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5,724 | 1 | 5,823 | null | 66 | 46,736 | Is there a better windows command line shell other than `cmd` which has better copy paste between Windows' windows and console windows?
| Better windows command line shells | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-08T06:15:11.033 | 2015-08-20T22:26:38.360 | 2009-10-23T11:23:17.587 | 40,342 | 108,465 | [
"windows",
"shell",
"cmd"
] |
5,722 | 2 | null | 4,306 | 1 | null | The best way to implement sparse matrices is to not to implement them - atleast not on your own. I would suggest to BLAS (which I think is a part of LAPACK) which can handle really huge matrices.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T06:11:20.107 | 2008-08-08T06:11:20.107 | null | null | 108,465 | null |
5,709 | 2 | null | 5,706 | 32 | null | Request.Form only includes variables posted through a form, while Request.Params includes both posted form variables and get variables specified as URL parameters.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T05:51:54.420 | 2008-08-08T05:51:54.420 | null | null | 423 | null |
5,719 | 2 | null | 1,983 | 3 | null | As others have mentioned, Lists and tuples are both containers which can be used to store python objects. Lists are extensible and their contents can change by assignment, on the other hand tuples are immutable.
Also, lists cannot be used as keys in a dictionary whereas tuples can.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T06:06:33.237 | 2008-08-08T06:06:33.237 | null | null | 108,465 | null |
5,725 | 2 | null | 5,724 | 2 | null | Not sure what specifically you mean by but try [Take Command](http://www.jpsoft.com).
Take Command supports Shift+Ins for paste and Shift+Del for cut, but apparently nothing for copy, will dig some more.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T06:16:14.870 | 2008-08-08T11:11:34.617 | 2008-08-08T11:11:34.617 | 267 | 267 | null |
5,726 | 2 | null | 5,724 | 25 | null | Windows PowerShell is the obvious choice when it comes to "better windows command line shell other than cmd". Its clipboard handling isn't that much of an improvement - mark with the mouse, Enter to copy, or right mouse click to paste.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T06:17:23.353 | 2008-08-08T06:17:23.353 | null | null | 615 | null |
5,727 | 1 | 5,754 | null | 468 | 88,242 | Why are pointers such a leading factor of confusion for many new, and even old, college level students in C or C++? Are there any tools or thought processes that helped you understand how pointers work at the variable, function, and beyond level?
What are some good practice things that can be done to bring somebody t... | What are the barriers to understanding pointers and what can be done to overcome them? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-08T06:17:51.543 | 2023-02-26T08:06:58.773 | 2010-05-23T12:28:00.993 | 193,778 | 568 | [
"c++",
"c",
"pointers"
] |
5,734 | 2 | null | 5,727 | 10 | null | I don't think pointers as a concept are particularly tricky - most students' mental models map to something like this and some quick box sketches can help.
The difficulty, at least that which I've experienced in the past and seen others deal with, is that the management of pointers in C/C++ can be unncessarily convolu... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T06:26:50.013 | 2008-08-08T06:35:42.570 | 2008-08-08T06:35:42.570 | 364 | 364 | null |
5,735 | 2 | null | 5,727 | 0 | null | I don't see what is so confusing about pointers. They point to a location in memory, that is it stores the memory address. In C/C++ you can specify the type the pointer points to. For example:
```
int* my_int_pointer;
```
Says that my_int_pointer contains the address to a location that contains an int.
The problem ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T06:28:48.947 | 2008-08-08T06:28:48.947 | null | null | 486 | null |
5,733 | 2 | null | 5,600 | 0 | null | A Primary Key needn't be an autoincrementing field, in many cases this just means you are complicating your table structure.
Instead, a Primary Key should be the minimum collection of attributes (note that most DBMS will allow a composite primary key) that uniquely identifies a tuple.
In technical terms, it should be... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T06:25:50.030 | 2008-08-08T06:25:50.030 | null | null | 188 | null |
5,739 | 2 | null | 5,251 | 7 | null | Googling for "GWT +sparklines" has gotten me to [gchart](http://code.google.com/p/gchart/), which seems like what I need.
From what I understand - it's all client side and requires nothing more than their JAR file.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T06:33:18.190 | 2008-08-08T06:33:18.190 | null | null | 573 | null |
5,745 | 2 | null | 5,743 | 2 | null | Well, not free. But we have had very good results with Nevron. Their support is excellent as well.
Another good option is TeeCharts.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T06:48:44.850 | 2008-08-08T06:48:44.850 | null | null | 380 | null |
5,743 | 1 | 5,771 | null | 19 | 4,357 | I'm writing some data acquisition software and need a gui plotting library that is fast enough to do realtime updated graphs. I've been using Nplot which is pretty good for a free library, but I'm wondering if there are any better libraries (preferably free or cheap).
| What is a good plotting library for .Net? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-08T06:40:46.553 | 2009-06-27T10:43:49.470 | null | null | 327 | [
".net",
"windows",
"graphing"
] |
5,736 | 2 | null | 5,727 | 50 | null | The reason pointers seem to confuse so many people is that they mostly come with little or no background in computer architecture. Since many don't seem to have an idea of how computers (the machine) is actually implemented - working in C/C++ seems alien.
A drill is to ask them to implement a simple bytecode based vir... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T06:29:59.913 | 2008-08-08T06:29:59.913 | null | null | 108,465 | null |
5,744 | 2 | null | 5,251 | 0 | null | gchart looks seriously awesome. Go with it !
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T06:44:30.053 | 2008-08-08T06:44:30.053 | null | null | 699 | null |
5,728 | 2 | null | 5,727 | 27 | null | > Why are pointers such a leading factor of confusion for many new, and even old, college level students in the C/C++ language?
The concept of a placeholder for a value - variables - maps onto something we're taught in school - algebra. There isn't an existing parallel you can draw without understanding how memory i... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-08T06:19:41.587 | 2015-02-25T17:04:17.813 | 2015-02-25T17:04:17.813 | 710,693 | 257 | null |
5,746 | 2 | null | 1,983 | 2 | null | If you can find a solution that works with tuples, use them, as it forces immutability which kind of drives you down a more functional path. You almost never regret going down the functional/immutable path.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T06:48:52.137 | 2008-08-08T06:48:52.137 | null | null | 699 | null |
5,741 | 1 | null | null | 6 | 836 | Using Firebug v1.20b7 with Firefox v3.0.1 I use firebug a lot for web devlopment.
I have very often the problem that Firebug won't show its web console for seeing the `POSTs` and `GETs`. I can view all the other tabs, including the NET tab that gives me a lot of the same information that the CONSOLE tab does.
Curious... | Firebug won't display console feeds for some of my sites | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-08T06:37:32.113 | 2016-11-29T06:20:32.330 | 2016-11-29T06:20:32.330 | 3,604,745 | 711 | [
"firefox",
"firebug"
] |
5,712 | 2 | null | 2,056 | 36 | null | Also worth remembering is that there are different types of MVPs as well. Fowler has broken the pattern into two - Passive View and Supervising Controller.
When using Passive View, your View typically implement a fine-grained interface with properties mapping more or less directly to the underlaying UI widget. For ins... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-08T05:55:12.633 | 2015-05-04T03:34:56.047 | 2015-05-04T03:34:56.047 | 63,550 | 1,199,387 | null |
5,749 | 2 | null | 5,269 | 9 | null | "C# : Left to right, and processing stops if a match (evaluates to true) is found."
Zombie sheep is wrong.
The question is about the && operator, not the || operator.
In the case of && evaluation will stop if a FALSE is found.
In the case of || evaluation stops if a TRUE is found.
| null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-08T06:51:14.283 | 2022-10-15T18:04:16.743 | 2022-10-15T18:04:16.743 | 1,255,289 | 580 | null |
5,759 | 1 | 5,761 | null | 111 | 137,840 | I just moved over to the Visual Basic team here at work.
What is the equivalent keyword to `break` in Visual Basic, that is, to exit a loop early but not the method?
| Equivalent VB keyword for 'break' | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-08T07:11:40.560 | 2018-03-20T09:07:23.560 | 2012-05-19T16:32:38.087 | 63,550 | 713 | [
"vb.net",
"loops",
"vb6",
"exit"
] |
5,771 | 2 | null | 5,743 | 4 | null | There's a good post about this [here](http://weblogs.asp.net/gbarnett/archive/2008/06/03/visualising-data.aspx) and [here](http://weblogs.asp.net/gbarnett/archive/2008/03/23/free-graphing-libraries-for-net-my-thoughts.aspx). I have also used NPlot in our last project since it's easier to use.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T07:49:30.297 | 2008-08-08T07:49:30.297 | null | null | 718 | null |
5,750 | 2 | null | 5,727 | 3 | null | I think that the main reason that people have trouble with it is because it's generally not taught in an interesting and engaging manner. I'd like to see a lecturer get 10 volunteers from the crowd and give them a 1 meter ruler each, get them to stand around in a certain configuration and use the rulers to point at eac... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T06:52:21.863 | 2010-11-11T13:57:27.450 | 2010-11-11T13:57:27.450 | 63,550 | 358 | null |
5,776 | 2 | null | 5,743 | 1 | null | You might want to take a look at [Open Flash Chart](http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart/). It's an open source graphing tool built in flash and can be dynamically updated.
Check out the [Ajax example](http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart/gallery-js-2.php) for an idea of what it can do.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T08:04:37.460 | 2008-08-08T08:04:37.460 | null | null | 383 | null |
5,770 | 2 | null | 3,147 | 3 | null | The Objective-C language has had "Categories" since the early 1990s; these are essentially the same thing as .NET Extension Methods. When looking for best practices you might want to see what rules of thumb Objective-C (Cocoa & NeXT) developers have come up with around them.
[Brent Simmons](http://inessential.com/) (... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T07:46:19.697 | 2008-08-08T07:46:19.697 | null | null | 714 | null |
5,782 | 2 | null | 5,759 | 4 | null | `Exit` [construct], and intelisense will tell you which one(s) are valid in a particular place.
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-08T08:37:27.080 | 2016-02-07T17:46:25.430 | 2016-02-07T17:46:25.430 | 2,921,691 | 100 | null |
5,785 | 2 | null | 5,743 | 4 | null | If you need something to display in a WinForms app then you can try out the free [ZedGraph](http://zedgraph.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page). If it is ASP.NET then I recently have used [Google Charts](http://code.google.com/apis/chart/) with some great results.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T08:54:26.783 | 2008-08-08T08:54:26.783 | null | null | 200 | null |
5,764 | 2 | null | 5,741 | 0 | null | Well, 1.20b7 is technically a version of Firebug. :)
I've had problems with certain features off and on, but a restart of Firefox seems to fix it more often than not.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T07:23:43.423 | 2008-08-08T07:23:43.423 | null | null | null | null |
5,788 | 2 | null | 5,787 | 116 | null | Easy one! "\t"
Edit: In fact, here's something official: [Escape Sequences](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/h21280bw.aspx)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T09:30:40.860 | 2008-08-08T09:43:09.290 | 2008-08-08T09:43:09.290 | 615 | 615 | null |
5,761 | 2 | null | 5,759 | 196 | null | In both Visual Basic 6.0 and [VB.NET](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic_.NET) you would use:
- `Exit For`- `Wend`- `Exit Do`
depending on the loop type. See [Exit Statements](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/visual-basic/language-reference/statements/exit-statement) for more details.
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-08T07:13:56.237 | 2018-03-20T09:07:23.560 | 2018-03-20T09:07:23.560 | 33 | 33 | null |
5,756 | 2 | null | 5,649 | 85 | null | After installing any version of Xcode targeting Intel-based Macs, you should be able to write assembly code. Xcode is a suite of tools, only one of which is the IDE, so you don't have to use it if you don't want to. (That said, if there are specific things you find clunky, please file a bug at [Apple's bug reporter](... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-08T07:07:10.540 | 2016-01-24T14:07:27.963 | 2016-01-24T14:07:27.963 | 982,161 | 714 | null |
5,786 | 2 | null | 2,034 | 13 | null | I usually use svn through a gui, either my IDE or a client. Because of that, I can never remember the codes when I do have to resort to the command line.
I find this cheat sheet a great help:
[Subversion Cheat Sheet](http://www.addedbytes.com/cheat-sheets/subversion-cheat-sheet/)
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-08T09:20:37.587 | 2013-01-28T04:32:59.587 | 2013-01-28T04:32:59.587 | null | 170 | null |
5,787 | 1 | 5,788 | null | 74 | 110,457 | I'm just in the process of parsing some text and can't remember what the escape character is for a tab in C#?
| Tab Escape Character? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-08T09:28:41.423 | 2016-03-11T20:38:15.580 | 2013-10-17T19:44:42.197 | 2,000,557 | 383 | [
"c#"
] |
5,803 | 2 | null | 5,802 | 0 | null | You could create a template in the template pane in Management Studio. And then use that template every time you want to create a new table.
Failing that, you could store the CreatedOn and CreatedBy fields in an Audit trail table referencing the original table and id.
Failing that, do it manually.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T10:43:41.913 | 2008-08-08T10:43:41.913 | null | null | 383 | null |
5,792 | 2 | null | 5,791 | 4 | null | VB is full of things like that trying to make it both "like English" and comfortable for people who are used to languages that use () and {} a lot.
And on the other side, as you already probably know, most of the time you can use () with function calls if you want to, but don't have to.
I prefer IsNothing()... but I us... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-08T09:49:51.007 | 2021-02-14T16:24:08.603 | 2021-02-14T16:24:08.603 | 1,115,360 | 194 | null |
5,809 | 2 | null | 5,791 | 4 | null | I'm leaning towards the "Is Nothing" alternative, primarily because it seems more OO.
Surely Visual Basic [ain't](http://web.archive.org/web/20050308014055/http://ea.3leaf.com/2004/08/vb_adds_aint_ke.html) got the Ain't keyword.
| null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-08T10:57:27.097 | 2021-02-19T17:57:14.913 | 2021-02-19T17:57:14.913 | 1,115,360 | 614 | null |
5,772 | 2 | null | 5,727 | 9 | null | [An example of a tutorial with a good set of diagrams helps greatly with the understanding of pointers](http://www.augustcouncil.com/~tgibson/tutorial/ptr.html).
Joel Spolsky makes some good points about understanding pointers in his [Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing](http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog00000000... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-08T07:54:39.897 | 2012-05-20T17:38:38.043 | 2012-05-20T17:38:38.043 | 321,731 | 381 | null |
5,791 | 1 | 5,837 | null | 134 | 209,051 | Does anyone here use VB.NET and have a strong preference for or against using `IsNothing` as opposed to `Is Nothing` (for example, `If IsNothing(anObject)` or `If anObject Is Nothing...`)? If so, why?
EDIT: If you think they're both equally acceptable, do you think it's best to pick one and stick with it, or is it OK... | IsNothing versus Is Nothing | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 0 | 2008-08-08T09:45:29.067 | 2021-09-22T08:32:18.860 | 2019-10-07T03:59:33.177 | 107,625 | 133 | [
"vb.net",
"nothing"
] |
5,811 | 2 | null | 5,724 | 21 | null | This probably is not exactly what you want, but you can take a look at [Console2](http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/)
I have it configured so that shift+select auto copies and middle click pastes, really handy, internally it uses same old cmd.exe so you are not really getting a different shell.
By the way, I g... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-08T11:06:24.380 | 2014-02-24T06:24:32.420 | 2014-02-24T06:24:32.420 | 2,096,990 | 238 | null |
5,790 | 2 | null | 1,898 | 6 | null | I was bored so i modified some stuff i wrote. It try's to encapsulate the parsing in an OO manner whle cutting down on the amount of iterations through the file, it only iterates once at the top foreach.
```
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
na... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-08T09:39:26.223 | 2012-03-23T12:32:54.937 | 2012-03-23T12:32:54.937 | 99,297 | 580 | null |
5,802 | 1 | 5,812 | null | 9 | 4,713 | Is there any way to use inheritance in database (Specifically in SQL Server 2005)?
Suppose I have few field like , which I want to add on all of my entities. I looking for an alternative way instead of adding these fields to every table.
| Inheritance in database? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T10:41:00.950 | 2014-11-25T20:40:04.863 | 2014-11-25T20:40:04.863 | 2,641,576 | 191 | [
"sql",
"database",
"inheritance",
"sql-server-2005"
] |
5,810 | 2 | null | 3,607 | 2 | null | Why can't you simply install a subversion server? If you download [VisualSVN Server](http://www.visualsvn.com/server/), which is free, you get a http server for your source code and can thus use the FogBugz scripts for integrating the two.
The reason I'm asking is because all scripts and documentation so far assumes y... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T11:02:16.213 | 2008-08-08T11:02:16.213 | null | null | 267 | null |
5,812 | 2 | null | 5,802 | 3 | null | There is no such thing as inheritance between tables in SQL Server 2005, and as noted by the others, you can get as far as getting help adding the necessary columns to the tables when you create them, but it won't be inheritance as you know it.
Think of it more like a template for your source code files.
As GateKille... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T11:08:22.923 | 2008-08-08T11:08:22.923 | null | null | 267 | null |
5,820 | 2 | null | 5,611 | 22 | null | Adding, multiplying, or truncating a poor random source will give you a poor random result. See [Introduction to Randomness and Random Numbers](http://random.org/randomness/) for an explanation.
You're right about PHP rand() function. See the second figure on [Statistical Analysis](http://random.org/analysis/) for a s... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T11:48:42.400 | 2008-08-08T11:48:42.400 | null | null | 341 | null |
5,819 | 2 | null | 3,607 | 0 | null | I am not sure I follow you. Do you have the repositories on the network or on your C:\ drive? According to two of your posts, you have both, or neither, or one of them or...
You can not get VisualSVN or Apache to safely serve repositories from a network share. Since you originally said you had the repositories on your... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T11:34:20.157 | 2008-08-08T11:34:20.157 | null | null | 267 | null |
5,826 | 2 | null | 5,802 | 0 | null | You could use a data modeling tool such as ER/Studio or ERWin. Both tools have domain columns where you can define a column template that you can apply to any table. When the domain changes so do the associated columns. ER/Studio also has trigger templates that you can build and apply to any table. This is how we updat... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T12:00:55.197 | 2008-08-08T12:00:55.197 | null | null | 621 | null |
5,824 | 2 | null | 2,483 | 1 | null | It's like the difference between Parse and TryParse. You use TryParse when you expect it might fail, but when you have strong assurance it won't fail you use Parse.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T12:00:01.940 | 2008-08-08T12:00:01.940 | null | null | 214 | null |
5,807 | 2 | null | 5,802 | 2 | null | PostgreSQL has this feature. Just add this to the end of your table definition:
```
INHERITS FROM (tablename[, othertable...])
```
The child table will have all the columns of its parent, and changes to the parent table will change the child. Also, everything in the child table will come up in queries to the parent ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T10:55:20.640 | 2008-08-08T10:55:20.640 | null | null | 619 | null |
5,822 | 2 | null | 5,821 | 681 | null | [T-SQL Reference for LIKE](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/language-elements/like-transact-sql?view=sql-server-ver15#using-wildcard-characters-as-literals):
> You can use the wildcard pattern matching characters as literal characters. To use a wildcard character as a literal character, enclose the wildcard... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-08T11:59:36.340 | 2020-06-12T00:28:49.957 | 2020-06-12T00:28:49.957 | 1,402,846 | 267 | null |
5,821 | 1 | 5,822 | null | 440 | 250,686 | How do I escape the underscore character?
I am writing something like the following where clause and want to be able to find actual entries with _d at the end.
```
Where Username Like '%_d'
```
| SQL Server Escape an Underscore | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-08T11:56:36.207 | 2022-04-01T20:54:08.857 | 2016-07-06T21:05:41.460 | 66,173 | 383 | [
"sql-server"
] |
5,830 | 2 | null | 16 | 14 | null | Create a class object and return a `list(T)` of the query.
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-08T12:17:20.750 | 2012-10-14T12:13:18.410 | 2012-10-14T12:13:18.410 | 967,315 | 721 | null |
5,838 | 2 | null | 5,002 | 0 | null | I worked on a project last summer that required some pretty heavy modifications to .NET Remoting. I don't remember all the specifics, but if we had more than one network interface, we couldn't get the out-of-the-box Remoting implementation to reliably detect which one the Remoting traffic came from, which did horrible ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T12:28:57.543 | 2008-08-08T12:28:57.543 | null | null | 512 | null |
5,835 | 2 | null | 5,611 | 5 | null | [random.org](http://random.org/clients/http/) has an API you can access via HTTP.
> RANDOM.ORG is a true random number service that generates randomness
via atmospheric noise.
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-08T12:27:05.817 | 2015-07-16T19:14:34.820 | 2015-07-16T19:14:34.820 | 469,220 | 40 | null |
5,846 | 1 | 5,848 | null | 24 | 22,890 | How do I turn the following 2 queries into 1 query
```
$sql = "SELECT level FROM skills WHERE id = $id LIMIT 1;";
$result = $db->sql_query($sql);
$level = (int) $db->sql_fetchfield('level');
$db->sql_freeresult($result);
++$level;
$sql = "UPDATE skills SET level = $level WHERE id = $id;";
$result = $db->sql_q... | Add 1 to a field | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-08T12:34:20.887 | 2021-03-04T02:53:04.533 | 2018-02-20T04:25:56.593 | 9,112,450 | 1,384,652 | [
"php",
"mysql"
] |
5,847 | 2 | null | 5,842 | 2 | null | I know this doesn't answer your question directly, but it might be worth checking out the [SQL Server 2005 migration tool for Access](http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d842f8b4-c914-4ac7-b2f3-d25fff4e24fb&displaylang=en). I've never used the tool, but it might be worth using with SQL Server 2005 ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T12:35:16.377 | 2008-08-08T12:35:16.377 | null | null | 493 | null |
5,823 | 2 | null | 5,724 | 11 | null | [Take Command](http://www.jpsoft.com/tcmddes.htm) does support Copy/Cut/Paste from the keyboard and the mouse. It's pretty handy if you do a lot of work from a command prompt. It also supports:
- - - - -
Note: It's a paid tool, with price of $99.95.
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-08T11:59:40.503 | 2012-05-23T04:41:03.347 | 2012-05-23T04:41:03.347 | 267,491 | 206 | null |
5,837 | 2 | null | 5,791 | 127 | null | If you take a look at the MSIL as it's being executed you'll see that it doesn't compile down to the exact same code. When you use IsNothing() it actually makes a call to that method as opposed to just evaluating the expression.
The reason I would tend to lean towards using "Is Nothing" is when I'm negating it become... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T12:28:37.483 | 2008-08-08T12:28:37.483 | null | null | 493 | null |
5,842 | 1 | 9,200 | null | 14 | 32,182 | Two users wanted to share the same database, originally written in MS Access, without conflicting with one another over a single MDB file.
I moved the tables from a simple MS Access database to MySQL using its [Migration Toolkit](http://www.mysql.com/products/tools/migration-toolkit/) (which works well, by the way) an... | Issues using MS Access as a front-end to a MySQL database back-end? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-08T12:30:48.633 | 2009-09-12T14:04:24.460 | null | null | 726 | [
"mysql",
"database",
"ms-access"
] |
5,849 | 2 | null | 5,846 | 3 | null | ```
$sql = "UPDATE skills SET level = level + 1 WHERE id = $id";
```
I just hope you are properly sanitising `$id` elsewhere in your code!
| null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-08T12:36:22.863 | 2021-03-04T02:53:04.533 | 2021-03-04T02:53:04.533 | 9,193,372 | 48 | null |
5,851 | 2 | null | 5,846 | 11 | null | This way:
```
UPDATE skills
SET level = level + 1
WHERE id = $id
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T12:36:42.113 | 2008-08-08T12:36:42.113 | null | null | 267 | null |
5,852 | 2 | null | 5,846 | 1 | null | How about:
```
UPDATE skills SET level = level + 1 WHERE id = $id;
```
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-08T12:37:17.980 | 2014-01-21T06:31:12.500 | 2014-01-21T06:31:12.500 | 1,931,841 | 729 | null |
5,850 | 2 | null | 5,846 | 2 | null | try this
```
UPDATE skills SET level = level + 1 WHERE id = $id
```
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-08T12:36:27.107 | 2014-01-21T06:31:01.000 | 2014-01-21T06:31:01.000 | 1,931,841 | 34 | null |
5,831 | 1 | 5,878 | null | 20 | 11,344 | Does anyone have, or know of, a binary patch generation algorithm implementation in C#?
Basically, compare two files (designated and ), and produce a patch file that can be used to upgrade the file to have the same contents as the file.
The implementation would have to be relatively fast, and work with huge files.... | Binary patch-generation in C# | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-08T12:22:07.713 | 2015-07-04T06:22:36.257 | 2015-07-04T06:22:36.257 | 64,046 | 267 | [
"c#",
"file",
"patch"
] |
5,848 | 2 | null | 5,846 | 31 | null | I get downmodded for this?
```
$sql = "UPDATE skills SET level = level+1 WHERE id = $id";
$result = $db->sql_query($sql);
$db->sql_freeresult($result);
```
In Teifion's specific case, the phpBB DDL lists that particular field as NOT NULL, so there's no danger of incrementing NULL.
In the general case, you should no... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-08T12:35:53.007 | 2012-11-14T13:16:17.707 | 2012-11-14T13:16:17.707 | 257 | 257 | null |
5,862 | 2 | null | 5,831 | 1 | null | It might be worth checking out what some of the other guys are doing in this space and not necessarily in the C# arena either.
[This is a library written in c#](http://www.menees.com/index.html)
SVN also has a binary diff algorithm and I know there's an implementation in python although I couldn't find it with a quic... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T12:48:09.753 | 2008-08-08T12:48:09.753 | null | null | 493 | null |
5,861 | 2 | null | 5,846 | -1 | null | Mat: That's what pasted in from the question. It hasn't been edited, so I attribute that to a bug in Markdown. But, oddly enough, I have noticed.
Also: yes, `mysql_escape_string()`!
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-08T12:47:15.853 | 2012-10-03T08:15:37.333 | 2012-10-03T08:15:37.333 | 1,108,484 | 257 | null |
5,855 | 1 | 6,687 | null | 9 | 1,137 | I've found many sources that talk about the automated Eclipse PDE process. I feel these sources don't do a good job explaining what's going on.
I can create the deployable package, in a semi-manual process via the Feature Export.
The automated process requires knowledge of how the org.eclipse.pde.build scripts wor... | Automate builds for Java RCP for deployment with JNLP | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-08T12:40:02.793 | 2020-06-13T09:15:36.750 | null | null | 728 | [
"java",
"build-automation",
"rcp",
"jnlp"
] |
5,867 | 2 | null | 5,724 | 4 | null | Depending on what you're trying to do with the shell, [rxvt](http://www.google.com/search?q=rxvt+cygwin) in [cygwin](http://www.cygwin.com/) is good.
You'll get the nicety of auto copy on selection and middle click paste. The biggest downside is that some windows console apps don't play nice with cygwin.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T12:54:00.630 | 2008-08-08T12:54:00.630 | null | null | 728 | null |
5,857 | 1 | 5,860 | null | 13 | 12,094 | I have a page upon which a user can choose up to many different paragraphs. When the link is clicked (or button), an email will open up and put all those paragraphs into the body of the email, address it, and fill in the subject. However, the text can be too long for a mailto link.
Any way around this?
---
We w... | mailto link for large bodies | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 0 | 2008-08-08T12:40:48.627 | 2018-08-08T16:28:31.963 | 2018-08-08T16:28:31.963 | 7,951,483 | 730 | [
"mailto"
] |
5,860 | 2 | null | 5,857 | 15 | null | By putting the data into a form, I was able to make the body around 1800 characters long before the form stopped working.
The code looked like this:
```
<form action="mailto:youremail@domain.com">
<input type="hidden" name="Subject" value="Email subject">
<input type="hidden" name="Body" value="Email body">
... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T12:47:13.653 | 2008-08-08T12:58:40.650 | 2008-08-08T12:58:40.650 | 267 | 267 | null |
5,874 | 1 | null | null | 5 | 9,821 | It seems like drag and drop upload widgets disappeared from the face of Web 2.0. The last one of these I remember using was an activex widget, and inability of using it in anything other than IE doomed it. Have you used or seen one of these recently?
| Drag and drop ftp file upload web widgets | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-08T13:00:37.090 | 2021-10-25T12:31:41.203 | null | null | 556 | [
"upload",
"ftp"
] |
5,879 | 2 | null | 5,874 | 1 | null | [FTP Drop](http://widgets.yahoo.com/widgets/ftp-drop) for Yahoo Widgets allows you to drag files over the widget and the file will be sent to the defined ftp server.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T13:03:38.300 | 2008-08-08T13:03:38.300 | null | null | 383 | null |
5,869 | 2 | null | 4,529 | 0 | null | Unfortunately, it seems SQL Server 2008 Client Tools requires Visual Studio 2008 SP1, and I'm loath to install a beta of this on my main development machine.
I'll wait until SP1 is RTM before I move on.
: Yes, I do have Visual Studio 2008 on this machine, but I'd like to avoid beta installations of debugger applicati... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T12:57:03.633 | 2008-08-08T13:26:18.473 | 2008-08-08T13:26:18.473 | 267 | 267 | null |
5,872 | 1 | 5,887 | null | 6 | 2,285 | If you are working in PHP (or I guess any programming language) and using subversion as your source control, is there a way to take your project (for example):
> C:\Projects\test\.svn
C:\Projects\test\docs\
C:\Projects\test\faq.php
C:\Projects\test\guestbook.php
C:\Projects\test\index.php
C:\Projects\test\te... | Making a production build of a PHP project with Subversion | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-08T12:57:55.880 | 2019-07-30T02:31:21.540 | 2019-01-18T10:35:58.693 | 567,854 | 58 | [
"php",
"svn",
"scripting",
"tortoisesvn",
"build-process"
] |
5,878 | 2 | null | 5,831 | 5 | null | Sorry I couldn't be more help. I would definately keep looking at xdelta because I have used it a number of times to produce quality diffs on 600MB+ ISO files we have generated for distributing our products and it performs very well.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T13:03:06.197 | 2008-08-08T13:03:06.197 | null | null | 493 | null |
5,880 | 1 | 5,885 | null | 10 | 2,144 | I'm pretty new to my company (2 weeks) and we're starting a new platform for our system using .NET 3.5 Team Foundation from DotNetNuke. Our "architect" is suggesting we use one class project. Of course, I chime back with a "3-tier" architecture (Business, Data, Web class projects).
Is there any disadvantages to using... | Are there any negative reasons to use an N-Tier solution? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-08T13:04:02.980 | 2008-09-08T17:12:24.007 | 2008-08-08T14:23:07.813 | 721 | 721 | [
"architecture",
"n-tier-architecture"
] |
5,863 | 1 | 15,966 | null | 10 | 2,767 | I'm just getting into creating some WCF services, but I have a requirement to make them backward compatible for legacy (.NET 1.1 and 2.0) client applications.
I've managed to get the services to run correctly for 3.0 and greater clients, but when I publish the services using a basicHttpBinding endpoint (which I beli... | WCF Service - Backward compatibility issue | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-08T12:48:25.197 | 2011-12-13T19:43:04.983 | 2011-12-13T19:43:04.983 | 76,337 | 377 | [
"c#",
".net",
"wcf",
"web-services",
"backwards-compatibility"
] |
5,887 | 2 | null | 5,872 | 6 | null | If you use TortoiseSVN, you can use the export feature to automatically strip out all of the .svn files. I think other svn things have the same feature.
Right click the root project folder, then select `TortoiseSVN > Export`, and tell it where you want the `.svn` free directory.
| null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-08T13:10:13.250 | 2019-07-30T02:30:30.410 | 2019-07-30T02:30:30.410 | 10,221,765 | 30 | null |
5,883 | 2 | null | 5,880 | 3 | null | it tends to take an inexperienced team longer to build 3-tier.It's more code, so more bugs. I'm just playing the devil's advocate though.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T13:06:16.813 | 2008-08-08T13:06:16.813 | null | null | 34 | null |
5,885 | 2 | null | 5,880 | 9 | null | I guess a fairly big downside is that the extra volume of code that you have to write, manage and maintain for a project may just be overkill.
It's all down to what's appropriate for the size of the project, the expected life of the final project and the budget! Sometimes, whilst doing things 'properly' is appealing... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T13:08:40.927 | 2008-08-08T13:08:40.927 | null | null | 475 | null |
5,884 | 2 | null | 5,872 | 2 | null | Copy all the files manually or using your existing method for the first time. Then, since I take it you're on a Windows platform, install [SyncToy](http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E0FC1154-C975-4814-9649-CCE41AF06EB7&displaylang=en) and configure it in the [subscribe method](http://en.wikipedi... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-08T13:07:03.787 | 2019-07-30T02:31:21.540 | 2019-07-30T02:31:21.540 | 10,221,765 | 59 | null |
5,889 | 2 | null | 5,791 | 29 | null | I agree with "Is Nothing". As stated above, it's easy to negate with "IsNot Nothing".
I find this easier to read...
```
If printDialog IsNot Nothing Then
'blah
End If
```
than this...
```
If Not obj Is Nothing Then
'blah
End If
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T13:11:51.640 | 2008-08-08T13:11:51.640 | null | null | 702 | null |
5,894 | 1 | 5,906 | null | 18 | 9,441 | I've been tasked (by my wife) with creating a program to allow her to track the family trees on both sides of our family.
Does anyone know of a cost-effective (free) control to represent this type of information?
What I'm looking for is a modified org-chart type chart/tree. The modification is that any node should h... | Genealogy Tree Control | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 0 | 2008-08-08T13:15:34.703 | 2021-10-25T12:30:07.773 | 2019-01-20T13:59:12.820 | 567,854 | 733 | [
"c#",
"controls",
"tree",
"genealogy"
] |
5,898 | 2 | null | 5,874 | 2 | null | The [Dojo Toolkit](http://dojotoolkit.org/) JavaScript library supports some drag & drop functionality that I've seen work in IE6+ and FF2+. The nice thing about Dojo and other JS libraries is that they abstract away all of the browser detection stuff.
I'm sure other JS libraries support this functionality.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T13:18:34.307 | 2008-08-08T13:18:34.307 | null | null | 357 | null |
5,901 | 2 | null | 5,791 | 1 | null | I initially used IsNothing but I've been moving towards using Is Nothing in newer projects, mainly for readability. The only time I stick with IsNothing is if I'm maintaining code where that's used throughout and I want to stay consistent.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T13:24:51.097 | 2008-08-08T13:24:51.097 | null | null | 741 | null |
5,900 | 2 | null | 4,529 | 3 | null | If you have Visual Studio 2008 installed you will get a validation error and you cannot install SQL server 2008 until you install Visual Studio 2008 SP1. If you don't have Visual Studio 2008 installed it should not be a problem. So if you do have Visual Studio 2008 wait till August 11th since that is the day that Visua... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T13:23:40.523 | 2008-08-08T13:23:40.523 | null | null | 740 | null |
5,868 | 2 | null | 5,857 | 0 | null | Does the e-mail content need to be in the e-mail? Could you store the large content somewhere centrally (file-share/FTP site) then just send a link to the content?
This makes the recipient have an extra step, but you have a consistent e-mail size, so won't run into reliability problems due to unexpectedly large or ex... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T12:56:31.827 | 2008-08-08T12:56:31.827 | null | null | 733 | null |
5,899 | 2 | null | 5,880 | 2 | null | I would be pushing hard for the N tiered approach even if it's a small project. If you use an ORM tool like codesmith + nettiers you will be able to quickly setup the projects and be developing code that solves your business problems quickly.
It kills me when you start a new project and you spend days sitting around s... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T13:18:38.147 | 2008-08-08T13:18:38.147 | null | null | 493 | null |
5,876 | 1 | null | null | 1 | 8,857 | I use [dnsmasq](http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html) to resolve DNS queries on my home network. Unfortunately, if a domain name is not known, it will append my own domain name to the request which means that I always end up viewing my own site in a browser.
For example, if I enter [http://dlksfhoiahdsfiuhsdf... | How do I prevent dnsmasq from appending my domain name to invalid domain requests? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-08T13:01:48.757 | 2021-10-25T12:31:19.277 | 2008-10-02T23:59:30.343 | 726 | 726 | [
"dns",
"dnsmasq"
] |
5,906 | 2 | null | 5,894 | 5 | null | [Geni](http://www.geni.com/) is probably what your looking for.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T13:31:30.523 | 2008-08-08T13:31:30.523 | null | null | 383 | null |
5,902 | 2 | null | 5,894 | 0 | null | I haven't thought too hard about this, but I reckon you could get a Custom Treeview in WPF to do what you want. I was reading an [article on code project a while back that implemented an org chart](http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/CustomTreeViewLayout.aspx) this way...
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T13:28:45.130 | 2008-08-08T13:28:45.130 | null | null | 493 | null |
5,892 | 1 | 5,903 | null | 11 | 1,293 | I've opened an old workspace that is a libray and its test harness. It used to work fine but now doesn't and older versions of the code don't work either with the same errors. I've tried recreating the project and that causes the same errors too. Nothing seems out of order in project settings and the code generated wor... | Link issues (VC6) | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-08T13:13:08.920 | 2021-10-25T12:23:13.527 | 2016-12-20T08:39:47.180 | 2,912,665 | 342 | [
"c++",
"visual-c++",
"linker",
"visual-c++-6"
] |
5,904 | 2 | null | 5,894 | 2 | null | I'm all for writing your own software when something doesn't suit your needs and a frequent re-inventor of the wheel. But this honestly seems like one of those things were the solution is readily available, in this case in the form of [Family Tree Maker](http://www.familytreemaker.com/) And at a mere $40 I would vent... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-08T13:30:36.110 | 2021-10-25T12:30:07.773 | 2021-10-25T12:30:07.773 | 17,169,050 | 194 | null |
5,908 | 1 | 5,914 | null | 7 | 20,584 | I need to get a log of user access to our `SQL Server` so I can track and . Is there a hidden table or something I'm missing that has this information for me? To my knowledge the application I'm looking at does not track this at the application level.
I'm currently working on `SQL Server 2000`, but will moving to `SQ... | User access log to SQL Server | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-08T13:34:38.770 | 2011-10-11T08:30:32.527 | 2011-10-11T08:30:32.527 | 805,252 | 71 | [
"sql-server",
"logging",
"statistics"
] |
5,907 | 2 | null | 3,975 | 4 | null | First thing to be aware of:
When you upgrade from 2000 to 2005 (by using detach and attach) make sure that you:
1. Set compability to 90
2. Rebuild the indexes
3. Run update statistics with full scan
If you don't do this you will get suboptimal plans.
IF the table is mostly write you want as few indexes as possi... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-08T13:32:30.550 | 2012-03-02T07:24:06.467 | 2012-03-02T07:24:06.467 | 268,273 | 740 | null |
5,754 | 2 | null | 5,727 | 754 | null | Pointers is a concept that for many can be confusing at first, in particular when it comes to copying pointer values around and still referencing the same memory block.
I've found that the best analogy is to consider the pointer as a piece of paper with a house address on it, and the memory block it references as the ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T06:58:48.700 | 2010-06-29T08:11:15.823 | 2010-06-29T08:11:15.823 | 267 | 267 | null |
5,912 | 2 | null | 5,876 | 0 | null | I tried removing from my own configuration to replicate your issue and it did not produce this behaviour. It's the only other parameter I could find that might be close to relevant.
What does your hosts file look like? Maybe something weird is going on there that makes it think all weird domains are local to your ne... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-08T13:36:01.230 | 2021-10-25T12:31:19.277 | 2021-10-25T12:31:19.277 | 17,169,050 | 59 | null |
5,914 | 2 | null | 5,908 | 7 | null | In SQL Server 2005, go to tree view on the left and select Server (name of the actual server) > Management > Activity Monitor. Hope this helps.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T13:36:47.923 | 2008-08-08T13:36:47.923 | null | null | 299 | null |
5,903 | 2 | null | 5,892 | 6 | null | One possibility lies with Win32 ANSI/Unicode "name-mangling", which turns the symbol `GetMessage` into either `GetMessageA` or `GetMessageW`. There are three possibilities:
1. Windows.h hasn't been loaded, so GetMessage stays GetMessage
2. Windows.h was loaded with symbols set for ANSI, so GetMessage becomes GetMessa... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-08T13:30:03.507 | 2015-12-21T15:23:23.250 | 2015-12-21T15:23:23.250 | 5,348,281 | 533 | null |
5,918 | 1 | 5,984 | null | 5 | 1,284 | Yahoo has separate map for India ( which has more details than the regular maps.yahoo.com) at [http://in.maps.yahoo.com/](http://in.maps.yahoo.com/) . But when I use the API it goes to default map. How do I get API access to YMaps India?
| API Yahoo India Maps | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-08T13:39:03.487 | 2021-10-25T12:27:22.547 | 2015-06-16T14:37:07.007 | 1,118,488 | 482 | [
"yahoo-api",
"yahoo-maps"
] |