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

good RSS reader? good newsgroup reader?

Newshound for newsgroup. So it integrates with Outlook

Microsoft Unified Communication User Group – India

It is our great pleasure to announce the formation of Microsoft Unified Communications - User Group, India. “Microsoft Unified Communication User Group – India” is an independent group is focussed on encouraging communication between IT Professionals motivated by self-interest in Microsoft Unified Communication products like…


* Microsoft Exchange Server
* Microsoft Office Communication Server (OCS)
* SharePoint Server (MOSS & WSS)

We understand the value of networking & knowledge transfer and would like to take opportunity to assist and inspire all Unified Communication IT Professionals through this platform. This User Group is designed as an Information Resource where Unified Communication Professionals can find:

* Articles,
* How-To(s),
* Technical Videos,
* Unified Communication Industry News,
* Forums (to discuss technical things),
* New Product features and
* Product understanding.
Though this User Group is based out of India, there will be no regional boundaries as “Microsoft Unified Communication User Group – India” will host Virtual Monthly Meetings regularly and occasional In-person Events to increase the awareness of Microsoft Unified Communication products. We will also host guest speakers comprising of Experts in the Unified Communications space.

Visit Us @ http://muc-ug.org.in

Register @ http://muc-ug.org.in/index.php/join-us.html


Invite Friends @ http://www.muc-ug.org.in/index.php/invite-friends.html



RSS Feeds

MUC-UG.org.in @ http://feeds.feedburner.com/muc-ug

News @ http://feeds.feedburner..com/muc-ug-news

Events @ http://feeds.feedburner.com/muc-ug-events
Articles & How-Tos @ http://feeds.feedburner.com/muc-ug-articles-howtos

A very Warm Welcome to you and other experts, we would be happy to have your participation in the User Group.

We sincerely request you to please promote the MUC-UG, India - in your communitues and blogs :-) !

Warm Regards,

Amit Tank & Nitin Gupta

Exchange MVP (s)

Founder @ MUC-UG, India




MUC-UG Website: http://www.muc-ug.org.in


Nitin Gupta's Blog: http://www.nitingupta.in/blogs

Amit Tank's Blog: http://exchangeshare.wordpress.com

How to know the support lifecycle of a Microsoft Product

Microsoft releases products every day ! If you are using some MS product and want to know if it is still supported by Microsoft, please check the following link


http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifeselectindex

It provides a comprehensive list of products and the retirals

Support for Visual Basic 6.0

Products Released General Availability Date Mainstream Support Retired Extended Support Retired Service Pack Retired Notes Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise Edition 1/27/1999 3/31/2005 4/8/2008 Visual Basic 6.0 Standard Edition 1/27/1999 3/31/2005 4/8/2008

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