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Hey, lets start a thread for feedback on sliverlight 2.0. Me, I loved the demo's but hate my first inpression upon installing. Can't seem to get anything working again/for forst time. 1) can't dubbelclick video's in FireFox to play them full screen 2) can't play with this demo http://labs.componentone.com/Sapphire/?demo=controls*although it is referenced by*microsoft ad a demo 3) the harrock café app just gives me a black screen afther some zooming and moving Anybody noticed this to ? Let me now ! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Crufts: Going to the dogs Guardian, UK - 8 hours ago Are the best of the best trained to answer to their full kennel name of Chi Am Windows Vista Norbert Shake 'n' Vac III, or can you just call them Rex? ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

As a run-of-the-mill business application developer, one usually pays for presentation layer software from DevExpress/Infragistics and so forth. Money usually goes to attaining the latest and greatest Office mimicking UI, and your developers 'thrash out' the necessary*business logic. Rudi Grobler has just posted a simply excellent example of creating an Office 2007 Navigation Pane in WPF, using just the standard WPF tab control. Usually one* would have to spend $200-$400 (without the source code) from - to choose two random presentation vendors - *http://www.actiprosoftware.com/Products/DotNet/WPF/Navigation/Default.aspx or http://www.devcomponents.com/. The real beauty here is that one can skin the complete*application using the same resource dictionary, which is super-duper-powerful! This allows for*a uniform 'look and feel' across the application, normally an absolute pain to implement*with windows forms. When you also take into account that Scott Gu recently announced that*a major update to*WPF is imminent (summer 2008), and that WPF will have a new Ribbon Control and DataGridView*out-of-the-box, a personal proclivity is developing toward WPF. I think that these controls are already available in Silverlight 2 beta, but lack sufficient time to check this out to confirm. This summers*update will address key problems I have highlighted in the past with WPF, primarily poor performance with list type data,*and an unavailability of third party controls. If you also 'factor in' .NET cold and warm start up times being significantly*improved, the WPF 'stack' is certainly gathering momentum. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Whenever I try to click on to Page 2 of the search results on C9, the hyperlink is wrong! It's trying to forward me to http://channel9.msdn.com/Themes/AlmostGlass/Skins/&d=0 ??? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I am trying to sort out a build system using the MSBuild product that comes with the .NET framework. Specifically, I am looking to check out various ASsemblyInfo.cs files, update the build number and then check them back in. I am storing the build number itself in VSS as it should only be update daily and it's shared with multiple projects. So 2 questions 1) How can I update the build number by getting the version file, having MSBuild utilize it/read it in some fashion (I could store it as a XML file and MSBuild should be able to suck it in as some sort of parameter) and then update the AssemblyInfo files to reflect the value it has. 2) Looping.* I Understand that using the % simulates a for loop to some degree.* However, in the case of checking in checking out of VSS using the MSBuild.Community.Tasks.Targets package I am finding I have to make one CheckIn/CheckOut call per file which strike me as a bit daft.* For example for Checkin it looks something like this: * ** ** ** ** ** *** ****** ** There must be some way I can make use of an ItemGroup to reduce this to one VssCheckin block.* Because botht the LocalPath and Path values have dynamic content in this sense using two "%" in a VssCheckin call does not work very well :-) Suggestions? Thanks, Col More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Broader release of IE 8 coming this summer CNET News.com, CA - 14 minutes ago He did note that Microsoft released IE 7 for XP ahead of Windows Vista, so it is technically possible to do so. As was the case with the IE 7 betas, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Good morning, folks. I wonder if anyone could help me set up my Windows 2008 box, which I've been fiddling with. Doing this mostly blindly, since I never messed with this before. I have a Windows 2008 server behind a router. My router is the DHCP server. I now want to enable VPN access into it. My router doesn't support it, so I opened all the necessary LL2P ports pointing at the server and installed Routing and Remote Access on the Windows server. I've also set up DHCP Relay pointing at the router's IP. My understanding is that when my remote client connects, the server will forward the DHCP request to the router, get an IP for me and let me start working. What seems to be happening is that my remote client gets the same IP as the server, which naturally doesn't really help much. I tried giving RRAS a set of static IP addresses instead of DHCP Relay, but that gives me a default gateway and subnet mask that only allow me to access that specific subrange, not the rest of the local network. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Just reading this over on the BBC site. "Phorm works by placing a cookie on a user's machine that contains a randomised identifying number. That cookie tracks websites visited and draws conclusions about a user's behaviour in order to target more relevant adverts. By partnering directly with ISPs, the OIX can draw from the greatest supply of browsing information and avoid the limitations of purely site-based data. OIX ad-serving technology uses "behavioural keywords" - keywords derived from a combination of search terms, URLs and even contextual page analysis, over time - to find the right users. The depth of data in the OIX creates an unparalleled targeting capability that translates into unlimited valuable advertising opportunities." Normall I'm not that bothered by adds on sites, most are there to support the sites themselves.