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4,238 | 2 | null | 3,942 | 4 | null | I appreciate the desire to find free software. However, in this case, I would strongly recommend looking at all options, including commercial products. I tried to play with nProf (which is at version 0.1 I think) and didn't have much luck. Even so, performance profiling an application is a subtle business and is best a... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T01:01:16.177 | 2008-08-07T01:01:16.177 | null | null | 541 | null |
4,227 | 1 | 4,735,712 | null | 167 | 277,722 | I'm using a `Dictionary<string, int>` where the `int` is a count of the key.
Now, I need to access the last-inserted Key inside the Dictionary, but I do not know the name of it. The obvious attempt:
```
int LastCount = mydict[mydict.keys[mydict.keys.Count]];
```
does not work, because `Dictionary.Keys` does not imp... | Accessing a Dictionary.Keys Key through a numeric index | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-07T00:51:21.720 | 2020-01-03T07:03:49.040 | 2015-04-07T12:16:44.323 | 2,771,704 | 91 | [
"c#",
".net",
"dictionary"
] |
4,234 | 1 | 4,260 | null | 15 | 6,916 | So my company stores alot of data in a foxpro database and trying to get around the performance hit of touching it directly I was thinking of messaging anything that can be done asynchronously for a snappier user experience. I started looking at [ActiveMQ](http://activemq.apache.org/) but don't know how well C# will h... | What to use for Messaging with C# | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-07T00:56:41.880 | 2019-12-27T09:31:14.673 | 2008-08-07T02:12:37.013 | 590 | 590 | [
"c#",
"messaging",
"activemq"
] |
4,231 | 2 | null | 4,221 | 2 | null | I know that if you use a paging repeater or gridview with the linqdatasource it will automatically optimize the number of results returned, but I'm also pretty sure in the datasource wizard you can go to advanced options and limit it to
```
SELECT TOP 3 FROM
```
which should allow you to do what you need
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-07T00:55:20.867 | 2016-02-07T17:32:31.760 | 2016-02-07T17:32:31.760 | 2,921,691 | 493 | null |
4,246 | 1 | 4,271 | null | 15 | 6,749 | What is the best method for executing FTP commands from a SQL Server stored procedure? we currently use something like this:
```
EXEC master..xp_cmdshell 'ftp -n -s:d:\ftp\ftpscript.xmt 172.1.1.1'
```
The problem is that the command seems to succeed even if the FTP ended in error. Also, the use of `xp_cmdshell` requ... | What is best practice for FTP from a SQL Server 2005 stored procedure? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-07T01:09:04.820 | 2017-12-22T10:10:19.280 | 2017-12-22T10:10:19.280 | 3,804,420 | 162 | [
"sql-server",
"ftp"
] |
4,243 | 2 | null | 4,230 | 7 | null | The DataGrid was originally in .NET 1.0. The GridView was introduced (and replaced the DataGrid) in .NET 2.0. They provide nearly identical functionality.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T01:05:56.620 | 2008-08-07T01:05:56.620 | null | null | 423 | null |
4,247 | 2 | null | 4,242 | 47 | null | Java autoboxing/unboxing doesn't go to the extent to allow you to dereference a primitive, so your compiler prevents it. Your compiler still knows `myInt` as a primitive. There's a paper about this issue at [jcp.org](http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/jsr/tiger/autoboxing.html).
Autoboxing is mainly useful dur... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-07T01:09:17.547 | 2012-05-23T14:14:20.383 | 2012-05-23T14:14:20.383 | 866,022 | 92 | null |
4,255 | 2 | null | 4,227 | 2 | null | I don't know if this would work because I'm pretty sure that the keys aren't stored in the order they are added, but you could cast the KeysCollection to a List and then get the last key in the list... but it would be worth having a look.
The only other thing I can think of is to store the keys in a lookup list and ad... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T01:15:55.350 | 2008-08-07T01:15:55.350 | null | null | 493 | null |
4,260 | 2 | null | 4,234 | 8 | null | ActiveMQ works well with C# using the Spring.NET integrations and NMS. A post with some links to get you started in that direction [is here](http://thefreakparade.com/2008/04/15/two-message-exchange-patterns-using-activemq-and-nms-via-springnet/). Also consider using MSMQ (The System.Messaging namespace) or a .NET base... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T01:20:13.890 | 2008-08-08T19:59:13.000 | 2008-08-08T19:59:13.000 | 541 | 541 | null |
4,252 | 2 | null | 4,227 | 6 | null | You could always do this:
```
string[] temp = new string[mydict.count];
mydict.Keys.CopyTo(temp, 0)
int LastCount = mydict[temp[mydict.count - 1]]
```
But I wouldn't recommend it. There's no guarantee that the last inserted key will be at the end of the array. The ordering for Keys [on MSDN](https://learn.microsoft.... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-07T01:13:22.377 | 2020-01-03T06:24:59.903 | 2020-01-03T06:24:59.903 | 5,407,188 | 429 | null |
4,249 | 2 | null | 4,164 | 2 | null | Woo, another Debian nut!
I think you need to be a bit more specific here, Forum != CMS. Is this for internal company or external customer use? What language(s) do you know/prefer? There's no point in recommending a Perl or PHP framework if your language of choice is Ruby. Do you need to plan for scalability?
What's ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T01:09:51.883 | 2008-08-07T01:09:51.883 | null | null | 592 | null |
4,256 | 2 | null | 4,242 | 27 | null | Ditto on what Justin said, but you should do this instead:
```
Integer.toString(myInt);
```
It saves an allocation or two and is more readable.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T01:16:21.263 | 2008-08-13T01:43:32.960 | 2008-08-13T01:43:32.960 | 429 | 429 | null |
4,242 | 1 | 4,247 | null | 53 | 6,962 | I want to convert a primitive to a string, and I tried:
```
myInt.toString();
```
This fails with the error:
```
int cannot be dereferenced
```
Now, I get that primitives are not reference types (ie, not an Object) and so cannot have methods. However, Java 5 introduced autoboxing and unboxing (a la C#... which I... | Why doesn't Java autoboxing extend to method invocations of methods of the autoboxed types? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-07T01:05:15.420 | 2014-01-30T23:26:36.633 | 2012-05-23T14:28:15.333 | 131,433 | 122 | [
"java",
"autoboxing"
] |
4,250 | 2 | null | 4,157 | 2 | null | The appSettings isn't really meant for what you are trying to do.
When your .NET application starts, it reads in the app.config file, and caches its contents in memory. For that reason, after you write to the app.config file, you'll have to somehow force the runtime to re-parse the app.config file so it can cache the ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T01:10:36.720 | 2008-08-07T01:10:36.720 | null | null | 357 | null |
4,258 | 2 | null | 4,227 | 5 | null | I think you can do something like this, the syntax might be wrong, havent used C# in a while
To get the last item
```
Dictionary<string, int>.KeyCollection keys = mydict.keys;
string lastKey = keys.Last();
```
or use Max instead of Last to get the max value, I dont know which one fits your code better.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T01:18:25.657 | 2008-08-07T01:18:25.657 | null | null | 550 | null |
4,263 | 2 | null | 3,281 | 5 | null | In Ruby 1.9:
```
weights.zip(data).map{|a,b| a*b}.reduce(:+)
```
In Ruby 1.8:
```
weights.zip(data).inject(0) {|sum,(w,d)| sum + w*d }
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T01:22:36.540 | 2008-08-07T01:22:36.540 | null | null | 136 | null |
4,270 | 2 | null | 3,281 | 14 | null | @Michiel de Mare
Your Ruby 1.9 example can be shortened a bit further:
```
weights.zip(data).map(:*).reduce(:+)
```
Also note that in Ruby 1.8, if you require ActiveSupport (from Rails) you can use:
```
weights.zip(data).map(&:*).reduce(&:+)
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T01:29:05.777 | 2008-08-07T01:29:05.777 | null | null | 582 | null |
4,277 | 2 | null | 4,225 | 3 | null | Why not use a map of primitives (triangles, squares), distribute the starting points for the countries (the "capitals"), and then randomly expanding the countries by adding a random adjacent primitive to the country.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T01:40:05.740 | 2008-08-07T01:40:05.740 | null | null | 136 | null |
4,279 | 2 | null | 4,164 | 0 | null | [Expression Engine](http://expressionengine.com/) is fantastic. It's free to download and try but you must purchase a license if you are making a profit with it.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T01:40:25.100 | 2008-12-25T01:21:08.267 | null | null | 40 | null |
4,271 | 2 | null | 4,246 | 5 | null | If you're running SQL 2005 you could do this in a CLR integration assembly and use the FTP classes in the System.Net namespace to build a simple FTP client.
You'd benefit from being able to trap and handle exceptions and reduce the security risk of having to use xp_cmdshell.
Just some thoughts.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T01:29:43.200 | 2008-08-07T01:29:43.200 | null | null | 419 | null |
4,284 | 2 | null | 4,269 | 1 | null | I don't know of any free SMS services, you usually buy bulk sms'seses and use an API to send them out.
[Whitepages.com](http://developer.whitepages.com/docs/) has an API that will allow developers to reverse lookup a phone number. It reports the carrier on mobile number, however a lot of the time it's some non-existe... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T01:51:55.573 | 2008-08-07T01:51:55.573 | null | null | 30 | null |
4,269 | 1 | null | null | 76 | 28,773 | What is the best way to programmatically send an SMS text message?
Are there any free Web Service based SMS gateways?
I know that if I happen to know the user's carrier (Sprint, AT&T, etc), I can send an [SMS by emailing an address](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_gateways) based on phone number + carrier. I would l... | Programmatic SMS | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-07T01:28:03.190 | 2013-03-23T03:24:37.060 | 2010-09-23T01:11:13.547 | 164,901 | 357 | [
"mobile",
"sms"
] |
4,262 | 2 | null | 4,208 | 6 | null | Maybe you want to consider using [ProcessTamer](http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/proctamer/index.html) that "automatize" the process of downgrading or upgrading process priority based in your settings.
I've been using it for two years. It's very simple but really effective!
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T01:21:06.837 | 2008-08-07T01:21:06.837 | null | null | 527 | null |
4,287 | 1 | 4,304 | null | 16 | 3,155 | I have a process in erlang that is supposed to do something immediately after spawn, then send the result back to the parent when it is finished. How do I figure out the PID of the process that spawned it?
| How Do You Determine The PID of the Parent of a Process | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T01:54:12.107 | 2009-08-11T16:19:38.740 | null | null | 121 | [
"erlang"
] |
4,299 | 2 | null | 4,246 | 2 | null | If you need to do FTP from within the database, then I would go with a .NET assembly as Kevin suggested. That would provide the most control over the process, plus you would be able to log meaningful error messages to a table for reporting.
Another option would be to write a command line app that read the database fo... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T02:16:46.680 | 2008-08-07T02:16:46.680 | null | null | 206 | null |
4,285 | 2 | null | 4,269 | 8 | null | Where I work we've been using [http://www.clickatell.com](http://www.clickatell.com) for sending out SMS - it looks like its about 6 or 7 cents a message. They just take http POST requests to send out a message. I don't know if you'll be able to find any good free gateways. We used to send out emails, but found they... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T01:52:47.243 | 2008-08-07T01:52:47.243 | null | null | 552 | null |
4,300 | 2 | null | 4,234 | 0 | null | Sorry if this isn't what you are asking for...
Have you considered some sort of cache behind the scenes that acts a bit like the "bucket system" when using asynchronous sockets in c/c++ using winsock? Basicly, it works by accepting requests, and sends an immediate response back to the web app, and when it finally gets... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T02:17:35.523 | 2008-08-07T02:17:35.523 | null | null | 522 | null |
4,290 | 2 | null | 709 | 3 | null | I would say [MbUnit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unit_testing_frameworks#.NET_programming_languages) also. I like being able to run a single test many times just by specifying inputs and the result is right above the test function. It is a horrible description of what I mean, so [here is a link that shows you... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-07T01:55:51.120 | 2020-07-30T10:41:26.787 | 2020-07-30T10:41:26.787 | 63,550 | 590 | null |
4,289 | 2 | null | 4,269 | 0 | null | Supporting [Angus](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4269/programmatic-sms#4285), I can vouch for [http://www.clickatell.com](http://www.clickatell.com). It was used at a company I used to work at. It was a very easy solution to setup and use and worked great. You just need to anticipate how many messages you intend ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T01:55:17.050 | 2008-08-07T01:55:17.050 | 2017-05-23T12:09:33.837 | -1 | 560 | null |
4,281 | 2 | null | 4,225 | 7 | null | The best reference I've seen on them is [Computational Geometry: Algorithms and Applications](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/3540779736), which covers Voronoi diagrams, Delaunay triangulations (similar to Voronoi diagrams and each can be converted into the other), and other similar data structures.
The... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T01:47:54.133 | 2008-08-07T01:47:54.133 | null | null | 422 | null |
4,303 | 1 | 4,310 | null | 60 | 8,221 | Lots of people talk about writing tests for their code before they start writing their code. This practice is generally known as Test Driven Development or TDD for short. What benefits do I gain from writing software this way? How do I get started with this practice?
| Why should I practice Test Driven Development and how should I start? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-07T02:27:03.397 | 2017-02-02T13:41:28.337 | null | null | 358 | [
"testing",
"tdd"
] |
4,304 | 2 | null | 4,287 | 15 | null | You should pass self() to the child as one of the arguments to the entry function.
```
spawn_link(?MODULE, child, [self()]).
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T02:27:32.740 | 2008-08-07T02:27:32.740 | null | null | 582 | null |
4,305 | 1 | null | null | 13 | 917 | Are there any grid-hosting companies out there that offer .NET stacks? Something like MediaTemple - which won't host the worlds fastest websites, but for the price is far better than "shared hosting". I've used Rackspace's Mosso, but it sucked - it never felt like a normal .NET stack (caching was odd, site recompilati... | Grid Hosting for Windows | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T02:27:58.560 | 2009-03-29T05:23:59.737 | null | null | 34 | [
".net",
"hosting"
] |
4,309 | 2 | null | 4,303 | -1 | null | In my opinion, the single greatest thing is that it clearly allows you to see if your code does what it is supposed to. This may seem obvious, but it is super easy to run astray of your original goals, as I have found out in the past :p
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T02:32:38.380 | 2008-08-07T02:32:38.380 | null | null | 522 | null |
4,307 | 2 | null | 4,305 | 5 | null | Try [gogrid.com](http://www.gogrid.com) they seem to have a very nice following in the cloud computing circles.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T02:30:02.190 | 2008-08-07T02:30:02.190 | null | null | 17 | null |
4,302 | 2 | null | 4,208 | 10 | null | If you use [PowerShell](http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/powershell/default.mspx), you could write a script that let you change the priority of a process. I found the following PowerShell function on the [Monad blog](http://monadblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/msh-how-to-change-processs-pri... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-07T02:24:34.980 | 2017-01-31T14:10:09.480 | 2017-01-31T14:10:09.480 | 247,702 | 206 | null |
4,306 | 1 | 4,311 | null | 59 | 57,167 | I am working on a project that requires the manipulation of enormous matrices, specifically pyramidal summation for a copula calculation.
In short, I need to keep track of a relatively small number of values (usually a value of 1, and in rare cases more than 1) in a sea of zeros in the matrix (multidimensional array... | What is the best way to create a sparse array in C++? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-07T02:29:58.180 | 2020-12-17T18:30:29.483 | 2017-03-13T15:33:36.390 | 1,387,346 | 522 | [
"c++",
"oop",
"data-structures",
"hash",
"maps"
] |
4,308 | 2 | null | 4,303 | 3 | null | The benefits part has [recently been covered](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2260/what-is-tdd), as for where to start....on a small enterprisey system where there aren't too many unknowns so the risks are low. If you don't already know a testing framework (like NUnit), start by learning that. Otherwise start by wr... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T02:30:19.133 | 2008-08-07T02:30:19.133 | 2017-05-23T12:10:31.100 | -1 | 34 | null |
4,301 | 2 | null | 1,451 | 2 | null | Honestly the ASP.NET Membership / Roles features would work perfectly for the scenario you described. Writing your own tables / procs / classes is a great exercise and you can get very nice control over minute details, but after doing this myself I've concluded it's better to just use the built in .NET stuff. A lot of ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T02:23:18.460 | 2008-08-07T02:23:18.460 | null | null | 26 | null |
4,313 | 2 | null | 59 | 4 | null | Try the following
```
var names = (from dr in dataTable.Rows
select (string)dr["Name"]).Distinct().OrderBy(name => name);
```
this should work for what you need.
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-07T02:35:28.637 | 2014-07-14T07:44:43.700 | 2014-07-14T07:44:43.700 | 2,354,564 | 17 | null |
4,314 | 1 | 4,322 | null | 45 | 11,351 | Many people use Mock Objects when they are writing unit tests. What is a ? Why would I ever need one? Do I need a Mock Object Framework?
| What is Object Mocking and when do I need it? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-07T02:37:07.807 | 2013-08-08T14:39:31.550 | null | null | 358 | [
"testing",
"mocking"
] |
4,316 | 2 | null | 4,314 | 5 | null | It allows you to test how one part of your project interacts with the rest, without building the entire thing and potentially missing a vital part.
EDIT: Great example from wikipedia: It allows you to test out code beforehand, like a car designer uses a crash test dummy to test the behavior of a car during an accident... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T02:38:57.117 | 2008-08-07T02:38:57.117 | null | null | 522 | null |
4,315 | 2 | null | 4,227 | 4 | null | I agree with the second part of Patrick's answer. Even if in some tests it seems to keep insertion order, the documentation (and normal behavior for dictionaries and hashes) explicitly states the ordering is unspecified.
You're just asking for trouble depending on the ordering of the keys. Add your own bookkeeping (as... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-07T02:38:29.163 | 2011-09-11T16:57:02.567 | 2011-09-11T16:57:02.567 | 213,550 | 360 | null |
4,311 | 2 | null | 4,306 | 32 | null | For C++, a map works well. Several million objects won't be a problem. 10 million items took about 4.4 seconds and about 57 meg on my computer.
My test application is as follows:
```
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <map>
class triple {
public:
int x;
int y;
int z;
bool operator<(con... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-07T02:33:16.973 | 2017-03-13T15:34:11.190 | 2017-03-13T15:34:11.190 | 1,387,346 | 116 | null |
4,310 | 2 | null | 4,303 | 37 | null | There are a lot of benefits:
- - - -
The best way to start is to just start. There is a great [book by Kent Beck](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/0321146530) all about Test Driven Development. Just start with new code, don't worry about old code... whenever you feel you need to refactor some code, wr... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-07T02:33:10.437 | 2011-05-18T09:41:18.487 | 2011-05-18T09:41:18.487 | 7,922 | 122 | null |
4,317 | 2 | null | 4,314 | 7 | null | Object Mocking is a way to create a "virtual" or mocked object from an interface, abstract class, or class with virtual methods. It allows you to sort of wrap one of these in your own definition for testing purposes. It is useful for making an object that is relied on for a certain code block your are testing.
A pop... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T02:40:06.117 | 2008-08-07T02:40:06.117 | null | null | 17 | null |
4,318 | 2 | null | 4,314 | 13 | null | A mock object lets you test against just what you are writing, and abstract details such as accessing a resource (disk, a network service, etc). The mock then lets you pretend to be that external resource, or class or whatever.
You don't really need a mock object framework, just extend the class of the functionality ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T02:40:26.023 | 2008-08-07T02:47:28.787 | 2008-08-07T02:47:28.787 | 122 | 122 | null |
4,319 | 2 | null | 4,227 | 3 | null | The way you worded the question leads me to believe that the int in the Dictionary contains the item's "position" on the Dictionary. Judging from the assertion that the keys aren't stored in the order that they're added, if this is correct, that would mean that keys.Count (or .Count - 1, if you're using zero-based) sho... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T02:40:52.747 | 2008-08-07T02:40:52.747 | null | null | 560 | null |
4,326 | 2 | null | 4,314 | 3 | null | Another use is it will let you test against other parts of your system that aren't built yet. For example, if your class depends on some other class that is part of a feature that someone else is working on, you can just ask for a mostly complete interface, program to the interface and just mock the details as you exp... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T02:45:32.423 | 2008-08-07T02:45:32.423 | null | null | 122 | null |
4,312 | 2 | null | 4,303 | 2 | null |
1. You figure out how to compartmentalize your code
2. You figure out exactly what you want your code to do
3. You know how it supposed to act and, down the road, if refactoring breaks anything
4. Gets you in the habit of making sure your code always knows what it is supposed to do
Just do it. Write a test case... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T02:34:05.660 | 2008-08-07T02:34:05.660 | null | null | 204 | null |
4,322 | 2 | null | 4,314 | 36 | null | Object Mocking is used to keep dependencies out of your unit test.
Sometimes you'll have a test like "SelectPerson" which will select a person from the database and return a Person object.
To do this, you would normally need a dependency on the database, however with object mocking you can simulate the interaction wi... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-07T02:43:59.340 | 2013-02-28T21:01:36.893 | 2013-02-28T21:01:36.893 | 603,977 | 493 | null |
4,327 | 2 | null | 4,320 | 1 | null | Like everything else it is environmental and depends on the use of the system. The question you need to ask your self is:
1. Will this be actively developed
2. Is this going to be used over the course of many years and expanded on
3. Is the expansion of the application unknown and thus infinite
Really it comes do... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T02:46:16.090 | 2008-08-07T02:46:16.090 | null | null | 17 | null |
4,320 | 1 | null | null | 7 | 2,187 | Is it "acceptable" to have an application without the BLL (Business Logic Layer) as the following?
1. SQL Server Data Storage & Stored Procedures
2. Data Link Layer (Strongly Typed Table Adapters) connecting to Stored Procs
3. Presentation Layer ASPX Pages with Code behind and ObjectDataSource for connection straigh... | ASP.Net 2.0 Application without Business Logic Layer? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-07T02:41:24.290 | 2015-12-15T06:02:03.333 | 2015-12-15T06:02:03.333 | 2,833,965 | 1,525,924 | [
"asp.net",
"business-logic-layer",
"objectdatasource"
] |
4,334 | 2 | null | 4,320 | 1 | null | Acceptable? Depends who you ask and what your requirements are. Is this app an internal one-off used by you and a few other people? Maybe this is good enough. If it's meant to be a production ready enterprise application that will grow and be maintained over the years, then you probably want to invest more effort up-fr... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T02:49:53.850 | 2008-08-07T02:49:53.850 | null | null | 598 | null |
4,343 | 2 | null | 4,335 | 3 | null | Without trying to sound too vague but I think Windows Network Load Balancing (NLB) should handle this for you.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T02:59:33.380 | 2008-08-07T02:59:33.380 | null | null | 419 | null |
4,331 | 2 | null | 4,320 | 4 | null | It's acceptable as long as you understand the consequences. The main reason you'd have a BLL is to re-use that logic elsewhere throughout your application.
If you have all that validation logic in the presentation code, you're really making it difficult to re-use elsewhere within your application.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T02:48:48.690 | 2008-08-07T02:48:48.690 | null | null | 493 | null |
4,335 | 1 | 13,097 | null | 20 | 3,737 | Is there anyway to configure a WCF service with a failover endpoint if the primary endpoint dies? Kind of like being able to specify a failover server in a SQL cluster.
Specifically I am using the TCP/IP binding for speed, but on the rare occurrence that the machine is not available I would like to redirect traffic to... | High availability | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-07T02:50:13.320 | 2015-12-17T11:44:47.320 | 2015-12-17T11:44:47.320 | 5,550,041 | 20,207 | [
"c#",
".net",
"wcf",
"soa"
] |
4,332 | 2 | null | 4,208 | 68 | null | If you want to set priority when launching a process you could use the built-in [START](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/start) command:
```
START ["title"] [/Dpath] [/I] [/MIN] [/MAX] [/SEPARATE | /SHARED]
[/LOW | /NORMAL | /HIGH | /REALTIME | /ABOVENORMAL | /BELO... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-07T02:49:21.107 | 2019-09-05T15:11:06.767 | 2019-09-05T15:11:06.767 | 768,423 | 360 | null |
4,329 | 2 | null | 4,314 | 17 | null | Several people have already answered the 'what', but here are a couple of quick 'whys' that I can think of:
1. Performance Because unit tests should be fast, testing a component that interacts with a network, a database, or other time-intensive resource does not need to pay the penalty if it's done using mock objects... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-07T02:47:58.207 | 2013-08-08T14:39:31.550 | 2013-08-08T14:39:31.550 | 684,803 | 235 | null |
4,346 | 2 | null | 4,034 | 43 | null | If you're using the default view engines, then local resources work in the views. However, if you need to grab resource strings within a controller action, you can't get local resources, and have to use global resources.
This makes sense when you think about it because local resources are local to an aspx page and in ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T03:04:04.320 | 2008-08-07T03:04:04.320 | null | null | 598 | null |
4,347 | 1 | 4,597 | null | 26 | 4,395 | I have experience writing console and network client/server applications in C and C++, but I know next to nothing about using the win32 visual API, MFC, Qt, wxWidgets, etc. Where is a good place to start, and what method should I specialize in, so as to be future ready and robust?
| Where is a good place to start programming GUIs for windows? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-07T03:06:19.870 | 2013-06-25T12:00:50.093 | 2013-06-25T12:00:50.093 | 1,904,007 | 522 | [
"winapi",
"qt",
"mfc"
] |
4,348 | 2 | null | 4,347 | 5 | null | I don't know if I'd call it a good place to start, but if you want to be future ready, take a look at the [windows presentation foundation](http://windowsclient.net/) which is built entirely for the purpose of programming GUI's for windows
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T03:08:35.920 | 2008-08-07T03:08:35.920 | null | null | 493 | null |
4,354 | 2 | null | 4,306 | 3 | null | Hash tables have a fast insertion and look up. You could write a simple hash function since you know you'd be dealing with only integer pairs as the keys.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T03:13:15.457 | 2008-08-07T03:13:15.457 | null | null | 157 | null |
4,344 | 2 | null | 4,164 | 2 | null | I've been obsessing over [TikiWiki](http://www.tikiwiki.org/) lately. Although it has "wiki" in the name, its full name is "TikiWiki CMS/Groupware" and it's an interesting piece of software. It has a real everything the kitchen sink feel. It includes support for wiki, blogs, articles, forums, and files out of the b... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T03:01:01.910 | 2008-08-07T03:01:01.910 | null | null | 430 | null |
4,370 | 2 | null | 4,347 | 3 | null | My first experience writing simple GUI applications for Windows was with C# and Visual Studio. The GUI-building interface is a simple drag and drop deal that generates skeleton methods based on potential user actions. I only did fairly basic programming with this, but I imagine it would be an excellent place to start... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T03:47:41.987 | 2008-08-07T03:47:41.987 | null | null | 271 | null |
4,378 | 2 | null | 4,369 | 5 | null | You could define a constant with the path to the root directory of your project, and then put that at the beginning of the path.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T04:04:55.103 | 2008-08-07T04:04:55.103 | null | null | 55 | null |
4,383 | 2 | null | 4,314 | 9 | null | > Do I need a Mock Object Framework?
Certainly not. Sometimes, writing mocks by hand can be quite tedious. But for simple things, it's not bad at all. Applying the principle of [Last Responsible Moment](http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000705.html) to mocking frameworks, you should only switch from hand-writ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T04:14:57.207 | 2008-08-07T04:26:18.710 | 2008-08-07T04:26:18.710 | 308 | 308 | null |
4,374 | 2 | null | 4,287 | 0 | null | You can use the BIF register to give the spawning / parent process a name (an atom) then refer back to the registered name from other processes.
> FUNC() ->> %% Do something
%% Then send message to parent
parent ! MESSAGE....register(parent, self()),
spawn(MODULE, FUNC, [ARGS]).
See [Getting Started With Er... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T03:57:04.993 | 2008-08-07T04:04:28.520 | 2008-08-07T04:04:28.520 | 462 | 462 | null |
4,384 | 2 | null | 4,242 | 9 | null | > seems like a shortcoming of the
specification to me
There are more shortcomings and this is a subtle topic. Check [this](http://kiranthakkar.blogspot.com/2007/05/method-overloading-with-new-features-of.html) out:
```
public class methodOverloading{
public static void hello(Integer x){
System.out.println(... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T04:16:20.480 | 2008-08-07T07:26:31.047 | 2008-08-07T07:26:31.047 | 122 | 198 | null |
4,388 | 2 | null | 4,369 | 6 | null | have a look at [http://au.php.net/reserved.variables](http://au.php.net/reserved.variables)
I think the variable you are looking for is: `$_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]`
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-07T04:25:22.473 | 2011-07-12T23:50:49.860 | 2011-07-12T23:50:49.860 | 114,770 | 202 | null |
4,385 | 2 | null | 4,369 | 155 | null | This should work
```
$root = realpath($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]);
include "$root/inc/include1.php";
```
---
added imporvement by [aussieviking](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4369/include-files-requiring-an-absolute-path#4388)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T04:20:47.647 | 2008-08-07T04:28:34.823 | 2017-05-23T11:47:20.273 | -1 | 117 | null |
4,371 | 1 | 4,376 | null | 185 | 783,200 | I lost my MySQL username and password. How do I retrieve it?
| How do I retrieve my MySQL username and password? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-07T03:54:14.593 | 2022-11-19T17:58:13.727 | 2022-05-14T20:46:50.210 | 12,492,890 | 131 | [
"mysql",
"mysql-workbench"
] |
4,391 | 2 | null | 4,314 | 1 | null | Whether or not you a mocking framework is useful depends in part on the language of the code you're writing. With a static language, you need to put in extra effort in order to trick the compiler into accepting your mock objects as a replacement for the real thing. In a dynamically-typed language such as Python, Ruby... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T04:32:44.360 | 2008-08-07T04:32:44.360 | null | null | 533 | null |
4,363 | 1 | 4,386 | null | 41 | 10,806 | Any suggestions? Using visual studio in C#.
Are there any specific tools to use or methods to approach this?
### Update:
Sorry, I should have been a little more specific. I am using ASP.Net 2.0 and was looking more for a tool like jUnit for Java. I took a look at NUnit and NUnitAsp and that looks very promising. An... | What is the best way to do unit testing for ASP.NET 2.0 web pages? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-07T03:23:45.983 | 2019-12-27T09:02:08.217 | 2020-06-20T09:12:55.060 | -1 | 396 | [
"c#",
"asp.net",
"visual-studio",
"unit-testing"
] |
4,399 | 2 | null | 4,363 | 4 | null | There was a screencast series a year or so ago on Polymorphic Podcast that did a pretty good intro walkthrough of an MVP implementation in ASP.NET. Implemented this way, unit tests fall into place much more naturally.
[http://polymorphicpodcast.com/shows/mv-patterns/](http://polymorphicpodcast.com/shows/mv-patterns/)... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T04:50:54.060 | 2008-08-07T04:50:54.060 | null | null | 404 | null |
4,393 | 1 | 4,401 | null | 175 | 255,226 | How can I drop all tables whose names begin with a given string?
I think this can be done with some dynamic SQL and the `INFORMATION_SCHEMA` tables.
| Drop all tables whose names begin with a certain string | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 0 | 2008-08-07T04:41:37.713 | 2023-03-02T23:34:08.573 | 2019-08-15T16:12:55.273 | 369 | 369 | [
"sql",
"sql-server",
"dynamic-sql"
] |
4,394 | 2 | null | 4,393 | 139 | null | ```
SELECT 'DROP TABLE "' + TABLE_NAME + '"'
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES
WHERE TABLE_NAME LIKE '[prefix]%'
```
This will generate a script.
Adding clause to check existence of table before deleting:
```
SELECT 'IF OBJECT_ID(''' +TABLE_NAME + ''') IS NOT NULL BEGIN DROP TABLE [' + TABLE_NAME + '] END;'
FROM IN... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-07T04:44:48.283 | 2017-07-06T16:13:20.867 | 2017-07-06T16:13:20.867 | 378,986 | 264 | null |
4,376 | 2 | null | 4,371 | 200 | null | > Stop the MySQL process.Start the MySQL process with the --skip-grant-tables option.Start the MySQL console client with the -u root option.
List all the users;
```
SELECT * FROM mysql.user;
```
Reset password;
```
UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD('[password]') WHERE User='[username]';
```
---
But to
> Sto... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T04:02:17.090 | 2008-08-07T05:29:18.427 | 2020-06-20T09:12:55.060 | -1 | 264 | null |
4,401 | 2 | null | 4,393 | 174 | null | You may need to modify the query to include the owner if there's more than one in the database.
```
DECLARE @cmd varchar(4000)
DECLARE cmds CURSOR FOR
SELECT 'drop table [' + Table_Name + ']'
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES
WHERE Table_Name LIKE 'prefix%'
OPEN cmds
WHILE 1 = 1
BEGIN
FETCH cmds INTO @cmd
IF @@f... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-07T04:53:29.857 | 2016-12-12T09:00:06.997 | 2016-12-12T09:00:06.997 | 488,438 | 533 | null |
4,369 | 1 | 4,385 | null | 99 | 142,691 | I have a directory structure like the following;
> script.phpinc/include1.php
inc/include2.phpobjects/object1.php
objects/object2.phpsoap/soap.php
Now, I use those objects in both `script.php` and `/soap/soap.php`, I could move them, but I want the directory structure like that for a specific reason. When executi... | How to include PHP files that require an absolute path? | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 0 | 2008-08-07T03:46:47.713 | 2019-06-04T09:29:07.237 | 2019-06-04T09:29:07.237 | 6,556,397 | 264 | [
"php"
] |
4,386 | 2 | null | 4,363 | 34 | null | Boy, that's a pretty general question. I'll do my best, but be prepared to see me miss by a mile.
Assumptions
1. You are using ASP.NET, not plain ASP
2. You don't really want to test your web pages, but the logic behind them. Unit testing the actual .ASPX pages is rather painful, but there are frameworks out there ... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-07T04:23:38.000 | 2019-12-27T07:12:30.880 | 2019-12-27T07:12:30.880 | 5,407,188 | 308 | null |
4,400 | 2 | null | 4,393 | 3 | null | [Xenph Yan](https://stackoverflow.com/users/264/xenph-yan)'s answer was far cleaner than mine but here is mine all the same.
```
DECLARE @startStr AS Varchar (20)
SET @startStr = 'tableName'
DECLARE @startStrLen AS int
SELECT @startStrLen = LEN(@startStr)
SELECT 'DROP TABLE ' + name FROM sysobjects
WHERE type = 'U' ... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-07T04:53:09.483 | 2016-12-02T03:43:26.807 | 2017-05-23T12:18:17.147 | -1 | 231 | null |
4,415 | 2 | null | 1,936 | 37 | null | Keep in mind that TempData stores the form collection in session. If you don't like that behavior, you can implement the new ITempDataProvider interface and use some other mechanism for storing temp data. I wouldn't do that unless you know for a fact (via measurement and profiling) that the use of Session state is hurt... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T05:12:32.283 | 2008-08-07T05:12:32.283 | null | null | 598 | null |
4,416 | 1 | 4,427 | null | 5 | 893 | I am walking through the MS Press Windows Workflow Step-by-Step book and in chapter 8 it mentions a tool with the filename "wca.exe". This is supposed to be able to generate workflow communication helper classes based on an interface you provide it. I can't find that file. I thought it would be in the latest .NET 3.... | Where can I get the Windows Workflow "wca.exe" application? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T05:13:31.020 | 2010-10-28T20:01:03.287 | 2010-10-28T20:01:03.287 | 224,671 | 404 | [
".net-3.5"
] |
4,422 | 2 | null | 4,219 | 3 | null | I'd say it really depends on your needs. TFS is very nice, I've used it extensively, but it's very much aimed at the enterprise level, if you don't need all of those features it might not be necessary. If you do need those features (especially branching, scalability, work item tracking, etc.) they are worth every penny... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T05:28:18.743 | 2008-08-07T05:28:18.743 | null | null | 332 | null |
4,418 | 1 | 4,431 | null | 239 | 261,423 | The firewall I'm behind is running Microsoft ISA server in NTLM-only mode. Hash anyone have success getting their Ruby gems to install/update via Ruby SSPI gem or other method?
... or am I just being lazy?
Note: rubysspi-1.2.4 does not work.
This also works for "igem", part of the IronRuby project
| How do I update Ruby Gems from behind a Proxy (ISA-NTLM) | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-07T05:21:16.807 | 2020-06-19T06:19:38.423 | 2016-01-29T18:13:10.587 | 128,421 | 307 | [
"ruby",
"proxy",
"rubygems",
"ironruby"
] |
4,408 | 2 | null | 4,369 | 46 | null | You can use relative paths. Try `__FILE__`. This is a PHP constant which always returns the path/filename of the script it is in. So, in `soap.php`, you could do:
```
include dirname(__FILE__).'/../inc/include.php';
```
> The full path and filename of the
file. If used inside an include, the
name of the includ... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-07T05:05:34.093 | 2017-09-09T01:01:54.793 | 2017-09-09T01:01:54.793 | 1,192,426 | 40 | null |
4,426 | 2 | null | 3,088 | 0 | null | I recommend starting them off with C/C++. I find that it is a good foundation for just about every other language. Also, the different versions of BASIC can be pretty dodgy, at best, and have no real correlation to actual programming.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T05:35:26.933 | 2008-08-07T05:35:26.933 | null | null | 522 | null |
4,428 | 2 | null | 4,416 | 1 | null | On my machine, with Visual Studio 2008 installed, it's in
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T05:42:30.930 | 2008-08-07T05:42:30.930 | null | null | 9 | null |
4,413 | 2 | null | 2,232 | 32 | null | Some things to think about when choosing between these mechanisms are:
1. Do you just want stdout or do you need stderr as well? Or even separated out?
2. How big is your output? Do you want to hold the entire result in memory?
3. Do you want to read some of your output while the subprocess is still running?
4. Do yo... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-07T05:10:35.627 | 2020-01-10T01:47:38.977 | 2020-01-10T01:47:38.977 | 128,421 | 528 | null |
4,425 | 2 | null | 3,088 | 5 | null | This is a fantastic book which my little brothers used to learn:
[http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/](http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/)
Of course, the most important thing is to start on a real, useful program of some kind IMMEDIATELY after finishing the book.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T05:33:05.440 | 2008-08-07T05:33:05.440 | null | null | 574 | null |
4,427 | 2 | null | 4,416 | 1 | null | Should be part of the .NET 3 SDK (and later version as well). If you've already installed this, the path might look something like
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0\Bin\wca.exe
More info on [Guy Burstein's blog](http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/bursteg/archive/2006/12/24/wca.aspx).
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T05:40:18.733 | 2008-08-07T05:40:18.733 | null | null | 536 | null |
4,430 | 1 | 12,585 | null | 62 | 172,605 | Is there available any tool for PHP which can be used to generate code for consuming a [web service](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_service) based on its [WSDL](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Services_Description_Language)? Something comparable to clicking "Add Web Reference" in Visual Studio or the Eclipse plugin ... | How to easily consume a web service from PHP | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-07T05:48:33.570 | 2018-06-11T15:35:59.133 | 2013-01-29T12:53:38.437 | 349 | 349 | [
"php",
"web-services",
"visual-studio",
"wsdl"
] |
4,434 | 1 | 4,443 | null | 23 | 9,712 | Let's say that there is a solution that contains two projects (Project1 and Project2).
Project1 is set as a StartUp Project (its name is displayed in a bold font). I double-click some file in Project2 to open it. The file opens, but something else happens too - Project2 gets set as a StartUp Project.
I tried to find ... | Can I configure Visual Studio NOT to change StartUp Project every time I open a file from one of the projects? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-07T05:50:57.013 | 2023-03-03T21:37:54.367 | 2017-09-03T12:57:43.017 | 1,033,581 | 95 | [
".net",
"visual-studio",
"ide"
] |
4,437 | 2 | null | 4,432 | 3 | null | You could instead add the comma as the first thing inside your foreach.
`if (sb.Length > 0) sb.Append(",");`
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-07T05:54:00.157 | 2011-11-26T08:25:56.647 | 2011-11-26T08:25:56.647 | 388,388 | 404 | null |
4,438 | 2 | null | 4,432 | 0 | null | How about tracking whether you are on the first item, and only add a comma the item if it is not the first one.
```
public string ReturnAsCSV(ContactList contactList)
{
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
bool isFirst = true;
foreach (Contact c in contactList) {
if (!isFirst) {
// ... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-07T05:54:57.813 | 2016-02-07T14:34:02.843 | 2016-02-07T14:34:02.843 | 2,921,691 | 51 | null |
4,431 | 2 | null | 4,418 | 218 | null | I wasn't able to get mine working from the command-line switch but I have been able to do it just by setting my `HTTP_PROXY` environment variable. (Note that case seems to be important). I have a batch file that has a line like this in it:
```
SET HTTP_PROXY=http://%USER%:%PASSWORD%@%SERVER%:%PORT%
```
I set the fou... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-07T05:49:00.557 | 2016-01-29T17:28:20.400 | 2016-01-29T17:28:20.400 | 128,421 | 358 | null |
4,441 | 2 | null | 4,432 | 21 | null | You could use [LINQ to Objects](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_Integrated_Query#LINQ_to_Objects):
```
string [] strings = contactList.Select(c => c.Name).ToArray();
string csv = string.Join(",", strings);
```
Obviously that could all be done in one line, but it's a bit clearer on two.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T05:56:15.957 | 2010-03-26T17:29:31.023 | 2010-03-26T17:29:31.023 | 40,015 | 489 | null |
4,443 | 2 | null | 4,434 | 18 | null | The way to select a startup project is described in [Sara Ford's blog "Visual Studio Tip of the Day](http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/default.aspx)" (highly recommended). She has a post there about [setting up StartUp projects](http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2008/07/29/did-you-know-how-to-select-the-startup-proje... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T05:58:25.810 | 2009-02-20T14:58:54.607 | 2009-02-20T14:58:54.607 | 12,748 | 278 | null |
4,461 | 2 | null | 4,432 | 1 | null | > I like the idea of adding the comma by checking if the container is empty, but doesn't that mean more processing as it needs to check the length of the string on each occurrence?
You're prematurely optimizing, the performance hit would be negligible.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T06:25:57.503 | 2008-08-07T06:25:57.503 | null | null | 264 | null |