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http://ms-os.com/ The Money Times <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Released The Money Times, India - 18 minutes ago "Today, you can now download Windows Vista SP1 via Windows Update," Microsoft Product Manager Nick White yesterday wrote on the company's Vista blog. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista SP1 horror stories start to appear PC Pro, UK - 17 minutes ago The Official Windows Vista blog also contains several tales of woe among the many congratulating Microsoft for a fine job. "I have installed Vista SP1 today ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Here is a chunky version of a large file copy using all async calls and CCr.* Can be modifed to any in or out stream type. Note we don't ever expect to see same number of bytes each read - so this pattern works with network streams too that often return less then number of bytes we request per read.* ******* private void button11_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) ******* { *********** DispatcherQueue dq = new DispatcherQueue(); *********** Arbiter.Activate(dq, *************** Arbiter.FromIteratorHandler(()=> CcrCopyFile(@"c:\temp\file1.exe", @"c:\temp\file2.exe"))); ******* } ******* /// ******* /// Use CCR to copy file async in 8K chunks using iterator method. ******* /// ******* IEnumerator CcrCopyFile(string inPath, string outPath) ******* { *********** var resultPort = new Port(); *********** long totCopied = 0; *********** using (FileStream fsIn = new FileStream(inPath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.Read, 8192, true)) *********** using (FileStream fsOut = new FileStream(outPath, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.None, 8192, true)) *********** { *************** byte[] buf = new byte[8192]; *************** int bytesRead = 0; *************** do *************** { ******************* // Read. ******************* IAsyncResult ar = null; ******************* fsIn.BeginRead(buf, 0, buf.Length - 1, resultPort.Post, null); ******************* yield return Arbiter.Receive(false, resultPort, (IAsyncResult ar2) => ar = ar2); ******************* bytesRead = fsIn.EndRead(ar); ******************* // Write. ******************* fsOut.BeginWrite(buf, 0, bytesRead, resultPort.Post, null); ******************* yield return Arbiter.Receive(false, resultPort, (IAsyncResult ar2) => ar = ar2); ******************* fsOut.EndWrite(ar); ******************* totCopied += bytesRead; *************** } while (bytesRead > 0); *********** } *********** Console.WriteLine("Total bytes copied:{0}\nIn:{1}\nOut:{2}", totCopied, inPath, outPath); ******* } More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft makes Vista SP1 available Crave, UK - 30 minutes ago According to Web retailer Amazon, boxed copies of Windows Vista with SP1 will be available on Wednesday in the US, and Amazon UK has the updated operating ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Vista SP1 finally a go Silicon.com, UK - 23 minutes ago Microsoft admitted on its Vista team blog that users may still experience problems with drivers. Vista product manager, Nick White, wrote: "We've completed ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Stream your favourite SA radio station live Bizcommunity.com, South Africa - 31 minutes ago Currently AmaRadio only runs on Windows 98, XP and Vista but "if there is enough interest, we will look into building other versions to support Mac and ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ CNET Blogs <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Read all 'Internet security' posts in News Blog CNET Blogs, CA - 1 hour ago Rather than rail against various kernel changes within Windows Vista as Symantec and other did last fall, Trend Micro says it wanted to work in cooperation ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft releases Vista SP1 Seattle Times, United States - 17 minutes ago ... delayed releasing SP1 to the public because of these issues, Nick White, a Microsoft product manager, wrote on the company's Windows Vista blog. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ CNET Blogs <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Read all 'Internet security' posts in News Blog CNET Blogs, CA - 22 minutes ago Rather than rail against various kernel changes within Windows Vista as Symantec and other did last fall, Trend Micro says it wanted to work in cooperation ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Last time a friend was complaining about Vista I dismissed him with "I use it over a year and I had no major problems with it". A bit latter he asked me for stuff I had on disk - "sure, I'll give it to you on usb flash key" - and here pops this well known bug - file transfer from hard disk to usb disks is /slow/ on Vista. I usually don't care for speeds but this time I cursed a bit, and assured him and myself that SP1 is supposed to fix that. Well I hoped that MS would fix this issue with Service Pack 1. Today I installed SP1 via Windows Update. Tried copying largish file (700 MB) to usb. Hmmm 5 minutes. Jumped to