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Your First Chatbot using Microsoft’s Bot Framework and Dialog Flow API: Day 1 (Dialogflow and Slack Integration)

by Akhil Mittal

Your first Chatbot using Microsoft’s Bot Framework and Dialog Flow API: Day 1 (Dialogflow and Slack Integration)

OWASP #6 Preventing Sensitive Data Exposure in ASP.NET – Part 1

by Max R McCarty

OWASP's #6 most vulnerable security risk has to do with keeping secrets secret.

How to Check Whether Word is Installed in the System or Not

by Reiss

This is an alternative for "How to Check Whether Word is Installed in the System or Not"

How to run .Net Micro Framework 4.4 on STM32F4Discovery

by Alexandr Surkov

How to build and run .Net Micro Framework 4.4 on STM32F4Discovery board.

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Designing Business Intelligence Reporting & Dashboards with Tableau Desktop using Microsoft Dynamics

by Venkat Chaitanya Kanumukula

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.

What Do You Need to Pass AWS Cloud Developer Associate Exam

by Uladzislau Baryshchyk

Examples of questions and examples of services for passing AWS cloud Developer Associate exam

How to Hook 64-Bit Code from WOW64 32-Bit Mode

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.

C# / C++ CLI Micro Chess (Huo Chess)

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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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How to Check Whether Word is Installed in the System or Not

24 Dec 2013 by Reiss

This is an alternative for "How to Check Whether Word is Installed in the System or Not"

ERROR [IM002] [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified

4 Feb 2012 by udhaya2code

While using Microsoft Text Driver to read CSV data to DataSet in C# in your 64 bit machine

Steps to install Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express Edition (Standard or with Advanced Services)

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

SQL-Server-2008

How to Check Whether PowerPoint is Installed in the System or Not

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#.

Selecting and Importing Excel File and Sheet for import into Access

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.

Duplicate Notifier for a List using ObservableCollection

7 Mar 2012 by Sunil_Sebastian

Duplicate Notifier for a List using ObservableCollection.

SSIS 2008 drop last data row from *.csv or *.txt file while import data using SSIS DataFlow Task..

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

Using Additional Include Directories

4 May 2013 by bkelly13

Include code from other directories

Template for Managing Microsoft T-SQL Nested Transactions

24 Jun 2015 by brian_eckert

A proposed template for writing nested stored procedures that perform updates (inserts, updates, deletes)

Beginner's Guide to PowerPivot for Excel

16 Jul 2013 by KumarM.NET

This tip explains the features of PowerPivot, a Business Intelligence tool provided by Microsoft. This is integrated with Office 2010 and provides capabilities to represent the data in various formats to business users.

Achieveing Indefinite Background Execution with the Microsoft Band

6 Oct 2015 by James M Croft

This post covers getting your Windows apps connected to a Microsoft Band for an indefinite period of time.

Creating Windows Server 2012 R2 VirtualBox VM for SharePoint 2016

18 Jan 2016 by M Faheem Zafar

This tip explains how to install Windows Server 2012 R2 Server on Oracle VirtualBox VM Server.

Using Google Translate & Microsoft Translator in Scala

17 Feb 2016 by Igor Alekseev

A quick introduction to Fluent-Translator: Scala idiomatic non-blocking library for working with Microsoft, Google language translation services via a fancy DSL

Designing Business Intelligence Reporting & Dashboards with Tableau Desktop using Microsoft Dynamics

6 Feb 2023 by Venkat Chaitanya Kanumukula

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.

IoT Hub with X.509 authentication

28 Sep 2017 by adityasahver

This article is for the developers who are developing IoT hub applications and are looking for authenticating the Communication Channel between the Device and IoT hub.

Method to Change Source of a Form’s Subform Source to a Query or Table in Microsoft Access

12 Sep 2018 by Clifford Nelson

Method to change source of a Form’s Subform source to a Query or Table in Microsoft Access

Microsoft Excel BIFF8 Viewer

18 Jan 2012 by Jepy

Replace the last 3 blocks of code with:String.Format("{0:x}", value)

How to make Microsoft Store app to access internet on proxy

26 Jul 2013 by Verma.No.1

Configure Metro UI store apps to use proxy settings.

Microsoft Excel: How to Comment Cells

21 May 2015 by Alexey Shtykov

Convert column numbers to range letters and add comments

A Custom TAUS Data Provider for Microsoft's Multilingual App Toolkit Using Google Translate

13 Mar 2016 by Gregory Morse

Custom TAUS Data Provider to allow increased multilingual support using Google Translate's web interface

language-agnostic

What Do You Need to Pass AWS Cloud Developer Associate Exam

27 Sep 2021 by Uladzislau Baryshchyk

Examples of questions and examples of services for passing AWS cloud Developer Associate exam

How to Check Whether Word is Installed in the System or Not

29 Nov 2013 by Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ)

After the tip on Excel, here we will explore the trick to verify whether Word is installed in the client's system or not by C#.

Ensuring that your singletons in Microsoft Unity are what you expected

17 Oct 2014 by voloda2

This article proposes solution for possible challenges which you can face by using singletons in Microsoft Unity in the case you are using child containers.

Creating and Using the Parallel Task Library Ported for Native C++ WRL

5 Sep 2016 by Gregory Morse

How to create and use the parallel task library ported for native C++ WRL

How to Check Whether Outlook is Installed in the System or Not

5 Dec 2013 by Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ)

After the tip on Excel, Word and Powerpoint, here we will explore the trick to verify whether Outlook is installed in the client's system or not by C#.

Check which .NET Framework version is installed from command line

1 Nov 2012 by Fenil Desai

Check which .NET Framework version is installed from command line

AngularJS & Web API Active Directory Security

28 Aug 2015 by Bert O Neill

AngularJS and Web API Active Directory Security (Authorisation)

Use C# to get JSON Data from the Web and Map it to .NET Class => Made Easy!

12 Feb 2014 by Mikhail-T

Easy steps on how to get JSON formatted data from a web service, deserialize it, and map it to custom local class for further usage

Model System DB in Microsoft SQL Server

31 May 2011 by Keshav Singh

Model System DB in Microsoft SQL Server

Intelligent Workbook for Generating Basic DAX Formulas used for Time Series Analysis of Measures

22 Aug 2014 by FLouis38

Intelligent workbook for generating time series DAX

artificial-intelligence

Activating WRL Audio Interfaces in Native C++

7 May 2014 by Gregory Morse

Activating WRL audio interfaces in native C++

multi-threading

Field Based Security in ASP.NET MVC 3 for Different Roles

14 Jun 2012 by Ajay Bachale

MVC3 Role base security.

web_development

Generic Methods Implementation in Microsoft Fakes

19 Oct 2014 by Nikita Mazhara

Describes how to implement generic methods for Microsoft Fakes Stubs and Shims using reflection constructed delegates at runtime

Adding Transformation Files in the .NET Windows Service

9 Dec 2016 by Shesh Lamichhane

Step by step to add the transformation files of app.config in your .NET Windows service

Windows-service

Return Comma Separated String using SQL

30 Jan 2013 by Yogesh Gulve

Return Comma Separated String using SQL

SQL-Server-2005

Microsoft Excel BIFF8 Viewer

16 Jan 2012 by Robby Tendean

A tool for viewing Microsoft Excel BIFF8 binary format