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by Akhil Mittal
Your first Chatbot using Microsoft’s Bot Framework and Dialog Flow API: Day 1 (Dialogflow and Slack Integration)
by Max R McCarty
OWASP's #6 most vulnerable security risk has to do with keeping secrets secret.
by Reiss
This is an alternative for "How to Check Whether Word is Installed in the System or Not"
by Alexandr Surkov
How to build and run .Net Micro Framework 4.4 on STM32F4Discovery board.

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Tableau is one of the powerful reporting tool which is on the market for over a decade. Here's a quick tour in designing BI reports with Tableau using Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3/ Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations.
by Uladzislau Baryshchyk
Examples of questions and examples of services for passing AWS cloud Developer Associate exam
by Apriorit Inc
Being able to switch between 32-bit and 64-bit modes in Windows is a useful skill. Learn about the heaven’s gate technique and the tools and methods needed for hooking 64-bit processes from the 32-bit WOW64 mode.
by Palavos
An article about Huo Chess, a mini open source chess program in C# that attempts to be the best smallest in size chess program for educational purposes ever...

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4 Feb 2019 by Akhil Mittal
Your first Chatbot using Microsoft’s Bot Framework and Dialog Flow API: Day 1 (Dialogflow and Slack Integration)
16 Feb 2016 by Max R McCarty
OWASP's #6 most vulnerable security risk has to do with keeping secrets secret.
24 Dec 2013 by Reiss
This is an alternative for "How to Check Whether Word is Installed in the System or Not"
6 Jun 2016 by Alexandr Surkov
How to build and run .Net Micro Framework 4.4 on STM32F4Discovery board.
5 Feb 2019 by Akhil Mittal
Your first Chatbot using Microsoft’s Bot Framework and Dialogflow API. Integrate with Google Assistant.
23 Mar 2020 by Apriorit Inc
Being able to switch between 32-bit and 64-bit modes in Windows is a useful skill. Learn about the heaven’s gate technique and the tools and methods needed for hooking 64-bit processes from the 32-bit WOW64 mode.
4 Feb 2012 by udhaya2code
While using Microsoft Text Driver to read CSV data to DataSet in C# in your 64 bit machine
4 Oct 2018 by Apriorit Inc, Artur Bulakaiev
Learn how was increased mhook’s performance, enhanced its capabilities and eliminated certain bugs.
9 Aug 2011 by Jesus Carroll
This brief article show how to install quickly Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express Edition Standard or with Advanced Services
3 Dec 2013 by Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ)
After the tip on Excel and Word, here we will explore the trick to verify whether Powerpoint is installed in the client's system or not by C#.
7 Sep 2018 by Clifford Nelson
This is a tip that has the code for selecting an Excel file and sheet for import into Microsoft Access. This includes the code required to browse for a file, and populate a ListBox with the sheets of the Excel Workbook, and the code to import an Excel spreadsheet.
25 Apr 2013 by Rion Williams
Using Pex and Microsoft Code Digger to better understand and test your code
6 Feb 2015 by Ben M Watson
Announcing Microsoft.IO.RecycableMemoryStream
17 Jan 2016 by M Faheem Zafar
How to Install SharePoint 2016 (Single-Server Farm) on VM
12 Feb 2016 by Tom Chantler
In this article you will learn how to write a simple application for the Microsoft Band. It'll only take about half an hour. All of the code is in GitHub.
18 Jan 2011 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
Frank, I appreciate your question.I took a look at the article. It is very interesting. Even though it is short, but the problem is not so trivial. At the same time, looking with my unarmed eye I can see, it simply cannot be absolutely universal, so success is based upon some assumption on...
23 Oct 2011 by Mehdi Gholam
Go to your Control Panel -> Add Remove Programs and see if you have .net in the list of programs.
7 Mar 2012 by Sunil_Sebastian
Duplicate Notifier for a List using ObservableCollection.
21 Sep 2012 by Mohamed Mitwalli
Hi ,Check this private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e){ this.usp_ReportPersonByIDTableAdapter.Fill(this.HeaderPerson.usp_ReportPersonByID,1);//Place it First before Refresh this.reportViewer1.LocalReport.SubreportProcessing += new...
17 Jan 2014 by Jochen Arndt
You may use GetScrollBarInfo()[^]:bool bVisible = false;SCROLLBARINFO SbVert;SbVert.cbSize = sizeof(SbVert);if (GetLBox().GetScrollBarInfo(OBJID_VSCROLL, &SbVert)){ // Index 0 of rgstate is the scrollbar itself // See SCROLLBARINFO in the MSDN if (0 == sbi.rgstate[0] &...
28 Mar 2014 by jurhas
Spada via Modbs, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition with visualb basic,Arduino and firebird
3 Dec 2014 by Dmitriy Kozlov
Capture signature or hand-written notes in SharePoint Form using tablets or mouse
7 Sep 2016 by Manjuke Fernando
A brief description of the native JSON Support in SQL Server 2016.
18 Jan 2011 by Espen Harlinn
Hei Frank :)Take a look at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms742522.aspx[^]andhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_Window_Manager[^]Offers an explanation on what's going on. SetParent(appWin, this.Handle);Gets into trouble with WPF based applications (Top...
17 Mar 2011 by OriginalGriff
Tarun.K.S.s' answer may sound flippant, but it is in fact the only way to tell. With any form of software - and macros are a form of software - the only way to tell if it is working "correctly" (i.e. doing exactly what you intended it to do, rather than what you told it to do) is to run it and...
1 May 2011 by Ernest Poletaev
A Localized WPF Application template for easily localizing a WPF application
19 May 2011 by CS2011
Yes it is possible. Try the following command //Make read onlyALTER DATABASE database-name SET READ_ONLY//Back to read writeALTER DATABASE database-name SET READ_WRITE
19 Feb 2013 by Rajesh Manjarekar
I found out that a possible cause is the difference between the SSIS 32 bits and 64 bits environment
4 May 2013 by bkelly13
Include code from other directories
26 Feb 2014 by ASP.NET Community
Asp Menu controls lacks to render its items which are set with dynamic visibility in Internet Explorer 8. Microsoft has also confirmed at Microsoft
29 Nov 2013 by Sergey Vaselenko
Hello,You may use the following formula on a worksheet:=NOT(ISERROR(MATCH("*";$A$1:$A$10;0)))But, "~" must be specified as "~~". For example:=NOT(ISERROR(MATCH("~~";$A$1:$A$10;0)))VBA functions:Function MyMatch(ByVal lookup_value As Variant, ByVal lookup_range As Variant)...
16 Jan 2014 by CBadger
Try thisbool bHScroll = (m_List.GetStyle()&WS_HSCROLL)!=0;bool bVScroll = (m_List.GetStyle()&WS_VSCROLL)!=0;// if not answer look at source :-)source[+]
13 Sep 2014 by CPallini
None. In my humble opinion certifications aren't that important. On the other hand, experience it is important. So if you want to master a technology, study it, and use it in real life.
12 Nov 2014 by CodeProject
On Wednesday November 12, Microsoft CVP Brian Harry will be available here for a live Q&A in the comment section of this article.
28 Sep 2015 by Member 12014821
In this article, I’ll walk you through the SharePoint 2016 installation on Hyper-V. I used Windows 10 as the Hyper-V host, but you can use any OS which supports Hyper-V.
1 Feb 2016 by Member 12014821
Using AngularJS in SharePoint
12 Apr 2016 by Ankita Biswas Bhattacharya
This article will explain how to package your lightswitch application in a zip folder in Visual Studio Lightswitch 2013 professional.
30 Mar 2016 by Passion4Code
Microsoft Azure: Get started
5 Apr 2016 by Dmitriy Kozlov
How to use ink sketch control in a SharePoint form to place markings on an image from Tablets, iPad, or PC
27 Apr 2016 by Dmitriy Kozlov
If you want to create different forms to different types of users in Forms Designer for SharePoint Online, you have two options: use permission settings or use SharePoint groups.
27 Jun 2016 by Maciej Los
Here: Microsoft Products Accepting Bugs and Suggestions | Microsoft Connect[^]Here is a guidelines: Bug Reporting Guidelines | Microsoft Connect[^]
2 Jul 2016 by Six Hat Solutions
Easily Send Emails From Your Microsoft Applications Using VBA and the SendGrid API
31 Dec 2021 by Richard MacCutchan
You could probably simplify that by the use of the singleton pattern - Google Search[^].
5 Jan 2022 by Stefan_Lang
You seem to try and imprint another languages' properties onto C++, and that is never a good idea! My experience with java is limited, and I'm not sure what you actually have in mind, but the code you posted is clearly not the recommended way of...
25 Jan 2022 by Stefan_Lang
Quote: How do we do it right 1. Post your actual question at the top, maybe even in the topic heading 2. Provide your goal and relevant detail information after that, in the body of your posting. Make sure to keep it reasonably short by...
2 Feb 2022 by OriginalGriff
As you are working on a server, you can't use Interop as the server is unlikely to have Word installed - and that's an absolute necessity for interop. So pretty much, OpenXML or a similar package is your only option - but "access denied" isn't...
29 Mar 2011 by Member 2182617
I have a question regarding Dlls. I am working on C programming and using visual studio. All codes (both Dlls and applications) are in C.Assume I have a DLL version 1.0, and I like to specify this version being used by my application A, also DLL Version 2.0 will be for Application B. And...
30 Mar 2011 by Espen Harlinn
You've developed a Word Addin which is connecting to DB and can add results to word document. As Word is a desktop application, and your addin requires Word it sound like you're out of luck unless you consider redoing it as a Sharepoint part. Inserting something from a database into a word...
24 Apr 2011 by Rajesh Lagaria
remove project solution file from your project and open then save new solution
24 Apr 2011 by Sandeep Mewara
Based on the error, your project/assemblies are still referenced to the older version of Enterprise assembly dll's. Try cleaning the project. Delete bin & obj folders. Make sure any third party or cross project assembly referenced is using latest/correct version of EL assembly. Refer the...
28 Apr 2011 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
What is "fake" software? Why would Microsoft worry about any software made by 3rd-party company? No.—SA
28 Apr 2011 by Nish Nishant
Is your concern that the 3rd party that developed this textile software for you used a pirated version of VS and SQL Server? If so, are you worried that because you bought software through them, you are indirectly pirating too? If that's your question, then I'd say I would not think so. You are...
2 May 2011 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
Just a note: there is not such thing as "DOS Command". If you're talking about "CMD.EXE" — this is just a regular Windows protected-more application using console and running command interpreter.You don't need to run it in your case. You need to run "NET.EXE" itself:string...
2 May 2011 by Parallel Patterns
Introducing Memory Model in the context of .NET platform
9 Jul 2011 by thatraja
You may use Gridview control with Detailsview or Formview. Looks like you didn't try with right keywords in search engines. I found this in CP. GridView-DetailsView (Master/Detail) Control[^]
1 Sep 2011 by itresearches
I'm working on a small application in C# which performs speech recognition using Microsoft Speech API. I need to add some non-english words to grammar, whose pronunciation don't obey english pronunciation rules. Is it possible specify their pronunciation using International Phonetic...
23 Oct 2011 by Abhinav S
If you want to find out if .Net's installed and also which version, this[^] knowledge base article might help you.
9 Mar 2012 by El_Codero
Hi,hm, does it really open a "new" Window for Chrome and VLC Player?I'm also hosting WindowsForms with Espen Harlinns Solution (SetParent), tried it with VLC and Chrome and it gets emmbedded in window or wpf page successfully.I read the interesting links from SAKryukov and Harlinn and...
2 Apr 2012 by OriginalGriff
I think perhaps you have mixed code from two sites: Word._Document.SaveAs takes 16 parameters: MSDN[^] (and so does the Word.Document.SaveAs which is the one I would expect to use).Go back to the site you got the code from, and look more closely - I think you have missed something! If...
30 Apr 2012 by Prasad_Kulkarni
Please check following threads for reference: SQL Server Management Studio 2005 forgets password? [^]SQL SERVER – Change Password of SA Login Using Management Studio[^][EDIT]Try this one:How to reset SQL Server sa password using Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express[^]
7 Apr 2013 by Maciej Los
Some useful information you'll find here: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/access-help/set-a-default-value-for-a-field-or-control-mdb-HP005188852.aspx[^]You don't need to set default value for field in database table, because, you can always set "default value" in query:PARAMETERS p1 INT,...
16 Apr 2013 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
Books? Why? This would be enough: http://www.asp.net/[^].Don't get me wrong: if you prefer reading a book, it can help you a lot. Let's see if other members recommend you some.This is not the main thing. The main thing is prerequisites: you should know the language and basics of the .NET...
25 Jun 2013 by Prasad_Kulkarni
From Microsoft[^] of course.
20 Feb 2014 by thatraja
Marc explained here in this articleC# Language Features, From C# 2.0 to 4.0 - Generic Covariance and Contravariance[^]
3 Mar 2014 by thatraja
From Microsoft siteBecome a Microsoft Certified Professional[^]And Education Needed[^]
2 Apr 2014 by lakshmankamathk
I would suggest you to move this query to Stored Procedure. Use this Stored Procedure in your code instead of using the query. Also try to use sql profiler while debugging your code to trace the query execution
10 Apr 2014 by James Carr (Crashcarr)
Sharepoint 2013 Event ID 6398 AppFabric Distributed Cache Error
8 May 2014 by CHill60
If you are using Access without any frontend (not sure that is a good idea) then you can add a validation rule to the column1. Go to the Table Design view (for that table)2. Click on the column that you want to restrict3. If it is not Data Type = Date/Time then change it to be so4. in...
30 Jul 2014 by Dmitriy Kozlov
The most popular cases you may face during implementation of SharePoint forms with complex logic
16 Aug 2014 by Manas Bhardwaj
How to run a 32 bit web application in IIS 8 with SharePoint 2013
22 Oct 2014 by Bernhard Hiller
Do not exhaust your brain for useless thoughts! An employee is a human being, isn't he? How many people are there on earth? The max number of that datatype is more than a 1000million times bigger.
14 Dec 2014 by Kevin Mack
Microsoft and Startups!
9 Jan 2015 by Dmitriy Kozlov
Filter related items by almost any field of SharePoint form
3 Feb 2015 by CHill60
I believe you are referring to - Microsoft Dynamics[^]By the way - this question is somewhat off-topic for this forum
29 May 2015 by Richard Deeming
Considerations for server-side Automation of Office[^]Microsoft does not currently recommend, and does not support, Automation of Microsoft Office applications from any unattended, non-interactive client application or component (including ASP, ASP.NET, DCOM, and NT Services), because Office...
2 Jun 2015 by Peter Leow
If the total installment amount is derivable from other fields, then there is no need to store it. It is like getting someone's age from his date of birth. You only need to store the date of birth whereas the age is incremented over time and thus no point in storing it.Learn more:1. ...
24 Jun 2015 by brian_eckert
A proposed template for writing nested stored procedures that perform updates (inserts, updates, deletes)
17 Sep 2015 by Wendelius
First of all, do you use 32 or 64 bit versions. Based on that, select either x86 or x64 download accordingly.If you want just the Management Studio, not the database engine, then SQLManagementStudio_x??_ENU.exe would probably be your choice.The contents of the files are quite well...
9 Oct 2015 by Philippe Mori
If you want user to save file in a fixed location, then simply display a form that allows to type a file name.Thus you do code your own form and do whatever you want to do. This could be a lot of work if you want most of the functionnality of common dialogs.In that case, your application...
30 Oct 2015 by phil.o
This SO post is quite informative about that matter:SO: Is a view faster than a simple query?[^]Hope this helps.
30 Oct 2015 by CHill60
This is not really a topic for a Quick answers forum. I suggest you do some research, and here is an article to get you started - "Poor Little Misunderstood Views"[^] from SqlServerCentralThere is also a longer discussion here[^]
21 Dec 2015 by CHill60
If you have text that you want to remain untransformed by Excel then you must save it in the CSV file surrounded by double-quotes e.g. if a file contains TRUE,True,true,"True","true"Then the last two columns are explicitly text columns. If you set the columns to "Text" format then when you...
6 Jan 2016 by hans.hinnekint
Get Time from NTP Server using C#
18 Jan 2016 by Member 12014821
24 Jan 2016 by Dave Kreskowiak
Your only other option is OleDb, using either the ACE or JET engines depending on the version of the Access database you're trying to get at.
17 May 2016 by Prava-MFS
How to host PHP application on Azure and how to auto-deploy the code through bitbucket.
2 Jun 2016 by Richard Deeming
Don't call the Speak method until the window's Loaded event fires:public abc(){ InitializeComponent(); qwe = new SpeechSynthesizer(); Loaded += Window_Loaded;}private void Window_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e){ qwe.Speak("Hello");}If that's still...
25 May 2017 by Anton Khritonenkov
How to call SharePoint from Microsoft Flow with the help of an Azure function
17 Jul 2017 by BC3Tech
Could we find a way to monitor the nuget feed for updates to a certain package and then send an alert somewhere when one is encountered?
20 Feb 2018 by Mike Diack
Try Inside CRT: Debug Heap Management[^] But from my own notes also: This is a list of some of the know magic numbers used by Microsoft which can be useful to know when debugging an application. 0xABABABAB Guard Bytes used by HeapAlloc() or LocalAlloc to mark "no man’s land" after allocated...
2 Apr 2018 by Member 11797166
i installed microsoft sql server 2017, it requires framework v4, i tried to install sql after framework installation,.. failed atlast. What I have tried: Tried with microsoft sql server 2012 too.
16 Jun 2019 by lmoelleb
Try not to write too much on one line. So instead of ScoreCounter.Text = Convert.ToString(Convert.ToInt32(ScoreCounter.Text) + 10); try something like: int currentScore = Convert.ToInt32(ScoreCounter.Text); int newScore = currentScore + 10; string newScoreText = Convert.ToString(newScore);...
29 Feb 2020 by phil.o
Auto-numbering is typically something which has to be done on the server side, not on the client side. Because with client-side method, if there are several clients, nothing insures that two clients do not get the same id at the same time....
14 Jun 2021 by CHill60
Without sample data it's almost impossible for us to give you a definitive answer but here are some techniques for you to try 1.Try returning just a few of the columns from [SEI_LIVE].[GL_TX_WITH_OB_VIEW_SEP_AUG]E.g. SELECT distinct ...
19 Sep 2021 by Dave Kreskowiak
WOW! You have a metric sh*t-ton of problems: C# is a case-sensitive language, and nearly every line of code has case problems. Spaces in variable names are not allowed ("check user" should be "checkUser"). Local variables should be...
27 Jan 2022 by Stefan_Lang
Quote: The problem was I cannot properly separate the declaration & definition of a templated symbols such as classes, structs, functions, and many more Short answer: you cannot! From the link I posted above (emphasis mine): Quote: However, when...
1 Mar 2022 by Jörgen Andersson
You need to update the table twice. First sort the table on City1 and City2 so ('Mumbai','Delhi',5000) becomes ('Delhi','Mumbai',5000). Something similar to: UPDATE citydistance SET City1 = City2 ,City2 = City1 WHERE City1 > City2 Then remove...
16 Mar 2010 by Dave Kreskowiak
The first thing I'd do is make sure you code is being compiled x86 instead of Any CPU. You cannot combine both 32-bit and 64-bit code in the same process.
3 Apr 2010 by Mustafa Ismail Mustafa
Like the error says, its an Access Denial.Double check that the credentials your application is using has privilege to the database.