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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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SQL Server TRY...CATCH with XACT_STATE

I have a question regarding the MSDN documentation for TRY CATCH blocks. Check out this article and scroll down to Example C "Using TRY…CATCH with XACT_STATE" http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175976.aspx The example first places a COMMIT…
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Does Microsoft BizSpark come with full MSDN benefits?

was wondering if there are anyone else here that has signed up with the same program and could give me some advise. I've signed on to the Microsoft BizSpark program sometime earlier a month or two ago, and has activated the MSDN subscription that…
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Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate for x64?

I have an x64 machine and an MSDN subscription. I want to download VS2010 Ultimate. However, I'm not seeing an x64 version on the subscriber downloads page. Why might this be? Am I missing something?
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Does the cost of MSDN Subscriptions represent a deterrent to .NET adoption

I know just the question is a bit of heresey, but I'm curious... Sure, there are the express editions. But when Microsoft is effectively competing for 'hearts and minds' in an OSS world, it seems more than a bit counterproductive to charge devs who…
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ToUpperInvariant() – is MSDN wrong on its recommendation?

In Best Practices for Using Strings in the .NET Framework, StringComparison OrdinalIgnoreCase is recommended for case-insensitive file paths. (Let's call it Statement A.) I can agree with that, because I can create two files in the same…
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MSDN about stored procedure default return value

Could anyone point exactly where MSDN says thet every user stored procedure returns 0 by default if no error happens? In other words, could I be sure that example code given below when being a stored procedure IF someStatement BEGIN RETURN…
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Where are CLR-defined methods like [delegate].BeginInvoke documented?

[EDIT, Completely rephrased:] Seems like my question was poorly worded indeed, and poorly received too. So I hope that this complete rephrasing helps... MSDN tells clearly specifies: Control.BeginInvoke() Executes a delegate on the thread that the…
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How can I link to MSDN/official documentation from my C# XML documentation comments?

Given an XML comment on a class something like this: ///Handles the AuthenticateRequest event in the ASP.NET page request lifecycle to authenticate users. /// ///This module will authenticate users based on cookies,…
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Unexpected behaviour of Process.MainWindowHandle

I've been trying to understand Process.MainWindowHandle. According to MSDN; "The main window is the window that is created when the process is started. After initialization, other windows may be opened, including the Modal and TopLevel windows, but…
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How to establish a OracleConnection without making use of the obsolete OracleConnection Class

What's the 'new' way of establishing a OraConnection? Microsoft defines several classes as obsolete. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.oracleclient.aspx I used to make use of something along those lines: string queryString = …
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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…
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Where can I find the Microsoft .NET Framework Development Guide?

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?
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ASP.NET: How parallel requests are processed

Let's imaging there are 2 pages on the web site: quick and slow. Requests to slow page are executed for a 1 minute, request to quick 5 seconds. Whole my development career I thought that if 1st started request is slow: he will do a (synchronous)…
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Details on the Microsoft multi-string format

In some of its API function Microsoft use the "multi-string" format to specify a list of strings. As I understand it, a multi-string is a null-terminated buffer of concatenated null-terminated strings. But this can also be interpreted as a list of…
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What is difference between BaseAddress and AllocationBase in MEMORY_BASIC_INFORMATION struct?

In MSDN i find following` BaseAddress - A pointer to the base address of the region of pages. AllocationBase - A pointer to the base address of a range of pages allocated by the VirtualAlloc function. The page pointed to by the BaseAddress member is…
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