Channel 9 - Discussions by sloppycode http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Discussions by sloppycode http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/sloppycode/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/sloppycode/Discussions en Sun, 19 May 2013 12:27:29 GMT Sun, 19 May 2013 12:27:29 GMT Rev9 0 0 0 Coffeehouse - IE7 Beta 2 released Watch out, your 1.1 MSDN local documentation gets wrecked by IE 7 - the style sheets no longer render so you get Javadoc (urghh) style documentation.

I also had tonnes of problems with our internal network with IE7, it wasn't resolving server names for some reason (a rollback to IE6 solved it).

Also IE no longer waits indefinitely for a server reply when debugging an ASP.NET page. I tried this in .NET 2 and you get an error message from IE 7 after about 20 seconds.

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is

search: localizedStrings\.item\((.*)\)
replace: localizedStrings\[\1\]

should do the trick

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W3bbo wrote:
Steve411 wrote: What a bummer, the british have absolutely no sense of humour. How boring is it over there?


We have a sense of humour, it's just drier and has higher standards.

I consider Monty Python and Harry Enfield to be the pinnacle of British humour. Others may have differing tastes.

Of course, I am of the type that doesn't find Little Britain funny; catchphrases are only entaining to primary-school children; the rest of the program just pokes fun at stereotypes.


monty python created catch phrase humour. Have you never heard the live At...series where the whole crowed is reciting each sketch? And before Little Britain is was The Fast Show, then Harry Enfield. It becomes catch phrase because it's funny I suppose

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jamie wrote:

"This is the year…



SHUT THAT BLOODY BOUZOUKI UP!

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I think open source and Linux are two very different matters since Linux started taking off as a server. Linux was pretty much responsible for opening up the whole closed vs open source argument, but now Linux has a great deal of commercial involvement that sort of removes it from an open source argument.

The open source argument is based around transparency of the source code. However (people have mentioned this), this factor doesn't necessarily mean the bugs will be fixed. They may be spotted yes, and reported. That's assuming people spend their spare time examining the source code. Perhaps security firms do this, I don't know.

One issue I have with open source projects is you don't know the quality of the people you're working with. Or whether these people will work the same amount of time on the project as you. People are a lot more motivated if they know they will lose their job if they don't pull their weight. Or that they will get rewarded for their time.

Look at Mono - its ended up being given Novell's financial clout to give it some kind of roadmap and direction.

Now if I go and write an alternative to Exchange Server tommorow, and then open source it, what benefit do I get from open sourcing it? People want to contribute to the project, then sure join up. The fact remains it needs project managing, people assigning to each task etc. etc. Having the source open to the public doesn't automatically make the product advance faster.

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Pace wrote:

LOL!

WOW we can have multiple windows!

I can see how that must of been so cool at the time, now the young pups come along and they have the .net framework, C9 etc etc.

I remember when I was 10 and got my first proper PC, I used to go through the hard drive, and if I diddnt know what something was, I would just delete it lol.

Would take me a good 20 mins to get blue screen of death



I remember when I was 10 and use to write BBC basic programs. Then the kids got luxury operating systems like win 3.1

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labs.macromedia.com - that's comedy. It's so sad how many tech firms (including Microsoft) are copying Google now. What's probably worst is they didn't do anything that incredibly novel by showcasing their work-in-progress stuff, other companies have been doing it for a long while.

But it's nice that Google are helping to de-corporatise large IT firms, away from marketing guff.

And flex gets my thumbs down. I use to code actionscript/flash for  a while and I found the whole hosted control idea poor. They are re-inventing the wheel in my view.

You can't use your back button or bookmark a part in a flash movie either which is mighty annoying.

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W3bbo wrote:
List of reasons not to buy Vista:

  • Vista employes PUMA, POP, PVP, TPM, and a whole array of DRM technologies
    • By not buying Vista for this reason, you show to Microsoft, and indirectly to the media conglomerates, that you won't stand for it
  • Vista's non-aero skin doesn't look as aesthetically pleasing as alternative skins already available for Windows XP
  • to run Vista with Glass you'll need one of today's high-end video cards
    • In 2003, they said the entry-level models in 2006 would be fast enough, but they're not, users of cards like the GeForce 6200 won't be able to run Aero at 1280x960 and run any really demanding apps at the same time
  • Most of Vistas's 'core' technologies will be backported to Windows XP, thus nulling any reasons to upgrade based on 'foward-compatibility' (at least whilst Windows XP is still officially supported by Microsoft)



Windows Vista November beta works very fast on my Compaq Presario with a crappy ATI graphics card, faster than XP.

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And also, according to Bill Bryson, 2% of America's power consumption is from workstations being left on overnight.

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They are the definition of incompetent, the only reason people still play the game in Europe is on WoW's merits. And you thought EA were bad

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Hmmm strange, i've reverted back, I dint have moch need for a speelchecker anyhoww

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Is the windows api going to remain, or is being completely replaced by the new .net version?


Has longhorn been re-written in .net, or still captain powerhouse, c++? (I think i know the answer to that)


Lastly, will longhorn be 64bit by default, or will there be Longhorn 64bit edition?

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