Silverlight 3 is released! Grab your copy here…   ===== For more information ===== ~ Silverlight 3 RTW (3.0.40624.0) http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/handlers/getsilverlight.ashx ~ Install Silverlight http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/get-started/install

Date: Thursday, June 18th, Thursday Time: 11:00am Pacific Time Or, 2:00am Hong Kong Time on June 19th, Friday Windows 7, is approaching fast and from the application standpoint is very similar to Windows Vista. We are going to examine Windows 7 application compatibility not only from the perspective of moving from Windows Vista, but also for those coming from Windows XP. Join us to discuss the most common challenges around application compatibility when coming from a legacy operating system, why

Date: Thursday, June 18th, Thursday Time: 11:00am Pacific Time Or, 2:00am Hong Kong Time on June 19th, Friday Windows 7, is approaching fast and from the application standpoint is very similar to Windows Vista. We are going to examine Windows 7 application compatibility not only from the perspective of moving from Windows Vista, but also for those coming from Windows XP. Join us to discuss the most common challenges around application compatibility when coming from a legacy operating system, why

~ SQL Server 2008 SP1 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=66ab3dbb-bf3e-4f46-9559-ccc6a4f9dc19&displaylang=en ~ SQL Server 2008 Express Edition SP1 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=01AF61E6-2F63-4291-BCAD-FD500F6027FF&displaylang=en

After the installation of Internet Explorer 8 on my Windows Server 2008 ( 64-bit ), my Windows Live Mail starts to prompt the following error, while the mail folders sometimes disappear. ===== Error ===== (Some errors occurred while processing the requested tasks. Please review the list of errors below for more details.) An unknown error has occurred. Windows Live Mail Error ID: 0x800C0148 Protocol: SMTP Port: 0 Secure (SSL): No And sometimes, the error dialog just pop up without stating specific

I am working on Windows Server 2008 SP1 Datacenter Edition 64-bit , with SQL Server 2008 installed. After installing Windows IE8, I got the following error upon starting SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 2008. ===== Error 0x80004002 ===== SSMS - Unable to cast COM object of type 'System.__ComObject' to interface type 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.OLE.Interop.IServiceProvider'. This operation failed because the QueryInterface call on the COM component for the interface with IID '{6D5140C1

The module “actxprxy.dll” was loaded but the call to DllRegisterServer failed with error code 0x80070005. ===== Solution ===== Most probably, what you are trying to do is [ regsvr32 actxprxy.dll ]. For doing this, you will need to use a command prompt that is executed as administrator . So, grab your mouse… and ~ Right-click on the command prompt icon ~ Select [ Run as administrator ] You may be prompted for administrator credential.

It’s soooo excited that IE8 RTW is finally released and is available in 25 languages! Let’s see how it goes beyond the RC1 version. ===== For more information ===== ~ Download Windows IE8 http://www.microsoft.com/ie8 ~ Windows IE8 fact sheet http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/newsroom/windows/factsheets/IE8FS.mspx ~ IE8 deployment guide http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc985339.aspx ~ Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=24DA89E9

So, I have installed Internet Explorer 8 on my Windows Server 2008 SP1 Datacenter Edition 64-bit , but… not that smooth. Somehow, something goes wrong somewhere, and I got the following problems after the installation of Windows IE8 RTW. - In Windows Explorer (I mean those file explorer for browsing folders/files), when I double-click on a folder, a new Windows Explorer is popped up instead of (my default behavior is) showing the folder in the same explorer. - In Windows IE8, when I right

It takes me some time to figure out how a string / numeric value can be converted to a datetime value inside the Derived Column Transformation Editor of SSIS, and so, I would like to share my $0.20 here (in order to save others’ $0.20).   :) Here, the original TradeDate (e.g., 20090316) and TradeTime (e.g., 230533) are numeric values.   This one returns a datetime value with TradeDate only. (DT_DBTIMESTAMP)(SUBSTRING((DT_WSTR,8)TradeDate,1,4) + "-" + SUBSTRING((DT_WSTR,8