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I came to know about some uses of undocumented stored procedures (such as 'sp_MSforeachdb' ...etc) in MS SQL.
What are they? and Why they are 'undocumented'?
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An undocumented command can....
Undocumented means.
Did I mention undocumented probably means unsupported? Don't depend on these to stick around the question mark '?' is replaced by the tablename (or DB name in the other sp).
Output.
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What are the undocumented functions of Flash and Flex? I prefer versions CS3 and Flex 2 above. Is there a way to get the whole list?
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This seems a bit difficult to provide, in any case -- any list of "undocumented functions" would itself be documentation about those ....
You which functions are undocumented and to produce a comprehensive list of these functions and here .
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Hi,
I want to know what the risks are of using undocumented methods in the iPhone SDK.
I haven't had any issues thus far, but I am worried that doing something like this might screw up the app.
Any opinions/suggestions are greatly appreciated.
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The risks of calling an undocumented method are the same in any application; since the method of the library than in a public ....
Apple has recently begun running apps through a static analyzer that will catch use of undocumented effects).
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Take an undocumented executable of unknown origin. Trying /?, -h, --help from the command line yields nothing. Is it possible to discover if the executable supports any command line options by looking inside the executable? Possibly reverse engineering...
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Unfortunately private and local variable names will be lost, as these are not stored in the MSIL but it... .
This will convert the MSIL code into the equivalent C# code which may make it easier to understand .
If it's a .NET executable try using Reflector.
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Is it commonplace/appropriate for third party components to make undocumented use of the filesystem?
Hello,
I have been utilizing two third party components for PDF document generation (in .NET, but i think this is a platform independent topic). I will leave the company's names out of it for now, but I will say, they are not extremely well known vendors...
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Do they make claims that this is something they support? If so, then they should provide documentation on how they use the file system and what permissions they... .
First, I'd ask whether these PDF generation tools are designed to be run within ASP.NET apps .
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I know that there are already Questions about VB6 migration, but the code base of my project brings some new questions here.
I have to say the Code quality, structure and architecture is just a nightmare. There are 2 Big Projects: Nr.1 with 40 Forms, ...
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If you take route 1 or 2 you are guaranteed ... .
To improve something you must first understand it.
The only safe and reasonable route you can take is number 3 .
I had to go through the same thing (Massive VB6 app with no documentation and horrible code.) .
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I'm working on a project whose setup uses the APIs documented in Microsoft Knowledge Base article KB317540 to install and uninstall assemblies into the GAC. The KB article states:
SUMMARY
The native code application programming interfaces (APIs) that ...
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Why not invoke these executables, instead of using these APIs directly?
Why not just create a Windows Installer... .
Command-line tools) to work with the GAC.
It says, "Only administrative tools and setup programs must use these APIs."
There are tools (e.g .
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For instance, in multiprocessing.managers there is a function called MakeProxyType . This function isn't in the multiprocessing documentation at all, but its name doesn't begin with an underscore either. Disregarding the subject of whether or not it's...
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It's going to be safe if....
If it's deliberate, then it can disappear from the API without notice and would be dangerous to use .
You should clarify with the authors whether the omission of MakeProxyType from the documentation is deliberate or accidental .
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I have always been astonished by Wine . Sometimes I want to hack on it, fix little things and generally understand how it works. So, I download the Wine source code and right after that I feel overwhelmed. The codebase is huge and - unlike the Linux Kernel...
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Unfortunately, there's no royal road to understanding a large ... .
When you get tired of reading code, go read the dev mailing list, the developer's guide , or the wiki .
Think of a question you'd like to have answered, and try to find the answer .
Dig in.
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I read a very fascinating article that was about programming drivers using the wdk, and one of the functions it used is called ObReferenceObjectByName. This function has given me lots of headaches. The first bad thing is that it's not documented by microsoft...
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This will give you....
At a command prompt that has MSVC tools in the path
link /dump /exports ???.dll
where ???.dll is the dll were you expect this function to be .
I don't know this API, but I can give you a trick that might help you diagnose the problem .
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