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25,614 | 25,701 | Which Java DOM Wrapper is the Best or Most Popular? | I've used jdom in the past, and have looked briefly at XOM and DOM4j. Each seems to provide essentially the same thing, as they each provide a simplified wrapper over the (very obtuse) standard W3C DOM APIs. I know that JDOM went through some effort to develop a JSR and standardization process at one point, but as far ... | I like XOM, because I like the way Elliotte Rusty Harold thinks. Of the ones you mention I belive it's the one that strays away from the DOM standard API:s the most, but I consider that a benefit. I once implemented a DOM library for Cocoa, and XOM was my inspiration. I've worked with JDOM as well, and there's absolute... | Which Java DOM Wrapper is the Best or Most Popular? I've used jdom in the past, and have looked briefly at XOM and DOM4j. Each seems to provide essentially the same thing, as they each provide a simplified wrapper over the (very obtuse) standard W3C DOM APIs. I know that JDOM went through some effort to develop a JSR a... | TITLE:
Which Java DOM Wrapper is the Best or Most Popular?
QUESTION:
I've used jdom in the past, and have looked briefly at XOM and DOM4j. Each seems to provide essentially the same thing, as they each provide a simplified wrapper over the (very obtuse) standard W3C DOM APIs. I know that JDOM went through some effort ... | [
"java",
"xml",
"dom"
] | 3 | 5 | 2,592 | 3 | 0 | 2008-08-25T03:11:58.497000 | 2008-08-25T05:52:22.433000 |
25,637 | 25,644 | Shutting down a computer | Is there a way to shutdown a computer using a built-in Java method? | Create your own function to execute an OS command through the command line? For the sake of an example. But know where and why you'd want to use this as others note. public static void main(String arg[]) throws IOException{ Runtime runtime = Runtime.getRuntime(); Process proc = runtime.exec("shutdown -s -t 0"); System.... | Shutting down a computer Is there a way to shutdown a computer using a built-in Java method? | TITLE:
Shutting down a computer
QUESTION:
Is there a way to shutdown a computer using a built-in Java method?
ANSWER:
Create your own function to execute an OS command through the command line? For the sake of an example. But know where and why you'd want to use this as others note. public static void main(String arg... | [
"java",
"cross-platform",
"shutdown"
] | 72 | 96 | 109,231 | 9 | 0 | 2008-08-25T04:01:40.920000 | 2008-08-25T04:08:28.970000 |
25,652 | 25,673 | Height of NSTextView with one line? | I want to programatically create an NSTextView. How can I determine the correct frame height so that the view displays one line of text in the current default font? | The NSFont class has a method that can give you the size of a rectangle that would enclose a specific attributed string. Get the font used by your text view, create a string that serves as a reasonable example of what will be in the text view, and use that to inform your frame height. (The frame height will need to be ... | Height of NSTextView with one line? I want to programatically create an NSTextView. How can I determine the correct frame height so that the view displays one line of text in the current default font? | TITLE:
Height of NSTextView with one line?
QUESTION:
I want to programatically create an NSTextView. How can I determine the correct frame height so that the view displays one line of text in the current default font?
ANSWER:
The NSFont class has a method that can give you the size of a rectangle that would enclose a... | [
"cocoa",
"macos"
] | 2 | 4 | 2,893 | 2 | 0 | 2008-08-25T04:19:25.777000 | 2008-08-25T05:00:04.977000 |
25,653 | 25,667 | Hide a column in ASP.NET Dynamic Data | Is there any way to apply an attribute to a model file in ASP.NET Dynamic Data to hide the column? For instance, I can currently set the display name of a column like this: [DisplayName("Last name")] public object Last_name { get; set; } Is there a similar way to hide a column? Edit: Many thanks to Christian Hagelid fo... | Had no idea what ASP.NET Dynamic Data was so you promted me to so some research:) Looks like the property you are looking for is [ScaffoldColumn(false)] There is also a similar property for tables [ScaffoldTable(false)] source | Hide a column in ASP.NET Dynamic Data Is there any way to apply an attribute to a model file in ASP.NET Dynamic Data to hide the column? For instance, I can currently set the display name of a column like this: [DisplayName("Last name")] public object Last_name { get; set; } Is there a similar way to hide a column? Edi... | TITLE:
Hide a column in ASP.NET Dynamic Data
QUESTION:
Is there any way to apply an attribute to a model file in ASP.NET Dynamic Data to hide the column? For instance, I can currently set the display name of a column like this: [DisplayName("Last name")] public object Last_name { get; set; } Is there a similar way to ... | [
"asp.net",
"dynamic-data"
] | 14 | 20 | 6,967 | 2 | 0 | 2008-08-25T04:21:05.913000 | 2008-08-25T04:47:22.323000 |
25,665 | 25,689 | Python module for converting PDF to text | Is there any python module to convert PDF files into text? I tried one piece of code found in Activestate which uses pypdf but the text generated had no space between and was of no use. | Try PDFMiner. It can extract text from PDF files as HTML, SGML or "Tagged PDF" format. The Tagged PDF format seems to be the cleanest, and stripping out the XML tags leaves just the bare text. A Python 3 version is available under: https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six | Python module for converting PDF to text Is there any python module to convert PDF files into text? I tried one piece of code found in Activestate which uses pypdf but the text generated had no space between and was of no use. | TITLE:
Python module for converting PDF to text
QUESTION:
Is there any python module to convert PDF files into text? I tried one piece of code found in Activestate which uses pypdf but the text generated had no space between and was of no use.
ANSWER:
Try PDFMiner. It can extract text from PDF files as HTML, SGML or ... | [
"python",
"pdf",
"text-extraction",
"pdf-scraping"
] | 418 | 159 | 458,243 | 13 | 0 | 2008-08-25T04:44:06.090000 | 2008-08-25T05:21:22.927000 |
25,672 | 26,725 | ColdFusion - When to use the "request" scope? | Been going over my predecessor's code and see usage of the "request" scope frequently. What is the appropriate usage of this scope? | There are several scopes that are available to any portion of your code: Session, Client, Cookie, Application, and Request. Some are inadvisable to use in certain ways (i.e. using Request or Application scope inside your Custom Tags or CFC's; this is coupling, violates encapsulation principles, and is considered a bad ... | ColdFusion - When to use the "request" scope? Been going over my predecessor's code and see usage of the "request" scope frequently. What is the appropriate usage of this scope? | TITLE:
ColdFusion - When to use the "request" scope?
QUESTION:
Been going over my predecessor's code and see usage of the "request" scope frequently. What is the appropriate usage of this scope?
ANSWER:
There are several scopes that are available to any portion of your code: Session, Client, Cookie, Application, and ... | [
"coldfusion",
"railo",
"cfml"
] | 14 | 21 | 20,732 | 4 | 0 | 2008-08-25T04:59:25.180000 | 2008-08-25T19:54:19.210000 |
25,675 | 25,678 | MVC - where to implement form validation (server-side)? | In coding a traditional MVC application, what is the best practice for coding server-side form validations? Does the code belong in the controller, or the model layer? And why? | From Wikipedia: Model-view-controller (MVC) is an architectural pattern used in software engineering. Successful use of the pattern isolates business logic from user interface considerations, resulting in an application where it is easier to modify either the visual appearance of the application or the underlying busin... | MVC - where to implement form validation (server-side)? In coding a traditional MVC application, what is the best practice for coding server-side form validations? Does the code belong in the controller, or the model layer? And why? | TITLE:
MVC - where to implement form validation (server-side)?
QUESTION:
In coding a traditional MVC application, what is the best practice for coding server-side form validations? Does the code belong in the controller, or the model layer? And why?
ANSWER:
From Wikipedia: Model-view-controller (MVC) is an architectu... | [
"model-view-controller",
"validation",
"forms"
] | 9 | 4 | 1,902 | 4 | 0 | 2008-08-25T05:04:30.923000 | 2008-08-25T05:09:41.800000 |
25,730 | 25,831 | What is the best free memory leak detector for a C/C++ program and its plug-in DLLs? | I have a.exe and many plug-in.dll modules that the.exe loads. (I have source for both.) A cross-platform (with source) solution would be ideal, but the platform can be narrowed to WinXP and Visual Studio (7.1/2003 in my case). The built-in VS leak detector only gives the line where new/malloc was called from, but I hav... | I personally use Visual Leak Detector, though it can cause large delays when large blocks are leaked (it displays the contents of the entire leaked block). | What is the best free memory leak detector for a C/C++ program and its plug-in DLLs? I have a.exe and many plug-in.dll modules that the.exe loads. (I have source for both.) A cross-platform (with source) solution would be ideal, but the platform can be narrowed to WinXP and Visual Studio (7.1/2003 in my case). The buil... | TITLE:
What is the best free memory leak detector for a C/C++ program and its plug-in DLLs?
QUESTION:
I have a.exe and many plug-in.dll modules that the.exe loads. (I have source for both.) A cross-platform (with source) solution would be ideal, but the platform can be narrowed to WinXP and Visual Studio (7.1/2003 in ... | [
"c++",
"c",
"visual-studio",
"memory-leaks"
] | 51 | 37 | 117,013 | 7 | 0 | 2008-08-25T07:31:46.110000 | 2008-08-25T10:03:23.780000 |
25,746 | 25,798 | What's the difference between a string constant and a string literal? | I'm learning objective-C and Cocoa and have come across this statement: The Cocoa frameworks expect that global string constants rather than string literals are used for dictionary keys, notification and exception names, and some method parameters that take strings. I've only worked in higher level languages so have ne... | In Objective-C, the syntax @"foo" is an immutable, literal instance of NSString. It does not make a constant string from a string literal as Mike assume. Objective-C compilers typically do intern literal strings within compilation units — that is, they coalesce multiple uses of the same literal string — and it's possib... | What's the difference between a string constant and a string literal? I'm learning objective-C and Cocoa and have come across this statement: The Cocoa frameworks expect that global string constants rather than string literals are used for dictionary keys, notification and exception names, and some method parameters th... | TITLE:
What's the difference between a string constant and a string literal?
QUESTION:
I'm learning objective-C and Cocoa and have come across this statement: The Cocoa frameworks expect that global string constants rather than string literals are used for dictionary keys, notification and exception names, and some me... | [
"objective-c",
"string"
] | 62 | 87 | 40,542 | 3 | 0 | 2008-08-25T07:54:29.080000 | 2008-08-25T08:51:58.443000 |
25,749 | 25,784 | What does the @ symbol represent in objective-c? | I'm learning objective-c and keep bumping into the @ symbol. It is used in different scenarios, for example at the start of a string or to synthesise accessor methods. What's does the @ symbol mean in objective-c? | The @ character isn't used in C or C++ identifiers, so it's used to introduce Objective-C language keywords in a way that won't conflict with the other languages' keywords. This enables the "Objective" part of the language to freely intermix with the C or C++ part. Thus with very few exceptions, any time you see @ in s... | What does the @ symbol represent in objective-c? I'm learning objective-c and keep bumping into the @ symbol. It is used in different scenarios, for example at the start of a string or to synthesise accessor methods. What's does the @ symbol mean in objective-c? | TITLE:
What does the @ symbol represent in objective-c?
QUESTION:
I'm learning objective-c and keep bumping into the @ symbol. It is used in different scenarios, for example at the start of a string or to synthesise accessor methods. What's does the @ symbol mean in objective-c?
ANSWER:
The @ character isn't used in ... | [
"objective-c"
] | 154 | 164 | 56,970 | 5 | 0 | 2008-08-25T07:57:59.183000 | 2008-08-25T08:36:29.887000 |
25,752 | 25,758 | How do I put a space character before option text in a HTML select element? | In a drop down list, I need to add spaces in front of the options in the list. I am trying Sample for adding two spaces but it displays no spaces. How can I add spaces before option texts? | Isn't the entity for space? option 1 option 2 Works for me... EDIT: Just checked this out, there may be compatibility issues with this in older browsers, but all seems to work fine for me here. Just thought I should let you know as you may want to replace with | How do I put a space character before option text in a HTML select element? In a drop down list, I need to add spaces in front of the options in the list. I am trying Sample for adding two spaces but it displays no spaces. How can I add spaces before option texts? | TITLE:
How do I put a space character before option text in a HTML select element?
QUESTION:
In a drop down list, I need to add spaces in front of the options in the list. I am trying Sample for adding two spaces but it displays no spaces. How can I add spaces before option texts?
ANSWER:
Isn't the entity for space? ... | [
"html",
"html-select"
] | 33 | 31 | 90,138 | 15 | 0 | 2008-08-25T08:02:43.367000 | 2008-08-25T08:06:18.490000 |
25,765 | 25,768 | Java configuration framework | I'm in the process of weeding out all hardcoded values in a Java library and was wondering what framework would be the best (in terms of zero- or close-to-zero configuration) to handle run-time configuration? I would prefer XML-based configuration files, but it's not essential. Please do only reply if you have practica... | If your hardcoded values are just simple key-value pairs, you should look at java.util.Properties. It's a lot simpler than xml, easier to use, and mind-numbingly trivial to implement. If you are working with Java and the data you are storing or retrieving from disk is modeled as a key value pair (which it sounds like i... | Java configuration framework I'm in the process of weeding out all hardcoded values in a Java library and was wondering what framework would be the best (in terms of zero- or close-to-zero configuration) to handle run-time configuration? I would prefer XML-based configuration files, but it's not essential. Please do on... | TITLE:
Java configuration framework
QUESTION:
I'm in the process of weeding out all hardcoded values in a Java library and was wondering what framework would be the best (in terms of zero- or close-to-zero configuration) to handle run-time configuration? I would prefer XML-based configuration files, but it's not essen... | [
"java",
"xml",
"configuration",
"frameworks",
"configurationmanager"
] | 76 | 29 | 30,830 | 14 | 0 | 2008-08-25T08:17:54.297000 | 2008-08-25T08:23:22.227000 |
25,767 | 25,805 | Most efficient way to get data from the database to session | What is the quickest way to get a large amount of data (think golf) and the most efficient (think performance) to get a large amount of data from a MySQL database to a session without having to continue doing what I already have: $sql = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE username='". mysql_escape_string($_POST['username']). "'... | I came up with this and it appears to work. while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) { $_SESSION = array_merge_recursive($_SESSION, $row); } | Most efficient way to get data from the database to session What is the quickest way to get a large amount of data (think golf) and the most efficient (think performance) to get a large amount of data from a MySQL database to a session without having to continue doing what I already have: $sql = "SELECT * FROM users WH... | TITLE:
Most efficient way to get data from the database to session
QUESTION:
What is the quickest way to get a large amount of data (think golf) and the most efficient (think performance) to get a large amount of data from a MySQL database to a session without having to continue doing what I already have: $sql = "SELE... | [
"php",
"mysql",
"session"
] | 3 | 1 | 3,320 | 10 | 0 | 2008-08-25T08:23:14.957000 | 2008-08-25T09:05:49.067000 |
25,803 | 25,820 | How do I intercept a method call in C#? | For a given class I would like to have tracing functionality i.e. I would like to log every method call (method signature and actual parameter values) and every method exit (just the method signature). How do I accomplish this assuming that: I don't want to use any 3rd party AOP libraries for C#, I don't want to add du... | C# is not an AOP oriented language. It has some AOP features and you can emulate some others but making AOP with C# is painful. I looked up for ways to do exactly what you wanted to do and I found no easy way to do it. As I understand it, this is what you want to do: [Log()] public void Method1(String name, Int32 value... | How do I intercept a method call in C#? For a given class I would like to have tracing functionality i.e. I would like to log every method call (method signature and actual parameter values) and every method exit (just the method signature). How do I accomplish this assuming that: I don't want to use any 3rd party AOP ... | TITLE:
How do I intercept a method call in C#?
QUESTION:
For a given class I would like to have tracing functionality i.e. I would like to log every method call (method signature and actual parameter values) and every method exit (just the method signature). How do I accomplish this assuming that: I don't want to use ... | [
"c#",
"reflection",
"aop"
] | 163 | 74 | 109,880 | 16 | 0 | 2008-08-25T09:00:23.883000 | 2008-08-25T09:31:40.953000 |
25,807 | 25,815 | Python super class reflection | If I have Python code class A(): pass class B(): pass class C(A, B): pass and I have class C, is there a way to iterate through it's super classed ( A and B )? Something like pseudocode: >>> magicGetSuperClasses(C) (, ) One solution seems to be inspect module and getclasstree function. def magicGetSuperClasses(cls): re... | C.__bases__ is an array of the super classes, so you could implement your hypothetical function like so: def magicGetSuperClasses(cls): return cls.__bases__ But I imagine it would be easier to just reference cls.__bases__ directly in most cases. | Python super class reflection If I have Python code class A(): pass class B(): pass class C(A, B): pass and I have class C, is there a way to iterate through it's super classed ( A and B )? Something like pseudocode: >>> magicGetSuperClasses(C) (, ) One solution seems to be inspect module and getclasstree function. def... | TITLE:
Python super class reflection
QUESTION:
If I have Python code class A(): pass class B(): pass class C(A, B): pass and I have class C, is there a way to iterate through it's super classed ( A and B )? Something like pseudocode: >>> magicGetSuperClasses(C) (, ) One solution seems to be inspect module and getclass... | [
"python",
"reflection"
] | 33 | 37 | 16,847 | 4 | 0 | 2008-08-25T09:06:16.087000 | 2008-08-25T09:22:22.147000 |
25,823 | 25,835 | Multiple YACC grammars in one program | How do I compile, link and call different YACC grammars using yyparse() in one program? | Use the -p option for each separate yacc grammar generation -p prefix
Use prefix instead of yy as the prefix for all external names produced by yacc. For X/Open compliance, when the environment variable _XPG is set, then the -p option will work as described in the previous sentence. If the environment variable _XPG is... | Multiple YACC grammars in one program How do I compile, link and call different YACC grammars using yyparse() in one program? | TITLE:
Multiple YACC grammars in one program
QUESTION:
How do I compile, link and call different YACC grammars using yyparse() in one program?
ANSWER:
Use the -p option for each separate yacc grammar generation -p prefix
Use prefix instead of yy as the prefix for all external names produced by yacc. For X/Open compl... | [
"yacc"
] | 10 | 7 | 670 | 1 | 0 | 2008-08-25T09:38:36.243000 | 2008-08-25T10:12:12.667000 |
25,833 | 58,286 | How to open VS 2008 solution in VS 2005? | I have seen Solutions created in Visual Studio 2008 cannot be opened in Visual Studio 2005 and tried workaround 1. Yet to try the workaround 2. But as that link was bit old and out of desperation asking here: Is there any convertor available? I dont have VS2008 yet and i wanted to open an opensource solution which was ... | I have a project that I work on in both VS 2005 and VS 2008. The trick is just to have to different solution files, and to make sure they stay in sync. Remember that projects keep track of their files, so the main thing solutions do is keep track of which projects they contain; pretty easy to keep in sync. So just crea... | How to open VS 2008 solution in VS 2005? I have seen Solutions created in Visual Studio 2008 cannot be opened in Visual Studio 2005 and tried workaround 1. Yet to try the workaround 2. But as that link was bit old and out of desperation asking here: Is there any convertor available? I dont have VS2008 yet and i wanted ... | TITLE:
How to open VS 2008 solution in VS 2005?
QUESTION:
I have seen Solutions created in Visual Studio 2008 cannot be opened in Visual Studio 2005 and tried workaround 1. Yet to try the workaround 2. But as that link was bit old and out of desperation asking here: Is there any convertor available? I dont have VS2008... | [
"visual-studio-2008",
"visual-studio-2005",
"projects-and-solutions"
] | 7 | 4 | 8,594 | 5 | 0 | 2008-08-25T10:06:45.800000 | 2008-09-12T04:15:22.373000 |
25,865 | 25,886 | What is a language binding? | My good friend, Wikipedia, didn't give me a very good response to that question. So: What are language bindings? How do they work? Specifically accessing functions from code written in language X of a library written in language Y. | Let's say you create a C library to post stuff to stackoverflow. Now you want to be able to use the same library from Python. In this case, you will write Python bindings for your library. Also see SWIG: http://www.swig.org | What is a language binding? My good friend, Wikipedia, didn't give me a very good response to that question. So: What are language bindings? How do they work? Specifically accessing functions from code written in language X of a library written in language Y. | TITLE:
What is a language binding?
QUESTION:
My good friend, Wikipedia, didn't give me a very good response to that question. So: What are language bindings? How do they work? Specifically accessing functions from code written in language X of a library written in language Y.
ANSWER:
Let's say you create a C library ... | [
"language-agnostic",
"glossary",
"language-binding"
] | 69 | 44 | 28,621 | 4 | 0 | 2008-08-25T11:13:29.993000 | 2008-08-25T11:33:02.677000 |
25,921 | 25,958 | What is ASP.NET? | I've been strictly in a C++ environment for years (and specialized statistical languages). Visual Studio until 2001, and Borland since. Mostly specialized desktop applications for clients. I'm not remaining willfully ignorant of it, but over the years when I've dipped into other things, I've spent my time playing aroun... | ASP.NET is a web application framework developed and marketed by Microsoft, that programmers can use to build dynamic web sites, web applications and web services. It was first released in January 2002 with version 1.0 of the.NET Framework, and is the successor to Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) technology. ASP.N... | What is ASP.NET? I've been strictly in a C++ environment for years (and specialized statistical languages). Visual Studio until 2001, and Borland since. Mostly specialized desktop applications for clients. I'm not remaining willfully ignorant of it, but over the years when I've dipped into other things, I've spent my t... | TITLE:
What is ASP.NET?
QUESTION:
I've been strictly in a C++ environment for years (and specialized statistical languages). Visual Studio until 2001, and Borland since. Mostly specialized desktop applications for clients. I'm not remaining willfully ignorant of it, but over the years when I've dipped into other thing... | [
"asp.net",
"glossary"
] | 9 | 5 | 1,492 | 6 | 0 | 2008-08-25T12:14:39.580000 | 2008-08-25T12:38:41.223000 |
25,938 | 30,841 | Summary fields in Crystal Report VS2008 | I need to have a summary field in each page of the report and in page 2 and forward the same summary has to appear at the top of the page. Anyone know how to do this? Ex: > > Page 1 > > Name Value > a 1 > b 3 > Total 4 > > Page 2 > Name Value > Total Before 4 > c 5 > d 1 > Total 10 | Create a new Running Total Field called, for example "RTotal". In "Field to summarize" select "Value", in "Type of summary" select "sum", under "Evaluate" select "For each record". You can then drag this field into your report to use as the "Total" at the bottom of each page. You cannot use this running total field in ... | Summary fields in Crystal Report VS2008 I need to have a summary field in each page of the report and in page 2 and forward the same summary has to appear at the top of the page. Anyone know how to do this? Ex: > > Page 1 > > Name Value > a 1 > b 3 > Total 4 > > Page 2 > Name Value > Total Before 4 > c 5 > d 1 > Total ... | TITLE:
Summary fields in Crystal Report VS2008
QUESTION:
I need to have a summary field in each page of the report and in page 2 and forward the same summary has to appear at the top of the page. Anyone know how to do this? Ex: > > Page 1 > > Name Value > a 1 > b 3 > Total 4 > > Page 2 > Name Value > Total Before 4 > ... | [
"visual-studio-2008",
"crystal-reports"
] | 0 | 1 | 2,994 | 2 | 0 | 2008-08-25T12:23:47.657000 | 2008-08-27T18:40:52.333000 |
25,952 | 2,707,368 | Best programming based games | Back when I was at school, I remember tinkering with a Mac game where you programmed little robots in a sort of pseudo-assembler language which could then battle each other. They could move themselves around the arena, look for opponents in different directions, and fire some sort of weapon. Pretty basic stuff, but I r... | The game in question was definitely Robowar for the Mac. My son had a lot of fun with it and went on to program real robots. As mentioned earlier by Proud, there is a wiki page for it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboWar Although there has not been a lot of activity surrounding the game over the last few years, there ... | Best programming based games Back when I was at school, I remember tinkering with a Mac game where you programmed little robots in a sort of pseudo-assembler language which could then battle each other. They could move themselves around the arena, look for opponents in different directions, and fire some sort of weapon... | TITLE:
Best programming based games
QUESTION:
Back when I was at school, I remember tinkering with a Mac game where you programmed little robots in a sort of pseudo-assembler language which could then battle each other. They could move themselves around the arena, look for opponents in different directions, and fire s... | [
"artificial-intelligence"
] | 113 | 13 | 104,687 | 43 | 0 | 2008-08-25T12:34:43.323000 | 2010-04-25T06:22:48.567000 |
25,969 | 25,971 | Insert into ... values ( SELECT ... FROM ... ) | I am trying to INSERT INTO a table using the input from another table. Although this is entirely feasible for many database engines, I always seem to struggle to remember the correct syntax for the SQL engine of the day ( MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Informix, and DB2 ). Is there a silver-bullet syntax coming from an SQL... | Try: INSERT INTO table1 ( column1 ) SELECT col1 FROM table2 This is standard ANSI SQL and should work on any DBMS It definitely works for: Oracle MS SQL Server MySQL Postgres SQLite v3 Teradata DB2 Sybase Vertica HSQLDB H2 AWS RedShift SAP HANA Google Spanner | Insert into ... values ( SELECT ... FROM ... ) I am trying to INSERT INTO a table using the input from another table. Although this is entirely feasible for many database engines, I always seem to struggle to remember the correct syntax for the SQL engine of the day ( MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Informix, and DB2 ). Is ... | TITLE:
Insert into ... values ( SELECT ... FROM ... )
QUESTION:
I am trying to INSERT INTO a table using the input from another table. Although this is entirely feasible for many database engines, I always seem to struggle to remember the correct syntax for the SQL engine of the day ( MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Inform... | [
"sql",
"database",
"syntax",
"database-agnostic",
"ansi-sql-92"
] | 1,838 | 2,023 | 3,387,963 | 27 | 0 | 2008-08-25T12:45:56.930000 | 2008-08-25T12:47:54.460000 |
25,975 | 25,987 | How can I get the name of the executing .exe? | The Compact Framework doesn't support Assembly.GetEntryAssembly to determine the launching.exe. So is there another way to get the name of the executing.exe? EDIT: I found the answer on Peter Foot's blog: http://peterfoot.net/default.aspx Here is the code: byte[] buffer = new byte[MAX_PATH * 2];
int chars = GetModuleF... | I am not sure whether it works from managed code (or even the compact framework), but in Win32 you can call GetModuleFileName to find the running exe file. MSDN: GetModuleFileName | How can I get the name of the executing .exe? The Compact Framework doesn't support Assembly.GetEntryAssembly to determine the launching.exe. So is there another way to get the name of the executing.exe? EDIT: I found the answer on Peter Foot's blog: http://peterfoot.net/default.aspx Here is the code: byte[] buffer = n... | TITLE:
How can I get the name of the executing .exe?
