Cosmin's Hooking testify

cool, new  sessions revealed –  http://blogs.msdn.com/pdc/

Future Directions for Visual Basic, and see why Visual C++ 10 is the New 6. But wait…there’s more! See how the next version of Visual Studio adds even more support for agile development and get a first look at the new UML designers in Visual Studio Team System. 

and don’t forget some tips

3.  Taxis are cheaper than renting a car 
4. Don't miss the keynote
5. Go early for breakfast
6. Take advantage of MS provided session planning tools (coming online in the next month)
7. Take a laptop - but don't break it out in a session
8. Have fun… it’s a great experience!more details on http://zachbonham.blogspot.com/2008/06/microsoft-pdc-2008-tips.html

You think some things will never end...you think your parents will live forever, that a relationship will never fade, that you have all the time in the world. And then reality hits. On 27.06.2008 that reality hit  again when Bill Gates officially ended his 33 year full-time job at Microsoft.

I grow learning in school on Commodore computers and few years later in High School using the first x86 with DOS and first 286 with Windows 3.1 then  I realized where DOS and Windows came from - this company called Microsoft. And that Bill Gates ran it. I became even more fascinated with computing, seeing what plans they had. Dealings with IBM, this new graphical interface that let you manipulate stuff as little pictures, making it easy for my mom to create docs and pictures, eventually OS/2 and Windows 3. This Gates guy seemed so incredibly smart and forward thinking. But back then I knew that something big was happening, Microsoft was at the center of it, and I wanted to be part of it.

My goal in life from that point was to work and get closer to Microsoft. I considered him then, and still do now, a visionary.

funny Bill end movie : http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25408326?GT1=43001

and some funny Impressions about working with

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Dan/Favorite-Bill-Gates-Stories/

Live Writer – new tech preview release available for download

The Windows Live Writer team released a new tech preview earlier this week.  Here are some of the new features in this release:

Video and Image Publishing Enhancements

• Upload videos to Soapbox
• Image cropping and tilting
• Additional border styles
• Support for LightBox and other image previewing effects (like Slimbox, Smoothbox, and others)
• Support for centering images

Editing Enhancements

• Auto Linking
• Smart quotes/typographic characters
• Word count

UI Improvements

• Revised main toolbar
• Tabs for view switching
• Improved category control with search/filtering

Get it @ http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/0/9/809604cd-bd08-42c8-b590-49c332059e64/writer.msi.  See the WLW team blog at http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/.

Shortly after public update over windows update service of XP SP3, MS product Teams release an new series of SP1, with quite nice useful features and fixes.

Virtual PC 2007 Sp1 Product Version: 6.0.192.0  Additions version for this build: 13.820

What is available in this release?

This release provides support for the following additional Host and Guest OS’es

Host                                             Guest (only 32 bit)

Windows Vista SP1 (32 and 64 bit)   Windows 2008 (Standard), Windows Vista SP1

  XP SP3                                        XP SP3

For more information, see the Release Notes at:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9f3d3eb5-5e03-4712-999c-e96f91bdf128&displaylang=en

The Virtual PC website will be updated shortly with this release information at:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx

Virtual server 2005 R2 Sp1 update with Server 2008 support!

This update provides support for the following additional Host and Guest OS’es with KB948515.msp

Host                                                          Guest

Windows 2008 (Core, Standard, Datacenter, Enterprise, SBS)  Windows 2008 (Core, Standard, Datacenter, Enterprise, SBS)

XP Professional SP3 (non-production only)               XP SP3

Windows Vista SP1 (non-production only)                Windows Vista SP1

(Business, Ultimate, Enterprise)                     (Business, Ultimate, Enterprise)

After installing the update:   Product Version: 1.1.629.0   Additions Version: 13.820

KB948515.msp update to Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 is now available at:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a79bcf9b-59f7-480b-a4b8-fb56f42e3348&displaylang=en

For more information about the software update and the fixes made in this release, see the KB article at:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948515

This is great!  I'm impressed that it will run on Server 2008 core, I'll need to try that one out.  I agree that Hyper-V will RTM soon, but it's nice to have options. 

is an new version of WinDBG (Version 6.9.3.113) released with some improvements regarding symbols server support some other usefull commands check this out here http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/whatsnew.mspx .

and is a windows debugger extension open project on codeplex, quite interesting stuff you have to use  the DDK build to compile, but it works, and the team have an blog too, quite interesting stuff up there http://blogs.msdn.com/ntdebugging/

Also an quite interesting topic regarding debugging large and complex applications posted by one of the Phoenix compiler team member on VC Blog, basic is how to use the /RTC compiler flag for run time error checks. This can help you find places where there is unintended data loss, finds usage of uninitialized variables, detects overruns and underruns, stack pointer corruption and stack corruption.

You can find more information about this at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8wtf2dfz(VS.80).aspx