Ubuntu which is installed together with my Vista. Same 5 minutes. Guess a little bit more than 2 MB/s is max speed for my key. Then we go to a usage scenario that is more common with me - copying VS project folder containing dozens of smaller files. The project is actually very small (it's my hobby project), 860 KB, so I've duplicated it 4 times - now it's 3.22 MB in 188 files and 56 folders. Let's copy that. Clock stopped at 2:15. That's 135 seconds. Freaking a lot for 3 MB these days. So let's visit Ubuntu again - copied that same folder with 3 MB of files to the key, unmounted the key (Linux works a bit differently, you have to "unmount" usb key in*menus for data to be actually written). It was so quick I couldn't even measure it reliably. So I copied that folder 5 times, now I got 20 project in a folder. At this point unmounting lasted 25 seconds. As you can see this time Linux doesn't write at full 2 MB/s too, but it is far far far (and I stress the word far) ahead from windows. 5 (25/5 = 5) seconds against 135 seconds. 27 fold speed difference. I've updated second PC, the one that has Vista installed for less than two weeks and has no junk like you might suspect previous system had. 2:25. You can argue measurement was not performed reliably - remove 50% of measured time in favour to Windows and Linux still beats it heavily. I also don't do that to bash windows (go and see my previous posts, I actually hate Linux with passion), but this thing really bothers me. I will be happy if anybody can convince me I made mistake and this complete post is a pile of nonsense and if that happens I'll remove it, else the post's staying. It's high time for some execs to actually respond to this, some people inside MS have been*sitting on their asses more than a year not doing anything to fix the problem. XP performed much better, this kind of stuff gives bad name to Windows and Microsoft. Why's the*title "floppies"? http://shrani.si/f/3y/nK/1tHPPCdc/image1.png According to these two pages: http://www.pcguide.com/ref/fdd/confSpeed-c.html, http://www.usbyte.com/common/floppy_disk.htm* copying to floppies*would actually work better for me*- on Windows 3.1*most common 1.44 MB*diskette works at 60 KB/s... sorry... :| More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista plaintiffs respond to Microsoft appeal Seattle Post Intelligencer - 1 hour ago In a court filing today, plaintiffs in the "Windows Vista Capable" lawsuit formally opposed Microsoft's attempt request for an appeals court to review the ... Dancing Dogaholic! Seattle Post Intelligencer all 103 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

If you frequent the forums regularly or pay attention to other peoples threads I imagine we'll start seeing it. I might be wrong for saying this...but yay for laziness! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ Wired News <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> First Major Vista Update Released to Windows Users Wired News - 24 minutes ago Microsoft's Nick White offers a lengthy overview of SP1 on the Windows Vista team blog, including the driver issues mentioned above and further details ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ CNET.com.au <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft releases Windows Vista SP1 CNET.com.au, Australia - 35 minutes ago Microsoft admitted on its Vista team blog that users may still experience problems with drivers. "We've completed our analysis and are happy to report that ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Vista SP1 officially available InfoWorld, CA - 28 minutes ago There could be several reasons for that, according to the Windows Vista blog. For example, users of an earlier version of SP1 must first uninstall the older ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Weird, wild, wonderful Windows "Workstation" 2008 InfoWorld, CA - 2 hours ago ... Desktop blog, I made the switch myself about two weeks ago. What I found was an OS that boots quicker and feels more responsive than Windows Vista. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

OK, this must be a very very simple question for ASP programmers to answer. After I have gathered all the information I want from the user and after the user has clicked on a submit button, how do I make an operating system style call on the server. Now, I have already figured out how to create a function call in the ASP development environment that is called when the user clicks on the submit button. So my qesttion is to how to create a system level command through ASP. Specifically, I am using ASP.NET.* Let me explain further.* I have just completed a program that is very simular to the #3 AJAX demo that Joe Strgner has made on http://asp.net/learn/ajax-videos/ where he gets users to select from a group of "CascadingDropDown" control extender classes.* When the user has selected from the third drop down control, a label is custom formatted and displays the group of selected options. What I want to do is this.