Recent updates require a reboot – or do they?

I have a love/hate relationship with Windows Updates.  I mean, it’s GREAT that they keep everything up to date, but I have this CRAZY thing I do called “work” – and my “work” entails running programs for hours on end and queries that don’t cater well to a semi-random reboot.  I finally turned off automatic [...]

Report: Microsoft Makes Big Cuts At Flight Sim Studio

clipped from www.gamasutra.com

Redmond, Washington-based ACES Studio, the Microsoft-owned internal group behind the venerable Microsoft Flight Simulator series, has been heavily affected by Microsoft’s ongoing job cuts.

Development sources have told Gamasutra that a large portion of the dev house’s staff has been let go – with multiple reports indicating that the entire Flight Simulator [...]

Create MS MDB without MS Access

(from http://www.eggheadcafe.com/PrintSearchContent.asp?LINKID=1089)
//Set a COM Reference to “Microsoft ADO Extensions for DDL and Security” (ADOX)
private ADOX.Catalog cat = new ADOX.Catalog();
private ADOX.Table tbl = new ADOX.Table();
private string db_file_path;
db_file_path = ActiveWorkbook.Path + “\\abc.mdb”;
//connect to the Access database
cat.ActiveConnection = “Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;” + “Data Source=” + db_file_path;
//Create a table
tbl.Name = “Prospects”;
// First, fields are appended to the table object
// Then the [...]