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With the .NET Framework 2.0, Microsoft introduced the WebBrowser control, a managed code wrapper for the WebBrowser ActiveX control. Unfortunately, compared to the ActiveX version, the .NET version of the control lacks some functionality. You can navigate websites, local HTML documents and folder locations using respective protocol handler prefixes ("http://", "file://"). What you cannot do with the .NET WebBrowser control is navigate special folders like "My Computer" or the control panel, as these folders are not identified by a path but by CSIDLs. So my goal was to extend the existing WebBrowser class to provide this ability. I put together a small sample project to demonstrate the capabilities of my WebBrowserExt control. This is a Visual Studio 2008 project, so you need at least the free Visual C# 2008 Express Edition to open it. See my original blogpost for more info or just try out the sample. Greetings AndreasMhttp://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/392003.jpg Download the project More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Implements the Koch Snowflake fractal, inner edge (Left), outer edge (Right) and complete (Full). Complete represents all the possible combinations of left and right combined (to within a finite resolution). Examining closely you can deduce that the snowflake pattern repeats itself to an infinitely small point in the center. Enjoyhttp://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/391993.jpg More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft brand sinks in this survey Seattle Times, United States - 2 hours ago ... include a hangover from Microsoft's antitrust battles, security lapses in Windows XP, and delays and underwhelming response to Windows Vista. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Software Notebook: Microsoft's Ultimate Extras overhyped, users ... - Seattle Post In <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Software Notebook: Microsoft's Ultimate Extras overhyped, users ... Seattle Post Intelligencer - 1 hour ago The saga started more than a year ago, a few weeks before Windows Vista's retail launch. During Bill Gates' speech at the Consumer Electronics Show in ... 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. In Part 3, Stuart describes partial classes and anonymous methods. He describes why you'd use them and the syntax of each language feature. This features is part of C# 2 in .NET 2.0. For more information about the language features of C# 2, see Stuart's blog at VisualStuart.NET For up-to-date information for developers, see the blog for US ISVs. Duration: 5:46 Other Whirlwind episodes Whirlwind 1 - Generics Whirlwind 2 - Iterators http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/391977.jpg Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Software Notebook: Microsoft's Ultimate Extras overhyped, users ... - Seattle Post In <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Software Notebook: Microsoft's Ultimate Extras overhyped, users ... Seattle Post Intelligencer - 26 minutes ago The saga started more than a year ago, a few weeks before Windows Vista's retail launch. During Bill Gates' speech at the Consumer Electronics Show in ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

A question for other Terry Pratchet fans in the UK, should I be upset that I have Virgin and not Sky and hence did not get to see the Colour of Magic today?* :) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

What if Xbox 360 supported Remote Desktop?* How awesome would that be?* Maybe if the Xbox could also handle USB keyboards and mice too...* It would look great for Xbox, "all of the features of the desktop computer on your TV!"* It would also encourage people to upgrade from the standard Vista Home Premium to Vista Ultimate in order to take advantage of the feature. This just sounds like a great feature to me.* I want it anyway.* What do you guys think? :) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I'm trying to understand what Don Box talks about in this lang.net talk 3-07 - Modeling and Languages - Don Box http://langnetsymposium.com/talks.asp The talk is about representation independence (oxymoron?), declarative forms and abstractions. It has a historic point of view, showing how abstraction has been applied. But he is careful not to really talk about anything concrete with respect to what Microsoft is doing now. The talk is done in a slideshow driven by a domain-specific XAML for slideshows transformed into a WPF model. That in and of itself is nothing special, it's a bit like XSLT+XML => HTML+CSS. To me the talk has a certain "Intentional" smell to it. I'm guessing we may finally see Microsoft move towards a model where we have domain-specific representations, domain-specific presentations and domain-specific input models. The "two beers" test is not passed because the slideshow is encoded in a CLR specific XML dialect (XAML). If there was a DSL editor for it, it would be, not to say idiotproof, but domain-proof, and with all noise absent. I really really hope that is the case. Could WPF play a role here, or is there some new UI framework underway... He also talks about search. That leads more towards a type-aware filesystem. It's like "I really really want to tell you about this, but here's some vague headlines to get your attention". :-) So I see - models - model representations - model presentations (visual representations) - model interactions - model-based filesystems - model-based search Oppinions? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi, Will installing the latest ctp of sql 2008 mess up my 2005 installation and will it come off cleanly? Its my own machine but would rather not have to reinstall it. I know, I know virtual machines are safer but not sure I can be bothered. Alex More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Now you too can own your own Osama Bin Laden lego mini fugure: http://www.brickarms.com/Images2/Products/BA_Bandit_Gray_Gallery_1.jpg Linkage How cool is that?! :D More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

When I began the programming for http://www.sceptermarkeingtechnologies.com, I quickly noticed that Asp.net does not support the MessageBox class that I was familiar with in windows forms. SinceAsp.net runs on the server it doesn't have access to produce a modaldialog box on the client. However, by using a scripting language thatruns in the clients browser a similar construct is available. Injavascript the window.alert() function will produce a modal dialogsimilar to what you would expect from MessageBox in windows forms. So,I decided to create a static class MessageBox with a static methodShow(), which will give you the ablility to to still use the syntaxMessageBox.Show("Your Message"); and then convert it into thejavascript window.alert("Your Message"); and add the script to the endof the current response stream. I've written a how to on my blog at: http://sceptermt.blogspot.com/2008/02/how-to-create-message-box-class-in-c.html that shows the source code that I used in C# for my web application and details on how it works. Youcould also write overloads for the static show() method to allow theclass to do a javascript confirm() or a prompt(). I haven't needed thatfunctionality yet so I've just kept it simple. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hmmh, how can I license project under GPLv3 on CodePlex? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

What's going on with the Feeds and the Forums on channel 10? It looks quite nice actually... :s More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Not sure if it's possible to implement this in some future version of C9, but I just realized that it would be convenient if there was a button that would split a quote at the current cursor position. Right now, you have to manually insert

I'm implementing a specification to send and receive data from an external device. The 'lowest' layer which accepts a byte array is done but I'm having trouble converting all the variables from the upper layer to a byte array. For example, there is an integer field that is 4 bits long. Let's say I have the following variables: varone(2) as byte vartwo as byte varthree(4) as bitarray 'an integer field varfour(3) as byte varfive as byte varsix(4) as bitarray 'a second integer field How do I take all these variables together (preserving the sequence) to a single byte array? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

So, another day, another patent uncovered by Long. Basically the gist of it is that Plug & Play devices come with a bit of flash memory onboard, which contains the most recent drivers when the device shipped. Plug in the device, and the OS automatically finds and installs the drivers itself, without the need to use the install CD or download the drivers. What's more, if new drivers are found online, they are downloaded to the onboard flash memory, so that the device always carries the latest drivers in case you take it to another PC. I think it's a great idea, and I've always felt that the drivers should come embedded in the device itself, because the whole "Windows comes with a heapload of drivers for all sorts of devices" thing fails as soon as you buy a device built after the OS was released. Two things that worry me, though.. First of all, the patent mentions "additional software." This terrifies me, because I can't stand custom software for WiFi adapters or bizarrely translated custom printer dialogs. Usually when I download a driver, I try to grab only the driver from the install package, because I don't want the bundled software that does something that can already be done natively in Windows. If the device installs this software automatically, then that won't make me happy. It'll become an outright disaster if devices start shipping with a self-installing Google Toolbar. Secondly, the whole success of this thing hinges on adoption by hardware manufacturers. Like the whole WEI thing. Which isn't getting picked up by anyone I've seen so far. Or take 64 bit drivers. I mean, Microsoft doesn't even ship 64 bit drivers for some devices. For some reason, hardware manufacturers seem to refuse to ever adopt good ideas. The success of this idea hinges for a large part on them, and past experience doesn't paint too rosy a picture, IMHO. Your thoughts? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

It is possible to showthe Preview Panel and the Details Panel in Explorer ? In Vista you canactivate them from Organize->Layout menu, but in Sever 2008 thisoptions don't appear, even after installing the Desktop Experiencepackage. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Okay, so I am trying to create a drawing program in WPF using InkCanvas and a couple of buttons to open up self-created tool windows to change properties of the pen. So far I've tried to make a (single) button in my WindowPenTools change the pen size from the default to a larger size.* So far, the only things that I can access in WindowMain are the events, and when I do type in the control name (which does not appear in Intellisense,) WindowMain.InkCanvas1, I see "Reference to a non-shared member requires an object reference." So I searched for a while and came across this: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa289529(VS.71).aspx In Windows Forms, I did not have to do this (as far as I can remember,) It just worked.* And this is Visual Basic 2008 with .NET 3.5. So does this mean for every window that I want to able to change properties in, I would have to have 30+ lines of code in each form, even to open a window? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I have an application that already has a few versions out there. Often, when users request a new feature, it necessitates a few ne fields, or maybe a new table in the database. What would you guys suggest as the best way for me to update the schemas of the databases that are already out there? At the moment, I have a fairly big list of sql statements that I run in the setup file, one for each time I have updated the schema. Is there a better way to do this? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

If I have a database (SQL) with identical schemas on two seperate computers, how can I clone the contents of certain tables? I already have a mechanism (in WCF) whereby I can send text between the computers. Currently I have a fairly clumsy mechanism where the data is all loaded into a dataset, the XML of that dataset is sent over to the other machine, and then a fairly long parsing routine builds sql statements that re-insert the data on the other machine. The key here is that the primary keys of the tables cannot be changed, they must be the same on both machines. I bow to your superior knowledge for guidance... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Upgrade to Vista, Office 2007 and Server 2008? IT World Canada Blogs, Canada - 22 minutes ago However, when I ask about plans to upgrade workstations to Windows Vista and Office 2007, I usually get a strange glare as if I had lobsters crawling out of ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

For all of you who are celebrating: happy easter! Enjoy the few days of relaxment :D http://www.liensberger.it/misc/images/easterbuddies.jpg More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista SP1 Chokes On Widely Used Intel Chipset Drivers InformationWeek, NY - Mar 20, 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 in your opinion is the best ASP.net charting component in a good balance of cost and functionality? Needs an affordable royalty free distribution e.g. $1000 ish. I am using infragistics at the mo*which isnt bad. Dudas looks excellent but royalty free licence is just too much for my smaller projects. Component art renders really nicely but the documentation is a bit lacking as soon as you want to do non basic tasks. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds