NewsBot

Have you ever wished you could get JavaScript Intellisense for the Virtual Earth Map Control in Visual Studio 2008?* I have, so I came up with a solution and started a codeplex project!* This screencast explains the solution.* The project is not finished.* I need people to volunteer to contribute so we can release full intellisense for*the Virtual Earth Map Control 6.0.* Instructions for people who want to contribute are in the screencast.* The more people willing to contribute, the faster we make this available for everyone! If you want to keep up with what's going on with the project, subscribe to my RSS feed from http://devkeydet.com.* [NOTE: some of the links in the video are not live just yet.* When they are, I will remove this note.]http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/386000.jpg Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Time to dump Windows? Computerworld, MA - 2 minutes ago "Windows Vista was the reason I bought a Mac mini. I didn't want my only choices to be an operating system that would soon be obsolete (XP) or one that was ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Mac Blog: Should updates be easy? PC Authority, Australia - 12 hours ago Meanwhile, Windows users have to jump through seemingly endless hoops just to prove to Microsoft that they haven’t pirated Vista or XP – a step the pirates ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows XP SP3: The improvements are under the hood Computerworld, MA - 40 minutes ago WPA2 is already available in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 with SP2. Microsoft did not claim any performance boosts for SP3, but one firm, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Warning to all Golden Oldies Lovers: You may not be able to leave this site for WEEKS! :D (okay you've been warned)** Thanks Digg http://youtube.com/view_play_list?p=719E1E6FF2E0EAFC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_number-one_hits_(United_States) Who in their right mind would call this post SPAM they probably did not even read it More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I just saw a few clips on YouTube with two comedians who claimed to have sex with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. Very funny clips, but why was the f-word always beeped out? Can I even write "(I need to watch my language)ing" here on Channel9 without getting censored or even banned? I don't see the point of beeping the words, everyone knows what they are saying. It reminds me of an episode where someone from Denmark went to a restaurant: "I would like a bloody beef" (a red steak)*and the waiter replies "Maybe you would like some (I need to watch my language)ing fries too?" :-) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

At the risk of sounding like a person who says the best thing about a vehicle is its engine, and saying that the wheels are unimportant, I will nevertheless ask; What is your most useful/favourite feature in .NET? I favour generics above all. Why generics? The length and breadth of its implementation, and the fact that it has 'set up' so much of the current .NET 3.0 and .NET 3.5 features. Why does Blowdart for instance champion cardspace? This is a simple quest to enlighten people that may or may not have glanced at a feature (personally i've not looked at cardspace yet). More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Jamie's Random Musings on Video IM ZDNet UK, UK - 57 minutes ago This morning when I turned the system on, it said "unable to start Windows"... and went into the Vista startup recovery procedure. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Why does C9's main page have two locked threads, four threads called "spam" and one of a!'s link-spam threads? And more importantly, why isn't anyone doing something about it? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista to XP - A Forced Retreat ZDNet UK, UK - 26 minutes ago This morning when I turned the system on, it said "unable to start Windows"... and went into the Vista startup recovery procedure. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

