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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista Ultimate Extras: Ultimately Disappointing InformationWeek, NY - Jan 10, 2008 Blogger Long Zheng has a great post in the form of a faux-email to Microsoft asking them what has happened to Windows Vista Ultimate Extras. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista SP1 inches closer to release NetworkWorld.com, MA - 6 minutes ago Microsoft is inching toward an actual release of an actual final Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista. On January 9 it sent a pre-release build to 15000 beta ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I got a new processor today (Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz) to replace my old Pentium D.* Right now I'm running Vista Ultimate x64, and am planning on going back to 32 bit.* Before I did that, though, I wanted to see if WGA would nag me if I replaced the processor, as I had heard around the interenet. Well, it doesn't.* I put in the new processor, started up, pressed Ctrl+Shift+Esc and saw that there were two more cores shown.* That was it.* No problemo. FUD Dispelled! Now, I'm not saying that I like WGA, but I don't think it's right to dislike it for reasons that aren't true.* Anyway, it hasn't given me any problem so far... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

What's the best book you've ever read on Web Services and Service Oriented Architechture? I'm looking for some (well one or two) good books.My first find. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

This screencast shows how videos stored in SQL Server 2008 varbinary(max) using the FILESTREAM attribute can be server to a WPF Windows client application via an ASPX.NET web application over HTTP.* You can download the sample code from the SQL Server End to End Community Samples here.* You can also see other SQL Server and Business Intelligence screencasts here. http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/371588.jpg Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft responds to Vista SP1 problem Daytona Beach News-Journal, FL - 32 minutes ago Regular readers of this blog may recall I had a few problems a few weeks back when I attempted to install the release candidate of Vista Service Pack 1 on ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Micky D's UK CEO may be right, but it's a bit hard to*accept when the message comes from him http://www.boingboing.net/2008/01/10/mcdonalds-uk-ceo-kid.html My favorite comment: http://ms-os.com/Themes/AlmostGlass/images/icon-quote.gif W. James Au wrote:Oh, I think Easterbrook is on to something. If kids today spent 14 hours a day pushing a plow or working at the cotton mill then walking 5 miles back to their village like they used to, they could totally burn off the calories. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hello all! I'm having problems with Visual Basic.Net. Well, I have been working for 4 days on a small project of mine and today, as I was adding a new small feature in the menu strip of my application, I wanted to test it so I clicked the Start Debugging icon in the VB.NET menu. The new item in the menu strip simly did not appear in the program at all! I tried moving objects in the interface and when I clicked on Start Debugging again all of the moved objects were not moved at all. The simplest explanation to that would be that the build does not work properly and now what I see when I debug is a previous version of my work. I have tried many times to build and rebuild my application without any results at all. I have looked on the internet at many places and none seemed to provide any explanation on how this could happen. If anybody could help me I would be eternally grateful to you as I don't want to think I have lost 4 days of hard work... Thank you. Goldor. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Ok, I'm sure this has been asked before but, when are we going to get the option for cardspace login here at channel9? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Week in review: Gates' farewell to CES troops ZDNet - 1 hour ago Gates also used the speech to note that his software company has now shipped 100 million copies of Windows Vista. He said that getting so many Vista PCs out ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> UK Gov't Agency Tells Schools "Don't upgrade to Vista" CNET Blogs, CA - 7 minutes ago Schools might consider using Vista if rolling out all-new infrastructure, but should not introduce it piecemeal alongside other versions of Windows, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft sends patch to wrong users Computerworld, MA - 19 hours ago January 10, 2008 (Computerworld) -- A day after Microsoft Corp. accidentally sent a patch to some users running the Windows Vista operating system, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ BBC News <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Warning on stealthy Windows virus BBC News, UK - 46 minutes ago Computers running Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 that are not fully patched are all vulnerable to the virus. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Leo and I return for a new episode of the Windows Weekly podcast and discuss CES, the death of HD-DVD, WHS Power Pack, FIOS, OLPC and Eee PC, Origami 2.0, Zune deficiencies, and the iPhone! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ BBC News <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Warning on stealthy Windows virus BBC News, UK - 7 minutes ago Computers running Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 that are not fully patched are all vulnerable to the virus. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9847365-7.html?tag=recentPosts http://ms-os.com/Themes/AlmostGlass/images/icon-quote.gif CNET wrote: LAS VEGAS--Asus' Eee PC and Everex's CloudBook aren't the only ones pushing down the price of affordable, open-source PCs. Shuttle introduced its $199 KPC Linux PC here on Tuesday. The company didn't have it on display on the actual floor of the convention halls here at the Consumer Electronics Show (too late did I find out you had to zip over to a private suite at the Bellagio for a look-see), but booth representatives were happy to talk details. "It's meant for simple tasks," said sales rep James Wonpu. This comes after Asus (who revenue nears $16bn per year) exclaimed that the EEE PC is their most successful product ever. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Very very interesting. http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/04/news/newsmakers/gates.fortune/index.htm :D More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Catherine Heller sat down with Marc Mercuri, Architect on the platform incubation team, to discuss one of Marc’s recent incubation projects, Tafiti, and how it evolved into a Windows Live Quick Application. Tafiti is an experimental search front-end from Microsoft that uses Silverlight and Live Search to provide a rich Web experience and specialization of search. (Here are some previous interviews on Tafiti, in case you missed them: First Look: Microsoft Tafiti, Marc Mercuri on platform incubation and Tafiti) Windows Live Quick Applications are customizable out-of-the box solutions for specific Web scenarios. Each Quick App is built on Windows Live services and is offered as a source code download. The Tafiti Quick App illustrates search visualization. At around 00:26:44, Marc announces a contest! Do you have an interesting specialized search experience in mind? Something you might build by repurposing the Tafiti Quick App source code? Marc is going to give away limited edition Tafiti t-shirts to the top-5 coolest submissions . So send your submission to tafiti@tafiti.com before February 15th, 2008 to be considered! Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

The attack of the tiny PCs continues in my latest photo gallery, featuring the Asus Eee PC! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

hello all, i'm working on a quiet old console application. It mainly calls various procedures, whose outputs are either on console or trace. Nothing graphical that is. my first job was to make sure we got a permanent trace (as with the basic console.write() instructions, output is lost when application exits). So i started by redirecting on file: string fileName = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["BatchOutput.LogFile"]; fs = new FileStream(fileName, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.ReadWrite); sw = new StreamWriter(fs); oldOut = Console.Out; Console.WriteLine(DateTime.Now.ToString("dd/MM/yy HH:mm:ss") + " - " + string.Format("Redirecting output to {0}", fileName)); Console.SetOut(sw); flusher = new System.Threading.Timer(new TimerCallback(delegate(object sender) { Console.Out.Flush(); }), new AutoResetEvent(true), 0, 1000); Works fine. But now, i'm asked to develop a gui interface to replace the old console application, and have the output displayed in a textbox. Quiet easy task: redirecting console.out to a texbox is no big deal, you (basically) just have to design some textwriter based class and override Write and Writeln methods: *internal sealed class FeedbackWriter : TextWriter *{ **(...) ** **public override void Write(string value) **{ ***_textBox.AppendText(value); **} ** **public override void WriteLn(string value) **{ ***_textBox.AppendText(value + Environment.Newline); **} **(...) *} This would just have worked fine if i didn't forget one thing: the application starts various processes during run time. Those processes call Console.Write(). And as none of them created the TextBox, it ends with Cross Threading exceptions. So i googled the problem and end with a solution: * delegate void addDelegate(string text); * public override void Write(string value) **{ ***if (_textBox.InvokeRequired) ***{ ****IAsyncResult res = _textBox.BeginInvoke(new addDelegate(_textBox.AppendText), value.Replace("\n", base.NewLine)); ****_textBox.EndInvoke(res); ***} ***else ***{ ****_textBox.AppendText(value); ***} ***Application.DoEvents(); **} It should work, but for an unknown reason, calling _textBox.EndInvoke() will freeze the app. Same goes if i use _textBox.Invoke() instead of .StartInvoke(). And if i use .StartInvoke() without the subsequent .EndInvoke(), app will run normally, but the textbox will be "fed" when calling process ends (wich could take some minutes during wich we wouldn't see any output) I tried with backgroundworkers and*got same results: either i get the output*when process exits, or the application freezes. Anyone got an idea why ? Thanks * More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

After a popular stint, it seems The Ultimate Steal program for students has reached Airstrip One. Around £39. Okay... it's more expensive than in Aus, still better than the £500 or so Amazon are charging. Of course, I won't personally be using it (respect system colour settings or die) since there's a lot of UK students here, it's worth checking out. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

There has got to be a way to change how VS2008 resizes the columns in the error list. In any normal grid, you grab the splitter on the right side of a column and it moves all the columns*on the right to the right leaving them the same size.* in VS it shrinks the next column on the right leaving everything else in place!* So if I want to enlarge the Description field, I have to individually resize File, Line, Column and project to make space, that’s insane! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Security design: Why UAC will not work InfoWorld, CA - 40 minutes ago Microsoft is trying to encourage users and developers to go least privilege by introducing UAC (User Account Control) in Windows Vista, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Guys, Our large(ish) project is about to kick off.* The tool of choice *is the IBM toolset for Business Capture and Analysis, Use Cases, Design etc. Clear case will be used for CM control. Visual Studio (Was 2005, hopefully now 2008) for Software Development We are about to start a small study into using RME.NET to link the Rational Software Modellor system to Visual Studio. Rational Software Modellor RME.NET I am going to push v. hard for VS2008 as our development environment. My question is twofold. 1.* Does anyone have any experience of using Rational Software Modellor with Visual Studio integration via RME.NET and if so, is it considered valuable, will it support all the richness that raw C# gives you (Attributes, Delegates, partial classes, all .NET Types*etc) or does it support only basic Class Design and simple types. 2.* Does anyone know if it integrates with VS2008 or whether the API's published by VS2008 to allow integration by tools of these types have changed from VS2005. Any experience of using an "external" design tool like Rational Software Modellor with Visual Studio would be gratefully received.* Especially in areas such as "does it add value to the process", "Is it a view on the code like the built in class designer", "Does it fully support all the .NET Types and constructs". Thanks for your time Mike Read More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Sorry guyz, I had too much free time*in hand*so I started*noticing (and posting) little details that I just don't bother before. But really, the link*sometimes says 'Login' not the 'Sign Out' Live ID Icon... BTW, I logged in using my live ID and running IE7 and I can see all the logged in member options such as new post, reply, quotes, etc. Might give you some clues... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds