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Is it possible to compile and run my program and add parameters to it when I hit the run? I'm testing some console application and right now, I do a F6 and then ALT+TAB to a CMD window and run it from there. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I imagine this would get pretty tiring if it happened all the time. Damn Cowboys! See this video on MSN Soapbox [edit: how do you embed videos from soapbox again? Ah ha!] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

This is Minh. Can you reset my password & send the new one to the email on file? Or code up a password reset system that works? Whichever is faster. I don't care. I've tried this 6 times. I could try a seventh, but I think it'd be the same: ----- Minh, You requested that your password for Channel 9 be sent to you via email. Your username and password are: Username: Minh Password: ?????????????? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft-Yahoo Deal: What About Developers? Washington Post, United States - 29 minutes ago "So there's a paradox: Technically, I can't see how Microsoft would migrate all of Yahoo to Windows servers and software. But culturally, it just isn't in ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Ballmer: Microsoft finishes Vista SP1, Server 2008 Seattle Post Intelligencer - 23 hours ago Microsoft has finished Windows Vista Service Pack 1, the big bundle of fixes and updates for the 1-year-old version of the PC operating system. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ SYS-CON Media <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Vista Team Announces the RTM of SP1 SYS-CON Media, NJ - 25 minutes ago Today in a blog Google general counsel David Drummond said Microsoft?'s $44.6 billion hostile bid for Yahoo 'raises troubling questions. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I was wondering if there is anyway to down cast a generic interface? What I whant to do is something like this, I have an interface like this interfaceMyInterface { ** T GetValue (); } and in code I would like some generic code*to do something like this: MyStringClass : MyInterface MyStringClass sc = new MyStringClass () ; ... ... if (sc is MyInterface) { ** MyInterface*dc = (MyInterface )sc ; ***object o = dc.GetValue () ; } I'm pretty sure that I can't do this and it would be best to add a second non generic interface that does the cast for me. Any comments? Cheers, Stephen. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

He is according to Mary Jo Foley. And it seems to be coming on the back of a fairly serious marketing reorganisation at Microsoft. Meanwhile, Apple show how it's done; taking down their whole website to launch what will probably be a fairly minor product update. You've got to hand it to 'em. If anyone else did this, then developers would be offering to fix their site so that new products could be added without rebooting the servers ... :) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Ok. Up till this point, i have been clearly pro vista. But to be frankly honest, im not so sure anymore. There's a lot of cool features, like the search function directly in the start menu. And that, is about the only feature, im gonna miss considerably, if i drop Vista. On the other hand, i wont miss this: Boot your PC. Takes 1 minute to reach login screen. Log in. Wait 30 secondes. Open 3-4 programs you wanna use. Go out for 5 minutes, and wait for it all to load. When you first start loading 1 application, the rest of the system freezes. Thats right. When you first boot, its HORRIBLE. Superfetch? Yeah, it just didnt load the applications i wanna use into memory. In fact, it takes considerably more time to open applications on boot, than XP. The system is easily slown down. And you get hell when that happens. Im honestly feeling like giving it the benefit of the doubt, until Sp1 is out. But im not sure i can justify staying with Vista. How many switched back to XP yet?****** In general, performance on Vista isnt More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

My Virtual PC's saved memory state keeps getting currupted. Each time I close it to save state, on resume it can't and I have to delete the file and "reboot" the Virtual machine. Anyone else have a similar problem? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Wow… lots of news… NetworkWorld.com, MA - 24 minutes ago Details about the release can be found on the Vista blog: Link. However, don’t expect to download the SP from Windows Update anytime soon. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Security increased on Vista and XP One Stop Click, UK - 23 hours ago A blog post from Windows revealed the step up in security, saying that they wanted more people to "opt-in to using DEP" (also known as No eXecute). ... Microsoft plans to improve protection from buffer overflows heise Security all 2 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft finishes Windows Vista SP1 TechRadar.com, UK - 23 minutes ago Mike Nash from the Windows Product group decided to state the obvious in a blog post to announce the event: "Service Pack 1 is a very important milestone ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista SP1 finally ready for manufacture Silicon.com, UK - 2 hours ago Microsoft will begin distributing Vista SP1 via Windows Update in mid-March, according to a Microsoft blog post. Microsoft is due to formally launch Windows ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi there. I have a function written in JavaScript like function showZipWindow(obj,key) { * var id = obj.id; * if (typeof(key)=="undefined") * { **** key = 0; * } * tid = 't'+id.substr(1,id.length); * hid = 'h'+id.substr(1,id.length); * zipWind = window.open('zipWindow.php?tid='+tid+'&hid='+hid+'&key='+key,'zipWnd'+key, 'left=20,top=20,width=600,height=650,toolbar=1,resizable=1'); } When i'm calling it from main window - it works fine, creating popup. But when i'm calling it from popup (which is created by the same function but with different values for parameters) in IE 6/7 it gives me "Uknown runtime error". In Firefox it works okay. So, any clues on how is it possible to get it running on IE 6/7 or is there anything wrong in my code? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft preps Vista SP1 and Server 2008 IT Week, UK - 8 minutes ago Microsoft has begun shipping the latest versions of Windows Vista and Windows Server to manufacturers. Both are expected to be made available to customers ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Which would you say is the best software to generate secure license keys for your software, that is very difficult to hack/crack? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

One for AndyC: Whilst logging into my LAN's OWA, I was wondering if there was any way to enable some kind of two-factor authentication since OWA is pretty suspectible to keystroke logging. So a quick googling for two-factor authentication for OWA and IIS led me to RSA's world-(in)famous? SecurID agent software page for IIS. Apparently it's free (beer) ware. Interesting. Of course, none of this is much use unless you've got a token to go with it. I imagine those things cost a fair bomb, but I wondered if RSA made a version of their token software for Windows Mobile. And hey, what do you know, free beer too. Yet I have the inescapable feeling I'm missing something here. Is there some kind of central authentication server RSA SecurID needs that costs said bomb? If so, reckon I can get it off bittorrent? :D More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

TO Mike Nash,* sp1 team, Ballmer , Gates, Evangelist & CO. I*Wont comprise the position than Microsoft regarding Italian user. Yesterday Mike Nash it has been announced Vista SP1*RTM *to March for English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese. Since Italian we are still a enough valid country special way regarding Spain and France, *possible that we have been puttinges from part? considering that sp1 it is* multilenguage in order which reason you have discarded to us? I write to name of all Italian mine comunity I assure and you that we are in that we offer support for those which the persons are our acquaintances to all who have adopted*Vista *(but also xp) I make you this appeal in order to at least receive SP1 with to France, Spain, England and German its Possible ??? We cannot be puttinges to an equal level to the Teleban More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft to hold Vista SP1 release for six weeks PakTribune.com, Pakistan - 54 minutes ago As expected, Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has finished Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1), but the company threw users a curve when it told them ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Perhaps this is why Microsoft is failing, just look at this mess*: http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/6183/failednw9.th.png More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Ballmer: Microsoft finishes Vista SP1, Server 2008 Seattle Post Intelligencer - 17 hours ago Microsoft has finished Windows Vista Service Pack 1, the big bundle of fixes and updates for the 1-year-old version of the PC operating system. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

With almost 90% market share all around the world, Microsoft has huge power on many countries and big impact on economics. Is Microsoft becomming almost a government entity eventhough it just looks like*a corporation, similar to IBM? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Alright, global warming has some 'splaining to do... Since some others (who often beat the anti-global warming drum until it breaks) haven't chimed in... It's been reported ( msnbc article ) that China is facing one of it's coldest winters in 100 years. Their record keeping for this stat is the total number of consecutive days where the average tempreture is 0 degrees Celcius or lower. I wonder what spin this is going to receive so that it is undeniable proof for global warming (as the current model and scientists put it) and not showing that we know jack about climates and prediction models for climates are incomplete and running on a bunch of assumptions. Whether or not global warming is real, or even climate change is occuring is really a moot point. I can't help but feel sorry for the masses of people stuck while traveling in China when winter struck back with a vengence. Also, the US has been hit hard with winter storms, cold temperatures, and the like. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds