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By Ed Price - MSFT January 11, 2013
This article is written for Forum Original Posters (OPs). Online problem solving can be relatively time consuming because it may demand several messages back and force to fully understand the symptom and background, especially at the very beginning. Here are a few suggestions that help you get the best answer to your question as quickly as possible. First, select a good title that summarizes your technology and the specific problem you have. It will be one of the main driving forces for...
By Nilesh Patel and Kurt Hudson December 24, 2012
This step-by-step guide describes the steps needed to set up a basic configuration of Active Directory® Certificate Services (AD CS) in a lab environment. AD CS in Windows Server® 2008 R2 provides customizable services for creating and managing public key certificates used in software security systems employing public key technologies. The purpose of this step-by-step guide is to enable you to create....
By XAML guy November 23, 2012
This article presents a WPF C# example of the Blackboard design pattern, available on TechNet Gallery. It discusses the concepts of the design pattern, and highlights points of interest for C#, WPF developers. The Blackboard pattern is a design pattern, used in software engineering, to coordinate separate, disparate systems that need to work together, or in sequence, continually prioritizing the actors (or knowledge sources)...
By Luigi Bruno November 14, 2012
This page is intended to be a list of suggested or recommended books for developers. Topics include .NET General, ASP.NET, Best Practices, C/C++, C#, Debugging, MFC, SharePoint, SQL Server, Visual Basic, and WPF. This article has already been translated into German, Italian, and Russian...
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