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MSDN Subscriptions Library Disk 1 December 2006 Locks Computer

454 byte By Ccopple at 2008-3-7
I have been trying to get the Essential Resources for Developers to display on my box to see what it has. Each time I insert it into the computer, the computer stops responding and then I have to power cycle the box to get it back. I am able to look at the disc on my Linux system but that only ...

2005 - "could not create type 'service'"

1338 byte By MiloT.Minderbinder at 2008-3-7
Building a web service project with Beta 2... this project built OK under CTP 12/04. Building now I keep getting this error: ""could not create type 'service'". There is no further info provided about the cause of this or what it means. Searching help does not bring up anything. Clicking on ...

Integrating with Visual studio

232 byte By BobRossi at 2008-3-7
Hi, I want to get out of a visual studio project all the C/C++ source files that make up the project and the command line objects to preprocess each file. Which list should I post a question like this at? Thanks, Bob Rossi

Top Answerers - December 2005

31481 byte By JoeMorel-MSFT at 2008-3-7
The year is over…lets see how we closed out 2005 in the MSDN Forums!December 2005Top (11) Answerers Across all of the MSDN Forums:MemberAnswersAyman Shoukry 244 Martin Richter 204 Mark Rideout 196 PeteL - MSFT 179 sboots 142 David M. Kean 135 Eric Vogel 124 Paul Domag 116 Ilya Tumanov 103 Craig ...

Smiley pollution

1049 byte By NormanDiamond at 2008-3-7
I saw an earlier thread about this issue but don't really understand it. Surely the person who posted code (more or less quoted below) was trying to post code not smileys. Why should it matter if there are people voting in favour of more smileys or less, when the person was trying to post ...

Make links in Profil (Url, E-Mail)

132 byte By rgerbig at 2008-3-7
Hi, why are the urls in the profile no links? it is not very comfortable to copy the urls and then paste them into the adress bar.

Gold Partner - Tech KBs''

506 byte By fsdfsdaa222 at 2008-3-6
Hi, I have a question. Our company has a Gold Partnership with MS. Have tried to search in the MSDN Login, but its a Information Jungle out there, no logical way to find anything because its so much of everything. We should have access to Tech KB's that end-users will not be able to find in ...

OTP: Upgrade Does Not Work Any More Since Microsoft changed it.

1300 byte By adrianmcfeeter at 2008-3-6
Please change your Internet Explorer security settingsTo save changes to your settings for this website, you need to enable userdata persistence for Internet Explorer. Complete the steps below, and then click Change settings to the left and try saving your changes again. In Internet Explorer, ...

Where to ask about Programing in c# or c++ for active directory

277 byte By mattdawg at 2008-3-6
I just need to know where I should ask about programming in Active directory. Even referals to a good web site or where to look under msn's help. I have read a lot already on msn's help but would like some exaple code to look at. Or even where to search for it in this forum.

Top Posters for November

8031 byte By JoeMorel-MSFT at 2008-3-6
Here’s the list, checking it twice, let’s find out what teams were naughty or nice back in November: November 2005 Top Answerers Across all of the MSDN Forums: Member Answers Ayman Shoukry 145 Paul Domag 131 Martin Richter 118 David M. Kean 116 Neil Enns MSFT 81 Daniel Rieck 81 Konstantin ...

Can't post to forum when ZoneAlarm is running

144 byte By nwilliams at 2008-3-6
I can post only when ZoneAlarm is turned off. But I have no problem posting the other 99.9% of the internet. Please fix the problem.

Web Services forum

375 byte By RobertHousedorf at 2008-3-6
Hi folks,Just a small suggestion. It seems there are a LOT of people who think that the "Web Services" forum is for IIS questions, as in "THE web service running on my box"instead of "Web Services questions, as in .ASMX type stuff"Not sure how I'd go about putting in a description, but you ...

MSDN and TechNet Subscribers - input on value of dowload SHA1 Hash and CRC values wanted

754 byte By JHCairn(MSFT) at 2008-3-5
The MSDN and TechNet Subscriptions Team is working on some significant updates and improvements to the Subscriber Downloads User Experience. As we move ahead, a question has been posed about the use of the SHA1 Hash and ISO/CRC values for the Subscriber Downloads content. Do subscribers use ...

Upgrade Does Not Work Any More Since Microsoft changed it.

1300 byte By adrianmcfeeter at 2008-3-5
Please change your Internet Explorer security settingsTo save changes to your settings for this website, you need to enable userdata persistence for Internet Explorer. Complete the steps below, and then click Change settings to the left and try saving your changes again. In Internet Explorer, ...

to post socket related questions

52 byte By bilalso at 2008-3-5
Where is the forum for C# Socket related questions ?

Forums Updates [December 14, 2005]

1112 byte By Jana at 2008-3-5
Over the past two days, the Microsoft Forums team has been deploying updates to our existing Forums. These changes include: New rich text editor box. We are now using the same message box that the MSN Spaces team uses. Thanks to the Spaces team for sharing code! We now support 9 languages and ...

RSS Feed Subscription

421 byte By IssamElbaytam at 2008-3-5
The RSS Feed sends out the first post in a thread every time the thread is updated. This of course is useless, it should either send the new post or simply duplicate the whole thread, so it can be read within the RSS Reader without having to go to the post and find which post was the latest ...

Recover message posts that don't get posted since this seems to happen so often.

1895 byte By MarcD at 2008-3-5
I spent 10 minutes typing up a post. I had been browsing the forum signed in for almost an hour. I typed up the message checmkarked , alert me and this psot contains a code sample and hit Post. It redirected me to the login window. I logged in with my passwport even though I have "save email ...

Application Error when trying to reach Product Keys

234 byte By J.C.S. at 2008-3-3
Has anyone else not been able to retrieve Product Keys from the subscriber downloads area? Everytime I've tried to load the Product Keys page for the past 2 days I've gotten an "Application Error" page. - J

Setting Focus on GridView and Maintaining ScrollPosition

741 byte By AshrafHameedaT at 2008-3-3
HaiI have a grid within a div. As per my functionality, I add a new row to the grid. On the click of a button, a new row Iin edit mode) is added to the bottom of the grid. This new row now could be seen only on scrolling down the grid. Now on the click of the button, I want to have the focus on ...

How do i change the colour of the Windows?

1039 byte By britrb at 2008-3-3
Hi all, hows it going? Just a few questions, as I am pretty new to computing in general these questions may seem like a joke, but I am not taking the micky.1, How do you change the colour of the border (the top bar with the minimise, restore, and close buttons on)? I want them the same colour ...

Top Posters in October

25192 byte By JoeMorel-MSFT at 2008-3-3
Sorry everyone...when I edited my post, it also seems to have been deleted. Here's the repost of my original message: It’s about that time again…who were the top posters in October on the MSDN Forums? October 2005 Top Answerers Across all of the MSDN Forums: Member Answers Paul Domag ...

Alerts Broken Today (June 1st)?

266 byte By FrankBoyne at 2008-3-3
I just got an e-mail alert for a thread that hasn't changed since May 22nd? The "to read more" link is <a target="_blank" title="/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=9303" href="/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=9303"> http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=9303</a>

To whom to complain about absence of the VFPButton in this forum?

409 byte By SergeyCh at 2008-3-3
To whom to complain about absence of the VFPButton in this forum?We have in this forum C#, VB, but where is button for the VFP code?Thank you very much to whom who can solve this ...

What Happened to the Ranking on MSDN Wiki?

200 byte By ThomasLee at 2008-3-1
<font face=Arial size=2>At one time, the MSDN wiki showed who'd contributed the most content, both in total and in the recent past. This appears to be gone? Is it planned to come back?</font>

C# Web Game

125 byte By JaredJ at 2008-3-1
Is there a way using .NET to make a web game ASPX that has scrolling game screen or is ActiveX the only way in Visual Studio?

Appropriate Forum for DS Malik questions.

500 byte By ReedWyatt at 2008-3-1
Dear Forum:Allow me to introduce myself. I am Reed P. Wyatt. I am new to this forum and I am looking for some guidelines for its use. I am currently reading the second edition of D.S. Malik's C++: Program Design including Data Structures. I am a beginning programmer just getting familiar with ...

Answer Marking Button For Everyone?

959 byte By JoeMorel-MSFT at 2008-3-1
Hello everyone! I'm thinking about ways that we could encourage more people to click on the "Mark as Answer" button on the replies to questions in the forums. In case you've never seen it, the "Mark as Answer" button is visible on every reply to a question thread if:1.) You are a moderator or ...

search not working properly

667 byte By rpolansky at 2008-3-1
There are several bugs in the search functionality in these forums. First of all, if you enter a search term in a forums main view's search edit box and hit enter, nothing is filtered out. I can search for "delegate" in the VC++ General forum and still see all the posts, and I'm sure that ...

Where is the forum for ...?

116 byte By LisaAmblerMSFT at 2008-3-1
All I can find are Visual Studio 2005 forums. Where are the forums for ITPros, Technet, Windows and so on?

MSDN and TechNet Subscribers - input on value of dowload SHA1 Hash and CRC values wanted

754 byte By JHCairn(MSFT) at 2008-2-28
The MSDN and TechNet Subscriptions Team is working on some significant updates and improvements to the Subscriber Downloads User Experience. As we move ahead, a question has been posed about the use of the SHA1 Hash and ISO/CRC values for the Subscriber Downloads content. Do subscribers use ...

Website AdministrationTool

972 byte By RonaldleeEjalu at 2008-2-28
I am trying to acces security tab of the Website Administration tool but i am getting the following errorThere is a problem with your selected data store. This can be caused by an invalid server name or credentials, or by insufficient permission. It can also be caused by the role manager ...

When I Play Online Game Cant Run And Got Error!!! Access Violation !!!

230 byte By LegendRey at 2008-2-28
When I Play Gunbound,Maple Story,Pangya..It Cant Run And Automatic Quit..Then,The Computer Hang..The Error Is Access Violation,U Need Corret To 0x00030FFC,Terminated..I Dunno How To Correct And Solve This Problem..Please Me Pro!!!

MSDN Forums Top Users September

18117 byte By JoeMorel-MSFT at 2008-2-28
Sorry about the late update this month—but here they are—the top answerers for the month of September! September 2005 Top Answerers Across all of the MSDN Forums: Member Answers Vikram 143 Ayman Shoukry 110 Daniel Rieck 99 Jonathan Caves MSFT 94 Paul Domag 85 Bruce Taimana MSFT ...

Forum Search Field

209 byte By DavidM.Kean at 2008-2-28
When entering search text at the top of the forum, I keep pressing enter to start the search (as the search button looks like the default by the blue border surrounding it), however this only reloads the page.

Where are the forums for other languages?

131 byte By LisaAmblerMSFT at 2008-2-28
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What Happened to the Ranking on MSDN Wiki?

200 byte By ThomasLee at 2008-2-27
<font face=Arial size=2>At one time, the MSDN wiki showed who'd contributed the most content, both in total and in the recent past. This appears to be gone? Is it planned to come back?</font>

Word component in Visual C#

458 byte By OClaudiu at 2008-2-27
Hello. I need to develop a plugin for Word in Visual C# and as a test, I have to do the following application : in a Word document, I have to insert a button and when I press it, a windows form must appear with a textbox. That textbox contains all I type in document. Can you help me with some ...

How do I add video and audio to website?

142 byte By helseruwu at 2008-2-27
I have a webiste and I want to add video and audio to the website but I do not know how to do it, how do i do it? Please help me.

MSDN Forums Top Users August

19353 byte By JoeMorel-MSFT at 2008-2-27
It’s that time again—who were the top answerers in the month of August? What forums are rocking with their answer rates? Which ones need some more help? Here’s a recap of August on the forums: August 2005 Top Answerers Across all of the MSDN Forums: Member Answers Vikram 147 Ayman ...

Sort order in Forums is screwed up

375 byte By Alle at 2008-2-27
See Forum http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=14785The post order of the last page is completly screwed up. There are posts from yesterday inbetween posts from previous days. IOW there are older posts before and after the posts from ...

There is a Spanish version of the forums ?

71 byte By ElBruno at 2008-2-27
In the subject is the question :D Byes from Spain El Bruno

MSDN Server keeps timing out!

420 byte By AndreiMR at 2008-2-26
The MSDN Server keeps crapping out, folks! How are people supposed to get their work done in Visual Studio when MSDN keeps crapping out, givne that Visual Studio users depend on MSDN for basic documentation!It (Visual Studio's dependence on MSDN for basic documentation) is utterly frustrating ...

missing Interop.TAPI3Lib

462 byte By DinoNguyen at 2008-2-26
i get this error when i run my program, i added reference TAPI3.dll and under my projectanyone has any idea on this error? what am i supposed to fix it?System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Interop.TAPI3Lib, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or ...

manually codec selection for RTC

380 byte By xishanshigri at 2008-2-26
As i am using RTC (SDK) with C#. I found a bit problem with its default codec selection. As the best codec and the frame size will be selected for different conditions. The changes will happen dynamically during the call. But i want to do it manually i want to select my own codec among the ...

MSDN Forums Top Users for July

1826 byte By JoshLedgard at 2008-2-26
Who's posted the most replies marked as answers in the month of July? Who are the domain experts? Here is the July view of top forum users!In July of 2005Top Answerers Accross the MSDN Forums are...Vikram 187David M. Kean 98Mark Rideout 76Paul Domag 75Nikola Dudar 59Michael Fanning - MS ...

Default C# Code Font Doesn't Make Case Differences Clear?

473 byte By FrankBoyne at 2008-2-26
While posting in another thread I noticed that the C# code font doesn't seem to clearly show the difference between a lower case 'v' and an upper case 'V'. For example// Which case is the fifth letter?listView1.Clear(); ...

Windows forms

159 byte By icelava at 2008-2-26
I see there is a Windows Forms group here. I suppose there is no intention of cross linking over to http://windowsforms.net/Forums/ as with the ASP.NET forums?

msft dns issue (poisoned?)

633 byte By t2 at 2008-2-25
looks like someone needs to man the console on ns1.msft.net because the cross-site authentication mechanism fails on lookup to "*.dns.microsoft.com". I'll skip the details since query params contain GUIDS :-( cheers ~t2 ...

IHttpHandler

893 byte By SlavaKozlov at 2008-2-25
I was trying to create an HttpHandler to filter ALL incoming requests for my application, regardless of the file type or subdirectory. In my web.config file I added this<httpHandlers><add verb="*" path="*" type="Interceptor,Interceptor" ...