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11,685 | 2 | null | 11,635 | 63 | null | If you are on a POSIX system, you can use [strcasecmp](http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/strcasecmp.html). This function is not part of standard C, though, nor is it available on Windows. This will perform a case-insensitive comparison on 8-bit chars, so long as the locale is POSIX. If the loca... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-14T20:46:03.803 | 2015-06-04T14:13:48.350 | 2015-06-04T14:13:48.350 | 346,335 | 872 | null |
11,781 | 2 | null | 11,767 | 6 | null | You could just use the `FolderBrowserDialog` class from the `System.Windows.Forms` namespace.
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-14T23:32:21.720 | 2016-01-17T12:55:49.683 | 2016-01-17T12:55:49.683 | 490,018 | 489 | null |
11,770 | 2 | null | 11,764 | 2 | null | > If 2 is true, then that seems bad if
someone is using that specific page or
DLL and it gets overwritten.
It's not really an issue if you're using ASP.NET stack (Webforms, MVC or rolling your own) because all your aspx files get compiled and therefore not touched by webserver. /bin/ folder is completely shadowed somew... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-14T23:21:58.387 | 2008-11-17T12:28:08.517 | 2020-06-20T09:12:55.060 | -1 | 275 | null |
11,780 | 2 | null | 11,199 | 1 | null | Remotesoft offers a linker - $1250 for a single developer license: [http://www.remotesoft.com/linker/index.html](http://www.remotesoft.com/linker/index.html)
If your application will run on Mono (and Mono's Winform desktop support is pretty good now), you can package your app as a Mono bundle, which is a single execut... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-14T23:31:35.327 | 2008-08-14T23:31:35.327 | null | null | 5 | null |
11,782 | 1 | null | null | 4 | 1,787 | Is it possible to upload a file from a client's computer to the server through a web service? The client can be running anything from a native desktop app to a thin ajax client.
| File Uploads via Web Services | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-14T23:33:01.253 | 2015-12-14T09:19:02.697 | 2015-12-14T09:19:02.697 | 2,125,973 | 831 | [
".net",
"web-services",
"file-upload",
"upload"
] |
11,789 | 2 | null | 11,761 | 3 | null | What about using a global or static collection object? Is that a good idea?
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-14T23:39:07.497 | 2008-08-14T23:39:07.497 | null | null | 1,381 | null |
11,783 | 1 | null | null | 25 | 3,816 | Given an empty method body, will the JIT optimize out the call (I know the C# compiler won't). How would I go about finding out? What tools should I be using and where should I be looking?
Since I'm sure it'll be asked, the reason for the empty method is a preprocessor directive.
---
@Chris:
Makes sense, but it c... | In .NET, will empty method calls be optimized out? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-14T23:33:35.010 | 2017-04-18T13:50:15.460 | 2017-04-18T13:50:15.460 | 4,099,593 | 34 | [
".net",
"performance"
] |
11,800 | 2 | null | 11,767 | 1 | null | Please don't try and roll your own with a TreeView/DirectoryInfo class. For one thing there are many nice features you get for free (icons/right-click/networks) by using SHBrowseForFolder. For another there are a edge cases/catches you will likely not be aware of.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T00:03:45.700 | 2008-08-15T00:03:45.700 | null | null | 1,043 | null |
11,791 | 2 | null | 11,783 | 2 | null | No, empty methods are never optimized out. Here are a couple reasons why:
- -
Edit: Yes, from looking at that (exellent) code project doc the JITer will eliminate calls to empty methods. But the methods themselves will still be compiled and part of your binary for the reasons I listed.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-14T23:39:53.377 | 2008-08-14T23:53:20.430 | 2008-08-14T23:53:20.430 | 322 | 322 | null |
11,801 | 1 | 11,803 | null | 5 | 368 | What's the general consensus on supporting Windows 2000 for software distribution? Are people supporting Windows XP SP2+ for new software development or is this too restrictive still?
| What's the general consensus on supporting Windows 2000? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-15T00:05:13.760 | 2010-02-07T00:24:02.877 | 2010-02-07T00:24:02.877 | 748 | 748 | [
"windows",
"deployment",
"compatibility"
] |
11,794 | 2 | null | 11,783 | 15 | null | This chap has quite a good treatment of JIT optimisations, do a search on the page for 'method is empty', it's about half way down the article -
[http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/JITOptimizations.aspx](http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/JITOptimizations.aspx)
Apparently empty methods do get optimised out throug... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-14T23:43:29.903 | 2013-11-24T07:37:39.103 | 2013-11-24T07:37:39.103 | 419 | 419 | null |
11,802 | 2 | null | 11,764 | 0 | null | We do most of our updates in the wee small hours.
Handy hint, if this is an ASP.NET site, whatever time of the day you roll out, drop in an App_Offline.htm file with a message explaining to users that the site is down for maintenance.
Scott Guthrie has more info here:
[http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/04... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T00:07:21.917 | 2008-08-15T00:07:21.917 | null | null | 419 | null |
11,803 | 2 | null | 11,801 | 8 | null | "OK" is a subjective judgement. You'll need to take a look at your client base and see what they're using.
Having said that, I dropped support for Win2K over a year ago with no negative impact.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T00:07:22.867 | 2008-08-15T00:07:22.867 | null | null | 722 | null |
11,792 | 2 | null | 11,783 | 1 | null | All things being equal, yes it should be optimized out. The JIT inlines functions where appropriate and there are few things more appropriate than empty functions :)
If you really want to be sure then change your empty method to throw an exception and print out the stack trace it contains.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-14T23:41:30.080 | 2008-08-14T23:41:30.080 | null | null | 1,043 | null |
11,805 | 2 | null | 11,801 | 0 | null | A lot of computers at my company use Win2k, so we couldn't really drop support. It all depends on the client base.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T00:09:02.100 | 2008-08-15T00:09:02.100 | null | null | 30 | null |
11,807 | 2 | null | 11,801 | 0 | null | With XP being 5/6 years old now, I think most home users will be using it, but many business users may still be using it. all in all, it depends on your target audience.
Personally I would regard Windows 2000 support as a bonus rather than a requirement.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T00:09:46.683 | 2008-08-15T00:09:46.683 | null | null | 428 | null |
11,806 | 1 | 448,051 | null | 13 | 15,322 | I'm trying to run powershell commands through a web interface (ASP.NET/C#) in order to create mailboxes/etc on Exchange 2007. When I run the page using Visual Studio (Cassini), the page loads up correctly. However, when I run it on IIS (v5.1), I get the error "unknown user name or bad password". The biggest problem tha... | How do you impersonate an Active Directory user in Powershell? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-15T00:09:16.407 | 2009-09-30T18:35:51.107 | 2009-03-10T02:24:30.793 | 5,640 | 889 | [
"c#",
"asp.net",
"powershell",
"active-directory"
] |
11,811 | 2 | null | 11,806 | 2 | null | In your ASP.NET app, you will need to impersonate a valid AD account with the correct permissions:
[http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306158](http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306158)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T00:16:34.347 | 2008-08-15T00:24:05.110 | 2008-08-15T00:24:05.110 | 419 | 419 | null |
11,804 | 1 | 920,922 | null | 9 | 3,709 | I'm working on a web service at the moment and there is the potential that the returned results could be quite large ( > 5mb).
It's perfectly valid for this set of data to be this large and the web service can be called either sync or async, but I'm wondering what people's thoughts are on the following:
1. If the c... | Returning Large Results Via a Webservice | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-15T00:08:15.533 | 2013-04-11T08:24:05.390 | 2008-08-23T19:09:16.730 | 2,134 | 493 | [
"c#",
".net",
"web-services"
] |
11,808 | 2 | null | 11,801 | 0 | null | This is very subjective, it really depends who you're selling to.
If it's average Joe then Windows 2K owners are going to be at best a percent or two of your target market. If it's the military (who I believe still run 2K on their toughbooks) then you're in trouble.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T00:10:10.770 | 2008-08-15T00:10:10.770 | null | null | 1,043 | null |
11,747 | 2 | null | 11,690 | 1 | null | Where's your Japanese input coming from? It could be that it's in a non-unicode (e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JIS_X_0208](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JIS_X_0208)) encoding, whereas your file is in unicode so the browser attempts to interpret the non-unicode characters as unicode and gets confused. I tried throwi... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-14T22:43:07.733 | 2008-08-14T22:43:07.733 | null | null | 1,370 | null |
11,823 | 2 | null | 11,804 | 0 | null | I somewhat disagree with secretGeek's comment:
> That's already happening for you -- it's called tcp/ip ;-) Re-implementing that could be overkill.
There are times when you may want to do just this, but really only from a UI perspective. If you implement some way to either stream the data to the client (via somethin... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T00:31:36.360 | 2008-08-15T00:31:36.360 | null | null | 122 | null |
11,825 | 2 | null | 11,801 | 0 | null | Its fine by me :)
The company i work for (mining and construction) with <15k employees and we don't support Wink2k and have not for a while.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T00:31:58.373 | 2008-08-15T00:31:58.373 | null | null | 713 | null |
11,815 | 2 | null | 11,809 | 17 | null | `<span>` is an inline element. The term is meaningless unless you're talking about a paragraph (which generally means a block element). You can, of course, change the margins on `<p>` or `<div>` or any other block element to get rid of extra vertical space between paragraphs.
You may want something like `display: run... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-15T00:20:58.440 | 2013-06-25T19:19:25.640 | 2013-06-25T19:19:25.640 | 811 | 811 | null |
11,809 | 1 | 11,815 | null | 33 | 29,364 | The only thing I've found has been;
```
.hang {
text-indent: -3em;
margin-left: 3em;
}
```
The only way for this to work is putting text in a paragraph, which causes those horribly unsightly extra lines. I'd much rather just have them in a `<span class="hang"></span>` type of thing.
I'm also looking for a w... | How to create an all browser-compatible hanging indent style in CSS in a span | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-15T00:12:20.923 | 2021-04-15T14:26:08.830 | 2015-04-29T13:52:03.417 | 362 | 362 | [
"html",
"css",
"indentation"
] |
11,820 | 1 | 11,832 | null | 5 | 1,498 | This [question and answer](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11782/file-uploads-via-web-services) shows how to send a file as a byte array through an XML web service. How much overhead is generated by using this method for file transfer? I assume the data looks something like this:
```
<?xml version="1.0" encoding=... | How much extra overhead is generated when sending a file over a web service as a byte array? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T00:29:57.563 | 2015-06-30T03:43:19.153 | 2017-05-23T10:32:50.377 | -1 | 26 | [
"xml",
"web-services"
] |
11,830 | 2 | null | 11,820 | 0 | null | I use this method for some internal corporate webservices, and I haven't noticed any major slow-downs (but that doesn't mean it's not there).
You could probably use any of the numerous network traffic analysis tools to measure the size of the data, and make a judgment call based off that.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T00:36:54.073 | 2008-08-15T00:36:54.073 | null | null | 952 | null |
11,813 | 2 | null | 11,804 | 2 | null | There's no hard law against 5 Mb as a result set size. Over 400 Mb can be [hard to send](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa528822.aspx).
You'll automatically get async handlers (since you're using .net)
> implement some sort of "paging" where
the resultset is generated and stored
on the server and the cli... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T00:18:19.303 | 2008-08-15T00:18:19.303 | null | null | 49 | null |
11,819 | 2 | null | 10,933 | 3 | null | I use [Warehouse](http://warehouseapp.com), as Lubos already pointed out, and it works very well. I looked at one point for a .NET version, but I was never able to find one. I was also at a point where I wanted to better myself as a programmer by learning a new language, and I ventured into learning Ruby and [Ruby on R... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-15T00:25:34.937 | 2016-11-26T17:45:07.157 | 2016-11-26T17:45:07.157 | 63,550 | 1,117 | null |
11,834 | 2 | null | 11,820 | 0 | null | I'm not sure about all the details (compressing, encoding, etc) but I usually just use [WireShark](http://www.wireshark.org/) to analyze the network traffic (while trying various methods) which then allows you to see exactly how it's sent.
For example, if it's compressed the data block of the packet shouldn't be reada... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T00:40:14.033 | 2008-08-15T00:40:14.033 | null | null | 194 | null |
11,831 | 1 | null | null | 69 | 20,097 | Singletons are a hotly debated design pattern, so I am interested in what the Stack Overflow community thought about them.
Please provide reasons for your opinions, not just "Singletons are for lazy programmers!"
Here is a fairly good article on the issue, although it is against the use of Singletons:
[scientificninj... | Singletons: good design or a crutch? | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 0 | 2008-08-15T00:39:01.150 | 2019-06-06T20:19:06.977 | 2019-06-06T20:19:06.977 | 637,987 | 1,366 | [
"language-agnostic",
"design-patterns",
"singleton"
] |
11,826 | 2 | null | 11,761 | 6 | null | Extending on [Ice^^Heat](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11761/persisting-data-in-net-web-service-memory#11779)'s idea, you might want to think about where you would cache - either cache the contents of the json file in the Application cache like so:
```
Context.Cache.Insert("foo", _
Foo, _
... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T00:32:04.923 | 2008-08-15T00:32:04.923 | 2017-05-23T12:32:33.343 | -1 | 952 | null |
11,858 | 2 | null | 11,724 | 1 | null | We encountered an issue like this and found that it was a group policy issue. There's a group policy setting for debugging that needs to be enabled. It overrides the fact that you are in the right group.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T01:11:30.290 | 2008-08-15T01:11:30.290 | null | null | 697 | null |
11,840 | 2 | null | 11,820 | 0 | null | To echo what Kevin said, in .net web services if you have a byte array it is sent as a base64 encoded string by default. You can also specify the encoding of the byte array beforehand.
Obviously, once it gets to the server (or client) you need to manually decode the string back into a byte array as this isn't done au... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T00:48:55.420 | 2008-08-15T00:48:55.420 | null | null | 493 | null |
11,857 | 1 | null | null | 28 | 7,517 | I would like to gauge what solutions other people put in place to get Team System functionality. We all know that Team System can be pricey for some of us. I know they offer a small team edition with five licenses with a MSDN subscription, but what if your team is bigger than five or you don't want to use Team System... | What do you use as a good alternative to Team System? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-15T01:05:30.520 | 2016-02-18T17:08:56.010 | 2016-02-18T17:08:56.010 | 781,754 | 1,117 | [
"svn",
"tfs",
"cruisecontrol.net",
"fogbugz"
] |
11,832 | 2 | null | 11,820 | 11 | null | Typically a byte array is sent as a `base64` encoded string, not as individual bytes in tags.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64)
The `base64` encoded version is about of the size of the original content.
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-15T00:39:05.987 | 2015-06-30T03:43:19.153 | 2015-06-30T03:43:19.153 | 725,306 | 9 | null |
11,839 | 2 | null | 11,831 | 27 | null | The purpose of a Singleton is to ensure a class has only one instance, and provide a global point of access to it. Most of the time the focus is on the single instance point. Imagine if it were called a Globalton. It would sound less appealing as this emphasizes the (usually) negative connotations of a global variable.... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T00:48:40.523 | 2008-08-15T00:48:40.523 | null | null | 748 | null |
11,859 | 2 | null | 11,854 | 0 | null | Sometimes it's worth giving up the ideal for the realistic. If it's going to cause a massive problem to "do it right" with no real benefit, then I would do it wrong. With that said, I often think it's worth taking the time to do it right, because unnecessary multiple inheritance increases complexity, and it contribu... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T01:13:01.660 | 2008-08-15T01:13:01.660 | null | null | 872 | null |
11,842 | 2 | null | 11,724 | 0 | null | You could try running "`VsJITDebugger.exe -p <PID>`" on the command line. I've had a simalar situation and been able to debug the application using the above.
"`VsJITDebugger.exe /?`" will show you all the options.
The PID can be found either in the task manager (view->Select Columns...) or Visual Studio's Attach to ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T00:50:17.103 | 2008-08-15T00:50:17.103 | null | null | 788 | null |
11,868 | 2 | null | 11,854 | 0 | null | "Doing it right" will have benefits in the long run, if only because someone maintaining the system later will find it easier to comprehend if it was done right to begin with.
Depending on the language, you may well have the option of multiple inheritance, but normally simple interfaces make the most sense. By "simpl... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T01:29:00.770 | 2008-08-15T01:29:00.770 | null | null | 1,389 | null |
11,860 | 2 | null | 11,854 | 0 | null | Normally when we talk about 'is a' vs 'has a' we're talking about Inheritance vs Composition.
Um...damage counter would just be attribute of one of your derived classes and wouldn't really be discussed in terms of 'A person is a damage counter' with respect to your question.
See this:
[http://www.artima.com/designte... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T01:15:32.417 | 2008-08-15T01:28:42.843 | 2017-05-23T12:13:37.900 | -1 | 419 | null |
11,854 | 1 | 11,935 | null | 6 | 1,600 | In a project our team is using object lists to perform mass operations on sets of data that should all be processed in a similar way. In particular, different objects would ideally act the same, which would be very easily achieved with polymorphism. The problem I have with it is that inheritance implies the relation... | Inheritance and Polymorphism - Ease of use vs Purity | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T01:00:47.690 | 2010-01-18T21:29:48.753 | 2008-09-21T07:38:09.493 | 2,193 | 1,256 | [
"c++",
"inheritance",
"oop",
"polymorphism"
] |
11,873 | 2 | null | 11,804 | 0 | null | So it sounds like you'd be interested in a solution that adds 'starting record number' and 'final record number' parameter to your web method. (or 'page number' and 'results per page')
This shouldn't be too hard if the backing store is sql server (or even mysql) as they have built in support for row numbering.
Despit... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T01:40:05.410 | 2008-08-15T01:40:05.410 | null | null | 49 | null |
11,866 | 2 | null | 10,808 | 3 | null | The including class (the thing that inherits from `ActiveRecord::Base`, which, in this case is `Iso`) define its own `after_initialize`, so any solution other than `alias_method_chain` (or other aliasing that saves the original) risks overwriting code. @Orion Edwards' solution is the best I can come up with. There a... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T01:28:04.920 | 2008-08-15T01:42:12.567 | 2008-08-15T01:42:12.567 | 1,190 | 1,190 | null |
11,874 | 2 | null | 11,857 | 2 | null | I use SourceGear's Fortress on my home computer for personal development. Its free for a single user.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T01:44:11.003 | 2008-08-15T01:44:11.003 | null | null | 1,254 | null |
11,877 | 2 | null | 11,831 | 1 | null | Singletons have their uses, but one must be careful in using and exposing them, because they are [way too easy to abuse](http://dotnet.kapenilattex.com/?p=35), difficult to truly unit test, and it is easy to create circular dependencies based on two singletons that accesses each other.
It is helpful however, for when ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T01:48:54.927 | 2008-08-15T01:48:54.927 | null | null | 372 | null |
11,869 | 2 | null | 11,854 | 0 | null | @Andrew
> The ideal of "acting the same" and polymorphism are absolutely unrelated. How does polymorphism make it easy to achieve?
They all have, e.g., one function in common. Let's call it `addDamage()`. If you want to do something like this:
```
foreach (obj in mylist)
obj.addDamage(1)
```
Then you need ei... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T01:29:19.193 | 2008-08-15T01:29:19.193 | null | null | 872 | null |
11,875 | 2 | null | 11,857 | 4 | null | I've had a lot of success with the nice integration between SourceGear vault and FogBugz.
MS Build for build automation meets my needs.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T01:44:36.103 | 2008-08-15T01:44:36.103 | null | null | 49 | null |
11,879 | 1 | 11,899 | null | 6 | 5,218 | Instead of returning a common string, is there a way to return classic objects?
If not: what are the best practices? Do you transpose your object to xml and rebuild the object on the other side? What are the other possibilities?
| Is it possible to return objects from a WebService? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T01:51:48.663 | 2009-01-27T12:21:09.750 | 2008-08-23T18:41:27.453 | 2,134 | 391 | [
"web-services"
] |
11,883 | 2 | null | 11,879 | 3 | null | Yes: in .NET they call this serialization, where objects are serialized into XML and then reconstructed by the consuming service back into its original object type or a surrogate with the same data structure.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T01:56:31.540 | 2008-08-15T01:56:31.540 | null | null | 372 | null |
11,740 | 1 | 32,476 | null | 4 | 1,127 | In a web application like wiki or forums or blogging software, it is often useful to store your data in a relational database. Since many hosting companies offer a single database with their hosting plans (with additional databases costing extra) it is very useful for your users when your database objects (tables, view... | Configurable Table Prefixes with a .Net OR/M? | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 0 | 2008-08-14T22:32:58.860 | 2021-04-01T06:39:17.587 | 2021-04-01T06:38:20.343 | 9,193,372 | 1,336 | [
".net",
"orm"
] |
11,881 | 2 | null | 11,854 | 5 | null | I think you should be implementing interfaces to be able to enforce your relationships (am doing this in C#):
```
public interface IDamageable
{
void AddDamage(int i);
int DamageCount {get;}
}
```
You could implement this in your objects:
```
public class Person : IDamageable
public class House : IDamagea... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T01:54:52.993 | 2008-08-15T01:54:52.993 | null | null | 372 | null |
11,884 | 2 | null | 11,879 | 5 | null | If the object can be serialised to XML and can be described in WSDL then yes it is possible to return objects from a webservice.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T01:57:01.367 | 2008-08-15T01:57:01.367 | null | null | 419 | null |
11,891 | 2 | null | 11,887 | 3 | null | Are you running your PowerShell or Command Prompt as an Administrator? I found this to be the first place to look until you get used to User Access Control or by turning User Access Control off.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T02:06:02.830 | 2008-08-15T02:06:02.830 | null | null | 1,117 | null |
11,878 | 1 | 11,932 | null | 8 | 848 | I am currently architecting a small CRUD applicaton. Their database is a huge mess and will be changing frequently over the course of the next 6 months to a year. What would you recommend for my data layer:
1) ORM (if so, which one?)
2) Linq2Sql
3) Stored Procedures
4) Parametrized Queries
I really need a solution... | Best .NET Solution for Frequently Changed Database | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-15T01:50:02.473 | 2012-03-22T00:27:07.337 | 2012-03-22T00:27:07.337 | 3 | 285 | [
".net",
"database",
"change-management"
] |
11,890 | 2 | null | 11,878 | 0 | null | You're already happy with stored procs and they might be enough to abstract away the changing schema. If ORMs aren't happy with stored procs then maybe they'd work with Views that you keep current on top of the changing schema.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T02:05:46.747 | 2008-08-15T02:05:46.747 | null | null | 1,042 | null |
11,886 | 2 | null | 11,878 | 1 | null | [NHibernate](http://www.hibernate.org/343.html), but only if you would be amenable to having an object-first approach wherein you define your classes, and then define your desired table structure in the mapping files, and then create a database schema using NHibernate's built in schema generation classes.
For doing it... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T02:00:55.353 | 2008-08-15T02:00:55.353 | null | null | 372 | null |
11,895 | 2 | null | 11,831 | 31 | null | A singleton is just a bunch of global variables in a fancy dress.
Global variables have their uses, as do singletons, but if you think you're doing something cool and useful with a singleton instead of using a yucky global variable (everyone knows globals are bad mmkay), you're unfortunately misled.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T02:12:11.260 | 2008-08-15T02:12:11.260 | null | null | 234 | null |
11,862 | 2 | null | 11,854 | 0 | null | This question is really confusing :/
Your question in bold is very open-ended and has an answer of "it depends", but your example doesn't really give much information about the context from which you are asking. These lines confuse me;
> > sets of data that should all be processed in a similar way
What way? Are the ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T01:17:13.803 | 2008-08-15T01:17:13.803 | null | null | 1,043 | null |
11,864 | 2 | null | 11,854 | 0 | null | @Kevin
> Normally when we talk about 'is a' vs 'has a' we're talking about Inheritance vs Composition.Um...damage counter would just be attribute of one of your derived classes and wouldn't really be discussed in terms of 'A person is a damage counter' with respect to your question.
Having the damage counter as an attr... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T01:22:11.953 | 2008-08-15T01:22:11.953 | 2020-06-20T09:12:55.060 | -1 | 872 | null |
11,900 | 2 | null | 11,879 | 1 | null | .NET automatically does this with objects that are serializable. I'm pretty sure Java works the same way.
Here is an article that talks about object serialization in .NET:
[http://www.codeguru.com/Csharp/Csharp/cs_syntax/serialization/article.php/c7201](http://www.codeguru.com/Csharp/Csharp/cs_syntax/serialization/art... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T02:24:07.583 | 2008-08-15T02:24:07.583 | null | null | 357 | null |
11,896 | 2 | null | 10,072 | 0 | null | [DynamicDrive has an easy favicon maker too](http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/).
Different pages/directories can also call a different .ico with code similar to y0mbo's example (this is what Mint uses):
```
<link href="sc/ph645.43/images/icons/mint.ico" rel="icon" type="text/x-icon" />
```
[This](http://peris... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T02:16:03.013 | 2008-10-17T21:00:01.277 | null | null | null | null |
11,902 | 2 | null | 11,879 | 2 | null | Where possible, I transpose the objects into XML - this means that the Web Service is more portable - I can then access the service in whatever language, I just need to create the parser/object transposer in that language.
Because we have WSDL files describing the service, this is almost automated in some systems.
(F... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T02:26:02.463 | 2008-08-15T02:26:02.463 | null | null | 188 | null |
11,887 | 1 | 11,898 | null | 15 | 8,155 | I get an Access is Denied error message when I use the strong name tool to create a new key to sign a .NET assembly. This works just fine on a Windows XP machine but it does not work on my Vista machine.
```
PS C:\users\brian\Dev\Projects\BELib\BELib> sn -k keypair.snk
Microsoft (R) .NET Framework Strong Name Utilit... | sn.exe fails with Access Denied error message | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-15T02:01:13.217 | 2021-08-23T19:45:30.507 | 2012-06-29T11:06:48.107 | 1,288 | 1,254 | [
".net",
"strongname",
"sn.exe"
] |
11,907 | 2 | null | 11,632 | 5 | null | This may be considered syntax, but VB.NET is case sensitive while C# is case .
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T02:44:56.683 | 2008-08-15T02:44:56.683 | null | null | 357 | null |
11,898 | 2 | null | 11,887 | 31 | null | > Yes I have tried running PS and the
regular command prompt as
administrator. The same error message
comes up.
Another possible solution could be that you need to give your user account access to the key container located at C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\MachineKeys
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T02:22:18.227 | 2008-08-15T02:29:33.937 | 2008-08-15T02:29:33.937 | 1,117 | 1,117 | null |
11,903 | 1 | 13,820 | null | 10 | 2,882 | My website will be using only OpenID for authentication. I'd like to pull user details down via attribute exchange, but attribute exchange seems to have caused a lot of grief for StackOverflow.
What is the current state of play in the industry? Does any OpenID provider do a decent job of attribute exchange?
Should ... | OpenID Attribute Exchange - should I use it? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-15T02:29:50.553 | 2010-04-17T08:52:02.277 | 2008-08-15T06:53:29.100 | 257 | 257 | [
"authentication",
"openid"
] |
11,911 | 2 | null | 11,831 | 1 | null | I find you have to be very careful about you're deciding to use a singleton. As others have mentioned, it's essentially the same issue as using global variables. You must be very cautious and consider what you could be doing by using one.
It's very rare to use them and usually there is a better way to do things. I've... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T02:50:15.003 | 2008-08-15T02:50:15.003 | null | null | 392 | null |
11,914 | 2 | null | 11,831 | 5 | null | I've been trying to think of a way to come to the poor singelton's rescue here, but I must admit it's hard. I've seen very few legitimate uses of them and with the current drive to do dependency injection andd unit testing they are just hard to use. They definetly are the "cargo cult" manifestation of programming wit... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T02:54:53.653 | 2008-08-15T02:54:53.653 | null | null | 1,327 | null |
11,899 | 2 | null | 11,879 | 7 | null | As mentioned, you can do this in .net via serialization. By default all native types are serializable so this happens automagically for you.
However if you have complex types, you need to mark the object with the [Serializable] attribute. The same goes with complex types as properties.
So for example you need to have... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T02:23:16.150 | 2008-08-15T02:23:16.150 | null | null | 493 | null |
11,905 | 2 | null | 11,831 | 38 | null | Google has a [Singleton Detector](http://code.google.com/p/google-singleton-detector/) for Java that I believe started out as a tool that must be run on all code produced at Google. The nutshell reason to remove Singletons:
> because they can make testing
difficult and hide problems with your
design
For a more... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T02:40:44.337 | 2008-09-15T17:19:34.103 | 2008-09-15T17:19:34.103 | 700 | 700 | null |
11,912 | 2 | null | 11,500 | 2 | null | I wrote a [blog post](http://terrapinstation.wordpress.com/2008/06/12/aspnet-http-comression-and-reducing-response-size/) about improving ASP.NET page performance this a couple months back. Here are some quick & easy ways -
- - - -
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T02:53:37.370 | 2008-08-15T02:53:37.370 | null | null | 357 | null |
11,915 | 1 | 11,920 | null | 115 | 44,389 | How would you reccommend handling RSS Feeds in ASP.NET MVC? Using a third party library? Using the RSS stuff in the BCL? Just making an RSS view that renders the XML? Or something completely different?
| RSS Feeds in ASP.NET MVC | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-15T02:56:41.030 | 2017-06-10T22:54:31.713 | 2012-07-13T06:27:33.550 | 727,208 | 571 | [
"asp.net-mvc",
"rss"
] |
11,917 | 2 | null | 11,857 | 2 | null | I use [VisualSVN Server](http://www.visualsvn.com/) for source control, [Mingle](http://studios.thoughtworks.com/mingle-project-intelligence) for project management and bug tracking, and [Team City](http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/) for continous integration. I'm still getting used to it, but it's working great so f... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T03:03:14.387 | 2008-08-15T03:03:14.387 | null | null | 571 | null |
11,919 | 1 | 11,924 | null | 10 | 10,014 | Okay, I've looked all over the internet for a good solution to get PHP and MySQL working on IIS7.0. It's nearly impossible, I've tried it so many times and given up in vain. Please please help by linking some great step-by-step tutorial to adding PHP and MySQL on IIS7.0 from scratch. PHP and MySQL are essential for ins... | How do I get PHP and MySQL working on IIS 7.0? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-15T03:05:13.273 | 2014-12-22T20:25:27.637 | 2014-12-22T20:25:27.637 | 1,438,393 | 1,392 | [
"php",
"mysql",
"iis-7"
] |
11,904 | 2 | null | 11,761 | 3 | null | To echo [klughing](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11761/persisting-data-in-net-web-service-memory#11789), if your JSON data isn't expected to change often, I think the simplest way to cache it is to use a static collection of some kind - perhaps a DataTable.
First, parse your JSON data into a System.Data.DataTabl... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T02:36:03.660 | 2008-08-15T02:36:03.660 | 2017-05-23T12:09:38.363 | -1 | 357 | null |
11,921 | 2 | null | 11,919 | 0 | null | It's supposed to work via FastCGI. But I haven't had great success (using Vista). I can get PHP to run, but it crashes after a page loads (FastCGI does). So I'm modding you up. I'd like to see a reliable answer myself.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T03:20:12.293 | 2008-08-15T03:20:12.293 | null | null | 534 | null |
11,924 | 2 | null | 11,919 | 6 | null | Have you taken a look at this:
[http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/246/using-fastcgi-to-host-php-applications-on-iis7/](http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/246/using-fastcgi-to-host-php-applications-on-iis7/)
MySQL should be pretty straight forward.
Let us know what problems you're encountering...
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-15T03:24:09.337 | 2013-11-24T07:34:49.403 | 2013-11-24T07:34:49.403 | 419 | 419 | null |
11,920 | 2 | null | 11,915 | 65 | null | Here is what I recommend:
1. Create a class called RssResult that inherits off the abstract base class ActionResult.
2. Override the ExecuteResult method.
3. ExecuteResult has the ControllerContext passed to it by the caller and with this you can get the data and content type.
4. Once you change the content type to r... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T03:12:49.623 | 2008-08-15T03:18:50.173 | 2008-08-15T03:18:50.173 | 1,117 | 1,117 | null |
11,929 | 2 | null | 11,879 | 1 | null | @Brian: I don't know how things work in Java, but in .net objects get serialized down to XML, not base64 strings. The webservice publishes a wsdl file that contains the method and object definitions required for your webservice.
I would hope that nobody creates webservices that simply create a base64 string
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T03:31:00.507 | 2008-08-15T03:31:00.507 | null | null | 493 | null |
11,923 | 2 | null | 11,879 | 2 | null | It is possible to return objects from a web service using XML. But Web Services are supposed to be platform and operating system agnostic. Serializing an object simply allows you to store and retrieve an object from a byte stream, such as a file. For instance, you can serialize a Java object, convert that binary str... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T03:22:56.140 | 2008-08-15T03:22:56.140 | null | null | 725 | null |
11,930 | 1 | 12,030 | null | 17 | 32,074 | How can I determine the IP of my router/gateway in Java? I can get my IP easily enough. I can get my internet IP using a service on a website. But how can I determine my gateway's IP?
This is somewhat easy in .NET if you know your way around. But how do you do it in Java?
| How can I determine the IP of my router/gateway in Java? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-15T03:32:28.897 | 2020-03-12T09:33:20.563 | 2014-07-09T06:09:09.890 | 3,302,887 | 338 | [
"java",
"sockets",
"ip",
"router"
] |
11,936 | 2 | null | 11,887 | 3 | null | Why not fire up sysinternals Process Monitor too see what you can see, it's the first thing I always do when I get any kind of access denied message?
[http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx](http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T03:43:15.350 | 2008-08-15T03:43:15.350 | null | null | 419 | null |
11,926 | 1 | 11,957 | null | 13 | 22,277 | I'm new to MVC (and ASP.Net routing). I'm trying to map `*.aspx` to a controller called `PageController`.
```
routes.MapRoute(
"Page",
"{name}.aspx",
new { controller = "Page", action = "Index", id = "" }
);
```
Wouldn't the code above map *.aspx to `PageController`? When I run this and type in any .asp... | ASP.Net MVC route mapping | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 0 | 2008-08-15T03:25:31.657 | 2019-03-19T12:09:06.123 | 2019-03-19T12:09:06.123 | 238,631 | 105 | [
"c#",
"asp.net",
"asp.net-mvc",
"routes"
] |
11,935 | 2 | null | 11,854 | 3 | null | This can be accomplished using multiple inheritance. In your specific case (C++), you can use pure virtual classes as interfaces. This allows you to have multiple inheritance without creating scope/ambiguity problems. Example:
```
class Damage {
virtual void addDamage(int d) = 0;
virtual int getDamage() = 0... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T03:41:05.930 | 2008-08-15T03:41:05.930 | null | null | 725 | null |
11,934 | 2 | null | 11,831 | 0 | null | I really disagree on the idea. Singletons are really useful when used to solve the right problem. Let me give you a real example.
I once developed a small piece of software to a place I worked, and some forms had to use some info about the company, its employees, services and prices. At its first version, the syst... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T03:40:26.870 | 2008-08-15T03:40:26.870 | null | null | 431 | null |
11,938 | 2 | null | 11,857 | 3 | null | Sourcegear's suite of products are a very nice alternative. Vault + Dragnet + Fortress are nice, however if you can't afford all of those, Vault + FogBugz is a pretty decent alternative.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T03:44:10.153 | 2008-08-18T18:55:40.067 | 2008-08-18T18:55:40.067 | 905 | 493 | null |
11,932 | 2 | null | 11,878 | 6 | null | One key thing to be aware of here is that if the database schema is changing frequently, you want to have some level of compile time type safety. I've found this to be a problem with NHibernate because it uses xml mapping files so if you change something in your database schema, you don't know until runtime that the ma... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T03:37:32.430 | 2008-08-15T03:37:32.430 | null | null | 493 | null |
11,949 | 2 | null | 11,878 | 5 | null | I'd look at SubSonic with the build provider (Website Project) setup. That works great because it automatically regenerates the DAL objects every time you build your project, so if the database changes in a way that breaks your code, you get a build error.
It worked well until the database schema got really complex an... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T03:57:06.273 | 2008-08-15T03:57:06.273 | null | null | 5 | null |
11,937 | 2 | null | 11,926 | 0 | null | Not sure how your controller looks, the error seems to be pointing to the fact that it can't find the controller. Did you inherit off of Controller after creating the PageController class? Is the PageController located in the Controllers directory?
Here is my route in the Global.asax.cs
```
routes.MapRoute(
"Pa... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T03:43:38.110 | 2008-08-15T03:51:43.787 | 2008-08-15T03:51:43.787 | 1,117 | 1,117 | null |
11,954 | 2 | null | 11,632 | 0 | null | When it gets to IL its all just bits. That case insensitivity is just a precompiler pass.
But the general consensus is, vb is more verbose.
If you can write c# why not save your eyes and hands and write the smaller amount of code to do the same thing.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T04:18:07.557 | 2008-08-15T04:18:07.557 | null | null | 1,220 | null |
11,946 | 2 | null | 11,926 | 6 | null | I just answered my own question. I had the routes backwards (Default was above page). Below is the correct order. So this brings up the next question... how does the "Default" route match (I assume they use regular expressions here) the "Page" route?
```
routes.MapRoute(
"Page",
"{Name}.aspx... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T03:54:03.080 | 2008-08-15T03:54:03.080 | null | null | 105 | null |
11,956 | 2 | null | 888 | 1 | null | In a production environment, I log relevant data to the server's error log with error_log().
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T04:23:02.617 | 2008-08-15T04:23:02.617 | null | null | null | null |
11,942 | 2 | null | 9 | 1,104 | null | This is a strange way to do it, but if you format the date to `yyyymmdd` and subtract the date of birth from the current date then drop the last 4 digits you've got the age :)
I don't know C#, but I believe this will work in any language.
```
20080814 - 19800703 = 280111
```
Drop the last 4 digits = `28`.
C# Code:... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-15T03:47:29.100 | 2019-12-24T08:46:01.893 | 2019-12-24T08:46:01.893 | 5,407,188 | 1,310 | null |
11,960 | 2 | null | 11,930 | 1 | null | Try shelling out to traceroute if you have it.
'traceroute -m 1 www.amazon.com' will emit something like this:
```
traceroute to www.amazon.com (72.21.203.1), 1 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 10.0.1.1 (10.0.1.1) 0.694 ms 0.445 ms 0.398 ms
```
Parse the second line. Yes, it's ugly, but it'll get you going until s... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T04:25:23.160 | 2008-08-15T04:25:23.160 | null | null | 528 | null |
11,958 | 2 | null | 10,595 | 5 | null | Check out [rubigen](http://rubigen.rubyforge.org). You can also view a [presentation](http://rubyconf2007.confreaks.com/d3t1p1_rubigen.html) by dr nic.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T04:24:56.700 | 2008-08-15T04:40:41.350 | 2008-08-15T04:40:41.350 | 529 | 529 | null |
11,965 | 2 | null | 11,950 | 0 | null | My team uses [log4net](http://logging.apache.org/log4net/index.html) from Apache. It's pretty lightweight and easy to setup. Best of all, it's completely configurable from the web.config file, so once you've got the hooks in your code setup, you can completely change the way logging is done just by changing the web.c... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T04:33:02.613 | 2008-08-15T04:33:02.613 | null | null | 423 | null |
11,967 | 2 | null | 11,950 | 30 | null | I use [elmah](http://code.google.com/p/elmah/). It has some really nice features and here is a [CodeProject](http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/ELMAHDemo.aspx) article on it. I think the StackOverflow team uses elmah also!
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T04:34:49.817 | 2008-08-15T04:34:49.817 | null | null | 1,117 | null |
11,961 | 2 | null | 11,950 | 0 | null | We use a custom homegrown logging util we wrote. It requires you to implement logging on your own everywhere you need it. But, it also allows you to capture a lot more than just the exception.
For example our code would look like this:
```
Try
Dim p as New Person()
p.Name = "Joe"
p.Age = 30
Catch ex as Except... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-15T04:26:53.653 | 2017-05-30T20:15:57.020 | 2017-05-30T20:15:57.020 | 13,531 | 225 | null |
11,957 | 2 | null | 11,926 | 6 | null | > I just answered my own question. I had
the routes backwards (Default was
above page).
Yeah, you have to put all custom routes above the Default route.
> So this brings up the next question...
how does the "Default" route match (I
assume they use regular expressions
here) the "Page" route?
The Default rou... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T04:24:44.190 | 2008-08-15T04:24:44.190 | null | null | 1,117 | null |