Channel 9 - Discussions by reinux http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Discussions by reinux http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/reinux/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/reinux/Discussions en Tue, 21 May 2013 07:50:30 GMT Tue, 21 May 2013 07:50:30 GMT Rev9 0 0 0 Coffeehouse - Vista Backup and Restore center
GoddersUK said:
peter_x_farrell did you register here to to troll and spam our forums?

If there's anything I *really* hate about Vista, it's the backup app. I like Vista even with all the peer pressure to hate it, but the backup UI is just absolutely insane.

Have you ever seen the backup utility in XP? Sure it's a little more complicated but it has both Wizard and Advanced view, and it lets you do everything.

It's fully featured -- shadow copies, incremental, differential, mark as backed up, scheduling. But they threw it out. For some unknown reason. Why couldn't they have simply improved the Wizard view in this app??

And don't tell me the whole computer backup in Vista is useful -- it doesn't even allow for scheduling, while the otherwise unbelievably useless file backup does. Why??

TechNet offers instructions on making scheduled whole computer backups though: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc137798.aspx

Which leads me to another question: Why???

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/255568-Vista-Sleep-mode/2bb031e1fc1a4a67ac489dfa00a9776c#2bb031e1fc1a4a67ac489dfa00a9776c Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:58:49 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/255568-Vista-Sleep-mode/2bb031e1fc1a4a67ac489dfa00a9776c#2bb031e1fc1a4a67ac489dfa00a9776c reinux 3 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/reinux/Discussions/RSS Tech Off - Vista Sleep mode I find that the more applications I have open, the longer it takes for my computer to sleep. With nothing open, it takes a few seconds. With 20 Messenger windows open (don't ask why), it takes more than a minute. Similar results with no Messenger windows but a lot of IE/Visual Studio/Word/etc.

Hybrid sleep is off.

What could it be doing with these windows/processes that's making it take so long? Is there any way to speed it up?

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I heard they went OEM a couple months ago. Where are they?!

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rexisrex wrote:
@Irascian:I absolutely agree with you. The upgrade advisor is absolute crap or rather a Sham! I ran it from Vista Ultimate with Aero and Flip 3d enabled. Everything abt Ultimate is working in my Notebook but believe it or not the upgrader crap gave me a warning icon stating that my Nvidia 256 Mb graphics card needs upgrading as it may not support the Windows Aero experience. WTF??? I am sure the capitalistic Monopolistic Microshit Big Bully is at its best ever rip off game!All of you do yourself a favour: DONT EVER BASE YOUR DECISION OF A VISTA UPGRADE USING THE ADVISOR. ITS PLAIN RIP OFF AND NOTHING ELSE. As far I am concerned any damn PC bought a couple of years ago will be able to run Vista with AERO turned on. All thats needed is the Memory which shuld be 1 gb at the minimum and a WDDM driver supported graphics card. IMHO, This is a min configuration of a Multimedia PC even in the XP environment. Unless you have damn Old comp which you use to dry soiled currency notes, Vista should run on a Notebook PC with the foll spec:1 Ghz Processormin 1 Gig of RAM (This is what will make all the diff)A decent Graphics card.(No need to elaborate this point!)and you are thru to run that new (I need to watch my language)! 

Take a deep breath and tell me how "capitalistic Monopolistic Microsoft Big Bully" is supposed to benefit from overestimating your system requirements.

I have a nearly 4 year old Radeon 9600, Upgrade Advisor told me it will run Aero just fine, and here I am running Aero now. So the warning on your card is probably just a glitch.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/253322-Visual-C-Express/4a013e844b5f43cd820b9dec0066c6aa#4a013e844b5f43cd820b9dec0066c6aa Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:00:15 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/253322-Visual-C-Express/4a013e844b5f43cd820b9dec0066c6aa#4a013e844b5f43cd820b9dec0066c6aa reinux 17 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/reinux/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Visual C# Express Speak of the devil... look what just showed up on Code Project!

http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/AutoDiagrammer.asp

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Bas wrote:
For some reason, I'm thinking that it would sound something like this.

Which sorta sounds like this:

<komugi> Vista is really nice
<Kagari> I'll probably wait to get Vista
<Kagari> screw Microsoft
<Kagari> Vista is crap right now because it's so buggy
<Kagari> and now
<Kagari> MS is charging people to play online PC games
<Kagari> what's that (I need to watch my language)
<Kagari> Now they're paying off developers to port games to their shitty system
<Kagari> I hate how they try to control all markets


...You know, it's really hard to stay on topic in this thread for some reason Perplexed

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JChung2006 wrote:


Not being able to create Web Application Projects in Visual Web Developer Express is a huge minus when comparing it to Visual Studio 2005.

Not being able to create data sources from non-Express SQL Server editions is a minus when comparing C# or VB.NET Express to Visual Studio 2005.  You can work around it by duplicating your schema in an Express database with something like the SQL Server Database Publishing Wizard on Codeplex and then changing the connection string in your App.config so it is not a huge disadvantage.

What really hurts (and I probably sound like a broken record) is that they won't be releasing Express Editions of Orcas when it ships, not even for the nominal fee they originally intended to charge for the 2005 Express Editions.


Whaaaaat all that sucks!

I seriously hope they do Orcas sometime in the near future.

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Which is yet another nice thing about VC# Express Smiley

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Bas wrote:
Edit: Hmm, forgot about the class diagrams. I sort of miss having those, too, but they're not absolutely essential.

It's always fun when you're done a huge project (not while you're working on it) to generate a class diagram and go "Holy shxt I did all that?!"

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MrJay wrote:

Therefore I deem 2.5 as the appropriate choice of verison number.


Yeah, .NET 2.5 is a popular alternative too. http://www.codeproject.com/script/profile/whos_who.asp?msg=1684245&id=556502#xx1684245xx

Anyway, sorry to derail the thread again.

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W3bbo wrote:
Seeming as C# Express is a strict subset of Visual Studio 2005, in what ways is it more tweakable?

Yah weird eh?

The editor options in VC# Express lets you tweak a lot of the auto indent and bracketing, which is sort of nice. I mean it's not a big deal but evidently it's not just a subset of VS2005. There's some new code in there too.

W3bbo wrote:

Faster starting I can understand, but VS05 loads in under 3 seconds (but 13 seconds from a cold start) on my machine.

My machine's getting sorta old Smiley

Switching between documents seems to slow down VS2005 for me too.

The UI seems less glitchy in C# Express. The DataSet designer doesn't go haywire and the toolbars don't flicker. But I don't know, that might have been just my previous install.

JasonOlson wrote:

There definitely are some things I miss from Visual Studio though, like Resharper support, Class Diagramming, setting watches for breakpoints, Subversion integration (via a 3rd party plug in that doesn't support Express SKUs), etc. However, C# Express is a very capable IDE, and all free of charge .

Ahh, yeah I might miss class diagramming and svn.

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Of course sometimes I need things like Crystal Reports and MSI, but I'm mainly using C# Express now.

Weird, wasn't .NET some evil conspiracy to sell more copies of Visual Studio?

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JasonOlson wrote:

You remember when .NET was used EVERYWHERE? After all, Windows Server 2003 was originally called Windows .Net Server.

It still is.

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Here's what the press' take is on the whole thing: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article1529988.ece

‘Microsoft sucks’, says top blogger



Gotta love it.

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Microsoft's marketing is absolutely terrible. They advertise the marketing itself more than they advertise the products. They've spent $500M on putting up a pretty wall in front of Vista and the rest of Microsoft.

C9 is definitely not that.

So as much as I share some of his concerns (especially on Ballmer running his mouth and on MSN and marketing), I like C9. Trolls and all.

I hope to see it live a long life, regardless of how much it's costing or earning.

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Less secure than XP? My xss.

UAC is a safety net. With UAC off, it's still more secure than XP. Even with people not reading the UAC messages half the time, it's still more secure.

Kapersky's just like Norton and McAfee of course. Windows goes out of security problems and the security vendors go bankrupt.

Tough.

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Should be much funner learning LINQ than relearning ADO Smiley

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I know LINQ's in beta, but in the case that something does go wrong, the damage shouldn't be too bad (unless it somehow eats the database), and I'm willing to take the risk/responsibility.

Usability wise though, how is LINQ's VS2005 integration so far?

Speaking of which, reports and invoices printed in XPS would be sorta cool huh?

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AJenbo wrote:

Yeah i have alot of pepole come up to me and ask what i think of Vista and how MS could have made such a POS just because they heard somthing from some one who read a forum post from some one who saw some one complaning about Vista on the other side of the strea. peapole will belive any thing just as long as it dosn't come from the official source it seams.

Amen but not quite.

A lot of people ask me if I work for Microsoft when I say something about Vista. When I say no, they ask me if I'm getting paid to speak for them.

People just don't believe anything positive about Microsoft. Period.

By the way check out my petition against CNET's bogus upgrade advisor: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=291980

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jamie wrote:
go fr' it eh?  (canuck)

Yay for St. Patrick's day Smiley


Anyway, done: http://www.petitiononline.com/cnetvis/petition.html

Now I just need to figure out a way to get people to see this thing... can you guys help?

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I figured I'd get some feedback from you guys first.

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