QUESTION:
The Compact Framework doesn't support Assembly.GetEntryAssembly to determine the launching.exe. So is there another way to get the name of the executing.exe? EDIT: I found the answer on Peter Foot's blog: http://peterfoot.net/default.aspx Here is the code:... | [
".net",
"compact-framework",
"windows-ce"
] | 4 | 4 | 2,983 | 3 | 0 | 2008-08-25T12:51:33.127000 | 2008-08-25T12:56:35.267000 |
25,977 | 26,061 | How can I measure the similarity between two images? | I would like to compare a screenshot of one application (could be a Web page) with a previously taken screenshot to determine whether the application is displaying itself correctly. I don't want an exact match comparison, because the aspect could be slightly different (in the case of a Web app, depending on the browser... | This depends entirely on how smart you want the algorithm to be. For instance, here are some issues: cropped images vs. an uncropped image images with a text added vs. another without mirrored images The easiest and simplest algorithm I've seen for this is just to do the following steps to each image: scale to somethin... | How can I measure the similarity between two images? I would like to compare a screenshot of one application (could be a Web page) with a previously taken screenshot to determine whether the application is displaying itself correctly. I don't want an exact match comparison, because the aspect could be slightly differen... | TITLE:
How can I measure the similarity between two images?
QUESTION:
I would like to compare a screenshot of one application (could be a Web page) with a previously taken screenshot to determine whether the application is displaying itself correctly. I don't want an exact match comparison, because the aspect could be... | [
"algorithm",
"language-agnostic",
"image",
"image-processing"
] | 103 | 77 | 117,877 | 17 | 0 | 2008-08-25T12:51:49.053000 | 2008-08-25T13:53:36.627000 |
25,982 | 27,450 | What's the simplest way to connect to a .NET remote server object | Given that my client code knows everything it needs to about the remoting object, what's the simplest way to connect to it? This is what I'm doing at the moment: ChannelServices.RegisterChannel(new HttpChannel(), false);
RemotingConfiguration.RegisterWellKnownServiceType( typeof(IRemoteServer), "RemoteServer.rem", Wel... | The first two lines are in the server-side code, for marshaling out the server object, yes? In that case, yes, the third line is the simplest you can get at client-side. In addition, you can serve out additional server-side objects from the MyServerObject instance, if you include public accessors for them in IRemoteSer... | What's the simplest way to connect to a .NET remote server object Given that my client code knows everything it needs to about the remoting object, what's the simplest way to connect to it? This is what I'm doing at the moment: ChannelServices.RegisterChannel(new HttpChannel(), false);
RemotingConfiguration.RegisterWe... | TITLE:
What's the simplest way to connect to a .NET remote server object
QUESTION:
Given that my client code knows everything it needs to about the remoting object, what's the simplest way to connect to it? This is what I'm doing at the moment: ChannelServices.RegisterChannel(new HttpChannel(), false);
RemotingConfig... | [
"c#",
".net",
"remoting",
"remote-server"
] | 1 | 1 | 1,029 | 2 | 0 | 2008-08-25T12:54:52.307000 | 2008-08-26T05:31:49.867000 |
25,999 | 145,450 | Secure Online Highscore Lists for Non-Web Games | I'm playing around with a native (non-web) single-player game I'm writing, and it occured to me that having a daily/weekly/all-time online highscore list (think Xbox Live Leaderboard) would make the game much more interesting, adding some (small) amount of community and competition. However, I'm afraid people would see... | At the end of the day, you are relying on trusting the client. If the client sends replays to the server, it is easy enough to replicable or modify a successful playthrough and send that to the server. Your best bet is to raise the bar for cheating above what a player would deem worth surmounting. To do this, there are... | Secure Online Highscore Lists for Non-Web Games I'm playing around with a native (non-web) single-player game I'm writing, and it occured to me that having a daily/weekly/all-time online highscore list (think Xbox Live Leaderboard) would make the game much more interesting, adding some (small) amount of community and c... | TITLE:
Secure Online Highscore Lists for Non-Web Games
QUESTION:
I'm playing around with a native (non-web) single-player game I'm writing, and it occured to me that having a daily/weekly/all-time online highscore list (think Xbox Live Leaderboard) would make the game much more interesting, adding some (small) amount ... | [
"encryption",
"leaderboard"
] | 25 | 42 | 9,476 | 10 | 0 | 2008-08-25T13:10:37.997000 | 2008-09-28T08:04:12.063000 |
26,002 | 26,005 | Develop on local Oracle instance | I want our team to develop against local instances of an Oracle database. With MS SQL, I can use SQL Express Edition. What are my options? | Oracle has an express edition as well. I believe it is more limited though (IIRC, you can only have one database on an instance) Oracle XE | Develop on local Oracle instance I want our team to develop against local instances of an Oracle database. With MS SQL, I can use SQL Express Edition. What are my options? | TITLE:
Develop on local Oracle instance
QUESTION:
I want our team to develop against local instances of an Oracle database. With MS SQL, I can use SQL Express Edition. What are my options?
ANSWER:
Oracle has an express edition as well. I believe it is more limited though (IIRC, you can only have one database on an in... | [
"oracle"
] | 27 | 21 | 15,056 | 6 | 0 | 2008-08-25T13:14:00.687000 | 2008-08-25T13:16:42.863000 |
26,007 | 26,018 | Iterating over a complex Associative Array in PHP | Is there an easy way to iterate over an associative array of this structure in PHP: The array $searches has a numbered index, with between 4 and 5 associative parts. So I not only need to iterate over $searches[0] through $searches[n], but also $searches[0]["part0"] through $searches[n]["partn"]. The hard part is that ... | Nest two foreach loops: foreach ($array as $i => $values) { print "$i {\n"; foreach ($values as $key => $value) { print " $key => $value\n"; } print "}\n"; } | Iterating over a complex Associative Array in PHP Is there an easy way to iterate over an associative array of this structure in PHP: The array $searches has a numbered index, with between 4 and 5 associative parts. So I not only need to iterate over $searches[0] through $searches[n], but also $searches[0]["part0"] thr... | TITLE:
Iterating over a complex Associative Array in PHP
QUESTION:
Is there an easy way to iterate over an associative array of this structure in PHP: The array $searches has a numbered index, with between 4 and 5 associative parts. So I not only need to iterate over $searches[0] through $searches[n], but also $search... | [
"php",
"arrays",
"associative-array"
] | 21 | 43 | 59,714 | 7 | 0 | 2008-08-25T13:17:17.590000 | 2008-08-25T13:24:28.990000 |
26,020 | 26,035 | What is the best way to connect and use a sqlite database from C# | I've done this before in C++ by including sqlite.h but is there a similarly easy way in C#? | Microsoft.Data.Sqlite by Microsoft has over 9000 downloads every day, so I think you are safe using that one. Example usage from the documentation: using (var connection = new SqliteConnection("Data Source=hello.db")) { connection.Open();
var command = connection.CreateCommand(); command.CommandText = @" SELECT name F... | What is the best way to connect and use a sqlite database from C# I've done this before in C++ by including sqlite.h but is there a similarly easy way in C#? | TITLE:
What is the best way to connect and use a sqlite database from C#
QUESTION:
I've done this before in C++ by including sqlite.h but is there a similarly easy way in C#?
ANSWER:
Microsoft.Data.Sqlite by Microsoft has over 9000 downloads every day, so I think you are safe using that one. Example usage from the do... | [
"c#",
"sqlite"
] | 58 | 50 | 139,175 | 10 | 0 | 2008-08-25T13:25:44.230000 | 2008-08-25T13:34:49.043000 |
26,021 | 26,046 | How is data compression more effective than indexing for search performance? | For our application, we keep large amounts of data indexed by three integer columns (source, type and time). Loading significant chunks of that data can take some time and we have implemented various measures to reduce the amount of data that has to be searched and loaded for larger queries, such as storing larger gran... | This made me wonder if the performance impact of disk I/O is actually much heavier than I thought. Definitely. If you have to go to disk, the performance hit is many orders of magnitude greater than memory. This reminds me of the classic Jim Gray paper, Distributed Computing Economics: Computing economics are changing.... | How is data compression more effective than indexing for search performance? For our application, we keep large amounts of data indexed by three integer columns (source, type and time). Loading significant chunks of that data can take some time and we have implemented various measures to reduce the amount of data that ... | TITLE:
How is data compression more effective than indexing for search performance?
QUESTION:
For our application, we keep large amounts of data indexed by three integer columns (source, type and time). Loading significant chunks of that data can take some time and we have implemented various measures to reduce the am... | [
"database",
"performance"
] | 3 | 4 | 392 | 2 | 0 | 2008-08-25T13:26:15.947000 | 2008-08-25T13:43:41.643000 |
26,025 | 29,748 | Cleanest & Fastest server setup for Django | I'm about to deploy a mediumsized site powered by Django. I have a dedicated Ubuntu Server. I'm really confused over which serversoftware to use. So i thought to myself: why not ask stackoverflow. What i'm looking for is: Easy to set up Fast and easy on resources Can serve mediafiles Able to serve multiple djangosites ... | Since I was looking for some more in-depth answers, I decided to research the issue myself in depth. Please let me know if I've misunderstood anything. Some general recommendation are to use a separate webserver for handling media. By separate, I mean a webserver which is not running Django. This server can be for inst... | Cleanest & Fastest server setup for Django I'm about to deploy a mediumsized site powered by Django. I have a dedicated Ubuntu Server. I'm really confused over which serversoftware to use. So i thought to myself: why not ask stackoverflow. What i'm looking for is: Easy to set up Fast and easy on resources Can serve med... | TITLE:
Cleanest & Fastest server setup for Django
QUESTION:
I'm about to deploy a mediumsized site powered by Django. I have a dedicated Ubuntu Server. I'm really confused over which serversoftware to use. So i thought to myself: why not ask stackoverflow. What i'm looking for is: Easy to set up Fast and easy on resou... | [
"python",
"django",
"apache",
"hosting"
] | 47 | 27 | 24,341 | 13 | 0 | 2008-08-25T13:28:41.150000 | 2008-08-27T08:41:53.070000 |
26,028 | 27,325 | Upgrading Sharepoint 3.0 to SQL 2005 Backend? | We're trying to get rid of all of our SQL Server 2000 databases to re purpose our old DB server... Sharepoint 3.0 is being a showstopper. I've looked at a lot of guides from Microsoft and tried the instructions in those. I've also just tried the good ol' exec sp_detach_db / sp_attach_db with no luck. Has anyone actuall... | my boss has. it was a real pain. permissions issues. he used the built in sharepoint backup tool. I can more details tomorrow if need. I'll check back. I'm back. Here's the steps he used. install an instance of sql server 2005 on the sql 2000 box (side-by-side) back up the sharepoint site using the sharepoint admin too... | Upgrading Sharepoint 3.0 to SQL 2005 Backend? We're trying to get rid of all of our SQL Server 2000 databases to re purpose our old DB server... Sharepoint 3.0 is being a showstopper. I've looked at a lot of guides from Microsoft and tried the instructions in those. I've also just tried the good ol' exec sp_detach_db /... | TITLE:
Upgrading Sharepoint 3.0 to SQL 2005 Backend?
QUESTION:
We're trying to get rid of all of our SQL Server 2000 databases to re purpose our old DB server... Sharepoint 3.0 is being a showstopper. I've looked at a lot of guides from Microsoft and tried the instructions in those. I've also just tried the good ol' e... | [
"sql-server-2005",
"sharepoint",
"sql-server-2000"
] | 1 | 1 | 745 | 1 | 0 | 2008-08-25T13:29:54.953000 | 2008-08-26T03:05:38.847000 |
26,062 | 163,041 | Can DTS Test for Presence of MS-Access Table | I have an Access database in which I drop the table and then create the table afresh. However, I need to be able to test for the table in case the table gets dropped but not created (i.e. when someone stops the DTS package just after it starts -roll-eyes- ). If I were doing this in the SQL database I would just do: IF ... | I'm not sure whether you can query the system objects table in an Access database from a DTS package. If that doesn't work, why not just try doing a SELECT * from the Access table in question and then catch the error if it fails? | Can DTS Test for Presence of MS-Access Table I have an Access database in which I drop the table and then create the table afresh. However, I need to be able to test for the table in case the table gets dropped but not created (i.e. when someone stops the DTS package just after it starts -roll-eyes- ). If I were doing ... | TITLE:
Can DTS Test for Presence of MS-Access Table
QUESTION:
I have an Access database in which I drop the table and then create the table afresh. However, I need to be able to test for the table in case the table gets dropped but not created (i.e. when someone stops the DTS package just after it starts -roll-eyes- )... | [
"sql-server",
"ms-access",
"dts"
] | 0 | 1 | 681 | 3 | 0 | 2008-08-25T13:54:05.583000 | 2008-10-02T15:34:39.370000 |
26,074 | 27,403 | How can I figure out how much memory a .Net Appdomain is consuming? | I'm trying to programmatically restrict the memory consumption of plugins running in a.Net AppDomain, but I can't find any setup parameters for this, nor can I find a way to query an AppDomain to figure out how much memory it is consuming. Any ideas? | Here's the documentation for querying a process's memory usage. Not the same as the AppDomain, but it might be a place to start. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/s80a75e5(VS.80).aspx You can ask the GC what it thinks is currently allocated also. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.gc.gettotalmemory(VS... | How can I figure out how much memory a .Net Appdomain is consuming? I'm trying to programmatically restrict the memory consumption of plugins running in a.Net AppDomain, but I can't find any setup parameters for this, nor can I find a way to query an AppDomain to figure out how much memory it is consuming. Any ideas? | TITLE:
How can I figure out how much memory a .Net Appdomain is consuming?
QUESTION:
I'm trying to programmatically restrict the memory consumption of plugins running in a.Net AppDomain, but I can't find any setup parameters for this, nor can I find a way to query an AppDomain to figure out how much memory it is consu... | [
".net",
"clr"
] | 8 | 0 | 4,233 | 4 | 0 | 2008-08-25T14:06:38.640000 | 2008-08-26T04:16:20.597000 |
26,075 | 26,700 | Resize Infragistics GanttChart task with the mouse | I loaded a custom DataTable into an UltraChart of type GanttChart. The data loads successfully. Do you know if it possible to add support for mouse resize(drag) to the tasks that show up into the chart? I have not been able to figure out if this is supported by the Infragistics control. | In this forum post, an Infragistics employee states that this is not implemented (as of Feb '08), but may be doable handling FillSceneGraph. | Resize Infragistics GanttChart task with the mouse I loaded a custom DataTable into an UltraChart of type GanttChart. The data loads successfully. Do you know if it possible to add support for mouse resize(drag) to the tasks that show up into the chart? I have not been able to figure out if this is supported by the Inf... | TITLE:
Resize Infragistics GanttChart task with the mouse
QUESTION:
I loaded a custom DataTable into an UltraChart of type GanttChart. The data loads successfully. Do you know if it possible to add support for mouse resize(drag) to the tasks that show up into the chart? I have not been able to figure out if this is su... | [
"winforms",
"charts",
"infragistics",
"gantt-chart"
] | 0 | 1 | 873 | 1 | 0 | 2008-08-25T14:07:31.213000 | 2008-08-25T19:39:16.047000 |
26,079 | 26,097 | In a PHP5 class, when does a private constructor get called? | Let's say I'm writing a PHP (>= 5.0) class that's meant to be a singleton. All of the docs I've read say to make the class constructor private so the class can't be directly instantiated. So if I have something like this: class SillyDB { private function __construct() {
}
public static function getConnection() {
} }... | __construct() would only be called if you called it from within a method for the class containing the private constructor. So for your Singleton, you might have a method like so: class DBConnection { private static $Connection = null;
public static function getConnection() { if(!isset(self::$Connection)) { self::$Conn... | In a PHP5 class, when does a private constructor get called? Let's say I'm writing a PHP (>= 5.0) class that's meant to be a singleton. All of the docs I've read say to make the class constructor private so the class can't be directly instantiated. So if I have something like this: class SillyDB { private function __co... | TITLE:
In a PHP5 class, when does a private constructor get called?
QUESTION:
Let's say I'm writing a PHP (>= 5.0) class that's meant to be a singleton. All of the docs I've read say to make the class constructor private so the class can't be directly instantiated. So if I have something like this: class SillyDB { pri... | [
"php",
"oop",
"constructor"
] | 40 | 65 | 26,700 | 1 | 0 | 2008-08-25T14:11:10.160000 | 2008-08-25T14:22:09.227000 |
26,098 | 26,121 | Overloaded functions in C++ DLL def file | I'm writing a C/C++ DLL and want to export certain functions which I've done before using a.def file like this LIBRARY "MyLib" EXPORTS Foo Bar with the code defined as this, for example: int Foo(int a); void Bar(int foo); However, what if I want to declare an overloaded method of Foo() like: int Foo(int a, int b); As t... | In the code itself, mark the functions you want to export using __declspec(dllexport). For example: #define DllExport __declspec(dllexport)
int DllExport Foo( int a ) { // implementation } int DllExport Foo( int a, int b ) { // implementation } If you do this, you do not need to list the functions in the.def file. Alt... | Overloaded functions in C++ DLL def file I'm writing a C/C++ DLL and want to export certain functions which I've done before using a.def file like this LIBRARY "MyLib" EXPORTS Foo Bar with the code defined as this, for example: int Foo(int a); void Bar(int foo); However, what if I want to declare an overloaded method o... | TITLE:
Overloaded functions in C++ DLL def file
QUESTION:
I'm writing a C/C++ DLL and want to export certain functions which I've done before using a.def file like this LIBRARY "MyLib" EXPORTS Foo Bar with the code defined as this, for example: int Foo(int a); void Bar(int foo); However, what if I want to declare an o... | [
"c++",
"c",
"dll"
] | 11 | 10 | 14,632 | 6 | 0 | 2008-08-25T14:22:21.257000 | 2008-08-25T14:32:33.180000 |
26,111 | 1,474,502 | Failed to load resources from resource file | Get the following error periodically in an IIS application: Failed to load resources from resource file. The full error message in the Application Event Log is: Event Type: Error Event Source:.NET Runtime Event Category: None Event ID: 0 Date: 8/8/2008 Time: 8:8:8 AM User: N/A Computer: BLAH123 Description: The descrip... | Question was asked before Server Fault, where it probably belongs. Anyway, I never did figure out the error so assume it's closed. | Failed to load resources from resource file Get the following error periodically in an IIS application: Failed to load resources from resource file. The full error message in the Application Event Log is: Event Type: Error Event Source:.NET Runtime Event Category: None Event ID: 0 Date: 8/8/2008 Time: 8:8:8 AM User: N/... | TITLE:
Failed to load resources from resource file
QUESTION:
Get the following error periodically in an IIS application: Failed to load resources from resource file. The full error message in the Application Event Log is: Event Type: Error Event Source:.NET Runtime Event Category: None Event ID: 0 Date: 8/8/2008 Time:... | [
".net",
"iis"
] | 1 | 0 | 7,923 | 4 | 0 | 2008-08-25T14:28:03.940000 | 2009-09-24T22:23:23.223000 |
26,113 | 27,096 | What is your best tool or techniques for getting the same display on IE6/7 and Firefox? | I'm not talking about tools that let one view a page in combinations of operating systems and browsers like crossbrowsertesting.com but in creating or figuring out the actual CSS. | If you guys are still coding for IE6, you're making a mistake. I use IE7.js to get IE6 to render pages like IE7. IE7 is not perfect, but at least it has some semblance of standards. Since I only have to code for IE7 and FF it makes me 33% more efficient in terms of testing against browsers, something I think makes good... | What is your best tool or techniques for getting the same display on IE6/7 and Firefox? I'm not talking about tools that let one view a page in combinations of operating systems and browsers like crossbrowsertesting.com but in creating or figuring out the actual CSS. | TITLE:
What is your best tool or techniques for getting the same display on IE6/7 and Firefox?
QUESTION:
I'm not talking about tools that let one view a page in combinations of operating systems and browsers like crossbrowsertesting.com but in creating or figuring out the actual CSS.
