I'm looking for an information resource (RSS preferred) to keep on top of Microsoft's doings. For me, that would include software releases, service packs, MS research projects, APIs, business news, and probably quite a few things I don't even know exists. Is there anything like that, or do I have to collect the stuff from first principl...
Most Valuable Professional (MVP) is an award presented by Microsoft. Microsoft MVPs are exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who have been awarded for voluntarily providing technical expertise towards technical communities supporting Microsoft products or technologies. An MVP is awarded for contributions over t...
I'm designing a web application for a team that is currently tracking all of their data in a Microsoft Access database. The new database will be stored in mySQL, but I don't know enough about Microsoft Access to be certain that I'm doing things correctly. Is there a tool or procedure that exists that will quickly create all the proper t...
Just got a car with the Microsoft sync system in it. Did a quick search online and was curious if anyone is aware of any SDK that may exist, sample open source add-on applications, etc. Thanks in advance. ...
Is Apache configured for windows the best way to go? Does it have any issues running cgi? ...
I want to export logo to excel using C/AL in microsoft dyanamics NAV. How is it possible? ...
There are now so many ways to write windows apps, win32, MFC, ATL, .NET, WinForms, and probably some others that I don't know of. Which one should I choose? I'd like one that works on a fresh install of Vista, and is modern and easy to use. ...
It seems that some Microsoft frameworks are only known by name and reputation, not by content or usefulness. Especially with the rise of open source frameworks they sometimes get a bit unpopular. Which frameworks by Microsoft are not well known and are well worth exploring in depth? What is their reputation and area of usefulness? ...
I really appreciate the tutorials videos that http://www.ASP.NET (direct link: http://www.asp.net/learn/videos) have provided; watching videos are my preferred way of learning new technologies. I want to watch more advanced videos on the topic of ASP.NET, C#, Object Oriented Design, Architecture and SQL Server and I don't mind paying f...
I need to get pages count from word documents. I've tested many libraries and scripts (apache poi, perl scripts, some application for linux and some more) and the only working solution was to install Microsoft Office with Wine and access OLE with perl. I've managed to do it but it seems I can't use it on server due to licensing problems....
I'm an experienced .NET developer trying to learn HPC programming and am starting with MPI.NET (closest to my existing knowledge set). I've seen basic samples and gone through the tutorials provided by ISU (thanks guys) but, in the mode of Scott Hanselman's "be a better programmer by reading someone else's code", I'm looking for a real-w...
I have a fairly large Excel file. In this file there is a column with dates. I would like to know if/how it would be possible to make a program that would be able to read the date and post a notice 30 days in advance to Outlook Calendar or send out an email through Outlook in my office. Is there a decent API that I could use for this?...
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=21EABB90-958F-4B64-B5F1-73D0A413C8EF&displaylang=en The IE6/7/8 XP SP3 images made available for testing from Microsoft are set to expire tomorrow(!) April 30. I'm a little concerned that Microsoft has not posted new images up yet since I use these fairly often as an easy way...
Hi folks, I am developing a Windows Azure Demo Site which uses HTTPS instead of HTTP. So I configured my Azure project to use one self-signed certificate for local development and another (not self-signed) certificate for publishing it into the cloud, just like this description says. However, whenever I publish my site to the Azure Por...
This is rather infuriating. I'm trying to optimize a very large site, and I'm at the step of reducing HTTP Requests. Microsoft is not cooperating. I have the following ScriptResources included. I'll try and grab a top-line for each to distinguish them // Name: MicrosoftAjax.debug.js 53.5Kb // Name: MicrosoftAjaxWebFo...
Which of the following registry scripts is syntactically correct? Will both work? Is one preferred? Sample A: REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\policies\explorer] "nodrivetypeautorun"=255 Sample B: REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\policies\explorer] "nodr...
I have an idea for the newly announced Microsoft Vine, and I was wondering if there is a public API available. I have had no luck in searching, just a bunch of news articles. ...
Mix Labs have released the Glimmer app, an IDE for making fancy effects with jQuery. I downloaded it & I've done a few things with it. I think it's quite nifty, but I'm not sure I'd use it 'in real life'. What's the general opinion on its usefulness & the quality of the code it generates? ...
People don't seem to be able to get the data from the cube unless unless I set the database permission to "full control" on the server. What is the right way to give read access (only) to a cube in Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Server ...
Hi everyone! I'm using Microsoft Reports (rdlc), and I need to create report with subreport. As a data source I created two Object Classes, PositionObject and PositionSubElementObject. PositionObject is data source for the main report, and PositionSubElementObject is a data source for the subreport. When I run this two reports separatel...