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Prioritize Microsoft's August security bulletins
Insight Microsoft released 12 security bulletins for August's Patch Tuesday, rating nine of them as critical threats. How do you know which ones to concentrate on first?
Tags: Security
Changing numbers into words in Excel
Insight Microsoft Excel does not ship with a function that will convert a numeric value into English words. However, there is a user-defined function that will perform that service.
Tags: Microsoft Office
Strategies for stretching training dollars
Insight Cutting IT training budgets when times are tough can damage staff morale, hamstring important projects, and ultimately hurt a tech leader's career. These techniques can help you cut costs while still providing staff with opportunities to learn new skills.
Copy hundreds of rows of Excel formulas in three steps
Techguide Copying formulas in Excel is relatively simple, unless you need to copy down through dozens or even hundreds of cells. Here's a foolproof trick to get it done.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Cell, Real Estate, Survey, Microsoft Excel, toolbar, Microsoft Access, dialog box, window, Microsoft Visual Basic
Code concepts: .NET's lambdas
Techguide In this instalment of Code concepts, Justin James provides an overview of what lambdas in .NET are and explains how to use them.
Tags: Protocols and platforms, Microsoft Visual Basic.Net, Variable, C#, Justin James, network management, Microsoft .NET, blogging, TechRepublic Inc., Microsoft Visual Basic
Why do C# developers look down on VB.NET?
Techguide A lot of the anti-VB.NET talk is from C# developers, but this is baffling because the language that most resembles VB.NET from a technical standpoint is C#.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Business applications, Programming languages, Microsoft Visual Basic.Net, Developer, C#, C++, Justin James, Borland Delphi, Microsoft .NET
Employ refactoring to write better code
Techguide Discover Visual Studio add-ins that bring refactoring--the practice of making code cleaner and clearer without affecting the functionality--to the Visual Basic community.
Tags: Software, Microsoft Corp., Feature, Code, Developer, Extreme Programming, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, development environment, Visual Studio IDE, Refactoring
Swine flu e-mail in Spanish links to data-stealing Trojan
News Security firm SonicWall says a new swine flu-related e-mail in Spanish includes link to Trojan designed to steal log-in data if the user tries to access certain Mexican bank Web sites.
Tags: PC security, Viruses and worms, Security, Pharmaceutical Company, SonicWall, computer, e-mail, security company, bank, trojan horse
Mac Office sales soar on Apple's gains
News Microsoft's Mac unit is set to announce that the new version of Office is selling three times as many copies as its predecessor.
Tags: Sales/revenue, Microsoft Office, Apple Inc., Security, Apple Macintosh, Sales, performance, Microsoft Office 2007, processor, Redmond
Microsoft to fix six critical flaws on Patch Tuesday
News For the last Patch Tuesday of the year, Microsoft expects to patch flaws in Internet Explorer, Word, Excel, Windows Media Center, and SharePoint, among others.
Tags: Security applications/tools, Security Management, Databases, Remote management, Microsoft Corp., Bulletin, Microsoft Windows Media Center, Media Center PC, Flaw, Pre-announcement
Microsoft fixes 28 flaws; 6 are critical
News Redmond issues eight patches that affect Visual Basic 6, Internet Explorer, Word, Excel, Windows Search, SharePoint, and Windows Media Components.
Tags: Business applications, Security, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Vulnerability, Bulletin, Apple Macintosh, Flaw, Update, Microsoft Windows Server
Sun's Tiger aims to tame Java programming
News Sun Microsystems has released an early edition of software that will form the underpinnings of future Java applications for desktop computers.
Tags: Java
Visual Basic.Net: Is it too complex?
News While some programmers say Microsoft's new Visual Basic.Net is a necessary change, others call the language an "abomination" that's too complex.
Microsoft fixes 14 flaws in 9 patches; 6 are critical
News Microsoft today released its August 2007 security bulletin, which includes nine updates: Six are designated as "critical" by the software giant and three are deemed "important".
Tags: Security, Software, Microsoft Windows
Critical flaw in VBA could be next target for hackers
Insight Vulnerabilities found in Windows or Windows software are the most commonly targeted by virus writers and hackers. So administrators should take note of a widespread flaw in VBA that affects a lot of Windows systems.
