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I have been using Vista for a full year now and Windows Backup notified me saying I should take a complete image instead of the weekly document backups. Before I start doing a CompletePC image of my*C drive, should I defrag it*first to avoid copying fragmented files? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

So I have a couple of floats (ok millions) that I convert to bitmap (it's*my pet project - madelbrot renderer*- floats come from f(x,y), then I use color gradient info to convert it to RGBs). * I do this in two steps - first generating floats (that's usually slower), then rendering (converting to RGBs/bitmap) - I do*this in two steps*so that user can dynamically change gradient in real-time. I can do 20 fps at 800x600 with no anti-aliasing on core2, but that's too slow if somebody wants to view fractal over whole screen. Right now I use 24bit RGB*format - but*the question is - will my code run faster if I use 32bits per pixel (aRGB) format*and use int to write color to a*pixel array instead of using 3 bytes? That way I'll use*1/3 more RAM*bandwidth and use few shift and OR instructions,*but on the other hand have 3x less*ram operations. It's really not that much code to change (couple of hours), but I'm lazy and*if you know answer from experience please do*tell it to*me. I've got a feeling aRGB will work better, am I right? :) Oh I use C#. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I was wondering, since there are so many spam threads here right now, that if a thread gets converted to simply "spam", it also gets knocked down to Page 2? I find it annoying that there are 3(or 4?) spam threads on the front page at the moment. It ruins the coffeehouse :( 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

http://ms-os.com/ Columbus Dispatch <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Eight chores get your computer in order Columbus Dispatch, OH - 29 minutes ago For Windows Vista, go to this Web site: http://tinyurl.com/2e2nrp. If just one of these tips saves your neck some day, you'll be glad you were able to hear ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

