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It's Possible To Develop For Which Platforms With Sing#

Hello, Recently I was reading about Singularity and one of development languages of it was Sing#, then I want to know, in which platforms I can develop for with Sing# ...

Are WPF and Silverlight on a collision course?

It seems like these two technologies, already similar, are on a path to merge into a single technology. There are a lot more WPF-like controls in the Silverlight toolbox, and WPF now has Silverlight's VisaulStateManager. At this point, it's probably fair to say that Silverlight has even surpassed WPF in terms of the number of themes avai...

In C# could we imagine writing our own events without writing delegates?

I learned the object-oriented in Java. Now in develop in C#. This means that I never really understood the functioning of delagates but I know how to use them. Lately I discovered this page http://java.sun.com/docs/white/delegates.html. If Java is able to create event without delagates is it possible to do the same in C#? Could we imag...

Use the publish wizard to publish an MS Project 2003 plugin

Hi, I am developing a addin for Project 2003 with vsto 2005 SE. I can use the setup project to build an installer for the addin. Then I use the publish wizard to publish the addin. Then I tried to click the deployment file of the addin "PPM_MSP_Plugin2003.application", an error happens. I have created the same registry entries as the in...

debugging c# in the command line

Hello. Just for fun, how close can we get to debug an application in C# using only the command-line out-of-the-box? No other software, just the command-line. That is, for instance, is there a way to peek at the values of variables, interact with output, etc. like the VS debugger does? EDIT: And just for completeness' sake, here is the m...

AX get stuck in a loop when printing a report

Hi, A client is having some trouble printing a standard report in Axapta 3.0 SP3. The report finishes gathering data, and everything is fine. But when the program is trying to print it to screen it starts an endless loop. Down in the bottom left on the status bar it says "Page 1, Section: xxxxx" where xxxxx counts from 1 to 65536 and st...

Microsoft Ajax Minifier and NAnt

Hi folks! Could someone explain to me how to use the Microsoft Ajax Minifier from a nant-script as a nant-task. I've seen examples of how to use it in Visual Studio but I would like the minification to be done on our CI-server. ...

Microsoft research on fact extraction from the web?

Some time ago I had accidentally found website which was apparently product of Microsoft research on fact extraction from the web, more specifically from the Wikipedia. Right now I would like to have better look into how it works, but the problem is i can't find it, maybe somebody knows what I am talking about and could give me direction...

Best Environment For Windows Mobile 5 Development

Hello, I got my Pocket PC(HP iPaq Hx2490b) and now I want to know which is the best environment to develop for it, things like IDE, Windows version, language, .Net framework version...? Thanks. ...

Reworking a Distributor/Customer tangle in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0

I've inherited an implementation of MS CRM 3.0 where individual contacts are each assigned to a particular "distributor." Unfortunately, distributors are not defined as any sort of entity. Instead, the contact form was modified to include extra fields that contain the distributor name and address. Up till now, each time the distribu...

Detecting the version and company name of an exe using jscript

Hi, I kwnow how to retrieve the version of an exe using jscript, but I can't find any way to retrieve other info like "Company", "Internal name" or "Product name". function version_of( file_name ) { var fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject"); var f; try { f = fso.GetFile( file_name ) } catch( e ) { ...

RIA .NET service installation error

I am trying to install Microsoft .NET RIA services Preview (RiaServices.msi) on a machine running Windows 7 RC + Visual Studio 2008 SP1, and get the following error: "2908. Error while installing assembly System.Web.DomainServices.Tools.VisualStudio, version 1.0.0.0.." Anybody else had this problem? What should I look at? ...

Getting back into Windows programming

I've been out of the Microsoft stack for a while now, been focused on Linux, open source stuff and web development in PHP. I used to do some desktop app development and some DirectX stuff on Windows in Dev Studio (all C and C++). I'd like to brush up on the MS stuff just to keep up on what's going on. I've installed MSVC++ 2008 Express ...

Differences between Microsoft CRM and xRM

Hello, I am browsing the new xrm.com page and I find it lacks some concrete information of what does it means. Could you please explain what are the main differences between Microsoft CRM and xRM? What extra features does it gives to the developer or customer? Thanks in advance. ...

where i found dotnet 4 installer

i want to download dotnet 4 but i can't find it where i find for offline ...

Why do I have to re-install MSMQ when I come off and back on to the office network?

Hi I've got a really frustrating problem with MSMQ constantly refusing to work even though it's installed and started. I have MSMQ installed on my Vista Business laptop (MSMQ-Container;MSMQ-Server;MSMQ-Triggers;MSMQ-DCOMProxy) and this laptop is joined to the company domain. Registry shows that it's installed under Workgroup mode which...

How to write a custom spell checker for Microsoft Word?

I want to write a spell checker for Word 2003 and 2007 preferably using Microsoft's own CSAPI which will enable my spell checker to work in the same way the built-in spell checker works. I did a bit of research and found out that "developers who are interested in implementing a CSAPI spell check engine and lexicon, or only an add-in lexi...

How to learn programming for Web Development using microsoft technologies

i am programmer but not good i am working with c# , asp.net and MVC too. so how i can improve our coding skill for develop a better web apps. means how can i learn it. ...

Microsoft Assembly configuration for 32-bit mixed C/C++ application

We have a 32 bit mixed C/C++ application that we are trying to deploy to the world. It naturally uses C and C++ runtime DLLs. We are using VS 2005. The manifest constructed by VS2005 is the following: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> <assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0"> ...

ISV Solutions Competency or Custom Development Solutions Competency ?

My company wants to apply Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. But, we not sure which competency should we take. Either goes to ISV Solutions Competency or Custom Development Competency. Let me introduce my company background. We are third party healthcare service provider where we developed our own web based system to manage healthcare c...