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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2,460 | 2 | null | 2,432 | 1 | null | @chopeen You could change the way you're calculating these statistics, and instead keep a separate table of all per-product stats.. when an order is placed, loop through the products and update the appropriate records in the stats table. This would shift a lot of the calculation load to the checkout page rather than r... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T15:19:18.363 | 2008-08-05T15:19:18.363 | null | null | 72 | null |
2,462 | 2 | null | 2,432 | 9 | null | For SQL Server 2005, I'd recommend using table variables and partially building the data as you go.
To do this, create a table variable that represents your final result set you want to send to the user.
Then find your primary table (say the orders table in your example above) and pull that data, plus a bit of suppl... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T15:19:41.187 | 2008-08-05T15:19:41.187 | null | null | 71 | null |
2,472 | 1 | 2,477 | null | 16 | 2,019 | What is the best way to record statistics on the number of visitors visiting my site that have set their browser to block ads?
| How can I tell if a web client is blocking advertisements? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-05T15:30:42.617 | 2016-12-01T21:56:36.013 | 2015-05-08T19:02:16.227 | 1,043,380 | 116 | [
"browser",
"analytics"
] |
2,476 | 2 | null | 2,472 | 3 | null | I suppose you could compare the ad prints with the page views on your website (which you can get from your analytics software).
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T15:32:21.660 | 2008-08-05T15:32:21.660 | null | null | 380 | null |
2,452 | 2 | null | 48 | -4 | null | Using the example you gave:
```
<form>
<input type="text" name="field1" /><!-- Put your cursor in this field and press Enter -->
<input type="submit" name="prev" value="Previous Page" /> <!-- This is the button that will submit -->
<input type="submit" name="next" value="Next Page" /> <!-- But this is the ... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-05T15:08:42.037 | 2019-07-14T14:32:56.737 | 2019-07-14T14:32:56.737 | 63,550 | 383 | null |
2,477 | 2 | null | 2,472 | 11 | null | Since programs like AdBlock actually never request the advert, you would have to look the server logs to see if the same user accessed a webpage but didn't access an advert. This is assuming the advert is on the same server.
If your adverts are on a separate server, then I would suggest it's impossible to do so.
The ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T15:34:18.583 | 2008-08-05T15:34:18.583 | null | null | 383 | null |
2,478 | 2 | null | 2,472 | 10 | null | Add the user id to the request for the ad:
```
<img src="./ads/viagra.jpg?{user.id}"/>
```
that way you can check what ads are seen by which users.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T15:37:34.520 | 2008-08-05T15:37:34.520 | null | null | 309,844 | null |
2,482 | 1 | 2,513 | null | 36 | 10,896 | With the rise of multicore CPUs on the desktop, multithreading skills will become a valuable asset for programmers. Can you recommend some good resources (books, tutorials, websites, etc.) for a programmer who is looking to learn about threaded programming?
| What are some good resources for learning threaded programming? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-05T15:42:09.847 | 2016-03-11T21:05:19.810 | 2009-09-05T17:29:51.773 | 311 | 311 | [
"multithreading",
"language-agnostic",
"concurrency"
] |
2,479 | 2 | null | 2,472 | 4 | null | You need to think about the different ways that ads are blocked. The first thing to look at is whether they are running noscript, so you could add a script that would check for that.
The next thing is to see if they are blocking flash, a small movie should do that.
If you look at the adblock site, there is some indi... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-05T15:37:36.063 | 2013-01-27T12:28:53.513 | 2013-01-27T12:28:53.513 | null | 170 | null |
2,474 | 2 | null | 2,384 | 3 | null | I don't see any problem with your code.
just out of my head, what if you try to do it manually? does it work?
```
BinaryReader reader = new BinaryReader(stream);
StructType o = new StructType();
o.FileDate = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(reader.ReadBytes(8));
o.FileTime = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(reader.ReadBytes(8));
...... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T15:31:43.330 | 2008-08-06T09:13:24.687 | 2008-08-06T09:13:24.687 | 275 | 275 | null |
2,481 | 1 | 2,511 | null | 11 | 1,426 | I've been able to find details on several self-balancing `BST`s through several sources, but I haven't found any good descriptions detailing which one is best to use in different situations (or if it really doesn't matter).
I want a `BST` that is optimal for storing in excess of ten million nodes. The order of inser... | Best self-balancing BST for quick insertion of a large number of nodes | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-05T15:40:24.903 | 2015-04-15T15:28:09.133 | 2015-04-15T15:28:09.133 | 1,938,889 | 152 | [
"data-structures",
"language-agnostic",
"binary-search-tree"
] |
2,483 | 1 | 2,487 | null | 91 | 11,095 | What is actually the difference between these two casts?
```
SomeClass sc = (SomeClass)SomeObject;
SomeClass sc2 = SomeObject as SomeClass;
```
Normally, shouldn't they both be explicit casts to the specified type?
| Casting: (NewType) vs. Object as NewType | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 0 | 2008-08-05T15:42:30.110 | 2020-07-05T21:46:58.927 | 2020-07-05T21:46:58.927 | 10,325,630 | 91 | [
"c#",
".net"
] |
2,486 | 1 | 2,514 | null | 24 | 2,440 | Jeff mentioned the concept of 'Progressive Enhancement' when talking about using JQuery to write stackoverflow.
After a quick Google, I found a couple of high-level discussions about it.
Can anyone recommend a good place to start as a programmer.
Specifically, I have been writing web apps in PHP and would like to us... | What is Progressive Enhancement? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-05T15:44:39.327 | 2021-10-25T12:01:05.873 | 2008-08-23T15:19:07.157 | 2,134 | 277 | [
"ajax",
"progressive-enhancement"
] |
2,471 | 2 | null | 1,408 | 52 | null | A VirtualHost would also work for this and may work better for you as you can host several projects without the need for subdirectories. Here's how you do it:
httpd.conf (or extra\httpd-vhosts.conf relative to httpd.conf. Trailing slashes "\" might cause it not to work):
```
NameVirtualHost *:80
# ...
<VirtualHost *... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T15:30:30.353 | 2008-08-05T18:06:20.883 | 2008-08-05T18:06:20.883 | 58 | 72 | null |
2,489 | 2 | null | 2,483 | 1 | null | The parenthetical cast throws an exception if the cast attempt fails. The "as" cast returns null if the cast attempt fails.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T15:45:06.610 | 2008-08-05T15:45:06.610 | null | null | null | null |
2,491 | 2 | null | 2,482 | 6 | null | I've honestly never read it myself, but [Concurrent Programming in Java](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/0201310090) is a book I've heard recommended by several people.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T15:47:15.997 | 2008-08-05T15:47:15.997 | null | null | null | null |
2,494 | 2 | null | 2,488 | 4 | null | I believe [DB Designer](http://www.fabforce.net/dbdesigner4/) does something like that. And I think they even have a free version.
Never mind. Michael's link is much better.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T15:48:10.163 | 2008-08-05T15:48:10.163 | null | null | 305 | null |
2,488 | 1 | 2,495 | null | 358 | 372,986 | I'm tired of opening Dia and creating a database diagram at the beginning of every project. Is there a tool out there that will let me select specific tables and then create a database diagram for me based on a MySQL database? Preferably it would allow me to edit the diagram afterward since none of the foreign keys are... | Auto Generate Database Diagram MySQL | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-05T15:45:02.930 | 2021-06-24T19:24:12.700 | 2012-04-01T10:30:48.577 | 1,219,121 | 58 | [
"mysql",
"database",
"database-design",
"diagram"
] |
2,492 | 2 | null | 1,908 | 2 | null | Alright. From a theoretical point of view, given that the distortion is "arbitrary", and any solution requires you to model this arbitrary distortion, you obviously can't get an "answer". However, any solution is going to involve imposing (usually implicitly) some model of the distortion that may or may not reflect the... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T15:47:51.830 | 2008-08-05T15:47:51.830 | null | null | 2,089,740 | null |
2,490 | 2 | null | 2,256 | 20 | null | Most people use .NET serialization (there is faster binary and slower XML formatter, they both depend on reflection and are version tolerant to certain degree)
However, if you want the fastest (unsafe) way - why not:
Writing:
```
YourStruct o = new YourStruct();
byte[] buffer = new byte[Marshal.SizeOf(typeof(YourStr... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T15:46:35.157 | 2009-10-09T07:16:40.780 | 2009-10-09T07:16:40.780 | 275 | 275 | null |
2,487 | 2 | null | 2,483 | 88 | null | The former will throw an exception if the source type can't be cast to the target type. The latter will result in sc2 being a null reference, but no exception.
[Edit]
My original answer is certainly the most pronounced difference, but as Eric Lippert [points out](http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2009/10/08/w... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T15:44:46.330 | 2009-10-09T05:33:21.060 | 2009-10-09T05:33:21.060 | 266 | 266 | null |
2,495 | 2 | null | 2,488 | 436 | null | Try MySQL Workbench, formerly DBDesigner 4:
[http://dev.mysql.com/workbench/](http://dev.mysql.com/workbench/)
This has a "Reverse Engineer Database" mode:
Database -> Reverse Engineer
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wcoq9.png)
| null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-05T15:48:11.707 | 2018-06-25T07:53:11.660 | 2018-06-25T07:53:11.660 | 1,390,678 | 91 | null |
2,498 | 2 | null | 2,481 | 0 | null | The two self-balancing `BST`s I'm most familiar with are red-black and `AVL`, so I can't say for certain if any other solutions are better, but as I recall, red-black has faster insertion and slower retrieval compared to `AVL`.
So if insertion is a higher priority than retrieval, red-black may be a better solution.
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-05T15:50:05.120 | 2013-02-07T14:40:26.280 | 2013-02-07T14:40:26.280 | 395,659 | null | null |
2,496 | 2 | null | 2,482 | 1 | null | [http://www.cilk.com/multicore-e-book/](http://www.cilk.com/multicore-e-book/)
That's a nice general overview of the sitution, if you're looking for tuorials and books it might be best to specify a language as a starting point so you can mess around with some code.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T15:48:57.413 | 2008-08-05T15:48:57.413 | null | null | 398 | null |
2,506 | 2 | null | 2,486 | 3 | null | Going at it from the other direction is sometimes referred to as graceful degradation. This is usually needed when the site is built first with the enhanced functionality afforded by the various technologies then modified to degrade gracefully for browsers with those technologies are not available.
It is also gracefu... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T15:57:00.113 | 2008-08-05T15:57:00.113 | null | null | 312 | null |
2,497 | 2 | null | 2,483 | 1 | null | They'll throw different exceptions.
() : NullReferenceException
as : InvalidCastException
Which could help for debugging.
The "as" keyword attempts to cast the object and if the cast fails, null is returned. The () cast operator will throw an exception immediately if the cast fails.
Only use the C# "as" keyword where... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-05T15:49:34.310 | 2020-07-05T17:12:35.597 | 2020-07-05T17:12:35.597 | 10,325,630 | 402 | null |
2,509 | 1 | 2,548 | null | 135 | 44,089 | Test Driven Development has been the rage in the .NET community for the last few years. Recently, I have heard grumblings in the ALT.NET community about BDD. What is it? What makes it different from TDD?
| What are the primary differences between TDD and BDD? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-05T15:58:08.473 | 2021-10-25T12:00:18.543 | 2012-04-30T09:01:31.963 | null | 303 | [
"unit-testing",
"tdd",
"bdd"
] |
2,500 | 2 | null | 2,486 | 14 | null | As you've said
> To me, that seems a bit overkill, since viewing the site without Javascript will probably break most of it.
This isn't progressive enhancement. Progressive enhancement is when the site works perfectly without JavaScript or CSS, and adding (layering) these extra technologies/code to increase the usab... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-05T15:51:11.873 | 2012-10-23T13:47:40.910 | 2012-10-23T13:47:40.910 | 1,430,996 | 383 | null |
2,510 | 2 | null | 2,311 | 0 | null | Small files take up a whole node on the file system whatever the size is.
My host tends to report all small files as 4KB in ftp but gives an accurate size in a shell so it might be a 'feature' common to ftp clients.
| null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-05T15:59:24.773 | 2020-07-11T07:06:47.050 | 2020-07-11T07:06:47.050 | 10,325,630 | 269 | null |
2,514 | 2 | null | 2,486 | 10 | null | See also [Unobtrusive JavaScript](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtrusive_JavaScript) which is the bedrock progressive enhancement is built.
| null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-05T16:05:29.020 | 2021-10-25T12:00:52.740 | 2021-10-25T12:00:52.740 | 17,169,050 | 269 | null |
2,517 | 2 | null | 2,488 | 0 | null | The "Reverse Engineer Database" mode in Workbench is only part of the paid version, not the free one.
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-05T16:08:40.620 | 2016-08-06T07:54:36.637 | 2016-08-06T07:54:36.637 | 1,832,942 | 200 | null |
2,515 | 2 | null | 2,509 | 2 | null | Behaviour Driven Development seems to focus more on the interaction and communication between Developers and also between Developers and testers.
The Wikipedia Article has an explanation:
[Behavior-driven development](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior_Driven_Development)
Not practicing BDD myself though.
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-05T16:06:36.880 | 2013-01-27T12:29:27.313 | 2013-01-27T12:29:27.313 | null | 91 | null |
2,513 | 2 | null | 2,482 | 19 | null | Take a look at Herb Sutter's "[The Free Lunch Is Over](http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm)" and then his series of articles on [Effective Concurrency](http://herbsutter.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/effective-concurrency-the-many-faces-of-deadlock/).
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T16:02:41.660 | 2008-08-05T16:02:41.660 | null | null | 342 | null |
2,511 | 2 | null | 2,481 | 4 | null | [Red-black](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-black_tree) is better than AVL for insertion-heavy applications. If you foresee relatively uniform look-up, then Red-black is the way to go. If you foresee a relatively unbalanced look-up where more recently viewed elements are more likely to be viewed again, you want to use... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T15:59:27.563 | 2013-02-07T17:28:39.787 | 2013-02-07T17:28:39.787 | 237,838 | 2,089,740 | null |
2,520 | 2 | null | 2,509 | 2 | null | It seems to me that BDD is a broader scope. It almost implies TDD is used, that BDD is the encompassing methodology that gathers the information and requirements for using, among other things, TDD practices to ensure rapid feedback.
| null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-05T16:11:02.783 | 2021-10-25T11:59:58.357 | 2021-10-25T11:59:58.357 | 17,169,050 | 312 | null |
2,518 | 1 | 10,020 | null | 9 | 16,882 | I have 2 SQLite databases, one downloaded from a server (`server.db`), and one used as storage on the client (`client.db`). I need to perform various sync queries on the client database, using data from the server database.
For example, I want to delete all rows in the `client.db tRole` table, and repopulate with all ... | Using multiple SQLite databases at once | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-05T16:09:12.570 | 2021-10-25T11:58:16.390 | 2016-09-25T02:11:33.183 | null | 26 | [
"actionscript-3",
"apache-flex",
"sqlite",
"air",
"adobe"
] |
2,522 | 2 | null | 2,483 | 27 | null | Also note that you can only use the as keyword with a reference type or a nullable type
ie:
```
double d = 5.34;
int i = d as int;
```
will not compile
```
double d = 5.34;
int i = (int)d;
```
will compile.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T16:15:38.437 | 2008-08-05T16:15:38.437 | null | null | 27 | null |
2,524 | 1 | 151,931 | null | 56 | 75,123 | I get the following error pretty regularly when compiling in Visual Studio and running my web application:
"Unable to start debugging on the web server. The web server did not respond in a timely manner. This may be because another debugger is already attached to the web server."
Normally this is after having debug ... | Visual Studio "Unable to start debugging on the web server. The web server did not respond in a timely manner." | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-05T16:18:18.853 | 2021-10-25T11:57:41.453 | 2015-12-16T11:12:22.233 | 1,657,610 | 417 | [
"asp.net",
"visual-studio",
"visual-studio-2008",
"debugging",
"iis"
] |
2,528 | 2 | null | 2,525 | 18 | null | I have been using smartassembly. Basically, you pick a dll and it returns it obfuscated. It seems to work fine and I've had no problems so far. Very, very easy to use.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T16:21:56.223 | 2008-08-05T16:21:56.223 | null | null | 26 | null |
2,527 | 1 | 2,546 | null | 76 | 58,263 | How can I find out which node in a tree list the context menu has been activated? For instance right-clicking a node and selecting an option from the menu.
I can't use the TreeViews' `SelectedNode` property because the node is only been right-clicked and not selected.
| Find node clicked under context menu | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-05T16:21:14.120 | 2020-05-22T07:09:12.397 | 2017-03-23T11:41:45.517 | 469,708 | 428 | [
"c#",
"winforms",
"treeview",
"contextmenu"
] |
2,530 | 1 | 2,531 | null | 3,175 | 1,361,485 | How do you disable autocomplete in the major browsers for a specific input (or form field)?
| How do you disable browser autocomplete on web form field / input tags? | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 0 | 2008-08-05T16:22:32.603 | 2023-02-20T22:18:45.893 | 2021-04-08T23:01:03.943 | 63,550 | 307 | [
"html",
"forms",
"browser",
"autocomplete"
] |
2,523 | 2 | null | 1,669 | 11 | null | [The Dragon Book](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/0321486811) is definitely the "building compilers" book, but if your language isn't quite as complicated as the current generation of languages, you may want to look at the Interpreter pattern from [Design Patterns](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/clic... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T16:16:01.150 | 2008-08-05T16:16:01.150 | null | null | 422 | null |
2,536 | 2 | null | 2,530 | 17 | null | Use a non-standard name and id for the fields, so rather than "name" have "name_". Browsers will then not see it as being the name field.
The best part about it is that you can do this to some, but not all, fields and it will autocomplete some, but not all fields.
| null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-05T16:27:39.927 | 2021-04-08T23:02:10.300 | 2021-04-08T23:02:10.300 | 63,550 | 1,384,652 | null |
2,525 | 1 | 8,739 | null | 165 | 149,576 | My product has several components: ASP.NET, Windows Forms App and Windows Service. 95% or so of the code is written in VB.NET.
For Intellectual Property reasons, I need to obfuscate the code, and until now I have been using a version of dotfuscator which is now over 5 years old. I'm thinking it is time to move to a ne... | .NET obfuscation tools/strategy | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-05T16:20:37.773 | 2020-01-20T15:14:01.013 | 2015-04-13T12:51:06.663 | 2,624,611 | 350 | [
".net",
"security",
"obfuscation"
] |
2,540 | 1 | 2,697 | null | 49 | 8,525 | What are good libraries for C with datastructures like vectors, deques, stacks, hashmaps, treemaps, sets, etc.? Plain C, please, and platform-independent.
| Good STL-like library for C | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-05T16:30:37.377 | 2014-04-24T06:52:28.120 | 2008-09-10T18:13:55.543 | -1 | 136 | [
"c",
"architecture",
"data-structures"
] |
2,531 | 2 | null | 2,530 | 2,863 | null | Firefox 30 ignores `autocomplete="off"` for passwords, opting to prompt the user instead whether the password should be stored on the client. Note the following [commentary](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=956906#c100) from May 5, 2014:
> - -
According to the [Mozilla Developer Network](https://developer.... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-05T16:24:53.380 | 2021-01-09T17:16:10.967 | 2021-01-09T17:16:10.967 | 10,607,772 | 157 | null |
2,541 | 2 | null | 2,525 | 23 | null | If your looking for a free one you could try DotObfuscator Community Edition that comes with Visual Studio or [Eazfuscator.NET](http://www.gapotchenko.com/eazfuscator.net).
---
[Since June 29, 2012](http://blog.gapotchenko.com/eazfuscator.net/code-virtualization), Eazfuscator.NET is now commercial. The last free a... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-05T16:30:40.170 | 2017-03-29T04:13:05.737 | 2017-03-29T04:13:05.737 | -1 | 428 | null |
2,542 | 2 | null | 2,530 | 24 | null | Just set `autocomplete="off"`. There is a very good reason for doing this: You want to provide your own autocomplete functionality!
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-05T16:32:11.773 | 2015-08-01T10:45:01.303 | 2015-08-01T10:45:01.303 | 2,181,225 | 106 | null |
2,537 | 2 | null | 2,530 | 111 | null | ```
<form name="form1" id="form1" method="post"
autocomplete="off" action="http://www.example.com/form.cgi">
```
This will work in Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. The downside is that it is not XHTML standard.
| null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-05T16:27:40.910 | 2021-04-08T23:02:53.117 | 2021-04-08T23:02:53.117 | 63,550 | 225 | null |
2,543 | 1 | 2,564 | null | 16 | 5,160 | I'm aware of [FusionCharts](http://www.fusioncharts.com/), are there other good solutions, or APIs, for creating charts in Adobe Flash?
| What are the best solutions for flash charts and graphs? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-05T16:34:37.057 | 2012-07-02T20:33:37.163 | 2012-07-02T20:33:37.163 | 1,399,491 | 136 | [
"flash",
"graph"
] |
2,547 | 2 | null | 2,543 | 2 | null | XML/SWF Charts does Chart off XML:
[http://www.maani.us/xml_charts/](http://www.maani.us/xml_charts/)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T16:36:43.933 | 2008-08-05T16:36:43.933 | null | null | 91 | null |
2,538 | 2 | null | 44,965 | 180 | null | But, [You could have invented Monads!](http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monads-and.html)
> sigfpe says:> But all of these introduce monads as something esoteric in need of explanation. But what I want to argue is that they aren't esoteric at all. In fact, faced with various problems in functional... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-05T16:28:41.483 | 2015-03-31T05:35:32.367 | 2015-03-31T05:35:32.367 | 1,880,763 | 157 | null |
2,544 | 2 | null | 2,524 | 2 | null | It sounds like you are probably hitting F5 in Visual Studio when you receive this error?
There are a few things you can try. The easiest is to hit the button before hitting F5. Optionally, when you are finished debugging and starting to make changes you can go to the menu and choose either or .
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T16:35:17.087 | 2008-08-05T16:35:17.087 | null | null | 312 | null |
2,546 | 2 | null | 2,527 | 97 | null | You can add a mouse click event to the TreeView, then select the correct node using GetNodeAt given the mouse coordinates provided by the MouseEventArgs.
```
void treeView1MouseUp(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
if(e.Button == MouseButtons.Right)
{
// Select the clicked node
treeView1.Select... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-05T16:36:43.463 | 2012-09-11T05:38:54.940 | 2012-09-11T05:38:54.940 | 495,455 | 152 | null |
2,545 | 2 | null | 2,524 | 0 | null | It sounds like something is eating up your web server's resources. Perhaps you have some resources (file handlers, wcf proxies) that are being opened and not closed? I've had this happen to me specifically when I was not closing WCF client proxy connections.
The problem is not necessarily that you have a debugger att... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T16:35:50.517 | 2008-08-05T16:35:50.517 | null | null | 308 | null |
2,556 | 1 | 100,758 | null | 93 | 25,541 | Should be available to non-U.S. companies, easy to setup, reliable, cheap, customizable, etc. What are your experiences?
| What's the best online payment processing solution? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-05T16:41:50.413 | 2020-07-20T03:38:35.883 | null | null | 136 | [
"payment"
] |
2,555 | 2 | null | 2,543 | 2 | null | I know you said flash, but this is a good silverlight chart api. [http://www.visifire.com/](http://www.visifire.com/). Always good to keep your options open right?
Had to plug silverlight, but you can also take a look at [Yahoo!'s YUI charting](http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/charts/) component.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T16:40:37.840 | 2008-08-05T16:40:37.840 | null | null | 77 | null |
2,550 | 1 | 2,560 | null | 19 | 4,239 | A quick glance at the present-day internet would seem to indicate that Adobe Flash is the obvious choice for embedding video in a web page. Is this accurate, or are they other effective choices? Does the choice of ASP.NET as a platform influence this decision?
| What are effective options for embedding video in an ASP.NET web site? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-05T16:39:04.507 | 2013-01-27T12:29:43.840 | 2008-09-03T12:32:06.610 | 3,320 | 308 | [
"asp.net",
"flash",
"video",
"embed"
] |
2,558 | 2 | null | 2,540 | 14 | null | As always, Google is your friend:
[http://nixbit.com/cat/programming/libraries/c-generic-library/](http://nixbit.com/cat/programming/libraries/c-generic-library/)
specifically:
[http://nixbit.com/cat/programming/libraries/generic-data-structures-library/](http://nixbit.com/cat/programming/libraries/generic-data-stru... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T16:43:11.033 | 2008-08-05T16:43:11.033 | null | null | 414 | null |
2,560 | 2 | null | 2,550 | 21 | null | Flash is certainly the most ubiquitous and portable solution. [98% of browsers](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash#Market_share) have Flash installed. Other alternatives are [Quicktime](http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/), [Windows Media Player](http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/default.mspx),... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T16:44:01.157 | 2008-08-05T16:44:01.157 | null | null | 72 | null |
2,564 | 2 | null | 2,543 | 7 | null | Is there a reason that you want it in Flash? If a plain, old PNG will work, try the [Google Chart API](http://code.google.com/apis/chart/).
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T16:49:06.047 | 2008-08-05T16:49:06.047 | null | null | 55 | null |
2,561 | 2 | null | 2,556 | 11 | null | I'd say paypal or [GoogleCheckout](https://checkout.google.com/sell/).
Google Checkout is either 2% + .20USD or free depending on how much you spend on adwords. If you spend a dollar on adWords, your next $10 on Google checkout is free.
[Paypal](https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_wp-standard-pricing-outsid... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T16:44:35.960 | 2008-08-05T17:49:17.093 | 2008-08-05T17:49:17.110 | 30 | 30 | null |
2,548 | 2 | null | 2,509 | 107 | null | I understand BDD to be more about than . It is linked to Domain Driven Design (don't you love these *DD acronyms?).
It is linked with a certain way to write user stories, including high-level tests. An example by [Tom ten Thij](http://tomtenthij.nl/2008/1/25/rspec-plain-text-story-runner-on-a-fresh-rails-app):
```
... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-05T16:36:53.840 | 2015-08-07T13:04:47.380 | 2015-08-07T13:04:47.380 | 341 | 341 | null |
2,562 | 2 | null | 2,550 | 6 | null | Flash is usually the product of choice: Everyone has it, and using the [JW FLV Player](http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_FLV_Media_Player) makes it relatively easy on your side.
As for other Video Formats, there are WMV and QuickTime, but the players are rather "heavy", not everyone might have them and they feel ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T16:44:43.090 | 2008-08-05T16:44:43.090 | null | null | 91 | null |
2,563 | 1 | 2,801 | null | 8 | 3,187 | Any good recommendations for a platform agnostic (i.e. Javascript) grid control/plugin that will accept pasted Excel data and can emit Excel-compliant clipboard data during a Copy?
I believe Excel data is formatted as CSV during "normal" clipboard operations.
---
[dhtmlxGrid](http://dhtmlx.com/docs/products/dhtml... | What is a good web-based Grid that accepts Excel clipboard data? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-05T16:47:28.873 | 2012-10-17T11:06:23.250 | 2012-10-17T11:06:23.250 | 1,288 | 307 | [
"excel",
"csv",
"grid",
"clipboard"
] |
2,565 | 2 | null | 2,556 | 1 | null | Epoch is pretty large and available in US and EU:
[http://www.epoch.com/en/index.html](http://www.epoch.com/en/index.html)
I have no idea about their conditions though.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T16:49:21.270 | 2008-08-05T16:49:21.270 | null | null | 91 | null |
2,569 | 2 | null | 2,556 | 1 | null | I'd have to go with paypal. I've used it in the past, and its really quite painless. All you need to do is create an account, and it's automatically available to you.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T16:52:43.090 | 2008-08-05T16:52:43.090 | null | null | 50 | null |
2,400 | 2 | null | 2,232 | 1,459 | null | This explanation is based on a commented [Ruby script](http://gist.github.com/4069) from a friend of mine. If you want to improve the script, feel free to update it at the link.
First, note that when Ruby calls out to a shell, it typically calls `/bin/sh`, Bash. Some Bash syntax is not supported by `/bin/sh` on all s... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-05T14:42:45.927 | 2020-05-07T13:11:15.360 | 2020-05-07T13:11:15.360 | 3,518,452 | 402 | null |
2,571 | 2 | null | 2,556 | 4 | null | [http://www.authorize.net/](http://www.authorize.net/) works well. This type of solution would allow your customer to enter his/her credit card directly.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T16:53:28.033 | 2008-08-05T16:53:28.033 | null | null | 285 | null |
2,588 | 1 | 1,780,172 | null | 19 | 33,680 | Does any know a good rule of thumb for the appropriate pagefile size for a Windows 2003 server running SQL Server?
| Appropriate Windows O/S pagefile size for SQL Server | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-05T17:07:16.773 | 2014-12-16T18:29:20.807 | 2014-12-16T18:29:20.807 | 314,291 | 423 | [
"sql-server",
"windows"
] |
2,566 | 2 | null | 2,550 | 0 | null | I have worked for a company that developed a system for distributing media content to dedicated "players". It was web based and used ASP.NET technology and have tried almost every possible media format you can think of and your choice really comes down to asking yourself:
does it needs to play directly out of the box,... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T16:49:31.723 | 2008-08-05T16:49:31.723 | null | null | 46 | null |
2,596 | 2 | null | 2,447 | 1 | null | I'm no expert on Agile development, but I would imagine that integrating some basic automated pen-test software into your build cycle would be a good start. I have seen several software packages out there that will do basic testing and are well suited for automation.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T17:19:03.893 | 2008-08-05T17:19:03.893 | null | null | 72 | null |
2,570 | 2 | null | 2,543 | 1 | null | I can vouch that I've had good experiences with [PHP/SWF charts](http://www.maani.us/charts/index.php) (and by extension, the XML/SWF charts too). It's easy to create really subtle chart effects. Pie charts fading in one slice at a time looks fairly professional without being annoying.
Edit: Scratch that, [Open-Flash-... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T16:53:15.647 | 2008-08-05T17:01:44.663 | 2008-08-05T17:01:44.663 | 30 | 30 | null |
2,576 | 2 | null | 2,543 | 10 | null | [http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart/](http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart/) seems really sweet. I suggest you give it a look.
UPDATE: Open Flash Chart 2 is out: [http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart-2/](http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart-2/)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T16:54:48.357 | 2010-01-19T02:19:12.850 | 2010-01-19T02:19:12.850 | 285 | 285 | null |
2,598 | 2 | null | 2,486 | 3 | null | Basically, if your site still works with JavaScript turned off, then anything you add with JavaScript can be considered progressive enhancement.
Some people may think that this is unnecessary, but plenty of people browse with addons like NoScript (or, with JavaScript simply turned off in their browser settings). In ad... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T17:20:25.077 | 2008-08-05T17:20:25.077 | null | null | 106 | null |
2,585 | 2 | null | 109 | 24 | null | I went back to Michael's post, did some more poking and realized that I did need to do a double conversion, and eventually worked out this little nugget:
```
Convert.ToString(Convert.ToChar(Int32.Parse(EncodedString.Substring(intParseIndex, 2), System.Globalization.NumberStyles.HexNumber)));
```
From there I simply ... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-05T17:02:30.870 | 2019-02-10T22:11:00.017 | 2019-02-10T22:11:00.017 | 513,951 | 71 | null |
2,554 | 2 | null | 2,027 | 20 | null | Here is another article for the [c# programming language](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vcsharp/default.aspx)
c# passes its arguments (by default)
```
private void swap(string a, string b) {
string tmp = a;
a = b;
b = tmp;
}
```
calling this version of swap will thus have no result:
```
string x = "foo";
... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T16:40:35.063 | 2008-08-05T16:40:35.063 | 2017-05-23T12:17:05.720 | -1 | 46 | null |
2,599 | 2 | null | 888 | 80 | null | You can use Firephp an add-on to firebug to debug php in the same environment as javascript.
I also use [Xdebug](http://xdebug.org/) mentioned earlier for profiling php.
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-05T17:22:09.333 | 2015-10-07T08:29:03.040 | 2015-10-07T08:29:03.040 | 4,345,707 | 238 | null |
2,601 | 2 | null | 2,563 | 3 | null | Not an answer, but a warning: my company bought the 2007 Infragistics ASP.NET controls just for the Grid, and we regret that choice.
The quality of API is horrible (in our opinion at least), making it very hard to program against the grid (for example, inconsistent naming conventions, but this is just an inconvenienc... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T17:23:21.500 | 2008-08-05T17:23:21.500 | null | null | 350 | null |
2,602 | 2 | null | 1,711 | 4 | null | Code Complete is the number one choice, but I'd also cite Gang of Four's Design Patterns and Craig Larman's Applying UML and Patterns.
The Timeless Way of Building, by Christopher Alexander, is another great one. Even though it's about archtecture, it's included in the bibliography of many great programming books I h... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T17:28:24.937 | 2008-08-05T17:28:24.937 | null | null | 431 | null |
2,608 | 2 | null | 1,284 | 3 | null | Oracle has got an [online tutorial about SQL Injection](http://st-curriculum.oracle.com/tutorial/SQLInjection/index.htm). Even though you want a ready-made solution, this might give you some hints on how to use it better to defend yourself.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T17:38:53.840 | 2008-08-05T17:38:53.840 | null | null | 431 | null |
2,605 | 2 | null | 2,556 | 3 | null |
if it is Digital stuff that you are selling, I recommend [http://www.esellerate.net/](http://www.esellerate.net/) .
they have nice support for website payment, delivery of serial numbers upon sell and even have API so you can integrate the buying process into your application in case it is a desktop application.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T17:35:24.157 | 2008-08-05T17:35:24.157 | null | null | 350 | null |
2,609 | 2 | null | 2,556 | 2 | null | Well by cheap do you mean processing fees or month fees? Also is this for micro or normal transactions? PayPal in my experience is an all around good choice because it offers both starter to professional level payment processing services that fit most needs.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T17:40:27.503 | 2008-08-05T17:40:27.503 | null | null | 17 | null |
2,629 | 2 | null | 651 | 0 | null | In IIS, enable annonymous access and allow the web.config to handle user authentication.
| null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-05T18:01:12.640 | 2019-06-12T17:00:05.673 | 2019-06-12T17:00:05.673 | 1,011,722 | 383 | null |
2,620 | 2 | null | 2,447 | 1 | null | I'm not a security expert, but I think the most important fact you should be aware of, before testing security, is what you are trying to protect. Only if you know what you are trying to protect, you can do a proper analysis of your security measures and only then you can start testing those implemented measures.
Very... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T17:50:49.243 | 2008-08-05T17:50:49.243 | null | null | 198 | null |
2,619 | 2 | null | 2,556 | 2 | null | I've used CyberSource in the past, and had a good experience.
They support several interfaces including SOAP, work internationally and have a pretty good web interface.
I'm not sure whether it's cheap though.
[http://www.cybersource.com/products_and_services/global_payment_services/credit_card_processing/](http://www.c... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-05T17:48:39.467 | 2020-07-20T03:38:35.883 | 2020-07-20T03:38:35.883 | 10,325,630 | 373 | null |
2,630 | 1 | 64,636 | null | 15 | 2,449 | I just found /n softwares free Powershell NetCmdlets, and after playing with them I love the functionality they bring to the command line. So it raises the question what are your favorite Cmdlets, and how do you use them?
| What are your favorite Powershell Cmdlets? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-05T18:01:32.547 | 2012-11-04T08:08:41.123 | 2008-10-10T07:15:03.610 | 3,560 | 17 | [
"powershell",
"powershell-cmdlet"
] |
2,614 | 2 | null | 2,483 | 4 | null | Here is a good way to remember the process that each of them follow that I use when trying to decide which is better for my circumstance.
```
DateTime i = (DateTime)value;
// is like doing
DateTime i = value is DateTime ? value as DateTime : throw new Exception(...);
```
and the next should be easy to guess what it ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T17:46:00.970 | 2008-08-05T17:46:00.970 | null | null | 17 | null |
2,643 | 2 | null | 2,639 | 2 | null | [Cerberus](http://www.cerberusweb.com/) - it's more a full featured Help Desk/Issue Tracking system but it has a nice KB solution built in. It can be free but they do have a low cost pay version that is also very good.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T18:12:14.223 | 2008-08-05T18:12:14.223 | null | null | 225 | null |
2,649 | 1 | 2,653 | null | 21 | 3,550 | When writing a T-SQL script that I plan on re-running, often times I use temporary tables to store temporary data. Since the temp table is created on the fly, I'd like to be able to drop that table only if it exists (before I create it).
I'll post the method that I use, but I'd like to see if there is a better way.
| What's the best way to determine if a temporary table exists in SQL Server? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T18:18:39.373 | 2017-01-30T17:05:01.413 | 2009-01-13T16:03:30.267 | 434 | 434 | [
"sql-server"
] |
2,647 | 1 | 2,657 | null | 527 | 920,721 | Using SQL Server, how do I split a string so I can access item x?
Take a string "Hello John Smith". How can I split the string by space and access the item at index 1 which should return "John"?
| How do I split a delimited string so I can access individual items? | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 0 | 2008-08-05T18:15:47.727 | 2022-11-26T21:14:11.057 | 2022-06-13T15:19:11.710 | 1,255,289 | 383 | [
"sql",
"sql-server",
"tsql",
"split"
] |
2,653 | 2 | null | 2,649 | 28 | null | ```
IF Object_Id('TempDB..#TempTable') IS NOT NULL
BEGIN
DROP TABLE #TempTable
END
```
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-05T18:21:38.730 | 2017-01-30T17:05:01.413 | 2017-01-30T17:05:01.413 | 12,597 | 383 | null |
2,639 | 1 | 2,712 | null | 12 | 5,141 | I've used a WordPress blog and a Screwturn Wiki (at two separate jobs) to store private, company-specific KB info, but I'm looking for something that was created to be a knowledge base. Specifically, I'd like to see:
- - - - - - - -
I liked using the Wordpress blog because it allowed me to use [Live Writer](http://... | What are some web-based knowledge-base solutions? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-05T18:07:26.213 | 2016-01-28T05:16:43.123 | 2014-12-01T12:35:52.033 | 2,861,681 | 434 | [
"language-agnostic"
] |
2,652 | 2 | null | 2,649 | 14 | null | The OBJECT_ID function returns the internal object id for the given object name and type. 'tempdb..#t1' refers to the table #t1 in the tempdb database. 'U' is for user-defined table.
```
IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#t1', 'U') IS NOT NULL
DROP TABLE #t1
CREATE TABLE #t1
(
id INT IDENTITY(1,1),
msg VARCHAR(255)
)
```
... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-05T18:21:31.537 | 2014-08-27T10:46:53.187 | 2014-08-27T10:46:53.187 | 352,101 | 434 | null |
2,662 | 2 | null | 2,639 | 1 | null | I think Drupal is a very possible choice. It has a lot of built-in support for book-type information capturing.
And there is a rich collection of user generated modules which you can use to enhance the features.
I think it has almost all the features you ask for out of the box.
[Drupal CMS Benefits](http://drupal.org... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-05T18:31:19.677 | 2013-01-27T12:34:33.143 | 2013-01-27T12:34:33.143 | null | 380 | null |
2,665 | 2 | null | 2,658 | 19 | null | Use subversion, it's easy to setup, easy to use, and has plenty of tools. Any future revision system will have an import from SVN feature, so it isn't like you can't change down the road if your needs grow.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T18:31:56.773 | 2008-08-05T18:31:56.773 | null | null | 34 | null |
2,667 | 2 | null | 2,658 | 11 | null | Go for SVN. If you have never used source control before, it won't matter to you one way or the other.
Also, there is not a large amount of learning involved in using a Source Control system. If you learn one, you can easily switch over to another at a later date.
SVN is a great tool, and it should take care of most ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T18:33:56.927 | 2008-08-05T18:33:56.927 | null | null | 380 | null |
2,658 | 1 | 2,668 | null | 76 | 9,566 | I need to implement version control, even for just the developing I do at home. I have read about how great subversion is for the past couple of years and was about to dedicate myself to learning this on the side until I heard about Git being the up and coming version control system.
Given the situation, should I hold... | Getting started with Version Control System | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 0 | 2008-08-05T18:29:14.283 | 2022-02-23T12:27:23.230 | 2022-02-23T12:27:23.230 | 5,452,687 | 406 | [
"git",
"svn",
"version-control",
"language-agnostic",
"dvcs"
] |
2,669 | 2 | null | 2,658 | 2 | null | Don't wait. Pick one, and go with it. All systems will have their pluses and minuses. Your power could go out, you computer gets stolen, or you forget to undo a major change and all your code gets fried while you're waiting to see who emerges victorious.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T18:35:27.890 | 2008-08-05T18:35:27.890 | null | null | 149 | null |
2,670 | 2 | null | 2,658 | 0 | null | When I decided I must use a code versioning system, I looked around for any good tutorials on how to get started but didn't find any that could help me.
So I simplely installed the SVN Server and Tortoise SVN for the client and dived into the deepend and i learn't how to use it along the way.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-05T18:36:01.227 | 2008-08-05T18:36:01.227 | null | null | 383 | null |