So we have a system, wherein dlls built by team system server (2005 I believe, although we have little to no access so I have no idea the exact version and patch setup.) are used in a different visual studio project. Except recently, replacing the old dlls with the new has led to the new dlls not being recognized. (Previously the old references would be fine, and reloading the project would show any code changes or new types.) Now the references are all broken (marked by the yellow warning symbol. Reloading the reference seems to fix them, but there are a heck of a lot, and builds seem to go wonky now claiming "no public types". Reflector and ildasm both show very little different between dlls built locally and on the server, except local dlls work (and are twice the physical size) whereas the server-built dlls don't. Anyone got a clue as to what's going on? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Dirty IT jobs: Somebody has to do 'em InfoWorld, CA - 25 minutes ago Contributing Editor Randy Kennedy nailed that story in his blog last week. He also pointed to a fascinating performance comparison between Vista and Windows ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Disk defragmenting CNET Blogs, CA - 1 hour ago At least in XP, you got some feedback while the Windows defragger was working; Vista doesn't give you a clue what's happening after you click the Defragment ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi All, I am working with iTextSharp 4.0.8 in my ASP.Net application.*I have used Nested Tables in*iTextSharp dll but i am getting Exceptions. Its Not working properly The code i have written is: privateDocument AddPagesToDocument1(Document document, string strKappaImagePath) { //Main Table Table tblMain = newTable(40,26); tblMain.Border = Rectangle.NO_BORDER; tblMain.WidthPercentage = 100; Cell cellFirst = newCell(); cellFirst.Rowspan = 40; Image imgSide = Image.GetInstance(newUri(@"C:\Kappa_RelatedDocument\iTextSharpTutorial\iTextSharpTutorial\bonImg\sideTekstKappa.gif")); cellFirst.Add(imgSide); tblMain.AddCell(cellFirst); cellFirst = newCell(newPhrase(newChunk("Datum: 30-06-2005", FontFactory.GetFont(FontFactory.HELVETICA, 10, iTextSharp.text.Font.BOLD)))); cellFirst.Colspan = 19; cellFirst.Rowspan = 2; tblMain.AddCell(cellFirst,new System.Drawing.Point(0,1)); //Cell for the Gap Between the 2nd and 3rd columns cellFirst = newCell("G"); cellFirst.Rowspan = 40; tblMain.AddCell(cellFirst, new System.Drawing.Point(0, 20)); //2 nd column cellFirst = newCell(); cellFirst.Colspan = 19; cellFirst.Rowspan = 5; cellFirst.Width = 100; Table tblAfhaaladres = newTable(19,5); tblAfhaaladres.Border = Rectangle.NO_BORDER; tblAfhaaladres.AutoFillEmptyCells = true; tblAfhaaladres.WidthPercentage = 100; Cell cellAfhaaladres = newCell("A1"); cellAfhaaladres.Width = 19; tblAfhaaladres.AddCell(cellAfhaaladres, new System.Drawing.Point(0, 0)); string strVal = cellAfhaaladres.GetWidthAsString(); cellAfhaaladres = newCell("A2"); cellAfhaaladres.Colspan = 19; tblAfhaaladres.AddCell(cellAfhaaladres, new System.Drawing.Point(1, 0)); cellAfhaaladres = newCell("A3"); cellAfhaaladres.Colspan = 19; tblAfhaaladres.AddCell(cellAfhaaladres, new System.Drawing.Point(2, 0)); cellAfhaaladres = newCell("A4"); cellAfhaaladres.Colspan = 19; tblAfhaaladres.AddCell(cellAfhaaladres, new System.Drawing.Point(3, 0)); cellAfhaaladres = newCell("A5"); cellAfhaaladres.Colspan = 19; tblAfhaaladres.AddCell(cellAfhaaladres, new System.Drawing.Point(4, 0)); cellFirst.Add(tblAfhaaladres); //tblMain.InsertTable(tblAfhaaladres, new System.Drawing.Point(2, 1)); tblMain.AddCell(cellFirst, new System.Drawing.Point(2, 1)); //2 nd column cellFirst = newCell("Bezorgadres:"); cellFirst.Colspan = 19; cellFirst.Rowspan = 5; tblMain.AddCell(cellFirst, new System.Drawing.Point(7, 1)); //2nd Column cellFirst = newCell("Aantal Colli:"); cellFirst.Colspan = 19; cellFirst.Rowspan = 3; tblMain.AddCell(cellFirst, new System.Drawing.Point(12, 1)); //2nd Column cellFirst = newCell("Bijzonderheden:"); cellFirst.Colspan = 19; cellFirst.Rowspan = 3; tblMain.AddCell(cellFirst, new System.Drawing.Point(15, 1)); //2nd Column cellFirst = newCell("Koerier:"); cellFirst.Colspan = 19; cellFirst.Rowspan = 8; tblMain.AddCell(cellFirst, new System.Drawing.Point(18, 1)); //3rd Column cellFirst = newCell(); cellFirst.Colspan = 19; cellFirst.Rowspan = 9; imgSide = Image.GetInstance(newUri(@"C:\Kappa_RelatedDocument\iTextSharpTutorial\iTextSharpTutorial\bonImg\kopKappa.gif")); cellFirst.Add(imgSide); tblMain.AddCell(cellFirst, new System.Drawing.Point(0, 21)); //3rd Column cellFirst = newCell("Opdrachtgever en factuuradres:"); cellFirst.Colspan = 19; cellFirst.Rowspan = 6; tblMain.AddCell(cellFirst, new System.Drawing.Point(9, 21)); //3rd Column cellFirst = newCell("Op al onze offerten, overeenkomsten en/ of feitelijke prestaties zijn steeds van toepassing de Kappa Koerier algemene bedrijfsvoorwaarden zoals gedeponeerd ter griffie van de arrondissementsrechtbank te Rotterdam."); cellFirst.Colspan = 19; tblMain.AddCell(cellFirst, new System.Drawing.Point(15, 21)); //3rd Column cellFirst = newCell(); cellFirst.Colspan = 19; cellFirst.Rowspan = 8; imgSide = Image.GetInstance(newUri(@"C:\Kappa_RelatedDocument\iTextSharpTutorial\iTextSharpTutorial\bonImg\insert_ontv.gif")); cellFirst.Add(imgSide); tblMain.AddCell(cellFirst, new System.Drawing.Point(16, 21)); //3rd Column cellFirst = newCell("Opdrachtgever en factuuradres:"); cellFirst.Colspan = 19; cellFirst.Rowspan = 2; tblMain.AddCell(cellFirst, new System.Drawing.Point(24, 21)); document.Add(tblMain); return document; } The Exception*i am getting while*excecuting the following line:* tblMain.AddCell(cellFirst, new System.Drawing.Point(2, 1)); ---------------------------- iTextSharp.text.BadElementException: Adding a cell at the location (2,1) with a colspan of 19 and a rowspan of 5 is illegal (beyond boundaries/overlapping) ========================= And*i downloaded iTextSharp tutorial also .*The Nested Table section not working in the downloaded tutorial also. Any one please help in fixing this issue. its very very urgent for me. Itried in somany ways but i didnt get the solution Thanks and Regards, Laxmikanth.O * More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> How much does credibility matter for Microsoft in Ed Tech? ZDNet - 3 hours ago And They Should Know,” highlights several Microsoft executives who are still using XP because of ongoing problems with Windows Vista. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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Hello, *** I am designing a C# 2.0 Winform Application and what I am looking for is when a user clicks on a menuitem it replaces the default panel with the one I created. *** Q: Lets say all I want to do is create a panel and add controls/events/etc to it, how would I go about visually designing using VS2005?? *** *** I know in netbeans it will allow me to extend JPanel and then an visual designer window will pop up ready for me to begin designing what I want it to to. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Starz Entertainment, the providers of premium TV channels like Starz and Encore and Vongo downloadable movies has built their entire media infrastructure around Windows Media.* Stephen Smith, Director of Media System Integration walks us through the entire workflow and architecture of the system that they built.* This is a 3-part series, first showing the hardware, then the architecture, then the software that they built. In this final episode, Stephen walks Michael Scherotter through the WPF application that Starz built to control the pipeline of media jobs that are each instances of Windows Workflow Foundation workflows.* WPF has allowed Starz to craft a highly skinnable and adaptable user interface.* One of the most interesting applications of this digital media architecture and workflow has been the indexing of the spoken content of their entire catalog*using SQL Server database and exposing that index via search through Interactive Media Manager (IMM).* Stephen explains that process at 20:36 in the interview.* That step has enable*users of this system at Starz to search their entire 200 Terabyte SAN for specific instances of spoken words directly from IMM. 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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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> How much does credibility matter for Microsoft in Ed Tech? ZDNet - 27 minutes ago And They Should Know,” highlights several Microsoft executives who are still using XP because of ongoing problems with Windows Vista. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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would be... an identity.** a purpose. In the past - many have asked that the coffeehouse become a sort of frontdoor to product feeback. With polling about specific features or bugs. This has not come to pass... so.. what if there was polling/rating - but for products? minhs pentax, my samsung, lloyds speaker reco's. etc These could be voted up or down A few months on - people coming into the coffeehouse would be able to see - what in general - we have vetted / reccomended. I respect a lot of opinions on this forum - others should be able to get that help automatically without meeting everyone after months ? edit: maybe a "coffeehouse recommends" forum - then it wouldnt require voting. people could just read the opinions / product experiences * cue Evnet: No new forums!* ;) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ Hydrapinion <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> It’s not easy being green, but everyone’s trying Hydrapinion, Australia - 1 hour ago As evidence of this new planet-loving attitude he claimed that Windows Vista was a more power efficient operating system than its predecessor, Windows XP. ... Blog: Is Microsoft really lending Linux a helping hand? PC Authority all 3 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

