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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...

My daughter is running Win10 on a Dell laptop. Because she has four kids, she has thousands of photos and the list keeps growing. Thanks to some difficulties with downloading photos from her iPhone in the recent past, she has many duplicate photos and, unfortunately, many descriptive filenames...

How can i integrate any open Windows appication in a labview frontpanel. In the attached vi it opens calc and brings to front. But i would like it to be on the labview frontpanel.

The Microsoft Devices Team is excited to announce the release of an open-source model for Component Firmware Update for Windows system developers – Component Firmware Update (CFU). With CFU, you can easily deliver firmware updates for through Windows Update by using CFU drivers. Background...

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Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Link Removed (Build 17744 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 17744 contains bug fixes and under development changes to the API surface area. The Preview SDK can be downloaded from Link Removed. For...

I need the 32-bit version of Java Development Kit SE 10 (JDK SE 10), but oracle just shows the 64-bit version.

The Microsoft Devices team is excited to announce the release of an open source framework for Windows driver developers — Driver Module Framework (DMF). With DMF, not only can you easily develop simple and structured Windows Driver Framework (WDF) drivers but also share code amongst your...

I recently had to wipe one of my hard drives and reinstall windows 8. However, when I try to run certain installers, the following message occurs: Skipping this still results in nothing happening, and when I select the download option, the following message occurs. I tried to follow the...