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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> UI guidelines: one reason the Mac shines, Windows sucks ZDNet - 1 hour ago 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

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Mozilla: Apple 'wrong' to push Safari to Windows PC Advisor, UK - 27 minutes ago Mozilla chief executive John Lilly has slammed Apple for including the Safari browser for Windows in its Apple Software Update. In his blog, Lilly said: ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> UI guidelines: one reason the Mac shines, Windows sucks ZDNet - 22 minutes ago 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 would like to understand what this error means. Custom tool error: Unable to import WebService/Schema. Schema item 'element' named 'ExceptionFault' from namespace 'http://webservices.server.ecers.branaghgroup.com/xsd'. The global element 'http://webservices.server.ecers.branaghgroup.com/xsd:ExceptionFault' has already been declared. The global element 'http://webservices.server.ecers.branaghgroup.com/xsd:ExceptionFault' has already been declared.* C:\Projects\CSCQIS\QISWeb\V1.0\QISWeb\Test ERS Web Service\Web References\ERSWebService\Reference.map We do not manage the web service, so I cannot change it. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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I saw this once but I lost where I saw it. There is a demo somewhere of how to make a submit button on an asp.net form disabled and then enable it when it is time for the user to click on it. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ Portal IT <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> April Release for Windows XP SP3 RTM? ADT Magazine - 22 hours ago The unspecified author of the article also claims to have broken the story about the release of Windows Vista service pack 1 RTM, which was officially ... XP Service Pack 3 remains in testing ZDNet Asia all 44 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I added a service to my project, and when it was done adding I built. I get a bunch of messages saying: The type 'Test_ERS_Web_Service.ERSDataWebService.WSObserver' already contains a definition for 'codeField'*** C:\Projects\CSCQIS\QISWeb\V1.0\QISWeb\Test ERS Web Service\Service References\ERSDataWebService\Reference.cs etc... Why does this happen? What should I do for my project to use this web service? (We did not produce it, so we can't change the service.) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ Portal IT <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> April Release for Windows XP SP3 RTM? ADT Magazine - 20 hours ago The unspecified author of the article also claims to have broken the story about the release of Windows Vista service pack 1 RTM, which was officially ... XP Service Pack 3 remains in testing ZDNet Asia all 43 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> April Release for Windows XP SP3 RTM? ADT Magazine - 17 hours ago The unspecified author of the article also claims to have broken the story about the release of Windows Vista service pack 1 RTM, which was officially ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Why people add sugar to coffee in the middle of the cup and stir round the edge??? I keep noticing it sitting here reading c9 with my coffee in the morning, I always end up with sugar unused in the bottom [C] Sorry for the rather random post, I have upgraded our production db's to sql server 2005 and the phone hasn't rung since ;) Now, my coffee... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

*I suppose it had to happen sometime: (http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=392303) Maybe a rant on the issues that following pre-release example code can create is a good thing (after all there is a delicate balance between achieving a base level of quality and just "getting something out there" ).* My concern would be that in criticising this particular 'channel' here it might have*the knock on effect of prompting*some internal criticism and, heaven forbid, then become the subject of some awful internal quality review that ends up mandating something along the lines of* 'no example code goes out from a Microsoft employee until it has passed by the quality review board'.* That would surely stifle an awful lot of goodness? Lets be careful out there. 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 4 is about accessors, static classes, and nullable types. Stuart shows how the features are similar to features in C# 1. Stuart explains how to write diferent accessors on properties. He explains the syntax of the ? that can be added to a type and the ?? operators. He shows how to determine if a value is null. These features are part of C# 2 in .NET 2.0. Duration: 9:40 Other Whirlwind episodes: what's new in C# 2 Whirlwind 1 - Generics Whirlwind 2 - Iterators Whirlwind 3 - Partial types, Anonymous methods http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/392487.jpg Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows XP may get new reprieve ZDNet Asia, Asia - 23 minutes ago Microsoft had to do some work just to get Windows XP onto the Eee PC and Vista would seem to be a non-starter. Speaking of starters, another area where XP ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

