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Bruce provides the very first basics in using Windows Workflow. This 7-minute screencast shows how*to get started screencast that tells you how to create a workflow project, how to author a basic sequential workflow, how to set breakpoints and debug code, and*how to drag and drop activities. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

It's quite frequent that I see a link come through, it catches my eye, BUT it goes to the link MICROSECONDS before I click the link.* A simple back button to cycle through previous links would warm my heart. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

For those of you that haven't seen it, and thosethat have, here is a link to a pretty cool freeware cross platformgame/simulator called "Phun" http://www.codebot.org/articles/?doc=9516 I even created a tool for it to allow people to import complexshapes into the game. Oh yeah, and before any asks, it is based on this idea: More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Bruce presents a step-by-step how to for those who want to get started using ASP.NET AJAX. The screencast includes the creation of a user control to put on the page, enable the page to use ASP.NET AJAX using ScriptManager, add an UpdatePanel, add the control to UpdatePanel, and then add an UpdateProgress control. The step-by-step is designed for you to follow along and provides each step that you'd need to know to build the control and then put it into an ASP.NET AJAX page. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Today, we release IE8 Beta 1 to the world! It's a developer-focused version of IE 8 with a host of new dev features. Chris Wilson, Platform Architect and long time IE team veteran sits down with me to dig into the details of IE8 Beta 1. Some of coolest new features include Activities, Webslices, Javascript debugging and tools, DOM storage, AJAX enhancemnets, cross-Domain AJAX, and more. Chris also talks about the core architecture of IE8 (Trident, MSHTML, etc). Tune in. Check out a detailed walk through of Webslices on Visitmix. Also, Channel 10 has a broad overview of these with demos! Low res file here. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Is SQL Data Data Services super new?* I'd be interested to hear the feedback from those currently using S3. (apologies if this is old news) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Anyone here going to DevWeek in the UK next week? Stephen. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> WANTED: Entrepreneurs Using Microsoft Windows Vista Seattle Post Intelligencer - 19 minutes ago ... Vista experience and include your phone number. Posted by Whitney M. Keyes at March 5, 2008 9:00 am There are currently no comments for this blog entry. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi all, I am trying to work on (another, kind of based on the previous one that I created a few days ago) text editor, and I am attempting to create a custom renderer for the application. I've been looking over the code from MSDN, and so far I've only been able to get the menubar to have a custom background. I also want to render the toolbar as well, but it seems that there's nothing there at all for it;* All that I see is "RenderToolStripBackground", and all that it does when I render it (using the code below) is format the Menubar.* I want to do more than just the menubar. *** Private Sub CustomProfessionalRenderer_RenderToolStripBackground(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripRenderEventArgs) Handles Me.RenderToolStripBackground******* Dim b = New SolidBrush(Color.FromArgb(255, 64, 64, 64))******* e.Graphics.FillRectangle(b, e.ToolStrip.Location.X, e.ToolStrip.Location.Y, e.ToolStrip.Width, e.ToolStrip.Height)******* b.Dispose()*** End Sub The link to the code from MSDN: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.toolstripmanager.renderer.aspx (In before "Use BackColor";* I want the program to have a unique appearance but not crazy >_>) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Had to do*a Vista custom reinstall. Would like to use the programs that have been archived in the Windows.Old folders. Since they are not coming up on the current Programs there is no option to Repair or Change. Would prefer NOT to reinstall everything if there is a way to use them directly from the Windows.Old archive. Some of the*simple,*smaller ones were able to be used by clicking on the exe or application directly - but the larger more complex ones (such as the Microsoft programs) were not the easy. Is there a way to use them without reinstalling them. Is there a way to make them show up in the PROGRAMS. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Unfortunately the download links don't work yet, but I'm guessing they will after the MIX08 keynote has been delivered in a few hours time. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/readiness/Install.htm I'm blogging from MIX08 over at http://www.dailydotnetshow.com and also hope to be on twitter (wireless permitting) as announcements are made (irascian account) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

This is part two in my short series on writing custom activities for the Workflow Foundation. In this screencast I cover data defaults and validation for your custom activities. This is a continuation from part 1, so you may want to jump over and view that now if you haven’t seen it already. Part 1:** From Code Activity to Custom Activity Files: **** Part 2 Project Files Jared Bienz ISV Architect Evangelist Microsoft Corporation Sites of Interest:MSDN Events|US ISV Team Blog http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/388272.jpg Watch the screencast(SWF) Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I'm looking for a multifunction printer with ADF, duplex printing, fax and ethernet connection (better if wi-fi) under 500$ but I can't find any good one. I read reviews about some HP models (c7280, c6280, l7780, l7680, l7650, m2727nf) and they all seem to have problems with the printer/scanner document feeders, have awful networking and bloated drivers that often stop seeing the printer and have to be reinstalled. I also read reviews of the Canon PIXMA MP830, and I read it drinks ink like it was water and when you use duplex printing it prints a "composite black" using the color cartridges wasting even more ink. the fax is unusable unless you have a dedicated line because it answers all the times and if the call is not a fax it gets dropped. then I went on Epson and Brother website but I didn't find any model with the specs I needed any recommendation? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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Photoshopped? http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=11039http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=11040 More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

This archive includes the sample source for part 2 in my series of*workflow* screencasts.http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/388264.jpg Download the project More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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You can try speeding up Windows Vista Shutdown process whenever the system is waiting to kill a process. The steps are as follows:1. Open regedit.exe2. Navigate to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control]3. Change the value of “WaitToKillServiceTimeout” to 1000But as a reminder, do this at your own risk as sometimes the system really needs to wait for a process [...] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Just as soon as I click Post on this post I’ll be hopping in the car and heading to the airport for an house/apartment hunting trip to Seattle and this time have given myself a little more time in town than I did last time... and aside from the obvious of using my laptop and GPS for getting around... any suggestions as to what I absolutely have to see/do while in town? I've already got an email into the 9 team so I'll be trying to stop by there tomorrow or Friday (shame I picked the same days to be out there as MIX)... Any 9ers want to show me around a bit? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

After succesfully installed SP1 (TechNet release) in a clean Vista system, I've noticed that an error message is logged in System log whenever booting (eventID: 15016). "Unable to initialize the security package Kerberos for server side authentication. The data field contains the error number." Error details follow: - System - Provider [ Name] Microsoft-Windows-HttpEvent [ Guid] {7b6bc78c-898b-4170-bbf8-1a469ea43fc5} [ EventSourceName] HTTP - EventID 15016 [ Qualifiers] 49152 Version 0 Level 2 Task 0 Opcode 0 Keywords 0x80000000000000 - TimeCreated [ SystemTime] 2008-03-05T09:33:20.490Z EventRecordID 39244 Correlation - Execution [ ProcessID] 4 [ ThreadID] 68 Channel System Computer tech.domain.lan Security - EventData DeviceObject \Device\Http\ReqQueue SecurityPackage Kerberos 000004000200300000000000A83A00C00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000E030980 Searching around for a solution, I've found that is common problem to all users upgraded to SP1. Any idea? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Vom 4.-9. März findet die CeBIT 2008 in Hannover statt.* Es gibt wie immer viel zu sehen, aber als Entwickler oder IT Professional sollten Sie den Microsoft MSDN & TechNet-Stand auf keinen Fall verpassen!* Sie finden uns in Halle 4, Stand A26. An allen sechs Messetagen informieren Sie die Experten von MSDN und TechNet in zahlreichen Kurzvorträgen über das breite Spektrum der Microsoft-Anwendungen und -Services für Entwickler und IT Professionals.* In diesem Video können Sie den Vortrag zu Thema Silverlight von Microsoft Developer Evangelist, Oliver Scheer anschauen. Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Anyone had a chance to play with it yet ? I use FF, but was excited to see Microsoft making its way to full compliance mode by default! If its true, its very cool, and I for one will be very open to trying it and, if its great, sticking with it ! So anyone tested it yet ? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

... as in the title, anyone know how? Been bugging the crap out of me for months now, and even Rafael (of UXTheme fame) is stumped on the matter :O Just wondering if anyone here had any insight into a possible removal method? For those of you sitting there scratching your heads and going, "why would he want to do that?" It's because I'm SO used to just hitting the Windows key, then the first letter of the pinned application I want to run, that now the Vista search just makes the entire experience much slower overall. On Vista, I actually have to hit the Windows key, type "inter", wait for the search bar to catch up, and THEN hit enter in order to open IE. I'm not the only one who this bothers, so anyone who figures out a solution would be doing a lot of people a BIG favor :P More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

This is more a IPv6 question that Windows but it came up as I'm looking into moving some servers to Windows 2008.* So I' have a network with a Windows 2008 DC's and an IPv4 router to the internet.* What I stuck on is what address range should I use for my internal IPv6 network?* I need to pick a static for the DNS servers but am really lost on what address to use! I know there are Link-Local ranges that get assigned automatically, then there is site-local addresses which have now been depreciated so not sure about using them? So what do I use?* Feel like I'm missing some key part of the puzzle here! Stephen.* More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

:( Without this man and his works my childhood would have been a greyer place. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds