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How to run wmi service in a standalone host process?

Open services.msc console, you can find Windows Management Instrumentation service, I.E., "WMI", whose name is winmgmt, it has following description, "Provides a common interface and object model to access management information about operating system, devices, applications and services. If this ser... (original story)

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TWC9: Snowpocalypse, VS Achievements, 101 Async samples, & more

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including:[1:12] Visual Studio Achievements, Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta, Visual Studio Achievements FAQ (C9Team), Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone Beta - build 01012012 update (Den Delimarsk... (original story)

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Microsoft Server and Tools boss Bob Muglia pushed out?

Bob Muglia, the president of Microsoft’s Server and Tools business is out and it looks like he has been pushed: Bob Muglia, head of servers and tools, is leaving Microsoft this summer. In a memo to employees, Steve Ballmer says he’s conducting a search internally and externally for a re... (original story)

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Ping 129: Windows Phone climbing the ladder, Xbox admits fault, Visual Studio Game! Bing is for Doing

Braving Snowpocalypse 2012 Laura and Paul trekked all the way to the Channel 9 Studio to bring you these hot stories (don't say thay don't love you).Windows Phone to bump iPhone???Xbox Video Playback problemsThe Visual Studio Game! Bing is for Doing  (original story)

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Hotmail rolls out features to help deal with gray mail

In a story announced last week, Hotmail has released a new version of itself to help users deal with the problem of gray mail.  Gray mail is marketing mail that straddles the line between spam and ham; to some it’s spam, but to others it is legitimate.  This makes it difficult for filter... (original story)

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Tech Tuesday Live Twitter Chat – Online Safety with IE and Monica Villa - #win7tech

This week people around the world celebrate Data Privacy Day. Data Privacy Day, for those who don’t know, is an annual international celebration designed to promote awareness about privacy and education about best privacy practices for staying safe online. At Microsoft, we dedicate a whole week to... (original story)

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The Windows Phone $100 Challenge #smokedbywindowsphone

At the recent CES 2012 conference Ben the PC Guy (@benthepcguy) and the Windows Phone team setup a challenge. They would give US$100 to anyone who could perform and everyday action on their non Windows Phone faster than Ben could on his HTC Titan Windows Phone. The challenges included task... (original story)

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Mike Downey on the HTML5 Player Framework

Mike Downey of the Media Platform Evangelism Team talks about the release of the HTML5 Player Framework version 1.0.  This new open source video player encompasses HTML5, Silverlight, Windows Phone and other application platforms.  Downey also talks about the framework's adaptability for d... (original story)

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Techdays 2012 : Sessions C++

Ca y est, nous sommes à fond sur les Techdays, on y passe nos jours et nos nuits, à peaufiner nos démos et nos jeux de Slides, au programme plus de 300 Sessions techniques pour tous les genres, IT, Développeurs, Architectes, Décideurs Mais ce qui nous intéresse le plus particulièrement, c’... (original story)

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AXUG Roundup - January in Minneapolis

Rod Hansen and I headed south to Minneapolis (yes, everything is south of Fargo) to join the Minnesota chapter of AXUG for dinner and a discussion on the Performance Analyzer tool.  The Minnesota chapter is very well attended and we had a good turnout for this meeting - about 20 folks ther... (original story)

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