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759 | 2 | null | 609 | 9 | null | No, there are many applications built with VS2005 that have to support Windows XP, 2000, NT, the whole stack. The issue is that (by default) VS2005 wants to use libraries/exports not present on NT.
See [this thread](http://www.mombu.com/microsoft/windows-programmer-win32/t-vs2005-and-nt4-392831.html) for some backgrou... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-03T16:54:12.277 | 2008-08-03T16:54:12.277 | null | null | null | null |
735 | 2 | null | 683 | 0 | null | I think:
```
#!/bin/python
bar in dict(Foo)
```
Is what you are thinking of. When trying to see if a certain key exists within a dictionary in python (python's version of a hash table) there are two ways to check. First is the `has_key()` method attached to the dictionary and second is the example given above. It... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-03T15:47:22.100 | 2008-08-03T15:47:22.100 | null | null | 145 | null |
754 | 2 | null | 746 | 5 | null | If the language you are using has a supported method/function then just use that (as in the C# `ToTitleCase` method)
If it does not, then you will want to do something like the following:
1. Read in the string
2. Take the first word
3. Capitalize the first letter of that word 1
4. Go forward and find the next word... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-03T16:33:51.193 | 2011-02-09T23:29:05.593 | 2011-02-09T23:29:05.593 | 309,308 | 142 | null |
762 | 2 | null | 761 | 2 | null | Here is my current method. Any suggestions?
```
Regex singleMToDoubleRegex = new Regex("(?<!m)m(?!m)");
Regex singleDToDoubleRegex = new Regex("(?<!d)d(?!d)");
CultureInfo currentCulture = CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture;
// If the culture is netural there is no date pattern to use, so use the default.
if (currentCultur... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-03T17:31:31.313 | 2008-08-03T17:31:31.313 | null | null | 214 | null |
763 | 2 | null | 761 | 1 | null | How about giving the format (mm/dd/yyyy or dd/mm/yyyy) followed by a printout of today's date in the user's culture. MSDN has an article on [formatting a DateTime for the person's culture](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/5hh873ya(VS.71).aspx), using the CultureInfo object that might be helpful in doing this. A ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-03T17:37:43.063 | 2008-08-03T17:37:43.063 | null | null | 51 | null |
764 | 2 | null | 742 | 1 | null | Sounds to me like you're trying to combine things that shouldn't be combined. If you need to do different processing in your view depending on if it's a User or Group object you're trying to look at then you should use two different view functions.
On the other hand there can be common idioms you'd want to extract ou... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-03T17:40:25.553 | 2008-08-03T17:40:25.553 | null | null | null | null |
755 | 2 | null | 752 | 1,029 | null | The `Activator` class within the root `System` namespace is pretty powerful.
There are a lot of overloads for passing parameters to the constructor and such. Check out the documentation at:
> [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.activator.createinstance.aspx](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-03T16:35:34.233 | 2017-11-08T15:40:10.767 | 2017-11-08T15:40:10.767 | 232,746 | 34 | null |
761 | 1 | 762 | null | 22 | 1,302 | What is the best way to localise a date format descriptor?
As anyone from a culture which does not use the mm/dd/yyyy format knows, it is annoying to have to enter dates in this format. The .NET framework provides some very good localisation support, so it's trivial to parse dates according to the users culture, but y... | Localising date format descriptors | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-03T17:30:20.473 | 2016-03-27T03:05:27.637 | 2015-07-23T10:02:37.117 | 1,675,954 | 214 | [
".net",
"internationalization",
"date",
"globalization"
] |
766 | 1 | 1,619 | null | 45 | 4,364 | I can get Python to work with Postgresql but I cannot get it to work with MySQL. The main problem is that on the shared hosting account I have I do not have the ability to install things such as Django or PySQL, I generally fail when installing them on my computer so maybe it's good I can't install on the host.
I foun... | Python and MySQL | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-03T17:44:07.450 | 2019-10-12T05:19:46.087 | 2012-05-31T16:57:58.230 | 487,855 | 1,384,652 | [
"python",
"mysql",
"postgresql",
"bpgsql"
] |
770 | 2 | null | 761 | 7 | null | [Just use ISO-8601](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601). It's an international standard.
```
Date and time (current at page generation) expressed according to ISO 8601:
Date: 2014-07-05
Combined date and time in UTC: 2014-07-05T04:00:25+00:00
2014-07-05T04:... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-03T18:18:54.400 | 2014-07-10T22:04:25.780 | 2014-07-10T22:04:25.780 | 1,668,244 | 175 | null |
768 | 2 | null | 174 | 36 | null | You can print from the command line using the following:
> rundll32.exe
%WINDIR%\System32\mshtml.dll,PrintHTML
"%1"
Where %1 is the file path of the HTML file to be printed.
If you don't need to print from memory (or can afford to write to the disk in a temp file) you can use:
```
using (Process printProcess = ... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-03T18:06:30.913 | 2020-03-23T09:05:56.123 | 2020-03-23T09:05:56.123 | 1,442,180 | 214 | null |
769 | 1 | 781 | null | 48 | 43,686 | I need to programmatically solve a system of linear equations in C, Objective C, or (if needed) C++.
Here's an example of the equations:
```
-44.3940 = a * 50.0 + b * 37.0 + tx
-45.3049 = a * 43.0 + b * 39.0 + tx
-44.9594 = a * 52.0 + b * 41.0 + tx
```
From this, I'd like to get the best approximation for `a`, `b`,... | Solving a linear equation | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-03T18:14:24.267 | 2021-09-01T16:22:01.613 | 2015-12-17T13:25:49.293 | 5,550,041 | 79 | [
"math",
"linear-algebra",
"system",
"linear-equation"
] |
777 | 2 | null | 766 | 7 | null | I don't have any experience with [http://www.SiteGround.com](http://www.SiteGround.com) as a web host personally.
This is just a guess, but it's common for a shared host to support Python and MySQL with the MySQLdb module (e.g., GoDaddy does this). Try the following CGI script to see if MySQLdb is installed.
```
#... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-03T18:32:27.693 | 2008-08-03T22:56:27.863 | 2008-08-03T22:56:27.863 | 150 | 150 | null |
774 | 2 | null | 769 | 3 | null | Are you looking for a software package that'll do the work or actually doing the matrix operations and such and do each step?
The the first, a coworker of mine just used [Ocaml GLPK](http://ocaml-glpk.sourceforge.net/). It is just a wrapper for the [GLPK](http://www.gnu.org/software/glpk/), but it removes a lot of the... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-03T18:27:13.180 | 2008-08-03T18:27:13.180 | null | null | 157 | null |
771 | 2 | null | 746 | 10 | null | Here's a Perl solution [http://daringfireball.net/2008/05/title_case](http://daringfireball.net/2008/05/title_case)
Here's a Ruby solution [http://frankschmitt.org/projects/title-case](http://frankschmitt.org/projects/title-case)
Here's a Ruby one-liner solution: [http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/4702](http://sni... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-03T18:22:47.213 | 2008-10-12T12:20:29.097 | 2008-10-12T12:20:29.097 | 2,766,176 | 175 | null |
787 | 2 | null | 650 | 5 | null | What source control system are you using?
Almost all of them have some form of $ Id $ tag that gets expanded when the file is checked in.
I usually use some form of hackery to display this as the version number.
The other alternative is use to use the date as the build number: 080803-1448
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-03T18:46:33.517 | 2008-08-03T18:46:33.517 | null | null | 175 | null |
773 | 1 | 7,286 | null | 664 | 421,308 | I haven't been able to find an understandable explanation of how to actually use Python's `itertools.groupby()` function. What I'm trying to do is this:
- `lxml`- -
I've reviewed [the documentation](https://docs.python.org/3/library/itertools.html#itertools.groupby), but I've had trouble trying to apply them beyond a... | How do I use itertools.groupby()? | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 0 | 2008-08-03T18:27:09.687 | 2023-01-30T17:03:28.787 | 2020-07-29T19:19:49.903 | 1,079,075 | 207 | [
"python",
"python-itertools"
] |
783 | 2 | null | 773 | 75 | null | The example on the Python docs is quite straightforward:
```
groups = []
uniquekeys = []
for k, g in groupby(data, keyfunc):
groups.append(list(g)) # Store group iterator as a list
uniquekeys.append(k)
```
So in your case, data is a list of nodes, `keyfunc` is where the logic of your criteria function g... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-03T18:40:09.053 | 2020-01-24T13:41:47.133 | 2020-01-24T13:41:47.133 | 9,926,721 | 189 | null |
797 | 2 | null | 13 | 216 | null | The most popular (==standard?) way of determining the time zone I've seen around is simply If your website requires subscription, this could be saved in the users' profile data. For anon users, the dates could be displayed as UTC or GMT or some such.
I'm not trying to be a smart aleck. It's just that sometimes some p... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-03T19:30:55.720 | 2013-09-10T11:42:53.333 | 2013-09-10T11:42:53.333 | 227 | 227 | null |
795 | 2 | null | 746 | 13 | null | I would be wary of automatically upcasing all whitespace-preceded-words in scenarios where I would run the risk of attracting the fury of nitpickers.
I would at least consider implementing a dictionary for exception cases like articles and conjunctions. Behold:
> "Beauty and the Beast"
And when it comes to proper n... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-03T19:10:58.723 | 2008-08-03T19:14:31.993 | 2008-08-03T19:14:31.993 | 227 | 227 | null |
794 | 2 | null | 561 | 18 | null | Absolutely, especially dealing with lots of these permutations/combinations I can definitely see that the first pass would be an issue.
Interesting implementation in python, though I wrote a nice one in C and Ocaml based on "Algorithm 515" (see below). He wrote his in Fortran as it was common back then for all the "Al... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-03T19:06:00.327 | 2008-08-03T19:06:00.327 | null | null | 157 | null |
799 | 2 | null | 717 | 15 | null | Have you tried changing the target CPU to `x86` instead of `"Any CPU"` in the advanced compiler options? I know that this solves some problems with other `OLEDB` providers by forcing the use of the 32-bit version.
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-03T19:42:03.687 | 2013-02-07T11:14:46.003 | 2013-02-07T11:14:46.003 | 395,659 | 162 | null |
798 | 2 | null | 709 | 4 | null | [MbUnit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unit_testing_frameworks#.NET_programming_languages) is worth a look. It has a set of features comparable to NUnit. It has its own GUI, or can be integrated into Visual Studio if you have [ReSharper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JetBrains#ReSharper_Ultimate). I would also ... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-03T19:36:48.470 | 2020-07-30T10:38:34.317 | 2020-07-30T10:38:34.317 | 63,550 | 230 | null |
781 | 2 | null | 769 | 20 | null | [Cramer's Rule](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cramers_rule)
and
[Gaussian Elimination](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_elimination)
are two good, general-purpose algorithms (also see [Simultaneous Linear Equations](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_linear_equations)). If you're looking for code, check out ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-03T18:37:24.003 | 2008-08-03T18:42:54.820 | 2008-08-03T18:42:54.820 | 229 | 229 | null |
805 | 1 | 894 | null | 17 | 2,748 | This is ASP classic, not .Net. We have to get a way to SFTP into a server to upload and download a couple of files, kicked off by a user.
What have other people used to do SFTP in ASP classic? Not necessarily opposed to purchasing a control.
| ASP, need to use SFTP | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-03T20:11:26.043 | 2022-09-06T12:00:58.997 | 2011-11-21T03:51:00.390 | 3,043 | 232 | [
"asp-classic",
"sftp"
] |
802 | 2 | null | 766 | 6 | null | I uploaded it and got an internal error
```
Premature end of script headers
```
After much playing around, I found that if I had
```
import cgi
import cgitb; cgitb.enable()
import MySQLdb
```
It would give me a much more useful answer and say that it was not installed, you can see it yourself -> [http://woarl.com... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-03T20:07:05.290 | 2008-08-04T21:46:00.797 | 2008-08-04T21:46:00.797 | 1,384,652 | 1,384,652 | null |
817 | 2 | null | 13 | 22 | null | All the magic seems to be in
```
visitortime.getTimezoneOffset()
```
That's cool, I didn't know about that. Does it work in Internet Explorer etc? From there you should be able to use JavaScript to Ajax, set cookies whatever. I'd probably go the cookie route myself.
You'll need to allow the user to change it though. W... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-03T20:40:33.707 | 2020-07-14T16:15:00.303 | 2020-07-14T16:15:00.303 | 10,325,630 | 234 | null |
791 | 2 | null | 622 | 7 | null | Not efficient at all, but you can use a regular expression to test for prime numbers.
```
/^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$/
```
This tests if, for a string consisting of “`1`”s, is (i.e. whether the string consists of one “`1`” or any number of “`1`”s that can be expressed as an -ary product).
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-03T18:52:17.093 | 2010-02-02T13:57:30.347 | 2010-02-02T13:57:30.347 | 1,968 | 175 | null |
826 | 1 | 97,294 | null | 20 | 4,031 | You have an ascending list of numbers, what is the most efficient algorithm you can think of to get the ascending list of sums of every two numbers in that list. Duplicates in the resulting list are irrelevant, you can remove them or avoid them if you like.
To be clear, I'm interested in the algorithm. Feel free to ... | Efficiently get sorted sums of a sorted list | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-03T21:08:54.977 | 2020-07-27T01:15:48.273 | 2008-08-03T21:38:52.623 | 101 | 101 | [
"algorithm",
"language-agnostic"
] |
818 | 2 | null | 810 | 3 | null | I'm partway to my solution with this entry on MSDN (don't know how I couldn't find it before).
User/Machine Hive
Subkeys and values entered under this hive will be installed under the HKEY_CURRENT_USER hive when a user chooses "Just Me" or the HKEY_USERS hive or when a user chooses "Everyone" during installation.
[Re... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-03T20:45:27.350 | 2019-04-17T09:58:06.930 | 2019-04-17T09:58:06.930 | 8,320,555 | 233 | null |
834 | 2 | null | 826 | -4 | null | If you are looking for a truly language agnostic solution then you will be sorely disappointed in my opinion because you'll be stuck with a for loop and some conditionals. However if you opened it up to functional languages or functional language features (I'm looking at you LINQ) then my colleagues here can fill this ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-03T21:24:56.160 | 2008-08-03T21:24:56.160 | null | null | 200 | null |
832 | 1 | 837 | null | 24 | 1,890 | SQL:
```
SELECT
u.id,
u.name,
isnull(MAX(h.dateCol), '1900-01-01') dateColWithDefault
FROM universe u
LEFT JOIN history h
ON u.id=h.id
AND h.dateCol<GETDATE()-1
GROUP BY u.Id, u.name
```
| How do I most elegantly express left join with aggregate SQL as LINQ query | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-03T21:22:52.717 | 2020-03-18T11:21:57.237 | 2015-04-07T12:52:29.133 | 2,771,704 | 224 | [
"c#",
"linq",
"left-join"
] |
810 | 1 | 820 | null | 21 | 7,572 | I'm trying to maintain a Setup Project in `Visual Studio 2003` (yes, it's a legacy application). The problem we have at the moment is that we need to write registry entries to `HKCU` for every user on the computer. They need to be in the `HKCU` rather than `HKLM` because they are the default user settings, and they do ... | Visual Studio Setup Project - Per User Registry Settings | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-03T20:35:01.987 | 2019-04-17T09:58:06.930 | 2012-10-08T21:33:14.307 | 902,217 | 233 | [
"windows",
"visual-studio",
"registry",
"installation"
] |
820 | 2 | null | 810 | 6 | null | First: Yes, this is something that belongs in the Application for the exact reson you specified: What happens after new user profiles are created? Sure, if you're using a domain it's possible to have some stuff put in the registry on creation, but this is not really a use case. The Application should check if there are... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-03T20:48:47.263 | 2008-08-03T20:48:47.263 | null | null | 91 | null |
836 | 2 | null | 696 | 2 | null | Looks like a web service is going to be the answer for me. On a production box I'd rather not have to go through compiling and maintaining my own special installation of PHP since ODBC support needs to be compiled in, according to the PHP documentation.
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-03T21:31:14.353 | 2013-01-09T05:46:43.607 | 2013-01-09T05:46:43.607 | 1,471,203 | 204 | null |
829 | 2 | null | 810 | 6 | null | I'm guessing that because you want to set it for all users, that you're on some kind of shared computer, which is probably running under a domain?
Let's say Joe and Jane regularly log onto the computer, then they will each have 'registries'.
You'll then install your app, and the installer will employ giant hacks an... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-03T21:17:33.557 | 2008-08-03T21:37:53.577 | 2008-08-03T21:37:53.577 | 234 | 234 | null |
849 | 2 | null | 845 | 82 | null | I've seen it done in a kind of iffy, but pretty reliable way. Basically, an element is set to use a specific font and a string is set to that element. If the font set for the element does not exist, it takes the font of the parent element. So, what they do is measure the width of the rendered string. If it matches w... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-03T21:51:44.360 | 2019-03-22T01:21:50.917 | 2019-03-22T01:21:50.917 | 10,221,765 | 93 | null |
837 | 2 | null | 832 | 10 | null | A solution, albeit one that defers handling of the null value to the code, could be:
> DateTime yesterday = DateTime.Now.Date.AddDays(-1);
```
var collection=
from u in db.Universe
select new
{
u.id,
u.name,
MaxDate =(DateTime?)
(
from h in db.History
w... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-03T21:31:17.863 | 2014-07-10T21:52:02.283 | 2014-07-10T21:52:02.283 | 1,668,244 | 224 | null |
833 | 1 | 838 | null | 34 | 27,470 | I have designed database tables (normalised, on an MS SQL server) and created a standalone windows front end for an application that will be used by a handful of users to add and edit information. We will add a web interface to allow searching accross our production area at a later date.
I am concerned that if two use... | Editing database records by multiple users | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-03T21:23:41.077 | 2018-02-08T10:56:35.850 | 2008-10-08T22:49:01.773 | 15,401 | 186 | [
"sql-server",
"database"
] |
855 | 1 | 858 | null | 21 | 3,466 | Is there an easy way to produce MSDN-style documentation from the Visual Studio XML output?
I'm not patient enough to set up a good xslt for it because I know I'm not the first person to cross this bridge.
Also, I tried setting up sandcastle recently, but it really made my eyes cross. Either I was missing something... | .Net XML comment into API Documentation | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-03T22:03:37.567 | 2014-06-25T19:54:59.043 | 2014-06-25T19:54:59.043 | 2,778,810 | 93 | [
"visual-studio",
"xslt",
"documentation",
"sandcastle",
"xml-comments"
] |
838 | 2 | null | 833 | 16 | null | If you expect infrequent collisions, [Optimistic Concurrency](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa0416cz.aspx) is probably your best bet.
Scott Mitchell wrote a comprehensive tutorial on implementing that pattern:
[Implementing Optimistic Concurrency](http://www.asp.net/Learn/data-access/tutorial-21-cs.aspx)
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-03T21:31:40.187 | 2013-01-28T04:20:13.590 | 2013-01-28T04:20:13.590 | null | 60 | null |
859 | 2 | null | 855 | 5 | null | Have a look at [Sandcastle](http://blogs.msdn.com/sandcastle/), which does exactly that. It's also one of the more simpler solutions out there, and it's more or less the tool of choice, so in the long run, maybe we could help you to set up Sandcastle if you specify what issues you encountered during setup?
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-03T22:14:55.453 | 2008-08-03T22:24:57.820 | 2008-08-03T22:24:57.820 | 91 | 91 | null |
835 | 1 | 1,023 | null | 17 | 6,595 | I'm trying to setup CruiseControl.net at the moment. So far it works nice, but I have a Problem with the MSBuild Task.
According to the [Documentation](http://confluence.public.thoughtworks.org/display/CCNET/MsBuild+Task), it passes CCNetArtifactDirectory to MSBuild. But how do I use it?
I tried this:
```
<buildArgs... | CruiseControl.net, msbuild, /p:OutputPath and CCNetArtifactDirectory | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-03T21:25:09.763 | 2013-02-08T21:59:55.120 | 2013-02-07T11:24:54.143 | 395,659 | 91 | [
"msbuild",
"cruisecontrol.net"
] |
858 | 2 | null | 855 | 12 | null | You're looking for Sandcastle
Project Page: [Sandcastle Releases](http://www.codeplex.com/Sandcastle/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx)
Blog: [Sandcastle Blog](http://blogs.msdn.com/sandcastle/default.aspx)
[NDoc Code Documentation Generator for .NET](http://ndoc.sourceforge.net) used to be the tool of choice, but suppor... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-03T22:12:52.820 | 2013-01-28T03:56:05.070 | 2013-01-28T03:56:05.070 | null | 34 | null |
870 | 2 | null | 810 | 2 | null | Despite what the [MSDN article](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x6kd89c5(VS.80).aspx) [Archive of MSDN Article](http://web.archive.org/web/20100112132447/http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x6kd89c5(VS.80).aspx) says about User/Machine Hive, it doesn't write to HKEY_USERS. Rather it writes to HKCU if you s... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-03T22:34:06.380 | 2019-04-17T09:48:05.677 | 2019-04-17T09:48:05.677 | 8,320,555 | 233 | null |
873 | 2 | null | 871 | 54 | null | Google Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8)
The Git Wiki's comparison page
[http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitSvnComparsion](http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitSvnComparsion)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-03T22:44:26.203 | 2008-08-03T22:44:26.203 | null | null | 150 | null |
871 | 1 | 875 | null | 393 | 920,829 | I've been using [Subversion](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Subversion) for a few years and after using [SourceSafe](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_SourceSafe), I just love Subversion. Combined with [TortoiseSVN](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TortoiseSVN), I can't really imagine how it could be any ... | Why is Git better than Subversion? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-03T22:38:29.040 | 2011-10-25T06:30:09.073 | 2010-07-23T10:24:35.053 | 63,550 | 203 | [
"svn",
"git"
] |
845 | 1 | 849 | null | 156 | 53,931 | Suppose I have the following CSS rule in my page:
```
body {
font-family: Calibri, Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
```
How could I detect which one of the defined fonts were used in the user's browser?
For people wondering why I want to do this is because the font I'm detecting contains glyphs that are ava... | How to detect which one of the defined font was used in a web page? | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 0 | 2008-08-03T21:42:37.903 | 2020-09-13T19:39:02.263 | 2020-09-13T19:39:02.263 | 7,134,134 | 238 | [
"javascript",
"html",
"css",
"fonts"
] |
840 | 2 | null | 826 | 1 | null | The best I could come up with is to produce a matrix of sums of each pair, and then merge the rows together, a-la merge sort. I feel like I'm missing some simple insight that will reveal a much more efficient solution.
My algorithm, in Haskell:
```
matrixOfSums list = [[a+b | b <- list, b >= a] | a <- list]
sortedS... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-03T21:36:25.890 | 2008-08-06T18:56:00.657 | 2008-08-06T18:56:00.657 | 101 | 101 | null |
880 | 2 | null | 879 | -8 | null | Depends on the version, 4 is by value, 5 is by reference.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-03T22:52:11.930 | 2008-08-03T22:52:11.930 | null | null | 34 | null |
879 | 1 | 885 | null | 304 | 213,997 | Are PHP variables passed by value or by reference?
| Are PHP Variables passed by value or by reference? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-03T22:51:41.447 | 2021-06-25T12:25:57.760 | 2014-05-25T01:52:44.717 | 2,581,872 | 58 | [
"php",
"variables",
"pass-by-reference",
"pass-by-value"
] |
876 | 2 | null | 871 | 26 | null | Well, it's distributed. Benchmarks indicate that it's considerably faster (given its distributed nature, operations like diffs and logs are all local so of course it's blazingly faster in this case), and working folders are smaller (which still blows my mind).
When you're working on subversion, or any other client/ser... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-03T22:47:42.703 | 2008-10-13T19:13:34.283 | 2008-10-13T19:13:34.300 | 3,002 | 34 | null |
877 | 2 | null | 717 | 9 | null | You'll need to compile with the target `CPU` set to `x86` to force your code to use the `32 bit` version of the `VFP OLE Db provider`.
[Microsoft has stated](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vfoxpro/bb190293.aspx) that there are no plans on releasing a `64-bit` edition of the Visual FoxPro OLE Db provider. For what'... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-03T22:48:47.490 | 2013-02-07T11:20:02.040 | 2013-02-07T11:20:02.040 | 395,659 | 206 | null |
886 | 2 | null | 871 | 5 | null | Git and DVCS in general is great for developers doing a lot of coding independently of each other because everyone has their own branch. If you need a change from someone else, though, she has to commit to her local repo and then she must push that changeset to you or you must pull it from her.
My own reasoning also ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-03T23:08:23.580 | 2008-08-03T23:08:23.580 | null | null | 153 | null |
888 | 1 | 890 | null | 402 | 356,010 | How do you debug scripts?
I am aware of basic debugging such as using the Error Reporting. The breakpoint debugging in is also quite useful.
What is the (in terms of fast and easy) way to debug in phpStorm or any other IDE?
| How do you debug PHP scripts? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-03T23:18:21.627 | 2016-08-04T08:15:23.767 | 2015-06-04T10:18:02.297 | 4,248,328 | 131 | [
"php",
"eclipse",
"debugging",
"phpstorm",
"xdebug"
] |
891 | 2 | null | 888 | 2 | null | print_r( debug_backtrace() );
or something like that :-)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-03T23:32:13.020 | 2008-08-03T23:32:13.020 | null | null | 234 | null |
889 | 2 | null | 888 | 16 | null | I've used the [Zend Studio (5.5)](http://www.zend.com/products/studio/), together with [Zend Platform](http://www.zend.com/en/products/platform/). That gives proper debugging, breakpoints/stepping over the code etc., although at a price.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-03T23:20:48.347 | 2008-08-03T23:20:48.347 | null | null | 91 | null |
885 | 2 | null | 879 | 374 | null | It's by value according to the [PHP Documentation](http://php.net/manual/en/functions.arguments.php).
> By default, function arguments are passed by value (so that if the value of the argument within the function is changed, it does not get changed outside of the function). To allow a function to modify its arguments,... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-03T23:06:56.423 | 2016-07-05T10:56:14.670 | 2016-07-05T10:56:14.670 | 2,515,142 | 91 | null |
890 | 2 | null | 888 | 145 | null | Try [Eclipse PDT](https://eclipse.org/pdt/) to setup an Eclipse environment that has debugging features like you mentioned. The ability to step into the code is a much better way to debug then the old method of var_dump and print at various points to see where your flow goes wrong. When all else fails though and all I ... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-03T23:28:39.890 | 2016-03-02T05:37:24.947 | 2016-03-02T05:37:24.947 | 887,092 | 200 | null |
894 | 2 | null | 805 | 8 | null | If you have the ability to use WScript.Shell then you can just execute pscp.exe from the [Putty](http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/) package. Obviously this is less then ideal but it will get the job done and let you use SCP/SFTP in classic ASP.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-03T23:52:47.360 | 2008-08-03T23:52:47.360 | null | null | 200 | null |
895 | 2 | null | 194 | 3 | null | I am by no means authoritative, but I believe the only supported path is from 6.5 to 7. Certainly that would be the most sane route, then I believe you can migrate from 7 directly to 2005 pretty painlessly.
As for scripting out all the objects - I would advise against it as you will inevitably miss something (unless y... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-03T23:56:54.077 | 2016-12-20T05:40:09.683 | 2016-12-20T05:40:09.683 | 1,997,093 | 243 | null |
875 | 2 | null | 871 | 547 | null | Git is not better than Subversion. But is also not worse. It's different.
The key difference is that it is decentralized. Imagine you are a developer on the road, you develop on your laptop and you want to have source control so that you can go back 3 hours.
With Subversion, you have a Problem: The SVN Repository may... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-03T22:45:44.533 | 2009-12-28T04:45:25.160 | 2009-12-28T04:45:25.160 | 91 | 91 | null |
881 | 2 | null | 879 | 33 | null | PHP variables are assigned by value, passed to functions by value and when containing/representing objects are passed by reference. You can force variables to pass by reference using an '&'.
Assigned by value/reference example:
```
$var1 = "test";
$var2 = $var1;
$var2 = "new test";
$var3 = &$var2;
$var3 = "final test";... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-03T22:52:17.593 | 2020-07-16T06:40:52.837 | 2020-07-16T06:40:52.837 | 10,325,630 | 58 | null |
893 | 2 | null | 871 | 6 | null | It's all about the ease of use/steps required to do something.
If I'm developing a single project on my PC/laptop, git is better, because it is far easier to set up and use.
You don't need a server, and you don't need to keep typing repository URL's in when you do merges.
If it were just 2 people, I'd say git is als... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-03T23:38:05.113 | 2008-08-03T23:38:05.113 | null | null | 234 | null |
897 | 2 | null | 879 | 5 | null | Variables containing primitive types are passed by value in PHP5. Variables containing objects are passed by reference. There's quite an interesting article from Linux Journal from 2006 which mentions this and other OO differences between 4 and 5.
[http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9170](http://www.linuxjournal.com/... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-04T00:05:05.790 | 2008-08-04T00:05:05.790 | null | null | 137 | null |
884 | 2 | null | 826 | 4 | null | Rather than coding this out, I figure I'll pseudo-code it in steps and explain my logic, so that better programmers can poke holes in my logic if necessary.
On the first step we start out with a list of numbers length n. For each number we need to create a list of length n-1 becuase we aren't adding a number to itsel... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-03T23:06:15.443 | 2015-04-17T10:17:10.987 | 2015-04-17T10:17:10.987 | 155,077 | 159 | null |
896 | 2 | null | 879 | 37 | null | [http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration5.oop.php](http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration5.oop.php)
> In PHP 5 there is a new Object Model. PHP's handling of objects has been completely rewritten, allowing for better performance and more features. In previous versions of PHP, objects were handled like primitive types (... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-03T23:57:46.820 | 2008-08-03T23:57:46.820 | null | null | 34 | null |
912 | 2 | null | 904 | 18 | null | As part of CSS3, it is not yet fully supported, [but you can find information on word-wrapping here](http://www.css3.info/preview/word-wrap/). Another option is the [wbr tag, ­, and ​](http://www.quirksmode.org/oddsandends/wbr.html) none of which are fully supported either.
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-04T00:25:28.403 | 2014-07-10T21:33:00.213 | 2014-07-10T21:33:00.213 | 1,668,244 | 200 | null |
898 | 1 | null | null | 48 | 5,397 | How have you implemented Internationalization (i18n) in actual projects you've worked on?
I took an interest in making software cross-cultural after I read the famous post by Joel, [The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)](http://www... | Internationalization in your projects | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-04T00:08:51.010 | 2016-04-24T01:15:28.727 | 2014-07-10T21:39:23.003 | 1,668,244 | 200 | [
"language-agnostic",
"unicode",
"localization",
"internationalization"
] |
905 | 1 | 942 | null | 15 | 850 | We're upgrading an existing program from `Win2k/SQL Server 2k` to `Windows 2003 and SQL Server 2005` as well as purchasing a new program that also uses `2k3/2k5`. The vendor says that for us to host both databases we need to get the Enterprise version because the softwares clients use different collation for the connec... | Client collation and SQL Server 2005 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-04T00:17:55.767 | 2014-11-25T20:47:15.133 | 2014-11-25T20:47:15.133 | 2,641,576 | 204 | [
"sql-server",
"sql-server-2005",
"windows-server-2003"
] |
908 | 2 | null | 194 | 3 | null | If you can find a professional or some other super-enterprise version of Visual Studio 6.0 - it came with a copy of [MSDE](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSDE) (Basically the predecessor to SQL Express). I believe MSDE 2000 is still available as a free download from Microsoft, but I don't know if you can migrate directly... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-04T00:23:55.690 | 2017-01-17T09:38:49.320 | 2017-01-17T09:38:49.320 | 1,087,469 | 243 | null |
904 | 1 | 911 | null | 79 | 21,824 | Given a relatively simple CSS:
```
div {
width: 150px;
}
```
```
<div>
12333-2333-233-23339392-332332323
</div>
```
> How do I make it so that the string stays constrained to the `width`
of , and wraps to a new line on the ?
| How to break word after special character like Hyphens (-) | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 0 | 2008-08-04T00:17:34.690 | 2020-06-02T21:56:12.130 | 2019-12-27T12:08:45.990 | 806,202 | 34 | [
"html",
"css",
"text"
] |
906 | 2 | null | 898 | 9 | null | I worked on a project for my previous employer that used .NET, and there was a built in .resx format we used. We basically had a file that had all translations in the .resx file, and then multiple files with different translations. The consequence of this is that you have to be very diligent about ensuring that all s... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-04T00:23:00.123 | 2013-02-07T17:33:54.490 | 2013-02-07T17:33:54.490 | 237,838 | 122 | null |
911 | 2 | null | 904 | 76 | null | Replace your hyphens with this:
```
­
```
It's called a "soft" hyphen.
```
div {
width: 150px;
}
```
```
<div>
12333­2333­233­23339392­332332323
</div>
```
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-04T00:25:11.227 | 2016-11-30T09:06:55.887 | 2016-11-30T09:06:55.887 | 2,571,493 | 55 | null |
930 | 1 | 951 | null | 49 | 31,510 | What's the simplest way to connect and query a database for a set of records in C#?
| How do I connect to a database and loop over a recordset in C#? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-04T00:47:25.143 | 2019-12-18T12:28:49.403 | 2013-12-07T23:45:54.333 | null | 245 | [
"c#",
"database",
"loops",
"connection"
] |
910 | 2 | null | 871 | 145 | null | With Git, you can do practically anything offline, because everybody has their own repository.
Making branches and merging between branches is really easy.
Even if you don't have commit rights for a project, you can still have your own repository online, and publish "push requests" for your patches. Everybody who lik... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-04T00:24:15.940 | 2010-07-27T08:43:52.467 | 2010-07-27T08:43:52.467 | 63,550 | 136 | null |
935 | 1 | 938 | null | 137 | 342,894 | Attempting to insert an escape character into a table results in a warning.
For example:
```
create table EscapeTest (text varchar(50));
insert into EscapeTest (text) values ('This is the first part \n And this is the second');
```
Produces the warning:
```
WARNING: nonstandard use of escape in a string literal... | String literals and escape characters in postgresql | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-04T01:00:24.837 | 2021-02-19T18:23:55.443 | 2015-01-02T22:34:17.840 | 3,576,214 | 246 | [
"string",
"postgresql",
"escaping"
] |
938 | 2 | null | 935 | 155 | null | Partially. The text is inserted, but the warning is still generated.
I found a discussion that indicated the text needed to be preceded with 'E', as such:
```
insert into EscapeTest (text) values (E'This is the first part \n And this is the second');
```
This suppressed the warning, but the text was still not being... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-04T01:07:03.233 | 2010-03-04T23:08:11.817 | 2010-03-04T23:08:11.817 | 246 | 246 | null |
939 | 2 | null | 123 | 8 | null | There is nothing I know of that can do this without you at least writing a little bit of code... You will need 2 separate library:
- -
The CSV parser I would recommend (unless you want to have a little bit of fun to write your own CSV Parser) is OpenCSV (A SourceForge Project for parsing CSV Data)
The XML Serializa... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-04T01:07:07.633 | 2013-11-26T00:02:54.033 | 2013-11-26T00:02:54.033 | 1,102,512 | 244 | null |
942 | 2 | null | 905 | 7 | null | All editions of `SQL Server 2000/2005/2008` support having multiple databases, each using their own collation sequence. You don't need the Enterprise version.
When you have a database that uses a collation sequence that is different from default collation for the database server, you will need to take some extra pr... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-04T01:13:06.247 | 2013-02-07T13:51:27.207 | 2013-02-07T13:51:27.207 | 395,659 | 206 | null |
940 | 2 | null | 930 | 17 | null | Very roughly and from memory since I don't have code on this laptop:
```
using (OleDBConnection conn = new OleDbConnection())
{
conn.ConnectionString = "Whatever connection string";
using (OleDbCommand cmd = new OleDbCommand())
{
cmd.Connection = conn;
cmd.CommandText = "Select * from CoolTable";
u... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-04T01:07:14.760 | 2016-02-07T00:44:04.573 | 2016-02-07T00:44:04.573 | 2,921,691 | 243 | null |
947 | 1 | 1,028 | null | 27 | 8,908 | I have imported the `kernel32` library. So, I have the `createMutex` function available but I am not quite sure of the various parameters and return values.
This is classic Visual Basic, not Visual Basic.NET but I can probably work with either language in the form of an answer.
| How to use a mutex in Visual Basic | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-04T01:22:49.830 | 2021-09-18T17:51:07.740 | 2021-09-18T17:51:07.740 | 16,587,746 | 243 | [
"vb6",
"mutex"
] |
943 | 2 | null | 935 | 51 | null | Cool.
I also found the documentation regarding the E:
[http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/sql-syntax-lexical.html#SQL-SYNTAX-STRINGS](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/sql-syntax-lexical.html#SQL-SYNTAX-STRINGS)
> PostgreSQL also accepts "escape" string constants, which are an extension to t... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-04T01:14:57.367 | 2008-08-04T01:14:57.367 | null | null | 91 | null |
950 | 2 | null | 194 | 6 | null | You can upgrade 6.5 to SQL Server 2000. You may have an easier time getting a hold of SQL Server or the 2000 version of the MSDE. Microsoft has a page on [going from 6.5 to 2000](http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2000/deploy/sqlugrd.mspx#EQFAC). Once you have the database in 2000 format, SQL Server 20... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-04T01:29:18.307 | 2008-08-04T01:29:18.307 | null | null | 206 | null |
921 | 2 | null | 898 | 15 | null | Some fun things:
1. Having a PHP and MySQL Application that works well with German and French, but now needs to support Russian and Chinese. I think I move this over to .net, as PHP's Unicode support is - in my opinion - not really good. Sure, juggling around with utf8_de/encode or the mbstring-functions is fun. Almo... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-04T00:35:14.110 | 2008-08-04T00:41:52.583 | 2017-05-23T11:45:36.177 | -1 | 91 | null |
944 | 1 | 1,016 | null | 31 | 4,927 | I'm maintaining a .NET 1.1 application and one of the things I've been tasked with is making sure the user doesn't see any unfriendly error notifications.
I've added handlers to `Application.ThreadException` and `AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException`, which do get called. My problem is that the standard CLR erro... | Unhandled Exception Handler in .NET 1.1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 0 | 2008-08-04T01:15:38.067 | 2022-01-28T06:42:56.517 | 2019-01-20T13:46:09.923 | 567,854 | 233 | [
"c#",
".net",
"exception"
] |
981 | 2 | null | 833 | 0 | null | The database will do this for you. Look at "select ... for update", which is designed just for this kind of thing. It will give you a write lock on the selected rows, which you can then commit or roll back.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-04T02:30:09.227 | 2008-08-04T02:30:09.227 | null | null | 116 | null |
931 | 2 | null | 88 | 19 | null | @Bernard:
> I have to admit, most of your example went straight over my head. It does compile, and seems to work, though. Is this safe for SMP systems or SpeedStep?
That's a good question... I think the code's ok.
From a practical standpoint, we use it in my company every day,
and we run on a pretty wide array of box... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-04T00:51:52.843 | 2011-06-15T06:44:06.390 | 2011-06-15T06:44:06.390 | 410,767 | 116 | null |
972 | 1 | 2,982 | null | 826 | 353,367 | I've read that it is possible to add a method to an existing object (i.e., not in the class definition) in Python.
I understand that it's not always good to do so. But how might one do this?
| Adding a method to an existing object instance in Python | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 0 | 2008-08-04T02:17:51.780 | 2023-02-06T13:43:19.353 | 2023-02-06T13:43:19.353 | 5,323,892 | 145 | [
"python",
"oop",
"methods",
"monkeypatching"
] |
951 | 2 | null | 930 | 35 | null | @Goyuix -- that's excellent for something written from memory.
tested it here -- found the connection wasn't opened. Otherwise very nice.
```
using System.Data.OleDb;
...
using (OleDbConnection conn = new OleDbConnection())
{
conn.ConnectionString = "Provider=sqloledb;Data Source=yourServername\\yourInstance;Init... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-04T01:31:31.157 | 2016-02-07T00:43:54.210 | 2016-02-07T00:43:54.210 | 2,921,691 | 49 | null |
971 | 2 | null | 164 | 3 | null | Encoding flash video is actually very easy with ffmpeg. You can use one command to convert from just about any video format, ffmpeg is smart enough to figure the rest out, and it'll use every processor on your machine. Invoking it is easy:
```
ffmpeg -i input.avi output.flv
```
ffmpeg will guess at the bitrate you... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-04T02:14:59.477 | 2008-08-04T02:14:59.477 | null | null | 101 | null |
982 | 2 | null | 972 | 32 | null | In Python monkeypatching generally works by overwriting a class or function's signature with your own. Below is an example from the [Zope Wiki](http://web.archive.org/web/20130610034152/http://wiki.zope.org:80/zope2/MonkeyPatch):
```
from SomeOtherProduct.SomeModule import SomeClass
def speak(self):
return "ook ook ... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-04T02:31:13.250 | 2022-02-08T17:23:43.883 | 2022-02-08T17:23:43.883 | 4,720,018 | 200 | null |
990 | 2 | null | 944 | 1 | null | It's a Windows Forms application. The exceptions that are caught by Application.ThreadException work fine, and I don't get the ugly .NET exception box ( to terminate, to debug? who came up with that??).
I was getting some exceptions that weren't being caught by that and ended up going to the AppDomain.UnhandledExcept... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-04T02:54:15.683 | 2017-08-31T22:58:03.007 | 2017-08-31T22:58:03.007 | 63,550 | 233 | null |
986 | 2 | null | 944 | 3 | null | Is this a console application or a Windows Forms application? If it's a .NET 1.1 console application this is, sadly, by design -- it's confirmed by an MSFT dev in the [second blog post you referenced](https://blog.codinghorror.com/improved-unhandled-exception-behavior-in-net-20/):
> BTW, on my 1.1 machine the example ... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-04T02:45:07.717 | 2018-10-21T07:24:10.050 | 2018-10-21T07:24:10.050 | 1,033,581 | 1 | null |
1,005 | 1 | 37,042 | null | 253 | 81,165 | Often while editing config files, I'll open one with vi and then when I go to save it realize that I didn't type
```
sudo vi filename
```
Is there any way to give vi sudo privileges to save the file? I seem to recall seeing something about this while looking up some stuff about vi a while ago, but now I can't find i... | How do you get sudo access for a file inside the vi text editor? | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 0 | 2008-08-04T03:34:02.860 | 2022-08-01T10:49:17.143 | 2022-08-01T10:49:17.143 | 18,133,699 | 85 | [
"linux",
"unix",
"vi"
] |
1,012 | 2 | null | 1,005 | 7 | null | Ryan's advice is generally good, however, if following step 3, don't move the temporary file; it'll have the wrong ownership and permissions. Instead, `sudoedit` the correct file and read in the contents (using `:r` or the like) of the temporary file.
If following step 2, use `:w!` to force the file to be written.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-04T04:04:52.110 | 2008-08-04T04:04:52.110 | null | null | 13 | null |
1,006 | 2 | null | 1,005 | 1 | null | A quick Google seems to give this advice:
1. Don't try to edit if it's read-only.
2. You might be able to change the permissions on the file. (Whether or not it will let you save is up to experimentation.)
3. If you still edited anyway, save to a temporary file and then move it.
[http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-04T03:39:31.163 | 2008-08-04T03:39:31.163 | null | null | 55 | null |
1,016 | 2 | null | 944 | 13 | null | Oh, in Windows Forms you definitely should be able to get it to work. The only thing you have to watch out for is things happening on different threads.
I have an old Code Project article here which should help:
[User Friendly Exception Handling](http://www.codeproject.com/KB/exception/ExceptionHandling.aspx)
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1,022 | 2 | null | 930 | 12 | null | That's definitely a good way to do it. But you if you happen to be using a database that supports LINQ to SQL, it can be a lot more fun. It can look something like this:
```
MyDB db = new MyDB("Data Source=...");
var q = from db.MyTable
select c;
foreach (var c in q)
Console.WriteLine(c.MyField.ToString())... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-04T04:45:05.367 | 2008-08-04T04:45:05.367 | null | null | 93 | null |
1,010 | 1 | 1,074 | null | 31 | 2,560 | I need to grab the `base64-encoded` representation of the `ViewState`. Obviously, this would not be available until fairly late in the request lifecycle, which is OK.
For example, if the output of the page includes:
```
<input type="hidden" name="__VIEWSTATE"
id="__VIEWSTATE" value="/wEPDwUJODU0Njc5MD...==" />
```... | How to get the value of built, encoded ViewState? | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-04T03:59:42.557 | 2022-01-20T14:57:11.620 | 2022-01-20T14:57:11.620 | 17,700,155 | 67 | [
"c#",
"asp.net",
"viewstate"
] |