1) download AVG free edition from here 2) run the setup, select Custom Installation, disable the "Resident Shield", "E-mail scanner" components and leave only the Office plugin checked (Plugin for Microsoft Office 2000/XP) 3) save the following text in a .REG file and run it: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Attachments] "ScanWithAntiVirus"=dword:00000002 4) close all IE windows 5) open this address in a new IE window: http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm 6) download one of the eicar.com at the bottom of the page, if everything went well AVG should warn you that the file is infected now you can have AVG scan all the files downloaded from IE, including ActiveX components before they get installed, without having to keep any resident/network scanner. since e-mail attachments and office documents are also scanned you can avoid keeping bloated antivirus engines running thus saving a lot of system resources :O I chose AVG because it's the only common free antivirus that has an office plugin but if you have norton, mcafee, kaspersky they all have one with this "trick" my eee PC is now a lot faster because I got rid of resident AV bloatware running in background thanks to Bruce Morgan for letting me know of this windows policy (the one set with the .reg file) I never heard about :O More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<strong>Bluesea DVD-Audio WMA Sound to CD-R Converter converts audio files between MP3, CD, CDA, CD-R, DVD-Audio, AAC, AC3, ID3, M3U, M4A, M4P, MP3 ID3 Tag, OGG, RA, WAV, WMA, MP2, APE, VQF, MPC, AMR, Midi, WAVE, and RM. It's easy to use and have fast speed. Just click on one button a DVD will be extracted. Its user-friendly interface supports both drag & drop and shell operation of Windows Explorer. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi,I have some xml data where nodes sometimes are uppercase and sometimes lowercase, it seems that SelectSingleNode("SomeNode") is case sensitive. Is there a way to do a SelectSingleNode but case INSENSITIVE? Because I don't know if it is "SomeNode" or "SOMENODE" or "somenode".thx More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Trolltech has started shipping apreview version of Qt that supports Windows CE as a build target. TheQt toolkit allows desktop applications built on Qt to be recompiled forWindows CE with minimal changes, according to the company. I hope that some QT-based stuff like KDE applications will be ported to WM :O with this and all the other improvements QT windows support is having it's becoming a very good MFC alternative More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Lifetime DAT 3G2 MP4 Converter - A fast DAT video to DVD VOB Video converter which can convert and burn DAT, AVI, MPG, MPEG 1/2/4, WMV, MOV, MP4, RM, RMVB, DivX, Xvid, ASF, 3GP, Youtube FLV to DVD VOB VCD SVCD easily. With this DVD VCD SVCD converter, you will know how to make a DVD video. You can use it to convert and burn DivX, Xvid, AVI, MPG, MPEG 1/2/4, WMV, MOV, MP4, RM, RMVB files to DVD with chapter Menu. With that, you can convert downloaded videos and burn files into DVD, which means Internet become the storehouse of your home theater! Get Free download now! Lifetime DAT 3G2 MP4 Converter - What a powerful and attractive DAT, AVI, MPG, MPEG 1/2/4, WMV, MOV, MP4, RM, RMVB, DivX, Xvid, ASF, 3GP, Youtube FLV to Video converter. This software can burn DivX to DVD and convert DivX to VOB and finish all your tasks with the fastest speed possible and the best quality available. No one will ask how to make a DVD video anymore once they try this great DivX to VOB converter. We highly recommend this program because we think it will make your multimedia life a lot easier and more enjoyable. It allows you to specify NTSC or PAL format, adjust 4:3 or 16:9 video aspect, and burn either DVD disc or ISO file. By setting bitrate and framerate, you can get excellent quality on TV screen. Just free download and enjoy it right now! http://www.iphone-software.org/download/b09/datconverter.exe More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Swift SVCD DAT VCD to DVD is the fastest DVD VCD video converter software so far in the world. and reliable tools for VCD video conversion More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Here's some psuedo code... int[] ids = new int[1000]; string[] names = new string[1000] for (int i = 0 ; i < 1000 ; i++) { // open customer001txt through customer999.txt // update the id and name array avariables } This is a VERY simplified version.. the real project consists of opening up hundereds of encrypted database files that must be decrypted, parsed, and then arrays in the parent class/thread need to be updated with info... The problem is the single thread version now works fine, but takes forever.. most of the burden is decrypting and unpacking the database files.. if I could multi-thread this I could cut down processing time big time I believe.. Right now I am trying to use QueueUserWorkItem() and just load up all the file names using the object state var.. but because my worker function is static, I cant figure out how to update the arrays in the parent thread safely.. This seems like it would be a fairly common task.. use threads to pull a bunch of information from hundereds of files/databases and populate a parent table/structure with info... I'm not looking to be spoon fed, just a little guidance. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Please help. Thanks! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Mac Blog: Should updates be easy? PC Authority, Australia - 25 minutes ago Meanwhile, Windows users have to jump through seemingly endless hoops just to prove to Microsoft that they haven’t pirated Vista or XP – a step the pirates ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ ZDNet Blogs <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Remembering Windows XP’s early days ZDNet Blogs - 7 hours ago It’s the greatest operating system ever, in the minds of some, especially compared to the allegedly bloated, slow Windows Vista. In fact, InfoWorld has gone ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

My laptop (connected to my router wirelessly) can't seem to find my 360 which is wired. Does the laptop have to be wired to the router? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I've got an app which carries out some messaging over TCP/IP.* In the course of running the app, I spawn all sorts of threads.* I'm running into cases where the port is already in use.* I'd like to check that the port is avilable before I spin the entire application into gear. After a bit of googling, I haven't seen any better suggestions than just trying to create a socket and catching the SocketException if the port is already in use.* Is there a "proper" way to check that the port is open and avoid using the catch for control flow? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I received my ISIC card today (w00t)! I then ran inside and hopped on DreamSpark. It seems that they're ISIC Validation is messed up because it keeps telling me to enter in a number as if I've left the textbox blank. I have tried to verify in IE7 and FF2 and have had no luck. Has anyone been able to verify using that method? Thanks. EDIT Scratch that...leaving off the end of my number made it work. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

So I understand SP1 RTM is available to TechNet subscribers.* I've gained access to a TechNet subscriber (At great cost to the company), but we couldn't find a download link for SP1. Where is it? Thanks. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

My review of Windows Server 2008 is updated with information about each of the product editions that are available! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

From Effective C++, Thrid Edition: TR1 ("Technical Report 1") is a specification for new functionality being added to C++'s standard library. This functionality takes the form of new class and function templates for things like hash tables, reference-counting smart pointers, regular expressions, and more. TR1 itself is just a document. As I write this in early 2005, the document has not been finalized, and its URL is subject to change. So, what does this mean for Microsoft's Visual C++? What's being added to our suite of native libraries to support TR1? What new features will you find most useful? Stephan T. Lavavej is a developer on the VC++ team who is implementing some of the features that will ship as part of a TR1 VC++*"CTP" some time in the near future... He's really passionate about C++ and here we dig into some of his favorite new TR1 features and he explains how they work and why C++ developers should use them by default. Much of the time is spent on the whiteboard. One of the really interesting new features of TR1 is shared_ptr (shared pointer) which provides some useful automation (memory safety) for native developers playing with pointers. shared_ptr is also performant as well as predictable. Good stuff. Learn. Enjoy. Click here for low res download file. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds