Channel 9 - Discussions by Gravy http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Discussions by Gravy http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Gravy/Discussions Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Gravy/Discussions en Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:46:45 GMT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:46:45 GMT Rev9 0 0 0 Site Feedback - Changing passport account Hi guys,

I'm liking the new C9, congrats Smiley

Can you tell me if it is possible yet to change my profile to link it to a different passport account?

Regards

Graham

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Feedback/407812-Changing-passport-account/407812#407812 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:40:58 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Feedback/407812-Changing-passport-account/407812#407812 Gravy 2 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Gravy/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - OneCare virus scanning ISO files Doesn't that just exlude one particular file? I want to tell OneCare to ignore ALL *.iso files.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/251420-OneCare-virus-scanning-ISO-files/29bdb81ec6494dfaabdf9dec004ad5e1#29bdb81ec6494dfaabdf9dec004ad5e1 Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:17:27 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/251420-OneCare-virus-scanning-ISO-files/29bdb81ec6494dfaabdf9dec004ad5e1#29bdb81ec6494dfaabdf9dec004ad5e1 Gravy 4 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Gravy/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - OneCare virus scanning ISO files Hi there,

I'm running the OneCare beta and when it does a Tune Up it seems to be scanning the .ISO files I have. Scanning these files seems to  make the Tune Up wizard run for days, often never finishing before I have to turn the machine off.

Is it possible to exclude file types from OneCare's virus scan? I found the place to exlude individual files but not file types.

Thanks for your help. 

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/251420-OneCare-virus-scanning-ISO-files/251420#251420 Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:03:27 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/251420-OneCare-virus-scanning-ISO-files/251420#251420 Gravy 4 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Gravy/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Can WPF beused in a business App Cool.

The reason I asked is that I am help plan our next major release of our enterprise app, and I would love to use WPF.

Cheers

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/250989-Can-WPF-beused-in-a-business-App/a597d742a1dd42018be99dec0044c7df#a597d742a1dd42018be99dec0044c7df Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:16:33 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/250989-Can-WPF-beused-in-a-business-App/a597d742a1dd42018be99dec0044c7df#a597d742a1dd42018be99dec0044c7df Gravy 7 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Gravy/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Can WPF beused in a business App I'm guessing the answer is yes, of course, but do you think WPF is currently at a stage to be used in business apps.

I suspect the tools are letting WPF down at the moment for main stream development, am I right or wrong?

Anyone using WPF for a line of business application right now?

All the best for Christmas!

Graham

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/250989-Can-WPF-beused-in-a-business-App/250989#250989 Fri, 22 Dec 2006 14:10:58 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/250989-Can-WPF-beused-in-a-business-App/250989#250989 Gravy 7 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Gravy/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Localizing with a database or resx files Thanks for all your input.

I looked over the Vista localization methods recently and it appears to be the same as .NET 2 and win forms. The mechanics might be a bit different but at the end of the day you end up with resource dll's that contain the localized content. Is this what other people think.

Does this mean that I don't have to worry too much about locaized text, it is something that can be done near then end of the dev cycle? (I know the code will have to be culture aware though).

I presume when Orcas is released it will have some language setting on the xaml files and automatically generate resx like resource files.

 

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/250892-Localizing-with-a-database-or-resx-files/b90886317e7c4f7f86fa9dec0043a6d7#b90886317e7c4f7f86fa9dec0043a6d7 Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:25:31 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/250892-Localizing-with-a-database-or-resx-files/b90886317e7c4f7f86fa9dec0043a6d7#b90886317e7c4f7f86fa9dec0043a6d7 Gravy 12 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Gravy/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Localizing with a database or resx files

Hi

I am looking in to writing a c# application in .NET 3.0 and localization has been highlighted as an issue.

I haven't really written a localized app but I am aware of using resources and dotnets ability to choose the correct localized assembly when required.

However, someone has suggested to me they would like to use a database in order to provide the localized strings. My first thought though would have been to use .NET resources. I can see the db approach would be more accessable to someone who didn't have any kind of resx editing tool (if there is such a thing), but I see that there is more to localization than just providing translated strings.

Because of these conflicts of interest I wanted to ask everyones opinion:

Is there a best practice doc anywhere?

Has anyone localized an app using a database to provide the string and run in to problems?

Are there tools out there to allow a non dev to manipulate .resx files when localizing?

 

Any finally, the big question would have to be; does the current localization recommendation change if I target WPF?

How are some of the enterprise dotnet apps out there localized? What about the Expression suite?

Regards

Graham

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/250892-Localizing-with-a-database-or-resx-files/250892#250892 Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:58:42 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/250892-Localizing-with-a-database-or-resx-files/250892#250892 Gravy 12 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Gravy/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Expression Blend and application business objects Hi,

I seem to recall that a while ago there was a C9 video on Sparkle (that's Blend right?), on the video they took a C# assembly that contained some kind of business object (let's pretend it was a Customer Tongue Out) and then bound the UI to properties on the object.

Did I see that? Is it possible in Blend?

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/250623-Expression-Blend-and-application-business-objects/250623#250623 Thu, 07 Dec 2006 12:40:46 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/250623-Expression-Blend-and-application-business-objects/250623#250623 Gravy 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Gravy/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Volume license for Vista Where will we find the VLK and MAK, on the ms partner site?

Will the MAK keys only work with Vista Enterprise or can they be used on the normal MSDN download of Vista?

Sorry for all the questions.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/250591-Volume-license-for-Vista/ec2a642d9f214e4da0519dec003f7af0#ec2a642d9f214e4da0519dec003f7af0 Thu, 07 Dec 2006 12:18:59 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/250591-Volume-license-for-Vista/ec2a642d9f214e4da0519dec003f7af0#ec2a642d9f214e4da0519dec003f7af0 Gravy 12 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Gravy/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Volume license for Vista Thanks for the info guys.

Where as with windows XP and 2003 Server partners were given a VLK. Does anyone know what will happen for  Vista? We will (partners) get a VLK or a MAK.

One more thing: Is it true that the KMS is part of Longhorn server? Is it available for Server 2003?

 

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/250591-Volume-license-for-Vista/8dd21d511ac74e3aac769dec003f79b9#8dd21d511ac74e3aac769dec003f79b9 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:10:40 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/250591-Volume-license-for-Vista/8dd21d511ac74e3aac769dec003f79b9#8dd21d511ac74e3aac769dec003f79b9 Gravy 12 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Gravy/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Volume license for Vista Hi

I see we have got the Enterprise edition (volume license) of Vista on subscriber downloads now. I have heared several comments on its activation though. Some people say I need a key server (??) on my network. What's one of these?

Also when I install it I never get the chance of entering a volume license key (not that there is one on the Partner site).

Does anyone know anything about this?

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/250591-Volume-license-for-Vista/250591#250591 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 14:54:22 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/250591-Volume-license-for-Vista/250591#250591 Gravy 12 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Gravy/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Vista User Profiles Oh. [C]

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/250117-Vista-User-Profiles/a944ef2f50a5412489f29dec0036efd1#a944ef2f50a5412489f29dec0036efd1 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:54:55 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/250117-Vista-User-Profiles/a944ef2f50a5412489f29dec0036efd1#a944ef2f50a5412489f29dec0036efd1 Gravy 7 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Gravy/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Vista User Profiles Hi guys,

I think it's a smart move that MSFT have re-organized the user profile folder so that not eveything is in My documents anymore. However, I actually want my profile to live on a different drive; somewhere that won't get trashed when I re-install the OS.

I see it is possible to change the location of the folders in the users' profile folder, but is it possible to change the location of profile folder itself?

eg. Instead of c:\users\user.name\<profile folders>, I want something like e:\data\userstore\<profile folders>


Graham

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/250117-Vista-User-Profiles/250117#250117 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:51:14 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/250117-Vista-User-Profiles/250117#250117 Gravy 7 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Gravy/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Will Vista Volume License by on MSDN Hi,

easy question I hope. Does anyone know when the MSDN download site will have the volumn license image of Vista and Office 2007. I see XP VL and Windows 2003 VL but no Vista.

I know I'm impatient Big Smile

Graham 

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/250028-Will-Vista-Volume-License-by-on-MSDN/250028#250028 Fri, 17 Nov 2006 16:23:46 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/250028-Will-Vista-Volume-License-by-on-MSDN/250028#250028 Gravy 4 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Gravy/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - How can I get a Channel9 Guy??? I had the same problem, but then I realised I had not logged in. Once logged in it seemed to send ok.

Guess we'll know in a couple of weeks (fingers crossed).

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/220887-How-can-I-get-a-Channel9-Guy/7320652374fe406da9b89dec00049ed3#7320652374fe406da9b89dec00049ed3 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:27:31 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/220887-How-can-I-get-a-Channel9-Guy/7320652374fe406da9b89dec00049ed3#7320652374fe406da9b89dec00049ed3 Gravy 30 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Gravy/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - WCF Shipped? Do'h. Sorry. I was getting a little confused because on the .NET 3.0 release it still talks about VS 2005 extensions for WCF and WPF are available in November CTP form.

I guess that answers my questions about the vs extensions also being released.

Does anyone know how soon the extensions (WCF, WPF) will be before they RTM too?

Graham

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/249986-WCF-Shipped/600e271c28794cdeae319dec00349b2d#600e271c28794cdeae319dec00349b2d Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:36:22 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/249986-WCF-Shipped/600e271c28794cdeae319dec00349b2d#600e271c28794cdeae319dec00349b2d Gravy 5 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Gravy/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - WCF Shipped? Hi,

I think I might have missed something. According to the C9 vid recently WCF has just shipped. Does that mean RTM'ed and downloadable? If it has only just shipped what does that mean for the Windows SDK that has just been release too, is WCF 1.0 in there?

Sorry, another question. Now WCF is finished are the VS 2005 extensions also finished?

Thanks for your help

Graham

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/249986-WCF-Shipped/249986#249986 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:20:21 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/249986-WCF-Shipped/249986#249986 Gravy 5 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Gravy/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - .NET 3.0, Orcas, LINQ - Eh? Hi

can someone explain the time line between these 3 'products' please? I could do with know when LINQ is expected to be ready, if possible. Will it use .NET 3 or is it more .NET 4, or does it rely on Oras?

Thanks for your help

Graham

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/249772-NET-30-Orcas-LINQ-Eh/249772#249772 Thu, 09 Nov 2006 08:46:01 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/249772-NET-30-Orcas-LINQ-Eh/249772#249772 Gravy 2 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Gravy/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - How does outlook manage offline working? Hi guys,

I'm interested in patterns for creating a smart client that will work offline as well as online. I have read numerous articles on this but they all seem to refer to the Offline Application block which dates back to .NET 1.1 and is not updated for .NET 2.0 (or 3.0)

I feel outlook is a good role model for the offline worker, it seems to manage synchronizing with offline data pretty seemlessly.

From reading tho offline application block docs it says there are two types of offline application; 1) Data centric where synchronization is achieved through something like Sql Replication and 2) Service centric where service requests can be queued up in a client and later replayed (when the network is available) to synchronize.

Having spent some time working with replication I knows its complications and I'm keen on looking at a more service centric approaches. With service centric I'm not quite sure yet whether it will be suitable for a large desktop application that requires offline support.

After all this, I was wondering how does Outlook managed to support offline? Does it use a type of Replication or a more service centric approach?

Regards

Graham

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/245663-How-does-outlook-manage-offline-working/245663#245663 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:15:51 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/245663-How-does-outlook-manage-offline-working/245663#245663 Gravy 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Gravy/Discussions/RSS Tech Off - Dynamically loading Media Player 6 in VB Just thought I would let everyone know I managed to do what I wanted. Instead of using CreateObject, I use a VbControlExtender class.

Graham

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/241906-Dynamically-loading-Media-Player-6-in-VB/96c6ca91ef7d42e094b29dea014b038a#96c6ca91ef7d42e094b29dea014b038a Mon, 23 Oct 2006 09:35:22 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/241906-Dynamically-loading-Media-Player-6-in-VB/96c6ca91ef7d42e094b29dea014b038a#96c6ca91ef7d42e094b29dea014b038a Gravy 2 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Gravy/Discussions/RSS Tech Off - Dynamically loading Media Player 6 in VB Hi all,

we have a VB application that uses the Windows Media Player control in a form to play wmv files. I want to start using Vista but I must maintain support for WMP 6.x.

At present the VB project has a reference to msdxm.dll and the media player appears as a control in the toolbox. This is fine for machines that contain WMP 6 but when the application is run on Vista is throws an exception as WMP 6.x is not there.

I thought this could be overcome easily by using late binding (aka CreateObject) to create an instance of MediaPlayer.MediaPlayer.1. The problem I seem to have is that I can't see the object that was created.

Is it possible to associate a late bound object to a form? I need to position it and resize it once it is on my form!!

Maybe there is an alternative? Anyone know?

Regards

Graham

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/241906-Dynamically-loading-Media-Player-6-in-VB/241906#241906 Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:07:12 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/241906-Dynamically-loading-Media-Player-6-in-VB/241906#241906 Gravy 2 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Gravy/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Windows Mail (in Vista) and HotMail Hi,
I have just found that in Vista (RC1), Windows Mail client does not support HTTP mail. Does that mean it can't be use with Hotmail, even if I had a Hotmail Plus account?

Thanks for your help

Graham

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/232770-Windows-Mail-in-Vista-and-HotMail/232770#232770 Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:22:57 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/232770-Windows-Mail-in-Vista-and-HotMail/232770#232770 Gravy 2 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Gravy/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Developing on Vista x64 Beta 2 Hi,

I'm seriously thinking of starting to use Vista x64 Beta2 for my dev environment. I use VS 2005, VB6, Sql 2000 / 2005.

I was wondering, how many of you guys are using Vista to develop with? Any major problems?

regards

Graham

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/207203-Developing-on-Vista-x64-Beta-2/207203#207203 Wed, 05 Jul 2006 13:40:41 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/207203-Developing-on-Vista-x64-Beta-2/207203#207203 Gravy 3 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Gravy/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Mounting ISO's in Vista Beta2 Daemon Tools and Virtual CloneDrive are great for x86, but has anyone any experience with x64?

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/202585-Mounting-ISOs-in-Vista-Beta2/491f1076efb44af088619deb01791a2c#491f1076efb44af088619deb01791a2c Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:43:49 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/202585-Mounting-ISOs-in-Vista-Beta2/491f1076efb44af088619deb01791a2c#491f1076efb44af088619deb01791a2c Gravy 14 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Gravy/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Mounting ISO's in Vista Beta2 You guys a not talking 64bit windows are you?

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/202585-Mounting-ISOs-in-Vista-Beta2/f3b67fc771c445939c9f9deb01791963#f3b67fc771c445939c9f9deb01791963 Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:18:13 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/202585-Mounting-ISOs-in-Vista-Beta2/f3b67fc771c445939c9f9deb01791963#f3b67fc771c445939c9f9deb01791963 Gravy 14 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Gravy/Discussions/RSS