As announced earlier this week during the Tech•Ed 2008 Keynote - Silverlight 2.0 Beta 2 has been released. Tech•Ed 2008 for Developers is taking place in Orlando this week with Tech•Ed 2008 for IT Professionals starting next week. Check out the Virtual Press Room for Tech•Ed 2008 for the latest announcements.

On top of today's Silverlight 2.0 Beta 2 release comes two new releases also worth taking note of: Expression Blend 2.5 June 2008 CTP and an updated build of Deep Zoom Composer for Silverlight 2.0 Beta 2 support.

Because of updates made in Silverlight 2.0 Beta 2, I needed to install the updated build of Deep Zoom Composer and re-publish my Space Needle Deep Zoom Collection to take full advantage of today's Silverlight 2.0 Beta 2 release.

Download: Deep Zoom Composer June 2008 Release (Version 0.9.0.3)

Download: Expression Blend 2.5 June 2008 CTP

With the new build of Deep Zoom Composer - I was able to choose between JPEG and PNG for the format of my photos within my Deep Zoom Collection. In my updated Space Needle Deep Zoom Collection I went with PNG. However, when you choose JPEG you can set the quality of the JPEG images which is really nice. Another new feature in the new Deep Zoom Composer is the ability to tag images within your Deep Zoom Collection. Apparently there is a way to add sorting by tags for Deep Zoom Collections but this process is fairly code-intensive and I'm not really sure just how to do that - yet.

Deep Zoom Collection*: Top of Space Needle in Seattle, WA (UPDATED)

* Silverlight 2.0 Beta 2 is required to view Deep Zoom Collections. If you don't have Silverlight 2.0 Beta 2 installed, it will ask you to install it to view the Deep Zoom Collection.

Using the Expression Blend 2.5 June 2008 CTP release I was able to change some of the formatting of my Deep Zoom Collection such as changing the background and the size of the actual Deep Zoom area. Expression Blend 2.5 can open Deep Zoom Projects created by Deem Zoom Composer - allowing for more advanced control over the project.

I plan to have my second Deep Zoom Collection published shortly - and to be quite a bit bigger than my Space Needle Doom Zoom Collection.

Have you created a Doom Zoom Collection? Leave a comment with a link to your Deep Zoom Collection!

Not Silverlight 2.0 Beta 2 related - but still Silverlight related - check out the trailer to the upcoming new X-Files move X-Files: I Want to Believe in Silverlight! Thanks Barack for the heads up.

Some programmers are asking why their Restore Point Creator Program written in Vb.Net/C# doesn’t work in Windows Vista. It will not work because of UAC. To run the program, you must open or launched it as administrator.

The same way with VB Script programming in Windows Vista. I wrote a simple alternative way to launch scripts as Administrator.

Here:

If WScript.Arguments.Count > 0 Then   ‘Your VB Script CODE here Else   Set objLaunch = CreateObject("Shell.Application")   objLaunch.ShellExecute "wscript.exe", Chr(34) & WScript.ScriptFullName & Chr(34) & " RunAsAdmin", , "runas", 1 End If

It will elevate the script before launching your code.

Easy? Enjoy!

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From the usual buying all the way to the upgrading of certain parts of your computer, you just have to wonder at what point you will admit that your computer specs are satisfactory. It goes way beyond getting the high ram video cards, maximum memory modules, or a next top processor that can fit into the motherboard slot. There doesn’t seem to be a definite point where you can say that you are satisfied with your computer.

One good thing though about computers is you will reach the point where you can still make do with these upgraded peripherals for latter buying new sets. Unless of course you want to get new devices and peripherals, chances are you will make use of them for the meantime.

There are other people who have a tactic though. They offer some parts of their old computers for sale at a lower but reasonable amount. If you are the pencil pushing geek, you would agree that instead of paying for the usual $100, selling an old video card can perhaps lower the selling price of the new and higher video card to as much as 50%. Now that is a lot of savings.

This is one reason it would be best not to throw away your old PC. Try to see how you can financially aid yourself from old parts that are still good. At these times, it would be best to save on costs. That is just one part of savings and getting the best computer you can get your hands on that is offered in the market today.

I am continue with Microsoft Outlook related mail tips for all outlook users. I want to share My experience with Microsoft Outlook Support and Computer Help. Some useful tips given below......

• Set a reminder to reply to a message Right-click the message you want to set the reminder for, point to Follow Up, and then click Add Reminder. In the Due By list, click the date when you have to complete the reply. In the second list, click a time. In the Flag color list, click the flag color you want, and then click OK.
• Add your own words to a follow-up flag for a new message Click the Message Flag button and then type the text you want in the Flag to box.
• Send a message to multiple people without revealing other recipients' identities To send a message to someone without other recipients of the message knowing, use the Bcc line in the message. Bcc stands for blind carbon copy. If you add someone's name to the Bcc line, a copy of the message is sent to that person, but his or her name is not visible to other recipients.

If you are working in a company, you will notice that your terminal or workstation will not normally have all the usual features enabled once you log on to the network. The usually default menus such as the control panel or even the applications may be limited and these are usually set by the network administrator for security reasons.

Tampering around with workstations is something that may get out of hand for most people. Usually they would want to personalize their computer as they wish and once they do something wrong, it will be up to the administrator to restore it once again. It is like a swan song of sorts since unless you set a line on when people have limited capacity and just use their workstation for data encoding or word processing, they will spend most of their time tinkering around with the computer which is not good.

Workstations connected to a network will also have some access limitations. Professionally, computers should not be able to see what is on another’s computer for confidential reasons. File such as business plans, financial reports and even the private 201 files of employees should not be seen by common workplace employees. In short, users and their level of participation in a network are set based on their capacity in the network which computers are connected.

This is also handing down control. The bad thing is, once something goes wrong and there is a breach in security levels, chances are it would be the network administrator who would take the heat. That is why they must make sure that these set restrictions are set properly and confidentially with no exceptions at all times!

Windows Search 4.0 is available for almost every modern 32-bit or 64-bit version of Windows including Vista with SP1, Windows XP SP2, Windows 2003, Windows Home Server and Windows Server 2008. The update is not available via Windows Update and must be downloaded manually from Microsoft.

The search isn’t necessarily any smarter and in that respect is no match for Spotlight but there are a couple new features worth noting. According to ZDnet, Windows Search 4.0 improves indexing speed and support for indexing encrypted files has been added. It also supports indexing files on networked computers and drives.It seems in order for this to work on Vista, SP1 must be installed. I have updated the post to reflect this, apologies for the slight confusion.

Source : Vista.Blorge