementation, I split the fscanf into a separate statement for each variable with additional fscanf statements to skip over characters. Even then, it was not without issues. If the string was "Bob Jones &12/11/1965&854367451&30082.95," it would store "Jones " instead of "Jones" in list.last. I modified the descriptor to be %[^& ]s, which did not make any change. I modified it to be %[^ &]s and it broke the entire thing. I eventually decided to scan it to a temporary string where it would then be rescanned to its destination. I spent a few hours working on these issues and I do not want any recurrences of it, so I plan to do a few things: 1. Learn to use gdb 2. Figure out why my program did not find the file under debug mode, but found it without a problem when I ran it through the command prompt. 3. Write my own scanf(), sscanf() and fscanf() functions. I am sure that they will make my life easier in the future. However, I have a few questions: I have a copy of The C Programming Language, by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie. Will I need any other reference materials or should this be sufficient? Would robust sscanf() and fscanf() implementations be written using parse trees or could they be written by implementing cases. Will I be violating Brian W. Kernighan's and Dennis M. Ritchie's vision for the scanf(), sscanf() and fscanf() functions if I make whitespace matter inside square brackets? Is it possible to do things in such a way that I could divert all function calls to scanf(), sscanf() and fscanf() to my own custom functions without affecting the other stdio.h functions or will I have to use different function names? If I manage to make robust implementations of scanf(), sscanf() and fscanf(), what will be my options for giving back to the community? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ CNET News.com <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> MacBook Air hacked in security contest CNET News.com, CA - 1 hour ago The team was able to gain control of a MacBook Air on the second day of the hacking competition, which pitted the Air against Windows Vista and Ubuntu ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://visitmix.com/blogs/Show%20Off/Real-Time-Physics-in-Silverlight/ Why do they not give us the URL to demo these out? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Look, title changed. You can unlock me now. See how easy that was? You could've just asked, you know. Engadget: PWN 2 OWN over: MacBook Air gets seized in 2 minutes flat *singing* edit: link doesn't want to work; here: http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/27/pwn-2-own-over-macbook-air-gets-seized-in-2-minutes-flat/ More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Michèle Leroux Bustamante is chief architect of IDesign Inc., Microsoft Regional Director for San Diego, and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Connected Systems. At IDesign, Michèle provides training, mentoring, and high-end architecture consulting services focusing on Web services, scalable and secure architecture design for Microsoft .NET, federated security scenarios, Web services, and interoperability and globalization architecture. Michele participates in software design reviews for products in the Microsoft road map, including Windows Communication Foundation, CardSpace, and other security-focused products. She is a member of the International .NET Speakers Association (INETA), a frequent conference presenter, conference chair for SD West, and is frequently published in several major technology journals. Michele is also on the board of directors for IASA (International Association of Software Architects), and a program advisor to University of California San Diego (UCSD) Extension. Her latest book is Learning WCF (O'Reilly, 2007)—see her book blog here: www.thatindigogirl.com. Reach her at mlb@idesign.net, or visit www.idesign.net and her main blog at www.dasblonde.net. In the geekSpeak, Michele discusses timely topics in ASP.NET such as extending the ASP.NET profile service by appropriately using custom HttpModules to support dynamic implementation of master pages, application localization and more.* She goes on to discuss improvements to ASP.NET like the AJAX-programming paradigm*with*asynchronous access to data, and then the ASP.NET 3.5 extensions - new MVC, new ADO.NET data services libraries. Michele gives her perspective on RIAs, including Flash, Silverlight, typical web applications and WPF (or rich client) - when to use which one from an architectural perspective. She goes on to discuss SOAP vs. REST WCF services and the evolution of the programming model from raw SOAP message construction to REST-based calls which include wrappers and then onto JSON-based WCF services.* Next she shows the the ServiceHostFactory, and the WebScriptServiceHostFactory. She then presents the ASP.NET extensions ADO.NET data services (formerly Astoria). She concludes with an interesting discussion of when to use which type of service - SOAP or REST. http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/393131.jpg Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> From the Desk of David Pogue Are You Taking Advantage of Web 2.0? New York Times, United States - 1 hour ago Another example: When Microsoft was developing Windows Vista, it actually permitted its programmers to blog about their progress. There was a security blog, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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So I picked up a copy of Vista Enterprise today and got home, installed it, and activated it. However, while reading online about it, I read that you have to activate every 180 days. Is this true? If it is, will it activate itself? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Offers Free Support for Vista SP1 CIO Today, CA - Mar 24, 2008 Meanwhile, Vista users are angrily reporting on Microsoft blogs about problems related to the update. Writing on the Windows Vista Team Blog, Richard Ingram ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Angry Vista users vent over SP1 driver issues Reseller News, New Zealand - Mar 24, 2008 Therefore, SP1 is not available to me via Windows Update," said "Fatalah" on the Vista blog. "SigmaTel was purchased by another company, and driver updates ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> From the Desk of David Pogue Are You Taking Advantage of Web 2.0? New York Times, United States - 17 minutes ago Another example: When Microsoft was developing Windows Vista, it actually permitted its programmers to blog about their progress. There was a security blog, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

When I do the call that returns a message which should include a Base64 byte array, I get these messages: {"Error in deserializing body of reply message for operation 'getObservation'."} {"There is an error in XML document (1, 878)."} {System.Collections.ListDictionaryInternal} {"Base64 sequence length (2) not valid. Must be a multiple of 4."} Could somebody shed some more light on these messages? What can I do? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi All, I've run into a problem and I thought I'd throw it open to some people more clever than I! Basically I have created my own 'ConfigKeys' object that under the hood uses a Generic List(of ConfigKey) to do the datastore. I have a vb.net UI, with a datagridview that uses my object as a datasource. My problem is that if I add a new ConfigKey to the ConfigKeys list using my object model, the datagridview doesn't show the newly added item, even if I call datagridview.refresh. Here's some pseudo VB.net code: private function doAdd() ***oUser.ConfigKeys.add(new ConfigKey("name","value") ***datagridView1.refresh() end function The wierd thing is that if I put a breakpoint on the line after the refresh() and query the oUserConfig keys count, it's correct, but the datagridgridview.rows count is 1 less. The only way I've gotten the grid to update is to disconnect the datasource and reconnect it... private function doAdd() ***oUser.ConfigKeys.add(new ConfigKey("test","key", "etc") ***datagridView1.datasource = nothing ***datagridView1.datasource = oUser.ConfigKeys() end function The grid is still definately connected to the datasource - if I change one of the config keys through the configKeys model, then the grid will show the changes. I'm guessing there's something I need to do in my object model to tell any databound items that the size of the items has changed?? Any ideas? It's been a while since I've worked on something like this. Thanks in anticipation. Richard. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Look at your tummy button or what's wrong with the blogosphere Geekzone, New Zealand - 57 minutes ago Prince on Free Microsoft Windows Vista Professional and Micr: Can i have Windows Vista plz. reply me on my E-mail id. it is prncvrm@gmail.com,... nosbus on ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hey Niners, I'm working on an article database right now, and have introduced a bit of frustration into my day when I decided to offer the web-article as on-the-fly PDF's too. The article were all stored in the database as HTML. It's ugly, trust me. So I'm deciding what I want to do with them. The HTML is all wrong also, so I do have to go through and do some clean up regardless. But I recall being told in the past that articles should never contain ANY markup or css, but if that is the case, how would you write 238Pa without using the SUP tag? Just curious how you guys would design an article database beyond simply making a field for the title, author and text :) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Look at your tummy button or what's wrong with the blogosphere Geekzone, New Zealand - 15 minutes ago Prince on Free Microsoft Windows Vista Professional and Micr: Can i have Windows Vista plz. reply me on my E-mail id. it is prncvrm@gmail.com,... nosbus on ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds