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Does any one have done project on WPF and DirectShow? :O More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Do you know how much is the salary of a C#.NET Developer with the following certifications? ** ********* MCTS Windows Applications ******** *MCTS Web Applications **********MCTS Distributed Applications ********* MCPD Windows Developer ********* MCPD Web Developer **********MCPD Enterprise Applications Developer Plus 4 years of experience? More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Hello I have a server with OS Windows 2003 standard I have a website contains only*1 label (Nothing More !!!) I made this with VS 2008 and publish it on that server when I try to open this website it gives me an error "Runtime Error" Do you know why ? Thanks More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

In this video, we have Wee Hyong (Singapore SQL MVP) doing a short discussion with us about the cool features found in SQL 2008 Nov CTP. He will also be talking about the new spatial support found in the CTP. This is part 1 of a 3 part series. In Part 2, he will be doing a deep dive in the 2 new spatial data types (geography and geometry), along with spatial indexing. http://c29.statcounter.com/2834659/0/8aa3f99a/0/ Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

So on my travels I ended up in the c9 building today without realising it. And there's a flipping huge C9 guy in the reception. And in Jeff's office (I ended up in a meeting in the next room; no sign of Jeff). Bizarre. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Law of Demeter*(wikipedia) I'm reading The Pragmatic Programmer*and the Law of Demeter sounds good, but it look like that we need to write lots of methods to simply foward request. Do you always follow that law, usualy, or never ? More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1616039231;fp;2;fpid;1 Apparently aQuantive, a major web advertising provider, largely uses Linux and other open source software to drive it's many web properties. Microsoft recently bought aQuantive for $6 billion USD. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Microsoft has shipped Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Release Candidate 1, and you can have it next week. Here's a first look! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I am just thinking that if an application is restricted to only have write access to its own application directory, then, it won't be able to change other places doing malicious attacks. Wouldn't it be cool to have a user type that's only able to install software in this mode? The installation will always ask root directory by MS and the installer and application can only maneuver in that directory. A virus wish to attack will never get out of there. Any write operation outside its root directory will be ignored without warning. The basic ideas it provide an user type that can install application without worrying about virus attack. It will restrict a lot of applications to run properly, but I am willing to trade that off. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Microsoft Releases New Windows Server, Vista SP1 Test Code Washington Post, United States - 21 hours ago According to a post on thewindows Vista Team Blog, a stand-alone installer will be released to the Web in both x86 and x64 versions for the following ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

i never saw (in theatres) Knocked up, Superbad or Hot Rod. Rented them all last night.. and they were all funny i personally thought the andy samberg hot rod to be the funniest ..but just in parts - like really ..cannot...stop...laughing...funny his humor seems to incorporate the bizarre very well.. like total left field stuff (like saving his dad - to kick his a s s) cool beans ;) ps - i also rented pirates... pretty boring. keef was good though More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

In today's podcast with Steven Lees we discuss FeedSync, formerly known as Simple Sharing Extensions for Atom and RSS. FeedSync can do two-way synchronization of item sets across a range of protocols and topologies, handling both insertion and deletion of items. One of the most intriguing uses of the technology, to date, has been a project led by Microsoft Humanitarian Systems, in Afghanistan, which enables Access databases outfitted with FeedSync adapters to synchronize through a relay in challenging circumstances. FeedSync is an extremely general mechanism which can support software-plus-services scenarios, as in the Access example, or cloud scenarios, or any combination of those styles. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

To accompany today's podcast with Steven Lees about FeedSync -- formerly Simple Sharing Extensions for Atom and RSS -- we recorded a screencast (Silverlight, Flash) in which Steven demonstrates the FeedSync samples project on CodePlex. In this screencast you'll see two WinForms clients -- each a simple note-taking application -- synchronizing changes through a server-side relay. (Note that the relay is optional, endpoints can also synch directly in a peer-to-peer fashion.) You'll see how updates are reflected in the FeedSync-enhanced RSS feed, and how conflict resolution can be handled. http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/363406.jpg Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

If yes, what do you pray for? More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Vista SP1 release candidate now available eChannelLine, Canada - 17 minutes ago By Patricia Pickett Microsoft Corp. has made the release candidate (RC) for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) available to all of its SP1 beta release ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://www.techconsumer.com/2007/12/06/microsoft-hopes-to-release-windows-for-100-laptop-next-year/ *“We want Windows to run on the XO and we are investing significant energy and talent,” Mr. Utzschneider said, “We really want to make sure we have a quality experience before we make commitment to governments.” Another interesting tidbit: "40 full-time engineers are working on the port, both from Microsoft and third-party contractors." More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

What do you all think works better? A straight-laced work environment or a relaxed work environment? More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

I actually tried last night to download this enhancement, but I didn't have a lot of time, so I skipped it till lunch today. Now, I find out that it was a good thing I did.* I'd put in 2 new video cards, and if I hadn't seen this first, I would have thought that I'd blown the system up: http://games.slashdot.org/games/07/12/06/1312254.shtml The new release seems to have gone well, and anyone who just did the standard install would be fine.* The problem comes if/when the Eve client figures out that your machine can handle the new models and skins...they offer it to you from a few different places, but most notably, from the actual logon sceen :( The bug overwrites the c:\boot.ini file and once you reboot, you are hosed.* If you've got 2 machines, you might be able to use the second to look for the thread and the fix, but some folks only have 1 machine.* And others don't have a bootable XP cd :( Who the heck uses boot.ini as a game file, anyway? CCP made a great game in spite of the idiots they have working for them. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Windows Server 2008, Vista SP1 Hit RC Milestone Redmond Channel Partner, CA - 1 hour ago by Keith Ward Microsoft yesterday continued its hand-in-hand development of Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista's first service pack, publishing release ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Microsoft won't punch back at Apple ... and other notes - Seattle Post Intelligencer Microsoft won't punch back at Apple ... and other notes Seattle Post Intelligencer - 27 minutes ago Apple's ads are poking fun at Windows Vista more and more these days, but Microsoft doesn't intend to respond in kind, according to a post this week on the ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Yahoo, Google Get Chatty About IM eWeek, NY - 56 minutes ago 6 unveiled a pre-beta test of its Yahoo Messenger for Vista, an instant messaging client tailored for Microsoft's newest Windows operating system. On Dec. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Windows Server 2008, Vista SP1 Hit RC Milestone Redmond Channel Partner, CA - 27 minutes ago by Keith Ward Microsoft yesterday continued its hand-in-hand development of Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista's first service pack, publishing release ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Microsoft Releases New Windows Server, Vista SP1 Test Code Washington Post, United States - 16 hours ago According to a post on thewindows Vista Team Blog, a stand-alone installer will be released to the Web in both x86 and x64 versions for the following ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

zdnet Resources ZDNet - 41 minutes ago Tags: General, openid, Microsoft Windows cardspace Blog posts 2007-02-08 If 'you' build openid, will 'they' come? In case you missed it last week, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Today, I spent an hour or*two rewriting an old program I wrote two months ago to run faster and more efficiently. The sole purpose of this program is to start at*x = 3 and iterate until x = n (with some optimizations that I am neglecting to mention), checking to see if 2^x - 1 is prime. I wrote this program to get better at C and I am rewriting it because I want to learn how to do multithreading. The test to check if a number of the form 2^x*- 1 is prime is fairly intensive and can take a long time with large numbers of n, so this would be an ideal situation to do multithreading. Since I am using my university's Unix server for my classes, I want to use pthreads.h to multithread my program, to get a head start on a concurrency course I will be taking two years from now. There are two models that I have identified which I could use to multithread my application. I am simplifying them by assuming that my program will create only two threads. One model*involves starting two threads for each test, waiting for each of them to end and then starting two more threads, using the main thread to tell each new thread what they are supposed to do, until all of the tests have been performed. The other model involves starting two threads that will loop through the tests, knowing not to do a test that has either already been done or is being done by another thread and having the main thread wait until they are both done. I think I can accomplish this if I put some variables into some sort of structure that will tell each thread what has not been done, so that when a thread finishes a test, it will take the next test, modifying the variables to indicate what*the next unfinished test and then proceed to do the new test. I would also like the thread to be able to lock the structure, so that if the other thread happens to finish while it is using it, it will have to wait until the first thread has finished. I believe such a structure is called a mutex, although I have only read about them on Wikipedia and I have never done multithreading, excluding one crazy attempt I made at multithreading in high school, that if I recall involved the first approach (using a P4C with hyperthreading) and was not appreciably better than single threading. I imagine that with the first approach, there will be many times where one thread will finish before the other thread, leaving one core doing nothing while the other core finishes its work. I want my program to scale well as the number of cores increases and I do not think the first model does that very well, so I would like to use the second model, which I believe should keep all of the cores busy virtually at all times, given how long the tests take for large exponents (at exponents of 1 million, I believe they can take days)*and and how little time each thread will need to interact with the mutex. There are two things that I need help with, the first being fairly essential and the second being something that will make my life much easier. The first is figuring how out to use pthreads to do what I want. Assuming that the functions in pthreads behave like the functions evildictator used in his code, my main dilemma is*figuring out how to*create the mutex, initialize the mutex so that it has the variables my threads will need,*how the threads will modify the mutex and how and when and where*the mutex will be destroyed (does the*main thread destroy it?): http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=361764 I am doing this in C89 (ANSI C) with the*pthreads*library (and the GMP library, but not on the server), so I will not be using any C++ or any other libraries. My program is meant to use the GMP library, but I cannot get GMP to work on my university's server and any attempt to install it puts my user account over its quota, limiting the life of the GMP install (whether it works or not) to seven days, so I am right now using a fork (I think that is the correct jargon)*that modifies my program to not use GMP*on the server, which limits*the fork*to 32bit numbers, as the tests need twice the number of bits the numbers tested use. An irony to this is that while I cannot get GMP working on the server, I can get it working on my home computer with Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition. This leads to my second problem, which is that if I multithread my program on the server, I will never get to see my program working as it is supposed to work (i.e. it will*not*run for any*appreciable amount of time)*unless I also multithread it on my home computer as well. I will be using Unix's multithreading libraries*in my classes two years from now, so I want to avoid using any methods of multithreading that are not avaliable on Unix. I did some research and the best solution to this problem appears to be using win32-pthreads: http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/ Unfortunately, I do not know how to get the library working with Visual Studio. I managed to get GMP working by doing a google search on my problem and finding a thread where someone suggested using absolute paths. Given that googling*win32-pthreads only gives 1160 results, I doubt the same problem solving method would work. I have tried putting the*pthread.h*from*win32-pthread into my project and then using #include , but that did not work and I have not taken any classes that involve using custom libraries, much less any using Visual Studio, so I am not sure how to proceed. If anyone could help me with these two problems, I would be very grateful. More... 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