* After this is done, I want to have a "submit" button on this page which, when the user presses it, a call is made on the server side that will include the users selections as parameters. Something like this, for example: "CALL SOMEPROGRAM.EXE " selection_1, selection_2 I need to have some information specific to the user included in the submit. We are on an intranet and each user has an alias.* How do I snag this information? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> It's Here: Vista Service ... InternetNews.com - 30 minutes ago ... can now download Windows Vista SP1 via Windows Update," said Nick White, Vista's product manager, in a posting on Microsoft's Windows Vista Team Blog. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Details: How Microsoft is rolling out Vista SP1 Seattle Post Intelligencer - 25 minutes ago See details in this post on the Windows Vista Team Blog. The download is smaller through Windows Update -- 65 megabytes, compared with about 435 megabytes ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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Many commonly used applications and Windows system components depend on the MSIE WebBrowser control to render webpages from within their program. Unlike live sites, pages loaded within these controls are typically static resources stored in libraries and executables on a system. While webmasters can easily alter their site to render properly in the new version of IE, many software vendors do not have the resources to instantly push out new versions of their applications with updated internal pages. In order to ensure that these existing applications remain in working order, IE8 renders pages running within instances of the WebBrowser control in IE7 Standards Mode by default. Per-Application WebBrowser Control Rendering Settings http://ieblog.members.winisp.net/images/MSIE7.png The test container shown above uses the IE7 Standards Mode run by default within WebBrowser control containers. While this mode works well with existing applications, developers building new applications may want to use the new IE8 Standards rendering mode as shown below. http://ieblog.members.winisp.net/images/MSIE8.png When an executable loads an instance of the WebBrowser control it scans the registry to check whether the executable wants IE7 Standards or IE8 Standards mode. To run a WebBrowser control in IE7 Standards Mode, insert the following values into the registry: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_NATIVE_DOCUMENT_MODE] "MyApplication.exe"=dword:11170 To run in IE8 Standards Mode insert the following registry value: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_NATIVE_DOCUMENT_MODE] "MyApplication.exe"=dword:13880 In both of these instances, MyApplication.exe should be replaced with the name of the executable that will be running WebBrowser controls in a specified mode. User-Agent String and WebBrowser Quirks Mode Rendering Issues http://ieblog.members.winisp.net/images/MSIE5.png Specification of an IE rendering mode also applies to IE5 Quirks Mode. To run instances of a WebBrowser control in IE5 Quirks Mode, insert the following value into the registry: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_NATIVE_DOCUMENT_MODE] "MyApplication.exe"=dword:C350 Due to a known bug in the IE8 Beta 1 build, the User-Agent String returned by the browser instance will state that it is “MSIE 8.0” (as shown in the screenshot above). Knowledge Base Article 183412 provides a workaround for this scenario. IE Version Targeting and WebBrowser Rendering Modes http://ieblog.members.winisp.net/images/MSIE7.2.png As with webpages displayed in an IE window, pages hosted in a WebBrowser control can also override rendering settings by using the X-UA-Compatible meta tag to specify a rendering mode. For more information on formatting and values for the version targeting META tag see Scott Dickens’ latest post here. Matthew David Crowley Program Manager Internet Explorer Extensibility http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8299859 More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Amazon's right on Vista SP1 CNET News.com, CA - 27 minutes ago "Initially, we targeted April as a conservative estimate for Windows Vista SP1 retail availability for full packaged product," Microsoft said in a new ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft releases Windows Vista SP1 Builder AU, Australia - 31 minutes ago Microsoft admitted on its Vista team blog that users may still experience problems with drivers. "We've completed our analysis and are happy to report that ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista SP1 officially available Computerworld New Zealand, New Zealand - 7 minutes ago There could be several reasons for that, according to the Windows Vista blog. For example, users of an earlier version of SP1 must first uninstall the older ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Why won’t Service Pack 1 for Vista install? Techlogg.com, Australia - 3 minutes ago According to the Windows Vista blog, you can either check your Windows Update tool and start downloading SP1 now or you can wait until mid-April when the ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds