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Can anybody recommend a good resource which deals with developing WinForms (or WPF) client-server apps, where the clients have to work in a Citrix environment? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Are you using a JavaScript library, and if so which one (and why?) I'm a but late to the game with these and there seem to be so many around. Thought Microsoft's AJAX library was good but then someone pointed me at Prototype and Script.ac.ulous which seemed so much better (until someone pointed out how much it memory leaks). Over the last few weeks I've been playing with JQuery and really like it - seems more elegant and concise than Prototype. Is there a better library out there that I'm missing? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hello all, I hope you can assist me, or perhaps point me in the correct direction.* If I am in the wrong forum I apologize in advance. I am having an issue with IE7 running under Vista.* My home page is set to www.fownews.com (okay, not mine, my wifes) Trouble is if she has more than 1 tab open whenever foxnews refreshes the focus changes back to that page, taking her away from the page she is on. Any suggestions on how to prevent this from happening, it is most annoying to be on a page reading and have it changed on you. Thanks, More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Vista Update Disables Anti-Virus Programs Switched, NY - 27 minutes ago Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry. Email addresses are never displayed, but they are required to confirm your comments. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Vista SP1 Breaks Some Third-Party Apps CIO, MA - 27 minutes ago By Diann Daniel February 22, 2008 — CIO — This week Microsoft gave Windows Vista haters more to fuel their dislike. Tuesday Microsoft pulled KB937287, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Glitch Accidentally Releases Vista SP1 To Public PC Magazine - 33 minutes ago by Chloe Albanesius Microsoft on Thursday accidentally released the first service pack (SP1) for Windows Vista to a group of users who were not supposed to ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

XML Tools team has released the XSLT Profiler Addin for VS 2008 - a quick and reliable performance analysis profiler tool that assists in the development and debugging of XSLT documents. The XSLT Profiler Addin for VS 2008 allows developers to measure, evaluate, and target performance-related problems in XSLT code by creating detailed XSLT performance reports. The XSLT Profiler includes a wealth of useful hints for XSL and XSLT style sheet optimizations, which are essential for XSLT-based applications that demand maximum performance. If you need to develop reliable and robust software, the XSLT Profiler is capable of detecting the performance errors and defects in coding so that they are corrected at an early stage in the development. This is essential in reducing the overall cost of developing software applications. The XSLT Profiler tool is fully integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 to provide a seamless and approachable user experience, combining several Microsoft technologies, including Microsoft XML Editor and XSLT Debugger, Visual Studio Team System, F1 (Performance Suites), and more. For more information and download check out Microsoft Downloads site. http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/385258.jpg More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

"Special" guest host Ed Kaim is in the studio as Dan is down covering GDC. This week's episode includes - Microsoft announces DreamSpark - Free software for students - Max Zuckerman interviews Bill Gates on what he would do if he was 17 again. - XNA announces Community Arcade which enables anyone to submit a game, get it peer-reviewed, and shared with the Xbox Live community - XNA also announced that you'll be able to build games for Zune with XNA Game Studio 3.0 including wireless multiplayer - Xbox also announced that publishers who have an XDK will now have access to a set of XNA APIs that enable leaderboard, matchmaking, achievements, and more, found via Greg Duncan - Windows Live SkyDrive is out of beta and increased it's size to 5GB. - VS DB Pro team releases Power Tools - custom data generators, SQL Static analysis, data generation wizard, and more, via Gert Drapers - Visualize LINQ Expression Evaluation - Utility that enables you to visually see and step through LINQ expressions from John Skeet - Brian's pick of the week: William Stacey fixes the VS SLN problem with 1 line of PowerShell - Ed's Pick of the week: Nikhil Kothari's Script# Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Cold-Boot Attack Can Crack Disk Encryption Sci-Tech Today - 17 minutes ago By Peter Piazza Windows Vista's BitLocker, Apple Inc.'s FileVault for the Mac and other encryption tools are vulnerable to a cold-boot attack using ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Cross-country Code Digital entertainment made easy Inquirer.net, Philippines - 8 hours ago By the way, Windows Media Center used to be a separate Windows operating system you needed to buy. Now it comes bundled free with Windows Vista Home Premium ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ eFluxMedia <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Troubleshoots Windows Vista Service Pack 1 eFluxMedia - 6 minutes ago ... to the download center on microsoft.com’” announced earlier this month Mike Nash, Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President on Windows Vista official blog. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Scott Guthrie has posted a First Look at Silverlight 2 More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Is twitter borked for anyone else? I see only my last post and none of the people I am following .... is it dead (at last)? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I was randoming around www.theDailyWTF.com and I came across this gem: theInfamousI and The Random Guy The article was about funky naming that some of us do out of boredom, animosity, or both.* But, what had me giggling like a schoolgirl wasn't the actual article, but the comment by mxksweeb http://ms-os.com/Themes/AlmostGlass/images/icon-quote.gif mxksweeb wrote: I am *so* using theInfamousI++ as my default incrementer from now on!! Development has a large number of inside jokes that we just don't notice any more because we've seen them thousands of times (bit, byte, nibble for example).* So, two questions: 1) what have you done/seen in code that wasn't Correct but still pretty funny. 2) would it be ethical to take some of the more common themes and make them standards. Afterall, if we all start to use 'theInfamousI++' in place of 'i++', it would become a defacto standard. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi to all. i am new to this community. i need to develop a windows mobile application. i dont know anything about this. i need to start from the scratch. can any one please help me to find out what are all the softwares needed for this and how to approah this? Thanks in advance. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Lifetime AVI MPG MPEG to DVD is the best RealMedia converter software. easy convert Real Media files(.rm, .rmvb) to AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, VCD, SVCD, DVD files. convert RM/RMVB to AVI DIVX XVID MPEG VCD SVCD DVD and burn to DVD/CD. You can change the codec/system type to PAL or NTSC, and adjust the video size of the output files . It supports to convert almost all video, such as: RM to AVI, RM to DIVX XVID, RM to MPEG-1, RM to MPEG-2, RM to WMV, RM to VCD, AVI MPG MPEG to DVD, RM to PSP Video, iPod Video, Zune Video, iPhone Video... Support convert AVI, Divx, ASF, WMV, WMA, MPEG, MOV, QT, RM, RMVB, file to MPEG with all encode format such as VCD PAL/NTSC, SVCD PAL/NTSC, DVD PAL/NTSC, MPEG-1 standard, MPEG-2 standard etc. Support convert AVI, Divx, ASF, WMV, WMA, MPEG, MOV, QT, RM, RMVB, file to AVI with all encode format such as DIVX, XVID, Mircosoft MPEG-4 etc. http://www.iphone-software.org/download/b09/rmtodvd.exe More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ SYS-CON Media <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> DreamSpark Is Very, Very, Very Un-Microsoft-Like! SYS-CON Media, NJ - 1 hour ago If there isn't enough room on the Vista DVD (which wouldn't surprise me), add yet another edition of the OS, Windows Vista Ultimate Developer Edition. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ SYS-CON Media <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> DreamSpark Is Very, Very, Very Un-Microsoft-Like! SYS-CON Media, NJ - 48 minutes ago If there isn't enough room on the Vista DVD (which wouldn't surprise me), add yet another edition of the OS, Windows Vista Ultimate Developer Edition. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I have an X509Certificate2-instance fMainCertificate that contains a certificate I imported from a file. I verify this certificate by building an X509Chain-instance, including all the certificates in the certification path of the main certificate (fExtraCertificates), like this:X509Chain lChain = new X509Chain(); lChain.ChainPolicy.RevocationFlag = X509RevocationFlag.ExcludeRoot; lChain.ChainPolicy.RevocationMode = X509RevocationMode.Online; lChain.ChainPolicy.VerificationFlags = X509VerificationFlags.AllFlags; foreach(X509Certificate2 lCertificate in fExtraCertificates) lChain.ChainPolicy.ExtraStore.Add(lCertificate); bool lSuccess = lChain.Build(fMainCertificate);This validates the main certificate and returns true. But when I display the certificate, like this:X509Certificate2UI.DisplayCertificate(fMainCertificate);the certificate dialog says that "Windows does not have enough information to verify this certificate.". The tab page "Certification Path" tells me "The issuer of this certificate could not be found.". How can I link the certificates in fExtraCertificates to the main certificate so they are used in the dialog? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Josh Holmes*caught up with Dave Donaldson*to talk about the cool project that he started back in 2004 called CodeKeep. This is a fantastic example of a passionate guy putting up a project that everyone can benefit from with no financial motivation. This is one of the longer episodes so far (close to 30 minutes) but there's a lot of great content here. http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/385194.jpg Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

As part of me trying to solve this problem, I've been recommended to go over this famous tome by Donald Knuth. I've been told it contains algorithms on dealing with Bignum implementations (albiet in assembly, but I'm sure I'll manage). Yet the title of Volume 3*is "Sorting and Searching". Just to make sure there wasn't a typo in the email sent to me (and avoiding a costly mis-purchase) can anyone who has the book or at least read it confirm it contains this? Ta More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Can anybody tell why Vista SP1 was offered to some on WU yesterday ? Lucky ones got it,* then later it was pulled ? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Yanks Vista SP1 Update File IT Management, CT - 22 minutes ago By Andy Patrizio As if Windows Vista hasn't suffered enough embarrassment over technical problems, Microsoft today was forced to pull one of the three ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Yesterday, I made another attempt to getting pthread.h working on windows with win32-pthreads and today my multithreaded prime number finder is working. However, there is one thing that I do not understand. In order to get it to work, I had to compile pthreadVC2.dll and then move it to system32, even though Visual Studio has access to the source files. Exactly what does a dll file do and why could Visual Studio 2008 Professional not inline the necessary code into the executable, so that it would not need the dll file? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista SP1 clashing with AV products Virus Bulletin, UK - 45 minutes ago A Vista team blog entry, containing some details about the service pack release, is here. Details of next month's VB100 test on Windows Vista SP1 are here. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds