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24,241 | 1 | 24,254 | null | 13 | 41,856 | Can you use windows hooks or other methods to do code injection with c#? I've seen lots of things about code injection but all of them are done in C/C++. I don't know either of those languages and have a really hard time translating. Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this?
| Code Injection With C# | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-23T13:57:06.263 | 2018-04-01T04:20:56.813 | 2011-03-31T04:54:08.397 | 503,969 | 2,128 | [
"c#",
"code-injection"
] |
24,243 | 1 | 24,244 | null | 3 | 830 | I have a SqlServer database that I've manually filled with some test data. Now I'd like to extract this test data as insert statements and check it in to source control. The idea is that other team members should be able to create the same database, run the created insert scripts and have the same data to test and deve... | Select existing data from database to create test data | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-23T14:01:32.413 | 2008-11-19T22:14:07.240 | 2017-05-23T12:08:38.563 | -1 | 298 | [
"sql-server",
"database"
] |
24,244 | 2 | null | 24,243 | 1 | null | EMS DB Extract for SQL Server ([http://www.sqlmanager.net/en/products/mssql/extract](http://www.sqlmanager.net/en/products/mssql/extract)) seems to do what you want, and it seems to be free.
Hope this helps,
Robin
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T14:04:05.917 | 2008-08-23T14:04:05.917 | null | null | 1,912 | null |
24,211 | 2 | null | 24,168 | 17 | null | Set based queries are (usually) faster because:
1. They have more information for the query optimizer to optimize
2. They can batch reads from disk
3. There's less logging involved for rollbacks, transaction logs, etc.
4. Less locks are taken, which decreases overhead
5. Set based logic is the focus of RDBMSs, so the... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T13:06:58.753 | 2008-08-23T13:06:58.753 | null | null | 2,199 | null |
24,223 | 2 | null | 24,196 | 1 | null | Maybe the way to go is something like [Clutter](http://clutter-project.org/) or [Allegro](http://www.allegro.cc/). If you check in this [article](http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080604-hands-on-with-the-ubuntu-netbook-remix.html) at ArsTechnica what they are using Clutter for, you might get an idea how to use it... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T13:24:48.540 | 2008-08-23T13:24:48.540 | null | null | 2,384 | null |
24,246 | 2 | null | 24,243 | 1 | null | Red-Gate [SQL Data Compare](http://www.red-gate.com/products/SQL_Data_Compare/index.htm) will do this. Just create a blank data base with the same schema, and run a compare against the original and the blank database. It will generate scripts to insert all of your test data.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T14:06:30.093 | 2008-08-23T14:06:30.093 | null | null | 1,436 | null |
24,242 | 2 | null | 9 | 30 | null | I have created a SQL Server User Defined Function to calculate someone's age, given their birthdate. This is useful when you need it as part of a query:
```
using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.Sql;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
using System.Data.SqlTypes;
using Microsoft.SqlServer.Server;
public partial... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-23T13:58:02.860 | 2016-02-07T00:07:00.480 | 2016-02-07T00:07:00.480 | 2,921,691 | 2,601 | null |
24,248 | 2 | null | 24,193 | 2 | null | OK, I see. Well, as far as I know there isn't any code generator for Python. There is a good introduction on how to roll your own [here](http://www.drewnoakes.com/snippets/WritingACustomCodeGeneratorToolForVisualStudio/).
Actually, that's quite an under-used part of the environment, I suppose it's so because it needs ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T14:07:27.080 | 2008-08-23T14:07:27.080 | null | null | 2,384 | null |
24,260 | 2 | null | 2,873 | 2 | null | Lint-like tools generally suffer from a "false alarm" problem: they report a lot more issues than really exist. If the proportion of genuinely-useful warnings is too low, the user learns to just ignore the tool. More modern tools expend some effort to focus on the most likely/interesting warnings.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T14:29:04.923 | 2008-09-08T14:21:05.777 | 2008-09-08T14:21:05.777 | 1,412 | 1,412 | null |
24,259 | 2 | null | 3,260 | 6 | null | This problem has been studied in some detail.
There are a set of very up-to-date implementations in the `TSpectrum*` classes of [ROOT](http://root.cern.ch/) (a nuclear/particle physics analysis tool). The code works in one- to three-dimensional data.
The ROOT source code is available, so you can grab this implementa... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T14:28:23.130 | 2008-10-16T16:52:28.750 | 2008-10-16T16:52:28.750 | 2,509 | 2,509 | null |
24,264 | 2 | null | 24,109 | 10 | null | If you like Eclipse for Java, I suggest Eclipse CDT.
Despite C/C++ support isn't so powerful as is for Java, it still offers most of the features. It has a nice feature named Managed Project that makes working with C/C++ projects easier if you don't have experience with Makefiles. But you can still use Makefiles.
I do... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T14:32:22.387 | 2008-08-23T14:32:22.387 | null | null | 1,009 | null |
24,254 | 2 | null | 24,241 | 6 | null | Kevin,
it is possible. You can create library with window hook proc using managed C++. All you need to do is to inject this hook into some application using standard WinAPI (SetWindowsHookEx etc.). Inside this hook you can call System::AppDomain::CurrentDomain->Load method to load your assembly into target application'... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-23T14:23:52.330 | 2018-04-01T04:20:56.813 | 2018-04-01T04:20:56.813 | 4,875,631 | 1,196 | null |
24,271 | 2 | null | 24,270 | 28 | null | Verging on religious but I would say that you're painting an overly grim picture of the state of modern OOP. I would argue that it actually reduced costs, made large software projects manageable, and so forth. That doesn't mean it's solved the fundamental problem of software messiness, and it doesn't mean the average ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T14:45:23.883 | 2008-08-23T14:45:23.883 | null | null | null | null |
24,258 | 2 | null | 24,113 | 1 | null | I don't know the answer to your question, but I would highly recommend Add-In Express for doing the addin. See [http://www.add-in-express.com/add-in-net/](http://www.add-in-express.com/add-in-net/). I've used this in many projects, including some commercial software and it is completely awesome.
It does all the Outl... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T14:28:20.307 | 2008-08-23T14:28:20.307 | null | null | 1,627 | null |
24,270 | 1 | 25,061 | null | 126 | 30,195 | As far as I can tell, in spite of the countless millions or billions spent on OOP education, languages, and tools, OOP has not improved developer productivity or software reliability, nor has it reduced development costs. Few people use OOP in any rigorous sense (few people adhere to or understand principles such as LS... | What's the point of OOP? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-23T14:40:28.687 | 2016-07-08T17:11:10.447 | 2008-08-23T16:00:19.070 | 1,190 | 2,131 | [
"language-agnostic",
"oop"
] |
24,274 | 2 | null | 24,262 | 4 | null | It seems you have misplaced the parameters in File.Copy(), it should be File.Copy(string source, string destination).
Also is "C:\Test2" a directory? You can't copy file to a directory.
Use something like that instead:
;
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T14:47:54.207 | 2008-08-23T14:47:54.207 | null | null | 1,534 | null |
24,276 | 2 | null | 24,262 | 0 | null | I'm kinda guessing here, but could it be because:
- - -
Sorry I cant be of more help, I have rarely experienced problems with File.Copy.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T14:50:10.037 | 2008-08-23T14:50:10.037 | null | null | 832 | null |
24,275 | 2 | null | 24,270 | 119 | null | > The real world isn't "OO", and the idea implicit in OO--that we can model things with some class taxonomy--seems to me very fundamentally flawed
While this is true and has been observed by other people (take Stepanov, inventor of the STL), the rest is nonsense. OOP may be flawed and it certainly is no silver bullet ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T14:48:10.523 | 2008-08-23T19:34:31.613 | 2017-05-23T11:46:39.570 | -1 | 1,968 | null |
24,283 | 2 | null | 17,928 | 1 | null | @orion thats so cool. Never thought of it that way.
Well @jschroedl thats was fun indeed.
Testing an activex in console app is fun. But I think its worth not trying down that path. You can call the methods or set and get the properties either through the way @jschroedl had explained or you can call the IDIspatch obj... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T15:02:46.743 | 2008-08-23T15:02:46.743 | null | null | 1,781 | null |
24,227 | 2 | null | 24,221 | 17 | null | > Also, are they unique to Java, is there a C++ equivalent?
No, but VB and C# have [attributes](http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/dotnetattributes.aspx) which are the same thing.
Their use is quite diverse. One typical Java example, `@Override` has no effect on the code but it can be used by the compiler to generate a... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-23T13:31:05.590 | 2013-11-26T05:05:58.650 | 2013-11-26T05:05:58.650 | 1,102,512 | 1,968 | null |
24,226 | 2 | null | 24,168 | 3 | null | I think the real answer is, like all approaches in programming, that it depends on which one is better. Generally, a set based language is going to be more efficient, because that is what it was designed to do. There are two places where a cursor is at an advantage:
1. You are updating a large data set in a database... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-23T13:29:56.983 | 2014-05-01T07:12:27.767 | 2014-05-01T07:12:27.767 | 321,731 | 1,942 | null |
24,279 | 1 | 24,294 | null | 74 | 32,396 | In my second year of University we were "taught" Haskell, I know almost nothing about it and even less about functional programming.
What is functional programming, why and/xor where would I want to use it instead of non-functional programming and am I correct in thinking that C is a non-functional programming languag... | Functional programming and non-functional programming | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-23T14:58:11.623 | 2020-01-15T14:53:25.967 | 2017-02-02T22:55:54.270 | 792,066 | 1,384,652 | [
"functional-programming",
"paradigms",
"glossary"
] |
24,202 | 2 | null | 23,962 | 5 | null | If you're using C#, and can use [PostSharp](http://www.postsharp.org/), here's a simple memoization aspect for your code:
```
[Serializable]
public class MemoizeAttribute : PostSharp.Laos.OnMethodBoundaryAspect, IEqualityComparer<Object[]>
{
private Dictionary<Object[], Object> _Cache;
public MemoizeAttribute... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T12:54:54.603 | 2008-08-23T12:54:54.603 | null | null | 267 | null |
24,262 | 1 | 24,274 | null | 7 | 4,508 | While creating a file synchronization program in C# I tried to make a method `copy` in `LocalFileItem` class that uses `System.IO.File.Copy(destination.Path, Path, true)` method where `Path` is a `string`.
After executing this code with destination. `Path = "C:\\Test2"` and `this.Path = "C:\\Test\\F1.txt"` I get an exc... | About File permissions in C# | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-23T14:31:21.780 | 2017-07-19T15:28:50.430 | 2017-07-19T15:28:50.430 | 3,179,310 | 2,605 | [
"c#",
"file",
"copy"
] |
24,290 | 2 | null | 24,270 | 6 | null | @Konrad
> OOP may be flawed and it certainly is no silver bullet but it makes large-scale applications much simpler because it's a great way to reduce dependencies
That is the dogma. I am not seeing what makes OOP significantly better in this regard than procedural programming of old. Whenever I make a procedure call... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T15:11:06.413 | 2008-08-23T15:11:06.413 | null | null | 2,131 | null |
24,285 | 2 | null | 7,737 | 15 | null | You should also check out the [FTGL library](http://sourceforge.net/projects/ftgl/).
> FTGL is a free cross-platform Open
Source C++ library that uses Freetype2
to simplify rendering fonts in OpenGL
applications. FTGL supports bitmaps,
pixmaps, texture maps, outlines,
polygon mesh, and extruded polygon
r... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T15:06:20.917 | 2008-08-23T15:06:20.917 | null | null | 803 | null |
24,289 | 2 | null | 24,279 | 3 | null | Yes you are correct in thinking that C is a non-functional language. C is a procedural language.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T15:10:44.727 | 2008-08-23T15:10:44.727 | null | null | 1,912 | null |
24,286 | 2 | null | 24,270 | 5 | null | @CodingTheWheel
> But to the extent that OOP has been a waste of time, I'd say it's because of lack of programmer training, compounded by the steep learning curve of learning a language specific OOP mapping. Some people "get" OOP and others never will.
I dunno if that's really surprising, though. I think that techni... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T15:06:40.197 | 2008-08-23T15:06:40.197 | null | null | 2,131 | null |
24,288 | 2 | null | 24,270 | 6 | null | @Sean
> However, factoring out common finctionality into a base class, then reusing that in other descendant classes is a deeply elegant thing, IMHO!
But "procedural" developers have been doing that for decades anyway. The syntax and terminology might differ, but the effect is identical. There is more to OOP than "... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T15:08:58.460 | 2008-08-23T15:08:58.460 | null | null | 2,131 | null |
24,293 | 2 | null | 24,270 | 14 | null | Its a programming paradigm.. Designed to make it easier for us mere mortals to break down a problem into smaller, workable pieces..
If you dont find it useful.. Don't use it, don't pay for training and be happy.
I on the other hand do find it useful, so I will :)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T15:14:09.337 | 2008-08-23T15:14:09.337 | null | null | 832 | null |
24,291 | 2 | null | 24,270 | 1 | null | "Even if there is no actual [information architecture], it doesn’t mean we don’t experience or perceive it as such. Zen Buddhists say there is no actual “self” but they still name their kids."-Andrew Hinton
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T15:11:50.920 | 2008-08-23T15:11:50.920 | null | null | 279 | null |
24,302 | 2 | null | 24,298 | 22 | null | I would really recommend [Restful Authentication](http://github.com/technoweenie/restful-authentication/tree/master). I think it's pretty much the de-facto standard.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T15:33:44.937 | 2008-08-23T15:33:44.937 | null | null | 1,450 | null |
24,298 | 1 | 741,170 | null | 84 | 56,474 | I'm looking for a pre-built solution I can use in my RoR application. I'm ideally looking for something similar to the ASP.NET Forms authentication that provides email validation, sign-up controls, and allows users to reset their passwords. Oh yeah, and easily allows me to pull the user that is currently logged into ... | Best Solution For Authentication in Ruby on Rails | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-23T15:27:11.647 | 2013-04-20T04:49:31.190 | 2008-08-24T20:57:42.467 | 234 | 168 | [
"ruby-on-rails",
"ruby",
"authentication"
] |
24,284 | 2 | null | 24,270 | 7 | null | I have been writing OO code for the last 9 years or so. Other than using messaging, it's hard for me to imagine other approach. The main benefit I see totally in line with what CodingTheWheel said: modularisation. OO naturally leads me to construct my applications from modular components that have clean interfaces a... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T15:02:58.273 | 2008-08-23T15:02:58.273 | null | null | 2,608 | null |
24,296 | 2 | null | 23,930 | 7 | null |
# D Templates: Functional
```
template factorial(int n : 1)
{
const factorial = 1;
}
template factorial(int n)
{
const factorial =
n * factorial!(n-1);
}
```
or
```
template factorial(int n)
{
static if(n == 1)
const factorial = 1;
else
const factorial =
n * factorial!(n-1);
}
```
... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T15:22:08.617 | 2009-01-30T18:22:29.170 | 2009-01-30T18:22:29.170 | 1,337 | 1,337 | null |
24,308 | 2 | null | 24,270 | 14 | null | Relative to straight procedural programming, the first fundamental tenet of OOP is the notion of information hiding and encapsulation. This idea leads to the notion of the that seperates the interface from implementation. These are hugely important concepts and the basis for putting a framework in place to think about... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T15:43:04.120 | 2008-08-24T12:51:08.720 | 2008-08-24T12:51:08.720 | 1,553 | 1,553 | null |
24,294 | 2 | null | 24,279 | 94 | null | One key feature in a functional language is the concept of first-class functions. The idea is that you can pass functions as parameters to other functions and return them as values.
Functional programming involves writing code that does not change state. The primary reason for doing so is so that successive calls to a... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T15:19:17.390 | 2008-08-23T15:39:15.767 | 2008-08-23T15:39:15.767 | 658 | 658 | null |
24,307 | 2 | null | 24,130 | 0 | null | If your code uses lot of functions that operate on those attributes (name/height/weight), then using class could be a good option.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T15:42:51.717 | 2008-08-23T15:42:51.717 | null | null | 1,897 | null |
24,305 | 2 | null | 24,200 | 1 | null | I think that it sounds like this could be done using [SSIS packages](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms141026.aspx). They're similar to SQL 2000's DTS packages. I've used them to successfully transform everything from plain text CSV files, from existing SQL tables, and even from XLS files with 6-digit rows span... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T15:40:00.197 | 2008-08-23T15:40:00.197 | null | null | 1,414 | null |
24,311 | 2 | null | 24,310 | 10 | null | The IRC Specification is laid out in RFC 1459
[http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/rfc/rfc.html](http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/rfc/rfc.html)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T15:49:53.510 | 2008-08-23T15:49:53.510 | null | null | 1,965 | null |
24,287 | 2 | null | 24,279 | 6 | null | May be worth checking out this article on [F# "101"](http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=0809051) on CoDe Mag recently posted.
Also, [Dustin Campbell has a great blog](http://diditwith.net/) where he has posted many articles on his adventures on getting up to speed with F#..
I hope you find these useful :... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T15:08:20.897 | 2008-08-23T15:08:20.897 | 2020-06-20T09:12:55.060 | -1 | 832 | null |
24,301 | 2 | null | 24,279 | 3 | null | I prefer to use functional programming to save myself repeated work, by making a more abstract version and then using that instead. Let me give an example. In Java, I often find myself creating maps to record structures, and thus writing getOrCreate structures.
```
SomeKindOfRecord<T> getOrCreate(T thing) {
if(... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-23T15:31:48.297 | 2020-01-15T14:53:25.967 | 2020-01-15T14:53:25.967 | 3,446,255 | 279 | null |
24,310 | 1 | 844,821 | null | 11 | 12,248 | I started using IRC at a young age, and I have always been fascinated with it. As a language exercise, I was thinking about programming a simple IRC client in Ruby with [Shoes](http://www.shoooes.net/) as a graphical front-end. My question to you, kind-sirs, what do I need to become familiar with to start on this gre... | Programming a simple IRC (Internet-Relay-Chat) Client | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-23T15:49:06.960 | 2013-09-26T06:34:55.157 | 2010-04-17T09:52:26.880 | 13,992 | 25 | [
"ruby",
"shoes",
"irc"
] |
24,300 | 2 | null | 23,930 | 2 | null |
Recursive
```
def fact(x):
return (1 if x==0 else x * fact(x-1))
```
Using iterator
```
import operator
def fact(x):
return reduce(operator.mul, xrange(1, x+1))
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T15:31:41.573 | 2009-02-23T01:08:37.230 | 2009-02-23T01:08:37.230 | 3,002 | 1,013 | null |
24,315 | 1 | null | null | 7 | 2,512 | In C# I can use the FileSystemWatcher object to watch for a specific file and raise an event when it is created, modified, etc.
The problem I have with this class is that it raises the event the moment the file becomes created, even if the process which created the file is still in the process of writing. I have found... | Is It Possible To Raise An Event When A File Becomes Accessible? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-23T15:54:56.727 | 2009-07-12T01:33:20.683 | null | null | 392 | [
"c#",
".net",
"file-io"
] |
24,316 | 2 | null | 24,270 | 5 | null | @Jeff
> Relative to straight procedural programming, the first fundamental tenet of OOP is the notion of information hiding and encapsulation. This idea leads to the notion of the class that seperates the interface from implementation.
Which has the more hidden implementation: C++'s iostreams, or C's FILE*s?
I think... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T15:54:57.743 | 2008-08-23T15:54:57.743 | null | null | 2,131 | null |
24,320 | 2 | null | 24,270 | 0 | null | OOP reduced costs, and increased efficiency.
When I made the jump from classic ASP/VBScript to C# I noticed a HUGE increase in productivity thanks to OOP.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T15:57:02.963 | 2008-08-23T15:57:02.963 | null | null | 1,965 | null |
24,322 | 2 | null | 24,310 | 7 | null | > I found this gem on Wikipedia. Sounds intimidating.
It's actually not.
Telnet onto an IRC Server and witness the simplicity of the protocol first hand. The hardest part is the handshake, after that its very simple.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T15:59:07.420 | 2008-08-23T15:59:07.420 | null | null | 1,965 | null |
24,323 | 2 | null | 24,315 | 0 | null | Not sure if there is a way of an event actually being raised by the standard class, but I eas experiencing similar problems on some recent work I was doing.
In short, I was trying to write to a file that was locked at the time. I ended up wrapping the write method up so it would automatically try the write again in a ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T15:59:13.660 | 2008-08-23T15:59:13.660 | null | null | 832 | null |
24,313 | 2 | null | 21,294 | 30 | null | I used a [much less complicated version recently](http://gist.github.com/4102) with [jQuery](http://jquery.com/):
```
<script src="scripts/jquery.js"></script>
<script>
var js = ["scripts/jquery.dimensions.js", "scripts/shadedborder.js", "scripts/jqmodal.js", "scripts/main.js"];
var $head = $("head");
for (var i... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-23T15:52:48.607 | 2016-03-30T00:41:57.080 | 2016-03-30T00:41:57.080 | 3,386,807 | 1,414 | null |
24,335 | 2 | null | 24,221 | 14 | null | Anders gives a good summary, and here's an example of a JUnit annotation
```
@Test(expected=IOException.class)
public void flatfileMissing() throws IOException {
readFlatFile("testfiles"+separator+"flatfile_doesnotexist.dat");
}
```
Here the `@Test` annotation is telling JUnit that the `flatfileMissing` method i... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-23T16:16:19.283 | 2016-11-22T08:37:54.190 | 2016-11-22T08:37:54.190 | 1,672,920 | 1,694 | null |
24,331 | 2 | null | 24,270 | 21 | null | > I think the use of opaque context objects (HANDLEs in Win32, FILE*s in C, to name two well-known examples--hell, HANDLEs live on the other side of the kernel-mode barrier, and it really doesn't get much more encapsulated than that) is found in procedural code too; I'm struggling to see how this is something particula... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T16:05:08.200 | 2008-08-23T16:05:08.200 | null | null | 1,968 | null |
24,343 | 2 | null | 23,930 | 2 | null | two of many Mathematica solutions (although ! is built-in and efficient):
```
(* returns pure function *)
(FixedPoint[(If[#[[2]]>1,{#[[1]]*#[[2]],#[[2]]-1},#])&,{1,n}][[1]])&
(* not using built-in, returns pure function, don't use: might build 1..n list *)
(Times @@ Range[#])&
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T16:27:07.307 | 2008-08-23T20:16:37.020 | 2008-08-23T20:16:37.020 | 279 | 279 | null |
24,338 | 2 | null | 20,185 | 0 | null | If you are using this class in a seperate service assembly, you can use the internal keyword.
```
public class AbstractClass
{
public AbstractClass ClassFactory(string args)
{
switch (args)
{
case "A":
return new ConcreteClassA();
case "B":... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T16:21:15.293 | 2008-08-23T16:58:43.580 | 2008-08-23T16:58:43.580 | 1,965 | 1,965 | null |
24,346 | 2 | null | 16,963 | 1 | null | I have never used it. I completely agree, it's bloatware. I usually end up using the repeater with custom controls that i made.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T16:28:07.740 | 2008-08-23T16:28:07.740 | null | null | 1,632 | null |
24,355 | 2 | null | 14,697 | 1 | null | I just installed [Helicon's ISAPI Rewrite 3](http://www.helicontech.com/isapi_rewrite/). Works exactly like htaccess. I'm diggin it so far.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T16:36:40.590 | 2008-08-23T16:36:40.590 | null | null | 2,614 | null |
24,336 | 2 | null | 24,315 | 0 | null | Use [CreateFile](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363858.aspx) in a loop with OPEN_ EXISTING flag and FILE_ ALL_ ACCESS (or you might need only a subset, see [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa364399(VS.85).aspx](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa364399(VS.85).aspx)
Examine the handle returned... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T16:16:49.110 | 2008-08-23T16:16:49.110 | null | null | 1,490 | null |
24,349 | 2 | null | 24,270 | 1 | null | > HANDLEs (and the rest of the WinAPI) is OOP!
Are they, though? They're not inheritable, they're certainly not substitutable, they lack well-defined classes... I think they fall a long way short of "OOP".
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T16:31:57.497 | 2008-08-23T16:31:57.497 | null | null | 2,131 | null |
24,364 | 2 | null | 24,298 | 3 | null | There's also [RestfulOpenIDAuthentication](http://github.com/ReinH/restful_open_id_authentication/tree/master) if you want OpenID support in addition to password support.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T16:46:52.017 | 2008-08-23T16:46:52.017 | null | null | 1,190 | null |
24,361 | 2 | null | 24,270 | 11 | null | > > HANDLEs (and the rest of the WinAPI) is OOP!Are they, though? They're not inheritable, they're certainly not substitutable, they lack well-defined classes... I think they fall a long way short of "OOP".
Have you ever created a window using WinAPI? Then you should know that you define a class (`RegisterClass`), crea... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T16:42:13.230 | 2008-08-23T16:42:13.230 | 2020-06-20T09:12:55.060 | -1 | 1,968 | null |
24,369 | 2 | null | 11,720 | 3 | null | Checkout [Powershell Management library for Hyper-V on CodePlex](http://www.codeplex.com/PSHyperv). Some features:
> Finding a VM
Connecting to a VM
Discovering and manipulating Machine states
Backing up, exporting and snapshotting VMs
Adding and removing VMs, configuring motherboard settings.
Manipulating D... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T16:50:42.273 | 2008-08-23T16:50:42.273 | null | null | 1,287 | null |
24,372 | 2 | null | 22,901 | 0 | null | That depends a bit on what you want to do.
First, check out libraries that provide connectivity to more than on DBMS platform. For example, Qt makes it very easy to connect to MySQL, MS SQL Server and a bunch of others, and change the database driver (connection type) at runtime - with just a few lines of code.
MySQL... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T16:52:39.477 | 2008-08-23T16:52:39.477 | null | null | 1,304 | null |
24,334 | 2 | null | 23,094 | 7 | null | You can try using the [HttpResponse.Cache property](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.httpresponse.cache.aspx) if that would help:
```
Response.Cache.SetExpires(DateTime.Now.AddSeconds(60));
Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.Public);
Response.Cache.SetValidUntilExpires(false);
Response.C... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T16:10:11.200 | 2008-08-23T16:31:36.250 | 2008-08-23T16:31:36.250 | 1,414 | 1,414 | null |
24,362 | 2 | null | 24,270 | 42 | null | > All too often, the class is used
simply for its syntactic sugar; it
puts the functions for a record type
into their own little namespace.
Yes, I find this to be too prevalent as well. This is not Object Oriented Programming. It's Object Based Programming and data centric programing. In my 10 years of working... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T16:42:45.053 | 2008-08-23T16:42:45.053 | null | null | 1,644 | null |
24,392 | 2 | null | 18,326 | 4 | null | Komodo from Activestate is a good IDE for Windows/Linux. There is a trial version - I am not sure if there is a free version after trial though.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T17:09:48.297 | 2008-08-23T17:09:48.297 | null | null | 2,617 | null |
24,388 | 2 | null | 16,963 | 1 | null | For anything long term I would try to avoid datagrid/gridview, it sometimes becomes too hacky making it do exactly what you want, after a certain number of these tweaks you start to realise its not saving time in the long run and you might not be getting the control over markup that you need.
However the built in pagi... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T17:07:07.180 | 2008-08-23T17:07:07.180 | null | null | 1,952 | null |
24,337 | 2 | null | 23,867 | 10 | null | It seems to be a common design pattern in .NET code. Here is a citation from [Framework design guidelines](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/0321246756)
> Consider providing method Close(), in addition to the Dispose(), if close is standard terminology in the area. When doing so, it is important that you ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T16:19:56.747 | 2008-08-23T16:19:56.747 | null | null | 1,196 | null |
24,353 | 2 | null | 22,909 | 2 | null | You could also try [http://motionandcolor.com/](http://motionandcolor.com/)
> Wrapper is a cross-browser compliant HTML/CSS rendering engine written in ActionScript that sits on top of your standards compliant HTML page.
Javascript might be tricker though.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T16:35:19.750 | 2008-08-23T16:35:19.750 | null | null | 914 | null |
24,396 | 2 | null | 22,909 | 1 | null | [@JasonBunting](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22909/is-there-some-way-to-show-html-content-inside-flash#22930)
> > Here is a decent article on how to accomplish that.
That's not a great article - it's seven years old and doesn't mention the CSS capabilities of Flash. It covers only the basics of HTML support in... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T17:13:01.347 | 2008-08-23T17:13:01.347 | 2017-05-23T12:13:57.183 | -1 | 137 | null |
24,406 | 2 | null | 11,831 | 5 | null | Holy wars! Ok let me see.. Last time I checked the design police said..
Singletons are bad because they hinder auto testing - instances cannot be created afresh for each test case.
Instead the logic should be in a class (A) that can be easily instantiated and tested. Another class (B) should be responsible for constra... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T17:22:32.087 | 2008-08-23T17:22:32.087 | null | null | 1,695 | null |
24,401 | 2 | null | 22,519 | 0 | null | You'll have to grant write permissions, but you can check the file's mime type to ensure an image. You can use FSO as so:
```
set fs=Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
set f=fs.GetFile("upload.jpg")
'image mime types or image/jpeg or image/gif, so just check to see if "image" is instr
if instr(f.type, ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T17:17:00.650 | 2008-08-23T17:17:00.650 | null | null | 2,614 | null |
24,377 | 2 | null | 19,151 | 744 | null | Iterator objects in python conform to the iterator protocol, which basically means they provide two methods: `__iter__()` and `__next__()`.
- The `__iter__` returns the iterator object and is implicitly called
at the start of loops.- The `__next__()` method returns the next value and is implicitly called at each l... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-23T16:57:28.637 | 2019-10-30T09:16:29.387 | 2019-10-30T09:16:29.387 | 2,467,424 | 2,611 | null |
24,408 | 1 | 24,841 | null | 3 | 337 | Is there any way to have something that looks just like a file on a Windows file share, but is really a resource served up over HTTP?
For context, I'm working with an old app that can only deal with files on a Windows file share, I want to create a simple HTTP-based service to serve the content of the files dynamically... | Database query representation impersonating file on Windows share? | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 0 | 2008-08-23T17:24:48.760 | 2020-12-24T11:51:44.117 | 2020-12-24T11:51:44.117 | 466,862 | 2,362 | [
"file",
"http",
"webdav"
] |
24,414 | 1 | 25,826 | null | 1 | 854 | Anyone know of a way to capture keyboard events (keyup / keydown) in Portable IE under Window mobile? I noticed that key events are not supported in JS, and would like to come up with a solution that works without any client side additions.
| Can I capture Windows Mobile PIE keyboard events? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T17:30:23.020 | 2015-01-22T18:22:52.260 | 2015-01-22T18:22:52.260 | 3,204,551 | 2,621 | [
"internet-explorer",
"windows-mobile",
"key-events"
] |
24,431 | 2 | null | 23,899 | 1 | null | Is there any chance you could move from ASP to ASP.Net? Or are you looking at keeping it in classic ASP, but just cleaning it up. If at all possible, I would recommend moving as much as possible moving to .Net. It looks like you may be rewriting/reorganizing a lot of code anyway, so moving to .Net may not be a lot of... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T17:46:22.390 | 2008-08-23T17:46:22.390 | null | null | 1,862 | null |
24,442 | 2 | null | 24,270 | 45 | null | OOP isn't about creating re-usable classes, its about creating Usable classes.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T18:04:49.520 | 2008-08-23T18:04:49.520 | null | null | 580 | null |
24,439 | 1 | 24,687 | null | 3 | 215 | Is it possible to develop a plug-in for Internet Explorer that can replace the existing favorites functionality?
| IE 7+ Favorites | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-23T17:54:12.260 | 2015-09-06T16:07:35.283 | null | null | 2,141 | [
"internet-explorer",
"bookmarks",
"favorites"
] |
24,370 | 2 | null | 2,027 | 20 | null | uses pass-by-value, but since all such values are object references, the net effect is something akin to pass-by-reference. However, Python programmers think more about whether an object type is or . Mutable objects can be changed in-place (e.g., dictionaries, lists, user-defined objects), whereas immutable objects c... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T16:50:59.403 | 2008-08-23T17:53:47.160 | 2008-08-23T17:53:47.177 | 726 | 726 | null |
24,443 | 2 | null | 12,815 | 1 | null | I've found that using [contracts](http://blog.mauricecodik.com/2005/10/ruby-meta-programming-software.html) is a great approach. Metaprogramming contracts are generally lower-level than the types of integration tests you describe, but the two are certainly not mutually exclusive. I find contracts help keep documentat... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T18:05:59.143 | 2008-08-23T18:05:59.143 | null | null | 1,190 | null |
24,440 | 2 | null | 24,279 | 2 | null | If you are looking for a good text on F#
[Expert F#](http://www.apress.com/book/view/9781590598504) is co-written by Don Syme. Creator of F#. He worked on generics in .NET specifically so he could create F#.
F# is modeled after OCaml so any OCaml text would help you learn F# as well.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T17:54:14.040 | 2008-08-23T17:54:14.040 | null | null | 580 | null |
24,398 | 2 | null | 24,270 | 4 | null | > Have you ever created a window using WinAPI?
More times than I care to remember.
> Then you should know that you define a class (RegisterClass), create an instance of it (CreateWindow), call virtual methods (WndProc) and base-class methods (DefWindowProc) and so on. WinAPI even takes the nomenclature from SmallTalk... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T17:13:26.993 | 2008-08-23T17:13:26.993 | null | null | 2,131 | null |
24,437 | 2 | null | 24,408 | 0 | null | This won't answer your question in any meaningful way, but maybe it will get you pointed in the right direction. Look into serving the "file(s)" via WebDAV--SharePoint uses this and its files can be accessed exactly as you want, as a file share where the transport mechanism is HTTP. Unfortunately I can't give any mor... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T17:52:40.190 | 2008-08-23T20:51:36.873 | 2008-08-23T20:51:36.873 | 205 | 205 | null |
24,446 | 2 | null | 22,880 | 4 | null | Ensure you don't use incremting integers for session IDs. Much better to use a GUID, or some other long randomly generated character string.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T18:10:25.840 | 2008-08-23T18:10:25.840 | null | null | 1,862 | null |
24,449 | 2 | null | 24,200 | 3 | null | [BCP](http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.php/3391761) - it's a pain to set up, but it's been around since the dawn of DBs and it's very very quick.
Unless you're inserting data in that order the 3-part index will really slow things. Applying it later will really slow things too, but will be in a se... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T18:14:25.737 | 2008-08-23T18:28:03.943 | 2008-08-23T18:28:03.943 | 905 | 905 | null |
24,455 | 2 | null | 24,451 | 1 | null | In Perl, use of a label to "goto" from a loop - using a "last" statement, which is similar to break.
This allows better control over nested loops.
The traditional goto is supported too, but I'm not sure there are too many instances where this is the only way to achieve what you want - subroutines and loops should su... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T18:22:08.933 | 2008-08-23T18:22:08.933 | null | null | 2,617 | null |
24,465 | 2 | null | 24,451 | -1 | null | The problem with 'goto' and the most important argument of the 'goto-less programming' movement is, that if you use it too frequently your code, although it might behave correctly, becomes unreadable, unmaintainable, unreviewable etc. In 99.99% of the cases 'goto' leads to spaghetti code. Personally, I cannot think of ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T18:30:20.927 | 2008-08-23T18:30:20.927 | null | null | 2,386 | null |
24,445 | 2 | null | 22,880 | 42 | null | The SSL only helps with sniffing attacks. If an attacker has access to your machine I will assume they can copy your secure cookie too.
At the very least, make sure old cookies lose their value after a while. Even a successful hijaking attack will be thwarted when the cookie stops working. If the user has a cookie f... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T18:07:32.603 | 2008-08-23T18:07:32.603 | null | null | null | null |
24,467 | 1 | 26,282 | null | 1 | 651 | I'm developing a web- application using NHibernate. Can you tell me how to write a NHibernate Query for the following SQL query:
```
SELECT v1.Id
FROM VIEW v1
LEFT JOIN VIEW v2 ON v1.SourceView = v2.Id
ORDER BY v1.Position
```
It's basically a auto-join but I don't know how to write this in Nhibernate. Lets say the ... | (N)Hibernate Auto-Join | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-23T18:31:02.187 | 2012-01-03T19:14:35.387 | 2012-01-03T19:14:35.387 | 249,833 | 2,078 | [
"sql",
"nhibernate",
"orm"
] |
24,451 | 1 | 24,476 | null | 220 | 55,841 | I've long been under the impression that `goto` should never be used if possible.
However, while perusing libavcodec (which is written in C) the other day, I was surprised to notice multiple uses of it.
Is it ever advantageous to use `goto` in a language that supports loops and functions? If so, why? Please provide ... | Are there any legitimate use-cases for "goto" in a language that supports loops and functions? | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 0 | 2008-08-23T18:18:04.933 | 2022-08-23T07:22:45.367 | 2021-11-04T04:04:53.093 | 366,904 | 1,597 | [
"language-agnostic",
"goto"
] |
24,466 | 2 | null | 24,451 | 8 | null | The rule with goto that we use is that goto is okay to for jumping forward to a single exit cleanup point in a function. In really complex functions we relax that rule to allow other jump forwards. In both cases we are avoiding deeply nested if statements that often occur with error code checking, which helps readabili... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T18:30:28.413 | 2008-08-23T18:30:28.413 | null | null | 2,564 | null |
24,456 | 1 | 24,517 | null | 2 | 3,042 | I'm trying to embed a IPTC data onto a JPEG image using `iptcembed()` but am having a bit of trouble.
I have verified it is in the end product:
```
// Embed the IPTC data
$content = iptcembed($data, $path);
// Verify IPTC data is in the end image
$iptc = iptcparse($content);
var_dump($iptc);
```
Which returns the ... | Embedding IPTC image data with PHP GD | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-23T18:24:21.643 | 2018-08-31T12:03:43.417 | 2013-12-02T12:43:45.123 | 2,432,317 | 2,025 | [
"php",
"gd",
"iptc"
] |
24,470 | 1 | 40,434 | null | 131 | 195,267 | Trying to find some simple SQL Server PIVOT examples. Most of the examples that I have found involve counting or summing up numbers. I just want to pivot some string data. For example, I have a query returning the following.
```
Action1 VIEW
Action1 EDIT
Action2 VIEW
Action3 VIEW
Action3 EDIT
```
I would ... | SQL Server: Examples of PIVOTing String data | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-23T18:36:33.953 | 2019-02-28T03:50:28.720 | 2016-02-01T11:00:53.117 | 777,939 | 2,626 | [
"sql-server",
"tsql",
"pivot"
] |
24,436 | 2 | null | 22,566 | 1 | null | Similar to the above, but I think the best version is (slightly modified) from "perldoc -f readdir":
```
opendir(DIR, $somedir) || die "can't opendir $somedir: $!";
@dots = grep { (!/^\./) && -f "$somedir/$_" } readdir(DIR);
closedir DIR;
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T17:50:40.180 | 2008-08-23T17:50:40.180 | null | null | 2,620 | null |
24,447 | 2 | null | 3,088 | 1 | null | I'd recommend Charles Petzold's book [Code - The Hidden Langauge of Computer Hardware and Software](http://books.google.com/books?id=l4gpAAAACAAJ&dq=petzold+code&ei=2U-wSL_hNoLmygSxpcmoDQ) as an excellent general introduction to how computers work.
There's a of information in the book (382 pages) and it may take an a... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T18:14:19.297 | 2008-08-23T18:14:19.297 | null | null | 1,518 | null |
24,429 | 2 | null | 24,315 | 5 | null | You can use a file system watcher to check when the file has been changed. It only becomes "changed" after whichever program had the file previously closes the file. I know you asked for C#, but my VB.Net is much better. Hope you or someone else can translate.
It tries to open the file, if it isn't available, it add... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T17:38:59.397 | 2008-08-23T17:51:41.660 | 2008-08-23T17:51:41.660 | 1,862 | 1,862 | null |
24,477 | 2 | null | 24,468 | 5 | null | With .NET 3.5 SP1, .NET assemblies running from UNC shares have full permissions.
See Brad Abrams's [Allow .exes to be run off a network shares](http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2007/10/26/adhoc-poll-allowing-net-exes-to-run-off-a-network-share.aspx) for workaround and discussions, and finally the follow up [.NET ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T18:42:49.883 | 2008-08-23T18:42:49.883 | null | null | 536 | null |
24,468 | 1 | 24,477 | null | 11 | 8,661 | When I try to run a .NET assembly (`boo.exe`) from a network share (mapped to a drive), it fails since it's only partially trusted:
```
Unhandled Exception: System.Security.SecurityException: That assembly does not allow partially trusted callers.
at System.Security.CodeAccessSecurityEngine.ThrowSecurityException(A... | Running "partially trusted" .NET assemblies from a network share | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-23T18:33:55.287 | 2013-07-05T08:56:41.580 | 2013-07-05T08:56:41.580 | 1,584,286 | 616 | [
".net",
"security"
] |
24,472 | 2 | null | 5,263 | 2 | null | I don't know ADO.net in particular, but most ORMs won't automatically insert the ID of a new record in a relationship. You'll have to resort to the 2-step process:
1. build and save parent
2. build and save child with relationship to parent
The reason that this is difficult for ORMs is because you might have circ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T18:37:59.287 | 2008-08-23T18:37:59.287 | null | null | 1,190 | null |
24,482 | 2 | null | 22,792 | 0 | null | Update
On Sourceforge I found [Whiz SQL Structure Compare](http://sourceforge.net/projects/whiz/) with this description: Whiz is a database diff utility which will be useful to find difference between two MS-SQL Server databases. It also able to generate SQL script to update the changes from one database to another da... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-23T18:46:26.520 | 2008-08-23T18:46:26.520 | null | null | 1,463 | null |
24,475 | 2 | null | 24,451 | 35 | null | Since `goto` makes reasoning about program flow hard (aka. “spaghetti code”), `goto` is generally only used to compensate for missing features: The use of `goto` may actually be acceptable, but only if the language doesn't offer a more structured variant to obtain the same goal. Take Doubt's example:
> The rule with g... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-23T18:40:03.697 | 2014-11-17T14:31:02.183 | 2014-11-17T14:31:02.183 | 1,968 | 1,968 | null |