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Saturday, February 23, 2008 3:54 PM

Make your application speak

.NET Framework 2.0 simplified the way of playing audio files from desktop applications. .NET Framework 3.0 takes this one step further by introducing the speech API, residing in the System.Speech namespace (it's basically a wrapper around Microsoft SAPI
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007 12:20 AM

New Vista Ultimate language packs released

Microsoft released 19 additional language packs for Windows Vista Ultimate, Slovenian being one of them. [And they say there's no Ultimate Extras... :)] Via Windows Vista Ultimate .
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Thursday, March 29, 2007 3:42 PM

Alt-Tab flipping in Windows Vista

When running Windows Vista on a non-graphic-capable PC [not having at least DirectX 9 capable graphics processor], you lose the comfort of enjoying eye-candy features like Aero Glass , Flip 3D [Win-Tab switching] and graphically enhanced Windows Flip
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Friday, March 23, 2007 2:26 AM

Slovenian Windows Vista

Microsoft Slovenia announced general availability of Slovenian Windows Vista ... TV commercial, accompanying this important local release, is one of the cleverest I've seen lately...
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007 6:20 AM

No more excuses...

... for not running Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista. Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista is available for download. Remember to uninstall the Beta before installing this release version. And if you've installed SQL2005 SP2
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Sunday, March 04, 2007 11:52 AM

Smarter Client Development with Visual Studio "Orcas"

This series of posts will follow my exploration in forthcoming Visual Studio "Orcas" features, focusing on developing Smart(er) Clients, or, as the above title permits, smarter developing of (desktop) clients. I'll begin the series with my "Orcas" installation
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007 3:28 PM

Adobe Acrobat 8 on Vista

Looks like quite a few "big" applications still have issues with Windows Vista OS. "Problems Reports and Solutions" Vista feature just notified me today about Adobe Acrobate Reader constant crashing, and reported that there's a
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Tuesday, January 23, 2007 3:25 PM

NX7010 SD Card Reader under Vista

Starting with my new life role , I finally found some use for the SD Card reader on my HP NX7010 notebook. Digital baby photos can take up a lot of memory space and soon you find yourself copying them everywhere... one of those locations being my Garmin
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Friday, December 15, 2006 5:45 AM

VS2005 SP1 - uninstalling the Beta

If you're going to install Visual Studio 2005 SP1 on a machine, running the Beta version of the same service pack (VS2005 SP1 Beta), you'll have to uninstall that first, otherwise this nasty message will prevent you from installing the release
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Friday, December 15, 2006 2:58 AM

VS2005 SP1 is ready

Yes, it's finally out. Visit the official SP1 web page and download your updates. If you're working on Windows Vista, there's another update in the making - "Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Update for Windows Vista" - it's currently still
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Thursday, December 14, 2006 1:52 AM

Slovenia has Euro in Windows Vista already

Haven't noticed this until today, but it seems like the default currency for Slovenia has been set to Euro in Windows Vista RTM. Now, we're about to change our Slovenian Tolar (SIT) to Euro in about two weeks (1.1.2007) and we're still using Tolars at
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Sunday, December 10, 2006 2:41 PM

OpenSearch Vista Sidebar Gadget

My first Windows Sidebar Gadget started as a tool to support searching through Anthology ICE . About a month later, this tool developed into a general OpenSearch gadget, capable of querying any search engine that supports OpenSearch specification. So,
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Friday, November 03, 2006 1:59 AM

Less than a month to Windows Vista and Office 2007?

Looks like we're finally getting there - Windows Vista and Office 2007 will be made available to business on November 30th, while home users will have to wait till public release in January. I'm running Vista RC2 on my laptop and Windows XP + IE7 (final
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Monday, September 04, 2006 12:42 AM

Installing Windows Vista on NX7010 - blank screen

I'm receiving quite a few question about installing Windows Vista on HP NX7010 notebook, mainly because of the Radeon 9200 video driver issue, causing the notebook's screen go blank towards the end of installation - by default, Microsoft's
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Thursday, August 31, 2006 12:28 AM

Smart, meet beautiful

"Smart, meet beautiful" - this is the message you're greeted with towards the end of Microsoft Vista Pre-RC1 installation. And yes, Vista continues to look better with each new build [but I'm hardly getting any smarter...]. The latest
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