What is the difference if any...?
I normally leave the framework headers arranged by the default template, and add all other headers after. For example, #include <vector> #include <algorithm> #include <iterator> follows #include "targetver.h" #define…
Developer technologies | C++
WPF Modal window not rendering title area on initial ShowDialog() until mouse move
I'm using .NET Framework6.0 and encountering a strange render issue in a custom WPF modal dialog. Environment: .NET FrameWork4.6 Windows: Windows 11 64-bit When I display a window using ShowDialog() in a button click event and the title are doesn't…
Developer technologies | Windows Presentation Foundation
DLL file not found when invoking function from Excel/VBA
I'm running Windows 11 with 64-bit MS/Office 2021. I have a very large (>25KSLOC) Excel/VBA application with a helper DLL written in C and compiled by Visual Studio 2022. The last time I used the app was May 4, 2025, and it worked perfectly. Today,…
Developer technologies | Visual Basic for Applications
Suspected Compromise Involving Microsoft Authenticator and Entra Activity
Reporting a suspected compromise involving: Microsoft Authenticator Silent appearance of Microsoft Entra ID-linked behavior Unauthorized device trust and token issuance across iOS and Windows platforms Critically, there was no explicit…
Developer technologies | C#
Letter spacing in winforms Textbox c#.
Hi , i am using c# winforms 2022 community . WPF or any other technology is not an option . I am trying to reduce the character spacing inside the textbox such that if the characters length exceeds the width of the textbox , it should automatically…
Developer technologies | Windows Forms
After update Visual Studio, UWP does not work
Hello, everyone. I updated my VS to the latest version, then my UWP application stopped working, and the following error occurred: XamlCompiler warning WMC0151: Member 'CheckBoxBorderBrush' on type…
Developer technologies | XAML
How can I migrate the web app built using ASP.NET Web Forms .NET Framework 4.7.1 to .NET Core 8?
Can someone please help me out with the migration steps for upgrading the web app from ASP.NET Web Forms .NET Framework 4.7.1 to .NET Core 8. I tried to use .NET Upgrade Assistant, but is seems like this extensions doesn't supports for Web Forms. …
Developer technologies | ASP.NET | Other

Setting a Datetime to null
I'm reading in data from a table. For each field I check to see if the value is null and how to handle it. Some of the DateTime fields can be null, see a field for when a request has been reassigned. Here's the code I have below. public static DateTime?…
Developer technologies | C#

How to fix screen cursor that doesnt work and wont show on screen?
For the past couple of days my screen cursor hasnt been working. when I say this I mean the cursor doesnt show at all on my screen. I have no clue why its doing this. Ive been using the touch screen but i need to fix the cursor for other things.
Developer technologies | .NET | .NET Internet of things
which is best for performance filtering on where or filtering on join ?
I work on sql server 2019 i don't know which is best for performance filtering on where condition or filtering on join with another meaning which is best first query select A.* from A inner join B on A.ID=B.ID INNER JOIN C ON C.ID=B.ID …
Developer technologies | Transact-SQL
SQL Server | Other

Row Height changes after filtering
Environment: Excel Office 365 running in client on Windows 10 The worksheet has all columns set to Wrap Text so column width is retained. Problem Description: I show all and auto fit rows - everything looks fine. Then I filter, and the rows no longer…
Microsoft 365 and Office | Excel | For business | Windows

Developer technologies | Visual Basic for Applications
Blazor Web App using the Razor pages (.razor) from RCL
Hello, I'm trying to have the Razor Class Library (RCL) to serve the Razor pages (.razor) into Blazor Web App. First, I created a RCL project called RazorClassLibrary and simply added a new Razor compnent (.razor page). The page is under a folder called…
Developer technologies | .NET | Blazor
How to create dynamic column in datalist POS Store Commerce
Hi Everyone, I would like to display a datalist with dynamic data from crt, need to create dynamic column. Thanks, Janaki Priya
Developer technologies | Visual Studio | Extensions
Enterprise Application Provisioning: Authenticate on SCIM endpoint
Situation I am writing an ASP.NET Application implementing the SCIM protocol. It will be single tenant and only be used in my company. I primarily follow this guide by Microsoft (Develop and plan provisioning for a SCIM endpoint in Microsoft Entra…
Developer technologies | ASP.NET | ASP.NET Core
Frame work error
I am using VS build task but failing with following error ##[error]C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\MSBuild\Current\Bin\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(1259,5): Error MSB3644: The reference assemblies for…
Developer technologies | .NET | Entity Framework Core
Post migrating from Azure to on-premises our Development and Production servers, our .NET API, Angular site throwing Azure CLI authentication failure issue
An error occurred while starting the application. CredentialUnavailableException: EnvironmentCredential authentication unavailable. Environment variables are not fully configured. Azure.Identity.CredentialDiagnosticScope.FailWrapAndThrow(Exception…
Developer technologies | ASP.NET | ASP.NET API
How to use Co-Pilot via API
Hi, I am trying to figure out if it is possible to query co-pilot and grab the generated answer via api. What I mean by this is for example say in Jira or any Ticketing System that can make calls to an API is it possible to make a call to co pilot…
Developer technologies | ASP.NET | ASP.NET API
Microsoft Copilot | Other
Login not possible with AspNetCore Idenity when Enable DataProtection.
I'm configuring my application to make use of AspNetCore.Identity as well Data protection. public static void Main(string[] args) { var builder =…
Developer technologies | ASP.NET | ASP.NET API
Connection reset by peer
Hi I have Asp.net 6 (MVC) application running on Docker. Sometimes I get error recv() failed (104: Connection reset by peer) while reading response header from upstream. I have no idea, how I can fix it, if anyone know, please help
Developer technologies | ASP.NET | ASP.NET Core
In Azure Web PubSub, How to receive messages in backend microservice for processing
Requirement: My clients are using simple WebSocket connection to send messages. I want to receive these messages inside my backend .NET 8 web api and process them further to send fine-tuned data to some distributed cache services. From documentation, I…