This step-by-step article discusses how to determine whether a client system meets the hardware and software requirements to install the .NET Framework. This information becomes more important when you install the .NET Framework or Microsoft Visual...
Explains that the installation of MDAC 2.8 fails when you try to install it from a Windows Installer package on a computer that is running Windows 2000. Explains that you have to modify the Windows Installer package to work around this behavior.
This article discusses several best practices to use when you use Microsoft Network Monitor (Netmon.exe) to capture network traffic. A network trace that has any of the following characteristics may prevent the successful analysis of captured network...
The released version of the Systems Management Server Software Development Kit (SDK) for version 2.0 is now available for download as part of the platform SDK. This product was previously named "SMS Toolkit" in its Beta forms, and this release directly...
In the Microsoft Windows environment, an interrupt service routine (ISR) can communicate with an application. n ISR must be in a fixed code segment in a dynamic-link library (DLL) to ensure that the code is always in memory and available to service the...
The text below explains how to use the following functions in the Microsoft Windows operating system: SetViewportExt() , SetViewportOrg() , SetWindowExt() , and SetWindowOrg() . The explanation is based on the SHAPES sample application that was...
Windows 3.1 provides the DisplayDib function to display a 256-color bitmap image on a standard (16 color) VGA display. DisplayDib reduces the display resolution to 320x200 or 320x240 and centers the bitmap on the screen, clipping the image as...
Termwait.exe is a self-extracting file in the Microsoft Download Center that demonstrates how an application can launch a child task and then wait for it to complete before executing specific code. Termwait.exe uses notification messages from the...
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