Microsoft releases free ebook: Introducing Microsoft Visual Basic 2005
Get a focused, first look at the features and capabilities in Microsoft Visual Basic 2005, Visual Studio 2005, and the .NET Framework 2.0. If you currently work with Visual Basic 6, these authors fully understand the adoption and code migration issues you'll encounter.
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12.4.2006 Windows 7 RTM Home Basic Screenshot Gallery
Microsoft first confirmed the Stock Keeping Unit strategy for Windows 7 at the start of February 2009, promising a simplified product line-up, as well as a marketing strategy focusing in particular on the Home Premium and Professional editions.
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22.8.2009 Vista Home Basic on 512MB? Hey, it works!
Everyone knows Windows Vista is a resource hog. Everyone says it doesnt even get out of first gear without a gigabyte of RAM, and it takes 2 GB before it stops stuttering and stammering with each mouse click.
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12.5.2007 Enable both Aero and Glass in Vista Home Basic
I'm gonna give u some tips for people who are stuck up with Vista Home Basic
I really never wanted to have the Vista Home Basic. But when i got my Lappy i had no other option, but to stick on with this OEM version.
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28.10.2007 Maximum Hardware Specifications for Small Notebook PC (Netbook) on Windows 7 Starter (and Home Basic in China)
Microsoft has a list of Windows 7 minimum recommended system hardware specification requirement for desktop, notebook, netbook, nettop, laptop computer and tablet PC that intends to run any versions and editions of Windows 7.
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23.7.2009 Vistalizator - Install Multiple Languages MUI on Vista Home, Basic & Starter Edition
Windows Vista Home, Basic and Starter editions are available at low prices compared to Windows Vista Ultimate edition however Vista Home, Basic & Starter editions have many restrictions like support for only one language, No Aero support, no remote desktop etc.
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4.8.2009 Windows Vista Home Basic vs. Home Premium vs. Business vs. Ultimate
Microsoft applauded shipping in excess of 60 million Windows Vista licenses in the operating system's first six months of general availability. However, the Redmond company is right on track to correct this little slip up.
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20.8.2007 MS: Another Patch for cursor patch
Stop 0x0000007F error when you try to print from computers that are running Windows XP or Windows 2000 and that have GDI security update 925902 installed
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20.4.2007 Will Visual Studio ever ship with Windows?
Back in June, a blogger by the name of Jeroen van den Bos posted an article on his blog where he argued that Windows Vista should ship with one of the Visual Studio Express editions installed. van den Bos recalled the days when he could boot up his Commodore 64 and just start programming away.
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13.8.2006 7 Stylish Visual Styles for Windows 7
Windows 7 only hit the store shelves 9 days ago, but, as us geeks got our hands on it much earlier, we already explorered most of the OSincluding the desktop customization aspect of it.
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1.11.2009 Download Windows Live Tools for Visual Studio 2008
Microsoft has made available for download the July 2008 Community Technology Preview of the Windows Live tools for Visual Studio 2008.
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29.7.2008 What Does 'Visual Studio Live' Mean to You?
Microsoft officials asked for ideas for ways to extend its Visual Studio tool suite with add-on services. And ideas they got.
Pair programming and a "live" version of Visual Studio Team System are just two of
the many Visual Studio Live possibilities that Microsoft may be considering. The code name for whatever services end up part of this bundle is Tuscany. Not Visual Studio Tuscany.
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18.1.2006 Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2
The Beta Experience invites you on a journey to discover the new features of Visual Studio 2005. It contains the latest beta versions of Visual Studio 2005 Team System and SQL Server 2005, and provides you with a hands-on comprehensive training project to help you get the most out of Beta 2.
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Visual Studio Gets Database Edition
Microsoft on Wednesday announced a new addition to the Visual Studio 2005 Team System: Team Edition for Database Professionals. The product is designed to promote collaboration when building database driven applications, and is another step on the road to Visual Studio "Orcas."
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1.6.2006 Three Really Cool Vista Visual Tweaks
Andreas Verhoeven has released three really great Windows Vista tweaking applications, designed to improve some of the visual decisions Microsoft made in Vista without much effort on your part.
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4.9.2007 New Security Features in Visual Studio 2005
Visual Studio 2005 makes it easier for developers to write secure applications. Write unmanaged code that's safe, or get IDE tools that help you to build and deploy managed applications that take advantage of Code Access Security. (11 printed pages)
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Pinned: Has Visual Studio 2005 RTMed?
Although I haven't recieved any offical word yet, it seems as if Microsoft has let the RTM news out of the bag by mistake.
On ASP.NET's Atlas website, there is a box labeled "Get Atlas!".
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New Visual Studio, SQL Server Launch
With musical support from Cheap Trick, Microsoft heralded the arrival of Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 at a special "Rock" event in San Francisco Monday. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took the stage looking uncharacteristic in a suit, and even apologized for his formal attire.
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Microsoft Talks Up Visual Studio Future
Microsoft may have just shipped Visual Studio 2005, but the company is already starting to discuss its future plans for the development suite. Service Pack 1 is in the works for next summer, says Visual C# product manager Scott Wiltamuth, and Orcas -- the next VS release -- is being hashed out.
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Visual Studio 2005 Express free
Microsoft have released the Visual Studio 2005 express free. Company brings the power of code to growing community of hobbyist programmers who seek to integrate technology and software into their everyday lives.
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20.4.2006 Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Now Available
Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 continues Microsoft's investment in market leading development tools.
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17.12.2006 Visual Studio 2005 Update for Vista
Microsoft has released a new version of its Visual Studio toolset for Windows Vista development.
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7.3.2007 Visual Task Tips for XP like Vista
Visual Task Tips provides thumbnail preview image for each task in the Windows XP Taskbar.
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25.3.2007 Microsoft christens Visual Studio 2010
Microsoft is naming the next release of its Visual Studio integrated development platform Visual Studio 2010? but that doesnt necessarily mean it wont ship until 2010.
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29.9.2008 Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Beta
This download installs Service Pack 1 Beta for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.
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30.9.2006 Winstep Xtreme 7.1 - Black XP Visual Styles
Thanks to hwh1226 for this download. A powerful, multi-paged desktop replacement, program launcher and document organizer that can be used as an alternative or supplement to the normal Windows desktop.
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18.6.2007 Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 expected as soon as next week
One of the biggest questions at Microsofts TechEd conference this week other than the whereabouts of popular speaker and former Microsoft security expert Steve Riley is where is the beta of Visual Studio 2010.
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14.5.2009 Download the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta
Its the next gen of next-gen applications - Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta
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31.5.2009 Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 RTM will on MSDN within days
Rumors have been flying everywhere that Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 will be RTM (Released to Manufacturing) and on MSDN in a matter of days. Orginally thought to be on MSDN for download on October 14th, the release supposedly got slipped because the final RC build failed a regression test.
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Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Installation Guide
Brief Description - The most current version of the Installation Guide for Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server and Team Explorer.
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18.3.2006Critical remote IE exploit patch due Tuesday
Microsoft is planning to release two out-of-band security patches on July 28, 2009. Officials warned in an advanced security bulletin that the
Internet Explorer vulnerability is critical for Windows XP (IE 6/7/8) and Windows Vista (IE 7/8). It's not yet clear whether Windows 7 is
affected. The issue is marked as critical and as a Remote Code Execution. Microsoft also plans to plug a moderate hole in Visual Studio. Microsoft
Visual Studio .NET 2003, 2005 and 2008 are all affected and it's thought the Visual Studio patch will solve an issue that can affect certain types
of applications.
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25.07.2009Visual Basic 6.0 IDE goes out of support
Jeff Nuckolls: In just 1 week from today, on April 8, 2008, the Visual Basic 6.0 IDE will no longer be supported . If you
haven't converted all your apps to .NET shame on you, but don't freak out ... Microsoft will continue to support the VB 6.0
runtime for all existing application in all the next versions of the Windows OS including Windows Server 2008 and Vista. However; who
knows how many years the runtime will be supported, so you might want to start considering a migration plan, if not for supportability concerns, then
to take advantage of the performance, security, power of the .NET Framework and the productivity of Visual Studio 2008.
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03.04.2008Microsoft Issues Three Critical Patches
Microsoft on Tuesday issued a
patch for an earlier
discovered flaw in Visual
Studio 2005, while yet another
cumulative patch for Internet
Explorer was released, as well
as one for a vulnerability
within the Windows Media
Format...
