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Quick MSDN Search in Firefox

Is there a way to get an MSDN search bar in Firefox which will autocomplete .Net class and member names (and preferably also Win32 API methods) and take me directly to the MSDN page? Google toolbar with Shift+Enter (I'm feeling lucky) will usually go directly to the msdn page for a .Net class, but it doesn't have targeted autocomplete....

Is there a bug in this code from 101 LINQ Samples on MSDN? (Update: Fixed)

NOTE: Charlie Calvert replied below that the 101 LINQ Samples have now been updated with correct code. The MSDN Visual C# Developer Center has a section called 101 LINQ Samples. I found this through a Bing search. The code for SelectMany - Compound from 1 is: public void Linq14() { int[] numbersA = { 0, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 }; in...

ArrayList and Array difference

With reference to MSDN, It is stated that "You can set the lower bound of an Array, but the lower bound of an ArrayList is always zero" If i declare an array a[10], the lower bound is always a[0]. Is this the lower bound specified there? If yes, How can we set the lower bound of an array, Since the index of an array always starts with...

Microsoft Visual Studio Test Elements with MSDN - Pricing

Does anyone know the expected price of this when released? ...

Regarding Microsoft API: IHTMLWindow2::execScript Method

In MSDN, it is decleared as in http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa741364(VS.85).aspx : Syntax HRESULT execScript( BSTR code, BSTR language, VARIANT *pvarRet ); Parameters code [in] BSTR that specifies the code to be executed. language [in] BSTR that specifies the language in which the code is executed. The la...

LINK ERROR in VC++

I needed help making sense out of the following LNK error which i am getting. SwitchFunctions error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "__declspec(dllimport) ??$?8DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@1@@std@@YA_NABV?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@0@PBD@Z" (__imp_??$?8DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@1@@std...

Licensing for MSDN code samples

I am preparing several in-depth code samples for prospective employers. Within the sample I have included references to several open source projects, Moq and StructureMap. For some of the functionality I need to modify portions of an expression tree and the standard method is using an ExpressionVistor such as this example/code sample fr...

Hierarchical animations in DirectX and handling seperate animations on the same mesh?

I have a hierarchical animated model in DirectX which loads and animates based on the following DirectX sample: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee418677%28VS.85%29.aspx As good as the sample is it does not really go into some of the details of animation that I'd like. For example, if I have a mesh which has a running animation ...

function to return the windows installed drive ?

i would like to know the function which returns the drive where the windows has been installed. for example if we run a program with following code in windows which is installed in "C:\" temp_char = getWindowsInstalledDrive(); should return "C:\". please point me to that function if you know. it should be a C/C++ function. Thanks...

Assigning a version number to a DLL created using CSharpCodeProvider

I have a method that creates a DLL from a .cs file that is based on the code found here on MSDN. Using that code, is there any way to specify the version number of the DLL that gets generated? Right now it's always 0.0.0.0. I can't find a property or constructor that I can call to specify the version number. ...

Performance Counter Category Names? (C#)

I'm trying to program in a performance counter into my C# application that launches another process and checks the processor usage of that launched process. As I understand it, the performance counter class requires me to assign a category name , a counter name, and a process name. I can get the process name easily enough, but is there a...

MSDN Help Integration Guidance

I'm aware of Sandcastle and DocProject, but I need some guidance on the structure of what I want to do before I can look up how to do it. What I need to build is is MSDN-style help integrated with context-sensitive F1 help for the Types and Members of my library. I already have the library, a bunch of inline XML documentation, and a wi...

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word documentation

I need to use the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word namespace to extract if a Word document contains macros, and which ones. The MSDN documentation for this namespace doesn't give much information compared to the documentation on other .Net classes. Where can I get more informations about this namespaces (examples, complete documentation, et...

Is it possible to get an MSDN help (local or website) for a selected Intellisense dropdown function using a kb shortcut?

So, very often do I wonder what a function does and open up a browser and head to MSDN to check more comprehensive description. Is there a keyboard shortcut I could use to open up the MSDN page of the selected function in the Intellisense dropdown automatically? ...

CD burning using ICDBurn

hi i want to burn my audio files into CD. Is it possible to do programatically. I heard about ICDBurn. But not gettng that much idea when reading MSDN. I am from embedded domain. Can u give some help or sample program. I want to implement in VC++ or qt. ...

Is read-only auto-implemented property possible?

Hello. I found a topic on MSDN that talks that yes, this is possible. I did a test that seems to break this statement: using System; namespace Test { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { Foo f = new Foo("1"); Console.WriteLine(f.Bar); // prints 1 f.Test("2"); ...

Folder copy VC++

i want to copy a directory from one drive to another drive. My selected directory contain many sub directories and files. How can i implement the same using vc++ ...

char to LPCTSTR

how to convert char to LPCTSTR in vc++ ...

Where to get MSDN Help Viewer for 2010 like earlier MSDN with Index, Tree and one window?

I upgraded to Visual Studio 2010 RC, and I remember filling one big form for MSDN help improvement campaign and I was wondering I will get to see a Help Viewer like MSDN included in Visual Studio 2008, which included One Program (Not IE), Index and the way to view preferred language setting. Google results shows that there were headline...

How to return wchar_t from a function

i want to return wchar_t frm a function. How can i implement it wchar_t wcstring1[newsize1] How to return "wcstring1" from a function and make it to save into another variable of same type(In another function) ...