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In my search for monitoring my XBOX 360 I stumbled on the blogsite of Lance Robinson and he had an article about “Output any newsgroup as an RSS feed in a half dozen lines of codes”. To get this running you need RSSbus and of course the code from Lance Robinson. RSSBus can turn Anything Into a Feed. Easily create RSS feeds from Databases, Spreadsheets, Emails, Directories, etc.  Use RSS feeds as Simple Web Services to communicate with your partners, vendors, and customers – not just text, but data and services. That sounded cool but RSSBus runs on Windows platforms and requires the Microsoft .NET 2.0 Framework, so that would be a problem for my website running on Linux.

But then I tried if I could use the website of textBox1 for getting other newsgroups than the one given by Lance. And yes it also works for other newsgroups like the Microsoft.public.mom newsgroup. I don’t know if this is a service Lance wants to offer but it works great!

Regards,
Stefan Stranger
http://weblog.stranger.nl

Yesterday I thought about creating a Sidebar Gadget but I didn’t know how easy it was. Just take a look at the Microsoft Sidebar for Windows Vista Beta 2 Gadget Development Overview. But what Gadget to create if I wanted to start easily? I looked at the Google Bar and used it for searching my personal weblog site.

Now you can search directly on my weblog, opening the search results into a new window.

You can download here. (save as WeblogSearch.gadget)

Regards,
Stefan Stranger
http://weblog.stranger.nl

VPC 2007 Beta supports Windows Vista as a host and guest system. Please go to Microsoft Connect for participation. More info is to be found on the ToDotNet weblog.

What’s new in Virtual PC 2007 Beta

Hardware-assisted virtualization*

Virtual PC 2007 includes support for virtualization technology from Intel and AMD. By default, hardware-assisted virtualization is enabled if the feature is enabled on the physical computer. You can turn this assistance on or off for each virtual machine by modifying the virtual machine settings.

Support for Windows Vista as a host operating system

This beta release of Virtual PC 2007 introduces support for Windows Vista as a host operating system. The following versions of Windows Vista are supported: Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Enterprise, Windows Vista Ultimate.

Support for Windows Vista as a guest operating system

This beta release of Virtual PC 2007 introduces support for Windows Vista as a guest operating system. The following versions of Windows Vista are supported: Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Enterprise, Windows Vista Ultimate.

Support for 64-bit host operating system

This beta release of Virtual PC 2007 supports 64-bit host operating systems. However, there is no support for 64-bit guest operating systems.

* Installing Virtual PC 2007 Beta on a computer that has AMD hardware-assisted virtualization support and uses an x64 version of Windows as the host operating system may generate a bug check and shut down the operating system. This occurs because x64 versions of the Windows operating system protect a critical system register that Virtual PC 2007 modifies to enable hardware-assisted virtualization. You can resolve this issue by installing a hotfix prior to installing Virtual PC 2007. The hotfix is available and can be downloaded from this beta site by clicking on the ‘Downloads’ link on the left pane of this page.

Regards,
Stefan Stranger
http://weblog.stranger.nl

Now you are probably working with Office 2007 you sometimes get people who don’t have Office 2007 and want see your Office 2007 documents. You can save your Office 2007 docs as Word 97 – 2003 document are point them to the converter

Read more at source.

Regards,
Stefan Stranger
http://weblog.stranger.nl

Daniel Lai has written the Business Desktop Deployment Solution Accelerator 2007 Standard Edition Training Guide.

Have a look!

Regards,
Stefan Stranger
http://weblog.stranger.nl