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http://www.daniusoft.com/images/christmas/39.jpg I just found Daniusoft Video to Mobile Converter has a Christmas version for free! It can converter all videos for Mobile Phone. 1 Convert AVI, MP4, MPEG, WMV, DAT, MOV, ASF, FLV to Mobile Phone 3GP, MP4 2 Support Mobile Phone including: LG, Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson,etc. It is only available for three days to get this freeware!(12.24-12.26)! Hurry to http://www.daniusoft.com/christmas-special.html** :) More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

http://pastebin.com/m64952e9 For some reason, SendBN/Listen are getting all jumbled up -- I think I need to use only 1 SocketAsyncEventArgs throughout my program, but how do I do that?* The examples on MSDN are little bit over my head. I keep getting a "OperationAborted" exception thrown in the Listen method. I think I'm being a bit too vague, but I'm unsure exactly what to ask for--please ask questions about my code! :) Thanks for any replies. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

http://clean.cs.ru.nl/About_Clean/Clean_Language_Features/clean_language_features.htmlBack from Christmas party. A late-night thread before Machine.Idle... Some thoughts... Let's discuss functional programming language features. Which features are you liking the most. I've just finished speed-reading Expert F# (will have to go through a second and perhaps third pass for some sections, such as computation expressions, or workflows (F# monads)). I'll not be making a clear distinction between library features and language features. A pretty simple first and second feature I'm betting I'll like is the composition and pipe operators. let*z = [1;2;3] |> List.map (fun x -> x+4) let*f = List.map (fun x -> x+4) >> List.filter (fun x -> x>5) The first line pipes a list through to a partial application of the list mapping function. The second line creates a new function that pipes the output of a list mapping application through to a list filter. So these operators are closely related, but pose a quite intuitive syntax and apparently also help type-inference. The third and fourth feature that looks very promising is the computation expressions and the asynchronous computation expressions (workflows and asynchronous workflows). The canonical example Don Syme gives for asynchronous workflows is an asynchronous workflow that fetches a set of webpages. The next step is to switch to using the Task Parallel Library (TPL, or PFX?) instead of the thread pool as the underpinning of the asynchronous workflow implementation. That*sounds reasonable. One might distinguish between embarassingly parallel tasks and embarassingly parallelizable code. I wonder what the future brings in terms of auto-parallelization where there doesn't need to be any explicit concurrency and the compiler and virtual machine finds opportunities to optimize hotspots on the fly, just as the hotspot VM finds opportunities on the fly for optimizing hotspots now (I don't know about the CLR). The question then - how intelligent can auto-parallization become - with potentially side-effecting*I/O functions interleaved in the code. F# is not a complete "port" of OCaml for .Net in that it misses some features, but also has some other features, so it's not a strict feature subset either. Having spent a little time with SML, I've come to somewhat admire the functors - from a distance at least. The way things like powesets are represented look quite beautiful to me. The mathematical purity of functional programming is also attractive, although it can be mind-bending (category theory and a thousand morphisms.) But what do you think? What features are some of the most powerful in the realm of functional programming and where do you see mainstream functional programming go and how might the CLR better cater for functional code? Another aspect is that, for example in Expert F#, there's lots of examples on the use of Windows Forms and other .Net libraries, although I believe Foundations of F# is the book on .Net library use from F#, it seems to me that these frameworks are developed from the POV of a C# or VB developer. I wonder what frameworks we'll get from the POV of a functional programmer who thinks functional first. I'm betting there'll be some differences there. Not to mention that Windows Forms is sort of deprecated of course (not, but in a more or less immutable state.) There might also be some tension between functional and imperative .Net programmers if new platforms emerge with a functional bias - and vice versa of course. Then there's the temporal nature of imperative programs with the freedom to destructively update compared to the side-effect free functional programs (free from side-effects or bound to side effect-free'ness?). It is possible to have partially side-effecting functional structures of course, but to remain pure those effects should probably remain hidden and be tied to the way the structures remain efficient, under the hood - not as a means to have immutable structures of mutable objects, so to speak. A parallel to this is (I believe) the*CLEAN language which has some semantics for safe destructive updates within a pure functional language (CLEAN destructive updates, so to speak). That's a pretty cool feature. OK, this looks more like a blog post now, but I hope you'll share your thoughts... A good source of functional programming research (check out the last two posts - one on higher-kinded generics, the other on the nature of infinity... okay, so strike the last one, but check it anyway): http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ :-) More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Well this looks interesting :) http://ms-os.com/Themes/AlmostGlass/images/icon-quote.gif Mozilla Labs wrote:This project will be known as Weave and it will focus on finding waysto enhance the Firefox user experience, increase user control overpersonal information, and provide new opportunities for developers tobuild innovative online experiences. So, all of our bookmarks, "personas", browsing history and basically user profiles in one place - syncing with FF? Sounds interesting. The API is coming early '08 for FF devs.. but eventually it's going to be opened up with support for RSS and other stuff - anything anybody can think of, really. I doubt it'll make coffee though :( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071223-hands-on-with-mozilla-weave-personalize-your-own-cloud.html And http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/12/introducing-weave/ and also the Use Cases Looks good. v0.01 is out now, I'ma downloading already :D More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Finally getting back to my favorite forum. I have been away for a while. I'm sure this group can provide some invaluable incite on: "Desktop Search Engine goes Open Source." I'm blogging the initial distribution of this open source at: http://spectate-swamp-source.blogspot.com/ * Best of the season to you all. * More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

so seeing as how Vista missed last Christmas roll out - and that it*is on virtually all machines*sold this year - of which many will be purchased for xmas... are the tech support centers ready? (..quadrupled?) Guess we'll need to wait a week or so to see*what the news sites report... im betting - large - new - wave of wrath... hope im wrong what's your bet?* More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vulnerability Numerology - Defective by Design? Slashdot - Dec 21, 2007 'While Windows Vista shows fewer flaws than Windows XP and has more mitigating factors against exploitation, the addition of Windows Defender and Sidebar ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> The Worst (and Best) of 2007 InfoWorld, CA - 35 minutes ago On the other hand: Vista is better than Windows ME, so they got that going for them. (See, I can say something nice about Microsoft, if I really try. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

It is a well known fact that the offshore outsourcing (or any type of outsourcing for that matter) carries known and unknown risks. The important thing is to find out if your offshore outsourcing provider is aware of these risks and has a plan to either mitigate it or eliminate it altogether. In this post, I will share some of known risks related to offshore outsourcing. Risk One: Requirement Misunderstanding - Many times it happens that the requirements get written in a hurry to get the project started as soon as possible. This is okay if the project is being done inhouse. However if it being outsourced, it becomes a risk. If the specifications are not written properly or are incomplete or enough details are not provided, the project will have problems on various fronts such as Project Understanding - what needs to be done and delivered, Project Planning - putting together firm dates for delivery, Change Controls - lots of change control will be generated later on in the project life cycle, which could obviously delay the project as well as increase the cost. Per the study conducted by Software Engineering Institute, not enough understanding or the clarity around the customer requirements is one of the top reasons on why software projects fail or get delayed. In order to mitigate this risk, make sure that your provider has gone through the requirement understanding phase before starting the coding phase. The requirement understanding phase should have multiple rounds of discussion with all the involved parties to fully understand and document their requirements in the Software Specification Documents. This phase is independent of technology selected for the project. The provider should also prepare the HTML mock-ups which is an excellent way to capture the application flow. [These mock-ups should reused during the coding phase for embedding the application method calls. Offshore Software Development India - 212 Carnegie Center, Suite 206, Princeton, NJ 08540 USA. Ph: 609-919-6342 Email: hanuseo@gmail.com An Offshore Software Development Company India offers a wide range of services including business process outsourcing, onsite technical consulting, offshore software development, and product lifecycle management. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Is*there*a way to*keep track of the files uploaded to sandbox and if old contributed files can be deleted*by the*uploader? It appears to me*that files are just*randomly named once their uploaded, therefore storing*old*copies of files when updates*are released? More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

******* Dim queryString As String = "INSERT INTO users(email, first_name, last_name, password, phone_number, group) VALUES('" & Me.txtEmail.Text & "','" & Me.txtFirstName.Text & "','" & Me.txtLastName.Text & "','" & Me.txtPassword.Text & "','" & Me.txtPhoneNumber.Text & "','members');" Should be working? I am having to give it the column names because the column before email is a pk and is an auto-number data type. I just placed a breakpoint on the line so I could see the formatted string and all looks well. Any advice? Thanks. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

This little program allows you to inspect the contents of a DssDeploy self extractor created with the DssDeploy tool shipped as part of Microsoft Robotics Studio. Information*about DssDeploy can be found here Information about Microsoft Robotics Studio can be found herehttp://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/368096.jpg Download the project More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Finally time for Tablets Seattle Post Intelligencer - 1 hour ago Microsoft added touch-screen capabilities a year ago in premium Windows Vista versions. The iPhone, meanwhile, has captured attention for its use of ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi, I was wondering if anyone had any success reading the Summary properties tab for Audio/Video files? I am aware of a pretty old library DSOFiles which is written in VC++6, but I was wondering if that had ever been updated, or something newer written, to include stuff like Bit Rate and Duration for a file such as .avi or .wmv? Thanks More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Hey guys, I was just wondering if anyone here tried the seamless terminal server package I uploaded to sandbox? I see plenty of views but no comments. I just want to know how its working for other people, especially those using Windows XP or older. I've only really tested it with my Vista terminal server. It seems like many people here use both Windows and Linux but are tired of some of the crappy FOSS alternatives--yes, I agree there are many. For example: Visual Studio verses MonoDevelop Don't worry... this is not the same as rdesktop 1.5.0 w/ that stockSeamlessRDP shell. That combination is totally useless crap, IMHO. This is much more like an early RemoteApp client implementation for Linux, long before Microsoft's official implementation is supported by rdesktop. *There are definitely quirks with this solution but I've provided some workaround solutions in the readme document. Oh and Merry Christmas niners (for those who celebrate it). :) More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

It's the game of the year! Valve's Orange Box for Xbox 360 includes five fantastic games, including Half-Life 2, Portal, and Team Fortress 2! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Blog: Listmania - the best and worst of tech 2007 New Zealand Herald, New Zealand - 58 minutes ago Apple TV, Palm's cancelled Foleo and Windows Vista come in for the most criticism in the worst-of lists floating around the web. I'm feeling fairly neutral ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> IE6 crashes in Windows XP: fixing the fix CNET Blogs, CA - 1 hour ago This time it occurred with Internet Explorer 6 and 7 on Windows XP and Vista. The problem is that Internet Explorer crashes after viewing a web page. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> internet explorer CNET Blogs, CA - 18 minutes ago This time it occurred with Internet Explorer 6 and 7 on Windows XP and Vista. The problem is that Internet Explorer crashes after viewing a web page. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I heard that this guy that used to post here made a scraper that does 20 different social sites including MSN spaces as part of a GPL v3 search engine, and that he's releasing the rest of the source code this week. I think I may join this interesting open source project so that I may leverage the code for my own use. It seems to work on Ubuntu with mpstat installed. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Windows SideShow for Vista Comes to iPhone (Gizmodo)Windows Vista gets pounded in year-end recaps (SeattlePI)MCTS 70-620 Exam Prep: Upgrading to Windows Vista (Informit)Share This More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Happy Holidays to all WindowsVistaWeblog readers!!!Share This More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Who has been at a Christmas Market this year? I have been in Salzburg and Munich - have you been at one? Pictures? http://inlinethumb43.webshots.com/35754/2859371390044544762S500x500Q85.jpg http://inlinethumb13.webshots.com/37004/2736818750044544762S500x500Q85.jpg http://inlinethumb47.webshots.com/33646/2165404370044544762S500x500Q85.jpg More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vulnerability Numerology - Defective by Design? Slashdot - Dec 21, 2007 'While Windows Vista shows fewer flaws than Windows XP and has more mitigating factors against exploitation, the addition of Windows Defender and Sidebar ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I am fascinated by the new Gateway One ZX190 desktop computer. It is a cool product from Gateway which features a large display ultra bright screen, sleek design, powerful hardware specs and other new things stuffed into it. The hardware itself already looks so cool and when loaded with Windows Vista, you get yourself one [...] More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds