First Delivery of Airbus A380

 

Airbus delivered its first Airbus A380 on 15th of October 2007. If anyone of you who is interested have missed the occasion you can have a look at the event by visiting the following web site.

http://www.a380delivery.com/

You can watch many other multimedia content highlighting the development and launch of A380 in the same web site.

Enjoy !!!

Microsoft Flight Simulator X

I got Flight Simulator X (FSX), which is the latest version of Microsoft Flight Simulator line of products. It seems to be really high in detail, also they have improved the liveliness of the artificial world. This version has moving traffic on roads, moving ships in the sea, people are there, birds are flying, push back vehicles are there. Also they have improved the virtual cockpit a lot. Only problem is, to support all these you need a good machine with high powered processor and a good graphics card.

My earlier graphics card doesn't seems to be much comfortable with FSX, so had to buy a new graphics card as well.

But it seems to me FSX is a really good game to go for if you are a flight enthusiastic like me.

Also I am planning to start again creating some fun stuff for FSX as I did some years back for FS2004.

Visit the official web site and find out more.

http://www.microsoft.com/games/flightsimulatorx/

There is also a trial version available from Microsoft at the following location.

http://www.microsoft.com/games/flightsimulatorx/downloads.html

Microsoft HealthVault

Microsoft HealthVault is an online service which you can use to collect, store, and share the health information critical to your family's well-being.

Above all this service is provided free by Microsoft.

Try it out by paying a visit to Microsoft.
http://search.healthvault.com/hvindex.htm?rmproc=true

Executing .NET Applications Located on a Remote Location

Have you tried executing an application which is on a remote machine from yours. Think it like this, you have an application written in .NET (any version) and two users are there who are willing to use the application using there machines. (Please note that in this secnario all the machines are in the same network.)

The normal process is to setup your application on both machines and tell them to use. But the problem is that you are not yet finished development so constatly there will be updates to the application. So if you install in two machines, all the time you change the application you have to install the new version in both machines. (This is ok as you think because it is only two machines, but think is there are 50 users using in 50 machines.)

In this kind of a scenario, installing the application in one machine and sharing it and making the other user access the same installation can ease your life. Isn't it?

If you just try running the application from the remote location, application might not work correctly. This is because you have to set a code group for the remote application in the local machine. Then only the local .NET classes will be accessible without problem to the remote application. To configure the things follow the points.

1. Install your required application in one machine and share the application folder if possible. (It doesn't really matter whether it is shared or not. What matters is the accessibility to the folder.) Run the application from the installed machine first to make sure the application is working properly in the local environment.

2. Install the required .NET framework on all the client (user) machines. (In my scenario above, in both uiser machines.) This is because the application is actually ran on the users machine even though it is located on a remote machine.

3. Browse to the application installation folder from a client (user) machine.
Get the 'Run' window by clicking on Start -> Run. Type the machine name or IP address of the machine where your application is installed (Note that my application resides in the machine having the IP 192.168.1.165 in my LAN).If the login criteria is asked, enter them and login. It is ok even if you use the 'Guest' account to log into the system if you have access to the shared application by the guest.
4. Open the .NET Configuration window by clicking on Start -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Microsoft .NET Framework x.x Configuration.

5. Expand the 'Runtime Security Policy' node from the left hand pane. Then expand the 'Enterprise' node and finally 'Code Groups' node. Then right click on 'All_Code' and click on New....

6. Specify a Name and Description for the code group and click Next.

7. Choose the condition type of the code group as 'URL'. In the underneath URL text box type the path to the remote application folder and put a backslash and an asterisk . In my case I typed file://192.168.1.165/Bin/* (The asterisk is used to include all the items under the folder Bin into the code group that we are creating). Then press Next.

8. From the list of existing permission sets select 'LocalIntranet' and click Next. Then click Finish in the next screen to finish and setup the new code group.

9. Now the code group is created for our remote application. But to make the application really run you have to change one property in the Code Group Properties. Continue by right clicking on the new code group that we created named 'My Code Group' and selecting 'Properties'. 10. In the code group properties, check the 'Policy levels below this level will not be evaluated' check box and press 'Ok' to apply the setting.

11. Close the open .NET Configuration windows and launch the application from the share.

If any specific functionality or if the entire application is not working please contact me, I might be able to help you out of the problem.

Installing Office 2007 on Windows

Hi all,
This is my second post on installing Office 2007. The reasons behind this post are that I have seen that installing Office 2007 is a problem not only in Vista but also in all other operating systems and also to mention you a tried and tested way (by me :-)) to install Office 2007 in one shot.

As my hint above you can use this method to install Office 2007 in any operating system.
Before starting the setup I recommend you ti update windows by running Windows Update.

1. Run a Disk Cleanup on the partition that you are going to install Office by getting the drive properties by right clicking on the drive and clicking Properties.

2. Create a folder named 'Office' in one of the drives in your hard disk and copy the full contents of Office setup CD/DVD in to this folder.

3. Start the installation by double clicking on the Setup.exe.

4. Select the customized option of the setup and right click on the top node and select 'Install on first use'. This will make all the items install when you try to use them.5. Now continue with the installation.

6. If there are any problems the setup will bring up a window and tell you to browse for files that it is unable to find or sees as corrupt. If this happens to you,

i. Try pointing to the 'Office' directory that you created in the point number 2 and press Ok.

If the window again comes up then,

ii. Copy the entire folder which setup reports as having problems from the CD/DVD to the 'Office' directory again. (For example if the setup saying it is unable to process ExcelLR.cab, copy all the folders having the name Excel to the 'Office' directory again from the CD/DVD.)

iii. Point the setup again to the 'Office' directory. This time the setup will continue.

7. When the setup finishes, start one or two applications (Word, Excel, ...) and make the installer install the necessary files. If at this point it asks for any missing files, follow the same procedure as at point number 6.

8. After you have successfully opened at least two applications of Microsoft Office family of products, start the Office installer again from the 'Add or Remove Programs' section in Windows Control Panel. Select 'Add or Remove Features' and click Continue. Then choose the applications you want to run and proceed with the setup. (If the setup is asking for any missing files follow the same procedure as at point number 6.)

9. When the setup finishes successfully, you can carry out a Repair on Office by starting Office setup again from 'Add or Remove Programs' to fix any missing files.

Breakpoints are Not Working in Visual Studio - .NET Compact Framework (.NET CF)

Recently I had the issue while debugging a smart device application. All my breakpoints stop functioning. But if I ran the application in the device emulator the breakpoints are working fine.
So it was occurring only when I debug in an actual device (In my case Pocket PC).

After some trying I found that the problem is in the .NET CF which was installed in the Pocket PC.
To fix the thing,
1. Stop all the applications running in the Pocket PC (Do a soft restart or use the Runnning Programs tab in the System -> Memory).
2. Un install the .NET CF from the Pocket PC and soft reset the Pocket PC again.
3. Install the .NET CF in to the Pocket PC. (Also note that you can make the Visual Studio install the .NET CF by starting an application from Visual Studio.)
4. Connect the Pocket PC to the computer using Active Sync and try debugging. In most cases now the breakpoints should work.

If this did not fix the issue you will have to cold reset the Pocket PC and also I would instruct you to reinstall the SDKs (Windows Mobile 5/6 Pocket PC SDKs) if you have any installed.

Airbus A300
Airbus has delivered its last A300 to FedEx on 12th July 2007. This marks the closure of Airbus’ first production line and brings to a close a very special chapter of the company’s history.

To read more details and watch the first A300 being made pay a visit to Airbus.
http://www.airbus.com/en/corporate/people/company_evolution/a300/index.html
http://www.airbus.com/store/mm_repository/videos/att00010264/media_object_image_teaserA300_Airbus.swf