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41,396 | 2 | null | 38,766 | 1 | null | I didn't actually understand your question completely but I store my connection settings in a configuration files usually one for each environment like dev, production etc. The packages read the connection settings from the config files when they are run.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T10:07:15.447 | 2008-09-03T10:07:15.447 | null | null | 1,688,440 | null |
41,399 | 2 | null | 41,039 | 10 | null | If you install TFS 2008 PowerTools you will get a "Find in Source Control" action in the Team Explorer right click menu.
[TFS2008 Power Tools](http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=15836)
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-09-03T10:11:35.577 | 2012-09-26T20:46:59.427 | 2012-09-26T20:46:59.427 | 1,027,808 | 1,269 | null |
41,385 | 2 | null | 41,330 | 1 | null | Using the [DirectX SDK](https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=6812), you can call DirectSoundCaptureEnumerate, which will call your DSEnumCallback function for each DirectSoundCapture device on the system. The first parameter passed to your DSEnumCallback is an LPGUID, which is the "Address of the G... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-09-03T09:55:52.790 | 2017-09-13T07:35:21.530 | 2017-09-13T07:35:21.530 | 6,761,181 | 3,950 | null |
41,386 | 2 | null | 41,367 | 1 | null | One good idea is to determine how much work each additional task creates. This can depend on how the algorithm is structured.
For example, imagine you have some virtual cars in a city. At any moment, you want each car to have a map showing where all the cars are.
One way to approach this would be:
This seems strai... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-09-03T09:56:07.500 | 2011-08-03T13:05:56.980 | 2011-08-03T13:05:56.980 | 4,376 | 4,376 | null |
41,370 | 2 | null | 41,300 | 58 | null | I use [EmacsW32](http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsW32), it works great.
See its [EmacsWiki page](http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsW32) for details.
To me, the biggest advantage is that:
- - -
And concerning XEmacs, according to [this post](http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/04/xemacs-is-dead-long-l... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-09-03T09:34:10.237 | 2015-10-22T20:37:37.960 | 2015-10-22T20:37:37.960 | 150 | 2,797 | null |
41,404 | 2 | null | 41,397 | -1 | null | I think seeing as all exceptions should have a parameterless constructor, and have the `Message` property, so the following should work:
```
static ExType TestException<ExType>(string message) where ExType:Exception
{
ExType ex = new ExType();
ex.Message = message;
return ex;
}
```
Edit: OK, Message is r... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T10:13:11.297 | 2008-09-03T10:13:11.297 | null | null | 1,908 | null |
41,402 | 2 | null | 41,397 | 0 | null | Have you tried, instead:
```
static T TestException<Exception>(string message)
{}
```
because I have a feeling that putting in the generic constraint is not necessary as all throwable exceptions inherit from System.Exception anyway.
Remember that generics do accept inherited types.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T10:12:41.703 | 2008-09-03T10:12:41.703 | null | null | 372 | null |
41,379 | 2 | null | 39,562 | 12 | null | Warning: I'm not a java hacker, so YMMV but...
The problem with using a list of "properties" is that you need a lot of discipline. Every time you add a string that should be output to the user you will need to open your properties file, look to see if that string (or something roughly equivalent to it) is already in t... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T09:50:03.723 | 2008-09-03T09:50:03.723 | null | null | 2,745 | null |
41,397 | 1 | 41,408 | null | 11 | 7,291 | Right, I know I am totally going to look an idiot with this one, but my brain is just kicking in to gear this morning.
I want to have a method where I can say "if it goes bad, come back with this type of Exception", right?
For example, something like ():
```
static ExType TestException<ExType>(string message) where Ex... | Asking a Generic Method to Throw Specific Exception Type on FAIL | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-09-03T10:08:11.527 | 2012-02-02T14:25:31.037 | 2020-06-20T09:12:55.060 | -1 | 832 | [
"c#",
"generics",
"exception"
] |
41,405 | 1 | 41,418 | null | 3 | 3,793 | At the company I work for we have a "Utility" project that is referenced by pretty much ever application we build. It's got lots of things like NullHelpers, ConfigSettingHelpers, Common ExtensionMethods etc.
The way we work is that when we want to make a new project, we get the latest version of the project from sourc... | Working with Common/Utility Libraries | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-09-03T10:13:30.203 | 2016-02-02T11:36:06.563 | null | null | 493 | [
"c#",
"visual-studio",
"api"
] |
41,410 | 2 | null | 41,406 | 3 | null | You can look at the [eval](http://php.net/eval) function in PHP. It allows you to run arbitrary PHP code. It can be a huge security risk, though, and is best avoided.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T10:17:14.487 | 2008-09-03T10:17:14.487 | null | null | 1,606 | null |
41,400 | 1 | 41,794 | null | 50 | 31,972 | I am looking to do this in C/C++. I came across [Variable Length Arguments](http://www.swig.org/Doc1.3/Varargs.html), but this suggests a solution with Python and C using [libffi](http://sourceware.org/libffi/).
Now, if I want to wrap the `printf` function with `myprintf`.
I do it like below:
```
void myprintf(char* fm... | How can I wrap a function with variable length arguments? | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 0 | 2008-09-03T10:12:27.743 | 2022-06-28T21:43:00.353 | 2022-06-28T21:41:14.110 | 63,550 | 123 | [
"c++",
"c",
"variadic-functions"
] |
41,412 | 2 | null | 41,407 | 0 | null | You need to pass the `RegexOptions`. Singleline flag in to the regular expression, so that "." matches all characters, not just all characters except new lines (which is the default).
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-09-03T10:19:00.923 | 2017-07-04T08:41:32.393 | 2017-07-04T08:41:32.393 | 5,423,108 | 1,908 | null |
41,411 | 2 | null | 41,406 | 33 | null | You can use the [eval](http://php.net/manual/en/function.eval.php) command for this. Debugging is hard(er), it implies some security risks (bad content in the DB gets executed, uh oh).
See [When is eval evil in php?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/951373/when-is-eval-evil-in-php) for instance. Google for Eval is... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-09-03T10:18:01.660 | 2016-08-29T19:19:57.320 | 2017-05-23T10:31:25.977 | -1 | 909 | null |
41,406 | 1 | 41,411 | null | 34 | 40,099 | I'm trying to write a page that calls PHP that's stored in a MySQL database. The page that is stored in the MySQL database contains PHP (and HTML) code which I want to run on page load.
How could I go about doing this?
| How do I execute PHP that is stored in a MySQL database? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-09-03T10:14:26.067 | 2016-08-29T19:23:50.847 | null | null | 3,654 | [
"php",
"mysql"
] |
41,408 | 2 | null | 41,397 | 23 | null | You can almost do it like this:
```
static void TestException<E>(string message) where E : Exception, new()
{
var e = new E();
e.Message = message;
throw e;
}
```
However, that doesn't compile because Exception.Message is read only. It can only be assigned by passing it to the constructor, and there's no... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T10:15:34.863 | 2008-09-03T10:15:34.863 | null | null | 615 | null |
41,413 | 2 | null | 41,400 | 0 | null | How do you mean a pure C/C++ solution?
The rest parameter (...) is supported cross platform in the C runtime.
[va_arg, va_copy, va_end, va_start](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-runtime-library/reference/va-arg-va-copy-va-end-va-start)
| null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-09-03T10:19:33.903 | 2022-06-28T21:29:24.980 | 2022-06-28T21:29:24.980 | 63,550 | 986 | null |
41,409 | 2 | null | 36,014 | 1 | null | I believe Steve Steiner is correct. When researching Steve's suggestions, I came across [this thread](http://www.dotnetmonster.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/vs-net-ide/4729/Disabling-Just-my-code-changes-Debug-Exceptions-dialog) talking about the "Enable Just My Code" option in Tools|Options|Debugger|General. It is suggested th... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T10:17:12.927 | 2008-09-03T10:17:12.927 | null | null | 3,347 | null |
41,419 | 1 | 41,462 | null | 12 | 2,821 | What do search engine bots use as a starting point? Is it DNS look-up or do they start with some fixed list of well-know sites? Any guesses or suggestions?
| Where do search engines start crawling? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-09-03T10:30:52.753 | 2017-09-13T04:55:11.523 | null | null | 45,603 | [
"search-engine"
] |
41,415 | 2 | null | 41,207 | 1 | null | [This post](http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-engine-speeds/) by John Resig says that there are shells for [Tamarin (Firefox 4?)](http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/) and [JavaScriptCore (Safari 3)](http://webkit.org/projects/javascript/index.html). I'm not sure if they have auto completion though.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T10:21:35.583 | 2008-09-03T10:21:35.583 | null | null | 2,541 | null |
41,423 | 2 | null | 41,407 | 1 | null | The problem you have is that you need to terminate the RegEx pattern so it knows when one message ends and then next starts.
When you were running in default mode the newline was working as an implicit terminator.
The problem is if you go into multiline mode there's no terminator so the pattern will gobble up the who... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T10:34:08.063 | 2008-09-03T10:34:08.063 | null | null | 3,171 | null |
41,418 | 2 | null | 41,405 | 5 | null | That's exactly what we're doing. We have a Utility project which has some non project specific useful functions. We increase the version manually (minor), build the project in Release version, sign it and put it to a shared location.
People then use the specific version of the .
If some useful methods are implemented... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-09-03T10:23:51.660 | 2016-02-02T11:36:06.563 | 2016-02-02T11:36:06.563 | 1,018,966 | 1,269 | null |
41,428 | 2 | null | 41,407 | 3 | null | This will only work if the log message doesn't contain a date at the beginning of the line, but you could try adding a negative look-ahead assertion for a date in the "message" group:
```
(?<date>\d{2}/\d{2}/\d{2})\s(?<time>\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2},\d{3})\s(?<message>(.(?!^\d{2}/\d{2}/
\d{2}))+)
```
Note that this requires... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T10:37:36.340 | 2008-09-03T10:37:36.340 | null | null | 3,950 | null |
41,427 | 2 | null | 41,244 | 5 | null | You could add it:
```
public static IEnumerable<T> OrderBy( this IEnumerable<T> input, string queryString) {
//parse the string into property names
//Use reflection to get and sort by properties
//something like
foreach( string propname in queryString.Split(','))
input.OrderBy( x => GetPropert... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T10:37:31.193 | 2008-10-24T11:10:21.930 | 2017-05-23T12:34:37.587 | -1 | 905 | null |
41,422 | 2 | null | 41,400 | 8 | null | I am also unsure what you mean by pure.
In C++ we use:
```
#include <cstdarg>
#include <cstdio>
class Foo
{
void Write(const char* pMsg, ...);
};
void Foo::Write( const char* pMsg, ...)
{
char buffer[4096];
std::va_list arg;
va_start(arg, pMsg);
std::vsnprintf(buffer, 4096, pMsg, arg);
va_e... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-09-03T10:33:49.017 | 2022-06-28T21:30:13.800 | 2022-06-28T21:30:13.800 | 63,550 | 259 | null |
41,429 | 1 | 41,442 | null | 5 | 4,454 | I am trying to set a ViewState-variable when a button is pressed, but it only works the second time I click the button. Here is the code-behind:
```
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (Page.IsPostBack)
{
lblInfo.InnerText = String.Format("Hello {0} at {1}!", YourName, DateTime.No... | Setting viewstate on postback | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-09-03T10:37:43.080 | 2017-12-13T12:54:49.113 | 2017-12-13T12:54:49.113 | 1,773,603 | 2,257 | [
"asp.net",
"postback",
"viewstate"
] |
41,414 | 2 | null | 41,400 | 1 | null | Are you using C or C++? The next C++ version, C++0x, will support [variadic templates](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varargs#Variadic_functions_in_C.2C_Objective-C_and_C.2B.2B) which provide a solution to that problem.
Another workaround can be achieved by clever operator overloading to achieve a syntax like this:
```... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T10:20:06.397 | 2008-09-03T10:20:06.397 | null | null | 1,968 | null |
41,431 | 2 | null | 41,424 | 6 | null | I would suggest looking at [SOUNDEX](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundex) to find similar words in your database.
You can also access google own dictionary by using the [Google API spelling suggestion request](http://code.google.com/apis/soapsearch/reference.html#1_3).
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T10:39:05.650 | 2008-09-03T10:46:06.460 | 2008-09-03T10:46:06.460 | 2,257 | 2,257 | null |
41,430 | 2 | null | 38,280 | 1 | null | Although I realize this may not be an option yet, [Google Chrome](http://www.google.com/chrome) seems to have some features that have been added specifically to allow that. Again, maybe not usable, yet, but certainly very interesting!
(See also [the Chrome presentation](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d1_ool4r7s&featu... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T10:38:23.420 | 2008-09-03T10:38:23.420 | null | null | 1,037 | null |
41,407 | 1 | 41,428 | null | 2 | 5,409 | I'm currently working on a parser for our internal log files (generated by log4php, log4net and log4j). So far I have a nice regular expression to parse the logs, except for one annoying bit: Some log messages span multiple lines, which I can't get to match properly. The regex I have now is this:
```
(?<date>\d{2}/\d{... | Parsing a log file with regular expressions | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-09-03T10:15:11.247 | 2017-12-16T22:56:05.397 | 2017-12-16T22:56:05.397 | 858,913 | 909 | [
"c#",
"regex"
] |
41,424 | 1 | 41,448 | null | 116 | 30,924 | >
[How does the Google “Did you mean?” Algorithm work?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/307291/how-does-the-google-did-you-mean-algorithm-work)
Suppose you have a search system already in your website. How can you implement the "Did you mean:`<spell_checked_word>`" like Google does in some [search queries](... | How do you implement a "Did you mean"? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-09-03T10:36:13.270 | 2012-11-19T05:57:06.303 | 2017-05-23T12:09:52.140 | -1 | 2,644 | [
"nlp"
] |
41,438 | 2 | null | 41,424 | 0 | null | Soundex and "Porter stemming" (soundex is trivial, not sure about porter stemming).
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T10:46:57.533 | 2008-09-03T10:46:57.533 | null | null | 699 | null |
41,433 | 2 | null | 41,424 | 0 | null | Soundex is good for phonetic matches, but works best with peoples' names (it was originally developed for census data)
Also check out Full-Text-Indexing, the syntax is different from Google logic, but it's very quick and can deal with similar language elements.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T10:41:35.520 | 2008-09-03T10:41:35.520 | null | null | 905 | null |
41,425 | 2 | null | 41,407 | 2 | null | You obviously need that "messages lines" can be distinguished from "log lines"; if you allow the message part to start with date/time after a new line, then there is simply no way to determine what is part of a message and what not. So, instead of using the dot, you need an expression that allows anything that does not... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T10:37:02.630 | 2008-09-03T10:37:02.630 | null | null | 4,285 | null |
41,440 | 2 | null | 41,406 | 5 | null | `eval()` function was covered in other responses here. I agree you should limit use of `eval` unless it is absolutely needed. Instead of having PHP code in db you could have just a class name that has method called, say, `execute()`. Whenever you need to run your custom PHP code just instantiate the class of name you j... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T10:47:21.933 | 2008-09-03T10:47:21.933 | null | null | 2,169 | null |
41,441 | 2 | null | 41,405 | 1 | null | I've had the same issue!
I used to use project references, but it all seems to go bad, when as you say, you have many projects referencing it.
I now compile to a DLL, and set the CopyLocal property for the DLL reference to false after the first build (otherwise I find it can override sub projects and just become a m... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T10:47:47.423 | 2008-09-03T10:47:47.423 | null | null | 832 | null |
41,439 | 2 | null | 39,910 | 0 | null | Hm. Works fine on mine, so let's see if we can work out how your setup is different...
It looks as though it's having trouble populating the control; my first guess would be that this is because the code makes so many assumptions about the lists it's talking to. Can you check that you've got a plain vanilla Team site,... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T10:47:11.030 | 2008-09-03T10:47:11.030 | null | null | 4,301 | null |
41,443 | 2 | null | 41,424 | 12 | null | Check [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance) article on wikipedia about the Levenshtein distance. Make sure you take a good look at Possible improvements.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T10:49:29.137 | 2008-09-03T10:49:29.137 | null | null | null | null |
41,451 | 2 | null | 41,449 | 120 | null | I've found the solution. I've recently upgraded my machine to Windows 2008 Server 64-bit. The SqlServer.Replication namespace was written for 32-bit platforms. All I needed to do to get it running again was to set the Target Platform in the Project Build Properties to X86.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T10:57:53.560 | 2008-09-03T10:57:53.560 | null | null | 2,012 | null |
41,450 | 2 | null | 41,397 | 11 | null | The only issue with the solution is that it is possible to create a subclass of Exception which does not implement a constructor with a single string parameter, so the MethodMissingException might be thrown.
```
static void TestException<E>(string message) where E : Exception, new()
{
try
{
return Activ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T10:56:24.733 | 2008-09-03T10:56:24.733 | null | null | 1,908 | null |
41,449 | 1 | 41,451 | null | 323 | 275,712 | The exact error is as follows
> Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.SqlServer.Replication,
Version=9.0.242.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91'
or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with
an incorrect format.
I've recently started working on this project again a... | I get a "An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format" error on a SQL Server replication project | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-09-03T10:55:53.113 | 2018-04-09T14:59:12.283 | 2012-09-06T23:53:37.893 | 112,196 | 2,012 | [
"c#",
"sql-server",
"replication"
] |
41,446 | 1 | 42,491 | null | 15 | 21,934 | I'm looking for a tool to generate a JavaScript stub from a WSDL.
Although I usually prefer to use REST services with JSON or XML, there are some tools I am currently integrating that works only using SOAP.
I already created a first version of the client in JavaScript but I'm parsing the SOAP envelope by hand and I d... | Generating JavaScript stubs from WSDL | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-09-03T10:54:28.983 | 2010-11-22T10:02:20.623 | 2009-11-25T16:07:08.620 | 268 | 268 | [
"javascript",
"soap",
"wsdl"
] |
41,455 | 2 | null | 41,424 | 4 | null | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-gram#Google_use_of_N-gram](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-gram#Google_use_of_N-gram)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T11:00:42.977 | 2008-09-03T11:00:42.977 | null | null | 190 | null |
41,459 | 2 | null | 41,453 | 59 | null | And I would love a pony, but ponies aren't free. :-p
[http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/C%2B%2B_Programming/RTTI](http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/C%2B%2B_Programming/RTTI) is what you're going to get. Reflection like you're thinking about -- fully descriptive metadata available at runtime -- just doesn't exist for C++ by defa... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T11:04:56.540 | 2008-09-03T11:04:56.540 | null | null | 1,554 | null |
41,447 | 2 | null | 41,419 | 4 | null | You can submit your site to search engines using their [site submission forms](http://www.google.com/addurl/) - this will get you into their system. When you actually get crawled after that is impossible to say - from experience it's usually about a week or so for an initial crawl (homepage, couple of other pages 1-lin... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T10:55:09.230 | 2008-09-03T10:55:09.230 | null | null | 2,287 | null |
41,453 | 1 | 34,551,440 | null | 317 | 270,304 | I'd like to be able to introspect a C++ class for its name, contents (i.e. members and their types) etc. I'm talking native C++ here, not managed C++, which has reflection. I realise C++ supplies some limited information using RTTI. Which additional libraries (or other techniques) could supply this information?
| How can I add reflection to a C++ application? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-09-03T10:59:05.883 | 2022-07-12T21:11:41.930 | 2010-06-21T04:10:55.483 | 113,124 | 3,233 | [
"c++",
"reflection",
"templates",
"sfinae"
] |
41,460 | 1 | 44,701 | null | 207 | 85,627 | In simple terms, what are the reasons for, and what are the differences between the GPL v2 and GPL v3 open source licenses? Explanations and references to legal terms and further descriptions would be appreciated.
| What are the differences between GPL v2 and GPL v3 licenses? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-09-03T11:05:11.203 | 2021-04-08T16:25:04.027 | 2008-09-03T11:20:19.450 | 3,233 | 3,233 | [
"licensing"
] |
41,456 | 2 | null | 41,419 | 2 | null | In principle they start with nothing. Only when somebody explicitly tells them to include their website they can start crawling this site and use the links on that site to search more.
However, in practice the creator(s) of a search engine will put in some arbitrary sites they can think of. For example, their own blog... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T11:00:49.670 | 2008-09-03T11:00:49.670 | null | null | 4,285 | null |
41,464 | 2 | null | 41,460 | 7 | null | In (not entirely) cynical terms, the reason for the v3 license was Microsoft's patent deal with Novell.
In reality, you should always consult a lawyer when dealing with legal issues.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T11:07:58.233 | 2008-09-03T11:07:58.233 | null | null | 1,554 | null |
41,442 | 2 | null | 41,429 | 12 | null | `Page_Load` fires before `btnSubmit_Click`.
If you want to do something after your postback events have fired use `Page_PreRender`.
```
//this will work because YourName has now been set by the click event
protected void Page_PreRender(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (Page.IsPostBack)
lblInfo.InnerText =... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T10:48:15.817 | 2008-09-03T10:48:15.817 | null | null | 905 | null |
41,469 | 1 | 151,593 | null | 33 | 46,677 | I am planning on creating a small website for my personal book collection. To automate the process a little bit, I would like to create the following functionality:
The website will ask me for the ISBN number of the book and will then automatically fetch the title and add it to my database.
Although I am mainly inter... | How to fetch a Book Title from an ISBN number? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-09-03T11:20:26.813 | 2018-09-07T16:20:59.930 | 2013-03-26T10:34:30.930 | null | 2,644 | [
"php",
"language-agnostic"
] |
41,463 | 2 | null | 31,394 | 5 | null | The commonly available system properties are documented in the [System.getProperties()](http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/System.html#getProperties%28%29) method.
As Chris said `"user.name"` is the property to get the user running your app.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T11:07:41.603 | 2016-05-12T01:24:45.190 | 2016-05-12T01:24:45.190 | 1,402,846 | 3,535 | null |
41,474 | 2 | null | 41,469 | 1 | null | To obtain data for given ISBN number you need to interact with some online service like [isbndb](http://isbndb.com).
One of the best sources for bibliographic information is Amazon web service. It provides you with all bibliographic info + book cover.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T11:25:57.923 | 2008-09-03T11:25:57.923 | null | null | 1,196 | null |
41,457 | 2 | null | 39,639 | 0 | null | Is this as simple as spelling? or are there just typos in the question?
Sometimes you write `rebuildThumbnail` and sometimes you write `rebildThumbnail`
The methods you are trying to override with advice are not final methods in the MVC framework, so whilst bpapas answer is useful, my understanding is that this is not... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-09-03T11:01:34.567 | 2018-12-20T13:01:23.720 | 2018-12-20T13:01:23.720 | 1,997,093 | 1,820 | null |
41,454 | 2 | null | 40,471 | 784 | null | Note, that a lot of the answers state that Hashtable is synchronized. The synchronization is on the accessor/mutator methods will stop two threads adding or removing from the map concurrently, but in the real world, you will often need additional synchronization.
A very common idiom is to "check then put" — i.e. loo... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-09-03T11:00:41.213 | 2021-05-15T11:22:30.583 | 2021-05-15T11:22:30.583 | 5,485,215 | 1,853 | null |
41,465 | 2 | null | 38,280 | 1 | null | Some other reasons to choose Firefox:
- [Firebug](http://getfirebug.com/)- [Web Developer](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60)- [Tamper Data](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/966)
These addons make it a lot easier to develop web application for.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T11:08:04.147 | 2008-09-03T11:08:04.147 | null | null | 486 | null |
41,475 | 2 | null | 41,469 | 14 | null | Check out [ISBN DB API](http://isbndb.com/api/v2/docs). It's a simple REST-based web service. Haven't tried it myself, but a friend has had successful experiences with it.
It'll give you book title, author information, and depending on the book, number of other details you can use.
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-09-03T11:26:37.890 | 2015-04-22T08:26:36.953 | 2015-04-22T08:26:36.953 | 4,333 | 4,333 | null |
41,479 | 1 | 41,505 | null | 405 | 146,212 | After discussion with colleagues regarding the use of the 'var' keyword in C# 3 I wondered what people's opinions were on the appropriate uses of type inference via var?
For example I rather lazily used var in questionable circumstances, e.g.:-
```
foreach(var item in someList) { // ... } // Type of 'item' not clear.... | Use of var keyword in C# | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-09-03T11:29:57.650 | 2015-02-03T03:25:00.327 | 2015-02-03T03:25:00.327 | 102,937 | 3,394 | [
"c#",
"type-inference",
"var"
] |
41,482 | 2 | null | 41,469 | 1 | null | You might want to look into [LibraryThing](http://www.librarything.com/), it has an [API](http://www.librarything.com/services/) that would [do what you want](http://www.librarything.com/services/librarything.ck.getwork.php) and they handle things like mapping multiple ISBNs for different editions of a single "work".
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T11:32:29.187 | 2008-09-03T11:32:29.187 | null | null | 3,715 | null |
41,487 | 2 | null | 41,479 | 1 | null | In our office, our CTO has categorically banned the use of the var keyword, for the same reasons that you have stated.
Personally I find the use of var only valid in new object declarations, since the type of the object is obvious in the statement itself.
For LINQ queries, you can resolve results to:
```
IEnumerable... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T11:35:49.320 | 2008-09-03T11:35:49.320 | null | null | 372 | null |
41,462 | 2 | null | 41,419 | 8 | null | Your question can be interpreted in two ways:
Are you asking where search engines start their crawl from in general, or where they start to crawl a particular site?
I don't know how the big players work; but if you were to make your own search engine you'd probably seed it with popular portal sites. [DMOZ.org](https... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-09-03T11:07:26.487 | 2017-09-12T21:30:25.203 | 2017-09-12T21:30:25.203 | 6,761,181 | 4,050 | null |
41,448 | 2 | null | 41,424 | 87 | null | Actually what Google does is very much non-trivial and also at first counter-intuitive. They don't do anything like check against a dictionary, but rather they make use of statistics to identify "similar" queries that returned more results than your query, the exact algorithm is of course not known.
There are differen... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T10:55:12.740 | 2008-09-03T10:55:12.740 | null | null | 1,996 | null |
41,483 | 2 | null | 41,453 | 13 | null | What are you trying to do with reflection?
You can use the Boost [type traits](http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_36_0/libs/type_traits/doc/html/index.html) and [typeof](http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_36_0/doc/html/typeof.html) libraries as a limited form of compile-time reflection. That is, you can inspect and modify t... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T11:33:05.863 | 2008-09-03T11:33:05.863 | null | null | 4,086 | null |
41,492 | 1 | 2,478,693 | null | 1 | 818 | Is it possible to determine which property of an ActiveX control is the default property? For example, what is the default property of the VB6 control CommandButton and how would I found out any other controls default!
Without having source to the object itself
| ActiveX control default property discovery | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T11:40:15.660 | 2010-03-19T15:55:49.423 | 2008-09-05T15:08:10.540 | 1,111 | 1,111 | [
"vb6",
"activex"
] |
41,480 | 2 | null | 39,639 | 1 | null | The basic setup looks ok.
The syntax can be simplified slightly by not defining an in-place pointcut and just specifying the method to which the after-advice should be applied. (The named pointcuts for methods are automatically created for you.)
e.g.
```
@After( "com.example.bg.web.controllers.assets.AssetAddControl... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T11:31:19.830 | 2008-09-05T10:02:35.330 | 2008-09-05T10:02:35.330 | 1,820 | 1,820 | null |
41,488 | 2 | null | 41,479 | 3 | null | I had the same concern when I started to use keyword.
However I got used to it over time and not going to go back to explicit variable types.
Visual Studio's compiler\intellisense are doing a very good job on making work with implicitly typed variables much easier.
I think that following proper naming conventions c... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T11:36:00.927 | 2008-09-03T11:41:08.840 | 2008-09-03T11:41:08.840 | 1,196 | 1,196 | null |
41,486 | 2 | null | 41,479 | 53 | null | I think the use of var should be coupled with wisely-chosen variable names.
I have no problem using var in a foreach statement, provided it's not like this:
```
foreach (var c in list) { ... }
```
If it were more like this:
```
foreach (var customer in list) { ... }
```
... then someone reading the code would be... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T11:35:13.987 | 2008-09-03T11:42:45.387 | 2008-09-03T11:42:45.387 | 615 | 615 | null |
41,494 | 2 | null | 41,469 | 0 | null | As an alternative to isbndb (which seems like the perfect answer) I had the impression that you could pass an ISBN into an Amazon product URL to go straight to the Amazon page for the book. While this doesn't programmatically return the book title, it might have been a useful extra feature in case you wanted to link to... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T11:42:15.203 | 2008-10-05T12:47:33.113 | 2008-10-05T12:47:33.113 | 3,267 | 3,267 | null |
41,498 | 1 | null | null | 5 | 890 | We recently lost a database and I want to recover the data from de Production.log.
Every request is logged like this:
Processing ChamadosController#create (for XXX.XXX.XXX.40 at 2008-07-30 11:07:30) [POST]
Session ID: 74c865cefa0fdd96b4e4422497b828f9
Parameters: {"commit"=>"Gravar", "action"=>"create", "funcionar... | Rails - recovering database from Production.log | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-09-03T11:45:32.900 | 2011-10-24T06:42:15.503 | null | null | 4,384 | [
"ruby-on-rails",
"session"
] |
41,497 | 2 | null | 27,405 | 3 | null | Bit shifts are usually very fast:
```
y = 0xFF3B * (int32_t) x >> 16;
```
This is probably better written as:
```
y = (0.997 * 0x10000) * (int32_t)x >> 16;
```
A good compiler will generate equivalent output.
If your integers are signed, the constants should be changed to 0x8000 and 15.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T11:45:05.303 | 2008-09-03T11:45:05.303 | null | null | 1,077 | null |
41,473 | 2 | null | 41,469 | 7 | null | I haven't tried it, but take a look at [isbndb](http://isbndb.com/docs/api/10-intro.html)
> API Description: IntroductionISBNdb.com's remote access application programming interface (API) is designed to allow other websites and standalone applications use the vast collection of data collected by ISBNdb.com since 2003.... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T11:25:53.633 | 2008-09-03T11:25:53.633 | null | null | 4,050 | null |
41,504 | 1 | 5,519,523 | null | 82 | 96,991 | Is there any library (or even better, web service) available which can convert from a latitude/longitude into a time zone?
| Timezone lookup from latitude longitude | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-09-03T11:52:41.807 | 2019-04-30T11:28:31.957 | null | null | 797 | [
"web-services",
"api",
"timezone",
"geocoding"
] |
41,503 | 2 | null | 41,479 | 17 | null | One specific case where var is difficult: offline code reviews, especially the ones done on paper.
You can't rely on mouse-overs for that.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T11:51:16.537 | 2008-09-03T11:51:16.537 | null | null | 372 | null |
41,502 | 2 | null | 31,826 | 1 | null | Rob Walker is right: the problem isn't specified in enough detail. Considering just parsers (and ignoring the question of whether they perform validation), there are two main flavors: tree-based—think DOM—and streaming/event-based—think [SAX](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAX) (push) and [StAX](http://en.wikipedia.org/w... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T11:47:52.880 | 2008-09-03T11:47:52.880 | null | null | 4,203 | null |
41,496 | 2 | null | 41,479 | 3 | null | Someone doesn't like criticism of var.. All answers downmodded.. oh well..
@Jon Limjap:
I know. :) What I meant was that the readability is degraded like it is in VB6. I don't like to rely on Intellisense to figure out what type a given variable is. I want to be able to figure it out using the source alone.
Naming co... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T11:45:04.040 | 2008-09-03T11:45:04.040 | null | null | 4,192 | null |
41,507 | 2 | null | 41,479 | 1 | null | @erlando, out of curiosity, why do you need to know the variable's type looking at the source code?
In my practice I found that variable type is matter for me only at the time I'm using it in the code.
If I'm trying to do some inappropriate operation on compiler gladly gives me an error\warning.
I really don't c... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T11:55:57.167 | 2008-09-03T11:55:57.167 | null | null | 1,196 | null |
41,510 | 2 | null | 36,347 | 4 | null | Java (and C#) generics seem to be a simple run-time type substitution mechanism.
C++ templates are a compile-time construct which give you a way to modify the language to suit your needs. They are actually a purely-functional language that the compiler executes during a compile.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T12:00:04.380 | 2008-09-03T12:00:04.380 | null | null | 4,086 | null |
41,501 | 2 | null | 41,479 | 10 | null | I think the key thing with VAR is to only use it where appropriate i.e. when doing things in Linq that it facilitates (and probably in other cases).
If you've a type for something in the then you should use it - not to do so is simple laziness (as opposed to creative laziness which is generally to be encouraged - go... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T11:47:35.453 | 2008-09-03T11:47:35.453 | null | null | 1,070 | null |
41,513 | 1 | null | null | 15 | 11,055 | I am going to be using Subversion for source control on a new J2EE web application. What directory structure will you recommend for organizing code, tests and documentation?
| Recommended Source Control Directory Structure? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-09-03T12:00:40.570 | 2012-08-11T19:54:47.983 | 2012-08-11T19:54:47.983 | 841,064 | null | [
"java",
"svn",
"jakarta-ee",
"version-control",
"code-organization"
] |
41,505 | 2 | null | 41,479 | 292 | null | I still think `var` can make code more readable in some cases. If I have a Customer class with an Orders property, and I want to assign that to a variable, I will just do this:
```
var orders = cust.Orders;
```
I don't care if Customer.Orders is `IEnumerable<Order>`, `ObservableCollection<Order>` or `BindingList<Ord... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-09-03T11:53:07.377 | 2012-06-19T12:35:38.170 | 2012-06-19T12:35:38.170 | 995,246 | 615 | null |
41,512 | 2 | null | 41,504 | 4 | null |
These look pretty promising-
Archive link:
[https://web.archive.org/web/20150503145203/http://www.earthtools.org/webservices.htm](https://web.archive.org/web/20150503145203/http://www.earthtools.org/webservices.htm)
| null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-09-03T12:00:30.867 | 2019-04-30T11:28:31.957 | 2019-04-30T11:28:31.957 | 6,205,782 | 4,325 | null |
41,516 | 2 | null | 41,479 | 8 | null | @aku: One example is code reviews. Another example is refactoring scenarios.
Basically I don't want to go type-hunting with my mouse. It might not be available.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T12:02:03.080 | 2008-09-03T12:02:03.080 | null | null | 4,192 | null |
41,520 | 2 | null | 41,479 | 0 | null | @erlando,
Talking about refactoring it seems to be much easier to change variable type by assigning instance of new type to one variable rather then changing it in multiple places, isn't it ?
As for code review I see no big issues with keyword. During code review I prefer to check code logic rather variable types. O... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T12:07:46.967 | 2008-09-03T12:16:58.753 | 2008-09-03T12:16:58.753 | 1,196 | 1,196 | null |
41,517 | 2 | null | 41,256 | 0 | null | Based on what D2VIANT referenced
> Full Article: [http://www.hanselman.com/blog/CatchingRedBitsDifferencesInNET20AndNET20SP1.aspx](http://www.hanselman.com/blog/CatchingRedBitsDifferencesInNET20AndNET20SP1.aspx)
I was able to find additional resources which list the changes in .NET SP1 some of the types added/affecte... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T12:02:39.070 | 2008-09-03T12:02:39.070 | null | null | 3,359 | null |
41,519 | 2 | null | 41,479 | 17 | null | I don't see what the big deal is..
```
var something = someMethod(); // Type of 'something' not clear <-- not to the compiler!
```
You still have full intellisense on 'something', and for any ambiguous case you have your unit tests, right? ( do you? )
It's not varchar, it's not dim, and it's certainly not dynamic o... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T12:04:57.923 | 2008-09-03T12:04:57.923 | null | null | 3,024 | null |
41,499 | 1 | 42,674 | null | 8 | 3,676 | In Java, static and transient fields are not serialized. However, I found out that initialization of static fields causes the generated serialVersionUID to be changed. For example, `static int MYINT = 3;` causes the serialVersionUID to change. In this example, it makes sense because different versions of the class woul... | Java serialization with static initialization | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T11:46:34.630 | 2015-10-15T13:03:25.693 | 2008-09-03T12:15:19.523 | 3,150 | 3,150 | [
"java",
"serialization"
] |
41,524 | 2 | null | 41,513 | 14 | null | I usually have
In work with Visual Studio, I'm not sure if this works the same in the java world. But i usually put stuff in different project folders in src. For each source project there's a separate test project. Build files go in the main project directory. I usually put a README there too documenting how to set... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-09-03T12:11:07.973 | 2012-05-15T13:01:04.650 | 2012-05-15T13:01:04.650 | 5,017 | 3,320 | null |
41,523 | 2 | null | 41,479 | 8 | null | It's a matter of taste. All this fussing about the of a variable disappears when you get used to dynamically typed languages. That is, you ever start to like them (I'm not sure if everybody can, but I do).
C#'s `var` is pretty cool in that it like dynamic typing, but actually is typing - the compiler enforces corr... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T12:10:53.463 | 2008-09-03T12:10:53.463 | null | null | 2,260 | null |
41,527 | 2 | null | 41,499 | 0 | null | I updated the question to be more clear. I understand why initialization with a literal changes the `serialVersionUID` but not why dynamic initialization changes it. If you initialize with a method, the value, of course, may always be different.
Setting the `serialVersionUID` explicitly is fine in a subsequent versi... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-09-03T12:13:09.107 | 2015-10-15T13:03:25.693 | 2015-10-15T13:03:25.693 | 678,093 | 3,150 | null |
41,511 | 1 | null | null | 4 | 2,270 | Is there any way to use this kind of format in .Net (C#)?
I want to use the same skin format that uTorrent uses in my app, but i can't get the transparent background.
Any ideas?
Thanks for your time.
| How to use 32bit alpha-blended BMP in .Net | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-09-03T12:00:26.203 | 2012-01-01T06:27:07.020 | null | null | 4,386 | [
"c#",
".net",
"alpha",
"blending"
] |
41,521 | 2 | null | 41,089 | 2 | null | I believe the following will work:
```
Dim b As CommandButton
Set b = ocx.GetButton("btnPrint")
b = True
```
`CommandButton`s actually have two functions. One is the usual click button and the other is a toggle button that acts similar to a `CheckBox`. The default property of the `CommandButton` is actually the `Val... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-09-03T12:08:30.553 | 2017-08-20T23:05:52.920 | 2017-08-20T23:05:52.920 | 3,641,067 | 1,111 | null |
41,529 | 2 | null | 41,525 | 0 | null | which ones?
I use `gvim` on Windows and `MacVim` on the mac. Seem similar enough to be the same to me...
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T12:13:23.240 | 2008-09-03T12:13:23.240 | null | null | 2,260 | null |
41,532 | 2 | null | 41,479 | 5 | null | I split var all over the places, the only questionable places for me are internal short types, e.g. I prefer `int i = 3;` over `var i = 3;`
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T12:13:43.380 | 2008-09-03T12:13:43.380 | null | null | 4,388 | null |
41,525 | 1 | 41,549 | null | 1 | 591 | If not, what are the significant differences?
---
Daren Thomas asks:
> which ones?I use gvim on Windows and MacVim on the mac. Seem similar enough to be the same to me...
By which ones, I'm guessing that you mean a specific implementation of vi and emacs for Windows. I'm not sure as I thought there were only on... | Do the vi and emacs implementations for Windows behave like their Unix counterparts? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-09-03T12:11:37.503 | 2012-05-26T00:56:11.330 | 2012-05-26T00:56:11.330 | 324,105 | 572 | [
"windows",
"emacs",
"vi"
] |
41,515 | 2 | null | 41,499 | 0 | null | If I read the spec correctly the automatic `serialVersionUID` shouldn't change if you change the value of a static of transient field. Take a look at [Chapter 5.6](http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/platform/serialization/spec/version.html#6678) of the Spec.
, if you think about this a bit - you start by serializing an... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T12:01:30.663 | 2008-09-03T12:01:30.663 | null | null | 3,379 | null |
41,536 | 2 | null | 41,513 | 3 | null | I found some old questions here on SO that might be interesting for you:
- [Whats a good standard code layout for a php application](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5214/whats-a-good-standard-code-layout-for-a-php-application)- [Scalable and Flexible Directory Structure for Web Applications](http://phpimpact.wordp... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T12:16:24.853 | 2008-09-03T12:16:24.853 | 2017-05-23T10:29:27.657 | -1 | 1,037 | null |
41,540 | 2 | null | 41,504 | 4 | null | How much accuracy do you need? Dividing the longitude by 15 would almost be right :p
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T12:18:26.347 | 2008-09-03T12:18:26.347 | null | null | 3,715 | null |
41,533 | 2 | null | 41,504 | 28 | null | Take a look at [Geonames.org](http://www.geonames.org/)
It's a free webservice that allow you to get a lot of informations from a long/lat
[They also provide a free (and open source) Java Client for GeoNames Webservices library (library for other language also provided: ruby, python, perl, lisp...)](http://www.geonam... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T12:15:17.837 | 2008-09-03T13:04:55.457 | 2008-09-03T13:04:55.470 | 383 | 4,064 | null |
41,531 | 2 | null | 41,479 | 7 | null | In your comparison between `IEnumerable<int>` and `IEnumerable<double>` you don't need to worry - if you pass the wrong type your code won't compile anyway.
There's no concern about type-safety, as `var` is dynamic. It's just compiler magic and any type unsafe calls you make will get caught.
`Var` is absolutely nee... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T12:13:33.020 | 2008-09-07T17:54:02.840 | 2008-09-07T17:54:02.840 | 905 | 905 | null |
41,539 | 2 | null | 41,513 | 0 | null | I use Eclipse for creating J2EE web applications and this will create the following project structure:
```
WebAppName\
\lib
\src
\tests
etc...
```
I would then create an SVN folder on our trunk called WebAppNameProject. Within this folder I would create folders called WebAppNameSource, Documentation ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-09-03T12:17:31.780 | 2008-09-03T12:17:31.780 | null | null | 2,454 | null |