IE Critical Update

Microsoft has released the ultra-important IE Update. 

Run your Windows Update ASAP (if not sooner).

This fixes the recent exploits that have been working for the past 5 days or so.

A little geek humor at Microsoft

Just discovered a little geek humor at Microsoft. 

I have the unfortunate task of upgrading a VB6 app to run properly under Vista.  No, I could not upgrade the app to .Net, just "fix" the VB app and its installer.  So I'm installing VB6 in a Vista virtual machine (do not want to mess up my host machine), and having a little problem when starting VB, an error that mscomctl.ocx is not registered.  But it is, and I hunt down Dependency Walker (Depends) to make sure.  It's OK, and its components are OK, also. 

So I run profiler from Depends to start up VB6 and see what happens.  Find an error message*, and stop the profiler. That in turn stops the VB6 application, and profiler dutifully logs the exit return code, and helpfully translates the exit code to hex:

Terminating process by user's request.
Exited "VB6.EXE" (process 0xB84) with code 57005 (0xDEAD).

Had to chuckle.  And then went to calc.exe to confirm, decimal 57005 is hex 0xDEAD.

(*for what it's worth, the error is "GetProcAddress(0x75E70000 [KERNEL32.DLL], "IsTNT") called from "MSCOMCTL.OCX" at address 0x27588909 and returned NULL. Error: The specified procedure could not be found (127)."  Now I got to got figure that one out.)

New ASP.NET Charting Control

 

Microsoft has now released a ASP.Net Chart control.  Formerly from Dundas, this control was recently added to Reporting Services, and is now available for free for ASP.Net developers.

Download the free Microsoft Chart Controls

Download the VS 2008 Tool Support for the Chart Controls

Download the Microsoft Chart Controls Samples

Download the Microsoft Chart Controls Documentation

Visit the Microsoft Chart Control Forum

Ref from Scott Guthrie's blog: New ASP.NET Charting Control: - ScottGu's Blog