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13.12.2006Visual Basic Guru Moves to Microsoft's "Oslo" Team
Paul Vick, a principal architect on Visual Basic, is moving over to Microsofts broad software modeling initiative known as Oslo. Vick, who helped
Microsoft deliver its popular VB tool set, will now help produce Oslo, which is expected by some to be as big a deal for Microsoft as .NET.
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01.10.2008Microsoft: 12 fixes to come on Patch Tuesday; 7 Critical
Microsoft is gearing up to release 12 security bulletins Tuesday that will include patches for critical vulnerabilities in Office, Windows, Internet
Explorer, VBScript, JScript and Visual Basic. The updates, which will come in Microsoft's monthly Patch Tuesday release, February 12, 2008.
The critical vulnerabilities all cause remote code execution problems. That means if the flaw is exploited, a hacker could remotely control
the infected machine. The vulnerabilities rated important also cause remote code execution, which generally garners a critical rating.
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08.02.2008Patch Tuesday for December 2008
Microsoft will release another 8 patches this coming Tuesday December 9 to block Remote Code Execution in a number of its own software, including
Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, and Visual Basic. 6 are labeled as critical, and 2 labeled at important. Microsoft will also release an update
of its Malicious Software Removal Tool. This is to be the last release of patches for the 2008 year. This brings the total number of bulletins to 69
for the year end.
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06.12.2008Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 Tools Alpha for Visual Studio 2008
This package is an add-on to the RTM release of Visual Studio 2008 to provide tooling for Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 Alpha. It provides a Silverlight
project system for developing Silverlight applications using C# or Visual Basic. The project system includes:
- Visual Basic and
C# Project templates
- Intellisense and code generators for XAML
- Debugging of Silverlight applications
- Web
reference support
- Integration with Expression Blend
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27.11.2007Patch to a patch of a Microsoft patch needs patching
In the latest incident of a now-chronic problem that has been bugging Microsoft all year, a recent security patch now causes IE6 to crash in Windows
XP...again...
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19.12.2007Visual FoxPro 9.0 Service Pack 2 and "Sedna" Betas Now Available
This download contains the
BETA release for Microsoft
Visual FoxPro 9.0 SP2 and the
"Sedna" add-ons. This
release has two parts:
The Sedna Beta download
contains six components:
VistaDialogs4COM, Upsizing
Wizard, Data Explorer,
NET4COM, MY for VFP and VS
2005 Extension for VFP.
The VFP 9.0 SP2 Beta
download contains a patch that
can be applied to VFP 9.0 or
VFP 9.0 SP1. In addition to
fixes to the core product,
this patch contains
significant enhancements to
the Reporting features.
System Requirements
- Supported Operating
Systems: Windows 2000 Service
Pack 3; Windows 2000 Service
Pack 4; Windows Vista; Windows
XP Service Pack 2
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Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9.0
- Microsoft .NET Framework
2.0
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15.06.2007Next "Patch Tuesday" to include 4 Critical Patches
For this month’s “Patch Tuesday” (September 9th) Microsoft is planning to release 4 critical updates. Being rated
“critical” means that the flaws allow remote code execution and is the highest rating Microsoft gives.
The first 2 patch fixes
vulnerabilities in Windows Media Player and Encoder.
The third patch covers windows, Internet Explorer, Net. Framework, Office, SQL Server
and Visual Studio
The fourth and final patch covers vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office.
September is a quieter month for
Microsoft. In contrast August saw 11 patches being issued.
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05.09.2008Next Microsoft Office will continue to support VBA
It has been the "macro" language for Microsoft Word since Office 97, even while Microsoft has moved Office developers toward .NET. But now
members of the Visual Studio team are saying Visual Basic for Apps isn't going anywhere...
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24.01.20082 More Visual Studio 2008 Virtual Labs
Two more of the hands-on labs from the Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit have been published as MSDN virtual labs. This allows you to can get started
with VS 2008 in a minute and start exploring the new features. The two new labs focus on the language enhancements with C# 3.0 and Visual Basic 9.
Here is a summary of the MSDN virtual labs that are now available:
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06.12.2007Visual Studio 2008 Rhythm Training Virtual PC
The Visual Studio 2008 Rhythm Training VPC contains a pre-configured installation of Windows Server 2003, Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite, and the
Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit. The training kit includes 20 hands-on-labs, 28 presentations, and 20 scripted demos for technologies such as LINQ, C#
3.0, Visual Basic 9, WCF, WF, WPF, ASP.NET Ajax, VSTO, the .NET Compact Framework, and more.
The training kit is installed in the
C:VS2008TrainingKit directory in the Virtual Machine image.
NOTE: This VPC image will expire on March 8, 2008.
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13.12.200712 Security patches from MS
Just one day before
Valentine's Day, Microsoft
plans to release twelve
patches fixing a variety of
issues in Windows, Office,
Visual Studio, and several
other applications. At least
five of these patches will be
rated "critical."
If all patches
were delivered as expected, it
would tie a record for most
patches issued in a single
month. The last time Microsoft
issued this many patches was
in August 2006, when ten
patches fixed Windows issues,
and another two fixed Office
problems.
It is fairly likely that one
of the Office updates will fix
holes now being exploited by a
range of zero-day attacks,
most of which have appeared
since December of last year.
At least four unpatched issues
exist, according to security
researchers.
Most of the patches will
come for Windows -- five in
total - with at least one
being rated "critical." It
is possible that the first
confirmed flaw in Windows
Vista could be fixed, which
involves a memory buffer issue
in the Win32 library.
Of the rest of the
patches, one each is expected
for the following: an
important patch for Windows
and Visual Studio; an
important patch for
Step-by-Step Interactive
Training; a critical patch for
Microsoft Data Access
Components; and a critical
patch concern the company's
OneCare, Antigen, Windows
Defender, and Forefront
security tools.
As is standard
practice, Microsoft has not
released any details of the
issues to be fixed by
Tuesday's release.
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09.02.2007Microsoft Patch Problems
Some Windows 2000 users could
be unprotected even with
recent patch.
Windows users continue to experience problems with Microsoft's latest round of security patches. This time a problem with a critical patch relating to Microsoft's DirectShow streaming media software is leaving some Windows 2000 users unprotected, even after they've installed a patch...
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22.10.2005Microsoft Fixes Another August
Patch
Microsoft released a new
version of its patch intended
to fix a problem in Windows
Server service, saying the
original patch could cause
programs to fail if they
request more than one gigabyte
of contiguous memory...
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19.08.2006Source Code Outliner PowerToy for Visual Studio 2008
The Source Outliner PowerToy is a Visual Studio 2008 extension that provides a tree view of your source code's types and members and lets you quickly
navigate to them with filtering inside the editor.
The Source Code Outliner PowerToy was created as a package using the Visual
Studio SDK for Visual Studio 2008. For more information about VSX, visit the
Visual Studio Extensibility Developer
Center.
The project source code (in both C# and Visual Basic) can be found on the
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26.01.2008Microsoft Fixes Patch Snafus
Microsoft on Monday resolved a
few problems surrounding last
week's Excel-laden Patch
Tuesday, most notably fixing a
problem that prevented a patch
from installing properly on
Windows Server 2003 SP1. The
company is encouraging
administrators to re-run
update checks...
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19.07.2006Critical Windows patch may
wreak PC havoc
A Microsoft patch
meant to fix critical security
flaws in Windows 2000, Windows
XP and Windows Server 2003 is
causing trouble for some
users, the company said
Friday.
Th
e patch was released Tuesday
to fix four Windows flaws,
including one that experts
predict will be exploited by a
worm in the coming days. The
flaw, tagged "critical" by
Microsoft, lies in a Windows
component for transaction
processing called the
Microsoft Distributed
Transaction Coordinator, or
MSDTC.
Installing
the patch can cause serious
problems, Microsoft said in an
advisory posted to its Web
site Friday. The patch could
lock users out of their PC,
prevent the Windows Firewall
from starting, block certain
applications from running or
installing, and empty the
network connections folder,
among other things, the
software maker said. ..
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16.10.2005Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9.0 Service Pack 2 Available
Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9.0. SP2 provides the latest updates to Visual FoxPro 9.0, including fixes to customer reported issues. The
bug fix list for SP2 can be viewed or downloaded from this page.
System Requirements
- Supported Operating Systems:
Windows 2000 Service Pack 4; Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2; Windows Vista; Windows XP Service Pack 2
Requires either:
- Visual FoxPro 9.0, or
- Visual FoxPro 9.0 SP1
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