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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Live FolderShare Gets Updated (ish) LiveSide - 16 minutes ago A new FolderShare with a better setup, a better system tray menu, and better performance on Windows Vista. • Improvements on the backend to keep FolderShare ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft petitions to pause "Vista capable" lawsuit NetworkWorld.com, MA - 36 minutes ago There's a new twist in the "Windows Vista Capable" lawsuit that brought us all those behind-the-scenes e-mails last week: Microsoft has petitioned a federal ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Watch a recap of the top news and events going on at Mix '08 from Dan, Brian, and our cameraman Clint Rutkas. This week's show includes: 1. Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 highlights including Offline support for IE 8, and Activities 2. How NBC plans to revolutionize video using Silverlight for the Olympics 3. Richard Campbell, Carl Franklin and Steven Forte give their impressions on the Ray Ozzie/Scott Guthrie keynote 4. Our favorite moments Guy Kawasaki's interview with Steve Ballmer including Steve playing with Guy's Macbook Air and a shout-out to "WEB DEVELOPERS!" 5. Chris Auld showing off a prototype of an Open XML document viewer built in Silverlight 6.*Tim Heuer and Jason Mauer show off their mobile crib as they start their Code Trip 7. Outtakes of RDs imitating each other including Scott Hanselman doing Billy Hollis, Billy Hollis doing an impression of Scott Hanselman, Carl Franklin doing Billy Hollis, Billy Hollis doing Billy Hollis, Carl Franklin doing Scott Hanselman and of course Scott Hanselman doing Scott Hanselman. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

March edition. "End Bracket": "In no way does Microsoft or the .NET community have a monopoly on good software design" Now waiting for hell to freeze over, or MSDN editor to get fired. At this stage, I'm really not sure which is more likely! * And in other news, Eric Meyer's "CSS Sculptor" for Expression Web has been released by Microsoft details here. According to Eric's blog this was announced at MIX on Wednesday. Curious thing is that nobody I know who was*at MIX*heard anything about it. Guess it somehow slipped through the cracks. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> The Wal-Mart Weekly: Checking out the retailer's unfiltered blog BloggingStocks - Mar 8, 2008 s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows Vista a good tongue lashing, stating this about the world's largest software company's popular computer operating system: "Is it ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft: No Delay for Windows Vista CRN, NY - Mar 7, 2008 ... Corp. clarified earlier statements and said that the release for Windows Vista SP1 release has not delayed, according to a company blog posting. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft relaxed Vista virtualization rules to quash antitrust ... Computerworld, MA - 26 minutes ago In a post to the Vista team blog that day, Shanen Boettcher, general manager of Windows product management, had mentioned the new rules only in passing, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft relaxed Vista virtualization rules to quash antitrust ... Computerworld, MA - 1 hour ago In a post to the Vista team blog that day, Shanen Boettcher, general manager of Windows product management, had mentioned the new rules only in passing, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Live Foldershare refresh live - but it was before Geekzone, New Zealand - 58 minutes ago The PC client has been updated as well - which means fuill Windows Vista support now. Other than that I wonder if the 10000 file limit per sync pair is ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> IE8 Balks at Windows Update PC World - 9 minutes ago Users were understandably confused when IE8 refused to call up Windows Update. "After updating my IE7 to IE8 today, I tried to update my Windows Vista by ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft relaxed Vista virtualization rules to quash antitrust ... Computerworld, MA - 34 minutes ago In a post to the Vista team blog that day, Shanen Boettcher, general manager of Windows product management, had mentioned the new rules only in passing, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

So I booted up my trusty M4 just like any other day, only to find the display full of artifacts or garbled text characters. Not Good. Especially after just under 2 years' service, fortunately I have a 3 year warranty. Fortunately for me the HDD is SATA so I can mount it on my desktop, back stuff up and format it for when it gets shipped off sometime this week. I just hope I'll get it back by next Wednesday in time for the Launch event, otherwise I guess I'll have to commandeer the Sony Vaio currently acting as a PVR-slash-Projector driver. Has anyone else got experiences with Toshiba's servicing division? My first M4 developed an (unrelated) problem in April 2006 so I sent it off for repairs, it never came back, after 3 months Toshiba issued me with this new one (upgraded to boot), but since I've got quite an investment with this M4 (incl. docking station and extra batteries) and the fact I'm happy with its specifications (esp. the GeForce 6600 built-in) I don't want to get a "new" one (all with yucky Intel GMA, blegh!). If they can't/won't fix it, I'll demand a refund and get a ThinkPad. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

