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Hi, Like many, I am new here and new to programming. I have been looking for a project to try my hand at it. Anyways, Is there a way that I can program subsections into folders of Windows 10 OS? Or is that not something possible? I don't want to do Linux, simply because I am very comfortable...

I am attempting to write a tool that is able to read and write firmware on any hardware device that has firmware. I cannot find any resources on YouTube, Google, or the Windows Developer API. Is it even possible to access any firmware on the Device?

I am at the end of my wisdom and need some help. Here are the relevant parts of my code: proc isKeyPressed(virtKeyCode: int32, stateCode: SHORT): bool = if GetAsyncKeyState(virtKeyCode) and 0x8000 != 0: return true else: return false template checkKey(virtKeyCode: int32, keyValue...

We have several important updates to share with the latest release of C#/WinRT. This release is feature complete for consumption scenarios, which means that all features for using our generated Windows SDK projections to call WinRT APIs are now in their final form. We expect C#/WinRT to have...

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In particular can Netbeans support dark mode themes. Can Netbeans import dark themes as I find them much easier on my eyes. I'm using version 8.2. Andrew.sprott@gmail.com Sent from my SM-F907B using Tapatalk

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XAML Islands was our first solution to enable developers to use UWP XAML inside their desktop (Win32) apps. Within a couple of months after the release of XAML Islands, behavioral insights and customer interviews raised some signals about how developers were using it. We discovered that a...

I want to add a user account to my linuxbox. But this user will have specific expire time which will be specified at the useradd definition.

I have a Java installation and I have only access via bash. How can I check the Java version from command line.

We are excited to announce that the Rust/WinRT project finally has a permanent and public home on GitHub: microsoft/winrt-rs Rust/WinRT follows in the tradition established by C++/WinRT of building language projections for the Windows Runtime using standard languages and compilers, providing a...

Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Link Removed (Build 19041 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 19041 contains bug fixes and under development changes to the API surface area. The Preview SDK can be downloaded from the Link Removed. For...

Over the course of my internship at the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC), I worked on the safe systems programming languages (SSPL) team to promote safer languages for systems programming where runtime overhead is important, as outlined in this blog. My job was to port a security...

Azure IoT Edge is an open source, cross platform software project from the Azure IoT team at Microsoft that seeks to solve the problem of managing distribution of compute to the edge of your on-premise network from the cloud. This post explains some of the rationale behind our choice of Rust as...

I have been reading alot about C++ programming. I even started watching videos and writing study guides for different books. I don't have any difficulty understanding written text, even in difficult format. I am just asking for suggestions of the best ways to learn C++ coding. I don't want...

What are the advantages of win32 programming?

Hi, I want to open a specific .url in a new tab of Microsoft Edge, this is the file I used for Explorer, can anyone convert for Edge? thanks Const OpenInNewTab = &H0800 Const OpenInBackgroundTab = &H1000 Site = "https:\\www.google.com" Dim oIE Dim objShell Dim objWindows Set objShell =...

Hello. I have several hundred text files in a folder. I would like to replace the text "Hello" present in every files with the actual "filename". How to do that? Can I use a Script or PowerShell? Thank you!

Hi, First of all, I'm sorry if this isn't the right place to post this kind of question. If you know where I can post this please let me know. Onto the question. I'd like to start a program (Rainmeter) when I plug in my laptop to charge, I would also like to kill it when I plug it out, i.e...

Today is an exciting day for Windows 10 on ARM. With the official release of Visual Studio 15.9, developers now have the officially supported SDK and tools for creating 64-bit ARM (ARM64) apps. In addition, the Microsoft Store is now officially accepting submissions for apps built for the ARM64...