I am spawning a process from a service. The spawned process hungs for
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to complete the task with in the expected time limit, if it exceeds the
limit I want to terminate the process (no mercy or graceful, just ...

When I create a new C++ project of type "Class Library (.NET)", I am
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   using namespace std
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Thanks in advance.
Andrew.

I would like to set a particular cell in an Excel Spreadsheet to a specific
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please help me if anyone known.

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evaluation I'm doing.
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mention this scenario: can a handle to a ref class type be a member of a
native class?
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When you try to have a ref class instance on the stack, you'll get:
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can anybody point me to source code of an Outlook like sidebar (those up
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Or maybe the source for the toolbox control from VS?
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lines from large data set (around 30 000 points).
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when a variable is no longer used.
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Error:
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How can I check if a UserGroup has the First Admin Account in it?
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