I do like new Internet Explorer features, but I do miss Firefox style spell checker. There is free (for non-commercial purposes) ieSpell add-on, but I do not like it’s modal dialog interface.
Is there any IE8 spell checker that is capable of red-underlining unknown words?
P.S. Title pun in intended. :)
I already wrote about Virtual disk API support in Windows 7. All that was based on beta so, now with Windows 7 RC in wild, some corrections are in order.
Microsoft decided to replace word surface with attach. While plenty of those changes were done in beta also (e.g. DISKPART), renaming of API functions was timed for release candidate. Since this change invalidates my previous code examples on how to work with virtual disks, here is new example that works with RC (but doesn’t work with beta).
Usual practice for release candidate is to be code-complete - hopefully no further API changes will be done before final version.
P.S. This code is work in progress, in no way it is production quality.
[2009-05-03: There was bug with one parameter in code. On beta, that bug went unnoticed, but on release candidate it causes open operation to fail with native error 87. I updated source code so all further downloads will point to correct files.]
[2009-06-12: There was change in enumerations from beta to RC that I missed. Side effect of it was inability to permanently attach virtual disk. This is fixed now (to make it more embarrassing, I used correct code in Open and attach sample but somehow I missed to notice the difference).]
Release candidate is finally out for MSDN subscribers.
Thanks for subscription Marc. :)
For all fans of Starcraft, this game is must see. It is exciting until last moment.
There is new feature in sight for Windows 7. It is called Windows XP Mode and it will allow you to run Windows XP applications in virtualized environment.
Nice thing about this will be that XP windows will just open without showing the whole XP desktop. This is quite significant since whenever virtualization is employed, some reeducation needs to be done. Now education will consist of simple: “Just click shortcut and window will appear.” line. For “standard” consumer, everything should look the same (ok, title bar is giveaway).
P.S. If this feature seems like something you saw somewhere, there is more-or-less same feature in VirtualBox. It is called seamless mode there.