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Changing passport account [Changing passport account]

Gravy — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:40:58 GMT

Hi guys,

I'm liking the new C9, congrats :)

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

Regards

Graham

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WPF Development laptop [WPF Development laptop]

Gravy — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:13:58 GMT

Hi guys,

I'm looking at buying a laptop and I need it to be good enough so that I can do some WPF development on it.

Does anyome know of one that doesn't cost a small fortune?

Regards

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OneCare virus scanning ISO files [OneCare virus scanning ISO files]

Gravy — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:03:27 GMT

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.

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Can WPF beused in a business App [Can WPF beused in a business App]

Gravy — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 14:10:58 GMT

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

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Localizing with a database or resx files [Localizing with a database or resx files]

Gravy — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:58:42 GMT

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

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Expression Blend and application business objects [Expression Blend and application business objects]

Gravy — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 12:40:46 GMT

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 :P) and then bound the UI to properties on the object.

Did I see that? Is it possible in Blend?

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Volume license for Vista [Volume license for Vista]

Gravy — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 14:54:22 GMT

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?

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Vista User Profiles [Vista User Profiles]

Gravy — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:51:14 GMT

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

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Will Vista Volume License by on MSDN [Will Vista Volume License by on MSDN]

Gravy — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 16:23:46 GMT

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 :D

Graham

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WCF Shipped? [WCF Shipped?]

Gravy — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:20:21 GMT

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

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.NET 3.0, Orcas, LINQ - Eh? [.NET 3.0, Orcas, LINQ - Eh?]

Gravy — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 08:46:01 GMT

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

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How does outlook manage offline working? [How does outlook manage offline working?]

Gravy — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 07:15:51 GMT

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

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Dynamically loading Media Player 6 in VB [Dynamically loading Media Player 6 in VB]

Gravy — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:07:12 GMT

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

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Windows Mail (in Vista) and HotMail [Windows Mail (in Vista) and HotMail]

Gravy — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:22:57 GMT

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

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Developing on Vista x64 Beta 2 [Developing on Vista x64 Beta 2]

Gravy — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 13:40:41 GMT

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

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Mounting ISO's in Vista Beta2 [Mounting ISO's in Vista Beta2]

Gravy — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 09:15:55 GMT

Hi guys

Does anyone know of a tool (that works!) that will allow me to mount an ISO file in the 64bit version of Vista B2?

I've used Virtual CloneDrive with the 32bit Vistaand this was great, sadly, no 64bit version of this tool.

Thanks gor your help

Graham

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OneCare on 64bit Windows [OneCare on 64bit Windows]

Gravy — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:18:14 GMT

I've just read a post that just happened to mention that Microsofts AntiVirus software, OneCare.

The post said that OneCare will not support 64bit Windows. Is this true?

If it is true, why???

For the last year I've been waiting for vendors to come up with 64bit drivers and they are just about there now. But most of the anti virus vendors just don't seem to support 64bit windows! I would have thought that with the release of Windows Vista this year and the already released XP 64 Microsoft would have fully supported the OS's.

Graham

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64bit AntiVirus - what an old favorite [64bit AntiVirus - what an old favorite]

Gravy — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 08:12:06 GMT

Sorry to ask this question again but are there many developers out there running XP X64? The answer is probably yes, but the real question is what anti virus software are you using? Is it any good and how do you think it compares to say Norton AntiVirus et al.

Thanks for your help

Graham

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WinFX refresh for .NET2.0 RTM [WinFX refresh for .NET2.0 RTM]

Gravy — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:34:26 GMT

Hi guys

I was just wondering whether anyone knows if there will be a refresh of all the WinFX SDK bits (WPF, WCF, WWF) when we get the RTM of .NET 2.0 and VS 2005? If so is there any timeframe on how soon the refreshed bits will be available??

Regards

Graham

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Avalon and Windows Forms [Avalon and Windows Forms]

Gravy — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 08:11:57 GMT

Hi guys,

just a quicky for you!!

Do you think / know if Avalon will Supersede Windows Forms? From my breif exploration of Beta 1 I was left wondering if I will ever be designing my traditional style windows forms app using Avalon.At the moment it seems more focused on really really rich looking UI, but that's just my opinion ;-)

I've also been looking at MyXaml and this is what sparked the idea I think!

Thanks for your help

Graham

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ClickOnce in the real world [ClickOnce in the real world]

Gravy — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 13:38:30 GMT

As an ISV writing a saleable product with Beta2 of the framework I'm interested how people perceive ClickOnce. We currently use ClickOnce to publish internal builds of our application to our intranet but what should we do when our product is released and sold?

What I mean by that is; do we need to write an MSI package for it or do we distribute our final product from our WebSite using ClickOnce?

Personally I have found ClickOnce a great idea, it is so much easier updating clients with new releases but that's easy for me to say, as a techie person I know how to publish ClickOnce files to my server, but will a customer?

One solution I can see is that we write an MSI that will publish our product on a customers deployment server, but then what do we do when we issue an update? A new MSI, an upgrade to the previous?

I hope you can see my dilema. There is a gap in my understanding of ClickOnce; this is how we get it out of the door and on to a customer deployment server.

Any comments / suggestions?

Graham

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RichText usage. [RichText usage.]

Gravy — Tue, 31 May 2005 14:02:04 GMT

Hi,

I was wondering how many people out there use Rich Text in their apps? I'm writing something now and I originally thought; wouldn't it be nice to give the user the ability to format many of the long text fields they enter. Now, I've started to run in to problems because the text the user entered is stored in the db as RTF and I'm trying to report on it.

I just wondered how many people thought rich text was worth the effort??

Regards

Graham

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The next big thing for Word! [The next big thing for Word!]

Gravy — Wed, 11 May 2005 11:36:12 GMT

I've seen Word format HTML before (I copied a web page from IE and pasted in to Word), but will it ever be possible for Word to understand ZAML?

Scary!

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Logging in VS 2005 Beta 2 [Logging in VS 2005 Beta 2]

Gravy — Wed, 11 May 2005 11:01:00 GMT

Hi there,

I'm sure I remember watching a channel 9 video a few months back where a test engineer was using a new code logging feature in Beta 2. Was I dreaming this?

At the time I thought it was the kind of thing that log4net does. Does anyone remember this video, or can anyone tell me where in the docs to look?

Regards

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Logging in VS 2005 Beta 2 [Logging in VS 2005 Beta 2]

Gravy — Mon, 02 May 2005 22:00:17 GMT

Hi there,

Am I write in thinking that Channel 9 had a video showing a test engineer using something in the Framework that behaved just like log4net? If so, what was it?

Thanks for your help

Graham

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