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12,145 | 2 | null | 12,141 | 6 | null | A junior DBA meant to do:
```
delete from [table] where [condition]
```
Instead they typed:
```
delete [table] where [condition]
```
Which is valid T-Sql but basically ignores the where [condition] bit completely (at least it did back then on MSSQL 2000/97 - I forget which) and wipes the entire table.
That was f... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T11:20:21.573 | 2008-08-15T11:37:54.080 | 2008-08-15T11:37:54.080 | 905 | 905 | null |
12,161 | 2 | null | 12,140 | 0 | null | Usually this is handled by an ini file or XML configuration file. Then you just have a class that reads the setting when neeed.
.NET has this built in with the ConfigurationManager classes, but it's quite easy to implement, just read text files, or load XML into DOM or parse them by hand in code.
Having config files ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T11:44:52.217 | 2008-08-15T11:44:52.217 | null | null | 1,075 | null |
12,159 | 1 | null | null | 789 | 203,622 | I have thus far avoided the nightmare that is testing multi-threaded code since it just seems like too much of a minefield. I'd like to ask how people have gone about testing code that relies on threads for successful execution, or just how people have gone about testing those kinds of issues that only show up when tw... | How should I unit test multithreaded code? | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 0 | 2008-08-15T11:44:33.280 | 2022-11-25T14:39:43.727 | 2020-12-21T18:22:50.973 | 2,357,112 | 912 | [
"multithreading",
"unit-testing"
] |
12,152 | 2 | null | 9,033 | 33 | null | My favourite is the
```
global::
```
keyword to escape namespace hell with some of our 3rd party code providers...
Example:
```
global::System.Collections.Generic.List<global::System.String> myList =
new global::System.Collections.Generic.List<global::System.String>();
```
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-15T11:34:02.497 | 2011-06-07T17:44:40.453 | 2011-06-07T17:44:40.453 | 22,364 | 1,276 | null |
12,144 | 1 | 12,256 | null | 42 | 22,573 | OK, so I don't want to start a holy-war here, but we're in the process of trying to consolidate the way we handle our application configuration files and we're struggling to make a decision on the best approach to take. At the moment, every application we distribute is using it's own ad-hoc configuration files, whether... | Application configuration files | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-15T11:19:51.137 | 2015-12-14T10:59:23.073 | 2015-12-14T10:59:23.073 | 1,030 | 1,030 | [
"java",
"xml",
"json",
"cross-platform",
"configuration-files"
] |
12,167 | 2 | null | 2,933 | 4 | null | I'm not sure that this is the best way to do it, but when I'm deploying Ruby GUI apps (not Python, but has the same "problem" as far as .exe's are concerned) on Windows, I just write a short launcher in C# that calls on my main script. It compiles to an executable, and I then have an application executable.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T12:00:37.193 | 2008-08-15T12:00:37.193 | null | null | 1,344 | null |
12,160 | 2 | null | 12,135 | 2 | null | I'm guessing now. but:
1. The system might be generating a serializer for the whole of mscorlib, which could be very slow.
2. You could probably avoid this by wrapping the system type in your own type and serialising that instead - then you'd get a serializer for your own assembly.
3. You might be able to build the s... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T11:44:33.513 | 2008-08-15T11:44:33.513 | null | null | 987 | null |
12,169 | 2 | null | 12,144 | 0 | null | As far as I know, the Windows registry is no longer the preferred way of storing configuration if you are using .NET - most applications now make use of System.Configuration [1, 2]. Since this is also XML based it seems to be that everything is moving in the direction of using XML for configuration.
If you want to sta... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T12:04:00.743 | 2008-08-15T12:04:00.743 | null | null | 1,185 | null |
12,183 | 2 | null | 12,140 | 0 | null | I did this:
```
public class MySettings
{
public static double Setting1
{ get { return SettingsCache.Instance.GetDouble("Setting1"); } }
public static string Setting2
{ get { return SettingsCache.Instance.GetString("Setting2"); } }
}
```
I put this in a separate infrastructure module to remo... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-15T12:20:26.450 | 2013-01-22T10:22:58.130 | 2013-01-22T10:22:58.130 | 1,410,342 | 960 | null |
12,166 | 2 | null | 2,933 | 15 | null | An alternative tool to py2exe is [bbfreeze](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bbfreeze/) which generates executables for windows and linux. It's newer than py2exe and handles eggs quite well. I've found it magically works better without configuration for a wide variety of applications.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T11:56:02.663 | 2008-08-15T11:56:02.663 | null | null | 995 | null |
12,176 | 1 | 12,189 | null | 26 | 11,312 | Is there any way to include the SVN repository revision number in the version string of a .NET assembly? Something like Major.Minor.SVNRev
I've seen mention of doing this with something like CC.NET (although on ASP.NET actually), but is there any way to do it without any extra software? I've done similar things in C... | SVN Revision Version in .NET Assembly w/ out CC.NET | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-15T12:15:31.250 | 2017-09-22T11:02:49.837 | 2008-08-18T18:34:39.533 | 1,220 | 194 | [
".net",
"svn",
"versioning"
] |
12,189 | 2 | null | 12,176 | 6 | null | Have a look at SubWCRev - [http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-subwcrev.html](http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-subwcrev.html)
The assembly version numbers are usually in assemblyinfo.cs
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T12:29:04.327 | 2008-08-15T12:29:04.327 | null | null | 987 | null |
12,194 | 2 | null | 12,144 | 2 | null | We are using ini style config files. We use the [Nini](http://nini.sourceforge.net/) library to manage them. Nini makes it very easy to use. Nini was orignally for .NET but it has been ported to other platforms using Mono.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T12:41:32.337 | 2008-08-15T12:41:32.337 | null | null | 1,340 | null |
12,185 | 2 | null | 12,140 | 1 | null | You could use Martin Fowlers ServiceLocator pattern. In php it could look like this:
```
class ServiceLocator {
private static $soleInstance;
private $globalSettings;
public static function load($locator) {
self::$soleInstance = $locator;
}
public static function globalSettings() {
if (!isset(self:... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T12:25:19.483 | 2008-08-15T12:25:19.483 | null | null | 1,123 | null |
12,192 | 2 | null | 12,144 | 0 | null | We are using properties files, simply because Java supports them natively. A couple of months ago I saw that SpringSource Application Platform uses JSON to configure their server and it looks very interesting. I [compared various configuration notations](http://dlinsin.blogspot.com/2008/07/configuration-notations.html)... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T12:32:36.317 | 2008-08-15T12:32:36.317 | null | null | 198 | null |
12,206 | 2 | null | 9,666 | 12 | null | Hang about -- the question that is in the title is definitely not the real question that Rory is asking.
