It has been too long since I posted about gaming under Virtual PC - so today I would like to talk about " Trials of Battle ". This game was made by Stardock in 1996 - and is one of the few "first person shooting" games that exists...
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Sylvain Galineau just sent me a pointer to a cool site which has reference information for multiple shells: CMD, PS, BASH, ORACLE, and SQLSERVER. It's not complete but it is a nice reference point. Enjoy it HERE . Thanks Sylvain!...
The praises haven't been sung loud enough for MSDN Virtual Labs , and I intend to do my part to correct that. So, what is this? It's a part of MSDN where you can go through a "lab" online without messing your environment. A lab is typically a walk-through...
We’re just getting back into the swing of things after a couple of weeks break over the Christmas holidays, not to mention the disruption of unusually heavy snow followed by floods here in the Seattle area. Two articles caught my attention this week....
Let me spend few mins to write a lunch time post for giving the solution to yesterday's riddle , reported below: The three images are in fact instances of a the new super cool technology, dubbed...
Mark Voermans, A colleague and fellow ISV champion, in the Netherlands, put together this thoughtful blog post with terrific resources for you around today’s release of the Windows 7 Beta . Click the image below to watch an overview of Windows 7. As well,...
If you have not had the luxury of debugging optimized x64 code as of yet, don’t wait much longer and fall behind the times! Due to the x64 fastcall-like calling convention coupled with the abundance of general purpose registers, finding variable values...
Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta is now available. You can download it from the Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta site. Key Features for ISVs You will want to start using Windows Server 2008 R2 for your own development efforts right away. Here's some of the features...
I am pleased to announce that our team just released PhotoSuru - a complete sample application demonstrating how to use the Syndicated Client Experiences Starter Kit for photo-viewing scenarios. Big kudos to Kevin Gjerstad (our GPM) and the many other...
While there's much press coverage about Windows 7 hitting beta, the availability of the Windows Server 2008 R2 beta is also big news for me personally. In particular this beta brings the first public look at the next iteration of Hyper-V. There's several...
On YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZzQycqjIfY Check out the cool accelerometer-controlled spaceship starting around 1:08. Now if only I spoke German. Hope he's not saying anything untoward. ;-) (Thanks, Gavin, for the link.)...
Right after Windows 7 beta now the beta version of Windows Server 2008 R2 is available too. For links see my previous post . At the same time Windows Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Beta – what a mouthful – is available too. So no better time to check out the...
As announced in February 2008 , Internet Explorer 8 sends an updated user-agent string when interacting with web servers. Since we last blogged about the User-Agent string, the Internet Explorer team introduced Compatibility View and today, the Windows...
From my post yesterday on the Office Communicator Automation API , I can use the API to add presence and communication features to my apps, including: Embed Presence with Application Specific Contact Lists – use the API to build contact lists specific...
Este año los Reyes Magos se han portado genial ( aun haciendo yo apología del Olentzero por todas partes :P ) y me trajeron un Samsung NC10, uno de estos netbooks que se empiezan a ver por todas partes. 1G de RAM, 160G disco, Atom, Wifi … he de decir...
The Windows 7 beta is now publicly available (to the first 2.5 million of you that get to the download link ). Here's some good reading to prep yourself for the install, while you're waiting for the bits to stream down....
Hier au CES de Las Vegas, Microsoft a annoncé la disponibilité des premiers betas de Windows 7 et de Windows Server 2008 R2. Pour ceux qui se disent « wow, deux systèmes d’exploitation le même jour! », vous devez commencer à vous rendre compte qu’il y...
Hier au CES de Las Vegas, Microsoft a annoncé la disponibilité des premiers betas de Windows 7 et de Windows Server 2008 R2. Pour ceux qui se disent « wow, deux systèmes d'exploitation le même jour! », vous devez commencer à vous rendre compte qu'il y...
Steve Balmer announced the availability of Windows 7 Beta at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) this week. Built on the foundation of Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, Windows 7 provides greater security and manageability for remote and local PCs,...
I've been somewhat quiet in my blog lately, posting vary sparsely in 2008. Consider this the "reset", wherein I resolve to be more frequent in my updates. In a blog post over two year ago, I mentioned that I'd joined a new group at Microsoft, and was...
At the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) this week, Steve Ballmer made a very significant announcement: the availability of the new version of Windows Live . The new Windows Live is designed to make it much easier to communicate and share experiences with...
Maybe it's your first time to the Expression Forums , or maybe you hang out there a lot answering questions and helping the new folks out. Either way, there's a quick and easy way you can help others quickly find the most relevant info, and give well-deserved...
Olá pessoal, tudo certo? No post anterior fizemos uma rápida introdução sobre alguns aspectos do sistema operacional Windows Azure . Note que o assunto sistema operacional é muito mais complexo, contendo diversas considerações sobre gerenciamento de recursos,...
Any programmer knows that logic errors are among the most difficult to troubleshoot. I was recently working with a developer who was encountering an obscure logic bug concerning session variables, and the case raised an interesting (and important) point...
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