The Economist famous Bic Mac index is an informal way of measuring the purchasing power parity between currencies. Perhaps we should create the equivalent MSDN index. A Visual Studio Team System Developer MSDN Premium 1 year subscription (without taxes) costs: USA, $5469 UK, £3670, $7256, 33% more EU, €5855, $9119, 67% more Norway, NOK...
Is there a way to have msdn documentation on a usb key ? either web or the MSDN Library program. i've been setting up my usbkey with portableapps stuff. ...
As a long time MS developer, I find MSDN to be an invaluable resource. However, when tinkering at home I am not able to play with the best latest technologies and the different offerings coming from Redmond as I cannot justify paying such a hefty price for what is essentially a pastime. The Express editions are great, but fall flat whe...
I've been trying to understand Process.MainWindowHandle. According to MSDN; "The main window is the window that is created when the process is started. After initialization, other windows may be opened, including the Modal and TopLevel windows, but the first window associated with the process remains the main window." (Emphasis added) ...
I work for a small shop that currently only has two full MSDN developer licenses. The license allows you to run the Workgroup edition of TFS. We have one running, but its a pain in the butt dealing with who gets access to it (only five seats on the Workgroup edition). I'm wondering, since we have two MSDN dev licenses, can we host two...
After installing VS2005 VB6 lost F1 function to MSDN Oct/2001 lib. Suggetions to re-install MSDN did not work. The only thing F1 works on now are ADO statements in VB6. Example ado1.recordset.recordcount If I highlight recordcount and press F1 I do get the ADO help information. If I highlight "recordset", I get "Help not found" dialog. ...
I know just the question is a bit of heresey, but I'm curious... Sure, there are the express editions. But when Microsoft is effectively competing for 'hearts and minds' in an OSS world, it seems more than a bit counterproductive to charge devs who wholeheartedly support .NET high subscription fees for Microsoft software. It's hard to i...
This is both for the local version and msdn.microsoft.com. Generally I find the MSDN documentation to be very good, but only if you can find what you're looking for. So if anybody has any general tips and tricks, I'd love to hear them. ...
I'm looking for a plugin or way to simply go from any namespace, type, method, property, etc in my .Net code to the MSDN page that covers it via a context menu item or hyperlink-like mechanism. Does anyone know of anything that will do that? The "Go to Definition" option when you right click almost covers this, but it doesn't quite w...
Hi Everybody, I'm trying to call the OpenThemeData (see msdn OpenThemeData) function but I couldn't determine what are the acceptable Class names to be passed in by the "pszClassList" parameter. HTHEME OpenThemeData( HWND hwnd, LPCWSTR pszClassList ); Could anybody tell me what are the acceptable class names that I can pass in...
Hi, I work for a small digital marketing company as a programmer, and we are not a Microsoft partner or any sort (Gold/Silver/Bronze). However, we use .NET. What I am confused about is that the developer before me has left, and he gets subscription DVDs of latest Microsoft tools, delivered to the company (Sql Server etc). I am assumig...
I'm just a one-man software shop, and I currently have an MSDN subscription. It is coming up for renewal soon, and it looks like it's going to cost a small fortune. I see that TechNet subscriptions cost significantly less money, and seem to include all of the same software. Am I missing something here? What is the difference between thes...
I'm trying to understand what this method means as I'm reading this and have wondered what uses this may have. I don't quite understand the example given. Can anyone give another explanation of it. Examples would help. Thanks ...
I learned about Microsoft BizSpark the other day and started the sign up process. Has anyone else heard about it or had success with it? ...
How do I let Microsoft know about a problem I've found in one of their core library routines? Do they have a central repository to report these things? I am not a member of Microsoft Development Network (MSDN). Or should I even bother? ...
I'm searching the XSD (XML Schema) for the Microsoft .NET application configuration files. Till now I found only this: Configuration File Schema for the .NET Framework but I'm more interested in the XSD. Or - asked in general - I search also XSDs in general for .NET configuration files listed here. I've Visual Studio 2008 and don't see...
I'm russian and i've downloaded and installed localized MSDN library. But if an article is translated into russian, there is no english original. I have to launch original MSDN and have two document explorers open simultaneously. Is there a way to unite two libraries (eng and rus MSDN) in one UI? ...
Are the latest expression tools covered under a Microsoft MSDN subscription? I know in the past they were not part of MSDN downloads. I think I remember someone saying they are available now. Are these trial editions or full-blown versions? ...
Sure you get the OSs and Visual Studio, however: Do you need anything more than XP and Vista for most development? Visual Studio Express is fine for me. Are there any other benefits that you actually use as part of your MSDN subscription? ...
Microsoft already has a Windows 7 Beta Customer Preview Program on their MSDN site where they encourage us to: "Evaluate and jump-start your development efforts on Windows 7 Beta". Do you feel it is worthwhile to spend my time now re Windows 7, or should I wait a few releases, or even until after Windows 7 is released? What are the ad...