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Vista Trick Theorist Defends Loophole Claims

The Windows expert who originally speculated that Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) deliberately included a 'trick' in Windows Vista that lets users install the OS from the upgrade version on Wednesday defended his position.


Earlier this month, the Windows Secrets newsletter reiterated claims it made last year that Microsoft is aware that users can clean install the fully functional, but cheaper upgrade edition of Vista on any machine, but doesn't want to actually stop them.

Microsoft denied this, and last week, Eric Ligman, Microsoft's senior manager of community engagement for small business in the U.S., railed against unnamed sources he accused of spreading misinformation and promoting software piracy.

But Brian Livingston, editorial director of WindowsSecrets.com, doesn't think that speculating on the reasons why Microsoft included the loophole in Vista, and why Microsoft didn't eliminate it in Vista SP1, is tantamount to supporting illegal behavior.

"No one is encouraging people to try to 'rip off' Windows for zero dollars," Livingston said. "One or two people might buy Vista without having any prior copy of Windows, but that would be a fraction of the people who are using this documented feature."

On Tuesday, Ligman clarified his comments and said...
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Written by Madhukar on April 18th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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25 Rounded Corner Techniques with CSS

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Written by askars on January 16th, 2008 with no comments.
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Announcing the Microsoft Deployment Solution Accelerator!

Microsoft Deployment is the next version of Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) 2007. Microsoft Deployment, the fourth generation deployment accelerator, enables deployment of servers and desktops. Its tools and end-to-end guidance reduce deployment time, Read More……(read more)

Written by Windows Vista Team Blog on November 9th, 2007 with no comments.
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EXECUTE permission denied on object ’sp_sdidebug’, database ‘master’, owner ‘dbo’.

I got this error from one of my ASP.NET web services when I tried to fetch some data from a remote database. I tried searching online for a possible fix to this issue but found none to be convincing and so thought of publishing the solution that resolved the issue.

Please note that this solution may only be effective if you are debugging your ASP.NET page/web service and are manually attaching the worker process.

1. Attach to the worker process.

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2. With the aspnet_wp.exe highlighted hit the “Select…” button at the top right hand side.

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You will get the “Select Code Type” dialog with the “Automatically determine the type of code to debug” selected. Now for ASP.NET to use the “Managed” code type by checking the “Managed” checkbox.

Try it again and it should work without the “EXECUTE permission denied on object ’sp_sdidebug’, database ‘master’, owner ‘dbo’.” error.

Hope it helps. Let me know of any issues or alternate solutions in comments.

Written by askars on October 25th, 2007 with 1 comment.
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ASP.NET 2.0 Server Side Comments

Ever wonder how to write comments within an aspx file? <!– –> won’t cut it as it gets processed on the server side and the resulting HTML will contain the commented code as processed. Enter, <%– –%>. There are 2 ways you can truly comment on an aspx file.

One way. for example,

<%–

Anything within this block will not be parsed/handled by ASP.NET.

<asp:TextBox runat=”server”></asp:TextBox>

–%>

 And here is the other visual way of doing it,

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Hope it helps.

Written by askars on September 30th, 2007 with 2 comments.
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Change the default web browser used in Visual Studio 2005

Ever wonder how you can change the default web browser used in Visual Studio 2005 IDE? It’s pretty simple.

  • Right click on any .aspx file on your IDE’s Solution Explorer
  • Click on the “Select With…” menu option
  • In the dialog that pops-up select the browser that you want the IDE to be defaulted with. If your browser is not listed you can add your browser to the list
  • Click on the “Set as default” button to make the selected browser as the default browser for the IDE

And that’s all to it to set the default browser for your Visual Studio 2005 IDE.

Written by askars on September 9th, 2007 with no comments.
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