When attempting to install my Paint Shop Pro 9 and other graphic software programs I get errors one as such that reads... "Failed to start. Configuration is incorrect." I can get the program on my computer but I can seem to run it. Any suggestions on how to correct configurations? to what it is that I have to do to get the program to run? I am not the most technical person in the world so if you could explain and give me a step by step instruction that would be greatly appreciated! and also I got an error about the dynamic library... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I would love to develop WPF applications and Silverlight applications at home, but the C# Express Edition doesn't currently support either of the two - does anybody know when it's coming? Or is there already a free tool that facilitates the development of WPF and Silverlight applications? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

As some of you know, I'm quite the audiophile :P This is probably the wrong place to ask, but I thought I might as well. I'm going to be building my first speaker casings ever soon. A center bar, to be precise. Anyways, I want to use it on my brand-spanking new speaker system, which came with 5 speakers, but has 6 outputs (specifically for a center bar, not included). They're connected via RCA jacks. I was wondering if it's possible to terminate an RCA jack onto the end of a Fig8 cable (the two cables you connect to the speaker posts). Otherwise, how can I turn Fig8 cable into an RCA jack? Speaker Red* \ ******* * * * * * * ** #=========[RCA Jack]*** {Roughly what I want to do} Speaker Black// More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ Hydrapinion <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> It’s not easy being green, but everyone’s trying Hydrapinion, Australia - 17 minutes ago As evidence of this new planet-loving attitude he claimed that Windows Vista was a more power efficient operating system than its predecessor, Windows XP. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Did you know that Microsoft Word is the most popular "requirements management" solution in the world? But while popular, it's not without its drawbacks. How do you prevent documents from becoming outdated? Where do Word documents fit in with SCM tools like Team Foundation Server? I had a chance to sit down with Juan Perez of Personify Design and talk about how they chose to solve this problem with their new product, TeamSpec, which integrates Word documents with Team Foundation Server. Check it out... 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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