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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Bloggers: Early Version of Windows 7 Leaked PC World - 2 hours ago The site also has a blog entry whose headline is: "Windows 7 More Screenshots and Screencast." Windows 7 is the follow-up to Windows Vista, and Microsoft ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ The Consumerist <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Automatic Microsoft Office Update Due Next Month InformationWeek, NY - 4 hours ago There are also patches to make Office 2003 work better with Windows Vista and other new Microsoft products, as well as a number of smaller patches. ... (Product) Red Responds To Dell Pricing Controversy The Consumerist all 3 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

The Google is everywhere, it is all around us, even now in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ The Consumerist <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> (Product) Red Responds To Dell Pricing Controversy The Consumerist, NY - 19 hours ago What about the other $220, asked gizmo blog Engadget? Well, we could tell them that it's because you're getting Windows Vista Ultimate and Microsoft Office ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Vista at 1 year: Your experience? Seattle Post Intelligencer - 1 hour ago This week marks the first anniversary of Windows Vista's retail launch, and InformationWeek has an interesting story about a tool called vLite that ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

MSDN Code Gallery - snippets, samples and resources The developer community has a new place to learn and share,*The MSDN Code Gallery.* More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Bloggers: Early Version of Windows 7 Leaked PC World - 16 minutes ago The site also has a blog entry whose headline is: "Windows 7 More Screenshots and Screencast." Windows 7 is the follow-up to Windows Vista, and Microsoft ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hey Niners. Some suggestions/comments that Ian brought up brings up something I'm just starting to think about. As I start getting used to filming videos (I'll be the first to admit that the first couple haven't been as good style-wise as I hoped if we're being candid). The question is above: what makes for an AWESOME video? I know opinions can widely vary, so I'm looking for all opinions :). Short video? How short? Edited/Polished? Raw dump from the camera? What is everything you wished you could improve about "a typical" Channel 9 video? Even better yet (for me), provide some examples. Link to a technical video elsewhere you've seen that you thought was awesome. So, niners? Pipe up :). More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi to all expert, ladies coders and gentlemen coders, I m quite newbie in this. I just started vb.net not long ago..because i was too crazy bout making an application for my own phone. as for now, i m using .net compact framework to code for my wm6. My program is easy. the purpose is to edit a .ini file by pointing the correct program path for each line .in the ini file. in my program, a treeview is enabled. By selecting on the treenode, this will return me the full path of a .exe file/app. Unfortunately, in some folders, there are many subfolders (especially: /window) so it would take some time to show the treenode. so, i have made a label to appear when click to expand the tree and disappear the label before end sub. when, i put it to test, the label is not appearing at all when i click to expand "/window" folder in treeview. so what am i mising here? below is my codemarked in red is the label to appear and disappear) ******************************************************this is configure the mouse click event Private Sub treeView1_BeforeExpand(ByVal sender As Object, _ ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.TreeViewCancelEventArgs) _ Handles treeView1.BeforeExpand plsWaitlbl.Visible = True 'MsgBox("start") ' —-if leaf node then exit—- If e.Node.ImageIndex = icoFile Then Return ' —-remove the dummy node and display ' the subdirectories and files—- Try e.Node.Nodes.Clear() ' clears all the nodes and... displayChildNodes(e.Node) ' create the nodes again Catch err As Exception MsgBox(err.ToString) End Try ' —-change the icon for this node to open—- If e.Node.GetNodeCount(False) > 0 Then e.Node.ImageIndex = icoClose e.Node.SelectedImageIndex = icoOpen End If plsWaitlbl.Visible = False 'MsgBox("stop") End Sub *************************************************** i m sure this is show the subdirectories and file Private Sub displayChildNodes(ByVal parentNode As System.Windows.Forms.TreeNode) Dim FS As New DirectoryInfo(stripExtraSlash _ (parentNode.FullPath)) Dim dirInfo As DirectoryInfo Dim fileInfo As FileInfo Try ' —-displays all dirs—- For Each dirInfo In FS.GetDirectories() ' —-create a new node to be added—- Dim node As New TreeNode node.Text = dirInfo.Name ' name of file or dir node.ImageIndex = icoClose node.SelectedImageIndex = icoOpen parentNode.Nodes.Add(node) ' —-add the dummy node—- node.Nodes.Add("") Next Catch err As Exception MsgBox(err.ToString) End Try Try ' —display all files—- For Each fileInfo In FS.GetFiles() If fileInfo.Extension = ".exe" Or fileInfo.Extension = ".lnk" Then ' —-create a new node to be added—- Dim node As New TreeNode node.Text = fileInfo.Name node.ImageIndex = icoFile node.SelectedImageIndex = icoFile parentNode.Nodes.Add(node) End If Next Catch err As Exception MsgBox(err.ToString) End Try End Sub *************************************************** Public Function stripExtraSlash(ByVal str As String) As String ' —-strip away the extra "\" for ' subdirectories. e.g. \My documents Dim path As String If str.Length > 1 And (Mid(str, 1, 1) = "\") Then path = Mid(str, 2, str.Length - 1) Else path = str End If Return path End Function *********************************************************this to set the selected node path to the textbox Private Sub MenuSelect_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MenuSelect.Click pathName = stripExtraSlash(treeView1.SelectedNode.FullPath) 'MsgBox(pathName) appPathtxt.Text = pathName End Sub Please enlighten me... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

In this video, we sit down (well, stand up actually) with Chris Jackson and Gov Maharaj to chat about debugging application compatibility issues (and some of the things Microsoft has done to mitigate typical app compat issues we've run into). Hopefully we'll get a follow-up video with Gov to talk specifically about debugging tips and tricks. Apologies for the whiteboarding. I didn't get the best angle on it so it can be hard to read. Enjoy! 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"> Windows Vista at 1 year: Your experience? Seattle Post Intelligencer - 37 minutes ago This week marks the first anniversary of Windows Vista's retail launch, and InformationWeek has an interesting story about a tool called vLite that ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I posted this on the msdn forums, but I didn't get an answer that directly relates to my question. So I'm reposting it here for you 9ers. I'm currently reading "Data Structures and Algorithms using VB.Net" and in one the author's examples, he initializes an array of integers using ReDim Preserve. I was a bit confused as to why he would do that, since the array is empty. So I ran a test initializing an array using ReDim Preserve against arry = new Integer(number){} and the ReDim Preserve was faster. Here is part of the code: Module Module1 *** Sub Main() ******* Dim arry As New CArray(9) ******* Dim sw = New Stopwatch() ******* sw.Start() ******* For index = 0 To 49 *********** arry.Insert(index) ******* Next ******* sw.Stop() ******* arry.showArray() ******* Console.WriteLine(sw.Elapsed) ******* Console.ReadLine() *** End Sub ' Main *Class CArray ******* Private arr() As Integer ******* Private numElements As Integer ******* Public Sub New(ByVal number As Integer) *********** ReDim Preserve arr(number) ' faster *********** 'arr = New Integer(number) {} ' slower *********** 'ReDim arr(number) ' about the same as* 2nd example *********** numElements = 0 ******* End Sub ... The ReDim Preserve averaged out at .00058 while arry = new Integer(number){} averaged at about .0027 Ok, now why did the author use ReDim Preserve when the array hasn't been intialized with anything yet? Is it because he knew that it was faster? Um, they don't teach us to declare arrays like that in school or in our textbooks thats why I was confused when I saw that. Any ideas? Thanks. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

When you paste in mathematical formulas into OneNote that are images, it seems to parse them into text. Which is cool, but it doesn't seem to remove the image it parses, making the notes look quite messed up. Is there any way to change this behavior because I can't find any. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

When I hit File->New Project, pick any type of project, click ok. Down in the left hand corner of VS2008 I get an error: "Creating project '____'... project creation failed. I tried repairing my installation of VS 2008 via setup. No Luck. Anyone gotten this issue before/been able to resolve it? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Mark Shuttleworth (Ubuntu), Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia), Lawrence Lessig (Creative Commons), Peter Gabriel (Real World Studios) and others signed a pact to improve educational materials for the world using an open collaborative process. http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62036906,00.htm More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Product review: Visual Studio 2008 advances with few missteps InfoWorld, CA - 9 hours ago For review purposes, I used three installations of VS08: Professional Edition installed on a Windows Vista for x64 laptop along with Expression Web and ... Visual Studio 2008: From the Source Dr. Dobb's Journal all 2 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Automatic Microsoft Office Update Due Next Month InformationWeek, NY - 32 minutes ago There are also patches to make Office 2003 work better with Windows Vista and other new Microsoft products, as well as a number of smaller patches. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

src\source\.net.0\DEVDIV\depot\DevDiv\releases\whidbey\REDBITS\ndp\clr\src\BCL\System\Runtime\Remoting\RealProxy.cs Nice. Really nice. Bit shocked to see depot in there, I thought all of DevDiv was moving to TFS. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I have a Custom Action which does some tracing and logging of the install. *I'd like it to run at the end of the install sequence... even if the install fails or is cancelled. *Is there any way to do this? My initial thought is to have a CA that runs after InstallFinalize to handle good installs.* For rollback installs, could I add a custom rollback action that's the first action in the execute sequence?* That way, it'd be the last one to execute on rollback... right? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

A Robot in Every Home http://blip.tv/file/get/Eagle-ARobotInEveryHome124.wmv.jpg Click To Play Video Here is a FLASH version for those who don't like WMA Tandy Trower, the General Manager of Microsoft’s Robotic Group at CES speaking about Microsoft’s vision of a Robot in Every Home. * In a Scientific American article written a year ago Bill Gates compared the robotics industry of today with the PC industry of the '70's, so it's*conceivable*that we'll have personal*robots in our homes. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi all. I participated in the PowerTogether.com Vista & Office promotion and ended up getting both for free. I noticed that part of the fine print said that due to the total retail cost of all this free stuff, I needed to submit a W-9 to Microsoft, then deal with the tax implications of it. My understanding was that this counted as a gift from Microsoft, and because it was above some dollar limit it was taxable as income. But when I search for taxes on gifts (e.g. http://www.fairmark.com/begin/gifts.htm) doesn't seem to agree with this - that is, it states that gifts are not included in income, ever. What's the true story? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft: Vista's not as insecure as XP. Please buy it! Ars Technica, MA - Jan 26, 2008 According to a post on the Windows Vista Security blog, Vista has had 36 fixed and 30 unfixed security vulnerabilities, compared to 68 fixed and 54 unfixed ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows 7 isn't headed for 2009, says Microsoft. More like 2011. engadget, CA - 7 minutes ago ... but we're sure Vista SP1 won't be the last bid Microsoft makes at this generation. Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ Enews 2.0 <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft: Vista is great - honest guv! TechRadar.com, UK - 6 hours ago Even though Windows Vista is not selling nearly as well as Microsoft would like and critics have dragged it through the mud, the company has posted an entry ... Microsoft Claims Vista Is Safer than XP Enews 2.0 all 5 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Fixing Windows Vista Bootloader isn’t as simple when done in Windows XP and as such, these two ways should make your life easier:EasyBCDWindows Vista DVD BootupSource here.Tags: Microsoft, Vista, WindowsShare This More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds