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Hello! I've been looking into the ListView control and there is one thing I hope someone here can answer. Every instance of a ListView has a Groups property which returns a ListViewGroupCollection. It is not explicitly possible to instantiate a ListViewGroupCollection, I get the following error: "Error*1*The type 'System.Windows.Forms.ListViewGroupCollection' has no constructors defined [...]" But obviously has the ListView class instatiated one instance of ListViewGroupCollection; how has that been done? Some kind of friend class? Another question is regarding when adding ListViewItems to a group's Items property (theListView.Groups[0].Items.Add(...)). How does "theListView" know when an item is added to the collection of items, so that it can add it to the control? Does "theListView" listen to events that*ListViewItemCollection triggers when adding, removing..? Or does the collection have a reference to "theListView"..? Thanks in advance // Martin 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 - 16 minutes 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

Original file here Hi guys. I am trying to develop a simle windows service (my first windows service) that watches a folder on a server. It uses the System.IO.FileSystemWatcher class to watch a folder, with only the created event raised and the FileName NotifyFilter. The thing is, it works for the first 1-3 files I drop into the folder, imports into the DB without issues. But when I drop the 4th file and onwards, I get a file is locked error. I am always dropping in new files, not files that are already in the folder. Anyone have an idea as to why the files are beging locked ? 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"> Visual Studio 2008 is here! Geekzone, New Zealand - 13 hours ago As well as making VS even easier to use, these improvements allow developers to make the most of new features in Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Lifetime DVD to FLV MP4 Flash is a All-in-One powerful tool. Convert all popular video and audio formats to Youtube video, swf or flv to video, such as avi, mpeg, 3gp, mp4, mov, it offers the solutions to problems that many other flash to video converting tools http://www.iphone-software.org/download/b09/dvdtoflv.exe More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Wal-Mart encourages buyers to post comments about products on blog International Herald Tribune, France - 5 minutes ago ... merchandise manager for Wal-Mart's entertainment division, who blogs about computers and electronics - and who wrote the lukewarm review of Windows Vista. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

On the Mark: Will 'platform as a service' pit Google against ... - Computerworld <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> On the Mark: Will 'platform as a service' pit Google against ... Computerworld, MA - 51 minutes ago PLMP depends on Asankya's giganode caching devices in ISP data centers, and on a softnode plug-in that you install on your Windows XP system. (Vista support ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi y'all, First off, I have to do generic overload of the method, because I can't change the old code. And here it is: *** *** public Obj ReturnObject(Obj obj) *** *** { *** *** *** return obj; *** *** } the normal version of the method, not so strong type. Then I wrap around it with: *** *** public T ReturnObject(T obj) where T : Obj *** *** { *** *** *** Obj obj1 = ReturnObject(obj);// trying to call the non-generic method *** *** *** return obj1 as T; *** *** } So I don't have to do casting all the time. But Obj obj1 = ReturnObject(obj); always callback to the same generic method again and again instead of calling the non-generic method. Is it a feature or a bug? If this is a feature, then how would I, or could I, call the non-generic method of similar signature? I guess I can change the name of the methods to be different from each other, but then why do I want that? Thank you for your advices! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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Developers for Developers (Devs4Devs) Series - "Silverlight - What, Where and How?" - This is part 3 of 3. * Silverlight - What, Where and How? I've been demoing Silverlight for some of our enterprise customers, conferences, and**local*user groups for several months now.* If*there is one thing I've see it is people are very opinionated about what*MS is trying to do with it.* Silverlight is just the next ActiveX out to destroy the world, right? :D* I felt a video like this would be important to give you insight on where*Silverlight came from not just what it can do. * In the video I cover several topics: - Why Silverlight?* What is Microsoft up to? - Web Development today - the need for User Experience - What is*this XAML stuff? WPF? - Good Overview and hands on with Expression Blend - What you need to get started today and where you can get it. Does it cost anything? - Demos sprinkled throughout to help reinforce concepts -*I take*you step by step in creating your first Silverlight application (yes I used 2.0 this time). *********- Storyboards, Images, setting properties, firing/capturing events, using the VS2008 Tools, even adding Ink support. ******** - Just for giggles I also*show how*easy it is to put the new control inside a*Vista Gadget. - Lots of links to additional resources and where you can get more help. My hope is that after watching this video you will have a clear understanding of where the Microsoft Platform is heading when it comes to NextWeb and the Presentation Technology Space and also how we got there.* You should also feel comfortable*creating Silverlight content in*both VS2008 and Blend and how you can use it in your projects today.* I know I definitely* had a blast coding with it. :D Thanks, Dave "DaveDev" Isbitski http://blogs.msdn.com/davedev Come join your peers and check us out on Facebook today! http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/387654.jpg Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> High time for Intel to get serious about graphics ZDNet Asia, Asia - 23 minutes ago Microsoft is currently being sued over its Windows Vista upgrade programs, which were designed with pressure from Intel, but over the objections of the PC ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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softwares that can remove DRM and convert DRM In this article, I will discuss softwares that can remove DRM and convert DRM. DRM stands for digital rights management. It claims to protect digital media from piracy. However, DRM does nothing to stop copyright pirates. The main purpose of DRM is financial. It prevents lawful user from making back up of purchased music and enjoying music on third-party players. It may also cause some security issues, because DRM controls your computer, automatically connects to Internet. I prefer to remove DRM from my purchased music so I can enjoy my music without estrictions. Here are some softwares that can help you remove DRM and convert DRM. Digital Media Converter http://www.wmatomp3-converter.com/digital-media-converter.html http://www.wmatomp3-converter.com/images/article-image/digital-media-converter.jpg * This is my favorite DRM removal software. In fact, I only use this application to convert DRM files now. It can perform all types of conversion including video to video, video to audio, and audio to audio. It is the only software that can remove DRM without recording and the conversion speed is very fast. Highly recommend. Tunebite http://tunebite.com/ http://www.flash-on-tv.com/images/article/tune-bite.jpg * I used to use Tunebite before I found Digital Media Converter. Supporting many formats is its advantage. Its disadvantage is it can only remove DRM by recording, so the conversion speed is slow and I can’t do anything else on my computer during the conversion process. SoundTaxi http://www.soundtaxi.info/ http://www.daniusoft.com/article-image/sound-taxi.jpg * Another software that uses the recording method. I think there is a bug in SoundTaxi. It starts converting even though the convert button is not clicked. NoteBurner http://www.noteburner.com/ http://www.daniusoft.com/article-image/note-burner.jpg * NoteBurner acts as a virtual CD burner. It adds an icon to the system tray and can only be used within a player. In summary, SoundTaxi and Tunebite work by recording while Digital Music Converter directly converts. The results of this difference are Digital Music Converter needs less time to finish converting and you can perform other tasks when using it. Tunebite and Digital Music Converter both support many formats, however, Tunebite needs lame_enc.dll to support mp3 or it can't work with mp3. * Ok, it’s done.( maybe it’s too short, I’m sorry I didn’t have much time to modify or perfect it which only could make you to get a simple image of them ). For personal opinion, I like Digital Music Converter a bit more. But whatever, hope you can have much more fun with them. * More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> RTM means "release to mob" for Vista SP1 Computerworld New Zealand, New Zealand - 15 hours ago Rolling up fixes means that new Vista users will get one big download from Windows Update instead of dozens of little ones, and there won't be any wondering ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Microsoft e-mails suggest priority was 'to help Intel' - Seattle Post Intelligencer http://ms-os.com/ bit-tech.net <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft e-mails suggest priority was 'to help Intel' Seattle Post Intelligencer - Feb 28, 2008 The e-mails were disclosed this week as part of a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft over the use of the "Windows Vista Capable" designation on ... Was Intel behind the Vista 'junk PC' scheme? Computerworld More Fodder for Vista Critics Surfaces PC World Microsoft e-mails reveal Intel pressure over Vista CNET News.com ZDNet all 101 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Maybe I'm starting this thread on the wrong day (Sun/Monday) but I thought I'd maybe see we had the "where are you from" thread...maybe lets try "Niners in famous places thread..." Titan Missle Museum http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2187/2304722235_db3b06842b.jpg Me in front of a SR-71 Blackbird at Pima County Air and Space Museumhttp://farm3.static.flickr.com/2198/2306458398_53fb450851.jpg More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

It used to be called Channel 9 Neus. Brian and Dan haven't aged a bit. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Visual Studio 2008 is here! Geekzone, New Zealand - 4 hours ago As well as making VS even easier to use, these improvements allow developers to make the most of new features in Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

For my homework assignment, which is due on Tuesday, I need to write a C program that takes the source code to another C program as input and returns as output the same C program with proper formatting. The specific C programs that will be fed into my program for the determination of my grade has been provided to me, as well as the expected output. The programs are very simple and utilize a small subset of the C language. They feature the inclusion of the stdio.h, integer declarations and initializations done together, if statements (with blocks), while loops (with blocks), simple expressions, printf and return 0. An extra credit portion of the assignment includes for loops. Since I did poorly on my previous assignment because the grader saw fit to define parts of the assignment that were left by my professor for students to define and also to redefine the grading standard as accepting signed (i.e. negative) values in places designated as having unsigned values, I decided to go above and beyond on this assignment and write a scanner to tokenize the input and then write a parser that would take the tokens and reassemble them into a neatly formatted C program, because my professor said that I would receive more extra credit for doing that. I also want to write this program so that in the future, I can have my computer format code for me and at some point, I could use the scanner as part of a compiler I will write for my TI-84 Plus calculator so I will not have to learn BASIC to program for it. I have a copy of the purple dragon book that I have been reading. I have read chapter 1, all of chapter 2 minus a few pages detailing parts of a compiler that I do not need to write right now, and most of chapter 3 (up to page 134). I want to finish my program by 10 pm EST today, so I decided to reallocate the 3 hours I have left from reading the dragon book to writing actual code. I am contemplating the design of my scanner and I am wondering, should I put reserved words into the symbol table or create a separate reserved words table for them? In the token output, should I represent reserved words with where for if, I would have something like or , where for if, I would have . What about preprocessor definitions? Upon seeing #, should a good scanner put the entire line in the symbol table, or check to see what is there and in the case of include, put the contents of into the symbol table and then output ? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft: Windows XP faster than Vista SP1 in some cases Computerworld, MA - Feb 28, 2008 Several users commenting on Microsoft's official Vista blog -- where mention was made of the tests -- took exception to Principled's conclusion that Vista ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Developers for Developers (Devs4Devs) Series - "Silverlight - What, Where and How?" - This is part 2 of 3. * Silverlight - What, Where and How? I've been demoing Silverlight for some of our enterprise customers, conferences, and**local*user groups for several months now.* If*there is one thing I've see it is people are very opinionated about what*MS is trying to do with it.* Silverlight is just the next ActiveX out to destroy the world, right? :D* I felt a video like this would be important to give you insight on where*Silverlight came from not just what it can do. * In the video I cover several topics: - Why Silverlight?* What is Microsoft up to? - Web Development today - the need for User Experience - What is*this XAML stuff? WPF? - Good Overview and hands on with Expression Blend - What you need to get started today and where you can get it. Does it cost anything? - Demos sprinkled throughout to help reinforce concepts -*I take*you step by step in creating your first Silverlight application (yes I used 2.0 this time). *********- Storyboards, Images, setting properties, firing/capturing events, using the VS2008 Tools, even adding Ink support. ******** - Just for giggles I also*show how*easy it is to put the new control inside a*Vista Gadget. - Lots of links to additional resources and where you can get more help. My hope is that after watching this video you will have a clear understanding of where the Microsoft Platform is heading when it comes to NextWeb and the Presentation Technology Space and also how we got there.* You should also feel comfortable*creating Silverlight content in*both VS2008 and Blend and how you can use it in your projects today.* I know I definitely* had a blast coding with it. :D Thanks, Dave "DaveDev" Isbitski http://blogs.msdn.com/davedev Come join your peers and check us out on Facebook today! http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/387623.jpg Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ ZDNet <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> A real-world Vista challenge: Can this Sony Vaio be saved? ZDNet - 23 minutes ago Jeremy has done an excellent job of chronicling his experiences with Windows Vista running on a pricey high-end Sony Vaio. In a word, it has sucked. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Developers for Developers (Devs4Devs) Series - "Silverlight - What, Where and How?" - Developers for Developers*is a*group on Facebook*filled with tips, tricks, and stories of battle from your fellow coders.* Some of the best stuff you can pick up in your career doesn't come from a book or a presentation. It comes from your fellow developer and his experiences. A quick hallway conversation, 15 minutes at someone's desk after a "Hey come check this out!".. these are the things that can make a difference!* Silverlight - What, Where and How? I've been demoing Silverlight for some of our enterprise customers, conferences, and**local*user groups for several months now.* If*there is one thing I've see it is people are very opinionated about what*MS is trying to do with it.* Silverlight is just the next ActiveX out to destroy the world, right? :D* I felt a video like this would be important to give you insight on where*Silverlight came from not just what it can do. * In the video I cover several topics: - Why Silverlight?* What is Microsoft up to? - Web Development today - the need for User Experience - What is*this XAML stuff? WPF? - Good Overview and hands on with Expression Blend - What you need to get started today and where you can get it. Does it cost anything? - Demos sprinkled throughout to help reinforce concepts -*I take*you step by step in creating your first Silverlight application (yes I used 2.0 this time). *********- Storyboards, Images, setting properties, firing/capturing events, using the VS2008 Tools, even adding Ink support. ******** - Just for giggles I also*show how*easy it is to put the new control inside a*Vista Gadget. - Lots of links to additional resources and where you can get more help. My hope is that after watching this video you will have a clear understanding of where the Microsoft Platform is heading when it comes to NextWeb and the Presentation Technology Space and also how we got there.* You should also feel comfortable*creating Silverlight content in*both VS2008 and Blend and how you can use it in your projects today.* I know I definitely* had a blast coding with it. :D Thanks, Dave "DaveDev" Isbitski http://blogs.msdn.com/davedev Come join your peers and check us out on Facebook today!http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/387614.jpg Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Blog posts, News items… ZDNet - 12 minutes ago Tags: Security, Microsoft Windows Vista, Data Execution Prevention, Exploitation, Address Space Layout Randomization, Nathan McFeters Blog posts 2008-03-02 ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds