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Microsoft Developer Network

The Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) is the portion of Microsoft responsible for managing the firm's relationship with developers and testers, such as: hardware developers interested in the operating system (OS), and software developers standing on the various OS platforms or using the API and/or scripting languages of Microsoft's applications. The relationship management is situated in assorted media: web sites, newsletters, developer conferences, trade media, blogs and DVD distribution. The life cycle of the relationships ranges from legacy support through evangelizing potential offerings.

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How to understand MSDN documentation?

When I used to use VB 6 in my high school MSDN was just fantastic, I never looked anywhere else for help. Then came .NET and online MSDN and whatnot, and there were no longer any practical examples of anything. I slowly started to avoid MSDN and now…
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TechNet or MSDN Subscription?

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…
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How to set the default subscription in the Windows Azure Portal?

When I log into the Windows Azure Portal it sets my default subscription to a friend's account that I no longer have access to. I would like to set the account to my account as the default. If I click on the Subscriptions icon it has a list "Filter…
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Running a .NET core app (.dll) with cmd by using process.start

I'm new to .NET Core 2.0, so i might be doing this all wrong, if so let me know. I have a .NET core 2.0 app that should be cross platform, hence the app is a .dll console application, and it does work fine on all platforms. I'm trying to implement…
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Do MSDN Windows licenses still work after the subscription expires?

Will my Windows license key still work after the subscription is closed? It's not a volume license.
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Non-startup Microsoft ISV development, on the cheap?

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…
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KeyAlgorithm for SHA256

The PowerShell command below creates a self-signed certificate with SHA1 as signature algorithm. New-SelfSignedCertificate -DnsName "MyCertificate", "www.contoso.com" -CertStoreLocation "cert:\LocalMachine\My" -Provider "Microsoft Strong…
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What are the possible classes for the OpenThemeData function?

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…
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Are fill_n and fill the same function but with different parameter overloads?

I was looking into 's fill and fill_n function, and to me they seem to do about the same thing but are just defined differently. Is this true, and if not, how are they different? The wording for their descriptions seem to be about the…
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Question about MSDN and commercial use

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…
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What is BindingFlags.Default equivalent to?

I remember reading somewhere, when using reflection and the overload of GetMethod that accepts a bitmask of BindingFlags, that BindingFlags.Default is equivalent to BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Static | BindingFlags.Instance or something. Can…
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Do I need a MSDN subscription

I'm thinking about buying Visual Studio Pro with MSDN, but I'm not sure if I would really need MSND access. I've never dealt with MSDN so I have a couple of questions. I mainly want to develop apps for Windows 8, 8.1 and 7, and I just can't see what…
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.NET Framework Time complexity in the documentation

Where can I find the time complexity for methods in the standard .Net library? I use MSDN and it occasionally mentions time complexity, but not often (I ran into a similar problem with Java). For example I want to know if…
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Where to download vcredist?

I feel a little stupid asking this question, but I hope that this might be helpful to others as well. Background: We/I are developing some software with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (VC9). We would like to provide the vcredist along the software on the…
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VS2017 Blank Sign In Screen

I have a unique issue with my installation of Visual Studio 2017 where the sign in dialog is blank, and no matter how long I wait it never seems to allow me to log in. I have tried changing the default browser to Chrome, Edge and IE just in case it…
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