The portable libraries are the response to the growing profile fragmentation in .NET frameworks. With help of portable libraries you can share code between different runtimes without dreadful #ifdef PLATFORM statements or even worse “Add as Link” source file sharing practices. If you have an existing .net class library which you would like to reference ......

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The Visual Studio 2012 doesn’t have a UI to set the Target Framework in C++ Projects. Target Framework : 4.0 The online documentation does say to edit the .vcxproj project and change the TargetFrameworkVersion Tag. However, The C++ projects don’t have that tag by default. They just assume that the target framework is v4.0. Instead, you have to add the ......

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I am using the mouse with my left hand but I am not swapping the mouse buttons. (Old habit from the times I was using public workstations at the university. I was too lazy to play with the system setup every time, so that I just moved the mouse from the right to the left side.) I am also using multiple pointing devices with my notebook. (a gaming mouse ......

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(Brian Reiter from thoughtful computing has described this setup in this StackOverflow thread. The credit for the idea is entirely his, I have just extended it with some step by step descriptions and added some links and screenhots.) If you are forced to still support Internet Explorer 6, you can setup following combination on your machine to make the ......

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The call for papers for the first franconian .NET community conference is open. [1] http://www.dotnet-day-frank... ......

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