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Has MSDN Dropped Compact Framework already?

MSDN Documentation used to indicate if a method was supported on the compact framework. But now I can't find that info anymore. I know that Microsoft has dropped Compact Framework like a hot potato, but I did not know that they had ripped it out of the docs. As examples of what I am talking about here is a link to the Graphics Members...

Microsoft Visual Studio Professional Licensing

Hello, We are a small financial Company (around 20 people) We are planning to buy the Visual Studio Professional 2008 Edition to build some Proprietary software for ourself. We have only 3 developers working on this software. The question is Can we distribute the application(just the exe) throughout the office. What are the restrictions...

To pull data into Microsoft Excel 2007 with web queries

Hi, How can i perform to enter username and password when want to pull data into Microsoft Excel with web queries??? Have any solution can be used to solve this kind of problem? ...

Why am I getting the error SQLException: [Microsoft][ODBC Excel Driver] Too few parameters. Expected 1

I am using the following code for uploading keywords & count to an Excel file. I am having the keyword_id as primary key for that one. I am having the two columns in the Excel file. 1.keyword and 2.count my code is: while (rs.next()) { System.out.println("inside "); String keyword = rs.getString(1); int count = rs.getInt(2...

Why does asp.net wrap the page in a form?

I'm a PHP developer who has to work on ASP.net projects and I'm wondering why every page is wrapped in a form. This just doesn't make sense to me. Also What's with all the hidden input fields especially the "View State" one. ...

What is MSSRPD?

Recently, I found that some searches in Firefox are redirected to Bing. (Instead of my primary search engine Google.) I am not sure, but it seems that it is not bound to search but rather a hostname resolving. Since entering a single word that might be a hostname redirects to Bing. But entering more words searches using my primary searc...

How to automate a web query login to download data in Microsoft Excel 2007?

Hi, Have anyone can sharing with me the info on which is how to automate a web query login to download data in Ms.Excel 2007? Problem is existing that i need to manually login through a web query each time.... Thanks in advance for any help you can provide! ...

Microsoft ODBC for Oracle and JDBC

Is the Microsoft ODBC driver for Oracle compatible with JDBC? If so, could an example be given? ...

BPOS Single Sign on

Hi , I want to call BPOS and its functions from another web application. The web application uses the same credentials that I want to use with BPOS. I think BPOS doesnot supports Single Sign On (SSO). Is there any alternative to implement it? ...

Windows 7 Program Compatibility Assistant appeared for my app. Why?

I have created a native application. It works without questions under Win XP and Win Vista. Under Win 7 my application installed fine. I ran it. It worked normally until i selected 'Exit' from menu. On exit "Program Compatibility Assistant" window appeared telling me my application is incompatible with Windows 7 and some compatibility se...

I'm learning C# in vs2008 while vs2010 is available. Am I missing something?

Hi, that is my question. Beacause I'm learing C# in vs2008, I was asking to my self if i'm missing something not learning in vs2010. I won't touch WPF/Silverlight for a while, with C#, ASP.NET and SQL Server I have a lot of fun for a while. well, that's my question, I'm getting vicious or missing something using vs2008 ? ...

How to use SSE with both Windows compiler and GCC compiler?

I have to optimize a piece of code using SSE extensions. My target platforms are Windows and Linux, so I build my application using MS compiler (VStudio) and GCC compiler. What approach does exist to involve SSE? I can find a lot of examples how to use SSE with GCC, but they seem to be incompatible to be used with MS compiler. Does exis...

Learning new Microsoft .net technologies

Dear StackOverflow, :-) For the past eight months or so, I have been banging my head on my keyboard out of frustration because I can't make Windows Identity Foundation do the things that I want it to do. Even more frustratingly, WIF doesn't seem to enjoy the widespread adoption of many other MS .net technologies. I often cannot find w...

What is the drawback of MSR Accelerator

Just tried it out and found it to be very simple and fast. When i then tried to search the web for information about it I hardly found anything. Why is that? Is there some huge drawback I am missing? ...

Replication related issue,

Replication related issue, I am explaining my architecture . I have created , its transactinal replication process 2 Publisher on table vendors script I have given below, A Distributor 2 Subscribers Data replication set up is like this as : Table VENDORS gets replicated from 2-publishers to 2-subcribers via-Distributor. Whil...

No output to console in Miscrosoft Expression Blend?

I'm afraid this is a dumb question, but I'm tired of searching for a solution. I can't send anything to the output window (Results -> Output) in Expression Blend. I tried with 'Console.WriteLine', 'Console.Out.WriteLine' and 'Debug.WriteLine' but I can´t see anything. Thanks for your help ...

Reading a value in associative array creates a new key..

Hi, I have code such as this. I use pvalueholder is class that is polymorphic , it can hold all sort of types, string..etc.. It also can have a type undefined. typedef hash_map<pvalueholder,pvalueholder,pvaluehasher > hashtype; hashtype h; pvalueholder v; v="c"; h[v]=5; // h has one element pvalueholder v2=h[v]; // here h gets a new...

Will Microsoft continue supporting C++/CLI?

I've found C++/CLI to be a very powerful language for wrapping C/C++ libraries with .NET. I believe it's much better than using PInvoke for C for various reasons. However, when I've upgraded my project to Visual Studio 2010, I've found that it has less support for C++/CLI. Examples: Targeting the 3.5 framework with the Visual C++ 20...

Difference between the various Microsoft Speech technologies.

Hi, I am looking to write an application that will convert speech-to-text and vice versa for a warehouse application. The main use case will be that an operator will be wearing a headset in the warehouse and sending instructions back to a server and receiving instructions from the warehouse software to pick and pack orders. We will be...

AppFabric vs Unity vs Memcached or possibly any other multi server caching mechanisms

Hi, I am currently in the process of investigating the various different caching mechanisms out there whether they be free or at some cost (minimal preferably). The situation. Currently we have to load-balanced servers that host our web application with a third server being an SQL server. This site is a eShop, and it gets hit quite reg...