IE8 RC1 Downloading & Installing in 7 easy steps

Hey Now Everybody,

IE8 RC1 (Microsoft Internet Explorer Release Canidate 1) is now available. When Microsoft Releases a free windows app that is used to browse the web there will be many downloads. I was thinking with the amount of download a tutorial or how to download & install IE8 would be good to post. I enjoy collecting browsers & I'm glad to use IE8.


1. Goto Microsoft Download Center (if its the first time visting you may be promted to 'try the beta' on the right of that 'beta' button there is a 'no thanks' link you may click.)

2 Search for file you'd like to download ex. IE8 Vista (Below is where to download IE8 RC1)

a. IE8 for XP
b. IE8 for Vista/Server 08 x64
c. IE8 for Vista/Server 08 x86

3. Click the Download button
4. Click Next (Alt + N)
5. Click Accept to leagal (Alt + A)
6. Check or don't check for updates & click next (Alt + I, Alt + N)
7. Click Restart


Now it's time to use it. Browsers are the top or one of the top programs people use & IE I feel is the mayflower of browsers. It's fun to install & use IE8. The best change for me after UATing the Beta versions was the Links bar changing to the Favorites bar & by default it's viewable. I also like the group tabbing. Enjoy browsing on IE8.




As always All comments welcome.

Bye for Now,
Catto

Gold Coast .NET User Group Holiday Party 208 Carl Franklin

Gold Coast .NET User Group Holiday Party

Hey Now Everybody,

Carl Franklin & friends were here along with ribs from Lucille’s Bad to the Bone were in the house Whoo Hoo! .NET 3.5 SP1 Charts is coding with fun for me & tonight there weren’t many charts. I was so happy to attend our GC .NET User Group where C Franklin was & gave a session on VB.NET. Somebody said there is a date for MS C# team is ending & being dissolved, turning black like Mr. Black’s XP. C, Ken, Dr. K & Huck were stellar. There were 3 sessions:

Ken Spencer spoke of SQL MAG & was similar to last year discussing 3D & WPF. He spoke of large goverment agency apps with 80,000 users. 3 D World is what it's about.

C Franklin – Impeccable – Code for for fun! Playing his piano in CT from a keyboard in FLA. The Larry King of .NET Carl was stellar!. @ the end of the night after I ate about 2 1/2 racks of ribs Carl broke out his guitar & played many songs. PWOP Embasador !He spoke of hardware MIDI Could you imagine the keyboard hotkeys on a massive keyboard like that. Chris Sells metioned & he is the next on DNR I think gotta check though. Digital Audio a good library . PWOP Line. This is where the fun is! Thanking us for sharing the fun with code with us & encourage to obsess over good code.


Huck & Dr. K – Surface! The highlight of the night aside from Carl was Surface. There was not a real Surface in the building & we did see some classic flix. This guy is like one of the 5othperson to get an MS SQL cert or something like that. Huck INETA he is an excellent presenter along with Dr. Peter Kuhn. Huck supports INETA! Thanks to INETA, Homnick’s, Alex from Sherlock Recruites & Sherv for the event.

As always all comments welcome!

Thx, Catto

BitArray & Argument Exceptions 70-536 Microsoft .NET Certification Post #14

BitArray & Argument Exceptions 70-536
Microsoft .NET Certification
Post #14

Hey Now Everybody,

Please feel free to check out my MCTS 70-536 reference page on Chris Catto.com. It’s a page with a summary of all of my posts.
This post is on section 1. Developing Application that use system types & collections. Here are a few important concepts from the 1st section. As I stufy for this test I thought this would be good to post on to learn the content & others would be able to view & comment on it.

• BitArray class – is a resizable collection that can store Boolean values, In addition to being resizable, it upports common bit-level operations such as And, Not, Or, & Exclusive-or(XOR) The BitArry class would be efficient if you are writing an app that needs to perform Boolean math on a set of 42 bits.
• BitVector32 – structures purpose is to aid in manipulating bits in a 32bit integer, and it is perfect for IP address. BitVector32 is not a resiable collection at all. Instead it is fixed at 32bits
• ArrayList – does not support Boolean math
• Boolean is a single bit value.
• InvalidOperationException – Throw an InvalidOperationException if a property set or method call is not appropriate given the object’s current state. EX used if calling assembly called the method to read the filebefore specifying the file name.
• You should throw an ArgumentOutOfRangeException when a caller provides a value for a parameter but that value is invalid
• ArgumentException is a base class for all argument exceptions. You should use more specific whenever appropriate, specifically ArgumentOutOfRangeException & ArgumentNullException
• ArgumentNullException when a calling assembly provides a null value for a parameter that must have a value.
• Both SortedList & an implementation of IDictionary can be accessed by using a key

As always all comments welcome.

That’s all there is there is no more, Bye for now!

Catto

तोस्त्रिंग एकुँल्स & 70-536 Microsoft .NET Certification Post #13

मेथोड्स 70-536
Microsoft .NET Certification
Post #13

Hey Now Everybody,

Please feel free to check out my MCTS 70-536 reference page on Chris Catto.com. It’s a page with a summary of all of my posts.
This post is on section 1. Developing Application that use system types & collections. Here are a few important concepts from the 1st section. As I stufy for this test I thought this would be good to post on to learn the content & others would be able to view & comment on it.

• All classes inherit the ToString(), Equals(), & GetType() methods from the base Object class
• Reference Types – a type that stores a pointer to the data, rather than the actual data.
• Reference types store a pointer to the data rather than the actual data.
• Types forwarding enable moving a type from one assembly into another assembly without requiring recompiling.
• Exceptions are error condition that cause normal execution to be halted
• Generics use placeholders for their types, which allow multiple types of objects to be used as a parameter
• The following methods all classes have as members:

• • ToString()
• • Equals()
• • GetType()
• • Short Type – can only store values between -32,769 & 32,769

As always all comments welcome.

That’s all there is there is no more, Bye for now!

Catto

ICompareable & Clone 70-536 Microsoft .NET Certification #12

ICompareable & Clone 70-536
Microsoft .NET Certification
Post #12

Hey Now Everybody,

Please feel free to check out my MCTS 70-536 reference page on Chris Catto.com. It’s a page with a summary of all of my posts.
This post is on section 1. Developing Application that use system types & collections. Here are a few important concepts from the 1st section. As I stufy for this test I thought this would be good to post on to learn the content & others would be able to view & comment on it.

• Implementing IDisposable enables developers to call the Dispose() method which allows your class to free any consumed resources without waiting for automated garbage collection.
• Clone() method is inherited from the ICloneable interface
• The Clone() method is a member of the InCloneable interface
• The Dispose() method is a member of the IDisposable interface
• The CompareTo() method is a member of the IComparable interface

As always all comments welcome.

That’s all there is there is no more, Bye for now!

Catto

Cultures 70-536 Microsoft .NET Certification #11

Cultures 70-536
Microsoft .NET Certification
Post #11

Hey Now Everybody,

Please feel free to check out my MCTS 70-536 reference page on Chris Catto.com. It’s a page with a summary of all of my posts.
This post is on section 1. Developing Application that use system types & collections. Here are a few important concepts from the 1st section. As I stufy for this test I thought this would be good to post on to learn the content & others would be able to view & comment on it.

• Neutral cultures are language, but not region specific. Neutral culture names are in the form xx, with only two lowercase characters.
• Cultures with names in the format xx-XX are specific cultres & could be retrieved using CultureInfo.GetCulturs(CultureTypes.SpecificCultures)
• CultureInfo objects examples: en, ko, ro
• Normal execution of program logic should not cause an exception. You should throw an exception whenever something unexpected happens, including receiving a parameter that is out of range.

As always all comments welcome.

That’s all there is there is no more, Bye for now!

Catto

IComparer 70-536 Microsoft .NET Certification #10

IComparer 70-536
Microsoft .NET Certification
Post #10

Hey Now Everybody,

Please feel free to check out my MCTS 70-536 reference page on Chris Catto.com. It’s a page with a summary of all of my posts.
This post is on section 1. Developing Application that use system types & collections. Here are a few important concepts from the 1st section. As I stufy for this test I thought this would be good to post on to learn the content & others would be able to view & comment on it.

• IComparer – is an interface that should be implemented when you are creating a new collection type that must be sorted by using Array Sort.
• CompartTo() method is a member of the IComparable interface
• Use the Icomparer interface for collections that must be sorted
• The ICollection interface is the base interface for classes in the System Collections namespace. It does not support sorting
• The IDictionary interface is the base interface for nongeneric collections of key/value pairs. It does not support sorting.
• The IEqualityComparer interface supports only equality comparisons.

As always all comments welcome.

That’s all there is there is no more, Bye for now!

Catto