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please check this out - c9 bug?

figuerres — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:55:31 GMT

hey i opened a thread on the site feedback but i do not know if anyone else can re-pro this problem:

use the silverlight player to start a video and click on fullscreen.

what happens? if it does not work please go to feedback and let the folks know.

thanks!

Fullscreen button not working for me on 2 pc's

figuerres — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:09:56 GMT

one machine i thought might have had a problem with silverlight 4 beta.

but now at work on xp pro sp3 and silverlight v3 the same problem is happening.

not sure if this relates to the issue but the player starts with the controls half way up from the bottom and drops down.

plays in the small vew ok.

click on fullscreen and nothing. small player is now a black box - no controls no video no picture.

no fullscreen mode.

reload page and all is ok but fullscreen not working.

tried the halo video and the visual studio father of vb on front page and they both do this.

not yet tried older videos.

PDC videos [PDC videos]

figuerres — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:41:42 GMT

hey I can't stop work to watch the live feeds, when and where will they be posted so i can view them later?

keynotes also....

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read this and take the survery!!! msft wants help on vs docs [read this and take the survery!!! msft wants help on vs docs]

figuerres — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:10:29 GMT

http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2009/10/30/we-need-your-feedback-on-the-documentation.aspx

this is a good set of questions they have, let's give them a lot of input !

and perhaps drop Brad a comment also.....

old saying "the sqeaky wheel gets the grease" ! - time to sqeak!

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Microsoft Store - WIndows 7 pre orders [Microsoft Store - WIndows 7 pre orders]

figuerres — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:04:22 GMT

SO back in late JUNE i did a pre-order from the microsoft store online for a download / iso of 7 Pro.

It looks like they did not run my cc yet.... so I have a note in the online order saying that if i do not have an email in 24 hours i should contact them....

WOW, so they should have started running the charges like 3 days ago and by now most of them would be done.

I just wonder if they failed to plan this right? did they not start the process till midnight laswt night and now have to run like a million transactions in 24 hours?

I would shure like to hear the inside scoop on how they are doing this...

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Virtual PC and Server 2008 R2 Rant [Virtual PC and Server 2008 R2 Rant]

figuerres — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:20:33 GMT

OK so this is just silly... i really really hope MSFT will get a new version of VPC out soon.

I am looking to do some development and learning on Server 2008 R2 but guess what?

it's x64 only..... so the only way i can do a Virtual Machine for it is to use VMWare

Get with it Microsoft, we need VPC 2010 with support for x64 guest systems!

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the bar at top of page with links to news [the bar at top of page with links to news]

figuerres — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:09:50 GMT

not sure how else to name that thing....

please add a button next to it that shows me a list of the news items it is showing.

i can not even count how many times i see something and then it's gone.... then i have to play a waiting game if i want to find that link again......

if there was a button like [Show All] I could hit that find the one i want to check out and go.

with the current UI i have no way to know how many items are rotating thru that one line, no way to go back to the prior link and no way to know how long i may have to wait to see the one i missed.

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this tool looks interesting for flash to silverlight [this tool looks interesting for flash to silverlight]

figuerres — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:56:10 GMT

check this out:

http://www.silverx.net/

just found it last night and am trying it out. free download.

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Microsoft Events -- what gives? [Microsoft Events -- what gives?]

figuerres — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:34:05 GMT

hey MSFT staff what happened to the events on the msft site?

used to be that i could go to microsoft.com/events and find MSDN and other events when new versions of major products and platforms where coming out.

Silverlight 3 and Expression Studio 3 are due in like 2 weeks and ZERO on the events site ...

and I know there is a live event happening somewhere in or around San Fransico on july 10th for that but is it VIP only?

granted we have other stuff coming later but even that has no public info yet, we need info to plan for trips, getting rooms, and all that stuff... someone at MSFT needs to start telling us what the lauch wave is going to be or has MSFT cut back on this stuff ??

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thread on bing / front page video comments error [thread on bing / front page video comments error]

figuerres — Sun, 31 May 2009 23:37:38 GMT

when i click the next / prev page button on the bing comments topic it pops up the IIS / WIndows aauth /login prompt for a domain user.

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New Trek - Well done! [New Trek - Well done!]

figuerres — Sat, 09 May 2009 03:01:03 GMT

Good story, Good Cast, Great Spock!

worth seeing even if your not familiar with the other shows etc...

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new theme for win7 hard to read at top [new theme for win7 hard to read at top]

figuerres — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:40:52 GMT

top of the page the light blue / white background with the white text for the site menu is kinda hard to read.

menu needs perhaps a bar of dark background to give the text good visibility.

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Vista SP2 must be going public soon [Vista SP2 must be going public soon ]

figuerres — Sat, 02 May 2009 12:21:29 GMT

I just saw a windows update for my box that in the additional info said it was for installing updates and refered to it as a pre-req for SP2.

the publish date said 4/28 but i did not see it till today. it might have been out but i had to many things going this week.

did sp2 rtm go out to msdn with the rc of windows 7 ??

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MSFT and One Care replacement plan [MSFT and One Care replacement plan]

figuerres — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:38:08 GMT

SO I went to find some info on how to backup to an e-sata drive with one care and find out that they are dropping it in a few months!

Ok the news was posted in a one care blog months ago but .... well here are a few things I am not really happy about:

MSFT made Virtual PC free, now in some ways a good thing but IMHO if you sell a product then you have a reason to listen to the customer. if it's free then it's a cost center and you can just drop it if you get in a money crunch.
so when the current VPC 2007 was in beta many requests for basic updates were ignored IMHO as "who cares your getting it for free"

I see the new free OC package getting the same treatment.

I think that a free offering for users might be ok *IF* they offer a subscription with more features and stuff.
but even then I am not so sure.

I don't know ... on one hand the offering free stuff can be a way to make MSFT more "cool" to some users
but a product that makes money can justify it's life as a product when money is tight ....

Oh Well ....

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Feature Request -- to stop the dead from coming back [Feature Request -- to stop the dead from coming back]

figuerres — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:38:42 GMT

PLEASE!

I think this will be simple to do:

If a user replies to a thread where the last post on that thread is older than say 6months
they get a warning and an option to "start a related discussion"
but no option to reply to the end of an old / really old / aincient from the dawn of time thread.
this way *if* someone has a valid need to refer to an old post they can. but they cant bring back a whole long dead thread.

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acrobat and foxit -- we neeed a real option [acrobat and foxit -- we neeed a real option]

figuerres — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 15:07:26 GMT

hey folks this has been in nthe back of my mind for a while:

what about a free open source (possibly .net) pdf reader?

not a pdf writer, just a basic good free read and print pdf files app that runs on windows machines.

I get sick of the things take come up with the adobe reader and lack of options to it.

make it small, fast, free.

If I had the time and the right skills I would start such a project but I know I would not have the time and I do not know enough about what a modern pdf reader has to cope with.

also note that there are at least 2-3 libraries that will generate a pdf but none of them offer a reader library.
and i have seen the "install ghostscript" mentioned but that just will not work for a lot of reasons, like you can't get a corp. network to do that on hundreds or even dozens of desktops.
but if they had a really good free option....

free the PDF!!!
Freedom to READ without giant bloated admin wanting, toolbar laden etc....

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SIlverlight Question -- MSFT can we get a good response on this? [SIlverlight Question -- MSFT can we get a good response on this?]

figuerres — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:26:22 GMT

please take a look at:
http://silverlight.net/forums/p/81467/191834.aspx#191834

seems like more than just me wondering what's up with the crazy limit on tcp ports in silverlight.

there should be a way to allow more tcp port options!

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from this week on c9: feedback on dual / multi monitors [from this week on c9: feedback on dual / multi monitors]

figuerres — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:50:58 GMT

Hey Guys I have wondered for a while about standards for apps to work with 2 or more screens...

for example some things I see all the time that I HATE!

1) system dialogs always pop on the first display even when the active app focus in on another display, this can be really bad for elevation requests that you do not see....
2) Setup / Install apps that always run on the first display and will move back to it even if you move them.

2) apps that pop dialogs w/o repect for the display theyare on.

one simple fix for many of these things is to just make the dialog open "center on parent" and with the parent set to the app that opens them. then they will open on the correct screen !

sometimes I think UAC and elevation requests get confused and I have seen them be hidden behind a window on the first screen wating for me to tap them...

My 2 cents....

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installing a windows service on server 2008 fails [installing a windows service on server 2008 fails]

figuerres — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:52:19 GMT

simple .net windows service w/o any event log code fails with the following:

An exception occurred during the Install phase.
System.Security.SecurityException: The source was not found, but some or all event logs could not be searched. Inaccessible logs: Security.

as far as I can tell right now this is a problem with the .net supplied install util program.
I get this error even with an admin account and with the service set to autolog== false

so as far as I can tell I can't install any .net windows services on server 2008 !

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Silverlight RTW is set for Oct 14 2008 [Silverlight RTW is set for Oct 14 2008]

figuerres — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:18:19 GMT

Yep it's release date is tomrow!

SL 2.0 RTW

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/oct08/10-13Silverlight2PR.mspx

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8/8/8 is coming... what about Silverlight 2.0 RTM / RTW [8/8/8 is coming... what about Silverlight 2.0 RTM / RTW]

figuerres — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:10:17 GMT

OK so is Microsoft going to launch Silverlight 2.0 RTM on / by friday or will Microsoft ask masses of clients to download a "Beta" / RC of SIlverlight 2.0 ?

I am Guessing that this week folks are "Heads Down" at MSFT to finish SL 2.0 and can't say anything till the end of the week.

after that we should see VS 2008 SP1 and .Net 3.5 SP1 as finishing SL 2.0 locks down one part of the puzzel.

I hope that "This Week on 9" the show and the actual week end with some news about them....

SL 2.0
VS 08 SP1
.Net 3.5 SP1

no news for some time on any of them, big date for SL on Friday...

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CSS bug perhaps ? [CSS bug perhaps ?]

figuerres — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:24:57 GMT

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Dan/Mike-Taulty-44-Silverlight-20-Screencasts/

the numberd list has part of the numbers cut off.

I think this just started , could swear it looked right a few days back.

?

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posting a reply -- visual feedback issues [posting a reply -- visual feedback issues]

figuerres — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:42:06 GMT

Hi, I have noticed that often when I click "Add" that I see a long time before the page updates.

I do see the line at the bottom change to say "Saving..." but most of the time I just see the page sit there .... till finaly it goes to shoing the throbber and then I know something is happening.

1) when it starts to save the edit box should be disabled even if the rest of the page does not chnage (yet)
2) the add button should disable or have a different visual stateto show me that the click was "seen"
3) make that "Saving..." message larger, perhaps right above the "Add" and "Cancel" buttons asthe eye is where the button is so the user would be a lot more liklely to see that text.

sometimes the "Add" to "throbber" goes fast, other times it's very slow... I am sure this has to do witth server load and http trip times.
so I think the 3 tings on this list would make it work better when that happens.

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URL links not readable ... [URL links not readable ... ]

figuerres — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 13:56:46 GMT

A recent post has a LINK to a download of a file.
but the way the link is shown I can not see where it is. I can only click and take the file.
user entered URL's should show the URL or have a way to "View" it

in the old c9 I could select to reply and I got the text of the post in source form to check if I needed to.

I do not see any way to do this now.

this means a user could post a link saying it was some usefull thing but really give a link to a virus / trojan etc...

links should perhaps show like [http://www.somewhere.org/foo/bar/bin/bas.html] link to my cool page
for example.

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Dear Microsoft ... about the next version of Windows [Dear Microsoft ... about the next version of Windows]

figuerres — Thu, 29 May 2008 17:17:07 GMT

I am rather confused and worried right now. Seems like I have heard some mixed messages and some of what I am hearing sounds a bit like "Longhorn the second edition" I *HOPE* that's not the case!

some folks were very recently saying that windows 7 was "on a tight leash"

Now this D6 thing seems to be showing stuff that is just designs.

I recall the early Longhorn mockups and how that fed a hype that left a lot of folks upset (right or wrong it still left a bad image).

I just do not want to see a mess.

I do want to provide usefull feedback *before* it's froze (Code freeze)

I have been a Long time Developer and user of Microsoft Poducts.

I want to see a really great release of the next Windows client OS.

:)

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