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Hi and welcome to another Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit screencast. This session was presented by*Alex Mackman*and is the from the Visual Studio 2008 training kit available from http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7602397. This Session introduces ALM, and explains the business rationale and business benefits of ALM. It explains how an organization can get started with ALM. It also introduces VSTS as Microsoft’s solution to support ALM through tooling and process enactment. Recorded September 2007. http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/366466.jpg Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Announces Winners of Ingenuity Point Competition CNNMoney.com - 2 hours ago Tobii will soon to be moving to Visual Studio 2008, Windows Vista and the Windows Presentation Foundation. -- Environmental sustainability. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ Computerworld <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Countdown: Computerworld's most popular stories of 2007 Computerworld, MA - 5 minutes ago Configuring a PC around the minimum hardware requirements may not be the best idea for users who hope to get the most out of Windows Vista. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,1048831,00.jpg The story behind the photo and the*other photos that got also a*price: http://www.unicef.de/foto/2007/english/index.htm More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

My article about the Windows 7 MinWin has been updated to address a recent Channel 9 video starring Microsoft Fellow Mark Russinovich! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Okay, this has been happening ever since I got my Toshiba Satellite a100 wa-3 (refurbished) back in the last week of June (2007): Every time I either login, resume from sleep/hibernate/(Standby?), being locked, or returning from a fullscreen game, something makes Windows briefly turn off Aero, and in some rare cases, stuck like that until I do something like lock and unlock the computer.* What could be causing this? More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

(or just podcasts, or just photos, etc.) I see the search link, but it seems to only allow me to search the forums. What if I want to search for all the videos with "Mark Russinovich"? I know the text is associated with each video, but I don't see a way to execute the search. C9 is many things, but at the root of it is the great videos, how do I search them? -Walden More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Linux Blog Safari: Who's King of the Jungle? LinuxInsider.com, CA - 1 hour ago "I really don't care anymore, whether it's Linux vs OS X, Windows, Solaris, or whatever. It's so annoying and I won't even read TFA. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

As MP3 Players only accept audio, you need to convert the audio from your videos to MP3 and other popular audio formats. Here I’ll use* MelodyCan Ultra Video software to convert audio from video to MP3, M4A, WMA, AAC, WAV, OGG which supports all the iPod and other MP3/ MP4 players. 1 Download MelodyCan Ultra Video edition (http://www.convert-any-media.com/includes/download.php), install and run it. 2 Set desired MelodyCan settings. http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/8215/setdesiredmelodycansettwa0.jpg 3 If you check “Automatically start conversion” in MelodyCan settings, conversion will start immediately after the program startup. http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/8568/automaticallystartconvemf4.jpg 4 If you check “Advanced mode”, you’ll be able to listen to converted files in MelodyCan window. http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/1130/advancedmodecopyrw6.jpg 5 Don’t forget to choose the suitable output folder (your converted files will be saved there). http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/7792/outputfoldercopymy9.jpg 6 Select the files for conversion using “Select Files” button in MelodyCan main window toolbar.* You can alternately drag’n’drop entire folders with your music from Windows Explorer to MelodyCan window. http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/9830/selectfilescopyec4.jpg 7 After you finished with settings, click on “Convert” button to start the conversion. http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/1766/melodycante2.jpg 8 In the result your converted files will appear in output folder. http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/5044/outputfolder2copyso8.jpg 9 Now only one click left! “Copy to iPod” button will copy your converted music to iPod. So now you can copy the music to your iPod or share them to your friends. Note: If the audio (music, song) format not fits for your MP3 players, Run MelodyCan Professional http://www.convert-any-media.com/includes/download.php to convert audio formats as you want. The process is the same as convert video to audio. Add audio -> Choose the output audio format -> Convert MelodyCan is not compatible with Mac OS. It can only be run on Windows XP and Vista. TIPS: ** The demo version of the program is available on http://www.convert-any-media.com/includes/download.php With the demo version, you can convert 3 minutes of each video file and 30 seconds of each music file. ** MelodyCan is easy to install and use with a very handy and clear user interface. ** Super fast conversion, up to 40x the playback speed for audio files in batch mode More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Project Description Animaonline Windows Live Presence Wrapper Let's you query Windows Live service for user's status. Powered by Microsoft's Windows Live API How To Use: First: To query someone's status they will have to sign up for Live Presence to do so, use the following code Animaonline.WindowsLive.PresenceWrapper Presence = new Animaonline.WindowsLive.PresenceWrapper(); Presence.SignUpForLivePresence("PrivacyURL", "ReturnURL"); To query Windows Live use the following code: Animaonline.WindowsLive.PresenceWrapper Presence = new Animaonline.WindowsLive.PresenceWrapper(); Presence.GetPresence("animaonline@gmail.com"); The following code will output query result Console.WriteLine("Status:{0} Display Name:{1}", Presence.status,Presence.displayName);http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/366419.jpg Download the project More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth :-) Introduction: With v3.5 of the .NET Framework, Microsoft also released Service Pack 1 for .NET Framework v2.0. In this video you can see what is new in SP1 for the [File Dialogs in Windows Forms]. Video download: Click on the image to play the video (from a streaming file). If you'd prefer to [download the wmv packaged in a zip file, you may do so here]. http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/366412.jpg Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Open source VirtualBox challenges VMware Workstation InfoWorld, CA - 21 minutes ago I tested VirtualBox 1.5.2 on both Windows Vista Ultimate x64 and Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon.” As with previous versions, installation was straightforward. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> How Microsoft Can Save Vista And Windows Server 2008 NetworkWorld.com, MA - 36 minutes ago I have my own views on what can turn things around for Vista and save what could be another potentially disastrous product upgrade. Windows Vista SP1 Must ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

If you are looking around for an Ultra Mobile PC, the cheapest in the market right now is Asus Eee PC. I would have bought it without second thought had it run Windows Vista. The hardware comes with Linux as the operating system but you should be able to load Windows XP in it. Load [...] More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista named #1 biggest tech disappointment of 2007 -- by PC World engadget, CA - 1 hour ago Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry. Email addresses are never displayed, but they are required to confirm your comments. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Tobii Technology is an incredibly innovative company. Based in Stockholm, Sweden, they make eye tracking hardware and software that enables physically impaired people to interact with a computing device using only their eyes. There are no peripheral hardware requirements for communicating with the My Tobii P10 device: all that is needed are eyes. Of course, there are many applications for this type of eye-controlled user interaction (as discussed in the interview, this area is rife with possibility). Tobii devices are also used in scientific research. In fact, Microsoft is a Tobii customer. We use their devices in our user interaction research programs. Here, we meet the CEO of the company along with the My Tobii application lead software developer and development manager. Of course we get a demo and talk about some nuts and bolts. I'm really impressed with this small company. So innovative! Follow the eyes... Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista named #1 biggest tech disappointment of 2007 -- by PC World engadget, CA - 15 minutes ago Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry. Email addresses are never displayed, but they are required to confirm your comments. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I was reading this post over at GeekZone and one interesting statement he made goes like this:Running Windows 3.11 was just phenomonal on this, insanely quick.In contrast, the Vista machine was just poke-slow in everything it did, took 3 minutes to start up, took 24 seconds to load Word, and usually taking about double the [...] More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

David A. Karp is best known for writing books centered on making problems solveable to make the life of users easy and productive. There is no better timing than his recent books titled: Windows Vista Annoyances.The book is described as follows:Windows Vista may be the next big thing, but it still contains enough quirks and [...] More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Back in the days of Windows 95, when I was in College, a cleanup tool is a necessity on my box as I always screwed up my system with frequent and so many installs here and there. Fast track today, I never feel the need for such a utility as I would test the software [...] More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

U.S. exported BSE to Japan, again! ;( More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

I have Vista installed since around six months now.. And*I haven't found the DRM! Seriously, what am I missing? I played some shody divx and xvid files - no problem. I played all my mp3 files, no problem, in fact, every media file*I tried works. With the exception of specificaly*protected wma files.. but I know those weren't not playable in XP either,*(I tried)*so this isn't new in Vista, and can't be the mythical Vista DRM. I tried to capture live audio streams with audacity - no problem. I tried to*convert*wav files to mp3 files.. no problem. OK, I haven't got a bluray and/or hd dvd drive, maybe there will be problems if I try to rip from such discs, I don't know..**But, so far, I just haven't seen the DRM at all! Where is the fuzz? What I am missing? After all the buzz I hear everywhere on the internet about "Vista DRM".. this is.. even disappointing to some extend. Like preparing for a hurricane, but all you get is an average rainshower. Serious question: Aside from HD DVD and bluray.. where is the DRM? More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Whenever I register a domain Google gets it right away.* I think that's because GoDaddy sends the URLs to Google, but that doesn't explain why Live doesn't get with the program even when I submit my my URLs to Live.* I like Live.com for picture search, but when it doesn't index some websites at all that makes me hesitant to use it for websites.* Does Google have an unfair advantage over other search providers?* At any rate, I'm going to perform a little test: Earlier this month I registered my piece of the internet with GoDaddy!* Today I posted about how I think Tablet PCs are ready for the masses, but won't ever reach popularity unless brick and mortar stores embrace the technology.* Last week I made a video post about the Creative Zen Stone Plus. Since this is a failry popluar site, I'm wondering if Live Search will find these links and add them to its database.* It would make sense if it does, but it still doesn't make sense that it won't index URLs added through that before mentioned URL submission form. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

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I'm trying to work through the WPF Unleashed book by Adam Nathan, as I'm going I'm working through with VB.NET rather than the C# samples in the book*just to see how it translates. I have reached chapter 11 and the section about Hit Testing with Multiple Visuals. The code in the book draws a ghost with mouth, eyes, and body all of which rotate seperately when clicked. The c# sample works fine from the authors site but when i translate it to VB.NET it doesn't work, after a bit of debugging the GetVisualChild overridden method only ever gets called with a value of 0 passed in while when running the c# sample it gets called with a value for each item (0,1,2) in the collection. The code below is, as far as I can see, the exact equivalent of the C# in the book but it only draws the ghost's body (or if I change the order of the items in the 'visuals' list it is always the first item) which makes sense if GetVisualChild only gets called with a val of 0. Public Class WPFHostDrawing2 Inherits Window Dim visuals As New List(Of Visual) Sub New() Title = "Hosting DrawingVisuals" Width = 300 Height = 350 Dim bodyVisual As New DrawingVisual() Dim eyesVisual As New DrawingVisual() Dim mouthVisual As New DrawingVisual() Using dc As DrawingContext = bodyVisual.RenderOpen() 'The body dc.DrawGeometry(Brushes.Blue, Nothing, Geometry.Parse("M 240,250 " & _ "C 200,375 200,250 175,200 " & _ "C 100,400 100,250 100,200" & _ "C 0,350 0,250 30,130" & _ "C 75,0 100,0 150,0" & _ "C 200,0 250,0 250,150 Z")) End Using Using dc As DrawingContext = eyesVisual.RenderOpen() 'left eye dc.DrawEllipse(Brushes.Black, New Pen(Brushes.White, 10), New Point(95, 95), 15, 15) 'right eye dc.DrawEllipse(Brushes.Black, New Pen(Brushes.White, 10), New Point(170, 105), 15, 15) End Using Using dc As DrawingContext = mouthVisual.RenderOpen() 'the mouth Dim p As New Pen(Brushes.Black, 10) p.StartLineCap = PenLineCap.Round p.EndLineCap = PenLineCap.Round dc.DrawLine(p, New Point(75, 160), New Point(175, 150)) End Using visuals.Add(bodyVisual) visuals.Add(eyesVisual) visuals.Add(mouthVisual) For Each v In visuals AddVisualChild(v) AddLogicalChild(v) Next End Sub ' The two necessary overrides, implemented for the single Visual: Protected Shadows ReadOnly Property VisualChildrenCount() As Integer Get Return visuals.Count End Get End Property Protected Overrides Function GetVisualChild(ByVal index As Integer) As Visual If index < 0 OrElse index >= visuals.Count Then Throw New ArgumentOutOfRangeException("index") End If Return visuals(index) End Function Private Sub WPFHostDrawing_MouseLeftButtonDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Input.MouseButtonEventArgs) Handles Me.MouseLeftButtonDown MyBase.OnMouseLeftButtonDown(e) 'Reteive the mouse pointer location relative to the Window Dim location As Point = e.GetPosition(Me) 'Perform visual hit testing for the entire Window Dim result As HitTestResult = VisualTreeHelper.HitTest(Me, location) 'If we hit any DrawingVisual, rotate it If result.VisualHit.GetType() Is GetType(DrawingVisual) Then Dim dv As DrawingVisual = result.VisualHit If dv.Transform Is Nothing Then dv.Transform = New RotateTransform() End If CType(dv.Transform, RotateTransform).Angle = CType(dv.Transform, RotateTransform).Angle + 1 End If End Sub End Class Can anyone see an error, or just tell me they get the same and it must be a bug, it is driving my slightly crazy. Thanks. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds