Future version of Silverlight

Team Silverlight always keep listening to your feedback,comments continuously over period of time, Now be a part of future version of Silverlight by giving unique suggestions,More over here :

http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2010/05/03/ways-to-give-feedback-on-silverlight.aspx

Also, Happy to announce the brand new templates for Silverlight 4, More over here :

http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2010/05/03/new-silverlight-4-themes-available-for-download.aspx

Also have a look at http://pendsevikram.blogspot.com

Internet Explorer 9 - Beta

The Second Internet Explorer Platform Preview is out here (via Tim Sneath) with more JS performance, HTML5 stuff and CSS 3 improvements, Do check it out :

 

http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/

 

McAfee Update Causing Windows XP Machines to Shut Down

What is the purpose of this alert?

Microsoft has been made aware of an issue with a McAfee DAT file update - released Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - that has been causing stability issues on Windows XP client systems. The symptom is caused by a false-positive detection on a core Windows file (svchost.exe). Once the file is quarantined by McAfee, the system may encounter one of the following symptoms:

 

• The computer shuts down when a DCOM error or a RPC error occurs
• The computer continues to run without network connectivity.
• The computer triggers a Bugcheck (Blue Screen). 

 

The DAT file version that that caused the problem is McAfee DAT 5958. This file was propagated to client machines that conduct automatic updates of definition files. McAfee updated the DAT file soon after the problem was identified with a new version that does not cause the problem.

 

Resolution Steps

 

Please review the following KB Articles for specific steps to resolve the issue on systems that are affected.

 

McAfee KB Article:

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=KB68780

 

Microsoft KB Article:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2025695

 

Recommendations

 

We recommend customers affected by this symptom first review the McAfee KB Article referenced above. For further assistance, customers should contact McAfee. Customers who are unable to resolve the issue through these means can contact Microsoft for technical support using resources found on this Web page: http://support.microsoft.com/.

 

Regarding Information Consistency

 

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Microsoft to Pay $850 for NetSuite dumpers

Microsoft announced that it would pay $850 to every U.S.-based NetSuite user that switched to one of its Dynamics ERP products, which include Dynamics GP, Dynamics NAV, Dynamics AX and Dynamics SL. The new promotion is available until June 25.

Free collaboration tools available

Here are some tools to collaborate with friends (sharing files, meeting workspace, notes, etc).

http://www.axerosolutions.com/

http://www.zimbra.com/products/product_editions.html

Microsoft Groove

Office Live

Windows 7 - Security or firewall settings might be blocking the connection

Windows 7 Unable to browse Internet / Windows 7 Automatic Updates are disabled

If you have upgraded from XP/Vista and getting the following error, it might be due to your Antivirus firewall. Disable the firewall temporarily and try. If that doesn't work out then try to uninstall and re-install the Win7 version of your antivirus program



The problem occurs with Windows 7 - ESET antivirus and Windows 7 - Norton Internet security.

I tried uninstalling the AV and then re-install - it worked out!

Solution for HP Laptop Black Screen - HP 6500 Series and above

One probable solution for HP Laptop Black Screen is :

1. Remove the Power Cord
2. Remove the Battery
3. Leave the battery idle for sixty minutes
4. Place the battery back
5. Restart the Laptop

Bing Maps Silverlight Control SDK launced

Silverlight MVP Vikram Pendse (http://pendsevikram.blogspot.com) shared the following

Team Silverlight announced availability of Bing Maps Silverlight Control, More here :
http://team.silverlight.net/announcement/announcing-the-bing-maps-silverlight-control/

Its free and worth trying, I tried out this on my Silverlight app and working very smoothly, Even now one can Add Images or Videos and do Overlays on Maps with just few lines of code. This looks much much better than third party Map controls which you might have seen in past for Silverlight by different vendors.

Highlighted features :

· Silverlight 3 including support for Out of Browser

· Road and Aerial (with/without Labels) Map Modes featuring Deep Zoom with the Silverlight MultiScaleImage control

· Position Silverlight UIElements on Map including images, video, pushpins, polylines, & polygons with a few lines of XAML

· Data Binding with the MapItemsControl

· Use Bing Maps Web Services with the control for advanced Search, Geocoding, and Routing functionality

· Design-time integration with Expression Blend

· Scripting interface for coding with JavaScript

· Embed Silverlight Maps with a single URL in a web page

· Online Interactive SDK with demos and sample code showing how to use the control

Windows 7 Application Compatibility

Vijay Raj (MVP) has written a 5 part series on Windows 7 Application Compatibility.

AppCompat is one serious stop point whenever someone wants to move to a new OS (in this case, Windows 7). This series of posts covers information on how the core changes of Windows 7 will affect the Day-to-Day applications. It also covers methods to mitigate these issues from the basic viewpoint of Developers, IT Pros and End-Users.

· Part 1: How do you fix the OS Version Number Issues?

· Part 2: How do you Fix Browser Compatibility Issues?

· Part 3: Demystifying the Windows 7 Virtual XP Mode

· Part 4: Session 0 Isolation and Secure Desktop

· Part 5: Libraries, UAC, WRP and other Core Changes

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Newshound for newsgroup. So it integrates with Outlook