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The Microsoft Development Center in Copenhagen (MDCC) recently held it's second TechFest. Each year (this is year two of TechcFest) the good folks at MDCC put on a show where local (Denmark and other northern European countries) innovators show off their wares. I was lucky enough to spend a day learning about some of the great things small ISVs and scholars are creating on Microsoft and non-Microsoft development platform stacks. Here, we meet Charlotte Mark, the MDCC Site Leader, and Michael Nielsen, Director of*Dynamics NAV Engineering. We chat about MDCC and TechFest. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

As I emptied my 10GB recycle bin, I remembered once when it had once expanded to a whopping 30GB.* What's the largest you have let your recycle bin become? More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Discover Microsoft's new online service, Office Live Workspace, in my latest review! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Language: VB.Net Framework: 2.0 IDE: Visual Studio 2005 * Hi, I have an application which makes use of File IO*and*I keep running into a*problem where a txt file is still be used by some process even after I close readers/writers. Is there a way to make sure all processes on a file are stoped or do some kind of check to see if the file is not being used by something else. I'll explain a little bit of*what I am doing incase it helps solves my problem. I*have a .txt file*which my application writes label information too. Each line in the txt file is a new label. After application writes to the .txt*file it closes the writer. I also have a function which uses a reader loop to*count the lines in the txt file to see how many labels*the application has*written. After the loop is finished the reader closes. Once the user clicks*a "make label" button if the count of labels is not zero*my application automates MS word, opens a pre-saved doc file*with a table in it, then reads each line from the txt file into a different tabel cell. After the loop for writing info into the cells is finished the reader for the txt file is closed, deleted, and a new .txt file is created. The MS word doc is then*saved and made visible to the user. I sometimes get a file io error if the user clicks the "make label" button again within 60 seconds of this process finishing. (after the .doc file is shown) Basicly the error says the .txt file is still in use. I believe the problem occurs because the file io has not finished recreating the .txt file after it's deleted, but I don't understand why it takes so long or what I can do to make sure the txt file is created (and not in use) before my application tries to use it again. Is there a way to make sure all processes on a file are stoped or do some kind of check to see if the file is not being used by something else. Thanks for any help More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Choose your favourite. :-) I love these two. :DThe application failed to properly uninstall the driver. Uninstall will continue, but the driver will still be installed.Are you sure you want to send Recycle Bin to the Recycle Bin? More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Hard drive that is. I got 4 hard drives in my pc. 1 is divided in*2 partitions with Vista and Windows Server RC1 on it. The other 3 are in raid 5, used for archiving/backup. From the bios and Windows Server I can still see the Raid-5 drive but not anymore from Vista. Here are some screenshots: My Computer: Vista - Server 2k8 Disk Management: Vista - Server 2k8 Device manager: Vista - Server 2k8 More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

I have Vista Ultimate on my laptop. I am trying to configure the loopback adapter to connect to a remote ssh server at our datacenter using My Entunnel ssh daemon. I have done this countless times in XP and had no problems. I have installed the loop back adapter and configured with ip address 10.0.1.1 with a netmask of 255.255.255.0. Those are the settings we have used in XP and it works just fine. I disabled netbios and file and printer sharing as we had to do in XP. I have the tunnel connection open and properly configured. It seems no matter what ip config i use the loopback always has limited connectivity. Is there some change in network stack that is causing this. Any help would be appreciated. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Brian Beckman frequently derides the difficulties present when one attempts to do something as simple as, adding a textbox control onto a webform. His derision is poited squarely at the amount of technologies one has to know to add a textbox control, get the CSS, databind it etc. He does have a point, it is a bit of a headache! One of the things at the top of my hate list is learning third party datagrid controls, coming to think of it, even the winforms one. There is no easy way to learn grids from any of the main vendors i.e. infragistics/component one/devexpress etc, yet their mastery is essential to having a polished application. By the time one learns that 10000000 settings needed to do a simple thing, your're nothing short of tearing your hair out. What do you dislike most, and what can be done better to alleviate the problem? More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Operating system debate asks: 'Who do you love?' Bizjournals.com, NC - 13 hours ago This long-time Windows user made the move to "The Dark Side of the Force" yesterday when I cracked open the relatively small box which arrived at my condo. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ Digitaltrends.com Microsoft Rebuffs Poor Vista Benchmarks Digitaltrends.com, OR - 35 minutes ago Microsoft’s attack came from Nick White, a product manager for Windows Vista. While he didn’t call out Devil Mountain by name in his Vista blog entry, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

can't figure out what is wrong with this code. It is holding up the entire program. Any suggestions would be great. Thanks! Steve inventoryDeliveryDataTableAdapter.Connection.Open(); try { inventoryDeliveryDataTableAdapter.InsertWacoInventory(clientNum, deliveryDataRef.ClientName, deliveryDataRef.VersionCode, deliveryDataRef.QuantityReceived, deliveryDataRef.VerifiedQuantity, deliveryDataRef.BoxTotal, deliveryDataRef.NumberOfSkids, deliveryDataRef.InHomeDate, deliveryDataRef.ReceivedDate); inventoryDeliveryDataTableAdapter.Connection.Close(); * //let the user know that the delivery has been inserted MessageBox.Show("Current Delivery inserted to inventory", "Information", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Information); } catch { MessageBox.Show("There was an error inserting to the database", "Error", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error); inventoryDeliveryDataTableAdapter.Connection.Close(); return; }//end of Database insert More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

R.I.P. Marc Orchant, 1957-2007 I expected to see Marc this week at a Microsoft Mobile Partner Event in Seattle, we hung-out for an afternoon just last month at the Web 2.0 Summit. I keep hearing the words of a friend of mine when she was a little girl and would cry; that's not fair. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth :-) Introduction: Assuming you understand how LINQ to objects works and assuming you know how DataSets work, this 18' video shows you how LINQ to DataSet can be used in your projects. Video download: Click on the image to play the video (from a streaming Silverlight wmv). If you'd prefer to download a non-Silverlight wmv packaged in a zip file, you may do so here. * http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/364369.jpg Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Nauru is a tiny island, population 12,000, a third of the size of Manhattan and far from anywhere: yet at the center of several of the decade's biggest global events. Contributing editor Jack Hitt tells the untold story of this dot in the middle of the Pacific and its involvement in the bankrupting of the Russian economy, global terrorism, North Korean defectors, the end of the world, and the late 1980s theatrical flop of a London musical based on the life of Leonardo da Vinci Fascinating podcast :O * http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=253 More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Best way to find the inverse of a number? I*want to*return the inverse of a number. So now I*can add*the number to itself multiplied by negative 2. x = y*+ (y * -2) Or this x = y * (-1) is a little simpler, but... I know there's a simpler way to do this.. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Operating system debate asks: 'Who do you love?' Bizjournals.com, NC - 11 hours ago This long-time Windows user made the move to "The Dark Side of the Force" yesterday when I cracked open the relatively small box which arrived at my condo. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

My review will be up shortly, but in the meantime, you can see Microsoft latest online service in this Office Live Workspace screenshot gallery. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi and welcome to another Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit screencast. This session was presented by*Rohit Puri*and is the from the Visual Studio 2008 training kit available from http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7602397. This session is designed to help developers learn how Visual Studio Tools for Office enables them to leverage Visual Studio and the Microsoft Office platform to build scalable line-of-business solutions based on Microsoft Office. Recorded September 2007. http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/364336.jpg Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Hi and welcome to another Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit screencast. This session was presented by*Rohit Puri*and is the from the Visual Studio 2008 training kit available from http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7602397. This session is to help developers understand how they can easily extend the Office Fluent UI using powerful ribbon design tools that are available in VSTO. Recorded September 2007. http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/364338.jpg Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Hi and welcome to another Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit screencast. This session was presented by*Rohit Puri*and is the from the Visual Studio 2008 training kit available from http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7602397. This session demonstrates how VSTO reduces complexity and greatly speeds development of SharePoint workflow from within Visual Studio. Recorded September 2007. http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/364342.jpg Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Hi and welcome to another Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit screencast. This session was presented by*Michael Saffitz*and is the from the Visual Studio 2008 training kit available from http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7602397. Windows Mobile development is not as difficult as it seems. Take a comprehensive walkthrough of the Windows Mobile application development platform, SDKs and tool enhancements for device development in this session. We will cover what’s new in Windows Mobile 6 SDK, Visual Studio 2008, and the .NET Compact Framework 3.5. Recorded September 2007. http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/364345.jpg Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

On a related note to my previous question, how come if I declare an xml file like this I get errors: testfalse****** ***</font color="#a52a2a"data/font> </font color="#a52a2a"settings/font> My schema defines a type attribute, and if I remove the xsi:type attribute from the second setting attribute the file validates OK. But if I insert that xsi:type attribute then validation complains about all the rest of the attributes in that element. (Not in the previous element.) (Before everyone shouts at me, I didn't create the stupid schema that defines the type attribute, and probably most crucially that schema doesn't define a target namespace.) Sigh... This is all proving a complete pain in the bum, and it may just be easier to check the "type" attribute and parse accordingly... Urgh! Annoyingness. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

I was eagerly anticipating my Asus WL700gE arriving today; which it did, much to my delight. Having had trouble with online purchases before, I've learned to check my items over before I use them. Lucky I did with this one... http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s104/Lloyd_Humph/DCP_1510.jpg it's a crappy picture but you can just about see that the "void if broken" seals are all broken on the HDD. edit: also if somebody can suggest a decent UK ADSL Ethernet modem... More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Electric Rain Releases Swift 3D v5.0 for the Macintosh Along With ... PR Newswire (press release), NY - 1 hour ago ... Macromedia, Alias (now Autodesk), and most recently Microsoft, as a Technology Adoption Partner (TAP) for developing new Windows Vista (. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hello, Just been looking into protecting a current project of mine with Hasp SRM. Just wondering what anybody thinks of them? What are the prices like they seem to have provided me with a price list which is worrying. Cheers, Rob More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds