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Microsoft Will Release Vista SP1 Early to 'Technical Customers' - Redmond Channel Par <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Will Release Vista SP1 Early to 'Technical Customers' Redmond Channel Partner, CA - 29 minutes ago Posters were on the calmer side -- though still frustrated -- on the Windows Vista blog, where Corporate Vice President of Windows Product Management Mike ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Microsoft Will Release Vista SP1 Early to 'Technical Customers' - Redmondmag.com <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Will Release Vista SP1 Early to 'Technical Customers' Redmondmag.com, CA - 5 minutes ago Posters were on the calmer side -- though still frustrated -- on the Windows Vista blog, where Corporate Vice President of Windows Product Management Mike ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> First Vista update: the missing link The Age, Australia - 2 minutes ago Local IT integrators are perplexed over the "missing in action" status of Microsoft's first major update to its Windows Vista operating system. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft nixes Vista SP1 for TechNet, MSDN until later this month Computerworld, MA - 17 minutes ago In a post to the company's Vista blog, Mike Nash, vice president of Windows product management, announced that as of Friday, SP1's beta testers were able to ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Platform*Architecture Director Javed Sikander discusses the new OBA Composition Reference Toolkit which was just announced at ODC 2008. OBA has come a very long way since we last chatted with Javed on C9. The OBA Composer, which ships as part of the toolkit,*is really impressive WYSIYG designer*tool for Sharepoint applications. Check it out. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://plf.zarb.org/ Well there you have it folks. It seems that Stalin-Marxism isn't enough for these people. Linux is used by TERRORISTS to hurt innocent Christian American children? Now you see that the "Penguin Liberation Front" (PLF) wishes to do just that. USE LINUX AND THE TERRORISTS WIN. Microsoft redeem us from this evil. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft backpedals, moves up Vista SP1 release dates NetworkWorld.com, MA - 5 minutes ago ... version of the software at the end of this week, Mike Nash, corporate vice president for Windows product management, announced on the Vista Team blog. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

At Lang.NET 2008, I caught up with two dynamic languages afficianados who have been working on a similar (and really hard)problem over the years: getting Ruby (a dynamic language) to run on a static virtual machine (JVM and CLR, respectived). Charles Nutter is a lead developer on the*JRuby project which aims to run Ruby "natively' on the JVM. Wayne Kelly is the lead developer on the now defunct Ruby.NET project (it's been*merged*into the*IronRuby project so Wayne and team's great work has not gone with the wind...)*which aimed to get Ruby to run on the CLR. Both Charles and Wayne are challanged by the same technical hurdles: Running dynamic code in a statically-typed environment with no support for continuations. This is really challenging and is the primary reason that Microsoft created the DLR... Here, we chat about that they're working on and what problems they face. Another interesting discussion with brilliant people at Lang.NET 2008. Enjoy. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I installed SP1 and as I expected like the previous builds it still leaves all the older files behind. is there a way to get rid of the backup files like you could on XP by launching the service pack installer using the /NOBACKUP switch? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Beta testers get Vista SP1 RTM early Computerworld, MA - Feb 8, 2008 "In early March, MSDN and TechNet subscribers will be able to get the 'Windows Vista with SP1' full DVD," the same spokeswoman said in another e-mail. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft nixes Vista SP1 for TechNet, MSDN until later this month Computerworld, MA - 15 minutes ago In a post to the company's Vista blog, Mike Nash, vice president of Windows product management, announced that as of Friday, SP1's beta testers were able to ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2008/02/11/windows-vista-sp1-availability-for-technical-customers.aspx So not for me then (in before someone else says it) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Releases Windows Vista SP1 To Businesses This Week InformationWeek, NY - 4 minutes ago By J. Nicholas Hoover Microsoft's updated its tiered schedule for releasing Windows Vista's first service pack, and businesses will be the first on the ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I'm tring to work out if there is a way to to do this with typed datasets... //Somewhere in code create a detached row var dt = newViews.UsersDataTable (); var row = dt.NewUsersRow (); //somewhere else in code //Now this doesn't work as the row has a reference to another DataTable, even though it's detached. DestData.AddUsersRow (srcData.Current); //This doesn't work as the row is detached DestData.ImportRow (srcData.Current); What I need is a factory that can create stand alone UserRow objects*that can then be added to*any DataTable, without me having to pass the row factory a reference to the destination dataset. This seems like*it should be the simplest task,*but I can't seem to make it work! Cheers, Stephen.* More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I am fairly new when it comes to programming so you are going to have to hang in there with me.* If I say anything that makes your headscatch, you are probably rightfully doing so. I am a hardware designer and, because I work for a small company, got thrust into developing some software as well.* I had minimal software coding experience before this job, but have done some embedded C and some work in Visual Studio .net since working here. Considering my success with that, my company has also decided that I am the best suited to develp the software for our mobile device to communicate with our product via RS 232. FTR, nothing has been released yet. To test and to control the product during developement I created a visual studio project in C# to communicate via RS 232 to the development board which was successful. Now I want to do a similar thing for our Windows Mobile 5.0 device (iPAQ 2495).* The problem is that I am completely failing in my testing.* It is not like development for the desktop where I can just run the debugger and use the serial port. . . because I have to disconnect the serial port and connect it to my device in order to test. The problem is that when I do this the debugger, of course, says I have lost connection AND the programming running on the device freezes up. So any suggestions on what I should be doing?* I am just not sure which direction I need to be going. Thanks for the help Charlie More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Leo and I discuss the Xbox 360 Red Ring of Death, Windows Vista SP1, Vista sales revisited, the death of XP, and Microsoft's bid for Yahoo! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

OK so Microsoft were rejected by Yahoo!* But that will become a hostile takeover... Meanwhile Microsoft are still on a buying spree with the purchase of Danger Inc so that's another one in the MS camp for mobile purchases. Looking at the bigger picture I see MS building up services that link to mobile.* :)* I wonder how much of the Yahoo Mobile stuff they were wanting and whether there will also be another offer for just certain segments of Yahoo! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista SP1 'debacle' promopts TechNet revolt ITWorld Canada, Canada - 17 minutes ago s decision to hold the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) version of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1), with some admitting that they've downloaded pirated ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ CNET Blogs <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Five quick Windows speedup tips CNET Blogs, CA - 5 hours ago Speed up Windows XP and Vista by disabling the Indexing Service used by the OSes' built-in search feature. Tomorrow: Sort messages in Gmail using instant ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=1267 It does seem that Microsoft hasn’t been successful in closing off all the hacks that allow*non-genuine copies of Vista SP1 to pass off as genuine ones.* After a*few minutes*of searching the darker corners of the Internet and a few seconds in the Command Prompt I was able to fool Windows into thinking that it was genuine, turning this: More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Michael Horowitz Daily Download, CA - 34 minutes ago He is a member of the CNET Blog Network, and is not an employee of CNET. If you are running Windows XP, you should install the free DropMyRights program. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi Guys, I'm looking into new ways for me to handle the data access layer. The way i used to do it is have a set of classes that reflect the data, and then one or more classes that did the actual database communication and used the data classes for reference. I find this method a bit tedious*when the application gets larger however. If i look around Google for best practices on this topic, everyone talks about DataSets, but i highly dislike DataSets and find them pretty impractical. I definitely like having my own custom classes the most, however it hurts me deep when i have to have traits that reflect the database model in my classes. (relational stuff, like FK_OtherTableID). I know that the entity framework will solve this for us when it's done, but there's one thing i don't like about the entity framework, and that's the inability to separate the mapping completely from the classes you're working with, and only have the XML files to guide the framework. This means that you have to have specialized classes, with interface implementations and special attributes, which I'm not a fan of either. I might just be very picky, and need to come down to earth and pick one of the above. Or maybe there are completely other ways to go. So to round this up, I'm interested in knowing how you all like to do data access. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I guys, I'm new in Windows CE 6.0 and Platform builder. I need to develop a printer driver. So I took a look at this sample : C:\WINCE600\PUBLIC\COMMON\OAK\DRIVERS\USB\CLASS\PRINTER The idea is to take only this dll and to compile it without compiling all the Win CE image. An even better solution would be to create a brand new visual studio project for this dll. Could anyone tell me how to do that? Thanks... *** ** Ludo... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ CNET Blogs <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Five quick Windows speedup tips CNET Blogs, CA - 46 minutes ago Speed up Windows XP and Vista by disabling the Indexing Service used by the OSes' built-in search feature. Tomorrow: Sort messages in Gmail using instant ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds