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How often you are looking for freeware program to burn CD and DVD images to disk. Each time you need a bootable OS CD or DVD and can not burn it with existing burners from Windows? Let me try to help you by presenting BURNCDCC from TerraByte Unlimited - ISO burner that do not need installation. Just drop it on your USB and use it when you really need it. This simple freeware utility might really help with burning ISO images directly into CD or DVD.
If you take a look on their website you'll find a lot of other great candidates (mostly for kind of bootale stuff) for you DiskOnKey.

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Are WPF developers really need DataGrid component (as like the awful one in VB, .NET 1.1 and 2). My opinion - no, but there are those who want it.

Generally, Microsoft is not "Component Provider". This place is saved for 3^d parties like Infragistics, Xceed etc. They are doing great work by saving valuable time for companies.

From the other hand, GridView within ListView make you able to create datagrid you really want. However in last TechEd Infragistics presented their version of DataGrid and yesturday Xceed did it as well. There are some, who like old good DataGrid incorporated with WPF by using CrossBow. So the world rolling and very soon we'll see WPF datagrids of any kind everywhere, ... or not... Hense, with outstanding possibilities of DataBinding in WPF we do not really need something very smart to create data driven control.

So, DataGrid or not in WPF - the questing remains open...

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I believe, that all of us have UAC disabled in Vista. It's impossible to work, while black screen poped up on our try to run RegEdit for example. But is it good to disable really usable security feature of Windows Vista? Not really, excpessially while the computer not in domain each restart you get red baloon with security warning. Let's try to moderate it without disabling. To perform it all you have to do is make little patch to Local Security Policy.

1. Open it with writing "Local Security Policy" in Vista serach from start menu. Is't it really great, that you do not have to find it yourself anymore?
2. Go to Local Policy->Security Options
3. There find out User Account Control: Behaviour of the elevation prompt for administrators
4. Open it and change Prompt for consent to Elevate without prompting

To disable prompting for application installation change value of User Account Control: Detect application installations and prompt for validation from Enabled to Disabled

That't it. Now you have UAC up and running, but without screen blanking and nudge about security flaws while running regedit or program installation. Dont you forgot to switch UAC on before? To do it go to User Manager (just click on your picture at right upper side from start menu and check "Turn User Account Control on or off). Have a nice Vista

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The Microsoft Developers Academy '07 website went live. This year's edition is promise to be really interesting, due a lot of new technologies revealed this year. As Yossi poins out, WPF will play a very large role in this year's Academy. Take a look at the list of sessions here or here. WPF is well represented. I'll be presenting at Academy about WPF and it's too long until January 30th.

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     מהיום ניתן להוריד את הגדג'ט של מוקד התנועה גם מאתר של Windows Vista. ואל תגידו לי שהם לא תומכים בעברית להלן הקישור. תהנו

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Yesturday, I noticed about interesting problem - how to make download gadget. Seemed stupid? No. Try to upload your gadget to any web server (it might be even apache). While you'll try to download it you'll get following in IE and FF. What's the hell? Why it's ZIP??? I uploaded .Gadget!

You see .ZIP extention just because .Gadget is really .ZIP, so "smart" IE knows to "translate" extention in order to prevent fraud. Very nice, but I want do download and install gadget. As like as I can do in in http://gallery.live.com

How to configure my server to do it. Simple answer is right MIME type. It's application and it's zipped, so we can use  application/octet-stream, application/x-compressed or even application/x-msdownload. Let's try. Just register .gadget type with one of those. In first case you'll get octet stream :) Obviously. And this looks like that

Bad one. The next x-compressed will return us to previouse state with .ZIP renaming. Let's see what will be with x-msdownload.

You able to download gadget as requested, but you can not install it (Open->Run) from the web (like in Live.Gallery)

So such thing is not suitable for us. After some digs of my friends from Redmond (from Live team - they are only 3 :) ) I found it. The right MIME type for Vista SideBar Gadget is application/x-windows-gadget. Register .gadget extention with application/x-windows-gadget MIME type and you'll able to provide your visitors Live.Gallery like installation option for gadgets

Yossi, do it here for us as well :)

Have a nice gadget :)

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