* If I*have issue with the ad system on a site I just don't visit the site. By embedding the data collection into the ISP it takes that option away from me.* I am a firm beliver that the ISP should provide a clean untouched data feed.* This is like someone listening to your phone calls and sending you mail based on it. I for one will opt out of this from the start. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Slip of the tongue over Vista Ultimate Techworld.com, UK - 13 minutes ago "We will be releasing Windows Vista SP1 in two waves," Microsoft program manager Nick White said in a post to the Vista team's blog. His warning, in fact, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> New Internet Explorer 8 test beta released IT Week, UK - 57 minutes ago Internet Explorer 8 can be installed on Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1), Windows Vista, Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), Windows Server 2008 ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> New Internet Explorer 8 test beta released IT Week, UK - 15 minutes ago Internet Explorer 8 can be installed on Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1), Windows Vista, Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), Windows Server 2008 ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> News.blog: Second IE 8 beta gets summer date Crave, UK - 10 minutes ago He did note that Microsoft released IE 7 for XP ahead of Windows Vista, so it is technically possible to do so. As was the case with the IE 7 betas, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I'm still smiling after opening an unexpected Amazon package about 10 minutes ago :D Visualizing Data from O'Reilley was inside and a note saying: "A small gift. I want this myself, so a review would be useful".* Whoever sent it, thank you. I shall start reading tonight and post a review when I'm done. Well, I guess it's time to pass the karma on ... A very happy Herbie More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Es gibt diverse Software-Entwicklungstools auf dem Markt, die sich mehr oder weniger einfach in den eigenen Softwareprozess einbinden lassen. Der Softwareprozess als zentrisches Element ist elementarer Bestandteil moderner Softwareentwicklung. Dieser Vortrag zeigt Ihnen, wie Visual Studio Team System 2008 mit dem Team Foundation Server 2008 den Softwareentwicklungsprozess durchgängig unterstützt. Speaker:* Dariusz Parys Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Ob es nun um einfache Windows-Anwendungen, Applikationen für PDA, Handy oder Spielekonsole geht – das .NET Framework bietet eine einheitliche Möglichkeit, alle diese Welten anzusteuern. Dieser Vortrag beleuchtet die Bestandteile des .NET Framework und zeigt anhand einiger praktischer Beispiele, wie man sich dessen Technologien und Werkzeugen nähern kann. Speaker: Dirk Primbs Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Cathy*is a Senior PM on the HPC Server 2008 product team.* Follow along as Cathy demonstrates new diagnostics and deployment features. Windows HPC Server 2008 is available in a Beta1 release as of November, 2007, with Beta2 scheduled for release in Spring, 2008.* Obtain the beta bits at http://connect.microsoft.com.* Please provide feedback using the feedback tool on the Connect web site. For additional information, see http://WindowsHPC.net*and http://edge.technet.com/Tags/HPC/. http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/388552.jpg Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Will Vista SP2 be developed, or will MSFT utilize rollouts in order to focus on development of 7?* Thoughts... Insight from the 9. (hah lotr comes to mind -- MSFT to APPL on Q1 sales-- "If you want them, come and claim them!"[H] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> ZDNet Resources ZDNet - 46 minutes ago Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Games, Uberclok, Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT, Microsoft Windows Product reviews 2008-02-08 Vista ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Cathy*is a Senior PM on the HPC Server 2008 product team.* Follow along as Cathy demonstrates the new Cluster Management Console. Windows HPC Server 2008 is available in a Beta1 release as of November, 2007, with Beta2 scheduled for release in Spring 2008.* Obtain the beta bits at http://connect.microsoft.com.* Please provide feedback using the feedback tool on the Connect web site. For additional information, see http://WindowsHPC.net. http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/388536.jpg Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Blog: A Wee PC is hard to get excited about PC Authority, Australia - 1 hour ago She uses Windows (XP and Vista), Linux and Mac OS X, and refuses to make a decision about which one is better. She’s waiting for the large-screen Eee. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Because they seriously need to get a public feedback bug-center up and running soon. IE8 has loads of bugs which I'm sure would be easier to solve if they didn't have to trawl through zillions of pages to find them. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Blog: A Wee PC is hard to get excited about PC Authority, Australia - 14 minutes ago She uses Windows (XP and Vista), Linux and Mac OS X, and refuses to make a decision about which one is better. She’s waiting for the large-screen Eee. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ Boston Globe <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Wal-Mart encourages employees to post blunt comments about ... International Herald Tribune, France - Mar 3, 2008 ... manager for Wal-Mart's entertainment division, who blogs about computers and electronics - and who wrote the lukewarm review of Windows Vista. ... New Wal-Mart Blog Gives Retailer Some Web 2.0 Cred IT Business Edge all 26 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista SP1 up to 86% faster Australian Personal Computer, Australia - 21 hours ago This overall increase was actually expected, as the two main performance, compatibility and stability updates for Windows Vista – KB938979 and KB938194 ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds