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Where do objects go when they aren't used anymore (and how to know that they*are no longer useful to the*executing code that created them)? Might seem like a silly question to most developers, but that's what Technical Fellow Patrick Dussud has been dealing with for most of his career. His special area of focus is implementing garbage collection (GC) in various programming languages and systems (from JScript to the CLR). In this episode, we discuss with Patrick how GC concepts and implementations have evolved over the years, how the GC in the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) might be different from others, and how GC improvements in the future may need to change to deal with advancements in both software and hardware systems. Patrick also has some interesting things to say about clowns. This episode of Behind the Code is hosted by Robert Hess, Director in the Developer and Platform Evangelism Group. Although new to hosting Behind the Code, Robert is no stranger to hosting technical shows. For more than seven years, he hosted The .NET Show, a popular on-demand webcast that focused on providing architectural and programming information to developers around the world. Low res download file for bandwidth challenged. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Here are about several examples from two top forums -* their* reader comments are interesting... ONE TWO More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Windows Vista SP1 isn’t out to everyone just yet but reports circulating says that SP1 including Windows Server 2008 can already be downloaded via Torrents.The RTM version of Vista SP1 and Server 2008 can be found in BitTorrent tracker sites such as Pirate Bay. Searching for the term “Windows Server 2008″ shows that there are [...] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Beta testers get Vista SP1 RTM early Computerworld, MA - 18 minutes ago "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

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/04/technology/04soft.html?ref=technology Can we possibly get a C9 interview with this Jennifer Tour Chayes,* whom will be heading the new lab up? More info on the "Theory Group" and what they do would be cool too. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Vista SP1 goes RTM; released in March TechSpot - Feb 4, 2008 However, according to some sources, such as the Windows Vista Blog, it might not be available until mid-March, well over a year after the initial release of ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Remember that 'Please give us more hits''Save XP' campaign that InfoWorld is running? Well they've scored 75K signatures; enough to elicit a response from Microsoft. But SlashGear ain't happy ... http://ms-os.com/Themes/AlmostGlass/images/icon-quote.gif SlashGear wrote: But the best a Microsoft rep can come up with is that they are “aware of it” and that they are listening to “feedback we hear from partners and customers,” when they clearly aren’t since there are over 75k people that took the time to sign up for this campaign, so really they must only be listening to partners who can move more and pricier higher-end hardware if they push Vista on everyone. So .... 75,000 folk signed the petition. And let's give the petition the benefit of the doubt and assume that every single signature is from a disgruntled Vista user, and not, as I suspect, tainted by a seriously large percentage of anti-MS fanboys who would do and say anything to derail Bill Palpatine's plans. vs. 100,000,000 Vista licenses - many of which are in use. Again, exact figures are unknown. So perhaps SlashGear should ask itself; with only 0.075% of the folk who are using Vista raising a complaint, why should Microsoft switch tack and offer XP indefinitely? Wouldn't it make much more sense to fix the problems and move forward ... oh, wait ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ Coolest Gadgets <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Experiencing migration pains? The move to Vista need not be so ... ComputerWeekly.com, UK - Feb 7, 2008 Worse still, we are having Windows Vista forced upon us whether we like it or not, which spells all kinds of problems for home users and businesses. ... Microsoft comments on Vista SP1 kernel reports ZDNet UK Vista SP1 coming this March Coolest Gadgets all 9 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

So today's my last day at work, and my last full day in the country for a couple of weeks. As we're finally taking our honeymoon, we only got married about 8 months ago, but we had to figure out how much we could afford (from the wedding presents, which were donations to the honeymoon) and where we wanted to go. So, tomorrow morning me and the lovely wife are off to Gatwick, to fly to Houston, and then Sunday morning we fly from Houston (as who would want to honeymoon in Texas ;)) to Belize. Woo! We're really living it up as friends and family were astonishingly generous, so if y'all want to be sick with envy you can check out the awful websites of the*hotels we are staying in. The hotels are Pook's Hill, Blancaneaux Lodge and Portofino. I'm really excited as this is easily the most exotic and expensive holiday I've ever been on. Anyway, I thought I'd post this now, so I could at least see your envious reactions before I jetted off. [H] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

And even UAC isn't *that* bad. Except for one thing. The orb. The taskbar behind it, the top half; flickers. A lot. Very very annoying. I thought it might be AVG, but tried disabling that and it still happens. It will drive me insane eventually. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi, Im having some issues with BULK INSERT. The table only has two columns, one INT and one VARCHAR column. The table: CREATETABLE [dbo].[GA_status]( [GA_recno] [int] NOTNULL, [GA_desc] [varchar](40)NULL) The data file (UTF-8): 1|10848| 2|10849| 3|12611| 4|10102| 5|10137| 6|12693| 7|10149| 8|12712| The format file: 8.0 2 1**SQLINT**0**4***"|"**1**GA_recno*"" 2**SQLCHAR**0**40***"|"**2**GA_desc*SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS The SQL: BULKINSERT tmp_GA_status FROM'C:\temp\TextDump\MSSQL\GA_status.dta'WITH(FORMATFILE='C:\temp\TextDump\MSSQL\GA_status.fmt',DATAFILETYPE='char',ROWTERMINATOR='\n\r') Okei so far so good. The sql runs and insert 8 rows, but the int values are different from the data file. This is the result after insert: GA_recno******GA_desc 834649071***10848 3279373******10849 3344909******12611 3410445******10102 3475981******10137 3541517******12693 3607053******10149 3672589******12712 Any ideas on how to fix it ?? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

it's been a while since i touched anything mathematics (i mean, really mathematics like graph and all... vague memories:s), so i want to ask for advices from all of you, which part of math should i relearn? (specially that are useful to programming). and if you have* good references (books, sites, tutorials, anything) please share it. thanks! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Apple, Linux and Windows Vi$ta are goint to be pitted against one another in a hacking contest in Canada.* Microsoft may want to rewrite its ad slogans because they are about to be lit up.* Thanks for coming by and now go home.* Finally the truth about Microsoft and their products will be revealed.* Vi$ta will have so many holes it'll be like trying to plug the holes in a sponge to keep water inside. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

is anybody curious? all I need now is a Vista SP1 DVD [C] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Is anyone else going to this.* Also I keep hearing that they are giving away server 2008, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 for those people who attend.* Well my question is are these copies evals or fully fledged serials software.* Im going and I was just wondering because if they are that would be sweet I can always use server 2008 here at home. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft finalizes Vista SP1 code for mid-March release ITworld.com, MA - Feb 4, 2008 According to a post on the Windows Vista blog by Mike Nash, corporate vice president of Windows product management, Microsoft will release Vista Service ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista SP1 Leaked on InternetNews.com - 19 minutes ago asked one comment on Microsoft's Windows Vista Team Blog this week. Earlier in the week, downloads that purport to be the SP1 golden bits began showing up ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

..this should be good.. http://www.meeksearth.com/ IE only (for now) view full screen for*best UX this is where im at in the "GOS" dept... so - they branded a UI - Google OS (basically) so i thought - well ill brand mine too... but what? for now ive tried a dolphin (who doesnt like dolphins) and named him Meek - as in eek eek.. somewhat eco-enviro-centric... the whole UI*would be*based on where you are...at any given time and it needs ALOT of work.. thought id post where im at :) thoughts?* insane?* cool? ps - all URL's shown in center iframes just samples... i would hone in on each section and work on it. basically i was going for an iphone type UI - bla bla More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

So far, the examples I see for plug-in detection in IE work as follows: This loads the assemblies for the control into memory.* Is there any other way to detect the presence of a plugin without trying to load an instance of it? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Vista SP1 Ready, Waiting Redmondmag.com, CA - Feb 5, 2008 According to the Vista blog, the rollout of SP1 for current Vista users will be timed to coincide with the availability of Vista SP1 on new PCs and in ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> What's So Bad About Undisclosed Security Fixes? InformationWeek, NY - 6 hours ago A recent blog entry by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes raises some concern about Microsoft's documentation of security fixes for Windows Vista Service Pack 1. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

UINT __stdcall CreateUUID() { ** *UUID uuid; ** *HKEY hOpenKey = NULL; ** *if( UuidCreate( &uuid ) == RPC_S_OK ) ** *{ ******* char *oldStr = NULL; ******* char *tmpBin = NULL; ******* int ret; ******* tmpBin = (char *) &uuid; ******* oldStr = new char[22]; ******* ret = base64encode( tmpBin, oldStr, sizeof(UUID),* 22); ** *** *// now add bytes ** *** *char* newStr = new char[44]; ** *** *for (int i = 0; i < 22; i++) ** *** *{ ** *** *** *newStr[i*2] = oldStr; ** *** *** *newStr[i*2 + 1] = 0; ** *** *} ** *** * ** *** *DWORD dwDisp; ** *** *if( RegCreateKeyEx( HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, TEXT("SOFTWARE\My Company\Client"), 0, NULL, REG_OPTION_NON_VOLATILE, KEY_WRITE, NULL, &hOpenKey, &dwDisp ) == ERROR_SUCCESS ) ** *** *{ ** *** *** *// only update key if it doeson't exist ** *** *** *if(dwDisp == REG_CREATED_NEW_KEY){ ** *** *** *** *RegSetValueEx( hOpenKey, L"MyUUID", 0, REG_SZ, (unsigned char *) (newStr), 44 ); ** *** *** *** *RegCloseKey( hOpenKey ); ** *** *** *} ** *** *} ** *} ** *return ERROR_SUCCESS; } More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft's Vista SP1 Hits Manufacturing: A Milestone (Sort of) CIO, MA - 15 minutes ago ... customers have identified with Windows Vista," wrote Mike Nash, vice president of Windows product management, in a post to Microsoft's official blog. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Vista SP1 Ready, Waiting Redmondmag.com, CA - Feb 5, 2008 According to the Vista blog, the rollout of SP1 for current Vista users will be timed to coincide with the availability of Vista SP1 on new PCs and in ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ eFluxMedia <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Finds Its Way To Torrent Sites eFluxMedia - 12 minutes ago ... German and Japanese) and to the download center on microsoft.com’” said Mike Nash, Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President on Windows Vista official blog. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds