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Hi everyone, Does anyone know of an add-in (freeware/shareware or commercial) that allows me to save different workspace configurations for VS/net 2005 or 2008? By that I mean be able to save multiple configuration of which dockable windows are open and where they are on screen, similar to the workspace feature that Photoshop has. On my main development machine in the office, I have a three monitor setup, so I have most of the popular VS.net dockable windows on the left monitor (such as properties, solution explorer, pending checkins etc), the main center monitor has the vs.net IDE - which consists of pretty much just the code window/ide designer and the right monitor has a few other dockable windows such as the immediate and output windows. This works really well for me, and lets me be pretty productive. The problem comes when I'm working from home, which I do quite a bit. I VPN into my company and use remote desktop to work on my main machine. However, RDP only allows access to a single remote desktop, so when I log into my machine, I get the main vs.net window, but none of the property windows show, because on the real machine they're not on the main monitor. I have to go to window>reset window layout to get the property windows to appear on the main screen and of course the next day when I go into the office, then I have to manually repoistion all the windows again, which is really annoying. Photoshop has a neat feature that it allows you to save different 'workspaces' where it remembers which property windows are open and where they are positioned and by having multiple workspaces saved, you can quickly switch them. If I could do this with vs.net, then I could have two workspaces saved 'main workspace' with my 3 monitor config and 'remote logon' workspace with the property windows and ide all together on the single monitor. I seem to remember that there was a powertoy for the vs.net 2003 version but I've not seen anything for 2005 or 2008. Does anyone know of anything? I'm frankly suprised that Microsoft haven't put this into the core product by now (unless it is there, but I'm not seeing it?) Thanks everyone, Richard. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft: Critical Vista Patch Coming eWeek, NY - 23 hours ago According to information in the company's advance notice mechanism, the "critical" bulletin affects all versions of Windows, including Windows Vista. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

hello, i have a question about visual inheritance in VB.net. I have a form, called form1, which inherits from a base form, called baseform. If I place a button in the baseform at design time, it shows up in form1. However, if I create a button in the baseform*at run time, it doesn't show up in form1. Does anyone have any ideas as to why this is? Thanks, Alex More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ CNET Blogs <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> HP's MediaSmart Receiver x280N streams media via a home network ... CNET Blogs, CA - Jan 2, 2008 Don is a member of the CNET Blog Network, and posts at The Digital Home. He is not an employee of CNET. As many of you are aware, I think Windows Vista is a ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Those great engineers at British Rail have pattented a Fusion Powered Flying Saucer (well, in 1973 they did anyway).The only minor hitch is that several of the required technologies haven't been discovered yet. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hello and welcome to another Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 screencast. In this presentation I will show the new*Data Migration Manager tool in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 and demonstrate how it can be used to import and link multiple entities from CSV files. Enjoy the show! John O'Donnell Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist Microsoft Corporation http://blogs,msdn.com/usisvde http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/369871.jpg Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ CNET Blogs <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> HP's MediaSmart Receiver x280N streams media via a home network ... CNET Blogs, CA - Jan 2, 2008 Don is a member of the CNET Blog Network, and posts at The Digital Home. He is not an employee of CNET. As many of you are aware, I think Windows Vista is a ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I have been wanting to dump cable for a while and it looks like I may finally be able to: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2008/tc2008012_786403.htm?chan=technology_technology+index+page_digital+entertainment I wonder if television shows will start streaming directly through netflix instead of having to wait for dvd. Glad to see they are working on this movies on a PC is a lost cause. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> MS preps critical Vista patch for Tuesday Register, UK - 57 minutes ago The critical update covers a flaw that allows the remote execution of malicious software on vulnerable clients, including Windows Vista systems. ... Microsoft resolves to open security ZDNet UK all 3 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ CNET Blogs <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> HP's MediaSmart Receiver x280N streams media via a home network ... CNET Blogs, CA - Jan 2, 2008 Don is a member of the CNET Blog Network, and posts at The Digital Home. He is not an employee of CNET. As many of you are aware, I think Windows Vista is a ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> MS preps critical Vista patch for Tuesday Register, UK - 25 minutes ago The critical update covers a flaw that allows the remote execution of malicious software on vulnerable clients, including Windows Vista systems. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Since a couple of days when I have the impression that Google searches done with Internet Explorer feature links to "softonic.de" and "softonic.com" download portal. If as an example google for "foxit", IE's first two results return links to the portal (http://foxit-pdf-reader.softonic.de/). The same search done with Firefox does return a direct link to the Foxit homepage (as expected). I could not identify any active add-ons causing this to happen, nor did a complete virus scan report any harmful files. Any ideas, links how to turn this off or what may be the cause of this? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://peecee.dk/uploads/012008/CoolBug.PNGThis is what my second monitor looks like atm. If i press ctrl, the first intellisense window even fades just like in visual studio.What a nice bug that is. Intellisense right on my desktop? Awesome! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Security predictions for 2008 InfoWorld, CA - 18 minutes ago Windows Vista will continue to be attacked and exploited. In 2007, the number of publicly known exploits of Vista was down compared to those of XP (as ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ CNET Blogs <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> HP's MediaSmart Receiver x280N streams media via a home network ... CNET Blogs, CA - Jan 2, 2008 Don is a member of the CNET Blog Network, and posts at The Digital Home. He is not an employee of CNET. As many of you are aware, I think Windows Vista is a ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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http://ms-os.com/ CNET Blogs <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> HP's MediaSmart Receiver x280N streams media via a home network ... CNET Blogs, CA - Jan 2, 2008 Don is a member of the CNET Blog Network, and posts at The Digital Home. He is not an employee of CNET. As many of you are aware, I think Windows Vista is a ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ Seattle Post Intelligencer <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Toward a simpler digital nirvana Seattle Post Intelligencer - 3 hours ago By TODD BISHOP His Windows Media Center PC, equipped with dual high-definition tuners, sends the video over his home network and remembers where he stopped, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

... according to the Wall Street Journal. It seems that Negroponte wanted Intel to stop working on its own ClassMate PC project and throw its full support behind the One Laptop Per Child. Intel refused, and walked off into the sunset. It would be great if they could patch things up, but I don't hold out much hope. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ CNET Blogs <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> HP's MediaSmart Receiver x280N streams media via a home network ... CNET Blogs, CA - Jan 2, 2008 Don is a member of the CNET Blog Network, and posts at The Digital Home. He is not an employee of CNET. As many of you are aware, I think Windows Vista is a ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ CNET Blogs <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> HP's MediaSmart Receiver x280N streams media via a home network ... CNET Blogs, CA - Jan 2, 2008 Don is a member of the CNET Blog Network, and posts at The Digital Home. He is not an employee of CNET. As many of you are aware, I think Windows Vista is a ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> HD Monitor Causes DRM Issues with Netflix Slashdot - 49 minutes ago B-) by MrKaos (858439) on Thursday January 03, @08:08PM (#21903854) Journal Vista has given me a whole new view of windows, Oh and it looks like the site is ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> HD Monitor Causes DRM Issues with Netflix Slashdot - 9 minutes ago B-) by MrKaos (858439) on Thursday January 03, @08:08PM (#21903854) Journal Vista has given me a whole new view of windows, Oh and it looks like the site is ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi I have been building this Desktop Search since 1999. The visual basic code is Open Source and the exe is downloadable. I have been blogging and yapping about search in various forums. Only to meet with Great resistance. When I can organize my video, music, pictures and text there isn't another program that I really need. With Open Source the Operating System becomes irrelevant. It started as a text search, then picture display was added when we scanned in 5000+ old family album pictures. When a match was found and the next line had the path to a picture. That picture was displayed. It runs manual and as a screen saver. After a few seconds the caption on the picture can be displayed or not. Then came video. With slow motion, Freeze frame and Preset or Random start points in the video (mpeg2). Similar options were added for music files (mp3) Video is by far the most exciting part of Search. I can video in a book and go directly to a given page and play that back in slow motion. I can video in forum screens. It has other important features any Search should have. Ie EXTRACT. I do a context search for a particular "Subject:" in my outmail file to build a mailing list from old emails. Then I search that file in matching lines only mode; searching for "To:" and I have all the email addresses in an output file. A little editing removing duplicates etc and I have a clean list. I duplicate that info with a cut and paste. resort it. The plug the required info for my search in front of line 1 and 2 rather quickly. If the Next line is a URL or strictly text, that data can be put in the clipboard for pasting into a browser or as a search string or for storing passwords. It can run background copies of itself and has some primitive navigation capabilities. That could make for a wonderful video training tool. It has no database and can easily be explained to the common man. All they need to know about computing is, how to use this program. (Very Simple, I'll do more training video.) Thanks Doug AKA Spectate Swamp * More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Can anyone reccommend a good cell phone plan to use on a pay-per-minute basis? Something like Trac-phone or T-Mobile's product. I'm ditching Verizon this month when*our 2-year contract expires. It's just too expensive for the minutes*we actually use. And I don't care about retaining my existing cell phone number. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds