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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://msmvps.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>.NET MVP KenLin's Blog : Longhorn/Vista</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/tags/Longhorn_2F00_Vista/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: Longhorn/Vista</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)</generator><item><title>FrontPage Server Extensions for IIS7 </title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/2007/09/11/frontpage-server-extensions-for-iis7.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:07:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:1185541</guid><dc:creator>kenlin</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=1185541</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/2007/09/11/frontpage-server-extensions-for-iis7.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;If you are a .NET Developer, and you might found out that Vista( or Windows Server 2008) is not including the Frontpage Server Extensions for IIS7, this component which is important to ASP or ASp.NET web site. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A good news from IIS.NET, they are going to make a seperate installion package for you to install the FrontPage Server Extensions for IIS7. Althought it is still in Beta stage, you may try to install and test on it. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;

&lt;p&gt;[OverView] &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Microsoft and Ready to Run Software have released a beta version of the FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions (FPSE 2002) for Windows Server Code Name &amp;quot;Longhorn&amp;quot; and Windows Vista. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[Features] &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This version of FPSE 2002 introduces no new functionality, and is essentially the same version that was created for Windows Server 2003 that has been updated to work on Windows Server Code Name &amp;quot;Longhorn&amp;quot; and Windows Vista. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[Benefits] &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FPSE 2002 enables web hosters and developers to author their web content on servers or workstations that are running IIS 7.0 on Windows Server Code Name &amp;quot;Longhorn&amp;quot; and Windows Vista. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[Requirements] &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The following role services and features are required to install FPSE 2002 on Windows Code Name &amp;quot;Longhorn&amp;quot;; if they are not already installed on your computer, they will be installed for you automatically when you install FPSE 2002: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1. Web Server (IIS) Role Services: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;a. Web Server &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1) Common HTTP Features (Static Content, Default Document, Directory Browsing, HTTP Errors) &lt;br /&gt;2) Application Development (ISAPI Extensions, ISAPI Filters) &lt;br /&gt;3) Security (Windows Authentication, Request Filtering) &lt;br /&gt;4) Health and Diagnostics (HTTP Logging, Request Monitor) &lt;br /&gt;5) Performance (Static Content Compression) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;b. Management Tools (Role Services) &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1) IIS 6 Management Compatibility (IIS 6 Metabase Compatibility) &lt;br /&gt;2) IIS Management Console &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2. Features: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;a. Windows Process Activation Service &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1) Process Model . &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[Source from IIS.NET] &lt;a href="http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=34&amp;amp;g=6&amp;amp;i=1460" target="_blank"&gt;More Detail Here&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;(Specially thanks for news reporter, Tony Cheung from Hong Kong)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1185541" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/tags/Other/default.aspx">Other</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/tags/.NET/default.aspx">.NET</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/tags/Longhorn_2F00_Vista/default.aspx">Longhorn/Vista</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/tags/Community/default.aspx">Community</category></item><item><title>Finished the Translation on WF HOL Lab04 to VB2005</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/2007/03/21/finished-the-translation-on-wf-hol-lab04.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:46:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:696685</guid><dc:creator>kenlin</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=696685</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/2007/03/21/finished-the-translation-on-wf-hol-lab04.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;DIV&gt;Well, I start doing the translation again. I&amp;nbsp;spent 2 days on this propose in the end of Jan. And I start pick it up again and try to finish it asap. Cause I found someone left message in wf.netfx2.com and asking me if I will do the rest. So....I hope that I would be able to finished all HOL Labs within this month. But it is a very hard job. I wake at 5:30am(because of Jet lag after back from Global MVP Summit 2007 in Seattle), I suppose should be wake up at 7:30am and go to an interview. I found nothing to do and so I still search around about Orcas, I got confuse on what Orcas acutally is. I know that it is Next VS(might be VS2007 with .NET Framework 3.5). But....I also found the Windows SDK for Vista are called Oracs_Mar07CTP in the description....hm....then....Orcas is including Windows SDK too? I then received email from the interviewer and said change the time to this Fri 8am. Cause the interview need to be fits with a Strong Tech Guy from Seattle. Yes...strong one, A guy who has 11yrs working experience,&amp;nbsp;graduated from Harvard Uni.....&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV&gt;Anyway, I don't wanna get into sleep again, so I keep getting information from internet, and found, I have 3 things to do, &lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV&gt;(1) Translation on WF HOL(Lab04 - Lab10);&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV&gt;(2) Translation on WF Starter Kit(still in beta and not released yet, so I think only WF team and I got it at this moment);&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV&gt;(3) Study Oracs, LINQ&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV&gt;(4) WF interact with WCF&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV&gt;Well, I found all I need the most is .....WF(cause K2 also is one of my interviewing company). And...I should start from basic first. So I found the first item I should choose is....(1). Then....should be (2). So&amp;nbsp;I start my work on rest of Lab04. When I complete the Exercise 1 of Lab04, I cannot run it successfully. I search around and around, find many people saying that they have the same issues. I found many developers are trying to interact WF with ASP.NET2.0. But it is not a easy job but I think many companies(even in HK) will ask the developers to do so. &lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV&gt;Well....until 3:30pm, I still cannot solve it. What happen to my VB one? C# is working and I just do the translation.....I take a rest and don't wanna think about it any more for a short time. I start my work again at about 10pm. I found there is a MSFT guy who answer a lot from this issue in MSDN forum, so I try to send him my source code and ask him if he can help. After I sent the email for 2-5 mins,&amp;nbsp;a light comes up. I try to see my workflow project, get into every State and look at the HandleExternalEvent Activity. GOD! I made mistake on the Initial State. That is why the program cannot run it. Correct it and it works. Thanks god. And then I received that MSFT guy's email and telling me the same stupid thing I found. He is really good, within few minutes and he really do help me and found the point. &lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV&gt;And now, it is 4:25am, all translation on Lab04 has done. Double check and the files can close. During today's translation, I found I have made mistake in my MSMVP's blog, &lt;A href="http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/2007/01/31/convert-if-someevent-null-into-vb.aspx"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#8c7d18&gt;http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/2007/01/31/convert-if-someevent-null-into-vb.aspx&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT color=#8c7d18&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV&gt;In that blog, I mention, if C# is programming like&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; if&lt;/SPAN&gt;(SomeEvent != &lt;SPAN&gt;null&lt;/SPAN&gt;)&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; {&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; SomeEvent(&lt;SPAN&gt;this&lt;/SPAN&gt;, args);&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; }&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV&gt;And VB should be &lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; if &lt;SPAN&gt;Not&lt;/SPAN&gt; SomeEventEvent is &lt;SPAN&gt;Nothing&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;SPAN&gt;Then&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; SomeEventEvent(&lt;SPAN&gt;Me&lt;/SPAN&gt;, args)&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;SPAN&gt;End&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;SPAN&gt;If&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;But....this is not true when apply to WF's State Machine Workflow, I have to make sure the event raise ONLY after the workflow runtime has really started. I have to change one property from the event arguments. So the code turns out like,&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; if &lt;SPAN&gt;Not&lt;/SPAN&gt; SomeEventEvent is &lt;SPAN&gt;Nothing&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;SPAN&gt;Then&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; args.WaitForIdle = true&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; SomeEventEvent(&lt;SPAN&gt;Me&lt;/SPAN&gt;, args) 'Or "Raise&amp;nbsp;Event SomeEvent(Me, args)&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;SPAN&gt;End&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;SPAN&gt;If&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;But then you will found out that the program will fire another exception, it is saying (Event "{1}" on interface type "{0}" for instance id "{2}" cannot be delivered). Now you have to look deep into the InnerException and you will found ("Type&amp;nbsp;{0} is not marked as serializable"). But you already given the serializable Attribute to the class. Why the exception is fired? It appears every parameter going into the event must be serializable, including the sender parameter! We pass this reference, which points to our payment processing service. The workflow instance doesn't actually need a reference to the testing service (if it needs to invoke a method on the service, it can use the CallExternalEvent activity), so we can fix this problem by leaving the sender parameter as null or Nothing. So finally, your code(with WF) will be like this,&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;
&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; if &lt;SPAN&gt;Not&lt;/SPAN&gt; SomeEventEvent is &lt;SPAN&gt;Nothing&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;SPAN&gt;Then&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; args.WaitForIdle = true&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; SomeEventEvent(Nothing, args) 'Or "Raise&amp;nbsp;Event SomeEvent(Nothing, args)&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;SPAN&gt;End&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;SPAN&gt;If&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=696685" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/tags/.NET/default.aspx">.NET</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/tags/Visual+Studio/default.aspx">Visual Studio</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/tags/Longhorn_2F00_Vista/default.aspx">Longhorn/Vista</category></item><item><title>The Power Together Campaign - FREE Vista and Office2007</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/2006/11/29/the-power-together-campaign-free-vista-and-office2007.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2006 10:47:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:352247</guid><dc:creator>kenlin</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=352247</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/2006/11/29/the-power-together-campaign-free-vista-and-office2007.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;P&gt;Read from MCT Private newsgroup, knowing that there is a chance for you to get a free copy of Microsoft Vista Business and Microsoft Office Professsional 2007 with FULL license. YES, Free and FULL license. So if you miss out the chance to be beta tester of Microsoft Connect and submitted bug(s) to get your free copy, here is another chance for you. All you have to do is complete three webcast from Vista and Office from the website within 30 days of registration, then you will get one or both if you complete them both.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Don't be too happy yet, there are some conditions,&lt;BR&gt;1) You are legal residents of US and 18 years ago or older.&lt;BR&gt;2) You are not participate in the Microsoft Partner Program or the MSDN.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;These offers expire on 28th Feb, 2007, or while supplies last, so don't wait and visit there for your OWN, FREE and FULL copy of Microsoft Vista Business and Microsoft Office Professional 2007.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Good Luck!&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.powertogether.com/"&gt;http://www.powertogether.com/&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.msblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/freevistaoffice.png"&gt;&lt;IMG id=image1276 height=450 alt=freevistaoffice.png src="http://www.msblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/freevistaoffice.png" width=768&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=352247" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/tags/Other/default.aspx">Other</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/tags/Longhorn_2F00_Vista/default.aspx">Longhorn/Vista</category></item><item><title>Windows Vista is ready on MSDN</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/2006/11/17/windows-vista-is-ready-on-msdn.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2006 06:39:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:298470</guid><dc:creator>kenlin</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=298470</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/2006/11/17/windows-vista-is-ready-on-msdn.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;P&gt;About 9pm on 12th Nov 2006, Office2007 is able to be download from MSDN. Most of MSDN Subscribers should be downloaded or donwloading it.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I just login to MSDN Download and found out, Vista is also ready on MSDN since 10pm Nov 2006. It is English version only yet. I cannot wait for it, and downloading it now.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.msblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/vistadl.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG id=image1259 height=96 alt=vistadl.jpg src="http://www.msblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/vistadl.thumbnail.jpg" width=115&gt;&lt;/A&gt; &lt;A href="http://www.msblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/msdn_dl.JPG"&gt;&lt;IMG id=image1261 height=77 alt=msdn_dl.JPG src="http://www.msblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/msdn_dl.thumbnail.JPG" width=128&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=298470" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><enclosure url="http://msmvps.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Components.PostAttachments/00.00.29.84.70/vista.dl.jpg" length="44875" type="image/jpeg" /><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/tags/Longhorn_2F00_Vista/default.aspx">Longhorn/Vista</category></item><item><title>For Developers: Windows Vista Readiness Hands-on-Lab</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/2006/11/16/for-developers-windows-vista-readiness-hands-on-lab.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2006 07:44:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:294196</guid><dc:creator>kenlin</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=294196</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/2006/11/16/for-developers-windows-vista-readiness-hands-on-lab.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;P&gt;Reading from Nick White's blog(a Product Manager at Microsoft working on the Windows Vista launch team), found that there is a free download Windows Vista Readiness Hands-on-Lab, I am sure that many developers are love to get it and take the lab. Here are the story,&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN:0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;FONT face=verdana,geneva&gt;Thom Robbins, Microsoft Director for Developer Marketing, &lt;A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/trobbins/archive/2006/11/11/windows-vista-readiness-hands-on-lab.aspx"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#0066ff&gt;points out&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; a fantastic hands-on lab focused on helping developers create great experiences for customers running their applications in Windows Vista. Here's how the download page describes the lab:&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN:0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;FONT face=verdana,geneva&gt;&lt;EM&gt;Microsoft has put together a Hands-on Lab designed to educate developers on known Microsoft Windows Vista application compatibility issues. This process will walk the developer through specifics, focusing on solutions that will enable customers running your application to have a better experience on Microsoft Windows Vista. After completing this lab, the developer should be able to determine if and how the most commonly known application compatibility issues could affect their specific application.&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5F0C8D20-A8D5-4DA3-A977-E039A40D67D5&amp;amp;displaylang=en&amp;amp;mg_id=10049"&gt;&lt;FONT face=verdana,geneva color=#0066ff&gt;Download the Lab here&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;FONT face=verdana,geneva&gt;.&lt;/FONT&gt; &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT face=verdana,geneva&gt;If you're a developer (or just interested in application compatability on Windows Vista), you can also head over to MSDN's &lt;A href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#0066ff&gt;Windows Vista Developer Center&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT face=verdana,geneva&gt;for a wealth of resources on developing applications specifically for the new OS.&lt;BR&gt;.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=294196" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/tags/Longhorn_2F00_Vista/default.aspx">Longhorn/Vista</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/tags/Training/default.aspx">Training</category></item><item><title>Windows Vista Pre-order price is……</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/2006/09/20/Windows-Vista-Pre_2D00_order-price-is_26202620_.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2006 03:48:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:133882</guid><dc:creator>kenlin</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=133882</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/2006/09/20/Windows-Vista-Pre_2D00_order-price-is_26202620_.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pre-Order Price List from Amazon &lt;em&gt;(taken on 31/8/2006 and all prices are in USD)&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Full versions&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;- Windows Vista Home Basic: $199&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;- Windows Vista Home Premium: $239&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;- Windows Vista Business: $299&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;- Windows Vista Ultimate: $399&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Upgrade versions&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;- Windows Vista Home Basic Upgrade: $99.95&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;- Windows Vista Home Premium Upgrade: $159&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;- Windows Vista Business Upgrade: $199&lt;br /&gt;- Windows Vista Ultimate Upgrade: $359&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;P.S.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Windows Vista Enterprise could be only available to Microsoft Volumn License Customers, this version is not available for retail purchase.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Microsoft is also planning to release &amp;quot;Additional License&amp;quot; packs, which will be including only the Product Key, thus enabling customers to use the OS on a second computer. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=133882" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/tags/Other/default.aspx">Other</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/tags/Longhorn_2F00_Vista/default.aspx">Longhorn/Vista</category></item><item><title>Installing Windows Vista RC1 in VMWare Workstation</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/2006/09/14/Installing-Windows-Vista-RC1-in-VMWare-Workstation.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2006 05:50:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:127371</guid><dc:creator>kenlin</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=127371</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/2006/09/14/Installing-Windows-Vista-RC1-in-VMWare-Workstation.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height="133" src="http://www.microsoft.com/library/media/1033/windowsvista/images/wv_home_nav_pearl.png" width="90" /&gt;&lt;img height="54" src="http://www.vmware.com/img/logo_top.gif" width="173" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you are trying to install Windows Vista RC1 in VMWare Workstation, you may see setup appear to hang on the text-mode screen that says &amp;quot;Windows is loading files...&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Actually what has happened is that Vista Setup is already in graphics mode trying to do things, but something about the way it switches the display adapter into graphics mode is not working right on VMWare.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Since Microsoft makes a competitive product, Virtual PC, this is funny that they come out with a major new test release(Windows Vista RC1) that just not work on VMWare Workstation. Or Product team did not test this product with VMWare Workstation? But in my memory, I can recall that Microsoft also using VMWare Workstation before Microsoft has bought VirtualPC. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;After researching, I found that there is a workaround, for now, while VMWare works on the problem. Before you install Windows Vista RC1 to VMWare Workstation, you may&amp;nbsp;edit the virtual machine&amp;#39;s .vmx to include the following,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote dir="ltr" style="margin-right:0px;" dir="ltr" style="margin-right:0px;"&gt;&lt;p&gt;svga.maxWidth = &amp;quot;640&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;svga.maxHeight = &amp;quot;480&amp;quot; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can get Vista installed in VGA 16 color 640x480 mode (it will look awful) and then when you get everything running, install VMWare tools and take out those two lines and you&amp;#39;ll be good to go.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=127371" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/tags/Other/default.aspx">Other</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/tags/Longhorn_2F00_Vista/default.aspx">Longhorn/Vista</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/tags/Virtual+Machine/default.aspx">Virtual Machine</category></item><item><title>New Display Driver for Windows Vista RC1</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/2006/09/07/New-Display-Driver-for-Windows-Vista-RC1.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2006 05:53:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:115651</guid><dc:creator>kenlin</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=115651</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/2006/09/07/New-Display-Driver-for-Windows-Vista-RC1.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Windows Vista RC1 has been released to Beta Testers for almost a week, and it is also becoming public download since today(as Patrick S blogged, click &lt;a href="http://www.msblog.org/2006/09/07/windows-vista-rc1-available-to-public-then-bug-it/" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for detail). ATI and Nvidia has also released their most update display driver for Windows Vista RC1. You may download them and install into your Windows Vista RC1.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;ATI Product series supported:&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Radeon&amp;reg;&lt;br /&gt;9500, 9550, 9600, 9650, 9700, 9800, X300, X600, X700, X800, X850, X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900 series&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mobility&amp;trade; Radeon&amp;reg;&lt;br /&gt;9550, 9600, 9700, 9800, X300, X600, X700, X800, X1300, X1400, X1600, X1800 series&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;CrossFire&amp;trade; Xpress 3200 series&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Radeon&amp;reg; Xpress 200, 200M series&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&amp;amp;task=knowledge&amp;amp;questionID=19933"&gt;Download here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;Nvidia Product series supported:&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Geforce 6200 or above&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;NVIDIA Quadro FX330 or above&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Geforce FX5100 or above&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;p&gt;GeForce/Quadro driver Windows Vista x86 &lt;a href="http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_96.33.html"&gt;Download here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NVIDIA nForce driver Windows Vista x86 &lt;a href="http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_nforce_vista_x86_beta2.html"&gt;Download here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Release Note: &lt;a href="http://download.nvidia.com/Windows/96.33/96.33_ForceWare_WinVista_Release_Notes.pdf"&gt;96.33_ForceWare_WinVista_Release_Notes.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=115651" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/tags/Other/default.aspx">Other</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/tags/Longhorn_2F00_Vista/default.aspx">Longhorn/Vista</category></item><item><title>Most update build number for Windows Vista</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/2006/09/05/Most-update-build-number-for-Windows-Vista.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:39:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:114491</guid><dc:creator>kenlin</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=114491</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/2006/09/05/Most-update-build-number-for-Windows-Vista.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Build 5536.16385 (released 24/08/2006)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is Pre-RC1, Unlike Beta 2, only the x86 (32bit) version of 5536 is made available. However, the 32bit version will run fine on 64bit CPU&amp;#39;s. This pre-RC1 build is available for a limited time &amp;ndash; Microsoft will close the program when they reach 100,000 downloads. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Build 5600.16384 (released on 01/09/2006)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now it is only available to Beta Testers.&lt;br /&gt;Next week, a broader set of technical customers will get them via MSDN and TechNet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;NOTE:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/u&gt;There are a lot of improvements since Beta 2. MSFT has made some UI Adjustments, added more device drivers, and enhanced performance. If you are an ISV, RC1 is the build you should use for certifying your application. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You should use your same key(s) from previous releases. To generate a new key, please request from key package &amp;ldquo;5342 and Up &amp;ndash; Ultimate&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;Beta 2 Home Basic/Home Premium/Business (v.5384)&amp;rdquo;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;em&gt;Minimum Hardware Requirement for this 2 builds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;em&gt;Processor: 800 MHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor2&lt;br /&gt;System Memory: 512 MB&lt;br /&gt;GPU: SVGA (800x600)&lt;br /&gt;HDD: 20 GB&lt;br /&gt;HDD Free Space: 15 GB&lt;br /&gt;DVD-ROM Drive&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=114491" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/tags/Longhorn_2F00_Vista/default.aspx">Longhorn/Vista</category></item><item><title>Vista's New 'Copy' Dialog</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/2006/08/24/Vista_2700_s-New-_2700_Copy_2700_-Dialog.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2006 02:06:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:112700</guid><dc:creator>kenlin</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=112700</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/2006/08/24/Vista_2700_s-New-_2700_Copy_2700_-Dialog.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Info from &lt;a href="http://www.longhornblogs.com/robert/archive/2006/08/18/Windows_Vista_Copy_Resolution_Dialog.aspx"&gt;LonghornBlogs.com &lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some of the more useful improvements to Windows Vista come in the underlying file system. There are a ton of improvements under the hood to make files easier to deal with. One of the more subtle but important differences from Windows XP is the way discrepancies are handled during file transactions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In Windows XP, if a file encountered some kind of error (file already exists, etc.), it was handled at the time it occurred, interrupting whatever you were doing. If the same thing happens on Windows Vista, the operation continues, and you are prompted to resolve the conflicts at the &lt;em&gt;end&lt;/em&gt; of the process.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The UK&amp;#39;s &lt;a href="http://www.windowsvistamagazine.co.uk/page/windowsvista?entry=a_great_new_feature"&gt;&lt;font color="#0088ff"&gt;Official Windows Vista Magazine&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; covers it as one of their favorite features:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="vista-save-same-filename.jpg" height="409" id="image1037" src="http://www.msblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/vista-save-same-filename.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=112700" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/tags/Longhorn_2F00_Vista/default.aspx">Longhorn/Vista</category></item><item><title>TechNet Virtual Lab: Windows Vista </title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/2006/08/16/TechNet-Virtual-Lab_3A00_-Windows-Vista-.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Aug 2006 02:01:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:112695</guid><dc:creator>kenlin</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=112695</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/2006/08/16/TechNet-Virtual-Lab_3A00_-Windows-Vista-.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;table&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;The soon-to-be-released desktop OS, Windows Vista, has been developed from the ground up and includes advancements in security and reliability, along with increased cost and operational efficiencies. For the IT professional, Windows Vista is easier to deploy, and less expensive to maintain, than any earlier version of Windows. And for your end users, Windows Vista&amp;#39;s improved performance and reliability add value by allowing people to be more effective while performing their jobs. Get an early peek at improved security, management and productivity by experiencing Windows Vista Beta 2 virtual labs.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height="55" src="http://img.microsoft.com/library/media/1033/technet/images/traincert/virtuallab/53967_55x55_sql_f.jpg" width="55" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=5247632" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;bull; Configuring Windows Firewall with Advanced Security&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=5247632" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;bull; Exploring New Group Policy Settings in Windows Vista&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=5247632" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;bull; Exploring User Account Control in Windows Vista&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=5247632" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;bull; Migrating User State from Windows XP to Windows Vista&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=112695" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/tags/Longhorn_2F00_Vista/default.aspx">Longhorn/Vista</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/tags/Training/default.aspx">Training</category></item><item><title>Microsoft's Domain Service Goes 'Live' !!!</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/2006/06/30/103310.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2006 05:49:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:103310</guid><dc:creator>kenlin</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=103310</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/2006/06/30/103310.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;div id="intelliTxt"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.msblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/IdeasLive.jpg" /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.msblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/IdeasLive.jpg" /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.msblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/IdeasLive.jpg" /&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Microsoft said late Tuesday that its Custom Domains service had officially launched, making it the &lt;strong&gt;third Windows Live&lt;/strong&gt; project to come out of beta. The service allows a customer to use a custom domain name with Windows Live Mail and Hotmail.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://domains.live.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Windows Live Custom Domains&lt;/a&gt; is a free service, just like other Live offerings from the company. Additionally, with the final debut, Microsoft has launched a new feature called "open membership."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;More Windows Live services are expected to come out of beta through the rest of the summer. Microsoft has said over 20 new services are currently planned for the Live platform( &lt;a href="http://ideas.live.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Windows Live Ideas&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://ads.msn.com/ads/pronws/ideas/en/us/EN_Icon_domains.gif" /&gt;&lt;img src="http://ads.msn.com/ads/pronws/ideas/en/us/EN_Icon_domains.gif" /&gt;&lt;img src="http://ads.msn.com/ads/pronws/ideas/en/us/EN_Icon_domains.gif" /&gt;&lt;img src="http://ads.msn.com/ads/pronws/ideas/en/us/EN_Icon_domains.gif" /&gt;&lt;img src="http://ads.msn.com/ads/pronws/ideas/en/us/EN_Icon_domains.gif" /&gt;&lt;img src="http://ads.msn.com/ads/pronws/ideas/en/us/EN_Icon_domains.gif" /&gt;&lt;img src="http://ads.msn.com/ads/pronws/ideas/en/us/EN_Icon_domains.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font color="#0000ff" size="4"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Windows Live Custom Domains&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h5&gt;Do you own an Internet domain name? Custom Domains provides free hosted e-mail for your domain.&lt;/h5&gt;
&lt;div class="vspace"&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;E-mail accounts for everyone.&lt;/strong&gt; Create an unlimited number of accounts in your domain.&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New e-mail features.&lt;/strong&gt; Everyone at your domain will get an MSN Hotmail account. These accounts can upgrade for free to the new Windows Live Mail beta, which offers 2GB of storage and enhanced security features.&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Use it for Windows Live Messenger and more.&lt;/strong&gt; E-mail addresses at your domain can also be used for instant messaging and other services on the MSN and Windows Live network.&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No hassle or fuss.&lt;/strong&gt; Your e-mail is hosted by Microsoft, so there is no need to buy or manage e-mail servers.&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Flexibility.&lt;/strong&gt; The optional software development kit lets you choose how Custom Domains works with your website or application.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=103310" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/tags/Longhorn_2F00_Vista/default.aspx">Longhorn/Vista</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/tags/Windows+Live/default.aspx">Windows Live</category></item><item><title>Project Glidepath Public Beta has Launched</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/2006/06/30/103308.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2006 05:47:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:103308</guid><dc:creator>kenlin</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=103308</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/2006/06/30/103308.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt; &lt;img id="image842" height="87" alt="Logo" src="http://www.msblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/logo.JPG" width="467" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Visit &lt;a href="http://www.projectglidepath.net" target="_blank"&gt;www.projectglidepath.net&lt;/a&gt; to participate in the Microsoft MicroISV Evangelism program that delivers an in-Visual-Studio experience providing the workflow-based guidance, sample code and technology to create applications for Windows Vista.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Project Glidepath delivers workflow-based guidance, code, templates and other content via a software factory, a Visual Studio add-in, consisting of tools for building a product which is a member of a product family.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="p1"&gt;Project Glidepath's product family is defined as "applications for Windows Vista including applications that use .Net Framework 3.0 technology on down-level operating systems".&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="p1"&gt;Applications built with Project Glidepath focus on making their core application logic reusable so that the user experience can be delivered on many platforms (desktop, mobile, web).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="p1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.msblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/default.JPG" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img id="image841" height="277" alt="Default_aspx" src="http://www.msblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/default.JPG" width="368" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=103308" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/tags/.NET/default.aspx">.NET</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/tags/Visual+Studio/default.aspx">Visual Studio</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/tags/Longhorn_2F00_Vista/default.aspx">Longhorn/Vista</category></item><item><title>I want more Windows Sidebar Gadgets!!!</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/2006/06/22/103304.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2006 05:42:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:103304</guid><dc:creator>kenlin</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=103304</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/2006/06/22/103304.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height="70" src="http://www.msblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/banner0.jpg" width="670" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There are few Windows Sidebar Gadget comes with Windows Vista. However, have you try to find more gadgets? You may reach &lt;a href="http://www.microsoftgadgets.com/"&gt;http://www.microsoftgadgets.com/&lt;/a&gt; , and browse to the Gallery tab and find the gadgets which fits your want. However, they are live.com gadgets if you look carefully.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I found a new site, there are really many gadgets for Windows Sidebar. You may be try to browse there and download any one of them. There are 10 gadgets now, but it may be more when day is passing. If you are sidebar gadget developer, you may also submit your gadget and Microsoft may publish it on that webpage too.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;URL: &lt;a href="http://gallery.microsoft.com/"&gt;http://gallery.microsoft.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table&gt;
	&lt;tr&gt;
		&lt;td align="center"&gt;&lt;img height="60" src="http://gallery.microsoft.com/support/images/Lightsout.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td align="center"&gt;&lt;img height="60" src="http://gallery.microsoft.com/support/images/TodayIs.png" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td align="center"&gt;&lt;img height="60" src="http://gallery.microsoft.com/support/images/sudoku_assistant_icon.png" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td align="center"&gt;&lt;img height="60" src="http://gallery.microsoft.com/support/images/seattle_traffic_icon.png" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td align="center"&gt;&lt;img height="60" src="http://gallery.microsoft.com/support/images/jamometer_icon.png" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
	&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;tr&gt;
		&lt;td align="center"&gt;Lights Out!&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td align="center"&gt;"Today Is" Calendar&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td align="center"&gt;Sudoku Assistant&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td align="center"&gt;Seattle Traffic (Beta)&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td align="center"&gt;Jamometer!&lt;/td&gt;
	&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;tr&gt;
		&lt;td align="center"&gt;&lt;img height="60" src="http://gallery.microsoft.com/support/images/echo_icon.png" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td align="center"&gt;&lt;img height="60" src="http://gallery.microsoft.com/support/images/videopoker_icon.png" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td align="center"&gt;&lt;img height="60" src="http://gallery.microsoft.com/support/images/memorygame_icon.png" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td align="center"&gt;&lt;img height="60" src="http://gallery.microsoft.com/support/images/suduko_icon.png" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td align="center"&gt;&lt;img height="60" src="http://gallery.microsoft.com/support/images/scribble_icon.png" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
	&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;tr&gt;
		&lt;td align="center"&gt;Echo (Beta)&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td align="center"&gt;Poker (Beta)&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td align="center"&gt;Memory&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td align="center"&gt;Sudoku (Beta)&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td align="center"&gt;Scribble (Beta)&lt;/td&gt;
	&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=103304" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/tags/Other/default.aspx">Other</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/tags/Longhorn_2F00_Vista/default.aspx">Longhorn/Vista</category></item><item><title>Bug in IE6, but fixed in IE7, And please use GIF over PNG in your Gadgets</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/2006/06/20/103302.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2006 05:40:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:103302</guid><dc:creator>kenlin</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=103302</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/2006/06/20/103302.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height="70" alt="MicrosoftGadgetBanner" src="http://www.msblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/banner0.jpg" width="670" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Update news from &lt;strong&gt;Live.com&lt;/strong&gt; Team, they found a new bug in IE6 when IE doing the Image Filtering.&lt;br /&gt;
Details here,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We have recently released a workaround for a bug in IE6 where image filters for PNG can cause a hang on the Live.com site. This IE bug is already fixed in IE7, but we still needed to workaround it to make sure the site works properly for IE6.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To understand the problem, here is an explanation from the IE team (thanks Peter Gurevich!):&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Each IE 6 window is a UI thread. &lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;The HTML page and any script you written for the page run in the UI thread.  Therefore filters in your page or in script will download on the UI thread&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;IE’s implementation of the AlphaImageLoader filter downloads images synchronously &lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Synchronous loading of an image or successive images on the UI thread has the potential to hang the browser and adversely affect the user experience.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Our workaround is to stop applying transparent image filters to PNG. As a result, your transparent PNG will not look as great as it used to. &lt;strong&gt;I would encourage you to change to using transparent GIF moving forward.&lt;/strong&gt;Sorry for the inconvenience - the SDK will be updated with this new info in our next release.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;James Lau&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Program Manager&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Live.com Team&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=103302" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/tags/Longhorn_2F00_Vista/default.aspx">Longhorn/Vista</category></item><item><title>Clarify on .NET 3.0(formerly WinFX) with Timeframe and Language Version</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/2006/06/20/102132.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2006 02:24:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:102132</guid><dc:creator>kenlin</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=102132</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/2006/06/20/102132.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;IMG src="http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdn-online/shared/graphics/left_bnr_net.gif"&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I am one of VB Insiders and I got some clarify news from VB Product Group, I also feel confuse when &lt;STRONG&gt;WinFX&lt;/STRONG&gt; is confirm to be &lt;STRONG&gt;.NET Framework 3.0&lt;/STRONG&gt;. Many VB Insiders are also having the same feeling, finally VB Product Group tell us something and this is not able to be search from public area. After reading it, I feel better. After confirm, I know that I could beÂ able to blog about this and I cannot wait to be share with you all. Here is the content,&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;This is indeed a confusing topic., and there really isn't much out there to clarify. Here's a tabular view of what's is coming down the pipe, and when. Highlighted items ship together.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;DIV align=center&gt;
&lt;TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0&gt;

&lt;TR&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Product/Deliverable &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Timeframe &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Language Ver. &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;CLR Ver. &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;
&lt;TR&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;.NET FX 2.0&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;Nov 2005&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;VB 8.0/C# 2.0&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;2.0&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;
&lt;TR&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;VS 2005&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;Nov 2005&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;VB 8.0/C# 2.0&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;2.0&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;
&lt;TR&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;FX 3.0 (Formerly WinFX; Includes Avalon, Indigo, Workflow)&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;Windows Vista RTM (2006)&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;VB 8.0/C# 2.0&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;2.0&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;
&lt;TR&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;Visual Studio "Orcas"&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;2007&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;VB 9.0/C# 3.0&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;2.0&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;
&lt;TR&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;FX 3.5 (LINQ)&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;2007&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;VB 9.0/C# 3.0&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;2.0&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Here's some information on what each version includes:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;
&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;FX 2.0&lt;/STRONG&gt;: Includes CLR 2.0 generics, etc. Shipped with VS 2005; not much to say here.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;
&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;FX 3.0&lt;/STRONG&gt; &lt;STRONG&gt;= FX 2.0 + WPF (Avalon), WCF (Indigo), WF (Workflow)&lt;/STRONG&gt;. In other words, FX 3.0 is a set of assemblies that has been added to FX 2.0; it only includes service pack-level fixes to existing (FX 2.0) assemblies or the existing languages (VB 8.0). FX 3.0 is installed by default on Windows Vista (and is therefore bound to the Vista RTM date), and available for download on down-level platforms. There currently is not a supported version of Visual Studio that targets FX 3.0, however; you can download extensions to VS 2005 that provides some rudimentary support for FX 3.0 at &lt;A href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/downloads/products/getthebeta/default.aspx"&gt;http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/downloads/products/getthebeta/default.aspx&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;
&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;FX 3.5 = FX 3.0 + LINQ. &lt;/STRONG&gt;Basically, you can think of FX 3.5 as the new compilers, tools, and assemblies required to support LINQ. Again, FX 3.5 includes new assemblies (e.g., System.Query.dll) and service-pack-level fixes to existing assemblies. FX 3.5 will ship with VS "Orcas".&lt;STRONG&gt; &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;An important thing to note about the above versions of the FX is that they all run on CLR 2.0, which shipped in 2005. Unlike previous versions of VS, VS "Orcas" will include the ability to build applications that target each of the above framework versions FX 2.0, FX 3.0, and FX 3.5.You'll have the ability to specify what framework version the project should target when a project is created, opened for the first time in VS Orcas, and via the property pages. Once a framework version is selected, references, IntelliSense, Object Browser, the Toolbox, etc will be modified such that references that aren't available in the chosen target are filtered (grayed out, generally).Some common questions,&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;
&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Will I be able to open my 2005 project in VS "Orcas" without upgrading it to FX 3.5? &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;EM&gt;Yes. Users will have the option to upgrade the project's framework target the first time they open it in VS "Orcas"; however, upgrading will not be required&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;
&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Will I be able to open my 2005 project in VS "Orcas" then re-open it in VS 2005? &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;EM&gt;No. Once a project has been opened in VS "Orcas", it cannot be subsequently opened in 2005. &lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;
&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Will I be able to use LINQ in my FX 2.0 project? &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;EM&gt;No. LINQ requires assemblies that are only available in FX 3.5 projects.&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;
&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;If I already have FX 2.0 installed and my app requires FX 3.0, what do I need to install when I deploy my app? &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;EM&gt;Because FX 3.0 is just an add-on pack of sorts for FX 3.0, you'll only need to install the 3.0 Runtime Components, which have FX 2.0 as a pre-requisite.&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Admittedly, this whole framework versioning scheme is pretty confusing, so we're trying to make the related user experience in VS opt-in: by default you'll target the latest and greatest version of the FX 3.5 when you create a project and most of this will be transparent. If you do need to target an earlier version, the option will be available. We'll certainly be interested in your feedback on the model when the first VS "Orcas" CTP is released. Fire away with any questions or rants, I'll do my best to clarify.&lt;BR&gt;-&lt;BR&gt;Thanks.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;-&lt;/P&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=102132" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/tags/.NET/default.aspx">.NET</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/tags/Longhorn_2F00_Vista/default.aspx">Longhorn/Vista</category></item><item><title>Aero Glass inside a WPF Window</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/2006/06/20/102130.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2006 02:23:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:102130</guid><dc:creator>kenlin</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=102130</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/2006/06/20/102130.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;P&gt;Searching from google about WPF, I found a cool blogger. His name is Adam Nathan, He is good in Win32API and .NET, from his blog, he mention that he is also going to publish a book about Win32 and WPF. He took the WPF UI he created for the &lt;A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/adam_nathan/archive/2005/09/08/462190.aspx"&gt;Internet Hearts Migration&lt;/A&gt;, slapped it in a System.Windows.Window, and "glassified" it. Here is his result, &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;IMG src="http://pinvoke.net/blog/images/WPFglass.jpg"&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;He didn't change a thing in the Hearts UI, and everything worked as expected: the 2D &amp;amp; 3D animations, the elements that already had partial opacity (like the card table), etc. And when doing a "Flip 3D" (which I'm surprisingly finding more useful than the standard Alt+Tab), the result is pretty cool:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;IMG src="http://pinvoke.net/blog/images/flip3D.png"&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Do you wanna read the full story and his code, go &lt;A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/adam_nathan/archive/2006/05/04/589686.aspx"&gt;here : Adam Nathan's Win32 to WinFX Blog &lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=102130" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/tags/.NET/default.aspx">.NET</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/tags/Longhorn_2F00_Vista/default.aspx">Longhorn/Vista</category></item><item><title>Sudoku by WinFX(WPF)</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/2006/06/20/102127.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2006 02:21:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:102127</guid><dc:creator>kenlin</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=102127</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://msmvps.com/blogs/kenlin/archive/2006/06/20/102127.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;IMG src="http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/_images/wFX-Present_c.gif"&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;EM&gt;Code4Fun about WinFX, &lt;/EM&gt;&lt;A href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/coding4fun/gamedevelopment/sudoku1/default.aspx"&gt;&lt;EM&gt;http://msdn.microsoft.com/coding4fun/gamedevelopment/sudoku1/default.aspx&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;EM&gt; &lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;DIV&gt;Yesterday, I read about an example on Code4Fun about WinFX, It is a sample on creating a sample Sudoku with WinFX. Althought it is saying that the sample code are based on Feb CTP, but I could make it work by using May Beta2. Before you could be able to do WinFX programming, you may need to follow the instruction and download the setup files from &lt;A href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/downloads/products/getthebeta/"&gt;http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/downloads/products/getthebeta/&lt;/A&gt;. And I found that the installation is terrible. Finally, I created one but it is in Extensible Application Markup Language(XAML) which you will use to create a simple layout and a more complex layout. &lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Oh? Not .NET language? Yap, as the tutorial are in XAML. Later on I will try to use VB2005 to see if I can make one. And I found out that building application, don't have UI Designer. I heard from friends that there is a product with codename "Cider" and you may read and download from: &lt;A href="http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Cider.HomePage"&gt;http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Cider.HomePage&lt;/A&gt;. Later I will download it and have a try on it too. Come back later after the first hand on "Cider".&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;DIV&gt;Just read from some blog and know that there is a IE7+, what is it?&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV&gt;Actaully, it is the same as IE7, but due to some extra effect will be avaliable when IE7 are in Vista. And those feature will not be in IE7 in WinXP althought they are built from the same code base.So, they create this IE7+ to let you distinguish these 2 IE. &lt;/DIV&gt;
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&lt;LI&gt;IE7+ running on Windows Vista: &lt;B&gt;Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)&lt;/B&gt; 
&lt;LI&gt;IE7 running on Windows XP: &lt;B&gt;Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)&lt;/B&gt; &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
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&lt;DIV&gt;IE7+ having Windows Vista only feature like Protected Mode, Parental Controls and improved Network Diagnostics.&lt;/DIV&gt;
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&lt;DIV&gt;Wowow, before I went to singapore training, I open the manifest from the Microsoft original gadget in Vista 5381, I found out that there are some changes and some tab that I don't found frmo the Vista 5270's gadget. So I try to open all missing tab to my first gadget's manifest. Finally, it works, it works.&lt;/DIV&gt;
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&lt;DIV&gt;And when I was in singapore training, Vista 5384.4 is released. And a new update gadget online training are also released update. It is exactly the one I got from 5381. That is why I cannot make it work before. &lt;/DIV&gt;
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&lt;DIV&gt;If you wanna try, go to &lt;A href="http://microsoftgadgets.com/Sidebar/DevelopmentOverview.aspx"&gt;http://microsoftgadgets.com/Sidebar/DevelopmentOverview.aspx&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
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