If like me you have installed Windows 8 Enterprise on your machine, you have certainly noticed that you cannot activate Windows because of a DNS error (DNS name does not exist.) if you do not have a KMS server. The error code is 0x8007232B. To activate...

When trying to update SQL Server 2012 with the patch KB2716442 (Windows 8) I was not able to solve the issue 84B20001. Going on http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2716442 I was not able to solve the issue neither so I wanted to share how I solved this...

Introduction Reading some forums, I have seen some people having troubles creating a new TypeScript project in Visual Studio 2012. This is a quick tutorial to demonstrate the creation of a default project. Hello TypeScript Go to the Microsoft...

While trying to share my wifi connection, the error "The hosted network couldn't be started. The group or resource is not in the correct state to perform the requested operation." happened and I wanted to share how to solve this issue. The problem...

As most of you must have notice, Windows 8 has been introduced during the Microsoft build conference. Microsoft Build introduces many new features: Windows 8 Metro interface for touch screens ARM support ...

Node.Js is a simple technology to host a webserver. I wanted to share the steps to enable debugging on a Windows computer. To debug we will use a very powerful tool : node-inspector . Node inspector is a web-hosted debugger which communicates with...

Introduction This post’s goal is to introduce you to Bulk Copy. We’ll create a SQL query which is going to concatenate several attached databases and extract the data to an output csv file. The first goal is to demonstrate how to use...

Hi, this is my first post on my msdn blog. I decided to create this blog after 6 months working at Microsoft France in order to share news, tips or advices. The blog posts will mainly deal with Microsoft technologies such as: Microsoft news ...

This post goal is to demonstrate how to deal with canvas drawing and selection of items in the canvas. ! This post will be updated for further information. In the MainWindow.xaml just create a Canvas and a CheckBox. <Window...

As most of people have tried to migrate and test Windows 8, you must have notice that you can't kill background threads easily. While searching for a solution to kill those, I have found that applications running in metro style application has a name...

I have been facing an issue with the Visual Basic component MSCOMCTL.OCX which I was not able to register (Windows 7 - 64bits). I found multiple answers on the internet as: Move the object in a different folder C:\Windows\system C:\Windows...

This post provides an example on how to insert custom control inside a Word Document using VSTO. You might for example insert controls as button or a whole user interface inside your document. These controls might either be Winform or WPF control....

Problem Overview Regex is a powerful tool allowing us to extract content from a string based on a Regular Expression. When you need to identify a string that contains nested elements, it might be more difficult to understand how to create a Regex solving...