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Is it possible to upgrade VS2005 to 08 or would I need to completely uninstall every .NET Componenet on my PC? I searched around on the net and couldn't find anything. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

I think there are some guys on Channel9 forums who know much more about IT security than me, so I would like to ask a few questions here. I have a Windows XP Home Edition computer with SP2. The Windows firewall is active and I even set it to block exceptions. I have installed a NOD32 antivirus software and Spyware Doctor from Google Pack. I run full scans with them regualry, plus sometimes I scan the system with Nessus and Microsoft Security Baseline Analyzer. As you can see, my system is quite well covered... BUT: I use IE7 and OutLook Express and (according to Secunia) they both have unpatched security holes. My question is: is it safe to use them? Or using them makes all my security precaution useless and my system can be corrupted by some malicious code? More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Hello fellow niners! I'm sure that more than a few of you have TiVo HD units on your home network, right? Well, I wrote my first Vista gadget for the Windows Sidebar, and I thought that some of you might want to check it out. http://blogs.msdn.com/mswanson/archive/2007/12/02/tivo-gadget-for-vista.aspx As always, I'm very interested in feedback and suggestions. Enjoy! More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

http://radian.org/notebook/first-deployment Interesting article. This was the first real deployment (i.e. not a pilot program) of the XO laptop. Apparently over 600,000 XO laptops were already purchased by governments and charitable organizations, including 50,000 by billionaire Carlos Slim for Mexican children. There is also the Give One Get One program, which has also been wildly successful. Details on the actual laptop: http://laptop.org/laptop/ Give one, Get one program: http://www.laptopgiving.org/en/index.php More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Since it's a slow news day and I finally found the culprit for what breaks the Device Manager link in "Control Panel\System and Maintenance\System" under Tasks for Vista 32 bit... It appears that if you install JujuEdit 1.44 with Context Menu option selected in install, the Device Manager link stops working. What makes this slightly more weird is that just removing the "openas" verb from the ShellExecute called by that link makes it work again for whatever reason. Given that in Vista 64 bit the Context Menu option doesn't even appear but the DM link keeps working I'd say it's time we got 1.45 of this fine software. Still it's pretty weird that it's the only link of the four that breaks... Workarounds: a) Don't install the context menu b) delete this key: [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\ContextMenuExt] @="{2C5D573F-C018-45BC-A78F-9BE0A624647B}" To get almost equivalent functionality back add this. Assuming the default path here: [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\JujuEdit\command] @="\"C:\Program Files\Jujusoft\JujuEdit\jujuedit.exe\" \"%1\"" More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

I am happy to share my application (along with the source) with you all* :) Tune UAC - A small, easy application to configure the User Account Control settings in Windows Vista Let me explain the application features one by one, Tune UAC reads your current UAC settings and displays the results accordingly in the initial screen Available features are, 1) Turn on/off User Account Control, 2) User Account Control behavior for Administrators, 3) User Account Control behavior for Users, and 4) Prompt for Secure Desktop There is a Help button for each of the feature which will explain what it is and it’s options. Below is an example, http://chakkaradeep.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/tuneuac-help.png Ifyou are not sure whether your system has the recommended UAC settings,you can check with Tune UAC’s Check My Settings feature which wouldcheck for the same, and if not, inform the same along with whichsettings are causing the problem. You can allow Tune UAC toautomatically fix these issues or you can change it later using TuneUAC. Below is a screenshot, http://chakkaradeep.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/tuneuac-checkyoursettings.png I have hosted Tune UAC at Codeplex and released under Microsoft Reciprocal License (Ms-RL) Feel free to test, report bugs (and also fix bugs*;) )*:D http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/361941.jpg Download the project More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

This really got me thinking.... More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Does this still exist? I can't find it on the UK site and on the US site none of my searchese return results. And no I'm not getting mixed up with this new DRM free service. The service I am talking about I have used before and can still find references of on the web. eg. lingage. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Christmas songs played using 8bit game consols! Enjoy! More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Microsoft gives developers a holiday treat Computerworld New Zealand, New Zealand - 24 minutes ago Visual Studio 2008, along with the bundled Expression tools, brings Windows developers beyond the Win32 age. Here's a tip: The visuals don't require Vista. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I had a look at this chart for some while http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/23/Mobile_web_standards_evolution.png For the 'computer' web it's fine to go with HTML 4.0 or XHTML 1.0. So now I had a look at those Markups for mobile phones, and it seems there are different content headers, markup styles, and other things, dependend on the location and type of phone. WAP 1.0 and WAP 2.0 use different markup which won't work well on some phones, i-mode uses cHTML, iHTML (seems to be serverside scripting (huh?) and on new G3 phones flash. But those arrows the end at some point somewhere, does this mean something important? More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Where does it do active protection? It seems to only undo the changes when I select deny, but do nothing when selecting permit. :S More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

• Personal Tech: Holiday Guide 2007 Washington Post, United States - Nov 29, 2007 I am planning on buying a Dell desktop running Windows XP Home unless you give me a strong argument for taking the plunge to VISTA. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

If I could work with the UNIX labs or the Windows team I would be happy forever.* where would you guys like to work in Microsoft and why?* What changes would you make? More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Has Microsoft ever considered doing something like the Dell Ideastorm for their own products?* Instead of just the beta testing collect broad input from their users. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Are any Niners up for a game of Halo 3? More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

I need to pass a pointer to a function that points to a dynamic memory allocation while freeing the memory allocated to it and changing the value of the pointer outside the function so that it points to a new dynamic memory allocation, so I pass a pointer to the pointer to the function like this: void example_function (int **ptr_to_ptr, ...) { ... free (*ptr_to_ptr); } The free call produces an error in Visual Studio 2005 Standard, so this does not work, but do the nature of my program, I need to do this and I have tried a few variations on it. I have two functions that do this, but I managed to hack a workaround by doing for one of them: void example_function (int **ptr_to_ptr, ...) { int * temp = *ptr_to_ptr; ... free (temp); } The two functions are virtually identical, so the fact that I get an error doing this in one and no error doing this in the other is bewildering. The one that produces an error with this workaround is a form of the one that does not, optimized for a special case of it, so I can substitute the one for this this workaround works for the one for which this work around does not work. If I do that, I get the same error. Here is the code to my program: #include #include void matMul ( unsigned int **a, unsigned int **b ); void matSqr ( unsigned int **a ); unsigned int * matPow ( unsigned int * a, unsigned int n ); #define matCopy(a, b) *a = *b, *(a + 1) = *(b + 1),*** *(a + 2) = *(b + 2), *(a + 3) = *(b + 3) int main ( void ) { *** unsigned int a[] = { 1, 1, 1, 0 }, *b, n = 1; *** while ( n > 0 ) *** { *** *** printf("Compute Fibonacci: "); *** *** scanf("%u", &n); *** *** if ( n < 2 ) *** *** { *** *** *** printf("\n\nFibonacci %u is %u\n\n", n, n); *** *** *** continue; *** *** } *** *** b = matPow(a, n - 2); *** *** printf("\nFibonacci %u is %u\n\n", n, *b); *** *** free(b); *** } *** return 0; } void matMul ( unsigned int **a, unsigned int **b ) { *** unsigned int *c = (unsigned int*)malloc (sizeof(unsigned int) 0; --n ) { temp = b; b = b + a; a = b; } //give the user b here } I wrote the above program because I was curious as to which approach has the lower computational time. The reason I am wrote the series of matrix multiplications in the manner I did is because I was inspired by a function I wrote for another program that does fast exponentiation: long long int pow (long long int base, long long int exp) { *** long long int result = (exp & 1) ? base : 1; *** if (base == 2) *** { *** *** return 1 >= 1 ; exp > 0 ; exp >>= 1 ) *** { *** *** base *= base; *** *** if (exp & 1) *** *** { *** *** *** result *= base; *** *** } *** } *** return result; } Also, does anyone know if there are any instructions available on an Intel Core 2 Duo Conroe processor that can be used to do matrix multiplication or at least accelerate it? Provided that they exist, I do not plan to use them right now, as I am not familiar with assembly yet, but since I found a use for matrix multiplication in a program, I would like to know if there are instructions that can be used to accelerate matrix multiplications for future reference. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

ARE YOU 100% SURE THAT IF YOU DIED TODAY THAT YOU WOULD GO TO HEAVEN? There are some things that you should know: 1. Realize that you are a sinner and in need of a Savior: Ro 3:23 "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;" Ro 3:10 "As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:" This all began with the story of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. God created them perfect, there was no death or sorrow. God told them not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. They disobeyed God and as a result, sin entered into the world. The pain which this world sees is the result of sin. 2. Because of our sins, we die both spiritually and physically, but God sent His Son to die so that you can have a chance not to have to go to hell by accepting what He did on the cross for you: Ro 6:23 "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Ro 5:8 "But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. for us." Every person who has ever lived is a sinner and is not righteous because we do bad things. A sin is a crime against God, just as if you steal something at the store, it is punishable by going to jail. It's the same thing with sin. Even if we lie one time, the punishment is hell, which is a prison for those who commit crimes against God. No matter how well you live your life from then on, you have already committed a sin which will be punished if you are not pardoned. If you commit a crime, and then live as a good citizen you still will go to jail for the crime you committed. Right? Just as the president can pardon a crime so you won't go to jail, Jesus can pardon your sins so that you do not go to hell, and can go to heaven when you die. 3. If you will confess to Jesus Christ that you are a sinner and in need of a Savior, except Him as Lord and Savior and believe in your heart that He died on the cross and rose from the dead you will be saved. Ro 10:9,10 "that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.." Joh 1:12 Joh 1:12 “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name” You cannot get to heaven by being a good person, going to church, baptism or any other way other than by turning to Jesus and asking Him to forgive you for your sins and save you. While these are good things to do, some people believe that they will get to heaven if they do these things, but the bible says that there is only one way to heaven and that is through receiving what Jesus Christ did on the cross for you. Will you do that today? If you will, you can be 100% sure that you will go to heaven when you die. Do you believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross and rose from the dead for your sins?* Are you willing to turn from your sins to Jesus Christ for Salvation? 4. If you are willing to accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior please pray this prayer to God from your heart: "Dear LORD JESUS, I believe that YOU died on the Cross and Rose from the dead for my sins. I ask you to come into my heart and forgive me for my sins, take me to heaven when I die. I now receive You as my Lord and Savior. Thank You for saving me.* In Jesus holy name, Amen." If you prayed that prayer from your heart to God, and meant it with all of your heart, you are now a child of God and will go to heaven when you die. Now that you are on your way to heaven, you should attend a bible believing church and follow in baptism. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Hm... gonna launch a recipe site soon... anyone know which one has better quality, 3CCD or CMOS? Also... HD vs "Native" HD? http://www.netonnet.se/index.asp?iid=98775 vs http://www.netonnet.se/index.asp?iid=92412 Maybe not worth the extra money to get "Native" HD? More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

I work a lot on remote machines so what I usually do on my local PC is to listen to Internet radio... Running the "Performance Monitor" to see what app is using the disk and what files... When listening to an Internet radio stream... using VLC it's all in RAM and I get zero disk usage so my drives goes to sleep for hours and hours... which is nice. However...if I use WMP ( Windows Media Player ) it keeps trashing the drive... well, not trashing but it keeps using a couple of files constantly : C:\$LogFile ntuser.dat ntuser.dat.log1 . . ...and some other files. Any idéa why? Due to the above, I have stopped using WMP... More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

How to trigger an event when the user is leaving a certain page? The important follow up question : Will this event trigger 100% surely or will it fail sometimes depending on connection drops etc? More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

I'm not a networking person so I'm hoping you guys can help me set up publicly accessible wireless inside a museum. I've looked at a Linksys forum and got some ideas but I'm asking here too since I'm here every day anyway. They currently have a bunch of computers that the employees use connected to a simple little D-Link router. Some of them are wireless and some are wired.*They use MAC filtering so only their computers can connect to the router which is good because they share the My Documents folders of all the machines on the network. They want to give tourists free wireless internet access but NOT allow them the see the computers on the network WITHOUT having the mess with any settings on their computers. This will have to be completely up to a piece of hardware that will not have access to their network, just the web. They have a spare LinksysWRT54G ver.2 that they've never used*and I have a Netgear WPN824 v2 I'm willing to give them if they need it. I was messing with the WRT54G this summer and put the Sveasoft Alchemy-v1.0 v3.37.6.8 sv firmware on it just for fun but I can always put the standard Linksys firmware on it if I need to. QUESTION? Can I plug a router into their current router and have the new router NOT have access to the internal network BUT have access to the internet? I just tried it here at home with the WRT54G by plugging it from my router to port 1 of the Linksys and I connected to the internet and the computers on the network didn't show up at all. Is it THAT easy? Am I just lucky? More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Hey !! Well i finally got round to installing Visual Studio 2008 on my Vista developer machine. My other machines ive kept on VS2005 SP1 for the moment whilst i play with 2008 a bit more. Now im having a very odd problem with Team foundation server. Basically i have a LAN with 5 machines that run in a workgroup (no domain here at home) and at the centre of activity is a Windows Server 2003 machine. The Windows Server 2003 Machine runs virtual server and Team Foundation server 2005 (its quite a beefy machine with 8gb of ram allowing me to run multiple virtual machines). Now this weekend ive setup a new virtual machine on the server 2003 box. The new virtual machine is server 2003 with VS Team found server 2008. To keep a long post short all the boxs can see the new team foundation server and connect to it ok. However the VS2005 with sp1 i had to install a compatability patch for team explorer to be able to create projects on WSS3.0. Ok so the new virtual machine as i said its server 2003 , windows sharepoint services 3.0 and sql server 2005 enterprise edition. All seems to be running and working ok. The vista machine can connect to the VSTFS2008 , can check files in, can even make builds. Now te odd problem im having is if i right click on the project and select show project portal , the project portal comes up in a new IE7 window. Now if i select "Project Management" on the left hand side, then when it loads the documents if i select explorer view it asks for my name and password. So if i input this it then pops up again and repeats popping up until i press cancel. Now on the vista machine when you press cancel i just get a "IE could not load this page" etc etc. On the xp machines when you press cancel the explorer web folder view loads :s if i try directly on the server it just plain fails but from researching i understand this is because server 2003 doesnt support webdav. Now on VSTFS2005 i didnt have this problem and web folders in explorer view loaded fine. Whats missing here ? how can i get web folder expplorer view for project portal documents to work as it should ? any ideas ? Ive looked at all permissions and authentication and i cant see basic authentication being used anywhere (as the sharepoint server whitepaper suggest this can be a cause). The fact that the xp machines can connect to the vstf2005 and view explorer view in the project portal ok, but not with vstfs2008 suggests this is a vstfs2008/wss 3.0 problem ? Any help would be appreciated More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

I've had The Orange Box for a bit now, and the original disk is looking a little shabby. I went to look up on the web on whether it was possible to make a backup, should my stupidly expensive game become un-playable, and it seems the only way is via modding your xbox (IE, voiding the warranty) - something I don't fancy doing. I don't want to break the law in any way, I just want to not break my bank by having to buy new games that I already owned. This then lead me to wonder why I couldn't get it to run on mine. IE, if I made an exact copy, why should my Xbox have any trouble running it? For all it knows, the game is exactly the same one I've been using for about a month. Which then led to a conversation with*a friend*about disk encryption etc. where the conclusion was made that it's impossible to make an EXACT copy. So, having pondered this further, I got to wondering why. So, I just want to know why I can't make an exact copy. Say I use a*different app, a different OS, why*won't it work? In theory, creating an exact copy should be possible... I just want to know why it isn't. Anybody know? More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

CNET.com > Blogs > News Extra CNET News.com, CA - Nov 29, 2007 Devil Mountain Software's method of testing Windows XP SP3 against Windows Vista used identical Dell computers, but it admitted it compared Office 2007 ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds