Why XAML is Powerful
XAML, Microsoft's eXtensible Application Markup Language, was released with the .NET 3.0 framework and works with the new technologies available in... more »
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Drag and Drop Text Files from Windows Explorer to your Windows Form Application
This is a short article describing how you can drag and drop files from your Desktop/Windows Explorer to your Windows Form application. In this... more »
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Running an ANT script in a .bat/.cmd file under Windows
This article explains how to run an ANT script in a .bat or a .cmd file under Windows.
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Remotely Log Off Remote Desktop Users
How to remotely log off remote desktop (terminal service) users when you get that annoying: "The terminal server has exceeded the maximum number of... more »
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Simple Virtual Desktops on Vista - Desktops 1.0 Released
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The Sysinternals team has released virtual desktops for Vista in the form of: Desktops v1.0, a super simple app to give you 4 virtual desktops in... more »
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Microsoft Desktops 1.0
Desktops allows you to organize your applications on up to four virtual desktops. Read email on one, browse the web on the second, and do work in your... more »
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Intel, Microsoft converge on parallel computing
Today, the two hardware and software giants announced a joint project to create tools for parallel programming on Intel chips. The tools will be... more »
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Five Reasons BitNami Makes Your Life Easier
If you’re not already familiar with BitNami, the aim of the project is to help spread the adoption of open source software by making it easier than... more »
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Java Swing fonts in Java 6u10 : B.E.A.U.T.I.F.U.L.!
Java 6u10 really delivers for Windows users in terms of Swing fidelity. Linux users are not far behind with the improvements in OpenJDK 7.
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Why Have a Start Button to Shutdown Windows?
The other day I was watching David Pogue’s presentation When it comes to tech, simplicity sells on Ted Talks about good and bad UI design, which... more »
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Welcome to Engineering Windows 7
Welcome to our first post on a new blog from Microsoft—the Engineering Windows 7 blog, or E7 for short. E7 is hosted by the two senior engineering... more »
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ASP.NET gets no Respect
Poor ASP.NET! Is it really that bad? I say No!
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Top 10 Killer Photoshop Combo Moves
Is time kickin’ your ass? Well, learn to defend yourself! Master these killer Photoshop keyboard combos and you’ll find yourself with more time for... more »
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Multi-Threading in C++
A Tutorial that describes how to make your C++ program evenly distribute it's load to all available cores/processors.
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Visual Studio 2008 SP1 has just released!
Great news folks, it looks like the Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 has finally released, although IMHO it's more of a Feature Pack (since new... more »
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Game over for Vista?
This week at the Black Hat Security Conference two security researchers will discuss their findings which could completely bring Windows Vista to its... more »
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Running your physical Windows XP partition as a VM using Virtualbox on Ubuntu.
This blog post show you how to configure VirtualBox to run en existing physical Windows partition as a virtual machine. Useful to get rid of the... more »
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CHM version of JavaFX documentation
For those enthusiastic to develop cool RIA application using the recent release of JavaFX Preview SDK will feel hamper by difficultly of locating... more »
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What's Wrong With Microsoft's 'Mojave Experiment'?
The Folgers ads proved exactly the same things that the "Mohave Experiment" proved. They proved that people say nice things to strangers on camera.... more »
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Deployment SVN (Subversion) for Windows as Home Version Control System.
I need to use Version Control System in home. It is have requirement: should be free and for Windows XP. I selected the SVN... more »
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Suddenly, 64-bit Windows is mainstream
Last year, x64 editions of Windows Vista were hard to come by and seen as mainly for early adopters. This year, with little warning, the tide seems to... more »
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Microsoft maps out migration from Windows
Internal documents reveal that Microsoft is carefully mapping out migration strategies to move customers from Windows to a new legacy-free... more »
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Cocoa Tutorial: Windows OOP vs Cocoa MVC
Encapsulate everything! Right? Or not. I was watching the Cocoa developers email list today and saw a post asking for help getting two views to... more »
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Essential Shortcuts for Geeks, Designers, Developers, Blogger and you!
Keyboard shortcuts are really useful to save time and boost up productivity. We use a lot of various software when we use our computer. Some of them... more »
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Microsoft's plans for post-Windows OS revealed
Microsoft is creating a new legacy-free OS from scratch that is designed for local and distributed concurrency, permitting application modules to... more »
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