On April the 26th, Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen (MDCC), opens the doors for students! Come and get information about MDCC, what it takes to work there, win an Xbox 360 with Kinect and get an internship or a job offer! The following is extracted from the facebook eventDo you speak code? And do you want to find out if you have what it takes to be part of a team that defines the frontline of world-class software development? Internships, student and graduate positions are at stake, so ...
Today the Servicepack 1 of Visual Studio 2010 was released to MSDN subscribers!The servicepack contains several changes based on the feedback collected via Microsoft Connect including several performance tweaks and the ability to change hardware accelerated graphics for the IDE.Of more interesting changes, the servicepack also includes IIS Express A lite version of IIS, running under Windows XP through Windows 7, without requiring Administrator priviligdes and seamlessly integrate the core ...
Yesterday Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 was released for MSDN and Technet members. But! It has a serious consequence. If you are running SP1 RC/Beta on your Hyper-V server (hosting VM''s, using Dynamic Memmory Allocation), you must first disable the dynamic memory, since the VM''s will be removed from Hyper-V when you uninstall SP1 RC/Beta! Luckily the hdd files are still present on the system and thus you can just recreate the virtual machines, and add the old hdds ...
In the middle of January, Google announced they would focus on supporting their own webM video codec, and through this removing the support of H.264. Microsoft Interoperability has released plugins both for Firefox and now also for Chrome, which takes advantage of WMP in Windows 7, when playing H.264 encoded video. The 2 plugins are of course 100% free to download from the following links: WMP extension for Chrome WMP Firefox Plugin ...
Developing C++ applications, which are in the void between the .net platform and the good old trusty Win32 API is a scary place to go, if you havent been there before.. Especially because of the lack of intellisense in Visual Studio 2010 (though a promise was made it would appear "soon after release"; we are still waiting!)!However its also a void which you sometimes have to visit, to get the best of 2 worlds, bound together.Fortunately the wisy folks over at Whole Tomato Software ...
Finally Internet Explorer 9 has entered its public beta stage! In the last half year, Microsoft have released several technical previews but finally we get the entire package. The new browser is much faster than its predecessors and contains several technical improvements, including HTML5 support with H.264! The IE 9 beta can be installed on 32 and 64 bits versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7. You can grab the beta here ...
