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In Vista, bye bye ActiveSync, welcome Windows Mobile Device Center (I think again a complicated acronym WMDC sounds like WMD, hopefully this won't explode too much!).

Microsoft has released a new add-in tool to help Visual Basic developers preserve Visual Basic 6 applications and breathe .Net into them. Microsoft released its Interop Forms Toolkit 1.0 as a free add-in that simplifies the process of displaying .Net WinForms in a VB6 application.
The new toolkit not only helps to preserve VB6 applications, but also lets developers add functionality to them through additional .Net forms.

This article will show you how to use Microsoft application blocks and be able to get your store procedure's return value and output parameters. You will find many articles on the web about calling a store procedure and getting the return value and output values using ado. net...but if you want to use sqlhelper you are out of luck for getting your return value.

We all love those silly things we get with silly alerts. Check this one posted on rogueamoeba. Logical Captain!

Now that finally you can turn off the startup sound in Vista, you can also see here the new Vista boot animation and sound (included in the latest build 5728).

shell:revealed isn't about Windows Vista, it's about Windows. Many of the people on the Windows Client team have been here a very long time and have plenty of knowledge to share with the world. This is the place to find out what they're doing, how we're doing it, and why. This site is dedicated to all Windows users.

Hey you remember Robert Scoble the dude who was telling to all the planet that Microsoft was the greatest 'god' type company on this planet ;-) ? Robert was behind Channel 9 success.

That's interesting, my last project, Imagebank, a place where kids, schools and phtographers can store photos from all around Ireland is just close to a Beta version, and already an Irish blogger has spotted it.