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Hi, i have an rdl file for a report, i need to*export the textboxes values to be viewed in a web application, thats why i need XSL file to get those textboxes, but it didnt work with me because the report is using rd namespace and i couldnt use it in the XSL, also the part of the report which i want to export is not using that namespace, its using the default one. can anyone give steps for how to read the text boxes in that report using XSL ? thanks indeed here is part of a*sample of the report and the XSL i created, please let me know where is my mistake ! RDL file: ..... ... textbox20 0.25in 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt 2 true 2.375in This is the text i need to display in web and this is the XSL i made : Padding-left:; Padding-right:; Padding-top:; Padding-bottom:; Position: absolute; Top: ; z-index: Height:; More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ CNET Blogs <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Place shortcuts to your favorite folders in Windows' common dialogs CNET Blogs, CA - 7 minutes ago Adding folders to the Favorite Links list in Vista common dialog boxes is straight-forward. Start by opening Windows Explorer and navigating to the Links ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

If you're in Vegas for MIX08 I highly recommend the helicopter tour of the Las Vegas strip at night. USD75 (plus tax) gets you not just an awesome 15 minute flight, but also a glass of champagne and pickup/return from The Venetian (or any other hotels on the strip)* Bargain! Alas, I did the trip to try and get some footage for a title sequence for my MIX08 video podcasts - and from that point of view it was a disaster. You don't get to choose where you sit in the helicopter. Two seats in the front next to the pilot get excellent views, but alas I was allocated*the second row*in the back which meant constant heads and other cameras in the way.*Plus my shoulder-mounted camera was too big to really move (and I hadn't done my research in working out which hotel was actually The Venetian when seen from the air). So a bit of a disaster from that point of view (scoff at the footage here: http://www.vimeo.com/751514* - but I recommend you click on the HD icon to turn it on, otherwise it looks like a REALLY BAD YouTube effort). Nevertheless well worth going on when you're in Vegas. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ Ars Technica <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 and Language Packs explained Ars Technica, MA - 6 hours ago By Emil Protalinski | Published: March 03, 2008 - 05:40PM CT Nick White, Windows Vista Product Manager, has posted a blog entry on the Windows Vista Team ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Industry Group Sponsors College Course To Create Fake Blog Slashdot - 52 minutes ago ... the fonts on the screen were not as crisp and defined as on REAL Vista. Worst of all, I couldn't enjoy any of the Windows Genuine Advantage downloads. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I am confused.* What happened to the new channel9 that was in beta?* Has it been dropped or what is the status?* tia More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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I thought I'd request some feedback on a system I'm developing.* I realize there's more than one way to skin a cat, but I would be curious to know if the Niners see any big areas for improvement. My application is a number cruncher.* I've got an EXE that I spin up in two differrent modes.* Running in GUI mode, it sets up a TcpListener and responds to specific requests from clients over the web interface.* Running in Batch mode, it crunches numbers on the entire set of data, waits a few minutes and does it again.* So for every set of data, I'm starting two unique processes.* Each set of data is approximately 20 MB. For each client, we may have to deal with a dozen or so sets of "real" data at any given time.* Furthermore, data is time sensitive, so we may be preparing several new sets of data for the next cycle and we may have to leave old data sets for auditing purposes.* As you can see, spinning up 50 processes--per client--is not out of the realm of possibility. Now because our code in that executable isn't perfect, I've got a "managing" process which monitors all these instances of the application.* It polls them every few minutes to make sure they haven't crashed.* This managing process has the responsibility of starting up these new instances.* Each new instance gets configured via command line arguments set when the managing process starts it.* A database stores a list of all the data set instances which should be running.* The managing process syncs up with the database right before it polls. Now the plan is for each client to have its own managing process.* The idea is that if I have to do some maintenance on any client, I can generally keep from interfering with the other clients. Having so many processes to keep track of seems like a terrible way to do this.* I imagine that the implementation of web servers might shed some light on my situation. I'm open to any suggestions.* I feel like I've been working on it so long, it's tough to think outside the box I've already built. EDIT:* Another "problem" is that I have to keep a user session open for all these console apps to run.* Accidentally close that session and you kill the whole system. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I have a solution that is in TFS that I work on an XP machine and a Vista machine.* The solution has web sites and services, c# libs, DB projects and tests in it and works flawlessly on the XP machine.* The Vista machine on the other hand will hang while building quite often.* I have rebuilt the vista machine several times all to the same effect.* I have the VS hotfix roll up installed on both machines. So really the question is, is there anyone else having issues with VS2008*on Vista or am I the only one and*this something specific to this machine*:) As this is the only large project I'm working on at the moment I can't say if it's project specific or not. Stephen. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft slashes Vista price PC Retail, UK - 11 hours ago Microsoft has said it will cut the price of packaged versions of Windows Vista in 70 countries including the UK. It is thought the move is designed to boost ... Windows XP SP3 sees Microsoft continue to focus on security Computer Business Review all 3 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista SP1 - Benchmarking round-up ZDNet - 8 hours ago Given that I’ve made numerous posts relating to benchmarking Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) on this blog over the past few weeks I thought that many ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ Ars Technica <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 and Language Packs explained Ars Technica, MA - 47 minutes ago By Emil Protalinski | Published: March 03, 2008 - 05:40PM CT Nick White, Windows Vista Product Manager, has posted a blog entry on the Windows Vista Team ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

We’ve decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. This decision is a change from what we’ve posted previously. Why Change? Microsoft recently published a set of Interoperability Principles. Thinking about IE8’s behavior with these principles in mind, interpreting web content in the most standards compliant way possible is a better thing to do. We think that acting in accordance with principles is important, and IE8’s default is a demonstration of the interoperability principles in action. While we do not believe any current legal requirements would dictate which rendering mode a browser must use, this step clearly removes this question as a potential legal and regulatory issue. As stated above, we think it’s the better choice. The rest of this blog post provides context around the different modes, the technical challenge, and what it means going forward. Modes Clear terminology around the different modes in IE8 (as well as other browsers) is crucial for the discussion. Wikipedia, as usual, offers a good starting point. The article about “Quirks mode” describes how modern browsers (like IE, Firefox, Safari, and Opera) all have different modes for interpreting the content of a web page: Quirks and Standards. (The article also covers “Almost Standards;” let’s set that one aside for the purpose of this discussion.) Basically, all the browsers have a “Quirks” mode, call it “Quirks mode", and use it to offer compatibility with pages that pre-date modern standards. All browsers have a “Standards” mode, call it “Standards mode,” and use it to offer a browser’s best implementation of web standards. Each version of each browser has its own Standards mode, because each version of each browser improves on its web standards support. There’s Safari 3’s Standards mode, Firefox 2’s Standards mode, IE6’s Standards mode, and IE7’s Standards mode, and they’re all different. We want to make IE8’s Standards mode much, much better than IE7’s Standards mode. The Wikipedia article’s explanation of why browsers have modes to begin with is worth looking at closely in this context: "...the large body of legacy documents which rely on the quirks of older browsers represents an obstacle for browser developers, who wish to improve their support for standardized HTML and CSS, but also wish to maintain backward compatibility with older, non-standardized pages.… To maintain compatibility with the greatest possible number of web pages, modern web browsers are generally developed with multiple rendering modes: in "standards mode" pages are rendered according to the HTML and CSS specifications, while in "quirks mode" attempts are made to emulate the behavior of older browsers." We decided to keep IE7’s Standards mode available in IE8. Our thinking was that this facility would be helpful as the web moves gradually from the large quantity of legacy content authored around IE7’s behaviors to a new era of much more interoperable and web standards compliant browsers. We based the decision to have an additional mode in IE8 on our experience with feedback from IE7. Specifically, during the transition from IE6 to IE7, many end-users found pages authored for the previous IE version’s Standards mode didn’t work well with the new version’s Standards mode. The Technical Challenge One issue we heard repeatedly during the IE7 beta concerned sites that looked fine in IE6 but looked bad in IE7. The reason was that the sites had worked around IE6 issues with content that – when viewed with IE7’s improved Standards mode – looked bad. As we started work on IE8, we thought that the same thing would happen in the short term: when a site hands IE8 content and asks for Standards mode, that content would expect IE7’s Standards mode and not appear or function correctly. In other words, the technical challenge here is how can IE determine whether a site’s content expects IE8’s Standards mode or IE7’s Standards mode? Given how many sites offer IE very different content today, which should IE8 default to? Our initial thinking for IE8 involved showing pages requesting “Standards” mode in an IE7’s “Standards” mode, and requiring developers to ask for IE8’s actual “Standards” mode separately. We made this decision, informed by discussions with some leading web experts, with compatibility at the top of mind. In light of the Interoperability Principles, as well as feedback from the community, we’re choosing differently. Now, IE8 will show pages requesting “Standards” mode in IE8’s Standards mode. Developers who want their pages shown using IE8’s “IE7 Standards mode” will need to request that explicitly (using the http header/meta tag approach described here). Going Forward Long term, we believe this is the right thing for the web. Shorter term, leading up not just to IE8’s release but broader IE8 adoption, this choice creates a clear call to action to site developers to make sure their web content works well in IE. This topic is one of many things we’ll talk about with respect to IE8 at MIX this week. Thanks, Dean Hachamovitch General Manager Internet Explorer P.S. For further information on today's announcement, please go to the news release on our PressPass site. http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8008459 More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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As we approach 100000 signatures, a reminder of what "Save XP" is ... - InfoWorld <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> As we approach 100000 signatures, a reminder of what "Save XP" is ... InfoWorld, CA - 9 hours ago We are saying that Vista is not ready to be the standard Windows platform, and for the majority that cannot realistically look outside the Windows world, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ Australian IT <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Five unanswered questions in the Vista 'junk PC' lawsuit Computerworld, MA - 1 hour ago What did Intel give Microsoft in return for Microsoft launching the ill-fated Vista Capable scheme? As I've written in a previous blog, Microsoft launched ... High time for Intel to get serious about graphics ZDNet Asia all 64 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Vista Hack Circulating InformationWeek, NY - 5 hours ago Software pirates have reportedly hacked Windows Vista so that a stolen copy can run as though it were a fully licensed and activated version. ... Friday, February 29th 2008 New York Times Blogs all 3 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

As we approach 100000 signatures, a reminder of what "Save XP" is ... - InfoWorld <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> As we approach 100000 signatures, a reminder of what "Save XP" is ... InfoWorld, CA - 9 hours ago We are saying that Vista is not ready to be the standard Windows platform, and for the majority that cannot realistically look outside the Windows world, ... Exchangepedia Blog Author calls "Save XP Campaign" Childish! InfoWorld all 3 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Exchangepedia Blog Author calls "Save XP Campaign" Childish! InfoWorld, CA - Feb 29, 2008 Come 2009, if you're not ready to move to Windows Vista, its successor will probably show up long before the extended support for Windows XP ends in 2014. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I'm using MS Visual Studio .NET 2003. I created a new class which inherits from System.Web.UI.Page: public class MyPage : System.Web.UI.Page { } From the Solution Explorer i dclick the MyPage.aspx to go into the designer mode but get the error message: The file could not be loaded into the Web Forms designer.* Please correct the following error:* An exception occurred while trying to create an instance of MyInfo.MyPage.* The exception was :Object reference not set to an instance of an object.*.* Any solutions? Tahnks. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

As we approach 100000 signatures, a reminder of what "Save XP" is ... - InfoWorld <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> As we approach 100000 signatures, a reminder of what "Save XP" is ... InfoWorld, CA - 8 hours ago We are saying that Vista is not ready to be the standard Windows platform, and for the majority that cannot realistically look outside the Windows world, ... Exchangepedia Blog Author calls "Save XP Campaign" Childish! InfoWorld all 3 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hey all, I'm new to the group and mostly just wanted to say hi. I'm curious what you guys do for your inspiration for your project ideas. I realize many of you are professional developers and you don't have to worry about it as much, but I was thinking more for your personal projects. Inspiration has always been something of a weak point for me and I usually just end up falling into a project, and a lot less infrequently then I'd like. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ KOMO <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Was Intel behind the Vista 'junk PC' scheme? Computerworld, MA - Feb 29, 2008 We can see this today with Intel's inability to ship a compelling full featured 945 graphics driver for Windows Vista. Later on in the email. ... High time for Intel to get serious about graphics ZDNet Asia all 77 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Exchangepedia Blog Author calls "Save XP Campaign" Childish! InfoWorld, CA - Feb 29, 2008 Come 2009, if you're not ready to move to Windows Vista, its successor will probably show up long before the extended support for Windows XP ends in 2014. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Apple plans to make it easier to add programs to iPhones Detroit Free Press, United States - 4 hours ago On Vista, the latest and much-criticized version of the Windows operating system. Microsoft announced just before the weekend that its home and ultimate ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds