Questions tagged [microsoft]
Microsoft is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington that develops, manufactures, licenses and supports a wide range of products and services related to computing. Microsoft is known for producing the Windows Operating System, Microsoft Office suite, Xbox gaming system among other product lines.
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Architecture for a system where users want to use Excel for collecting and merging data
My organization handles batches of stuff that need to be checked by Quality Control. What I need is something for the people who work in Quality Control to be able to register and input data inside ...
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Am I understanding the new C# naming conventions right?
A couple months ago, Microsoft updated their C# Naming Conventions (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/fundamentals/coding-style/coding-conventions). As the developers of C#, I consider ...
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What does it mean to implement a development framework?
I've seen this in the context of Microsofts SDL (Secure Development Lifecycle).
Is it just those 12 practices and if the team follows those, you can say you implemented them? Are there any "hard&...
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How to produce different versions of a software manual from the same MS Word document? [closed]
I am trying to create different versions of a software manual from a single source which is in MS Word format. Is it possible to do this algorithmically or must it be done manually for every version?
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Simplest Architecture to separate UI and business logic on Windows
I guess the goal of separating UI and business logic goes way back. I found a Martin Fowler article, from nearly 20 years ago, which is pretty clear about the benefits of the separation: https://www....
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Is it a good idea to make common Electron libraries available globally on Windows? [closed]
I build and run many Electron apps on Windows. I noticed that all of them have the same common api files / libraries to run. They all take about 30mb of space.
I'm thinking of installing these files ...
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how to provide search feature on website with ASP.net application
I have an old website (https://www.recordsforliving.com/) with a search feature. Up until recently, it was running on Windows 2012 server, and used Microsoft Index Server, and
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What is the difference between end of support and end of life?
SQL Server 2008 reaches its "end of support" date next year: 7/9/2019
But it reaches end of life much later: 7/31/2023
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What is the difference?
Is this terminology common to Microsoft, or to ...
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What does this statement about C# and Java being half of a language mean? [closed]
In the article: Why POCO, there is this sentence:
Maciej Sobczak puts it well: “I just don’t like when somebody gives me half of the language and tells me that it’s for my own protection”.
I don't ...
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Microsoft or Open Source? [closed]
Why do some companies prefer private Microsoft solutions when in the majority of cases there are open source solutions or free software for them? What does Microsoft offer that the open sourece or ...
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Why is there such a fight for companies to produce new languages + frameworks
There's currently a huge growth in larger companies offering new languages and / or frameworks for us to use to create websites, apps or software and I'm interested to know for what reason do people ...
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Why the name MailboxProcessor in F#?
It seems that the standard practice is to immediately alias MailboxProcessor<'T> to Agent<'T>. So why the name in the first place anyways? Why don't they just call it Agent<'T>, if ...
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Why is .NET VM based? [duplicate]
Java has been designed to run on a virtual machine to allow portability for programs.
However .NET has been designed from the start specifically for Windows.
Than what is the reason for .NET ...
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Sign up user using Microsoft Exchange Account in Node.js MongoDB
I have a question about whether a programming technique is at all possible.
Most of the apps these days come with sign up with Facebook, Twitter or gmail functionality.
My company has its domain ...
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Best approach to write windows service
We got a situation where we need to write a windows service using c#, the service need to be install on a particular -single- server. Also service need to communicate with a DB to access certain table ...
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