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Hi all, so... I have an automated build process in place with MSBuild and CCNet. I want to add WiX to this to output the build to MSI's. The problem I am having is the order of execution with all these .proj files, wix files and such. I don't know to call what from where. Currently I have a .proj file that builds all of the .net projects and solutions. Where in this process do the wix files go, I don't mean the*physical path. Obviously the build would have to complete first, then call the wix files to package it all, so is this call a task in MSbuild and if so how do I write that out and where do I put it? More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

It's not called 'geekSpeak' for nothing!* This week's show is pretty darn geeky, with guest expert Chris Love diving into the details of ASP.NET httpHandler and httpModule implementations. Listen in to hear best practices for the implementation of these features.* Here's bio information for Chris. Chris Love has over 14 years of experience in software design, development and architecture. He has been the principal developer for over 250 small and medium ASP and ASP.NET web sites over the past 7 years. Chris has been active in a leadership role in the Raleigh, NC, area user group TRINUG for over 5 years. He frequently presents and organizes Code Camps around the country. He has recently completed his first book, ASP.NET 2.0: Your Visual Blueprint for Developing Web Applications. http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/362964.jpg Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Vista SP1 Release Candidate Availablity Info Gotta Be Mobile, CO - 1 hour ago For info on this, check out The Windows Vista Blog. gottabemobile.com is an Internet News and Review website that covers the fast paced and constantly ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Vista Goes Nagware To Fight Piracy CIO Today, CA - 52 minutes ago By Frederick Lane There has been some speculation that Microsoft's announcement that Windows Vista SP1 will replace the "kill switch" with "nagware" is an ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Is Windows Vista slower than Windows XP? Hindu, India - 11 minutes ago By Tim Anderson in London Guardian News Service: "The 'Wow' starts now," said Microsoft when Windows Vista was launched. For some users it was, "Wow, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I was watching this video: http://asp.net/learn/3.5-videos/video-224.aspx *I noticed the margin guide rulers he has on his web designer how does one enable that. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

ups! :| http://ms-os.com/Themes/AlmostGlass/images/icon-quote.gif neowin wrote: Microsoft has killed Santa Claus today, after an unsatisfactory attempt to restrain the North Pole-based jolly old elf from instant messaging children about oral sex. Although Redmond has been challenged by compassion in the past, this appears to be the first time on record it has out-and-out killed the very manifestation of goodwill. Father Christmas was subject to some controversy this year when given the seasonal ID northpole@live.com on MSN messenger. While mostly sticking to an approved and traditional regimen of asking children what they want for Christmas, the mere mention of pizza would send him into a provocative froth about love-making of the mouth. Microsoft informed us about their troubling decision to destroy the spirit of Christmas this morning. That's why he didn't answer anymore [C] I want my santa back on messenger *snif* More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Vista Goes Nagware To Fight Piracy CIO Today, CA - 2 minutes ago By Frederick Lane There has been some speculation that Microsoft's announcement that Windows Vista SP1 will replace the "kill switch" with "nagware" is an ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Microsoft Releases Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 RC1 Geekzone, New Zealand - 40 minutes ago From the Vista Team blog, Today we’re making available the release candidate (RC) of Windows Vista SP1 via Microsoft Connect, and tomorrow subscribers to ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Does anyone have any Crystal Reports bone ups that I can ping. I need to finish binding my app*to print. Steve[H] More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Public test next week for Vista SP1 Daily Download, CA - 30 minutes ago Microsoft also said on its Vista blog on Wednesday that it will make available a "blocker" that will allow customers that have Vista and use Windows Update ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Microsoft Releases Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 RC1 Geekzone, New Zealand - 5 minutes ago From the Vista Team blog, Today we’re making available the release candidate (RC) of Windows Vista SP1 via Microsoft Connect, and tomorrow subscribers to ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

How to Choose a New PC: 2008 Self-Help Edition Yahoo! Tech, CA - 1 hour ago CPU - I'm assuming we're talking a Windows Vista or XP PC from here on out, as that represents the vast majority of computer buyers. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Goes RTM IT Jungle, NY - 16 hours ago The new release includes enhancements that will appeal to customers planning deployments of Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, or Office Communication ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

New Exploit Targets Internet Explorer Redmond Channel Partner, CA - 1 hour ago Tim Rains of Microsoft's Security Response Center wrote in a blog post on Monday that Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 sps 1 and 2 and Windows Vista are ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

How to Choose a New PC: 2008 Self-Help Edition Yahoo! Tech, CA - 24 minutes ago CPU - I'm assuming we're talking a Windows Vista or XP PC from here on out, as that represents the vast majority of computer buyers. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Windows Server 2008 RC1 Reaches the Masses Microsoft Watch - 45 minutes ago But I've got to wonder about all this release candidate holiday joy—Exchange Server, Windows Server, Windows Vista and Windows XP—that Microsoft elves are ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

this thread provoked my question: also, i apologize if this is nothing but a demonstration of my newbie-ness in SQL... am i the only one that thinks a series of INSERT statements to submit many rows of data is a little insane? say i want to add 100 new authors to a table; i'd much rather call some sort of stored procedure to do this all in one fell swoop then to make 100 round trips to the DB. that's where CLR Stored Procs come in.* i've never tried them, but from what i know this will allow me to just pass a List to the database to preform all the inserts right on the server, correct? More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

New Exploit Targets Internet Explorer Redmond Channel Partner, CA - 17 minutes ago Tim Rains of Microsoft's Security Response Center wrote in a blog post on Monday that Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 sps 1 and 2 and Windows Vista are ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Microsoft also removing antipiracy 'kill switch' from Windows ... - Computerworld Microsoft also removing antipiracy 'kill switch' from Windows ... Computerworld, MA - 15 minutes ago s announcement on Monday that it will relax an antipiracy mechanism in Windows Vista was the news that the company plans to drop the same "kill switch" from ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Windows Vista Users Hit With 'Purple Screen Of Death' InformationWeek, NY - 1 hour ago "It's something to do with the way the Windows Vista kernel handles a certain exception in the graphics driver subsystem." One poster on the Neosmart blog ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

You've seen a few conversations on Channel 9 about Microsoft's Entity Framework. It's a rather impressive technology, though it's not very well understood. Well, this true for Brian Beckman (it's true that*Brian doesn't know everything!) and so he wanted to sit down and have a chat with Sam Druker, who runs the Data Platforms group (and also happens to be Brian's grandboss and former programming colleague - Sam's a very technically-inclined executive...). This is interview is really great for two reasons. The first reason is that, well, it's a great (and deep, including whiteboarding) conversation between experts that spans many technologies related to SQL and the Entity Framework. The second reason is that this is the first in a series of interviews on Channel 9 that involve experts in one domain (or many domains, like Brian) who interview other experts in another domain that is not well understood by the interviewer. Yours truly, Charles,*takes part in the conversation of course, but I'm mainly a camera guy who throws in a good*random*question once and a while, but Brian drives this interview. Like you, I'm in the audience and learning from people who truly understand the deepest levels of a given platform technology. Again, Brian Beckman conducts this interview and I think this is*a trend you are going to really enjoy. Thank you, Brian! You'll see more of this class of interview in the future on Channel 9. Learn. Enjoy. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Windows Vista Users Hit With 'Purple Screen Of Death' InformationWeek, NY - 15 minutes ago "It's something to do with the way the Windows Vista kernel handles a certain exception in the graphics driver subsystem." One poster on the Neosmart blog ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I just found this and thought it was kind of nifty. Basically, it ranks your surname popularity and also displays a map of how many people with your surname reside in each state. My Last Name Ranking is: instances in our database: 2,232 LastName Ranking: 4,012 of 6,811,141 - So I guess that isn't overly common. http://names.whitepages.com/ More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Synchronization for the Web The creation of FeedSync was catalyzed by the observation that RSS and Atom feeds were exploding on the web, and that by harnessing their inherent simplicity we might enable the creation of a “decentralized data bus” among the world’s web sites. Just like RSS and Atom, FeedSync feeds can be synchronized to any device or platform. Previously known as Simple Sharing Extensions, FeedSync was originally designed by Ray Ozzie in 2005 and has been developed by Microsoft with input from the Web community. The initial specification, </strong>FeedSync for Atom and RSS, describes how to synchronize data through Atom and RSS feeds. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds