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18,521 | 2 | null | 18,505 | 1 | null | I used this in a program where I needed to simulate clicks and mouse movements;
[Global Mouse and Keyboard Library](http://www.codeproject.com/KB/system/globalmousekeyboardlib.aspx)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T18:28:09.990 | 2008-08-20T18:28:09.990 | null | null | 1,130,097 | null |
18,523 | 2 | null | 18,465 | 15 | null | The `Convert.ToXXX()` methods are for objects that might be of the correct or similar type, while `.Parse()` and `.TryParse()` are specifically for strings:
```
//o is actually a boxed int
object o = 12345;
//unboxes it
int castVal = (int) 12345;
//o is a boxed enum
object o = MyEnum.ValueA;
//this will get the und... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T18:28:41.983 | 2008-08-20T18:28:41.983 | null | null | 905 | null |
18,535 | 2 | null | 18,450 | 2 | null | > Do you know how good Mono 2.0 preview's support is for Windows Forms 2.0?
From the little bit that I've played with it, it seemed relatively complete and almost usable. It just didn't quite look right in some places and is still a little hit or miss overall. It amazed me that it worked as well as it did with some ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T18:36:50.623 | 2008-08-20T18:36:50.623 | null | null | 1,432 | null |
18,530 | 2 | null | 3,748 | 99 | null | File store. Facebook engineers had a great talk about it. One take away was to know the practical limit of files in a directory.
[Needle in a Haystack: Efficient Storage of Billions of Photos](http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2008/06/30/FacebookNeedleInAHaystackEfficientStorageOfBillionsOfPhotos.aspx)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T18:35:15.900 | 2008-08-20T18:35:15.900 | null | null | 1,293 | null |
18,533 | 1 | 18,539 | null | 21 | 9,621 | I've found myself increasingly unsatisfied with the DataSet/DataTable/DataRow paradigm in .Net, mostly because it's often a couple of steps more complicated than what I really want to do. In cases where I'm binding to controls, DataSets are fine. But in other cases, there seems to be a fair amount of mental overhead.... | C#: What Else Do You Use Besides DataSet | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-20T18:36:02.310 | 2021-07-06T15:48:31.517 | 2008-09-09T22:13:42.683 | -1 | 111 | [
"c#",
".net",
"sql",
"dataset"
] |
18,524 | 1 | 18,529 | null | 117 | 233,750 | I have a list of integers, `List<Integer>` and I'd like to convert all the integer objects into Strings, thus finishing up with a new `List<String>`.
Naturally, I could create a new `List<String>` and loop through the list calling `String.valueOf()` for each integer, but I was wondering if there was a better (read: ) ... | Converting List<Integer> to List<String> | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-20T18:29:48.410 | 2022-11-17T16:35:30.393 | 2017-11-02T22:27:53.883 | 6,074,376 | 916 | [
"java",
"string",
"collections",
"integer"
] |
18,529 | 2 | null | 18,524 | 83 | null | As far as I know, iterate and instantiate is the only way to do this. Something like (for others potential help, since I'm sure you know how to do this):
```
List<Integer> oldList = ...
/* Specify the size of the list up front to prevent resizing. */
List<String> newList = new ArrayList<>(oldList.size());
for (Intege... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-20T18:34:07.197 | 2020-04-15T18:23:14.630 | 2020-04-15T18:23:14.630 | 1,505,487 | 1,432 | null |
18,539 | 2 | null | 18,533 | 21 | null | Since .NET 3.5 came out, I've exclusively used LINQ. It's really that good; I don't see any reason to use any of those old crutches any more.
As great as LINQ is, though, I think any ORM system would allow you to do away with that dreck.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T18:38:04.177 | 2008-08-20T18:38:04.177 | null | null | 1,975,282 | null |
18,525 | 2 | null | 18,465 | 3 | null | I'm a big fan of [TryParse](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/f02979c7.aspx), since it saves you a lot of headache of error catching when there's a chance the value you're going to parse is not of the appropriate type.
My order is usually:
- - -
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T18:30:46.253 | 2008-08-20T18:37:23.680 | 2008-08-20T18:37:23.680 | 111 | 111 | null |
18,538 | 1 | 5,645,413 | null | 119 | 78,842 | I'd like some sorthand for this:
```
Map rowToMap(row) {
def rowMap = [:];
row.columns.each{ rowMap[it.name] = it.val }
return rowMap;
}
```
given the way the GDK stuff is, I'd expect to be able to do something like:
```
Map rowToMap(row) {
row.columns.collectMap{ [it.name,it.val] }
}
```
but I ha... | shortcut for creating a Map from a List in groovy? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-20T18:37:51.370 | 2017-03-09T08:06:40.983 | 2008-08-20T22:27:36.357 | 2,031 | 2,031 | [
"java",
"collections",
"groovy",
"expandometaclass"
] |
18,543 | 2 | null | 104 | 5 | null | I found [.Net Memory Profiler](http://memprofiler.com/) a very good help when finding memory leaks in .Net. It's not free like the Microsoft CLR Profiler, but is faster and more to the point in my opinion. A
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T18:39:25.953 | 2008-08-20T18:39:25.953 | null | null | 1,242 | null |
18,544 | 2 | null | 18,505 | 1 | null | To be honest I've never had an issue bringing a window to the foreground on XP/Vista/2003/2000.
You need to make sure you do the following:
1. Check if IsIconic (minimized)
2. If #1 results in true then call ShowWindow passing SW_RESTORE
3. Then call SetForegroundWindow
I've never had problems that I can think o... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T18:40:18.460 | 2008-08-20T18:40:18.460 | null | null | 1,627 | null |
18,547 | 2 | null | 18,524 | 2 | null | @Jonathan: I could be mistaken, but I believe that String.valueOf() in this case will call the String.valueOf(Object) function rather than getting boxed to String.valueOf(int). String.valueOf(Object) just returns "null" if it is null or calls Object.toString() if non-null, which shouldn't involve boxing (although obvi... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T18:42:01.483 | 2008-08-20T18:42:01.483 | null | null | 1,432 | null |
18,541 | 2 | null | 18,450 | 1 | null | I would imagine then if you have an application with some 3rd party components you may be stuffed. I doubt a lot of vendors will develop with Mono in mind
Example: [http://community.devexpress.com/forums/p/55085/185853.aspx](http://community.devexpress.com/forums/p/55085/185853.aspx)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T18:38:48.950 | 2008-08-20T18:38:48.950 | null | null | 922 | null |
18,554 | 2 | null | 18,291 | 1 | null | We tried to use DUnit with Delphi 5, but it didn't work well. Specially if you are implementing COM interfaces, we found many dependencies to setup all the test infrastructure. I don't know if the test support has improved in newer versions.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T18:44:29.870 | 2008-08-20T18:44:29.870 | null | null | 2,015 | null |
18,558 | 2 | null | 18,524 | 9 | null | Instead of using String.valueOf I'd use .toString(); it avoids some of the auto boxing described by @johnathan.holland
The javadoc says that valueOf returns the same thing as Integer.toString().
```
List<Integer> oldList = ...
List<String> newList = new ArrayList<String>(oldList.size());
for (Integer myInt : oldList... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T18:45:13.113 | 2008-09-15T18:24:58.267 | 2008-09-15T18:24:58.267 | 1,310 | 1,310 | null |
18,546 | 2 | null | 18,533 | 4 | null | We've moved away from datasets and built our own ORM objects loosely based on [CSLA](http://www.lhotka.net). You can get the same job done with either a DataSet or LINQ or ORM but re-using it is (we've found) a lot easier. 'Less code make more happy'.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T18:41:34.263 | 2008-08-20T18:41:34.263 | null | null | 2,009 | null |
18,563 | 2 | null | 18,035 | 4 | null | "There are some gotchas in terms of p/invoke calls not always working across 32/64, as well as Managed DirectX not working well under 64-bit, but on the whole I think its something people are going to be doing more as time goes by."
This is caused, in .net, by having the AnyCPU flag set. AnyCPU on an x64 machine will... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T18:48:20.610 | 2008-08-20T18:48:20.610 | null | null | 580 | null |
18,573 | 2 | null | 3,748 | 4 | null | I once worked on an image processing application. We stored the uploaded images in a directory that was something like /images/[today's date]/[id number]. But we also extracted the metadata (exif data) from the images and stored that in the database, along with a timestamp and such.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T18:51:56.110 | 2008-08-20T18:51:56.110 | null | null | 572 | null |
18,569 | 2 | null | 3,748 | 1 | null | The reason we store images in our tables is because each table (or set of tables per range of work) is temporary and dropped at the end of the workflow. If there was any sort of long term storage we'd definitely opt for storing file paths.
It should also be noted that we work with a client/server application inter... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T18:49:45.553 | 2008-08-20T18:49:45.553 | null | null | 2,009 | null |
18,574 | 2 | null | 18,533 | 1 | null | Pre linq I used DataReader to fill List of my own custom domain objects, but post linq I have been using L2S to fill L2S entities, or L2S to fill domain objects.
Once I get a bit more time to investigate I suspect that Entity Framework objects will be my new favourite solution!
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T18:52:02.647 | 2008-08-20T18:52:02.647 | null | null | 1,075 | null |
18,555 | 2 | null | 18,533 | 1 | null | I use them extensively but I don't make use of any of the "advanced" features that Microsoft was really pushing when the framework first came out. I'm basically just using them as Lists of Hashtables, which I find perfectly useful.
I have not seen good results when people have tried to make complex typed DataSets, or... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T18:44:33.117 | 2008-08-20T18:44:33.117 | null | null | 1,219 | null |
18,549 | 2 | null | 3,748 | 7 | null | I'm not sure how much of a "real world" example this is, but I currently have an application out there that stores details for a trading card game, including the images for the cards. Granted the record count for the database is only 2851 records to date, but given the fact that certain cards have are released multiple... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T18:42:14.400 | 2008-08-20T18:42:14.400 | null | null | 71 | null |
18,579 | 2 | null | 18,524 | 2 | null | I think using Object.toString() for any purpose other than debugging is probably a really bad idea, even though in this case the two are functionally equivalent (assuming the list has no nulls). Developers are free to change the behavior of any toString() method without any warning, including the toString() methods of... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T18:53:35.527 | 2008-08-20T18:53:35.527 | null | null | 1,471 | null |
18,584 | 1 | 18,718 | null | 1 | 7,331 | >
[How do I calculate someone's age in C#?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9/how-do-i-calculate-someones-age-in-c)
Maybe this could be silly but and I don't have issues with my age but sometimes it is good to calculate the exact age of someone, I have introduced my birthdate in my profile (01/12/1975) "dd/... | Exact age calculation | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-20T18:59:03.377 | 2012-05-26T23:50:05.027 | 2017-05-23T12:28:00.033 | -1 | 1,130,097 | [
"c#"
] |
18,595 | 2 | null | 18,524 | 9 | null | The source for String.valueOf shows this:
```
public static String valueOf(Object obj) {
return (obj == null) ? "null" : obj.toString();
}
```
Not that it matters much, but I would use toString.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T19:03:11.637 | 2008-08-20T19:03:11.637 | null | null | 212 | null |
18,581 | 2 | null | 18,533 | 3 | null | I was fed up with DataSets in .Net 1.1, at least they optimised it so that it doesn't slow as exponentially for large sets any more.
It was always a rather bloated model - I haven't seen many apps that use most of its features.
SqlDataReader was good, but I used to wrap it in an `IEnumerable<T>` where the T was some ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T18:55:33.120 | 2008-08-20T18:55:33.120 | null | null | 905 | null |
18,603 | 2 | null | 18,584 | 1 | null | > Maybe this could be silly but and I don't have issues with my age but sometimes it is good to calculate the exact age of someone, I have introduced my birthdate in my profile (01/12/1975) "dd/mm/yyyy" and it calculated 33 and I'm 32 actually still, doesn't it better to calculate the exact age?
My guess would be th... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T19:10:28.903 | 2008-08-20T19:10:28.903 | null | null | 1,818 | null |
18,606 | 1 | 18,647 | null | 9 | 17,607 | Is there a method of accessing an Exchange server that does not have `IMAP` or `POP3` enabled without Outlook?
It does not appear that Outlook Express supports Exchange (only `IMAP and POP3`).
| Accessing an Exchange Server without Outlook | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-20T19:11:32.723 | 2016-08-02T13:06:07.507 | 2016-08-02T13:06:07.507 | 4,311,889 | 572 | [
"email",
"outlook",
"exchange-server",
"email-client"
] |
18,611 | 2 | null | 12,268 | 0 | null | I think you have your answer right here: [Reflector sold to Red Gate](http://blog.lutzroeder.com/2008/08/future-of-net-reflector.html)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T19:13:25.323 | 2008-08-20T19:13:25.323 | null | null | 51 | null |
18,585 | 1 | 19,056 | null | 4 | 4,961 |
### Update: Solved, with code
[I got it working, see my answer below for the code...](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18585/why-cant-you-bind-the-size-of-a-windows-form-to-applicationsettings#19056)
### Original Post
As Tundey pointed out in [his answer](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18421/best-way-to-b... | Why can't you bind the Size of a windows form to ApplicationSettings? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-20T18:59:35.187 | 2010-12-11T21:24:47.210 | 2020-06-20T09:12:55.060 | -1 | 229 | [
"c#",
"visual-studio",
"data-binding",
".net-2.0"
] |
18,610 | 2 | null | 18,584 | 0 | null | Actually, because of leap years, your code would be off. Since the timespan object has no TotalYears property the best way to get it would be this
Pardon the VB.Net
```
Dim myAge AS Integer = DateTime.Now.year - BirthDate.year
If Birthdate.month < DateTime.Now.Month _
OrElse BirthDate.Month = DateTime.Now.Month AndA... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T19:12:59.630 | 2008-08-20T19:12:59.630 | null | null | 1,862 | null |
18,607 | 2 | null | 18,449 | 18 | null | As of PHP 5.1.0 you can use [date_default_timezone_set()](http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date-default-timezone-set.php) function to set the default timezone used by all date/time functions in a script.
For MySql (quoted from [MySQL Server Time Zone Support](http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/time-zone-supp... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T19:11:36.513 | 2008-08-20T19:16:56.877 | 2008-08-20T19:16:56.877 | 1,926 | 1,926 | null |
18,601 | 1 | 18,771 | null | 27 | 6,302 | Unit testing and ASP.NET web applications are an ambiguous point in my group. More often than not, good testing practices fall through the cracks and web applications end up going live for several years with no tests.
The cause of this pain point generally revolves around the hassle of writing UI automation mid-devel... | Best practice for integrating TDD with web application development? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-20T19:07:51.593 | 2012-11-14T15:37:46.717 | 2009-09-26T16:45:12.610 | 1,288 | 1,473,493 | [
"unit-testing",
"tdd"
] |
18,602 | 2 | null | 18,449 | 12 | null | Store everything as UTC. You can do conversions at the client level, or on the server side using client settings.
[php - date](http://us.php.net/date)
[mysql - utc-timestamp](http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_utc-timestamp)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T19:09:18.890 | 2008-08-20T19:09:18.890 | null | null | 1,976 | null |
18,608 | 1 | 18,616 | null | 4 | 846 | I've got a group of inter-related classes that are all overridden together to create a particular implementation. I'm wondering if it is a good idea to enclose the interrelated subclasses in a namespace.
For example purposes, consider the following namespaces and classes:
```
namespace Protocol
{
public abstract cl... | Is it a bad idea to expose inheritance hierarchy in namespace structure? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T19:12:05.077 | 2008-09-23T21:52:37.520 | null | null | 327 | [
"c#",
"oop",
"inheritance",
"naming",
"convention"
] |
18,617 | 1 | 18,623 | null | 83 | 210,262 | How do you configure tomcat to bind to a single ip address (localhost) instead of all addresses?
| How do you configure tomcat to bind to a single ip address (localhost) instead of all addresses? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-20T19:16:20.810 | 2020-03-04T10:12:21.437 | null | null | 1,310 | [
"tomcat"
] |
18,615 | 2 | null | 18,601 | 4 | null | I layer out the application and at least unit test from the presenter/controller (whichever is your preference, mvc/mvp) to the data layer. That way I have good test coverage over most of the code that is written.
I have looked at FitNesse, Watin and Selenium as options to automate the UI testing but I haven't got aro... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T19:16:02.527 | 2008-08-20T19:16:02.527 | null | null | 1,911 | null |
18,614 | 1 | null | null | 4 | 744 | What is the the best way to write a form to submit some data in ASP.NET MVC? Is it as [Scott Guthrie](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Guthrie) demonstrates here? Are there better approaches? Perhaps with less using of strings?
| What is the best way to write a form in ASP.NET MVC? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-20T19:16:01.060 | 2019-04-01T20:07:42.353 | 2019-04-01T20:07:42.353 | 100,297 | 230 | [
"asp.net-mvc",
"forms"
] |
18,612 | 2 | null | 1,237 | 4 | null | A more complete discussion of the pitfalls of using a regex to find matching tags can be found at: [http://faq.perl.org/perlfaq4.html#How_do_I_find_matchi](http://faq.perl.org/perlfaq4.html#How_do_I_find_matchi). In particular, be aware that nesting tags really need a full-fledged parser in order to be interpreted cor... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T19:14:19.237 | 2008-08-20T19:14:19.237 | null | null | 1,438 | null |
18,619 | 2 | null | 9,033 | 7 | null | You type "prop" and then press [TAB] twice, it generates useful code for your properties and can speed your typing.
I know this works in VS 2005 (I use it) but I don´t know in previous versions.
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-20T19:17:16.330 | 2011-11-16T06:37:17.683 | 2011-11-16T06:37:17.683 | 331,508 | 1,130,097 | null |
18,616 | 2 | null | 18,608 | 6 | null | I think you are perhaps worrying too much!
Does it make sense logically? Do you know where to find your code within the namespaces?
I would much rather see a codebase like the above with a small number of classes, relevant to the name with a hierarchy, than one large namespace where everything is interrelated..
Reme... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T19:16:07.907 | 2008-08-20T19:24:42.550 | 2008-08-20T19:24:42.550 | 832 | 832 | null |
18,622 | 2 | null | 18,606 | 0 | null | You can use [Thunderbird](http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/) to [access Exchange e-mail and contact lists](http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/03/30/howto-thunderbird-and-ms-exchange-server/).
Edit - Oops, this uses IMAP, didn't answer the question.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T19:19:24.233 | 2008-08-20T19:35:42.463 | 2008-08-20T19:35:42.463 | 5 | 5 | null |
18,626 | 2 | null | 18,449 | 0 | null | I save all my dates as a bigint due to having had issues with the dateTime type before. I save the result of the time() PHP function into it, now they count as being in the same timezone :)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T19:22:07.987 | 2008-08-20T19:22:07.987 | null | null | 1,384,652 | null |
18,623 | 2 | null | 18,617 | 146 | null | Several connectors are configured, and each connector has an optional "address" attribute where you can set the IP address.
1. Edit tomcat/conf/server.xml.
2. Specify a bind address for that connector: <Connector
port="8080"
protocol="HTTP/1.1"
address="127.0.0.1"
connectionTimeout="20000"
red... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T19:19:46.370 | 2011-03-09T02:01:24.940 | 2011-03-09T02:01:24.940 | 59,087 | 1,310 | null |
18,625 | 2 | null | 18,608 | 0 | null | If this were me, I would define 2 namespaces:
```
Protocol
```
and
```
Protocol.Driver
```
Dividing the namespace like this separates your "library code" vs your "executable / test code."
I also create my namespaces to match the directory structure; it will give logic to your programs structure and codefiles. (ma... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T19:20:35.167 | 2008-08-20T19:20:35.167 | null | null | 1,638 | null |
18,627 | 2 | null | 18,450 | 4 | null | We've been using it for a project here at work that needed to run on Linux but reuse some .NET libraries that we built in Managed C++. I've been very surprised at how well it has worked out. Our main executable is being written in C# and we can just reference our Managed C++ binaries with no issue. The only differen... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T19:23:30.027 | 2008-08-20T19:23:30.027 | null | null | 2,179 | null |
18,638 | 2 | null | 18,632 | 18 | null | I use "tail -f" under cygwin.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T19:27:36.553 | 2008-08-20T19:27:36.553 | null | null | 2,179 | null |
18,624 | 2 | null | 18,601 | 2 | null | This is a good question, one that I will be subscribing too :)
I am still relatively new to web dev, and I too am looking at a lot of code that is largely untested.
For me, I keep the UI (normally only a few lines of code) and test the crap out of everything else. At least I can then have some confidence that everyt... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T19:19:53.407 | 2008-08-20T19:19:53.407 | null | null | 832 | null |
18,630 | 2 | null | 18,533 | 0 | null | I just build my business objects from scratch, and almost never use the `DataTable` and especially not the `DataSet` anymore, except to initially populate the business objects. The advantages to building your own are testability, type safety and IntelliSense, extensibility (try adding to a `DataSet`) and readability (... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-20T19:24:43.330 | 2021-07-06T15:48:31.517 | 2021-07-06T15:48:31.517 | 5,405,967 | 785 | null |
18,641 | 2 | null | 18,606 | 0 | null | I know thunderbird and eudora have support for SimpleMAPI so they can talk to an exchange server but the command set of what they can do is rather basic (you need Extended MAPI support for the whole set)
afaik Outlook is the only windows client with full support for Extended MAPI.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T19:29:52.633 | 2008-08-20T19:29:52.633 | null | null | 238 | null |
18,637 | 2 | null | 18,632 | 3 | null | I have used [FileSystemWatcher](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.filesystemwatcher.aspx) for monitoring of text files for a component I recently built. There may be better options (I never found anything in my research) but that seemed to do the trick nicely :)
Crap, my bad, you're actually after a t... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T19:26:36.183 | 2008-08-20T19:26:36.183 | null | null | 832 | null |
18,640 | 2 | null | 18,632 | 6 | null | FileSystemWatcher works a treat, although you do have to be a little careful about duplicate events firing - [1st link from Google](http://blogs.msdn.com/ahamza/archive/2006/02/04/FileSystemWatcher-Duplicate-Events.aspx) - but bearing that in mind can produce great results.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T19:29:27.143 | 2008-08-20T19:29:27.143 | null | null | 377 | null |
18,632 | 1 | 18,635 | null | 75 | 110,219 | For debugging purposes in a somewhat closed system, I have to output text to a file.
Does anyone know of a tool that runs on windows (console based or not) that detects changes to a file and outputs them in real-time?
| How to monitor a text file in realtime | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-20T19:25:07.153 | 2019-11-27T04:10:39.327 | 2015-12-29T18:11:39.157 | -1 | 2,011 | [
"monitoring",
"text-files"
] |
18,635 | 2 | null | 18,632 | 36 | null | - [Tail for Win32](http://tailforwin32.sourceforge.net/)- [Apache Chainsaw](http://logging.apache.org/chainsaw/index.html)[log4net logs](http://logging.apache.org/log4net/release/howto/chainsaw.html)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T19:26:25.013 | 2008-08-20T19:32:57.227 | 2008-08-20T19:32:57.227 | 5 | 5 | null |
18,654 | 2 | null | 18,035 | 2 | null | Another advantage of 64 bit:
All the registers associated with the microprocessors are 64-bit. This enables High- precision computations and 64-bit arithmetic to be performed in fewer clock-cycles as compared to 32-bit microprocessors. In certain cases like 64-bit multiplication, it is twice as fast.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T19:37:52.630 | 2008-08-20T19:37:52.630 | null | null | 1,964 | null |
18,647 | 2 | null | 18,606 | 5 | null | The only way I can think of is if the Exchange server has Outlook Web Access (OWA) turned on. You can test this by trying the server name in your browser like so: [http://server/exchange](http://server/exchange).
If you mean programmatically then the recommended way is to use [WebDAV](http://www.codeproject.com/KB/vb/... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T19:32:05.420 | 2009-05-27T08:50:28.313 | 2009-05-27T08:50:28.313 | 33 | 1,908 | null |
18,660 | 2 | null | 18,655 | 26 | null | One reason - separating your domain model from your database model.
What I do is use Test Driven Development so I write my UI and Model layers first and the Data layer is mocked, so the UI and model is build around domain specific objects, then later I map these objects to what ever technology I'm using the the Data ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T19:43:19.777 | 2009-04-01T15:06:16.147 | 2009-04-01T15:06:16.147 | 230 | 230 | null |
18,663 | 2 | null | 17,532 | 2 | null | Rob, you are right. The approach I mentioned is kind of a hybrid. The advantage of having ascx files around is that on every project I've seen, designers would feel most comfortable with editing actual markup and with the ascx you and a designer can work separately. If you don't plan on actual CSS/markup/design changes... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T19:44:35.810 | 2008-08-20T19:44:35.810 | null | null | 1,801 | null |
18,667 | 2 | null | 18,632 | 0 | null | I second "tail -f" in cygwin. I assume that Tail for Win32 will accomplish the same thing.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T19:45:48.727 | 2008-08-20T19:45:48.727 | null | null | 2,109 | null |
18,648 | 2 | null | 18,632 | 2 | null | Yor can use the FileSystemWatcher in System.Diagnostics.
From MSDN:
public class Watcher
{
```
public static void Main()
{
Run();
}
[PermissionSet(SecurityAction.Demand, Name="FullTrust")]
public static void Run()
{
string[] args = System.Environment.GetCommandLineArgs();
// If a directory is not specifie... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T19:32:09.930 | 2008-08-20T19:32:09.930 | null | null | 1,130,097 | null |
18,661 | 1 | null | null | 4 | 8,153 | Is it possible to get UI text from an external application in C#.
In particular, is there a way to read Unicode text from a label (I assume it's a normal Windows label control) from an external Win32 app that was written by a 3rd party? The text is visible, but not selectable by mouse in the UI.
I assume there is so... | Getting UI text from external app in C# | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-20T19:43:24.473 | 2012-06-14T22:34:33.400 | 2008-08-22T06:13:12.377 | 611 | 838 | [
"c#",
"winapi",
"interop"
] |
18,670 | 2 | null | 18,632 | 19 | null | When using [Windows PowerShell](http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/powershell/default.mspx) you can do the following:
```
Get-Content someFile.txt -wait
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T19:48:59.810 | 2008-08-20T19:48:59.810 | null | null | 1,242 | null |
18,664 | 2 | null | 18,632 | 0 | null | [FileMon](http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896642.aspx) is a free stand alone tool that can detect all kinds of file access. You can filter out any unwanted. It does not show you the data that has actually changed though.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T19:44:38.777 | 2008-08-20T19:44:38.777 | null | null | 1,242 | null |
18,669 | 2 | null | 18,614 | 2 | null | I don't really like strings in my code, as it isn't possible to refactor. A nice way is to use Linq Expressions. If you get passed a model as ViewData you can use the following statement:
```
<%= ShowDropDownBox(viewData => viewData.Name); %>
...
public static string ShowDropDownList<T>(this HtmlHelper html, Expressi... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T19:47:21.250 | 2008-08-20T19:47:21.250 | null | null | 2,078 | null |
18,675 | 1 | 21,743 | null | 1 | 824 | I am creating a program that will be installed using the .net installer project. The program writes to settings files to its directory in the Program Files dir. It believe there are some active directory settings that will prevent the application from righting to that directory if a limited user is running the program.... | I/O permission settings using .net installer | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T19:52:41.127 | 2009-03-10T03:51:02.143 | 2009-03-10T03:51:02.143 | 5,640 | 1,632 | [
".net",
"installation",
"active-directory",
"io"
] |
18,684 | 2 | null | 18,676 | 4 | null | ```
Public Function RandomNumber(ByVal n As Integer) As Integer
'initialize random number generator
Dim r As New Random(System.DateTime.Now.Millisecond)
Return r.Next(1, n)
End Function
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T19:59:43.340 | 2010-04-20T18:46:59.107 | 2010-04-20T18:46:59.107 | 1,288 | 1,288 | null |
18,674 | 2 | null | 18,585 | 2 | null | One of the reason I imagine size binding is not allowed is because the screen may change between sessions.
Loading the size back when the resolution has reduced could result in the title bar being beyond the limits of the screen.
You also need to be wary of multiple monitor setups, where monitors may no longer be ava... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T19:52:06.713 | 2008-08-20T19:52:06.713 | null | null | 770 | null |
18,671 | 1 | 6,000,355 | null | 254 | 346,737 | Anyone know a quick easy way to migrate a SQLite3 database to MySQL?
| Quick easy way to migrate SQLite3 to MySQL? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-20T19:49:13.337 | 2020-08-25T08:15:42.030 | null | null | 534 | [
"mysql",
"sqlite",
"migration"
] |
18,680 | 2 | null | 18,676 | 66 | null | To get a random integer value between 1 and N (inclusive) you can use the following.
```
CInt(Math.Ceiling(Rnd() * n)) + 1
```
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-20T19:55:53.693 | 2014-12-01T22:12:35.750 | 2014-12-01T22:12:35.750 | 225 | 1,862 | null |
18,659 | 2 | null | 18,585 | 1 | null | Well I have had a quick play with this and you are correct, while there is no way to directly the size of the form to AppSettings, you can add your own values and change the size on load.
I would perhaps recommend that if this is a common feature, you subclass Form and make it automatically prob the App.Config for th... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T19:41:37.097 | 2008-08-20T19:41:37.097 | null | null | 832 | null |
18,685 | 1 | 18,693 | null | 34 | 31,646 | Can anyone tell me how I can display a status message like "12 seconds ago" or "5 minutes ago" etc in a web page?
| How to display "12 minutes ago" etc in a PHP webpage? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-20T19:59:57.490 | 2016-01-15T14:49:50.647 | 2012-04-30T11:23:31.697 | 729,768 | 184 | [
"php"
] |
18,672 | 2 | null | 18,632 | 8 | null | Tail is the best answer so far.
If you don't use Windows, you probably already have tail.
If you do use Windows, you can get a whole slew of Unix command line tools from [here](http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/). Unzip them and put them somewhere in your PATH.
Then just do this at the command prompt from the same fol... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-20T19:50:19.620 | 2019-11-27T04:10:39.327 | 2019-11-27T04:10:39.327 | 10,854,998 | null | null |
18,691 | 2 | null | 4,508 | 1 | null | You should be able to make an unmanaged DLL that performs the operations you want using MAPI, and then invoke that DLL from your managed code. I wouldn't write a straight MAPI wrapper, but something that performs all of the functionality you require of MAPI contained in that unmanaged DLL. That would probably be the ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T20:01:35.723 | 2008-08-20T20:01:35.723 | null | null | 2,134 | null |
18,690 | 2 | null | 18,632 | 16 | null | I use [BareTail](http://www.baremetalsoft.com/baretail/) for doing this on Windows. It's free and has some nice features, such as tabs for tailing multiple files and configurable highlighting.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T20:01:16.223 | 2008-08-20T20:01:16.223 | null | null | 1,450 | null |
18,655 | 1 | null | null | 141 | 15,690 | I really need to see some honest, thoughtful debate on the merits of the currently accepted design paradigm.
I am not convinced that entity objects should exist.
By entity objects I mean the typical things we tend to build for our applications, like "Person", "Account", "Order", etc.
My current design philosophy is... | Why do we need entity objects? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-20T19:37:53.597 | 2016-06-18T16:18:54.843 | 2016-06-18T16:18:54.843 | 229,044 | 1,219 | [
"sql",
"database",
"orm",
"entities"
] |
18,676 | 1 | 18,680 | null | 65 | 367,072 | I need to generate a random integer between 1 and n (where n is a positive whole number) to use for a unit test. I don't need something overly complicated to ensure true randomness - just an old-fashioned random number.
How would I do that?
| Random integer in VB.NET | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-20T19:54:00.407 | 2021-05-04T14:43:04.103 | 2015-05-16T22:05:29.897 | 63,550 | 225 | [
"vb.net",
"random"
] |
18,696 | 1 | 18,714 | null | 3 | 2,454 | Our company is currently writing a GUI automation testing tool for compact framework applications. We have initially searched many tools but none of them was right for us.
By using the tool you can record test-cases and group them together to test-suites. For every test-suite there is generated an application, which ... | GUI Automation testing - Window handle questions | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-20T20:03:28.840 | 2009-12-04T18:13:37.587 | 2009-12-04T18:13:37.587 | 3,619 | 2,078 | [
"ui-automation",
"window-handles",
"gui-testing"
] |
18,697 | 2 | null | 18,585 | 1 | null | I agree with Rob Cooper's answer. But I think Martin makes a very good point. Nothing like having users open your application and the app is off-screen!
So in reality, you'll want to combine both answers and bear in mind the current screen dimensions before setting your form's size.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T20:04:16.903 | 2008-08-20T20:04:16.903 | null | null | 1,453 | null |
18,693 | 2 | null | 18,685 | 73 | null | Here is the php code for the same:
```
function time_since($since) {
$chunks = array(
array(60 * 60 * 24 * 365 , 'year'),
array(60 * 60 * 24 * 30 , 'month'),
array(60 * 60 * 24 * 7, 'week'),
array(60 * 60 * 24 , 'day'),
array(60 * 60 , 'hour'),
array(60 , 'minute'),
... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T20:02:48.933 | 2008-08-20T20:02:48.933 | null | null | 184 | null |
18,698 | 2 | null | 18,661 | 5 | null | You could do it if that unicode text is actually a window with a caption by sending a [WM_GETTEXT](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms632627.aspx) message.
```
[DllImport("user32.dll")]
public static extern int SendMessage (IntPtr hWnd, int msg, int Param, System.Text.StringBuilder text);
System.Text.StringBu... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-20T20:04:35.967 | 2012-06-07T20:57:12.417 | 2012-06-07T20:57:12.417 | 804,898 | 1,242 | null |
18,687 | 2 | null | 18,676 | 37 | null | Use [System.Random](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.random.aspx):
```
Dim MyMin As Integer = 1, MyMax As Integer = 5, My1stRandomNumber As Integer, My2ndRandomNumber As Integer
' Create a random number generator
Dim Generator As System.Random = New System.Random()
' Get a random number >= MyMin and <=... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-20T20:00:03.107 | 2014-02-01T19:42:07.760 | 2014-02-01T19:42:07.760 | 317 | 317 | null |
18,714 | 2 | null | 18,696 | 1 | null | If the Automated GUI testing tool has knowledge about the framework the application is written in it could use that information to make better or more advanced scripts. [TestComplete](http://www.automatedqa.com/products/testcomplete/index.asp) for example knows about Borland's VCL and WinForms. If you test applications... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T20:17:00.303 | 2008-08-20T20:17:00.303 | null | null | 1,242 | null |
18,717 | 1 | 18,723 | null | 134 | 44,538 | As far as I know, foreign keys (FK) are used to aid the programmer to manipulate data in the correct way. Suppose a programmer is actually doing this in the right manner already, then do we really need the concept of foreign keys?
Are there any other uses for foreign keys? Am I missing something here?
| Are foreign keys really necessary in a database design? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-20T20:18:08.757 | 2022-04-05T06:44:45.427 | 2016-09-30T04:34:45.633 | 116 | 184 | [
"database",
"oracle",
"foreign-keys"
] |
18,695 | 2 | null | 18,167 | 2 | null | Create testing stored procedures on server B that reference the data on server A via the linked server. e.g. if your regular sproc references a table on Server B say:
```
databaseA.dbo.tableName
```
then use the linked servername to reference the same database/table on server A:
```
linkedServerName.databaseA.dbo.... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T20:02:57.310 | 2008-08-20T20:02:57.310 | null | null | 1,874 | null |
18,705 | 1 | 19,071 | null | 0 | 318 | I need to be able to create basic MS Project items (tasks, projects, resources, etc.) programmatically from my app to my Project Server 2003 install, and haven't found any good examples. Can anyone point me to some good references or have some sample code of connecting to the server and creating these items?
| How to create Projects/Tasks for Project Server 2003 via C#? | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-20T20:09:45.393 | 2022-06-28T06:34:16.990 | 2022-06-28T06:34:16.990 | 10,530,657 | 829 | [
"c#",
"project-server"
] |
18,726 | 2 | null | 18,632 | 1 | null | Just a shameless plug to tail onto the answer, but I have a free web based app called [Hacksaw](http://www.codeplex.com/hacksaw) used for viewing log4net files. I've put in an auto refresh options so you can give yourself near real time updates without having to refresh the browser all the time.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T20:21:36.470 | 2008-08-20T20:21:36.470 | null | null | 71 | null |
18,719 | 1 | null | null | 9 | 22,160 | As part of our databuild run a 3rd party program (3D Studio Max) to export a number of assets. Unfortunately if a user is not currently logged in, or the machine is locked, then Max does not run correctly.
This can be solved for freshly booted machines by using a method such as TweakUI for automatic login. However whe... | How can I prevent a server from becoming locked after a Remote Desktop session | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-20T20:18:32.470 | 2009-03-09T17:30:37.097 | 2009-03-09T17:30:37.097 | 1,043 | 1,043 | [
"windows-server-2008",
"build-automation",
"windows-server-2003"
] |
18,728 | 2 | null | 18,717 | 64 | null | Foreign keys can also help the programmer write less code using things like `ON DELETE CASCADE`. This means that if you have one table containing users and another containing orders or something, then deleting a user could automatically delete all orders that point to that user.
| null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-20T20:22:36.530 | 2018-09-18T06:47:33.613 | 2018-09-18T06:47:33.613 | 7,032,856 | 893 | null |
18,732 | 2 | null | 18,717 | 10 | null | Without a foreign key how do you tell that two records in different tables are related?
I think what you are referring to is referential integrity, where the child record is not allowed to be created without an existing parent record etc. These are often known as foreign key constraints - but are not to be confused wi... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T20:24:15.513 | 2008-08-20T20:24:15.513 | null | null | 1,908 | null |
18,723 | 2 | null | 18,717 | 109 | null | Foreign keys help enforce referential integrity at the data level. They also improve performance because they're normally indexed by default.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T20:19:33.997 | 2008-08-20T20:19:33.997 | null | null | 1,450 | null |
18,718 | 2 | null | 18,584 | 0 | null | If you were born on January 12th 1975, you would be 33 years old today.
If you were born on December 1st 1975, you would be 32 years old today.
If you read the note by the birthday field when editing your profile you'll see it says "YYYY/MM/DD", I'm sure it will try to interpret dates of other formats but it looks li... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T20:18:23.547 | 2008-08-20T20:18:23.547 | null | null | 332 | null |
18,702 | 1 | 18,750 | null | 1 | 286 | I often use webservice this way
```
public void CallWebservice()
{
mywebservice web = new mywebservice();
web.call();
}
```
but sometimes I do this
```
private mywebservice web;
public Constructor()
{
web = new mywebservice();
}
public void CallWebservice()
{
web.call();
}
```
The second approac... | Webservice alive forever | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-20T20:07:34.057 | 2013-02-16T14:52:14.073 | 2013-02-16T14:52:14.073 | 1,448,360 | 1,130,097 | [
"web-services"
] |
18,740 | 2 | null | 18,719 | 3 | null | There is a separate terminal service connection available called the 'console' connection.
You can connect to this space using mstsc /console /v:servername. Use mstsc /? for full command line options.
This allows you to connect, open up the terminal services manager and boot the bad sessions.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T20:28:24.147 | 2008-08-20T20:28:24.147 | null | null | 1,908 | null |
18,733 | 2 | null | 18,524 | 1 | null | You can't avoid the "boxing overhead"; Java's faux generic containers can only store Objects, so your ints must be boxed into Integers. In principle it could avoid the downcast from Object to Integer (since it's pointless, because Object is good enough for both String.valueOf and Object.toString) but I don't know if t... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T20:25:49.673 | 2008-08-20T20:25:49.673 | null | null | 2,131 | null |
18,730 | 2 | null | 18,717 | 48 | null | I can't imagine designing a database without foreign keys. Without them, eventually you are bound to make a mistake and corrupt the integrity of your data.
They are not , strictly speaking, but the benefits are huge.
I'm fairly certain that [FogBugz](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FogBugz) does not have foreign key con... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-20T20:24:09.350 | 2018-09-18T07:04:58.137 | 2018-09-18T07:04:58.137 | 7,032,856 | 1,219 | null |
18,734 | 2 | null | 18,524 | 3 | null | Not core Java, and not generic-ified, but the popular Jakarta commons collections library has some useful abstractions for this sort of task. Specifically, have a look at the collect methods on
[CollectionUtils](http://commons.apache.org/collections/api-release/org/apache/commons/collections/CollectionUtils.html)
So... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T20:26:04.213 | 2008-08-20T20:26:04.213 | null | null | 1,853 | null |
18,735 | 2 | null | 18,717 | 1 | null | You can view foreign keys as a constraint that,
- - -
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-20T20:26:21.607 | 2013-08-10T19:27:48.037 | 2013-08-10T19:27:48.037 | 63,550 | 1,311 | null |
18,750 | 2 | null | 18,702 | 1 | null | The classes generated by Visual Studio for webservices are just proxies with little state so creating them is pretty cheap. I wouldn't worry about memory consumption for them.
If what you are looking for is a way to call the webmethod in one line you can simply do this:
```
new mywebservice().call()
```
Cheers
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T20:32:34.777 | 2008-08-20T20:32:34.777 | null | null | 2,148 | null |
18,756 | 2 | null | 18,505 | 4 | null | Check out the section "How to steal focus on 2K/XP" at [http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dialog/dlgboxtricks.aspx](http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dialog/dlgboxtricks.aspx), as this is exactly what you need. I wouldn't go the taskbar route as the taskbar could be hidden or simply not there.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T20:33:53.900 | 2008-08-20T20:33:53.900 | null | null | 645 | null |