MSDN BlogsThe Blogs of MSDNCash Funds for Maryland Based Government Contractors under 100 employees- September 17, 2008 I had lunch today with Butch Zachrel, a friend and colleague.&160; Butch is a Business Development Director with RSM McGladrey.&160; He shared a pretty interested opportunity with me that I think more companies should know about.&160; The State of Maryland is awarding funding to any technology or manufacturing company less than 100 employees - basically you can get 50% of your expenses back up to a certain level when you deploy new technology and have training associated with it.&160; Visit the.http://blogs.msdn.com/govcon/archive/2008/09/16/cash-funds-for-maryland-based-government-c... Save the Date - 2nd Annual Microsoft Government Contractor Summit!- September 17, 2008 On December 11th, Microsoft will be holding a full day event geared to help Government contractors capture more business and manage financial growth. The event will be held at the Fairview Park Marriott, Fairfax, VA. Hear from Industry Experts, C-Suite Executives of Fast Growing Organizations, and key partners who are vested in your success. Check back at this site to see the Final Agenda posted on October 15, 2008. To reserve your seat at this exclusive event, please register today!http://blogs.msdn.com/govcon/archive/2008/09/16/save-the-date-2nd-annual-microsoft-governm... DeepZoom for Powerpoint : pptPlex- September 17, 2008 That tool refresh the way I'm using Powerpoint for my presentations. So awesome to use some DeepZoom capabilities. Now, on top of creating your slides, you can focus on the big picture (i.e. the main value of your message) and create a zoomable canvas from where you can zoom to your slides. Here is the link to download pptPlex . More information at: http:www.officelabs.comprojectspptPlexPagesdefault.aspx...(read more)http://blogs.msdn.com/dannawi/archive/2008/09/17/deepzoom-for-powerpoint-pptplex.aspx Outlook Error : There is not enough memory to perform the operation- September 16, 2008 When one my customer tried to add a Global Address Book entry to the Contacts folder, the contact is not added. She received the following error message: There is not enough memory to perform the operation. This problem may occur if the size of the certificate data exceeds 32,768 bytes (32 KB). Follow the following steps to resolve the issue: To resolve this problem, apply hotfix 948075. Then, add the StripCertsNotValidForMail value to the registry to enable the hotfix. For more detailed...http://blogs.msdn.com/deva/archive/2008/09/17/outlook-error-there-is-not-enough-memory-to-... Windows SDK components missing from VS 2008- September 16, 2008 A couple of developers have written asking why the Windows SDK components that were expected to install with Visual Studio 2008 were missing after Visual Studio installed.&160; The Windows SDK installs several version 6.0a components whenever Visual Studio is installed: Windows headers are installed by default to Program FilesMicrosoft SDKsWindowsv6.0Ainclude Windows libraries are installed by default to Program FilesMicrosoft SDKsWindowsv6.0Alib Windows and .NET Framework tools are...http://blogs.msdn.com/karinm/archive/2008/09/17/windows-sdk-components-missing-from-vs-200... VSX Dev Con - Day 2- September 16, 2008 Another great day at our VSX Dev Conference today. Our marketing directory Joe Marini kicked things off this morning with a great talk about how to start getting into the business of marketing and selling your extensions. The rest of the day was jammed packed with other great talks and we're now ending the day with some of our VSX Insiders and VSIP partners demo'ing some of the cool extensions they built on top of Visual Studio. The slide decks for all the talks are now available...http://blogs.msdn.com/quanto/archive/2008/09/16/vsx-dev-con-day-2.aspx Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 - Tech.Ed NZ and Roadshow Videos- September 16, 2008 Hi All, We were very lucky to have Matt Heller down from the US to talk at Tech.Ed and join us on a road show across the country to raise awareness, educate, discuss features, functionality and answer questions. Matt Heller works with the Windows Product Management group in Redmond, Washington, USA.&160; Matt has been working with Microsoft for more than 3 years on a range of products including Internet Explorer, Windows Vista and Windows CardSpace.&160; Matt is currently working on...http://blogs.msdn.com/nickmac/archive/2008/09/17/internet-explorer-8-beta-2-tech-ed-nz-and... XAML Power Toys v2 Released- September 16, 2008 Karl Shifflett of the Cider team has released v2 of his XAML Power Toys, that enable developers to quickly layout and maintain Line of Business Application forms.&160; Five great videos get you up and running with this Visual Studio add-in. Check out all the details and downloads on the ever useful blog, Karl on WPF . Features Create Business Form For Class Create Business Form Show Fields List For Class Group Into Border, StackPanel, WrapPanel, etc. Remove Designer XAML Remove All Margins...http://blogs.msdn.com/karinm/archive/2008/09/16/xaml-power-toys-v2-released.aspx Conference Showcases Business Intelligence- September 16, 2008 We invite you to join us for the second annual Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference 2008, which will showcase market-leading Microsoft business intelligence (BI) products, solution expertise, and customer successes. The conference will be held from October 68 at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center in downtown Seattle. Space is limited, so register today. The conference is designed to educate you on every aspect of the Microsoft BI offering with over 100 technical and...http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2008/09/16/conrference-showcases-business-intelligen... Obfuscate your code- September 16, 2008 Obfuscation is widely used to protect your code from reverse engineering.Here is one example which takes advantage of indirected call and opcode overlap in X86: __declspec(naked)void Fun1() __asm obfuscation chunk call LABEL1LABEL1: pop eax add eax,...http://blogs.msdn.com/xiangfan/archive/2008/09/16/obfuscate-your-code.aspx |