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I'm trying to implement a factory method in our application. Do you thing that this kind of implementation is a good one ? class Person { public: ***Person(PersonData personData); ***... private: ***int m_identifier; ***std::string m_name; }; class Employee : public Person { public: ***Employee(PersonData personData); ***... private: ***float m_hourlyWage; }; class Boss : public Person { public: ***Boss(PersonData personData); ***... private: ***float m_annualSalary; ***float m_bonus; }; struct PersonData { ***int type; ***int identifier; ***std::string name; ***float hourlyWage; ***float annualSalary; ***float bonus; }; class Factory { public: ***static Person* CreatePerson(PersonData personData); }; Person* Factory::CreatePerson(PersonData personData) { ***switch (personData.type) ***{ ******case PersonType_Employee:* *********return new Employee(personData); *********break; ******case PersonType_Boss:* *********return new Boss(personData); *********break; *** ******default: *********throw std::invalid_argument("..."); *********break; ***} } More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I just read an aritcle on the future of File systems wit ZFS, does anyone know what's going on with WinFS now? I haven't really*heard anything since they dropped it out of Vista. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

and no, internet old-hands, this has nothing to do with ye-anciente Temple Ov Thee Lemur memes crossing thingamy. I just find it strange when parts of the internet I know interact; such as our dear own Barry getting mentioned on Kim Cameron's Blog, should have expected that sooner or later, given there appear to be about 5 people using Cardspace out there. Or Rory getting mentioned on Fake Steve's blog. I wonder if there's a service out there to trawl my feeds and favourites and find cross references? Hmmm... Now there's an idea for a way to burn VC cash if ever I heard one. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista in eclipse InfoWorld, CA - 2 minutes ago Randy also takes us a step further into an alternative he calls the "Weird, wild, wonderful Windows 'Workstation' 2008." Faithful readers of Randy's blog ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Death match: Windows Vista versus XP InfoWorld, CA - 39 minutes ago Point by point and blow by blow, we offer 10 reasons enterprises can skip Windows Vista and stick with XP By Randall C. Kennedy So there you are, ... 100000 customers tell Microsoft to save XP InfoWorld all 3 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> More annoying Microsoft Outlook errors Geekzone, New Zealand - 43 minutes ago Removed Xobni, disabled Avast Excchange add-in, disabled the search indexed - hey Windows Vista Search is a great feature, but the whole PC crawls to a halt ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista Service Pack One Almost Here Slashdot - 1 hour ago Reverend Ninja writes "According to the Windows Vista team blog, Windows Vista SP1 has been released to manufacturing. It appears we'll have to wait until ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista Service Pack One Almost Here Slashdot - 34 minutes ago Reverend Ninja writes "According to the Windows Vista team blog, Windows Vista SP1 has been released to manufacturing. It appears we'll have to wait until ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Is 7 is being developed "primarily" in India ? or is this a diversion to eliminate leaks as was the case so many times with Vista. So much negativity from inside the Redmond compound it caused allot of turmoil as we all know. 10-12 hour work days, seven days a week the last few months getting Vista completed was ridiculous. Developers afraid to talk in fear of losing their jobs. Whats up at this point or is it still too early to tell. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi all, new here and a realative newbie to some things I'm learning in VS2008 and .NET. After finding that a wcf service I wrote wouldn;t run when I deployed it to my web site (was fine on my development system) I decided to try*a most trivial example of a method that returns a string.* Still wouldn't run when deployed to web. Wondering if it had something to do with credientials, I changed wsHttpBindings to basicHttpBindings.* Same result.* Then I*implemented a custom validator class, and on my machine it is using that valiator fine, using UserName as clientCredentialType, and the service behaves as I woudl predict.* But I am getting one exception all the time from the web-deployed channel... 999 No hacking. What's weird, searches on web give me not one reference to that error.* The stack trace in this present incarnation, using a custom validator, basicHttpBindings etc is simply... at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse() ** at System.ServiceModel.Channels.HttpChannelFactory.HttpRequestChannel.HttpChannelRequest.WaitForReply(TimeSpan timeout) Can anyone suggest possible reasons*that services running fine on my devleopment system are continually throwing this error when deployed to web? By the way, the means I am using of testing is a simple form, the code something like.. ---- Private client As New ServiceReference2.Service1Client Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Try 'client.InnerChannel.Open() client.ClientCredentials.UserName.UserName = "blahblah" client.ClientCredentials.UserName.Password = "etcetc" Me.Label1.Text = client.GetData(1) Catch ex As Exception End Try ----- The name and password are handled by my custom validator, and on my development system this is defintely working OK.* Any pointers to possibilities greatly appreciated. David More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

In this latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Leo and Paul discuss the Windows Server 2008 launch event, the iPhone 2.0 software update roadmap, MIX'08, and the Beatles! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Leo and Paul discuss Vista Capable, Windows Home Server bugs, Vista-compatible Windows Media Extenders, Celio RedFly, and Firefox 3 Beta 4! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://i32.tinypic.com/2d1sajd.jpg I have always known that many coin Op*have** PC architecture, as I knew also that the operating system was Windows XP.But I did not know that Street Fighter IV (that one of which it is felt to speak so much) is based on the architecture Taito Type X2 http://i28.tinypic.com/25q5gsx.jpg http://i32.tinypic.com/dvmuyq.jpg That is.. OS: Microsoft Windows XP Embedded SP2 [2] CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6400Pentium 4 651Celeron D 352 (up to latest Core 2 CPUs supported by the chipset) Chipset: Intel Q965 + ICH8 Monitor: 720p/1080p/1440p HD LCD Monitor RAM: DDR2 667/800MHz (512MB/1GB, up to 4GB) GPU: PCI Express x16-based graphics. Support cards include ATI RADEON X1600Pro/X1300LE or nVIDIA GeForce 7900GS7600GS7300GS, up to latest graphic cards (Radeon HD 3800 or Geforce 9800 series) Sound: Onboard Realtek HD 7.1 channel Sound (supports add-in sound cards) LAN: 10/100/1000 BASE-T I/O ports: 1x JVS, 4x USB 2.0 (up to 8), 1x serial (max 2), 1x parallel port, 2x PS/2, 2x SATA Audio inputs: AKG C535EB Stage Microphone, line-in (Surround 7.1) Audio outputs: 7.1, SPDI/FX Expansion Slots: 1x PCI Express x16 (used by video card), 1x PCI Express x4, 2x PCI Storage: 2x 80 GB 10k RPM SATA Hard Drives Media: 80 GB 10000 rpm Hard Drive in theory we could have the titles them before whichever Console. Other game Chaos Breaker (2004) Dinomax (2006) Datacarddass Dragon Ball Z (2005) Giga Wing Generations (2004) Harakari Professional Baseball (2005) Homura (2005) Raiden III (2005) Raiden IV (2006) Shikigami no shiro III (2006) Spica Adventure (2005) Taisen Hot Gimmick 5 (2005) Taisen Hot Gimmick Party (2005) Tetris The Grand Master 3: Terror Instinct (2005) The King of Fighters '98 Ultimate Match (2008) Usagi -Wild Fight- Online (2005) Zoids Card Colosseum (2005) Zoids Infinity EX (2005) Zoids Infinity EX Plus (2006) Taito Type X+ games Battle Gear 4 (2005) Battle Gear 4 Tuned (2006) Half-Life 2: Survivor (2006) Taito Type X2 games Aquarian Age Alternative (2006) Battle Fantasia (2006) BlazBlue (2008) Chase H.Q. 2 (2007) D1GP Arcade (2007) Eternal Wheel (2007) KOF Maximum Impact Regulation A (2007) KOF Maximum Impact Regulation A 2 (2008) Samurai Shodown: Edge of Destiny (2008) Street Fighter IV (2008) The King of Fighters XII (2008) Trouble Witches AC (2008) Link to Wikipedia More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Buys Desktop Virtualization Firm Kidaro PC World - Mar 13, 2008 Microsoft expects that the software will help accelerate migration to Windows Vista because it can minimize compatibility issues between applications and ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Ex Microsoft security team member explains how to hack Windows Vista DaniWeb, VA - 46 minutes ago Obviously there are problems as detailed in a DaniWeb blog posting last month which described how hackers can exploit hardware RFID weaknesses to access ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=61088 * Candidate answered cell phone and asked the interviewer to leave her own office because it was a "private" conversation. * Candidate told the interviewer he wouldn’t be able to stay withthe job long because he thought he might get an inheritance if hisuncle died - and his uncle wasn’t "looking too good" * Candidate asked the interviewer for a ride home after the interview. * Candidate smelled his armpits on the way to the interview room. * Candidate said she could not provide a writing sample becauseall of her writing had been for the CIA and it was "classified" * Candidate told the interviewer he was fired for beating up his last boss. * When applicant was offered food before the interview, hedeclined saying he didn’t want to line his stomach with grease beforegoing out drinking. * A candidate for an accounting position said she was a "people person" not a "numbers person" * Candidate flushed the toilet while talking to interviewer during phone interview. * Candidate took out a hair brush and brushed her hair. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I just had a very fustrating conversation with some Indian guy, which fustrated me some more because I kept having to ask what he just said. All that stuff aside, I'm going to tell you just why you should never touch TalkTalk with a barge pole, or two/three tied together, ever again. Well, sometime between the 1st and 8th of March (ish) I went over my "unlimited" (oh, fair usage) network cap of 40GB downloads. However, I was willing to wait for my next bill, at which time I presumed the cap would be reset. I get my bill on the 8th of every month. When it wasn't reset, I phoned TalkTalk, jumped through every hoop like 3 times as I was directed from number-to-number before I got to a remotely helpful guy that told me the cap was reset every calendar month, rather than billing month. Pathetic. So basically, if I'm at 39.9GB on Feb 29th, and I go to 40GB on the 1st, then I'm screwed for the whole of March. Never mind that's flawed. Pathetic.. unfortunately I'm tied into an 18 month contract. ...and snails pace internet for the next month. Might try shouting down the phone line later :P Keep awaaaay from TalkTalk Never mind, it would appear I was blinded by anger :P More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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Usually behind the camera, Michael Scherotter*sat down with Hip Hop icon Ice Cube at South by Southwest before he was scheduled to perform at a free live concert streamed to his new UVNTV.com site using Silverlight for high-quality video.* Michael asked*Cube questions about the intersection of technology with music, hip-hop and celebrity. Here are some highlights: 1:00 Starting out in rap 2:30 What tech Ice Cube uses 3:12 How technology impacts music and film 5:23 Maintaining a 20-year career in hip-hop 6:53 Technology and being a celebrity 9:05 Possibilities of direct-to-web contect on UVNTV.com 10:10 How hip-hop will change the web? 12:14 Cube's Vison for UVNTV.com 13:09 Hip-hop's global reach 14:14 Gangsta Rap Made Me Do it Video and a surprise for Cube 16:40 Video and music quality on the web and Silverlight 17:50 Why artists should be on UVNTV.com in addition to MySpace 19:50 What Cube's listening to now Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

(I hope that I've picked the correct forum to ask this question about digital broadcasting and TV tuners in PCs.* If I've chosen the wrong forum, please forgive me.) We don't have cable or satellite TV. We've been seeing all of these ads on TV talking about the change to digital broadcasting for over-the-air broadcasting starting in February 2009. We've got 1 small digital TV and I've purchased a digital TV receiving antenna for it. And I've also purchased a Hauppauge TV Tuner for my PC and a digital TV antenna for it as well. Both of these digital TV antennas are indoor receivers, and are in different places in my house. However, the reception is poor at best for some channels and is downright abysmal for others. I am wondering if it is because of where I live, or if the current state of digital broadcasting in*our area is very poor?* Or if it could be something else.* (I think I've got an adequate video card, so I don't think that is the issue.) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Microsoft is releasing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 on March 19 through Windows Update according Amazon. Amazon lists Vista SP1 retail copies as becoming available next Wednesday, March 19. This should be good news as a wider audience would be able to install Service Pack 1. Tags: Microsoft, Vista, WindowsShare This More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

By now you've probably heard the Buzz about Silverlight Deep Zoom.* Now figure out how to code it yourself! This video will walk you step by step through everything you need to know about DeepZoom. - What it is - Where to get the software and tools to code in it - Whas been updated in Silverlight 2.0 project styles compared to 1.1 - How to use DeepZoom Composer to create your own content - How to code in panning and zooming - And finally create your own cool application using both Deep Zoom and other media elements Enjoy! Thanks, Dave "DaveDev" Isbitski http://blogs.msdn.com/davedev Come join your peers and check us out on Facebook today!http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/390395.jpg Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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