I'm finding the built-in Visual Studio Document Explorer less relevant, especially as more of the SDKs I work with have the most up-to-date content on-line. Pressing F1 starts Document Explorer usually with something unhelpful and it's not usable any more for me. Is there any way that on the press of a key combination in Visual Studio: ...
While there are a handful of great programs for ISV Startups (BizSpark, Emplower ISV, etc), the only option avaiable for non-startups seems to be Visual Studio w/ MSDN. It's not that expensive (I was quoted $10,080/yr for 8 developers), but I'm fairly sure that we'd be just as fine without it. We need pretty standard dev workstations (W...
I've been looking for a Microsoft document from the 1990's called CodeView Symbolic Debug Information Specification. It's referenced by Microsoft in their PE/COFF spec. Information about this document is sparse, and every lead I come across ends in a 404. Unfortunately I don't have any old MSDN CD's, which seemed to end the search for a ...
Every time I run the Visual Studio setup I encounter the following error message "A problem has been encountered while loading the setup components. Canceling setup.". I also tried running the setup via the control panel, which results in a ever-so-meaningful "path not found" (but the setup did execute further). I did try removing sever...
How to download webpage into string without saving this page to disk in C++? URLDownloadToFile MSDN function only saving page into disk. ...
One thing I really, really miss from Javadoc is the ability to see which classes inherit the class you're looking at. So if you are looking at an abstract class (such as List) then you would be able to see all classes that inherit/implement the class/interface you're looking at. Is this available in the MSDN and I'm just missing it or is...
Its getting to that time where we need to get some more up to date development tools. There seems to be so many schemes, subscriptions and memberships out there which promise to offer discounts on various development tools etc. Which ones are best in terms of cost and usable software. We are a web based company and our software is creek...
Well I am sure that most people have seen the following: This time, I did not install the local MSDN so I do not have the option of Local help, however I usually always use the first option of look online anyway. I was wondering if there are any downsides to not installing MSDN? The only one I have found so far is that dynamic help ...
I've seen some links to lab.msdn.microsoft.com, but now all it does is give a standard ASP.Net error page. What did the site use to have, and when did it go down? ...
method. what does this mean? static. and there are lot more symbols. Where can I get the reference of all these? EDIT: Just in case anybody also want here is a meaningful link http://tinyurl.com/msdnicons ...
I'm positive that this guide existed, but my Google skills seem to be broken today. Could you show me the link to the MSDN pointing to that section? ...
I don't understand what does the overloaded term mean in the context of msdn library's page for MemoryStream Close method (or others like Dispose). See the page here. To me, overloaded points out the fact that you are providing a method with the same name but different signature than an existing one AND in the same class. In this case,...
Just got approved for WebsiteSpark, but I can't download from MSDN. Anybody else have this issue? Update: Currently going through MS support. WebsiteSpark doesn't seem to be talking to MSDN very well. ...
I have seen some examples of people using avifil32.dll to read / write AVI files and the DLL is supplied in Windows XP (possibly not Vista / Win 7). However even though its used in an example for the extern keyword of C# on MSDN I can't find any documentation on it there. Where can I find a list of functions or entry points into avifil3...
I install Visual C++ 2008 Express to develop code using native Win32 API. However, the MSDN Express I can install with it doesn't show help on Windows API functions - but only on .NET Even online help isn't helpful and keep linking to MFC. How can I integrate MSDN with Windows API documentation (SDK) into my Express 2008? ...
Can someone please help be take apart the elements here and help me understand what they are? public static IOrderedEnumerable<TSource> OrderByDescending<TSource, TKey>( this IEnumerable<TSource> source, Func<TSource, TKey> keySelector ) What is TSource and TKey? What is a keySelector? What the heck is an IOrderedEnumerable? ...
Hi, Often i have a problem that I need to determine which assebmly to include into my project in order to use specific class. For instance I want to you TypeInfo class. MSDN does not say it belongs to. Actually I am not even been able to find TypeInfo class using MSDN document explorer search. All the results relate to some other stuff....
I have been checking around MSDN and Microsoft.com but i can only find Archived forums. Are there any microsoft run forums for DirectX anymore? ...
Just joined the website spark program, which is a great deal in my opinion. But i still have one question, at the program details page (http://www.microsoft.com/web/websitespark/Support.aspx?tab=ProgramDetails) the following is mentioned as a benefit: 'Free online training Managed newsgroups on MSDN (a community of over six million dev...
I use google as my primary reference so I don't need a local copy of MSDN; and am trying to free up a few GB of disk space. Before I pull the plug I'd like to make sure that my fatfingering the F1 key won't end up freezing visual studio up for even longer than it does with MSDN installed. ...