Two betas later, the Microsoft Office Outlook Connector 12.1 has finally arrived. This is free add-in that allows you to integrate your Windows Live Hotmail and Windows Live Calendar within Outlook. In this new release, the connector is said to be faster and more robust, hopefully along with some new features.
With Microsoft Office Outlook Connector, you can use Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 or Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 to access and manage your Microsoft Windows Live Hotmail or Microsoft Office Live Mail accounts, including e-mail messages, contacts and calendars for free!
Outlook Connector enables you to use your Live Hotmail accounts...
Microsoft released today the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 GDR (General Distribution Release). This release addresses some issues and should only be installed if you have some kind of issue. Otherwise, it is not recommended to do so. You better wait.
In case you don't know what a GDR is, here's a quick explanation:
A GDR addresses an issue that has a broad customer impact, that has security implications, or that has both. It is determined and issued by Microsoft as appropriate and when appropriate. GDRs are kept to a minimum and cannot be requested by a customer. Microsoft internally determines whether a...
Well, I've heard of this bug before, but never had the unfortunate displeasure of experiencing it. Two days ago I started having problems when opening my Shell.xaml file, on a CWPF-based solution (hence the name, by the way). When I dbl clicked the xaml file, the split designer/xaml tab showed up, started loading the designer part (the usual message appears - "Press ESC to cancel") and suddenly, VS closed silently, discarding any changes I've made that far... Pretty neat huh? This has never happened to me before, and this xaml file had no special code written on it. In fact, as the...
One quick tip for those using the ItemsControl element on a xaml page. When adding a UserControl as a child, there is no way to force it to occupy the entire region occupied by the ItemsControl. The workaround for this is setting the ItemsPanel template property of the ItemsControl so that it internally uses a DockPanel or Grid.
The following code shows a ResourceDictionary file that does this (reference it in your App.xaml file in order for its elements to be referenced):
1: <!-- Change inner ItemsControl behaviour in order to allor its contents to stretch -->
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In case you don't know, SlideShare is a well known web site that allows you to share your Powerpoint presentations with others, as well as browse for other presentations and contacts. It's new "SlideShare Ribbon” is a new add-in for Microsoft PowerPoint provides a local interface with the web API, through document upload, browse, contact management, etc.