Date: 09/13/06 (Security)    Keywords: microsoft

Microsoft issues a third version of a troubled Internet Explorer patch to fix a bug in an earlier update.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6115275.html

Date: 09/14/06 (Security)    Keywords: technology, microsoft

New technology in Windows Vista can bring down access management barriers, according to Microsoft.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6115527.html

Date: 09/15/06 (Security)    Keywords: browser, web, microsoft

Code that exploits a serious, yet-to-be-patched hole in Microsoft's Web browser has been posted on the Net.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6115966.html

Date: 09/15/06 (C Sharp)    Keywords: software, html, asp, microsoft

The public beta version of the best profiler for .NET applications was released today.

You can download it and and try out here: http://www.jetbrains.com/profiler/beta.html. The download includes a full-functionality license that will allow you to use the software until October 31, 2006.

The most important new feature in dotTrace 2.0 beta is Memory Profiling. Now you can see what happens with the memory used by your .NET applications to optimize how your app uses memory. You can capture snapshots of memory to analyze in nine informative views, each tuned to a specific aspect of memory usage. You can also take a snapshot of the application’s memory state at two key points to compare them and locate memory leaks.

Notable enhancements in performance profiling include "Quick Info" for any function, the ability to compare performance snapshots of the same application, new filtering options and collapsing recursive calls. Among other useful features and improvements are the integration with Microsoft Visual Studio and the ability to profile Windows services.

Information on new features is available at http://www.jetbrains.com/profiler/features/newfeatures.html.

We think you’ll find that dotTrace 2.0 is now a comprehensive and robust profiling solution for .NET applications that stands up to the most demanding profiling requirements. Give it a try and let us know what you think!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/csharp/75876.html

Date: 09/15/06 (Security)    Keywords: web, microsoft

Pledge not to sue over Web services patents reflects the spread of the collaborative development model--as far as Microsoft, even.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6115914.html

Date: 09/15/06 (Security)    Keywords: software, security, microsoft

Maker of software for construction companies wants Microsoft to pick a different name for its business security software.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6116339.html

Date: 09/18/06 (Code WTF)    Keywords: microsoft

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// 1997 Microsoft Systems Journal
// If this code works, it was written by Paul DiLascia.
// If not, I don't know who wrote it.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/code_wtf/52084.html

Date: 09/18/06 (Security)    Keywords: security, microsoft

As the slippery due date draws near for the Windows release, Microsoft and the EU are now at odds over security features.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6116354.html

Date: 09/18/06 (Security)    Keywords: asp, security, microsoft

A senior security expert at the networking giant says that aspects of Microsoft's new operating system are worrying.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6116823.html

Date: 09/20/06 (Security)    Keywords: software, microsoft

Joint offering aims to deliver Dell hardware with Symantec software to protect Microsoft Exchange-based systems.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6117467.html

Date: 09/21/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: browser, security, web, microsoft

Q&A Window Snyder, formerly of Microsoft, now heads up security at Mozilla, the company best known for its open-source Firefox Web browser.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6118060.html

Date: 09/22/06 (Security)    Keywords: browser, microsoft

Third-party fix plugs a Microsoft browser hole that's increasingly being exploited in cyberattacks.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6118672.html

Date: 09/26/06 (C Sharp)    Keywords: web, microsoft, google

...my brain has decided that it can't remember what a circle is. Worse yet, the internet has no definition for "circle," or else my ability to use google search has terribly degraded.

Two intensely, incredibly stupid questions, for which I apologize profusely before we even begin. Both refer to a winform* I have to rebuild thanks to an executive-level decision to change the structure of its underlying table. This winform has a large number of databound controls, all of which tie to one bindingsource and its tableadapter. (This, BTW, is in VS 2005 Standard.)

* i.e., "winform" as opposed to "webform".

1. Two of the controls ar DateTimePickers, dtpEffective and dtpExpiration. All of the other simple controls are changing every time the value of the "main" control (cboName) is changed, but I cannot for the life of me figure out the correct property to set to get the DTPs to change from their default values of '1/1/1900' and '[insert current date here]'. Presently, both Text and Value are set to be bound to the table column that contains the date in question; I have tried it with just Text and just Value bound, and have gotten similar results with each of those options. What's the obvious binding I'm missing to get the DTPs to change with everything else?

2. One of the simple controls is txtID (not surprisingly, a text box containing an ID number). The complex control-- there's only one-- is a datagridview, dgRates. At present, dgRates vomits up the entire CombinedRateData table when the form runs. This makes sense, because I have not incorporated a WHERE clause into the Fill() query. Here's brainfart #2: I can't remember how to turn "txtID.Text" into a parameter that the query will understand, because I am entirely too sleepy, and every time I search for this on the web, I end up back at Microsoft's "How to create a master/detail form using two datagridviews" walkthrough. (Which is cool, but not applicable.)

Thank you, and again, you have my humble apologies for consulting you on such trivial matters. My brain has just decided to switch itself off this afternoon, and I can't kick it back into gear.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/csharp/76120.html

Date: 09/27/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web, microsoft

Microsoft's Web portal strikes deal to stream performances at 36 live events. Online viewers will see them for free.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6120026.html

Date: 09/27/06 (Security)    Keywords: software, security, spyware, microsoft

Security rival says Microsoft is withholding spyware APIs for Windows update, but software giant denies it.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6120219.html

Date: 09/28/06 (Security)    Keywords: security, microsoft

With Netscape's fate in mind, small European security firms are trying to gauge Microsoft's impact on their business.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6120476.html

Date: 09/29/06 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: microsoft

Let's start listing the stuff that Vista RC1 did to you while you're trying to test it.

What did it do to me today:

-In the middle of playing a media file on Media Player Classic, the monitor went on suspend (with the sound still playing of course...) and when I got it out of suspension the OS basically went BUCKING BRONCO on me (that's the best description I could come up with, what with the screen going nuts) until the program went into some kind of zombie state where it was still "playing" the file while I frantically tried to stop the program.

Methinks that it'll be RC5 until Microsoft get this schizoid thing working properly

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/984742.html

Date: 09/29/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: yahoo, microsoft

Yahoo to become default search in Microsoft IE7 for HP machines; users also will see co-branded Yahoo/HP toolbar.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6121121.html

Date: 09/29/06 (Security)    Keywords: microsoft

Sample code that exploits a yet-to-be-fixed Windows flaw is circulating. Microsoft plans to deal with it on the next Patch Tuesday.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6121236.html

Date: 09/29/06 (Open Source)    Keywords: microsoft

For over a decade I've been hearing the same hype. The way to IT productivity is to build applications out of components. For a time, the building of component models (like Microsoft's DCOM) was one of the computer media's best spectator sports. But has open source simply replaced the component model with simple instances? That's what Mark [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=800