July 2006 - Posts
If you signed up for the XPe Feature Pack then you should have gotten this mail copied at the bottom. This blog page from a couple weeks ago has hints to some of the feature work we've done. If you haven't signed up yet, it's open to the public! Just
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Note: Mark Chamberlain is a guest blogger, he works for the Product Support team for XP Embedded , check his bio link below. If you call Microsoft for support on the XPe platform, there's a good chance you'll talk to him. Hopefully we'll see him here
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Background: We've received reports from customers having problems installing the XP Embedded database after installing Visual Studio 2005. The default installation of Visual Studio includes a silent installation of SQL Express, which can cause problems
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The question came up again recently regarding how to change the default user account password expiration settings. The steps below to apply a custom security template during FBA are from our online docs ... By default, when you add user accounts to your
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I was reading OS News this morning and came across an interesting article from Linux-Watch . It's the " Top five things Linux can learn from Microsoft " by Steven Vaughan-Nicholas . I wasn't quite sure what to expect at first, but it's insightful and
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The team has been extremely busy the last 4 months working on a feature pack for XP Embedded and we're just about ready to loop you into what we've been doing by giving you early access to the product in the form of a Technology Preview (not quite a Beta).
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For those who have been anxiously waiting for the componentized version of the .NET Framework 2.0 and ASP .NET 2.0 features to be available keep an eye on the download page - it should be posted up there any day now. There will be a core package that
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While browsing one of my favorite IT sites ( The Daily WTF ), I came across this, erm, *interesting* Point of Sale database system in the thread " The X-Data Specialist ". Try to figure it out, I dare you <grin> - Andy
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