So that's what 9 months after first discovery? It's not like data corruption on what is supposed to be a family server is important. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> IE8 balks at Windows Update Computerworld, MA - Mar 8, 2008 Users were understandably confused when IE8 refused to call up Windows Update. "After updating my IE7 to IE8 today, I tried to update my Windows Vista by ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Live Foldershare refresh live - but it was before Geekzone, New Zealand - 17 minutes ago The PC client has been updated as well - which means fuill Windows Vista support now. Other than that I wonder if the 10000 file limit per sync pair is ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Tim, Jason, and a few other folks are travelling all over the West coast meeting with customers, partners and of course, coding. Here you'll get a tour of their rolling crib and learn what The Code Trip is all about. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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Excuse me if old Link Microsoft from has little started iter for the verification of the eventual infractions of the laws antitrust in its new operating system Windows 7. Being to the information supplied from the Court of the District of Columbia, the colossus of computer science would have sent to a copy of its OS to the committee person in charge to supervise on the acts of Microsoft, it's true?? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Releases Vista's Successor, And It's FAST InformationWeek, NY - 5 minutes ago It has all the patches and fixes that are in Vista SP1, and runs nearly all the same software, but runs it faster. Early reviews show that Windows ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ DailyTech <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Safari Leads Browsers According to Acid3 Testers DailyTech, IL - 11 minutes ago Contrary to previous reports, the site finds that Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 8 in their current Windows Vista builds both receive failing marks. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

So I have an already developed set of code which I want to test. At the moment the code's going all the way down to a database to get some details that I'd like to be able to insert by hand. Initially I thought "ah ha! I'll try mocking" (never having tried it before) but NMock won't let me, as I'm not trying to implement an interface in a dummy version. There's already a class in existence, so nmock says I can't play. (Which I should have realized earlier, but I didn't have time to read all the documentation before having a stab at getting it going.) I know that I just need to set a few properties, and block a call to a function I don't need, is there any way to mock a single function, or replace a function at test time with a crippled version? The alternative, deploying a test database onto every machine running tests,*would be extremely tedious. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

... unfortunately come in the form of a program "SmartHOL Player". Why not just give us the word documents and leave it at that? Alas, there's nothing "smart" about this hands-on-labs player. When started it throws an exception: "String was not recognised as a valid date/time". Stack trace below. You can click "Continue" but then you get an installation list that shows no entries available to be installed. And, no, I haven't tried changing my O.S. to US instead of UK - why should I have to?! Stack Trace (in the highly unlikely event someone reading this is interested or can do something about the problem) is as follows: ************** Exception Text ************** System.FormatException: String was not recognized as a valid DateTime. ** at System.DateTimeParse.Parse(String s, DateTimeFormatInfo dtfi, DateTimeStyles styles) ** at System.DateTime.Parse(String s) ** at SmartHOL.Forms.FormMain.LoadInfo(String xmlFileName, String location) ** at SmartHOL.Forms.FormMain.LoadLabs() ** at SmartHOL.Forms.FormMain.FormMain_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) ** at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnLoad(EventArgs e) ** at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnCreateControl() ** at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean fIgnoreVisible) ** at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl() ** at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmShowWindow(Message& m) ** at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m) ** at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m) ** at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Message& m) ** at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WmShowWindow(Message& m) ** at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m) ** at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m) ** at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m) ** at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam) ************** Loaded Assemblies ************** mscorlib *** Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 *** Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.1434 (REDBITS.050727-1400) *** CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v2.0.50727/mscorlib.dll ---------------------------------------- SmartHOL *** Assembly Version: 1.0.8.0 *** Win32 Version: 1.0.8.0 *** CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files/SmartHOL%20Player/SmartHOL.exe ---------------------------------------- System.Windows.Forms *** Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 *** Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.1434 (REDBITS.050727-1400) *** CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll ---------------------------------------- System *** Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 *** Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.1434 (REDBITS.050727-1400) *** CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll ---------------------------------------- System.Drawing *** Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 *** Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.1434 (REDBITS.050727-1400) *** CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll ---------------------------------------- System.Web.Services *** Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 *** Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.1434 (REDBITS.050727-1400) *** CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Web.Services/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Web.Services.dll ---------------------------------------- System.Xml *** Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 *** Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.1434 (REDBITS.050727-1400) *** CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Xml/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.dll ---------------------------------------- System.Configuration *** Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 *** Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.1434 (REDBITS.050727-1400) *** CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Configuration/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Configuration.dll ---------------------------------------- jpdixyje *** Assembly Version: 1.0.8.0 *** Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.1434 (REDBITS.050727-1400) *** CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll ---------------------------------------- ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib *** Assembly Version: 0.85.4.369 *** Win32 Version: 0.85.4.369 *** CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files/SmartHOL%20Player/ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.DLL ---------------------------------------- ************** JIT Debugging ************** To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this application or computer (machine.config) must have the jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section. The application must also be compiled with debugging enabled. For example: *** When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer rather than be handled by this dialog box. * More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds