As reported in http://blogs.msdn.com/willy-peter_schaub/archive/2009/02/19/tla-why-why-why.aspx I, for one, am battling with acronyms and TLAs (three lettered acronyms). Thanks to a colleague who pointed me to a site within Microsoft I finally have a chance to decode some of the conversations I am party to. What did catch my eye today were the following acronyms and their [...]

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Did you know that we’ve been working on the development of a new MVP member site? There are two Side Sessions you should consider attending. In these sessions you’ll learn about how we’re using contemporary design and development methodologies to build a new system which is based on feedback from users, system, and program administrators.
In [...]

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I thought everyone who wants to know how to put the windows events or IIS Logs to SQL already know about it. But for my amazement it is not the case. Quick search on the web did not turned up a short tutorial. So how to move my window events to SQL? Here it is
 
Install [...]

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最近我在准备我的有关瘦客户机的网络广播时，意外地发现了不少我们产品的技术文章已被译成中文。我就索性花了点时间，把个中文MSDN翻了个底朝天，搜集了所有相关的文章。然后略作了整理，分享给大家。也许有些文章有点陈旧，但可能对入门还是会有所帮助。
 
概略介绍
Windows XP Embedded 体系结构基础
了解 Windows NT Embedded 和 Windows XP Embedded
Windows XP Embedded with Service Pack 2 简介
Microsoft Windows XP Embedded 技术常见问题
生成可靠的 Windows XP Embedded 平台
 
组件化
为 Windows XP Embedded 创建自定义组件
 
语言支持
Windows XP Embedded 语言支持概述
在 Windows XP Embedded 中进行远程调试、本地化以及全球化
在 Windows XP Embedded 映像中添加多种语言支持
 
嵌入式功能
卸除 Hibernate Once/Resume Many 配置中的卷
通过使用 Enhanced Write Filter 和 Device Update Agent 更新现场设备
 
设备管理
使用 Windows PE [...]

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What happens when you invite a user using their work email address and they have a separate Windows Live ID? The user will receive the invitation and click on the link to accept and be directed to the CRM Online sign-in page. If the user attempts to enter an existing Windows Live ID and not [...]

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Here is a sample which shows how to use the connection of the Exchange Service Binding to do a POST to EWS using an XML string.   
 
 
// Sample calling code:
private void cmdExecute_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    string sRequest = string.Empty;
 
    bool bRet = false;
    
    string sResponse = string.Empty;
 
    bRet = EwsHelper.DoSoapRequest(
                sURL,
                oExchangeServiceBinding.Credentials,
                sRequestXml,
                [...]

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This is a quick sample script that will determine if a computer running on a 32-bit operating system will support a 64-bit operating system. 

$strComputerName = “.”$strCpuArchitecture = “”$strCurrentAddressWidth = “”$strSupportableAddressWidth = “”
$objWmi = Get-WmiObject -class “Win32_Processor” -namespace “root\cimV2″
$strCurrentAddressWidth = $objWmi.AddressWidth$strSupportableAddressWidth = $objWmi.DataWidth
switch ($objWmi.Architecture){  0 {$strCpuArchitecture = “x86″}  1 {$strCpuArchitecture = “MIPS”}  2 {$strCpuArchitecture = “Alpha”}  3 [...]

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I hope that wasn’t too much of a tease.  No, I don’ t have people in high places or any clout to pull strings; however, I did catch wind today of a recent post to the Windows 7 team blog.  To call it a ‘post’ does it an injustice though.
Chaitanya Sareen does a great run [...]

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    We just got done with our webcast on how to get a developer job in the current economy and it was a huge success!  You can check it out more info here: http://blogs.msdn.com/zainnab/archive/2009/02/27/msdn-webcast-getting-a-development-job-in-the-current-economy-level-100.aspx   I wanted to extend an extra special thanks to Amber Weiss and Jay Freeman from BravoTech for taking part [...]

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Microsoft Research launched a new research organization called Cloud Computing Futures, focused on reducing the power use, operational costs, and environmental impacts of data centers. The new initiative is working to improve the efficiency of the scalable computing hardware and software infrastructure needed to deliver cloud services. For more information, Microsoft Research posted an interview [...]

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