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May 16th, 2008

Now Chat with Live Contacts in Yahoo! Mail

I just noticed when I logged into my AT&T U-verse e-mail account that I can now chat with Windows Live contacts from within Yahoo! Mail.
I thought this was a nice feature, and even interesting that it has been worked on and released within such close time frame to the hostile takeover bid by […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

May 14th, 2008

Disappearing Web User Control in Design View

My boss experienced an weird problem with his installation of Visual Web Developer Express 2008.
When he tried to view a web user control page in the design mode the application only displayed a blank white page. If he clicked on the “Source” view, all the code was there that was expected. Combing through the […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

May 7th, 2008

Here’s a New Feature Request in Visual Web Developer Express 2008

I made the “professional” switch over to ASP.NET development awhile back and began using Visual Web Developer Express (VWDE) for all my business clients with the day job. I’ve still kept Dreamweaver 8 installed though because I have a few clients that still use it so it’s nice to be able to open and view […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

April 14th, 2008

Outlook Very Unstable This Morning

For some reason Outlook continues to crash on me this morning. Not sure what it is that’s causing it, trying to pay attention now to what actions I’m taking each time leading up to the crash.
I also can’t get my Printers folder to open up and display my printers today. Wondering if the two items […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

April 10th, 2008

Windows Server 2008 - Paul Hacker presentation

I’m currently attending an IndyNDA event, a local .NET developer’s group meeting in Indianapolis. The speaker, Paul Hacker is talking about Windows Server 2008.
Initial benefits he’s talking about is:

less involved (babysitting) on the install
no features enabled by default (allowing complete development and customization at the point of install)
new server management […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

April 7th, 2008

What is Microsoft "Albany"

Has anyone else been hearing information about a new product entering beta (or is it alpha) testing?
A recent article by Mary Jo Foley shared a few different options of what it could be:

the latest version of Microsoft Works that may or may not be advertisement funded
a new package of “Authoring” components that would include Word, […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

April 7th, 2008

Microsoft Heard My Computer Crying Out for SP3

Weird! Was just messing around the Microsoft Downloads website and clicked on the Windows Update website.
Let it do a custom search and guess what it suggested?

That seems weird that I just got prompted with this after blogging about wondering where it went in my previous post. Is My Computer reading my posts via Windows […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

April 7th, 2008

What Happened to Windows XP SP3

What ever happened to Windows XP SP3? I was thinking it was going to be available already. I just did a search for it to see about updating my system and the download link wasn’t available on the Microsoft Download Center page. The only thing that’s available is the overview documents.
Paul Thurrott has given a […]

By Jason Bean -- 3 comments

April 3rd, 2008

Heroes Happen Here Event in Indianapolis

Today I’m attending the Microsoft Heroes Happen Here event in downtown Indianapolis. I’m attending as part of the developer track and the session I’m in is being led by Patrick Foley, ISV Software Architect Evangelist for Microsoft.
He’s briefly running through the “wave” of applications that are currently released and in the pipeline for future […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

March 28th, 2008

Office 2007 Service Pack 1 Update Failures Continue

Okay, I’m really getting more and more irritated that this update is not working. I’ve tried everything that’s been mentioned by people in comments. I’ve also researched Microsoft’s Knowledge Base articles to look for solutions as well.
Today, again… I tried to download and install the update manually. First I downloaded the 218MB Office 2007 SP1 […]

By Jason Bean -- 5 comments

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