1 - New Dell XPS 720. 2 - Just tossed in my 500GB Wedstern Digital. 3 - Shows up in the BIOS in the SATA 3 slot. 4 - Shows up in Device Manager. Seems to be fine. 5 - Doesn't show up in the Disk Management. Any guesses on what to do next? Have Vista Home Premium on the computer, and the HD was last in my Windows XP box(a previous 4 year old XPS). Is it because it was formatted on another computer or something weird? p.s. All my music and backup files*from other computer is on it, so don't want to reformat it even if I had the choice. This is a fresh computer with nothing really on it yet, think a fresh install of Vista will help it see the drive? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Symantec, Windows users beset by Vista SP1 flaws ZDNet Asia, Asia - Mar 23, 2008 Microsoft released Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) to Windows Update on Tuesday. However, in the Vista team blog, Vista product manager Nick White wrote that ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista SP1 Released Through Windows Update, XP SP3 Next Up IT Jungle, NY - 25 minutes ago Users will need to install all the prerequisite updates for Vista before SP1 will take, White says. For more information, see the Windows Vista Blog. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I either want to change that name on the zune social, detach my zune social account from my Windows Live ID, or get the zune account removed, so I can create a new one with the same Live ID but another name. In preferable order.* Anyone gonna help me out? :) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Read all 'Vista Capable' posts in Beyond Binary CNET Blogs, CA - 33 minutes ago In this case, Microsoft is being sued over a program in 2006 that labeled some PCs as Windows Vista Capable ahead of the operating system's mainstream ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3192/2362675310_e0d83cf1a1.jpg8TB's....bad thing is...that's one of two I get to play around with....worse part is...this is the smallest array we have here.... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

SO when I go to request a key for Server 2008, it only gives me a volume license key for it. Ya, know how*it's one of those products at the very bottom of the page... So we can only use Volume licenses for Server 2008? How do I enter the license? The page talks about MAK files... can't I just enter the serial? http://ms-os.com/Themes/AlmostGlass/images/icon-quote.gif MSDN wrote: Volume License Key. To install specific licensed products you will need to use a Volume License Key (VLK). *This VLK is issued to your company for your exclusive use for each specific license purchase. *VLKs must be used with the appropriate Volume License media. *You agree to use your best efforts to keep a secure record of this product key including not disclosing this product key to any unauthorized third party.* You may see VLKs for older product versions; this is to support downgrade rights under the license agreement where customers can acquire the latest version of a product and use an older version. ??? :s More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

via TechCrunch via Fortune Its really important for us to understand what we can bring to the iPhone, Tom Gibbons, corporate vice president of Microsofts Specialized Devices and Applications Group, told Fortune on Monday. To the extent that Mac Office customers have functionality that they need in that environment, were actually in the process of trying to understand that now. As a side note....when did Fortune use Wordpress for their blogs? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Recorded on March 12th, 2008. In this installment of geekSpeak, Cal Schrotenboer walks us through various ways of creating animations in Silverlight. In addition to the raw XAML, Cal*shows us some interesting tips inside of Visual Studion and Expression*Blend. There are some very effective techniques illustrated here, and*can be viewed live in action by visiting the site Cal uses in the demonstrations - http://www.drinkmate.com. This show was hosted by Glen Gordon and Mithun Dhar Guest information: Cal Schrotenboer Cal is a Microsoft Visual C# developer with experience building Windows Forms application front ends for Microsoft SQL Server databases. He also teaches several programming classes at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, California, and Microsoft Network Administration (MCSE) classes at Mission College in Santa Clara. Recently Cal has been specializing in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). He has presented several MSDN webcasts on various WPF topics, and has spoken to user groups and code camps throughout California about WPF. Cal maintains a WPF blog at www.WPFLearningExperience.com. In his spare time, Cal enjoys travel and photography. For upcoming geekSpeaks, visit the geekSpeak blog. http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/392414.jpg Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi! I am Saloni Mira Rai, a program manager on the Layout team, and I’d like to walk you through the changes in Zoom for Internet Explorer 8. Zoom lets you enlarge or reduce the view of a web page to improve readability. The feature is particularly useful on really large and really small displays, allowing for scaling of content while maintaining the intended layout of the page. The second iteration of the zoom feature (first shipped in Internet Explorer 7) focuses on improving the existing experience by providing a higher quality, more predictable, and persistent zooming experience. What You Can Expect As you zoom, IE8 will size the text and images and reflow the page to make it easier to read. You will not see a horizontal scrollbar for most mainstream scenarios. It’s easier to show than explain, so here’s an example: Zooming the IE Blog to 150% in IE7 looked like this: Notice that text moves off the screen and a horizontal scrollbar appears at the bottom of the screen. http://ieblog.members.winisp.net/images/IE7Zoom.png Here is the same page zoomed to 150% in IE8 Beta 1: Text is now being wrapped and no horizontal scrollbar is needed. http://ieblog.members.winisp.net/images/IE8Zoom.png Digging In A Little Deeper NOTE: This section is for readers who want to understand the internal workings of Adaptive Zoom, and how it might affect site design. Internet Explorer 8 Adaptive Zoom is founded on the concept of scaling elements pre-layout. This is significantly different from Internet Explorer 7 Zoom behavior, which was analogous to “magnifying” the webpage – elements were scaled post layout and then re-drawn on screen. Due to this important change, horizontal scrollbars are introduced only when the fixed width of the scaled content is greater than the width of the viewport. This is exactly like resizing regular layout on an un-zoomed webpage. Also, text wrapping is affected by this change. In IE7 Zoom, line lengths and line breaks were not recalculated as the zoom factor increased / decreased. This led to situations where text lines were either too small (resulting in lots of white space) or too large (resulting in text runs that would go off the screen, requiring horizontal scrollbars). In IE8, line lengths are recalculated based on available space before the text is rendered on screen. Then, line breaks are inserted all the while taking the new lengths into account. In addition, it is important to understand how common page elements and properties respond to zoom. Fonts and text: The glyph itself is not scaled. Rather, the font size is scaled and then the appropriate glyph is used. The important thing to note is that fonts do not scale linearly by design. For example, if text at 12pt is scaled to 110%, the resulting font size is calculated as 13.2pts. However this font size does not exist, therefore it is rounded to the nearest available size – 13pt. Fixed, auto and relative sizing: Dimension scaling is one of the most important improvements in IE8’s Adaptive Zoom. Dimensions specified using absolute units (e.g.: in, cm, mm, etc) or device and font dependent units (e.g.: px, ex, em, etc) are scaled as per the zoom level. Therefore, at 200%, 100px becomes 200px and 20pt becomes 40pt. Content-dependent dimensions, i.e. percent and auto, are not scaled as they are computed during layout. Therefore, at 200%, a width of 50% of the viewport does not become 100% of the same. This is a marked change from Zoom in IE7. Positioning: Positioned elements grow and shrink like in-flow elements. However their new position is determined by the properties set, and the offsets used. An absolutely positioned element, if offset to the left by 100px, will shift towards the right when zoomed in. It is possible for it to go off screen. Similarly, floats will be positioned with respect to their container as per the normal rules of CSS. If the width of the container changes with zoom, then the position of the float will change. Zooming of adjacent floats is exactly like resizing the window – if the width of the viewport is not large enough to accommodate the floats, the last one in markup will drop to the next line. DHTML properties: In IE7 zoom, some properties were treated as physical (e.g.: mouse coordinates) while others were logical (offset). This implementation essentially required web developers to be aware of or manually calculate the zoom state based on the property being used. In IE8 zoom, all DHTML properties are now assumed to be logical. This enables some key scenarios such as fly-out menus and “drag-and-drop”. There are a few known issues, such as the incorrect scaling with screen.width and screen.height, that were not addressed in Beta 1. These will be fixed in a future release.For more details and information on the scenarios mentioned above, and additional scenarios, such as those involving overflow, tables, etc., please see the Windows Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers: Technology Overview. Getting Your Site Ready For Internet Explorer 8 Zoom Web developers should not expect to write any special code for adaptive zoom. Since all properties are logical, and scaling is purely internal, developers do not even have to be aware of zoom. If you are interested in improving your site user experience with zoom, I recommend you test your site with different zoom factors, resolutions and window dimensions. Here are some initial things to think about as you do this: At what point do horizontal scrollbars appear? Does the user need to scroll to read a single line of text? Does content quickly go off screen because of fixed sizing and positioning? Does the overflow:hidden value on any elements make content inaccessible? Do fly-out menus adapt to available screen real estate, or do options go off screen making them inaccessible to the user?Thanks for reading and I look forward to your feedback! Saloni Mira Rai Program Manager http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8334758 More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds