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releases of software in a pre-beta form for developers, IT professionals and journalists to have prior to official releases.

Microsoft uses the acronym CTP for their Community Technology Previews. These are releases of software in a pre-beta form for developers, IT professionals and journalists to have prior to official releases.

Source : http://www.ehow.com/facts_7335880_microsoft_s-ctp-program_.html

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Using MySql with Entity Framework 4 and the Code-First Development CTP

I thought I'd experiment a bit with Scott Guthrie's latest post on code-first dev with Entity Framework 4. Instead of using Sql Server, I'm trying to use MySql. Here are the relevant parts of my web.config (this is an Asp.Net MVC 2…
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c# Can a "task method" also be an "async" method?

I'm trying to get the hand of the new async CTP stuff and I'm probably confusing myself here.. I can have this "task method", with no problem: public static Task LongTaskAAsync() { return Task.Run(() => { …
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What happens to the thread when reaching 'await' on 'async' method?

My question as the title suggest is about the background of 'async' and 'await'. Is it true to say that what the current thread reaches 'await' keyword, it goes to "sleep", and wakes up when the await method is done? Thanks! Guy
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What is CTP, CTTbl classes (objects) in Apache POI?

I'm trying to understand some parts of Apache POI. For instance, i;m trying to get text (or table, etc.) from an existing docx file. For example there is a method getParagraph(..CTP p) in XWPFDocument: It returns "a paragraph with a CTP class p".…
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Expert F# web crawler example

I'm trying to work through an example in Expert F#, which is based on v1.9.2, but the CTP releases after that have changed enough that some of them don't even compile anymore. I'm running into some trouble with listing 13-13. Here's the snippet of…
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Code First Entity Framework 4 : Failing with SQL Authentication

I'm working with Entity Framework 4 and CTP 4 and am really liking it so far. I can get it working correctly when I'm using Windows Authentication to connect to the database but when I switch to SQL Authentication it fails with the message below. …
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How to remove the title from input field in cakephp?

For an application, I am using cakephp with mysql. I echo the existing contents from the table as: create('Post',array('action'=>'edit')); echo $form->input('title'); ?> in the .ctp file. This displays the title value retrieved…
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What is the new name of Microsoft.Data.Entity.Ctp?

I'm playing around with Entity Framework 4 and code only. The tutorial I'm following is using the Beta-Version of Visual Studio 2010 and is referring to Microsoft.Data.Entity.Ctp. Since I'm working with the final release of Visual Studio the name of…
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Syntax of strongly typed enums wrongly implemented?

I'm currently testing the November CTP for Visual Studio 2012 and came across an interesting problem: Is it mandated by the standard that for strongly typed enumerations the enum and struct/class keywords have to be in the same line or is that an…
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Visual C++ Compiler Nov 2013 CTP suddenly gone

today opened a project I was working on about 3 days ago and suddenly I get this message when trying to compile: error MSB8020: The build tools for CTP_Nov2013 (Platform Toolset = 'CTP_Nov2013') cannot be found. To build using the CTP_Nov2013…
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Entity Framework June 2011 CTP and SQL Server 2012

I have a spatial model definition which used to be working with SQL Server 2008 but not with 2012 anymore. I don't know why but I can't get it working... model.Location = DbGeography.Parse("POINT(" + model.Latitude + " " + model.Longitude + ")"); I…
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changing on cakephp view flie (.ctp) but no changes in the browser

I have wasted more than an hour to deal with this view of CakePHP file. I am new on it. I am pretty sure i updated the correct file (only remove some part), but its not changing the view on the browser. Anyone know why? Thanks.
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vs2015 ctp6 error at create new project

I'm using Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6. When I click New Project..., I get an error message: "Object reference not set to an instance of an object". Visual Studio does not crash, but the template choice dialog doesn't appear. If I reinstall (all…
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Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6 Windows 10 Projects Designer's Load Failed

I am trying to develop Windows 10 Project with VS2015 CTP6 on Windows 10 Technical Preview. I can't use designer because of this error. How can I solve this? Thanks.
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How to get rid of the menu bar of a custom task pane?

Hello, I have constructed a simple custom task pane for Excel, and woud like the top of the user control inside the pane to align with the top of the column headers, but there is an ugly menu bar on the top preventing it from doing so (picture…
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