What is the DosDevice?
What is the definition of DosDevice? Is a C: DosDevice? And are COM1 and CON DosDevice either? ...
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Bing.com core technology?
We all know bing.com is a Microsoft site, hence it's technology is built upon Microsoft stuck (I can hardly imaging something different). Does any one have an idea about what technologies are used in Bing.com (for serving the pages, for indexing the web, for searching the database.. etc)? /* Strange question you say?! C'mon it's StackOv...
Where can I get Visual C++ 6.0?
I have a project that was allegedly working when compiled with Visual C++ 6.0. Where can I get Visual C++ 6.0, so I can add one more feature (hopefuly a relatively small change) and recompile? (There doesn't seem to be a good reason right now for "Migrating a big project in MFC from Visual C++ 6.0 to Visual Studio 2005" or "a total rewr...
How do you pronounce "Microsoft SQL Server" ?
Possible Duplicate: SQL Pronunciation What is the correct way of pronouncing "SQL" in "Microsoft SQL Server" ? ess-cue-el or sequel I've heard it both ways, but what is the official? ...
Fully qualified path Vs. Canonical Path.
There is a canonical path concept in Java. And there is a fully-qualified path in WinApi. I know well what canonical path is, but I don't understand fully-qualified path's concepts. For a file or directory, does fully-qulified path exist only one thing? -like canonical path. Are both of them totally same concepts? Edit: One more thin...
Microsoft Speech Recognition Platform
I wrote an app in C# for speech recognition using System.Speech which works fine on Windows 7. However I'm after creating the same app that will work on windows 2003 (x86). My programming environment: Windows 7 x64 Pro Visual Studio 2008 In order to develop this application in my programming environment I installed: 1.Microsoft Speech...
Do Microsoft employees use Visual Source Safe (VSS)?
Microsoft has always been adamant about their use of "dogfooding" in the software development process, and it's made tools like Excel and Visual Studio work pretty well. My question is this: Do Microsoft employees use VSS? Have they ever used it? If not, what do they actually use? It seems to be such a flawed, inadequate version control ...
.NET JPA Specification
Is this true? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2756307/what-is-the-equivalent-of-jpa-in-net The marked answer shows a bunch of implementations. My understanding of JPA is that it is a specification? What would be the equivalent specifications in .NET? Would it be Linq Providers? And maybe the connection classes? ...
Launching ClickOnce App from C#
I'd like to be able to start a ClickOnce application from another executable. I know how to do this with the browser using Process.Start("http://PathToMyApp"). However, this is returning null for the Process. Therefore, I cannot check to ensure that the process has started or kill the process later. How can I launch a click once applic...
Where can I find the "History of Visual Studio" video shown at the VS 2010 Launch?
Kind of a weird question to ask on SO, but it is programming related, so hear me out! I've been looking for a few months (with no results) for a video shown at a local Visual Studio 2010 launch event. The video was a high-production-value piece covering the history of Visual Studio from the early days up to the present. It was maybe 10...
Optimise Microsoft Access Nested Queries
I'm trying to run a set of nested or stacked queries in Microsoft Access. As in I run Query 1 -->I use the results of Query 1 in Query 2 ---->I use the results of Query 2 in Query 3 ------>I use the results of Query 3 in Query 4 Query 3 takes less than 1 second to run. -- Query 3 results -- PARTID INFO 266 156-10 266 165-10 266 183...
WebSite Started to throw error : System resource exceeded. (Access DB)
I have a webpage that is giving me this error on a couple of pages -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '8007000e' [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] System resource exceeded. -----------------------------------------------------------...
What Microsoft UI technology was used to create Zune Media player (marketplace software, not device os)?
UI looks like it could me made with silverlight, but it's not a web app. ...
security of my files during the advice with microsoft office NetMeeting
Hi to all! I have to do an advice with a teacher that will helps me to get better some files I have done. To do this we'll use Microsoft Office NetMeeting. The teacher has the server part of the software and I have the client part. I'll share with him my desktop, the files and the application to elaborate them. I'm a little in trouble ...
What is the status of MSN openID integration?
One of the answers to this SO question said that MSN OpenID was in Beta (as of September 2009). Does anyone know what is its current status? Has the integration been finished? If so what is the URL to perform a discovery? ...
probelm connectiong SCOM agent
Hey, I have a LAN with 2 computers: win7, win2008 (SCOM server). I try to connect an agent to the win7 but get the followng error: Failed to initialize security context for target MSOMHSvc/ {my host name} The error returned is 0x8009030C(The logon attempt failed). This error can apply to either the Kerberos or the SChannel package. ...
Capturing received & sent emails from Microsoft Exchanged
I'm wondering if someone could point me out in the right direction. I need to capture e-mails as they are received and/or sent via Microsoft exchanged. I need to capture typical information such as from, to, subject, body, date send/received, conversation id, etc.... but I also need to capture attachments if any and also if possible con...
Microsoft's ASLR is weird.
I watched a ASLRed dll images's based address for 32bit Process. It's not a fully randomization. It just randomizated 1/2 probability. For example, once I load a dll then the image is loaded on 0x12345678. And I load the image again, the image is loaded on 0x23456789.(Base address is chagned!) But I load the image again 0x12345678 0x234...
why did microsoft create vb?
why did they? i mean most of their programs uses c++ like ms office and their ie. ...
I'm looking for a website where has the list of posters about Microsoft Certificates roadmap/learning-path.
All what I found are separate pdf files. I need to find the whole list (greedy :D) but don't know where to find. Do you have any ideas on that? [Edit] Files I've found (by google for it): File 1 File 2 ...