The titular question has the simple answer of "No" -- but this is no help at all, when you see the real question -- which i don't think anyone has given a simple answer to.
The real question Rory asks is presented... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T12:53:51.250 | 2008-08-15T14:17:07.353 | 2008-08-15T14:17:07.353 | 49 | 49 | null |
12,223 | 2 | null | 12,159 | 2 | null | I have had the unfortunate task of testing threaded code and they are definitely the hardest tests I have ever written.
When writing my tests, I used a combination of delegates and events. Basically it is all about using `PropertyNotifyChanged` events with a `WaitCallback` or some kind of `ConditionalWaiter` that pol... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-15T13:15:47.697 | 2016-06-19T22:22:52.560 | 2016-06-19T22:22:52.560 | 2,883,245 | 1,117 | null |
12,207 | 2 | null | 12,075 | 4 | null | @Rob Cooper
> Having had some discussions with my
manager at work, he said he doesn't
obfuscate, but does NGEN on install,
apparantly that should be enough to
stop Reflector working on your
assemblies, but I have no idea if this
is true and to what extent, so please
don't take it as gospel :)
This doesn... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T12:54:55.680 | 2008-08-15T12:54:55.680 | null | null | 1,254 | null |
12,210 | 2 | null | 12,140 | 1 | null | I like to model my configuration access off of the Service Locator pattern. This gives me a single point to get any configuration value that I need and by putting it outside the application in a separate library, it allows reuse and testability. Here is some sample code, I am not sure what language you are using, but... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T12:57:22.337 | 2008-08-15T12:57:22.337 | null | null | 1,117 | null |
12,225 | 1 | 16,718 | null | 2 | 3,006 | I have a database that contains a date and we are using the MaskedEditExtender (MEE) and MaskedEditValidator to make sure the dates are appropriate. However, we want the Admins to be able to go in and change the data (specifically the date) if necessary.
How can I have the MEE field pre-populate with the database v... | Problem databinding an ASP.Net AJAX toolkit MaskedEditExtender | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T13:16:25.263 | 2012-09-06T16:05:40.213 | 2008-09-19T22:36:26.607 | 811 | 730 | [
"asp.net",
"validation",
"asp.net-ajax"
] |
12,231 | 2 | null | 11,689 | 1 | null | @Gaius
```
foreign key (thing_id, thing_type) -> problems.id or solutions.id
```
Be careful with these kinds of "multidirectional" foreign keys. My experience has shown that query performance suffers dramatically when your join condition has to check the type before figuring out which table to join on. It doesn't ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T13:22:01.477 | 2008-08-15T13:25:05.183 | 2008-08-15T13:25:05.183 | 1,219 | 1,219 | null |
12,237 | 2 | null | 12,159 | 74 | null | Tough one indeed! In my (C++) unit tests, I've broken this down into several categories along the lines of the concurrency pattern used:
1. Unit tests for classes that operate in a single thread and aren't thread aware -- easy, test as usual.
2. Unit tests for Monitor objects (those that execute synchronized methods ... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-15T13:26:26.537 | 2021-03-08T15:37:02.360 | 2021-03-08T15:37:02.360 | 201,787 | 1,146 | null |
12,233 | 2 | null | 12,141 | 1 | null | The worst thing that happened to me was that a Production server consume all the space in the HD. I was using SQL Server so I see the database files and see that the log was about 10 Gb so I decide to do what I always do when I want to trunc a Log file. I did a Detach the delete the log file and then attach again. Wel... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T13:23:23.267 | 2008-08-15T13:23:23.267 | null | null | 1,154 | null |
12,227 | 2 | null | 12,141 | 8 | null | I work for a small e-commerce company, there's 2 developers and a DBA, me being one of the developers. I'm normally not in the habit of updating production data on the fly, if we have stored procedures we've changed we put them through source control and have an officially deployment routine setup.
Well anyways a user... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-15T13:17:26.040 | 2015-08-20T22:23:22.757 | 2015-08-20T22:23:22.757 | 7,226 | 1,302 | null |
12,247 | 2 | null | 12,243 | 12 | null | There's a million ways to skin a cat. However, the simplest one is always the best. Which way is the simplest for you? Depends on your requirements. But there are some general rules of thumb I follow.
First, reduce the overall number of projects as much as possible. When you compile twenty times a day, that extra... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T13:39:01.987 | 2008-08-15T13:39:01.987 | null | null | null | null |
12,202 | 2 | null | 234 | 63 | null | This is something that annoys me about MSSQL ([rant on my blog](http://bizvprog.blogspot.com/2008/04/annoying-fundamental-flaw-with-sql.html)). I wish MSSQL supported `upsert`.
@Dillie-O's code is a good way in older SQL versions (+1 vote), but it still is basically two IO operations (the `exists` and then the `updat... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-15T12:50:22.350 | 2013-11-21T08:29:36.703 | 2017-05-23T12:09:56.457 | -1 | 905 | null |
12,241 | 2 | null | 12,159 | 271 | null | Look, there's no easy way to do this. I'm working on a project that is inherently multithreaded. Events come in from the operating system and I have to process them concurrently.
The simplest way to deal with testing complex, multithreaded application code is this: If it's too complex to test, you're doing it wrong.... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-15T13:29:01.523 | 2020-10-27T06:26:01.603 | 2020-10-27T06:26:01.603 | 1,402,846 | null | null |
12,229 | 2 | null | 12,144 | 0 | null | Re: epatel's comment
I think the original question was asking about application configuration that an admin would be doing, not just storing user preferences. The suggestions you gave seem more for user prefs than application config, and aren't usually something that the user would ever deal with directly (the app sh... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T13:18:51.170 | 2008-08-15T13:18:51.170 | null | null | 1,409 | null |
12,243 | 1 | 12,247 | null | 10 | 2,497 | I apologize for asking such a generalized question, but it's something that can prove challenging for me. My team is about to embark on a large project that will hopefully drag together all of the random one-off codebases that have evolved through the years. Given that this project will cover standardizing logical enti... | Namespace/solution structure | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-15T13:30:42.690 | 2011-12-05T01:57:50.630 | 2011-12-05T01:57:50.630 | 449,652 | 1,212 | [
"architecture",
"module",
"namespaces",
"legacy"
] |
12,248 | 2 | null | 12,243 | 4 | null | I recently experienced the exact same at work. Lots of ad-hoc code that needed to be structured and organised.
Its real hard at first, since there is so much. I think the best advice I could give is to just on the wind down on a Friday afternoon, for a couple of weeks I would just pick an app/chunk of code, examine w... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T13:39:06.730 | 2008-08-15T13:39:06.730 | null | null | 832 | null |
12,249 | 2 | null | 12,243 | 0 | null | Large solutions with lots of projects can be quite slow to compile, but are easier to manage together.
I often have Unit test assemblies in the same solution as the ones they're testing, as you tend to make changes to them together.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T13:40:31.297 | 2008-08-15T13:40:31.297 | null | null | 905 | null |
12,095 | 1 | 12,119 | null | 4 | 1,588 | Our team is creating a new recruitment workflow system to replace an old one. I have been tasked with migrating the old data into the new schema. I have decided to do this by creating a small Windows Forms project as the schema are radically different and straight TSQL scripts are not an adequate solution.
The main se... | Windows Forms Threading and Events - ListBox updates promptly but progressbar experiences huge delay | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-15T09:19:04.050 | 2008-10-15T21:46:51.760 | 2008-10-15T21:46:51.760 | 6,899 | 2,083,160 | [
"windows",
"multithreading",
"events",
"forms",
"delegates"
] |
12,256 | 2 | null | 12,144 | 11 | null | XML XML XML XML. We're talking . There is no "angle bracket tax" if you're not serializing objects in a performance-intense situation.
Config files must be human readable and human understandable, in addition to machine readable. XML is a good compromise between the two.
If your shop has people that are afraid o... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T13:45:26.670 | 2009-06-22T11:41:07.107 | 2009-06-22T11:41:07.107 | null | null | null |
12,257 | 2 | null | 12,225 | 0 | null | Are you referring to the asp.Net Ajax toolkit extensions at:
[http://www.asp.net/AJAX/AjaxControlToolkit/Samples/MaskedEdit/MaskedEdit.aspx](http://www.asp.net/AJAX/AjaxControlToolkit/Samples/MaskedEdit/MaskedEdit.aspx)
If so have you checked that your data is coming back in the correct format? It will have to match ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T13:45:53.580 | 2008-08-15T13:45:53.580 | null | null | 905 | null |
12,258 | 2 | null | 12,243 | 3 | null | For large projects the approach I like to take is to have one Domain namespace for my business objects and then use Data Transfer Objects (DTO's) in my layers where storage and retrieval of the business object is needed. A DTO is a simple object that doesn't contain any business logic.
Here is a link that explains a ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T13:46:10.413 | 2008-08-15T13:46:10.413 | null | null | 1,117 | null |
12,261 | 2 | null | 12,176 | 2 | null | svn info, tells you the version you are on, you can make a "pre-build" event in VS on your project to generate the assemblyinfo.cs by running svn info and parsing its results with a home grown command line app.
I have done this before, but quickly switched to just having ccnet pass it as a variable to nant.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T13:51:52.243 | 2008-08-15T13:51:52.243 | null | null | 1,220 | null |
12,267 | 2 | null | 12,243 | 7 | null | My advice, having embarked on a similar undertaking, is to not agonize over the name spaces..
Just start developing with a few important loose guidelines, because however you start out, your project is organic, and you end up reorganizing the name spaces and classes over time.
Don't waste time talking too much about... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T14:01:08.433 | 2008-08-15T14:01:08.433 | null | null | 357 | null |
12,268 | 1 | 12,274 | null | 2 | 1,852 | Lutz Roeder's Reflector, that is.
Its obfuscated.
I still don't understand this. Can somebody please explain?
| Have you ever reflected Reflector? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-15T14:01:15.030 | 2012-04-01T09:58:02.790 | 2012-04-01T09:58:02.790 | 1,219,121 | null | [
".net",
"reflector"
] |
12,272 | 2 | null | 12,268 | 2 | null | What needs explaining, Reflector isn't open source, Lutz decided to obfuscate to protect his IP. Fair game.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T14:04:06.180 | 2008-08-15T14:04:06.180 | null | null | 419 | null |
12,274 | 2 | null | 12,268 | 9 | null | It would have been kind of ironic if it weren't ;-)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T14:07:58.543 | 2008-08-15T14:07:58.543 | null | null | 905 | null |
12,264 | 2 | null | 12,144 | 1 | null | @Herms
What I really meant was to stick to the recommended way software should store configuration values for any given platform.
What you often get then is also the recommended ways these should/can be modified. Like a configuration menu in a program or a configuration panel in a "system prefs" application (for sys... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T13:58:27.190 | 2008-08-15T14:09:04.390 | 2008-08-15T14:09:04.390 | 842 | 842 | null |
12,253 | 2 | null | 12,243 | 4 | null | We name the assemblies in .NET the following way Company.Project.XXXX.YYYY where XXXX is Project and YYYYY is subproject, for example:
- - -
We take this from a book call [Framework Design Guidelines](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/0321545613) by Krzysztof Cwalina (Author), Brad Abrams (Author)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T13:43:38.373 | 2008-08-15T14:00:40.803 | 2008-08-15T14:00:40.803 | 1,154 | 1,154 | null |
12,271 | 1 | 12,491 | null | 3 | 291 | I have created a template for Visual Studio 2008 and it currently shows up under File->New Project->Visual C#. However, it is only really specific to Visual C#/Windows but I can't work out how to get it to show up under the "Windows" category and not the more general "Visual C#".
| Creating Visual Studio templates under the "Windows" category. | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-15T14:04:01.017 | 2012-09-21T00:03:05.457 | 2012-09-21T00:03:05.457 | null | 214 | [
"visual-studio",
"templates"
] |
12,266 | 2 | null | 11,665 | 1 | null | You will have to create a custom header renderer, add a button to it and position it manually. Try something like this:
```
<mx:Accordion>
<mx:headerRenderer>
<mx:Component>
<AccordionHeader xmlns="mx.containers.accordionClasses.*">
<mx:Script>
<. To some extent it depends on whether you really need it or not. Simple Registration seems to do that job, and it might make sense to just ask th... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T14:23:14.597 | 2008-08-15T14:23:14.597 | null | null | 1,035 | null |
12,277 | 2 | null | 12,144 | 29 | null | YAML, for the simple reason that it makes for very readable configuration files compared to XML.
XML:
```
<user id="babooey" on="cpu1">
<firstname>Bob</firstname>
<lastname>Abooey</lastname>
<department>adv</department>
<cell>555-1212</cell>
<address password="xxxx">ahunter@example1.com</address>
... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T14:17:33.890 | 2008-08-15T14:17:33.890 | null | null | 175 | null |
12,285 | 2 | null | 12,268 | 6 | null | I'm curious what product he uses to obfuscate Reflector. Or maybe it's his custom solution - he obviously knows tons about IL.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T14:24:13.143 | 2008-08-15T14:24:13.143 | null | null | 1,065 | null |
12,282 | 2 | null | 6,812 | 0 | null | I used Gizmo Daemon for my PowerMate under Debian - it supports fancy keyboard keys as well (although I haven't tried it for those keys). Hacking on gizmod to get it to do what I wanted was pretty easy.
[Gizmo Daemon](http://gizmod.sourceforge.net/)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T14:21:01.840 | 2008-08-15T14:21:01.840 | null | null | 1,322 | null |
12,283 | 2 | null | 8,439 | 11 | null | Place two rectangles, one inside the other.
Place your table inside the inner rectangle and set it to always be visible.
Set the inner rectangle's Page Break to Insert After Rectangle.
Set the outer rectangle's visibility to use your conditional expression.
The page break and the conditional visibility are now separat... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T14:22:26.470 | 2008-08-18T17:21:18.370 | 2008-08-18T17:21:18.370 | 1,373 | 1,373 | null |
12,279 | 2 | null | 11 | 12 | null | @Jeff
> ```
var ts = new TimeSpan(DateTime.UtcNow.Ticks - dt.Ticks);
```
Doing a subtraction on `DateTime` returns a `TimeSpan` anyway.
So you can just do
```
(DateTime.UtcNow - dt).TotalSeconds
```
I'm also surprised to see the constants multiplied-out by hand and then comments added with the multiplications i... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-15T14:20:04.133 | 2018-10-05T02:38:18.890 | 2018-10-05T02:38:18.890 | 8,828,658 | 987 | null |
12,287 | 2 | null | 12,144 | 2 | null | XML, JSON, INI.
They all have their strengths and weaknesses.
In an application context, I feel that the abstraction layer is the important thing.
If you can choose a way to structure the data that is a good middle ground between human readability and how you want to access/abstract the data in code, you're golden.
... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T14:26:55.807 | 2008-08-15T14:26:55.807 | null | null | 960 | null |
12,292 | 2 | null | 12,271 | 0 | null | Categorization of templates depends on settings (for example, if you choose "C#" settings, all of a sudden all other languages move to an "other languages" tree).
What folder is your template in?
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T14:31:21.867 | 2008-08-15T14:31:21.867 | null | null | 414 | null |
12,290 | 1 | 15,488 | null | 6 | 3,155 | Hy, does anyone worked with N2 Content Management System([http://www.codeplex.com/n2](http://www.codeplex.com/n2)).
If yes, how does it perform, performance wise(under heavy load)?
It seems pretty simple and easy to use.
Adrian
| Considering N2 CMS but worried about performance. Is this justified? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-15T14:29:20.887 | 2011-07-04T12:49:14.917 | 2011-06-04T22:56:59.763 | 89,989 | 2,099,426 | [
"asp.net",
"performance",
".net-3.5",
"content-management-system",
"n2"
] |
12,293 | 2 | null | 7,864 | 0 | null | The problem with ActiveRecord is that the queries it automatically generates for you can cause performance problems.
You end up doing some unintuitive tricks to optimize the queries that leave you wondering if it would have been more time effective to write the query by hand in the first place.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T14:32:24.233 | 2008-08-15T14:32:24.233 | null | null | 175 | null |
12,294 | 1 | 12,295 | null | 8 | 5,340 | I need to create a historical timeline starting from 1600's to the present day. I also need to have some way of showing events on the timeline so that they do not appear cluttered when many events are close together.
I have tried using Visio 2007 as well as Excel 2007 Radar Charts, but I could not get the results I wa... | Any good tools for creating timelines? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-15T14:32:52.003 | 2012-03-31T21:09:38.883 | 2008-08-15T15:31:39.343 | 1,311 | 1,311 | [
"charts",
"timeline"
] |
12,299 | 2 | null | 12,141 | 4 | null | I once managed to write an updating cursor that never exited. On a 2M+ row table. The locks just escalated and escalated until this 16-core, 8GB RAM (in 2002!) box actually ground to a halt (of the blue screen variety).
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T14:39:26.547 | 2008-08-15T14:39:26.547 | null | null | 414 | null |
12,298 | 2 | null | 10,634 | 12 | null | The most compelling reason to use MSBuild (at least in .NET 3.5 and beyond) - the build engine can build concurrently.
This means a huge speed up in your builds in you have multiple cores/processors.
Previous to 3.5, MSBuild didnt do parallel builds.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T14:39:02.070 | 2008-08-15T14:39:02.070 | null | null | 1,341 | null |
12,295 | 2 | null | 12,294 | 6 | null | SIMILIE Timeline would probably suit your needs.
[http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/](http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/)
Timeline .NET: [http://www.codeplex.com/timelinenet](http://www.codeplex.com/timelinenet)
Oh, i guess i should ask... for personal use or for display to end users? that might change what i would suggest... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T14:33:25.123 | 2008-08-15T14:38:44.003 | 2008-08-15T14:38:44.003 | 77 | 77 | null |
12,297 | 1 | 12,373 | null | 1 | 4,016 | I've got a Repeater that lists all the `web.sitemap` child pages on an ASP.NET page. Its `DataSource` is a `SiteMapNodeCollection`. But, I don't want my registration form page to show up there.
```
Dim Children As SiteMapNodeCollection = SiteMap.CurrentNode.ChildNodes
'remove registration page from collection
For E... | How can I remove nodes from a SiteMapNodeCollection? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-15T14:38:18.920 | 2013-04-28T03:06:43.580 | 2013-04-28T02:59:40.567 | 1,012,641 | 83 | [
"asp.net",
".net",
"vb.net",
"repeater",
"sitemap"
] |
12,302 | 2 | null | 12,294 | 5 | null | [Lifehacker](http://lifehacker.com/) has a good [overview and tutorial](http://lifehacker.com/software/memory/geek-to-live--roll-your-own-timeline-207426.php) of [SIMILIE Timeline](http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/). They seem to like it quite a bit.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T14:44:32.730 | 2008-08-15T15:22:22.713 | 2008-08-15T15:22:22.713 | 1,318 | 1,318 | null |
12,309 | 2 | null | 12,294 | 1 | null | If you need a timeline from RSS Feeeds give xTimeline a try. I just used it
[http://lifehacker.com/software/rss/create-a-timeline-from-rss-feeds-with-xtimeline-283098.php](http://lifehacker.com/software/rss/create-a-timeline-from-rss-feeds-with-xtimeline-283098.php)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T14:47:39.367 | 2008-08-15T14:47:39.367 | null | null | 805 | null |
12,303 | 2 | null | 12,297 | 1 | null | Using Linq and .Net 3.5:
```
//this will now be an enumeration, rather than a read only collection
Dim children = SiteMap.CurrentNode.ChildNodes.Where( _
Function (x) x.Url <> "/Registration.aspx" )
RepeaterSubordinatePages.DataSource = children
```
Without Linq, but using .Net 2:
```
Function IsShown( n as Si... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T14:44:45.380 | 2008-08-15T15:26:26.543 | 2008-08-15T15:26:26.543 | 905 | 905 | null |
12,310 | 2 | null | 11,665 | 2 | null | Thanks, I got it working using [FlexLib](http://code.google.com/p/flexlib/)'s CanvasButtonAccordionHeader.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T14:47:51.863 | 2008-08-15T14:47:51.863 | null | null | 26 | null |
12,301 | 2 | null | 2,785 | 38 | null | Another reason to avoid setting objects to null when you are done with them is that it can actually keep them alive for longer.
e.g.
```
void foo()
{
var someType = new SomeType();
someType.DoSomething();
// someType is now eligible for garbage collection
// ... rest of method not using 'so... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T14:43:34.930 | 2008-08-15T14:43:34.930 | null | null | 1,367 | null |
12,306 | 1 | 12,342 | null | 60 | 72,926 | I'm trying to serialize a Type object in the following way:
```
Type myType = typeof (StringBuilder);
var serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Type));
TextWriter writer = new StringWriter();
serializer.Serialize(writer, myType);
```
When I do this, the call to Serialize throws the following exception:
> "The typ... | Can I serialize a C# Type object? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-15T14:46:07.687 | 2019-02-25T18:44:28.513 | 2013-04-11T08:13:15.997 | 815,073 | 767 | [
"c#",
"serialization"
] |
12,313 | 2 | null | 10,634 | 27 | null | My advice is just the opposite - Avoid MSBuild like the plague. NANT is far far easier to set up your build to do automatic testing, deploy to multiple production environments, integrate with cruisecontrol for an entry environment, integrate with source control. We've gone through so much pain with TFS/MSBuild (Using... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T14:49:46.790 | 2008-08-15T14:49:46.790 | null | null | 1,208 | null |
12,304 | 1 | null | null | 0 | 1,054 | This is a problem I have seen other people besides myself having, and I haven't found a good explanation.
Let's say you have a maintenance plan with a task to check the database, something like this:
```
USE [MyDb]
GO
DBCC CHECKDB with no_infomsgs, all_errormsgs
```
If you go look in your logs after the task execut... | Why do Sql Server 2005 maintenance plans use the wrong database for dbcc checkdb? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T14:45:33.070 | 2014-11-25T16:52:11.517 | 2014-11-25T16:52:11.517 | 2,641,576 | 1,219 | [
"sql-server",
"sql-server-2005"
] |
12,316 | 2 | null | 9,033 | 13 | null | I didn't start to really appreciate the "using" blocks until recently. They make things so much more tidy :)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T14:51:42.590 | 2008-08-15T14:51:42.590 | null | null | 794 | null |
12,315 | 2 | null | 12,306 | 2 | null | According to the MSDN documentation of System.Type [1] you should be able to serialize the System.Type object. However, as the error is explicitly referring to System.Text.StringBuilder, that is likely the class that is causing the serialization error.
[1] Type Class (System) - [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T14:50:59.097 | 2008-08-15T14:50:59.097 | null | null | 1,185 | null |
12,314 | 2 | null | 12,306 | 1 | null | Just looked at its definition, it is not marked as Serializable. If you really need this data to be serialize, then you may have to convert it to a custom class that is marked as such.
```
public abstract class Type : System.Reflection.MemberInfo
Member of System
Summary:
Represents type declarations: class types... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T14:50:09.520 | 2008-08-15T14:50:09.520 | null | null | 805 | null |
12,320 | 2 | null | 12,304 | 1 | null | For starters, always remember that `GO` is not a SQL keyword; it is merely a batch separator that is (generally) implemented/recognized by the client, not the server. So, depending on context and client, there really is no guarantee that the current database is preserved between batches.
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-15T15:00:16.380 | 2014-01-20T18:14:29.837 | 2014-01-20T18:14:29.837 | 414 | 414 | null |
12,325 | 2 | null | 12,268 | 0 | null | Are you allowed to reflect it according to the EULA (if any) ? I would guess not, and not surprised that you can't.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T15:03:04.500 | 2008-08-15T15:03:04.500 | null | null | 1,192 | null |
12,317 | 2 | null | 10,634 | 1 | null | The main reason I still use nAnt over msbuild for my automated builds is that I have more granular control on my builds. Due to msbuild using the csproj has it's build file, all the source in that project is compiled into one assembly. Which causes me to have a lot of projects in my solution for large projects where ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T14:51:51.293 | 2008-08-15T14:55:25.560 | 2008-08-15T14:55:25.560 | 1,117 | 1,117 | null |
12,319 | 1 | 265,407 | null | 18 | 10,571 | I'm looking to the equivalent of Windows [_wfopen()](http://msdn.microsoft.com/fr-fr/library/yeby3zcb.aspx) under Mac OS X. Any idea?
I need this in order to port a Windows library that uses `wchar*` for its File interface. As this is intended to be a cross-platform library, I am unable to rely on how the client appli... | _wfopen equivalent under Mac OS X | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-15T14:59:11.653 | 2013-12-27T11:46:16.403 | 2008-10-02T12:42:08.927 | 268 | 268 | [
"c++",
"winapi",
"macos",
"porting",
"fopen"
] |
12,330 | 1 | 12,381 | null | 7 | 8,412 | Is there any known way of listing the WMI classes and their properties available for a particular system? Im interested in a vbscript approach, but please suggest anything really :)
P.S. Great site.
| Programmatically list WMI classes and their properties | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-15T15:06:31.873 | 2009-05-18T12:19:48.473 | 2009-05-18T09:40:53.490 | 2,361 | null | [
"vbscript",
"wmi"
] |
12,321 | 2 | null | 9,882 | 3 | null | Thanks for all the great suggestions.
Chris, is right. I am looking for a generic solution for normalizing any kind of text. The solution of the problem boils down to dynmamically finding patterns in two or more similar strings.
Almost like predicting the next element in a set, based on the previous two:
1: Everest i... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T15:00:43.553 | 2008-08-15T15:00:43.553 | null | null | null | null |
12,332 | 1 | 12,408 | null | 19 | 3,958 | I am looking for a more technical explanation than the OS calls the function.
Is there a website or book?
| In a C/C++ program, how does the system (Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X) call the main() function? | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 0 | 2008-08-15T15:08:48.560 | 2022-06-27T21:38:25.447 | 2022-06-27T21:01:59.750 | 63,550 | null | [
"c++",
"c",
"program-entry-point"
] |
12,350 | 2 | null | 12,348 | 5 | null | A tip is to use the [WAMP-installer](http://www.wampserver.com/en/). Everything just works. It's not IIS though - so if it is important - you should ignore my advice. ;)
EDIT: I saw that you found the solution so I voted it up. +1
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T15:18:58.667 | 2008-08-15T15:18:58.667 | null | null | 936 | null |
12,342 | 2 | null | 12,306 | 100 | null | I wasn't aware that a Type object could be created with only a string containing the fully-qualified name. To get the fully qualified name, you can use the following:
```
string typeName = typeof (StringBuilder).FullName;
```
You can then persist this string however needed, then reconstruct the type like this:
```... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T15:12:43.373 | 2008-08-15T15:12:43.373 | null | null | 767 | null |
12,358 | 2 | null | 12,144 | 0 | null | Maybe a bit of a tangent here but my opinion is that the config file should be read into a key value dictionary/hash table when the app first starts up and always accessed via this object from then on for speed. Typically the key/value table starts off as string to string but helper functions in the object do things su... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T15:23:52.463 | 2008-08-15T15:23:52.463 | null | null | null | null |
12,348 | 1 | 12,349 | null | 30 | 37,051 | I'm running PHP 5.2.3 on Windows 2000 Server with IIS 5. I'm trying
to get cURL working, so in my file, I have this line:
> extension_dir ="F:\PHP\ext"
And later, I have:
> extension=php_curl.dll
The file exists, but when I try to run any PHP
script, I get this in the error log:
> PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Una... | PHP / cURL on Windows install: "The specified module could not be found." | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-15T15:17:30.073 | 2022-09-04T19:47:50.887 | 2012-04-25T16:41:03.067 | 1,332,690 | 1,418 | [
"php",
"windows",
"curl"
] |
12,361 | 2 | null | 11,857 | 3 | null | [Trac](http://trac.edgewall.org)
It seems targeted for Open Source / Community type projects but it's working just find as an internal Developer intranet. It integrates a Wiki, Bug tracker and SVN Source browser into one nice package and it's very easy to configure.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T15:24:57.390 | 2008-08-15T15:24:57.390 | null | null | 758 | null |
12,184 | 2 | null | 12,144 | 10 | null | Without starting a new holy war, the sentiments of the 'angle bracket tax' post is one area where I with Jeff. There's nothing wrong with XML, it's reasonably human readable (as much as YAML or JSON or INI files are) but remember its intent is to be read by machines. Most language/framework combos come with an XML par... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T12:24:13.713 | 2008-08-15T12:24:13.713 | null | null | 419 | null |
12,367 | 2 | null | 12,319 | 0 | null | If you're using Cocoa it's fairly easy with NSString. Just load the UTF16 data in using -initWithBytes:length:encoding: (or perhaps -initWithCString:encoding:) and then get a UTF8 version by calling UTF8String on the result. Then, just call fopen with your new UTF8 string as the param.
You can definitely call fopen w... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T15:26:26.920 | 2008-08-15T15:38:05.583 | 2008-08-15T15:38:05.583 | 35 | 35 | null |
12,349 | 2 | null | 12,348 | 35 | null | Problem solved!
Although the error message said , this is a little misleading -- it's not that it couldn't find `php_curl.dll`, but rather it couldn't find a module that `php_curl.dll` required. The 2 DLLs it requires are `libeay32.dll` and `SSLeay32.dll`.
So, you have to put those 2 DLLs somewhere in your PATH (e.g... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-15T15:18:53.063 | 2016-03-09T16:23:13.137 | 2016-03-09T16:23:13.137 | 1,418 | 1,418 | null |
12,364 | 2 | null | 12,294 | 0 | null | @Pascal this page? [http://tools.mscorlib.com/timeline/Default.aspx](http://tools.mscorlib.com/timeline/Default.aspx). If it's looking like ascii maybe look for a js error, but that renders on my system fine. If all else fails, it's a decent js library by the MIT team as it is, so you could wire up your own implementat... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T15:25:44.503 | 2008-08-15T15:25:44.503 | null | null | 77 | null |
12,353 | 2 | null | 12,332 | 8 | null | `main()` is part of the C library and is not a system function. I don't know for OS X or Linux, but Windows usually starts a program with `WinMainCRTStartup()`. This symbol init your process, extract command line arguments and environment (`argc, argv, end`) and calls `main()`. It is also responsible of calling any cod... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T15:19:16.713 | 2008-08-15T15:19:16.713 | null | null | 268 | null |
12,368 | 1 | 12,394 | null | 44 | 84,695 | The .NET garbage collector will eventually free up memory, but what if you want that memory back immediately? What code do you need to use in a class `MyClass` to call
```
MyClass.Dispose()
```
and free up all the used space by variables and objects in `MyClass`?
| How to dispose a class in .net? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-15T15:26:41.987 | 2016-06-22T15:16:51.927 | 2016-06-22T15:16:51.927 | 119,527 | 1,271 | [
".net",
"memory",
"dispose"
] |
12,369 | 1 | null | null | 5 | 2,435 | I'm using VS2008 SP1 - don't know if this would have happened before I applied SP1 as I never tried it before yesterday. I attempted to debug a fairly simple XSLT file using VS2008 SP1 and got this crash from VS2008 SP1:
---
## Microsoft Visual Studio
Unexpected error encountered. It is recommended that you re... | VS2008 SP1 crashes when debugging an XSLT file | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-15T15:27:16.700 | 2010-10-08T09:10:14.043 | 2010-10-08T09:10:14.043 | 24,472 | null | [
"visual-studio-2008",
"xslt",
"visual-sourcesafe-plugin"
] |
12,373 | 2 | null | 12,297 | 1 | null | Your shouldn't need CType
```
Dim children = _
From n In SiteMap.CurrentNode.ChildNodes.Cast(Of SiteMapNode)() _
Where n.Url <> "/Registration.aspx" _
Select n
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T15:28:40.987 | 2008-08-15T15:28:40.987 | null | null | 905 | null |
12,362 | 2 | null | 12,297 | 0 | null | I got it to work with code below:
```
Dim children = From n In SiteMap.CurrentNode.ChildNodes _
Where CType(n, SiteMapNode).Url <> "/Registration.aspx" _
Select n
RepeaterSubordinatePages.DataSource = children
```
Is there a better way where I don't have to use the `CType()`?
Also, thi... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-15T15:25:15.547 | 2013-04-28T03:06:43.580 | 2013-04-28T03:06:43.580 | 1,012,641 | 83 | null |
12,377 | 2 | null | 12,368 | 3 | null | ```
public class MyClass : IDisposable
{
public void Dispose()
{
// cleanup here
}
}
```
then you can do something like this
```
MyClass todispose = new MyClass();
todispose.Dispose(); // instance is disposed right here
```
or
```
using (MyClass instance = new MyClass())
{
}
// instance will b... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T15:32:02.413 | 2008-08-15T15:32:02.413 | null | null | 77 | null |
11,994 | 2 | null | 10,314 | 15 | null | Most Cocoa projects use underbar as a non-`IBOutlet` instance variable prefix, and use no prefix for `IBOutlet` instance variables.
The reason I don't use underbars for `IBOutlet` instance variables is that when a nib file is loaded, if you have a setter method for a connected outlet, that setter will be called. thi... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T05:32:40.293 | 2008-08-15T05:32:40.293 | null | null | 714 | null |
12,383 | 2 | null | 12,368 | 0 | null | If you don't want to (or can't) implement IDisposable on your class, you can force garbage collection like this (but it's slow) -
```
GC.Collect();
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T15:33:55.373 | 2008-08-15T15:33:55.373 | null | null | 357 | null |
12,381 | 2 | null | 12,330 | 5 | null | I believe this is what you want.
[WMI Code Creator](http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2cc30a64-ea15-4661-8da4-55bbc145c30e&displaylang=en)
A part of this nifty utility allows you to browse namespaces/classes/properties on the local and remote PCs, not to mention generating WMI code in VBScript/... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T15:33:42.847 | 2008-08-15T16:07:07.570 | 2008-08-15T16:07:07.570 | 1,424 | 1,424 | null |
12,380 | 2 | null | 12,368 | 0 | null | If MyClass implements IDisposable you can do just that.
```
MyClass.Dispose();
```
Best practice in C# is:
```
using( MyClass x = new MyClass() ) {
//do stuff
}
```
As that wraps up the dispose in a try-finally and makes sure that it's never missed.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T15:32:40.337 | 2008-08-15T15:32:40.337 | null | null | 905 | null |
12,376 | 2 | null | 12,368 | 1 | null | [This article](http://www.codeguru.com/csharp/.net/net_general/tipstricks/article.php/c7047/) has a pretty straightforward walkthrough. However, to call the GC instead of letting it take its natural course is generally a sign of bad design/memory management, if no limited resources are being consumed (connections, h... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T15:30:57.393 | 2008-08-15T15:34:43.890 | 2008-08-15T15:34:43.890 | 35 | 35 | null |
12,379 | 2 | null | 9,882 | 1 | null | I don't know of any specific tool to do that. What I did when I had a similar problem to solve was trying to guess regular expressions to match lines.
I then processed the files and displayed only the unmatched lines. If a line is unmatched, it means that the pattern is wrong and should be tweaked or another pattern s... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T15:32:17.873 | 2008-08-15T15:32:17.873 | null | null | 268 | null |