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I am trying to remove the bed-each from my Microsoft Word application

Every time when I attempt to cut and paste a hyperlink from the Internet onto my Microsoft Word it becomes embedded and I get the whole URL. Is there any way that I can reverse this? Thank you for any help ...

Why doesn't Entity Framework easily allow a custom base class?

Is this a design choice by Microsoft, or is there a way to do it, that I'm not aware of? ...

Where is the Query Analyzer in SQL Server Management Studio 2008 R2?

I have some SQL thats getting run and it is taking to long to return the results / parse / display, etc. in a asp.net c# application. I have SQL Server Management Studio 2008 R2 installed to connect to a remote SQL Server 2000 machine. Is there a Query Analyzer or profiler I can use to see whats going on? I'm not sure if I'm sending too...

What is the difference between Windows Azure and traditional Windows hosting?

My knowledge of Windows Azure is limited to the several videos I watched on Microsoft's web site. Aside from a few new buzzwords, I'm not seeing how this platform differentiates from traditional web hosts that have existed for many years. Aside from the unique billing model (e.g. "storage transactions per month"), what differentiates Azu...

What are the TOP 5 print and digital industry publications I should be reading

I work in the enterprise web software industry. Currently I work with everything Microsoft. What are the TOP 5 print publications I should be reading to deepen my understanding of enterprise development, gain technological, business, and industry insight. Additionally what are the TOP 5 digital publications/web sites? ...

Microsoft NoSQL strategy

Does Microsoft have any NoSQL strategy at all? Any ongoing MS Research projects? ...

How to login to SQL Server 2005 Express Management Studio?

Hello I've just installed SQL Server 2005 Express and I'm trying to login to Management Studio but I don't know what the "Server Name" is to be able to login. I've tried: localhost\SQLEXPRESS 127.0.0.1\SQLEXPRESS SQLEXPRESS <computer name>\SQLEXPRESS <username>\SQLEXPRESS The authentication mode is Windows Authentication. The error...

Which commonly heard softwares are free/trial-based/paid-only?

down vote favorite Hi, Having mostly been in academic setting and having had free access to all the needed softwares (and some piracy on my part), I have even ceased to understand/know that which commonly needed softwares are free/trial-based/paid-only. Rather than having to search for this information for each software individually, ...

Use Web Application Project as Server Project Microsoft Sync Framework

Hello, I'm using WEB Application as a Server in my solution. I have in this project web services which I use to download data to local database ( in client project). Now I'm swithing to sync framework but during wizard steps I have problem in choosing Server Project Location because my Web Application Project isnt visible there. How can...

Creating an ASP.Net website on your computer?

I was wondering if there was a way to create a local webserver on your own computer which uses ASP.Net? Sort of like WAMP for Microsoft technologies. ...

Microsoft and JQuery: code to combine linking and templating?

With an extreme amount of SO user help, I used ASP.NET MVC 2 Futures to employ JSON to load 600 some products and display them with Microsoft Jquery templates in 400ms with the code below. Is there a way to use Microsoft JQuery Linking to bind the object to the generated form data without looping through every one? (Assuming I preserve...

windows security event schema

I would like a list of possible security events published by windows (all versions 2000+) to the event log. E.g., I want to know: Event ID: 512 (0x0200) Type: Success Audit Description: Windows NT is starting up. For every event. I also need it in a parseable (csv, json, xml) format. See this article: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/eric...

Getting print cancelled notification in IE using IOlecommandTarget::QueryStatus.

Hi everyone.. Is it possible to be notified if a user selects cancel button from the printing prompt in IE ? Basically I want a print-cancelled kind of notification. I read somewhere that IOlecommandtarget interface can be used to be notified for our own controls, but can the same be used for system controls like print ? Can anyone help...

Microsoft JQuery Template plugin: Script Stack Space Quota is Exhausted

I read a few questions regarding the Firefox "Script Stack Space Quota is Exhausted." The answers are usually "work with less data". However, how much "JSON" data we process is not the issue. We created a very small template, then loaded over 700 products with that template without an issue. The problem seem to be how much HTML is in...

Microsoft API for parallel programming in C

Hi, Is there any Microsoft API for parallel programing in C language ? thanks for any answers, bye ...

ribbon controls in delphi

(sorry this question is not based on software but about legal issues ) I have used tms ribbon controls and ribbon controls came with Delphi 2009 in my project. i can remember the Delphi setup warned me about ribbon controls and said me to get license from microsoft. whats is the licences and can i distribute this application as a comerc...

"silverlight for Windows 7 Phone" option is not shown in "Add new Item" option

Hi I have downloaded and installed Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows 7 Phone. Problem is that i cant see "Silverlight for Windows Phone" option when I right click my Project name and select Add -> New Item option. I can only see "XNA Game Studio 4.0" under "Visual C#" category. I have tried installing Silverlight SDK sepa...

How does Microsoft handle the fact that UTF-16 is a variable length encoding in their C++ standard library implementation

Having a variable length encoding is indirectly forbidden in the standard. So I have several questions: How is the following part of the standard handled? 17.3.2.1.3.3 Wide-character sequences A wide-character sequence is an array object (8.3.4) A that can be declared as T A[N], where T is type wchar_t (3.9.1), optionally qual...

Custom Styled controls for Bing Ajax maps

Hi need some help in implementing custom controls for Bing Ajax maps, Can I simply overwrite current styles is this the best method or do I need to go deeper into the javascript and api? any links to good resources would be appreciated Cheers ...

Is there any application by Microsoft targeting the end user market and running on the .NET framework?

It's all in the title. Inspired by http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/dx8au/lessons_from_evernotes_flight_from_net/ Edit: I am primarily thinking about desktop apps, not web apps. ...