ANSWER:
If you guys are still cod... | [
"css",
"internet-explorer",
"firefox",
"cross-browser"
] | 8 | 3 | 252 | 8 | 0 | 2008-08-25T14:28:47.980000 | 2008-08-25T23:10:00.580000 |
26,123 | 26,135 | Accessing .NET components from Powershell | I want to use Powershell to write some utilities, leveraging our own.NET components to handle the actual work. This is in place of writing a small console app to tie the calls together. My question is where I would find a good source of documentation or tutorial material to help me fast track this? | If you want to load an assembly into your PowerShell session, you can use reflection and load the assembly. [void][System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom(PathToYourAssembly) After you load your assembly, you can call static methods and create new instances of a class. A good tutorial can be found here. Both books mentio... | Accessing .NET components from Powershell I want to use Powershell to write some utilities, leveraging our own.NET components to handle the actual work. This is in place of writing a small console app to tie the calls together. My question is where I would find a good source of documentation or tutorial material to hel... | TITLE:
Accessing .NET components from Powershell
QUESTION:
I want to use Powershell to write some utilities, leveraging our own.NET components to handle the actual work. This is in place of writing a small console app to tie the calls together. My question is where I would find a good source of documentation or tutori... | [
"powershell",
"components"
] | 14 | 16 | 7,281 | 3 | 0 | 2008-08-25T14:33:18.327000 | 2008-08-25T14:38:13.963000 |
26,137 | 26,181 | VBScript/ASP Classic | I have a couple of questions regarding VBScript and ASP Classic: What is the preferred way to access an MS SQL Server database in VBScript/ASP? What are best practices in regards to separating model from view from controller? Any other things I should know about either VBScript or ASP? If you haven't noticed, I'm new a... | ADO is an excellent way to access a database in VBScript/Classic ASP. Dim db: Set db = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection") db.Open "yourconnectionstring -> see connectionstrings.com" Dim rs: Set rs = db.Execute("SELECT firstName from Employees") While Not rs.EOF Response.Write rs("firstName") rs.MoveNext Wend rs.Cl... | VBScript/ASP Classic I have a couple of questions regarding VBScript and ASP Classic: What is the preferred way to access an MS SQL Server database in VBScript/ASP? What are best practices in regards to separating model from view from controller? Any other things I should know about either VBScript or ASP? If you haven... | TITLE:
VBScript/ASP Classic
QUESTION:
I have a couple of questions regarding VBScript and ASP Classic: What is the preferred way to access an MS SQL Server database in VBScript/ASP? What are best practices in regards to separating model from view from controller? Any other things I should know about either VBScript or... | [
"sql-server",
"model-view-controller",
"asp-classic",
"vbscript"
] | 9 | 20 | 6,265 | 10 | 0 | 2008-08-25T14:38:38.580000 | 2008-08-25T15:04:33.867000 |
26,145 | 40,209 | Cannot add a launch shortcut (Eclipse Plug-in) | I'm making a simple extra java app launcher for Eclipse 3.2 (JBuilder 2007-8) for internal use. So I looked up all the documentations related, including this one The Launching Framework from eclipse.org and have managed to make everything else working with the exception of the launch shortcut. This is the part of my pl... | I had to add contextualLaunch under org.eclipse.debug.ui.launchShortcuts. The old way seems like it's deprecated a long ago. For other people who are working on the same subject, you might want to extend org.eclipse.ui.commands and bindings, too. I cannot choose this answer but this is the answer that I (the questioner... | Cannot add a launch shortcut (Eclipse Plug-in) I'm making a simple extra java app launcher for Eclipse 3.2 (JBuilder 2007-8) for internal use. So I looked up all the documentations related, including this one The Launching Framework from eclipse.org and have managed to make everything else working with the exception of... | TITLE:
Cannot add a launch shortcut (Eclipse Plug-in)
QUESTION:
I'm making a simple extra java app launcher for Eclipse 3.2 (JBuilder 2007-8) for internal use. So I looked up all the documentations related, including this one The Launching Framework from eclipse.org and have managed to make everything else working wit... | [
"eclipse",
"plugins"
] | 3 | 4 | 2,331 | 2 | 0 | 2008-08-25T14:45:15.910000 | 2008-09-02T18:27:40.167000 |
26,147 | 31,912 | Is it possible to Embed Gecko or Webkit in a Windows Form just like a WebView? | I'd love to know if there is such a thing as a Gecko.NET;) I mean, just like we can embed a WebView and that is an "instance" of IE7 inside any Windows Forms application (and tell it to navigateto(fancy_url); ). I'd love to use Firefox or WebKit. Anybody tried this? UPDATE: Please bear in mind that although it is possi... | http://code.google.com/p/geckofx/ This is a nice.NET-wrapped version of Gecko | Is it possible to Embed Gecko or Webkit in a Windows Form just like a WebView? I'd love to know if there is such a thing as a Gecko.NET;) I mean, just like we can embed a WebView and that is an "instance" of IE7 inside any Windows Forms application (and tell it to navigateto(fancy_url); ). I'd love to use Firefox or We... | TITLE:
Is it possible to Embed Gecko or Webkit in a Windows Form just like a WebView?
QUESTION:
I'd love to know if there is such a thing as a Gecko.NET;) I mean, just like we can embed a WebView and that is an "instance" of IE7 inside any Windows Forms application (and tell it to navigateto(fancy_url); ). I'd love to... | [
"c#",
".net",
"winforms",
"webkit",
"gecko"
] | 71 | 49 | 96,506 | 10 | 0 | 2008-08-25T14:45:27.080000 | 2008-08-28T09:40:18.537000 |
26,151 | 26,162 | Template typedefs - What's your work around? | C++ 0x has template aliases (sometimes referred to as template typedefs). See here. Current spec of C++ does not. What do you like to use as work around? Container objects or Macros? Do you feel its worth it? | What do you like to use as work around? Container objects or Macros? Do you feel its worth it? The canonical way is to use a metafunction like thus: template struct my_string_map { typedef std::map type; };
// Invoke:
my_string_map::type my_str_int_map; This is also used in the STL ( allocator::rebind ) and in many l... | Template typedefs - What's your work around? C++ 0x has template aliases (sometimes referred to as template typedefs). See here. Current spec of C++ does not. What do you like to use as work around? Container objects or Macros? Do you feel its worth it? | TITLE:
Template typedefs - What's your work around?
QUESTION:
C++ 0x has template aliases (sometimes referred to as template typedefs). See here. Current spec of C++ does not. What do you like to use as work around? Container objects or Macros? Do you feel its worth it?
ANSWER:
What do you like to use as work around?... | [
"c++",
"templates",
"type-safety"
] | 73 | 106 | 41,328 | 3 | 0 | 2008-08-25T14:47:00.853000 | 2008-08-25T14:51:01.920000 |
26,158 | 27,132 | How does a "stack overflow" occur and how do you prevent it? | How does a stack overflow occur and what are the ways to make sure it doesn't happen, or ways to prevent one? | Stack A stack, in this context, is the last in, first out buffer you place data while your program runs. Last in, first out (LIFO) means that the last thing you put in is always the first thing you get back out - if you push 2 items on the stack, 'A' and then 'B', then the first thing you pop off the stack will be 'B',... | How does a "stack overflow" occur and how do you prevent it? How does a stack overflow occur and what are the ways to make sure it doesn't happen, or ways to prevent one? | TITLE:
How does a "stack overflow" occur and how do you prevent it?
QUESTION:
How does a stack overflow occur and what are the ways to make sure it doesn't happen, or ways to prevent one?
ANSWER:
Stack A stack, in this context, is the last in, first out buffer you place data while your program runs. Last in, first ou... | [
"memory",
"stack-overflow"
] | 146 | 166 | 144,978 | 9 | 0 | 2008-08-25T14:49:29.847000 | 2008-08-25T23:55:39.397000 |
26,176 | 26,270 | Why is Harvest being purchased at all? | Does your work environment use Harvest SCM? I've used this now at two different locations and find it appalling. In one situation I wrote a conversion script so I could use CVS locally and then daily import changes to the Harvest system while I was sleeping. The corp was fanatic about using Harvest, despite 80% of the ... | Chances are, your company has some sort of contract with CA - are you using a lot of other CA software in-house? Edit: Guess so! | Why is Harvest being purchased at all? Does your work environment use Harvest SCM? I've used this now at two different locations and find it appalling. In one situation I wrote a conversion script so I could use CVS locally and then daily import changes to the Harvest system while I was sleeping. The corp was fanatic a... | TITLE:
Why is Harvest being purchased at all?
QUESTION:
Does your work environment use Harvest SCM? I've used this now at two different locations and find it appalling. In one situation I wrote a conversion script so I could use CVS locally and then daily import changes to the Harvest system while I was sleeping. The ... | [
"version-control",
"harvest"
] | 25 | 24 | 17,149 | 7 | 0 | 2008-08-25T14:59:49.853000 | 2008-08-25T15:37:36.223000 |
26,195 | 26,708 | vimdiff and CVS integration | I've always wanted to be able to get a reasonably elegant way of getting vimdiff to work with a CVS controlled file. I've found numerous (somewhat hacky) scripts around the internet (best example here ) that basically check out the file you are editing from CVS to a temp file, and vimdiff the two. None of these take in... | I've been working on a similar script here: http://github.com/ghewgill/vim-scmdiff (in fact, they may have the same ancestry). I haven't used scmdiff with cvs, but it should do a diff against the branch you have checked out. You can also specify that you want to diff against a particular revision (with:D revision ). Ho... | vimdiff and CVS integration I've always wanted to be able to get a reasonably elegant way of getting vimdiff to work with a CVS controlled file. I've found numerous (somewhat hacky) scripts around the internet (best example here ) that basically check out the file you are editing from CVS to a temp file, and vimdiff th... | TITLE:
vimdiff and CVS integration
QUESTION:
I've always wanted to be able to get a reasonably elegant way of getting vimdiff to work with a CVS controlled file. I've found numerous (somewhat hacky) scripts around the internet (best example here ) that basically check out the file you are editing from CVS to a temp fi... | [
"vim",
"cvs",
"vimdiff"
] | 6 | 3 | 2,542 | 4 | 0 | 2008-08-25T15:10:27.380000 | 2008-08-25T19:45:43.333000 |
26,196 | 26,203 | Filtering collections in C# | I am looking for a very fast way to filter down a collection in C#. I am currently using generic List collections, but am open to using other structures if they perform better. Currently, I am just creating a new List and looping thru the original list. If the filtering criteria matches, I put a copy into the new list.... | If you're using C# 3.0 you can use linq, which is way better and way more elegant: List myList = GetListOfIntsFromSomewhere();
// This will filter ints that are not > 7 out of the list; Where returns an // IEnumerable, so call ToList to convert back to a List. List filteredList = myList.Where(x => x > 7).ToList(); If ... | Filtering collections in C# I am looking for a very fast way to filter down a collection in C#. I am currently using generic List collections, but am open to using other structures if they perform better. Currently, I am just creating a new List and looping thru the original list. If the filtering criteria matches, I p... | TITLE:
Filtering collections in C#
QUESTION:
I am looking for a very fast way to filter down a collection in C#. I am currently using generic List collections, but am open to using other structures if they perform better. Currently, I am just creating a new List and looping thru the original list. If the filtering cri... | [
"c#",
"collections",
"filtering"
] | 189 | 306 | 377,821 | 9 | 0 | 2008-08-25T15:11:10.093000 | 2008-08-25T15:13:51.927000 |
26,229 | 27,059 | Visio and Forward-Engineering | Do you know if I can use Visio to forward-engineer a sequence diagram into code (c#)? Can it be done with Visio alone or do I need a plugin? What about other diagrams? | You have to get the Visio that for users of Visual Studio. See this link: Visio for Enterprise Architects for more details. The code generation capabilities are fairly weak and you might end up getting Visio into an inconsistent state. I know that Visio will let you forward and reverse engineer both code and databases,... | Visio and Forward-Engineering Do you know if I can use Visio to forward-engineer a sequence diagram into code (c#)? Can it be done with Visio alone or do I need a plugin? What about other diagrams? | TITLE:
Visio and Forward-Engineering
QUESTION:
Do you know if I can use Visio to forward-engineer a sequence diagram into code (c#)? Can it be done with Visio alone or do I need a plugin? What about other diagrams?
ANSWER:
You have to get the Visio that for users of Visual Studio. See this link: Visio for Enterprise ... | [
"c#",
"visio",
"forward-engineer"
] | 1 | 1 | 2,289 | 3 | 0 | 2008-08-25T15:22:17.430000 | 2008-08-25T22:42:59.057000 |
26,230 | 26,236 | Revoke shared folders in windows | Over the last few months/years, I have shared a folder or two with numerous people on my domain. How do I easily revoke those shares to keep access to my system nice and tidy? | Using computer management (an MMC snap-in. See Control Panel Administrative tools) you can see a list of all folders that are shared. You could delete the shares or change the permissions on the share to only allow access for certain people or groups. | Revoke shared folders in windows Over the last few months/years, I have shared a folder or two with numerous people on my domain. How do I easily revoke those shares to keep access to my system nice and tidy? | TITLE:
Revoke shared folders in windows
QUESTION:
Over the last few months/years, I have shared a folder or two with numerous people on my domain. How do I easily revoke those shares to keep access to my system nice and tidy?
ANSWER:
Using computer management (an MMC snap-in. See Control Panel Administrative tools) y... | [
"windows",
"networking",
"directory",
"shared",
"smb"
] | 1 | 3 | 915 | 3 | 0 | 2008-08-25T15:22:19.193000 | 2008-08-25T15:24:04.257000 |
26,233 | 26,238 | Fastest C# Code to Download a Web Page | Given a URL, what would be the most efficient code to download the contents of that web page? I am only considering the HTML, not associated images, JS and CSS. | public static void DownloadFile(string remoteFilename, string localFilename) { WebClient client = new WebClient(); client.DownloadFile(remoteFilename, localFilename); } | Fastest C# Code to Download a Web Page Given a URL, what would be the most efficient code to download the contents of that web page? I am only considering the HTML, not associated images, JS and CSS. | TITLE:
Fastest C# Code to Download a Web Page
QUESTION:
Given a URL, what would be the most efficient code to download the contents of that web page? I am only considering the HTML, not associated images, JS and CSS.
ANSWER:
public static void DownloadFile(string remoteFilename, string localFilename) { WebClient clie... | [
"c#"
] | 65 | 71 | 78,831 | 7 | 0 | 2008-08-25T15:23:05.273000 | 2008-08-25T15:24:22.883000 |
26,255 | 60,396 | Reserved keywords in JavaScript | What JavaScript keywords (function names, variables, etc) are reserved? | We should be linking to the actual sources of info, rather than just the top google hit. http://developer.mozilla.org/En/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Reference/Reserved_Words JScript 8.0: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ttyab5c8.aspx | Reserved keywords in JavaScript What JavaScript keywords (function names, variables, etc) are reserved? | TITLE:
Reserved keywords in JavaScript
QUESTION:
What JavaScript keywords (function names, variables, etc) are reserved?
ANSWER:
We should be linking to the actual sources of info, rather than just the top google hit. http://developer.mozilla.org/En/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Reference/Reserved_Words JScript 8.0: http://msd... | [
"javascript",
"reserved-words"
] | 169 | 112 | 71,632 | 8 | 0 | 2008-08-25T15:29:39.907000 | 2008-09-13T07:54:42.603000 |
26,260 | 26,310 | Asp.net website first start is very slow | The first time I load the website in the production web server, it start very slow, subsequent pages load very quickly (included the home page). I precompiled the site, but nothing changes. I don't have any code at Application start. I don't have cached items. Any ideas? How can I find out what is happening? | It's just your app domain loading up and loading any binaries into memory. Also, it's initializing static variables, so if you have a static variable that loads up a lot of data from the db, it might take a bit. | Asp.net website first start is very slow The first time I load the website in the production web server, it start very slow, subsequent pages load very quickly (included the home page). I precompiled the site, but nothing changes. I don't have any code at Application start. I don't have cached items. Any ideas? How can... | TITLE:
Asp.net website first start is very slow
QUESTION:
The first time I load the website in the production web server, it start very slow, subsequent pages load very quickly (included the home page). I precompiled the site, but nothing changes. I don't have any code at Application start. I don't have cached items. ... | [
"asp.net"
] | 13 | 12 | 13,530 | 11 | 0 | 2008-08-25T15:32:46.967000 | 2008-08-25T16:00:59.363000 |
26,301 | 26,337 | Your favourite algorithm and the lesson it taught you | What algorithm taught you the most about programming or a specific language feature? We have all had those moments where all of a sudden we know, just know, we have learned an important lesson for the future based on finally understanding an algorithm written by a programmer a couple of steps up the evolutionary ladder... | "To iterate is human, to recurse divine" - quoted in 1989 at college. P.S. Posted by Woodgnome while waiting for invite to join | Your favourite algorithm and the lesson it taught you What algorithm taught you the most about programming or a specific language feature? We have all had those moments where all of a sudden we know, just know, we have learned an important lesson for the future based on finally understanding an algorithm written by a p... | TITLE:
Your favourite algorithm and the lesson it taught you
QUESTION:
What algorithm taught you the most about programming or a specific language feature? We have all had those moments where all of a sudden we know, just know, we have learned an important lesson for the future based on finally understanding an algori... | [
"algorithm",
"language-agnostic"
] | 27 | 19 | 9,684 | 33 | 0 | 2008-08-25T15:55:42.403000 | 2008-08-25T16:20:15.620000 |
26,305 | 26,318 | How can I play sound in Java? | I want to be able to play sound files in my program. Where should I look? | I wrote the following code that works fine. But I think it only works with.wav format. public static synchronized void playSound(final String url) { new Thread(new Runnable() { // The wrapper thread is unnecessary, unless it blocks on the // Clip finishing; see comments. public void run() { try { Clip clip = AudioSyste... | How can I play sound in Java? I want to be able to play sound files in my program. Where should I look? | TITLE:
How can I play sound in Java?
QUESTION:
I want to be able to play sound files in my program. Where should I look?
ANSWER:
I wrote the following code that works fine. But I think it only works with.wav format. public static synchronized void playSound(final String url) { new Thread(new Runnable() { // The wrapp... | [
"java",
"audio"
] | 194 | 148 | 401,766 | 12 | 0 | 2008-08-25T16:00:04.127000 | 2008-08-25T16:03:41.073000 |
26,323 | 26,339 | Regex to Parse Hyperlinks and Descriptions | C#: What is a good Regex to parse hyperlinks and their description? Please consider case insensitivity, white-space and use of single quotes (instead of double quotes) around the HREF tag. Please also consider obtaining hyperlinks which have other tags within the tags such as and. | As long as there are no nested tags (and no line breaks), the following variant works well: (.*?) As soon as nested tags come into play, regular expressions are unfit for parsing. However, you can still use them by applying more advanced features of modern interpreters (depending on your regex machine). E.g..NET regula... | Regex to Parse Hyperlinks and Descriptions C#: What is a good Regex to parse hyperlinks and their description? Please consider case insensitivity, white-space and use of single quotes (instead of double quotes) around the HREF tag. Please also consider obtaining hyperlinks which have other tags within the tags such as ... | TITLE:
Regex to Parse Hyperlinks and Descriptions
QUESTION:
C#: What is a good Regex to parse hyperlinks and their description? Please consider case insensitivity, white-space and use of single quotes (instead of double quotes) around the HREF tag. Please also consider obtaining hyperlinks which have other tags within... | [
"html",
"regex"
] | 5 | 6 | 16,227 | 6 | 0 | 2008-08-25T16:05:29.587000 | 2008-08-25T16:21:47.833000 |
26,354 | 28,168 | Print a barcode to a Intermec PB20 via the LinePrinter API | Does anyone know how to print a barcode to the Intermec PB20 bluetooth printer from a Windows Compact Framework application? We are currently using the Intermec LinePrinter API but have been unable to find a way to print a barcode. | Thank you all for your thoughts. Printing directly to the serial port is likely the most flexible method. In this case we didn't want to replicate all of the work that was already built into the Intermec dll for handling the port, printer errors, etc. We were able to get this working by sending the printer the appropri... | Print a barcode to a Intermec PB20 via the LinePrinter API Does anyone know how to print a barcode to the Intermec PB20 bluetooth printer from a Windows Compact Framework application? We are currently using the Intermec LinePrinter API but have been unable to find a way to print a barcode. ... | TITLE:
Print a barcode to a Intermec PB20 via the LinePrinter API
QUESTION:
Does anyone know how to print a barcode to the Intermec PB20 bluetooth printer from a Windows Compact Framework application? We are currently using the Intermec LinePrinter API but have been unable to find a way to print a barcode. ... | [
"c#",
"windows-mobile"
] | 4 | 1 | 4,611 | 5 | 0 | 2008-08-25T16:34:25.150000 | 2008-08-26T14:21:16.973000 |
26,355 | 26,423 | Compact Framework - Is there an MVC framework/library available? | I've found an article on this subject by a Microsoft employee, but has anyone implemented a more robust framework for this? Is there a lightweight framework for WinForms that could be ported easily? I'd like to get up to speed fairly quickly and avoid producing a framework/library of my own to handle this when someone ... | I personally think that the Mobile Software Factory doesn't hold much joy for CF. We still use one part of it (EventBroker) at work and I'd like to even remove that part if possible (as it doesn't support generic events and you have to cast the arguments into their strong types from EventArgs). A sister project at work... | Compact Framework - Is there an MVC framework/library available? I've found an article on this subject by a Microsoft employee, but has anyone implemented a more robust framework for this? Is there a lightweight framework for WinForms that could be ported easily? I'd like to get up to speed fairly quickly and avoid pro... | TITLE:
Compact Framework - Is there an MVC framework/library available?
QUESTION:
I've found an article on this subject by a Microsoft employee, but has anyone implemented a more robust framework for this? Is there a lightweight framework for WinForms that could be ported easily? I'd like to get up to speed fairly qui... | [
"c#",
"model-view-controller",
"windows-mobile",
"compact-framework",
"design-patterns"
] | 9 | 5 | 2,750 | 7 | 0 | 2008-08-25T16:36:31.340000 | 2008-08-25T17:11:13.143000 |
26,362 | 46,766 | Using ItemizedOverlay and OverlayItem In Android Beta 0.9 | Has anyone managed to use ItemizedOverlays in Android Beta 0.9? I can't get it to work, but I'm not sure if I've done something wrong or if this functionality isn't yet available. I've been trying to use the ItemizedOverlay and OverlayItem classes. Their intended purpose is to simulate map markers (as seen in Google Ma... | For the sake of completeness I'll repeat the discussion on Reto's post over at the Android Groups here. It seems that if you set the bounds on your drawable it does the trick: Drawable defaultMarker = r.getDrawable(R.drawable.icon);
// You HAVE to specify the bounds! It seems like the markers are drawn // through Draw... | Using ItemizedOverlay and OverlayItem In Android Beta 0.9 Has anyone managed to use ItemizedOverlays in Android Beta 0.9? I can't get it to work, but I'm not sure if I've done something wrong or if this functionality isn't yet available. I've been trying to use the ItemizedOverlay and OverlayItem classes. Their intende... | TITLE:
Using ItemizedOverlay and OverlayItem In Android Beta 0.9
QUESTION:
Has anyone managed to use ItemizedOverlays in Android Beta 0.9? I can't get it to work, but I'm not sure if I've done something wrong or if this functionality isn't yet available. I've been trying to use the ItemizedOverlay and OverlayItem clas... | [
"java",
"android",
"overlay",
"android-mapview"
] | 58 | 46 | 24,690 | 2 | 0 | 2008-08-25T16:39:42.440000 | 2008-09-05T19:58:48.483000 |
26,369 | 26,394 | What is the best way to store user settings for a .NET application? | I have a.NET 2.0 Windows Forms application. Where is the best place the store user settings (considering Windows guidelines)? Some people pointed to Application.LocalUserAppDataPath. However, that creates a folder structure like: C:\Documents and Settings\user_name\Local Settings\Application Data\company_name\product_n... | I love using the built-in Application Settings. Then you have built in support for using the settings designer if you want at design-time, or at runtime to use: // read setting string setting1 = (string)Settings.Default["MySetting1"]; // save setting Settings.Default["MySetting2"] = "My Setting Value";
// you can forc... | What is the best way to store user settings for a .NET application? I have a.NET 2.0 Windows Forms application. Where is the best place the store user settings (considering Windows guidelines)? Some people pointed to Application.LocalUserAppDataPath. However, that creates a folder structure like: C:\Documents and Setti... | TITLE:
What is the best way to store user settings for a .NET application?
QUESTION:
I have a.NET 2.0 Windows Forms application. Where is the best place the store user settings (considering Windows guidelines)? Some people pointed to Application.LocalUserAppDataPath. However, that creates a folder structure like: C:\D... | [
"c#",
".net"
] | 66 | 90 | 50,690 | 8 | 0 | 2008-08-25T16:43:06.707000 | 2008-08-25T16:59:15.527000 |
26,383 | 26,403 | Exception handling: Contract vs Exceptional approach | I know two approaches to Exception handling, lets have a look at them. Contract approach. When a method does not do what it says it will do in the method header, it will throw an exception. Thus the method "promises" that it will do the operation, and if it fails for some reason, it will throw an exception. Exceptional... | I favor what you call the "contract" approach. Returning nulls or other special values to indicate errors isn't necessary in a language that supports exceptions. I find it much easier to understand code when it doesn't have a bunch of "if (result == NULL)" or "if (result == -1)" clauses mixed in with what could be very... | Exception handling: Contract vs Exceptional approach I know two approaches to Exception handling, lets have a look at them. Contract approach. When a method does not do what it says it will do in the method header, it will throw an exception. Thus the method "promises" that it will do the operation, and if it fails for... | TITLE:
Exception handling: Contract vs Exceptional approach
QUESTION:
I know two approaches to Exception handling, lets have a look at them. Contract approach. When a method does not do what it says it will do in the method header, it will throw an exception. Thus the method "promises" that it will do the operation, a... | [
"exception"
] | 12 | 6 | 905 | 5 | 0 | 2008-08-25T16:52:23.110000 | 2008-08-25T17:01:07.287000 |
26,393 | 26,411 | What is a selector engine? | I've seen news of John Resig's fast new selector engine named Sizzle pop up in quite a few places, but I don't know what a selector engine is, nor have any of the articles given an explanation of what it is. I know Resig is the creator of jQuery, and that Sizzle is something in Javascript, but beyond that I don't know ... | A selector engine is used to query a page's DOM for particular elements, based on some sort of query (usually CSS syntax or similar). For example, this jQuery: $('div') Would search for and return all of the elements on the page. It uses jQuery's selector engine to do that. Optimizing the selector engine is a big deal ... | What is a selector engine? I've seen news of John Resig's fast new selector engine named Sizzle pop up in quite a few places, but I don't know what a selector engine is, nor have any of the articles given an explanation of what it is. I know Resig is the creator of jQuery, and that Sizzle is something in Javascript, bu... | TITLE:
What is a selector engine?
QUESTION:
I've seen news of John Resig's fast new selector engine named Sizzle pop up in quite a few places, but I don't know what a selector engine is, nor have any of the articles given an explanation of what it is. I know Resig is the creator of jQuery, and that Sizzle is something... | [
"javascript",
"jquery",
"glossary",
"resig"
] | 32 | 52 | 11,433 | 5 | 0 | 2008-08-25T16:59:09.957000 | 2008-08-25T17:03:51.897000 |
26,422 | 26,426 | Third party Visual Studio snippets | Do you know where I could find some useful third party (free) code snippets for VS 2008? | http://gotcodesnippets.com/ http://www.codekeep.net/ has a VS add-in for their snippets, too | Third party Visual Studio snippets Do you know where I could find some useful third party (free) code snippets for VS 2008? | TITLE:
Third party Visual Studio snippets
QUESTION:
Do you know where I could find some useful third party (free) code snippets for VS 2008?
ANSWER:
http://gotcodesnippets.com/ http://www.codekeep.net/ has a VS add-in for their snippets, too | [
"visual-studio",
"visual-studio-2008",
"code-snippets"
] | 5 | 6 | 445 | 2 | 0 | 2008-08-25T17:11:07.153000 | 2008-08-25T17:11:55.497000 |
26,452 | 26,462 | Visual Studio 2005 Shortcuts | I'm trying to bind the following shortcut: Ctrl + W to close tabs How can you customize VS to add/change shortcuts? Also, what are the most useful shortcuts you guys have found? | Tools > Options > (Show all settings), then Environment > Keyboard. Here, rebind the key “File.Close” to Ctrl + W. | Visual Studio 2005 Shortcuts I'm trying to bind the following shortcut: Ctrl + W to close tabs How can you customize VS to add/change shortcuts? Also, what are the most useful shortcuts you guys have found? | TITLE:
Visual Studio 2005 Shortcuts
QUESTION:
I'm trying to bind the following shortcut: Ctrl + W to close tabs How can you customize VS to add/change shortcuts? Also, what are the most useful shortcuts you guys have found?
ANSWER:
Tools > Options > (Show all settings), then Environment > Keyboard. Here, rebind the k... | [
"visual-studio",
"visual-studio-2005",
"shortcut"
] | 6 | 6 | 4,131 | 5 | 0 | 2008-08-25T17:25:33.857000 | 2008-08-25T17:28:26.377000 |
26,455 | 26,484 | Does Design By Contract Work For You? | Do you use Design by Contract professionally? Is it something you have to do from the beginning of a project, or can you change gears and start to incorporate it into your software development lifecycle? What have you found to be the pros/cons of the design approach? I came across the Design by Contract approach in a g... | I can't recommend it highly enough. It's particularly nice if you have a suite that takes inline documentation contract specifications, like so: // @returns null iff x = 0 public foo(int x) {... } and turns them into generated unit tests, like so: public test_foo_returns_null_iff_x_equals_0() { assertNull foo(0); } Tha... | Does Design By Contract Work For You? Do you use Design by Contract professionally? Is it something you have to do from the beginning of a project, or can you change gears and start to incorporate it into your software development lifecycle? What have you found to be the pros/cons of the design approach? I came across ... | TITLE:
Does Design By Contract Work For You?
QUESTION:
Do you use Design by Contract professionally? Is it something you have to do from the beginning of a project, or can you change gears and start to incorporate it into your software development lifecycle? What have you found to be the pros/cons of the design approa... | [
"design-by-contract"
] | 26 | 16 | 4,405 | 10 | 0 | 2008-08-25T17:26:47.163000 | 2008-08-25T17:41:29.530000 |
26,478 | 49,638 | Incosistency between MS Sql 2k and 2k5 with columns as function arguments | I'm having trouble getting the following to work in SQL Server 2k, but it works in 2k5: --works in 2k5, not in 2k
create view foo as SELECT usertable.legacyCSVVarcharCol as testvar FROM usertable WHERE rsrcID in ( select val from dbo.fnSplitStringToInt(usertable.legacyCSVVarcharCol, default) )
--error message: Msg 17... | Passing column-values to a table-valued user-defined function is not supported in SQL Server 2000, you can only use constants, so the following (simpler version) would also fail: SELECT *, (SELECT TOP 1 val FROM dbo.fnSplitStringToInt(usertable.legacyCSVVarcharCol, ',')) FROM usertable It will work on SQL Server 2005, ... | Incosistency between MS Sql 2k and 2k5 with columns as function arguments I'm having trouble getting the following to work in SQL Server 2k, but it works in 2k5: --works in 2k5, not in 2k
create view foo as SELECT usertable.legacyCSVVarcharCol as testvar FROM usertable WHERE rsrcID in ( select val from dbo.fnSplitStri... | TITLE:
Incosistency between MS Sql 2k and 2k5 with columns as function arguments
QUESTION:
I'm having trouble getting the following to work in SQL Server 2k, but it works in 2k5: --works in 2k5, not in 2k
create view foo as SELECT usertable.legacyCSVVarcharCol as testvar FROM usertable WHERE rsrcID in ( select val fr... | [
"sql-server"
] | 1 | 1 | 473 | 2 | 0 | 2008-08-25T17:38:50.470000 | 2008-09-08T12:56:51.047000 |
26,515 | 26,537 | Using MySQLi - which is better for closing queries | I have a habit of keeping my variable usage to a bare minimum. So I'm wondering if there is any advantage to be gained by the following: $query = $mysqli->query('SELECT * FROM `people` ORDER BY `name` ASC LIMIT 0,30');
// Example 1 $query = $query->fetch_assoc();
// Example 2 $query_r = $query->fetch_assoc(); $query-... | The manual seems to suggest that you should still be using free() to release the memory. I believe the reasoning is that free() is freeing the memory in MySQL, not in PHP. Since PHP can't garbage-collect for MySQL, you need to call free(). | Using MySQLi - which is better for closing queries I have a habit of keeping my variable usage to a bare minimum. So I'm wondering if there is any advantage to be gained by the following: $query = $mysqli->query('SELECT * FROM `people` ORDER BY `name` ASC LIMIT 0,30');
// Example 1 $query = $query->fetch_assoc();
// ... | TITLE:
Using MySQLi - which is better for closing queries
QUESTION:
I have a habit of keeping my variable usage to a bare minimum. So I'm wondering if there is any advantage to be gained by the following: $query = $mysqli->query('SELECT * FROM `people` ORDER BY `name` ASC LIMIT 0,30');
// Example 1 $query = $query->f... | [
"php",
"mysql",
"memory",
"mysqli"
] | 2 | 5 | 869 | 2 | 0 | 2008-08-25T17:59:28.847000 | 2008-08-25T18:08:38.373000 |
26,522 | 26,582 | .NET Multi Dimensional Array Printing | Let's say I have a.NET Array of n number of dimensions. I would like to foreach through the elements and print out something like: [0, 0, 0] = 2 [0, 0, 1] = 32 And so on. I could write a loop using some the Rank and dimension functions to come up with the indices. Is there a built in function instead? | Thanks for the answer, here is what I wrote while I waited: public static string Format(Array array) { var builder = new StringBuilder(); builder.AppendLine("Count: " + array.Length); var counter = 0;
var dimensions = new List (); for (int i = 0; i < array.Rank; i++) { dimensions.Add(array.GetUpperBound(i) + 1); }
fo... | .NET Multi Dimensional Array Printing Let's say I have a.NET Array of n number of dimensions. I would like to foreach through the elements and print out something like: [0, 0, 0] = 2 [0, 0, 1] = 32 And so on. I could write a loop using some the Rank and dimension functions to come up with the indices. Is there a built ... | TITLE:
.NET Multi Dimensional Array Printing
QUESTION:
Let's say I have a.NET Array of n number of dimensions. I would like to foreach through the elements and print out something like: [0, 0, 0] = 2 [0, 0, 1] = 32 And so on. I could write a loop using some the Rank and dimension functions to come up with the indices.... | [
"c#",
".net",
"arrays"
] | 3 | 2 | 2,115 | 2 | 0 | 2008-08-25T18:02:48.713000 | 2008-08-25T18:23:38.977000 |
26,536 | 26,684 | Active X Control JavaScript | My coworker and I have encountered a nasty situation where we have to use an active X control to manipulate a web camera on a page. Is it possible to assign a javascript event handler to a button in the active x control so that it would fire an action on the page when clicked, or do we have to create a button on the ht... | Please just use an existing ActiveX control. Like Flash or Silverlight. Flash has built-in webcam support and is controllable via JavaScript. Silverlight doesn't have built-in camera support, but it's JavaScript integration is fantastic. If you must write your own then fret not, it is trivial to get it to interact with... | Active X Control JavaScript My coworker and I have encountered a nasty situation where we have to use an active X control to manipulate a web camera on a page. Is it possible to assign a javascript event handler to a button in the active x control so that it would fire an action on the page when clicked, or do we have ... | TITLE:
Active X Control JavaScript
QUESTION:
My coworker and I have encountered a nasty situation where we have to use an active X control to manipulate a web camera on a page. Is it possible to assign a javascript event handler to a button in the active x control so that it would fire an action on the page when click... | [
"javascript",
"activex"
] | 9 | 7 | 6,360 | 2 | 0 | 2008-08-25T18:07:57.110000 | 2008-08-25T19:25:24.740000 |
26,547 | 26,589 | How to detect which blog API | Let's say that you want to create a dead simple BlogEditor and, one of your ideas, is to do what Live Writer does and ask only the URL of the persons Blog. How can you detect what type of blog is it? Basic detection can be done with the URL itself, such as “ http://myblog.blogger.com ” etc. But what if it's self hosted... | Many (most?) blogs will have a meta tag for "generator" which will list the blog engine. For example a blogger blog will contain the following meta tag: My Subtext blog shows the following generator meta tag: This meta tag would be the first place to look. For blogs that don't set this meta tag in the source, you'd hav... | How to detect which blog API Let's say that you want to create a dead simple BlogEditor and, one of your ideas, is to do what Live Writer does and ask only the URL of the persons Blog. How can you detect what type of blog is it? Basic detection can be done with the URL itself, such as “ http://myblog.blogger.com ” etc.... | TITLE:
How to detect which blog API
QUESTION:
Let's say that you want to create a dead simple BlogEditor and, one of your ideas, is to do what Live Writer does and ask only the URL of the persons Blog. How can you detect what type of blog is it? Basic detection can be done with the URL itself, such as “ http://myblog.... | [
"java",
"api",
"blogs"
] | 2 | 3 | 549 | 3 | 0 | 2008-08-25T18:13:40.420000 | 2008-08-25T18:25:51.920000 |
26,551 | 92,057 | How can I pass arguments to a batch file? | I need to pass an ID and a password to a batch file at the time of running rather than hardcoding them into the file. Here's what the command line looks like: test.cmd admin P@55w0rd > test-log.txt | Here's how I did it: @fake-command /u %1 /p %2 Here's what the command looks like: test.cmd admin P@55w0rd > test-log.txt The %1 applies to the first parameter the %2 (and here's the tricky part) applies to the second. You can have up to 9 parameters passed in this way. | How can I pass arguments to a batch file? I need to pass an ID and a password to a batch file at the time of running rather than hardcoding them into the file. Here's what the command line looks like: test.cmd admin P@55w0rd > test-log.txt | TITLE:
How can I pass arguments to a batch file?
QUESTION:
I need to pass an ID and a password to a batch file at the time of running rather than hardcoding them into the file. Here's what the command line looks like: test.cmd admin P@55w0rd > test-log.txt
ANSWER:
Here's how I did it: @fake-command /u %1 /p %2 Here's... | [
"batch-file",
"arguments"
] | 1,435 | 358 | 2,491,352 | 20 | 0 | 2008-08-25T18:14:18.437000 | 2008-09-18T12:26:52.253000 |
26,552 | 26,555 | What are the advantages and disadvantages of turning NOCOUNT off in SQL server queries? | What are the advantages and disadvantages of turning NOCOUNT off in SQL server queries? | From SQL BOL: SET NOCOUNT ON prevents the sending of DONE_IN_PROC messages to the client for each statement in a stored procedure. For stored procedures that contain several statements that do not return much actual data, setting SET NOCOUNT to ON can provide a significant performance boost, because network traffic is ... | What are the advantages and disadvantages of turning NOCOUNT off in SQL server queries? What are the advantages and disadvantages of turning NOCOUNT off in SQL server queries? | TITLE:
What are the advantages and disadvantages of turning NOCOUNT off in SQL server queries?
QUESTION:
What are the advantages and disadvantages of turning NOCOUNT off in SQL server queries?
ANSWER:
From SQL BOL: SET NOCOUNT ON prevents the sending of DONE_IN_PROC messages to the c... | [
"sql-server",
"nocount"
] | 15 | 19 | 14,518 | 7 | 0 | 2008-08-25T18:14:21.197000 | 2008-08-25T18:15:57.747000 |
26,559 | 26,597 | Any negative impacts when using Mod-Rewrite? | I know there are a lot of positive things mod-rewrite accomplishes. But are there any negative? Obviously if you have poorly written rules your going to have problems. But what if you have a high volume site and your constantly using mod-rewrite, is it going to have a significant impact on performance? I did a quick se... | I've used mod_rewrite on sites that get millions/hits/month without any significant performance issues. You do have to know which rewrites get applied first depending on your rules. Using mod_rewrite is most likely faster than parsing the URL with your current language. If you are really worried about performance, don'... | Any negative impacts when using Mod-Rewrite? I know there are a lot of positive things mod-rewrite accomplishes. But are there any negative? Obviously if you have poorly written rules your going to have problems. But what if you have a high volume site and your constantly using mod-rewrite, is it going to have a signif... | TITLE:
Any negative impacts when using Mod-Rewrite?
QUESTION:
I know there are a lot of positive things mod-rewrite accomplishes. But are there any negative? Obviously if you have poorly written rules your going to have problems. But what if you have a high volume site and your constantly using mod-rewrite, is it goin... | [
"performance",
"mod-rewrite"
] | 25 | 41 | 11,103 | 3 | 0 | 2008-08-25T18:17:11.377000 | 2008-08-25T18:28:35.470000 |
26,567 | 30,409 | How do I set a textbox to multi-line in SSRS? | I have a report with many fields that I'm trying to get down to 1 page horizontally (I don't care whether it's 2 or 200 pages vertically... just don't want to have to deal with 2 pages wide by x pages long train-wreck). That said, it deals with contact information. My idea was to do: Name: Address: City: State:... Jon ... | Alter the report's text box to: = Fields!Addr1.Value + VbCrLf + Fields!Addr2.Value + VbCrLf + Fields!Addr3.Value | How do I set a textbox to multi-line in SSRS? I have a report with many fields that I'm trying to get down to 1 page horizontally (I don't care whether it's 2 or 200 pages vertically... just don't want to have to deal with 2 pages wide by x pages long train-wreck). That said, it deals with contact information. My idea ... | TITLE:
How do I set a textbox to multi-line in SSRS?
QUESTION:
I have a report with many fields that I'm trying to get down to 1 page horizontally (I don't care whether it's 2 or 200 pages vertically... just don't want to have to deal with 2 pages wide by x pages long train-wreck). That said, it deals with contact inf... | [
"reporting-services",
"textbox",
"multiline"
] | 18 | 25 | 66,852 | 8 | 0 | 2008-08-25T18:19:18.627000 | 2008-08-27T15:15:01.563000 |
26,570 | 26,600 | sizeof() equivalent for reference types? | I'm looking for a way to get the size of an instance of a reference type. sizeof is only for value types. Is this possible? | If you don't mind it being a little less accurate than perfect, and for comparative purposes, you could serialize the object/s and measure that (in bytes for example) EDIT (I kept thinking after posting): Because it's a little more complicated than sizeof for valuetypes, for example: reference types can have references... | sizeof() equivalent for reference types? I'm looking for a way to get the size of an instance of a reference type. sizeof is only for value types. Is this possible? | TITLE:
sizeof() equivalent for reference types?
QUESTION:
I'm looking for a way to get the size of an instance of a reference type. sizeof is only for value types. Is this possible?
ANSWER:
If you don't mind it being a little less accurate than perfect, and for comparative purposes, you could serialize the object/s a... | [
"c#",
".net"
] | 21 | 10 | 11,662 | 6 | 0 | 2008-08-25T18:19:57.563000 | 2008-08-25T18:31:00.813000 |
26,594 | 26,710 | Previewing HTML in Java | What libraries/methods do you know of that can do some basic HTML representation in Swing? Can you comment on your experience? | Many of the Swing controls (like JLabel) can render basic HTML content. JEditorPane can be used to display HTML pages. However, these controls are limited to HTML 3.2 support. For a richer experience, I would use the JDesktop Integration Components. JDIC provides Java applications with access to functionalities and fac... | Previewing HTML in Java What libraries/methods do you know of that can do some basic HTML representation in Swing? Can you comment on your experience? | TITLE:
Previewing HTML in Java
QUESTION:
What libraries/methods do you know of that can do some basic HTML representation in Swing? Can you comment on your experience?
ANSWER:
Many of the Swing controls (like JLabel) can render basic HTML content. JEditorPane can be used to display HTML pages. However, these controls... | [
"java",
"html"
] | 4 | 1 | 731 | 7 | 0 | 2008-08-25T18:27:09.950000 | 2008-08-25T19:47:13.237000 |
26,595 | 26,611 | Is there any difference between "foo is None" and "foo == None"? | Is there any difference between: if foo is None: pass and if foo == None: pass The convention that I've seen in most Python code (and the code I myself write) is the former, but I recently came across code which uses the latter. None is an instance (and the only instance, IIRC) of NoneType, so it shouldn't matter, righ... | is always returns True if it compares the same object instance, whereas == is ultimately determined by the __eq__() method. i.e. >>> class Foo: def __eq__(self, other): return True
>>> f = Foo() >>> f == None True >>> f is None False | Is there any difference between "foo is None" and "foo == None"? Is there any difference between: if foo is None: pass and if foo == None: pass The convention that I've seen in most Python code (and the code I myself write) is the former, but I recently came across code which uses the latter. None is an instance (and t... | TITLE:
Is there any difference between "foo is None" and "foo == None"?
QUESTION:
Is there any difference between: if foo is None: pass and if foo == None: pass The convention that I've seen in most Python code (and the code I myself write) is the former, but I recently came across code which uses the latter. None is ... | [
"python"
] | 231 | 274 | 34,885 | 12 | 0 | 2008-08-25T18:27:16.330000 | 2008-08-25T18:38:10.267000 |
26,620 | 26,681 | How to set encoding in .getJSON jQuery | In my web app, I submit some form fields with jQuery's $.getJSON() method. I am having some problems with the encoding. The character-set of my app is charset=ISO-8859-1, but I think these fields are submitted with UTF-8. How I can set encoding used in $.getJSON calls? | I think that you'll probably have to use $.ajax() if you want to change the encoding, see the contentType param below (the success and error callbacks assume you have and in the html): $.ajax({ type: "POST", url: "SomePage.aspx/GetSomeObjects", contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8", dataType: "json", data: "{i... | How to set encoding in .getJSON jQuery In my web app, I submit some form fields with jQuery's $.getJSON() method. I am having some problems with the encoding. The character-set of my app is charset=ISO-8859-1, but I think these fields are submitted with UTF-8. How I can set encoding used in $.getJSON calls? | TITLE:
How to set encoding in .getJSON jQuery
QUESTION:
In my web app, I submit some form fields with jQuery's $.getJSON() method. I am having some problems with the encoding. The character-set of my app is charset=ISO-8859-1, but I think these fields are submitted with UTF-8. How I can set encoding used in $.getJSON ... | [
"jquery",
"ajax",
"json",
"character-encoding"
] | 45 | 36 | 127,671 | 6 | 0 | 2008-08-25T18:45:27.660000 | 2008-08-25T19:23:06.447000 |
26,638 | 26,680 | What HTML parsing libraries do you recommend in Java | I want to parse some HTML in order to find the values of some attributes/tags etc. What HTML parsers do you recommend? Any pros and cons? | NekoHTML, TagSoup, and JTidy will allow you to parse HTML and then process with XML tools, like XPath. | What HTML parsing libraries do you recommend in Java I want to parse some HTML in order to find the values of some attributes/tags etc. What HTML parsers do you recommend? Any pros and cons? | TITLE:
What HTML parsing libraries do you recommend in Java
QUESTION:
I want to parse some HTML in order to find the values of some attributes/tags etc. What HTML parsers do you recommend? Any pros and cons?
ANSWER:
NekoHTML, TagSoup, and JTidy will allow you to parse HTML and then process with XML tools, like XPath. | [
"java",
"html",
"parsing",
"html-content-extraction"
] | 13 | 12 | 3,989 | 3 | 0 | 2008-08-25T18:54:27.107000 | 2008-08-25T19:22:20.160000 |
26,652 | 26,656 | Is there a way to make a TSQL variable constant? | Is there a way to make a TSQL variable constant? | No, but you can create a function and hardcode it in there and use that. Here is an example: CREATE FUNCTION fnConstant() RETURNS INT AS BEGIN RETURN 2 END GO
SELECT dbo.fnConstant() | Is there a way to make a TSQL variable constant? Is there a way to make a TSQL variable constant? | TITLE:
Is there a way to make a TSQL variable constant?
QUESTION:
Is there a way to make a TSQL variable constant?
ANSWER:
No, but you can create a function and hardcode it in there and use that. Here is an example: CREATE FUNCTION fnConstant() RETURNS INT AS BEGIN RETURN 2 END GO
SELECT dbo.fnConstant() | [
"sql-server",
"t-sql"
] | 105 | 64 | 107,741 | 14 | 0 | 2008-08-25T19:03:30.160000 | 2008-08-25T19:05:30.060000 |
26,670 | 30,688 | Why is my PDF footer text invisible? | I'm creating PDFs on-demand with ColdFusion's CFDocument tag, like so: My Client's Corporation Street address City, ST 55555 Phone: 555.555.5555 Fax: 555.555.5555 Email: info@domain.com The problem I'm having is that sometimes (actually, most of the time, but not always) some of the footer text is there, but invisible.... | A PDF is what I'm after, so I'm not sure how outputting another format would help. As it turns out, the footer space just wasn't enough to fit all of this text; verified by the fact that changing the font size to 4pt would fit it all in without a problem. I spent some time attempting to rewrite the footer code using DD... | Why is my PDF footer text invisible? I'm creating PDFs on-demand with ColdFusion's CFDocument tag, like so: My Client's Corporation Street address City, ST 55555 Phone: 555.555.5555 Fax: 555.555.5555 Email: info@domain.com The problem I'm having is that sometimes (actually, most of the time, but not always) some of the... | TITLE:
Why is my PDF footer text invisible?
QUESTION:
I'm creating PDFs on-demand with ColdFusion's CFDocument tag, like so: My Client's Corporation Street address City, ST 55555 Phone: 555.555.5555 Fax: 555.555.5555 Email: info@domain.com The problem I'm having is that sometimes (actually, most of the time, but not a... | [
"pdf",
"coldfusion"
] | 1 | 2 | 1,131 | 2 | 0 | 2008-08-25T19:14:07.280000 | 2008-08-27T17:30:21.787000 |
26,685 | 26,693 | What is MVC and what are the advantages of it? | I found What are mvp and mvc and what is the difference but it didn't really answer this question. I've recently started using MVC because it's part of the framework that myself and my work-partner are going to use. We chose it because it looked easy and separated process from display, are there advantages besides this... | MVC is the separation of m odel, v iew and c ontroller — nothing more, nothing less. It's simply a paradigm; an ideal that you should have in the back of your mind when designing classes. Avoid mixing code from the three categories into one class. For example, while a table grid view should obviously present data once ... | What is MVC and what are the advantages of it? I found What are mvp and mvc and what is the difference but it didn't really answer this question. I've recently started using MVC because it's part of the framework that myself and my work-partner are going to use. We chose it because it looked easy and separated process ... | TITLE:
What is MVC and what are the advantages of it?
QUESTION:
I found What are mvp and mvc and what is the difference but it didn't really answer this question. I've recently started using MVC because it's part of the framework that myself and my work-partner are going to use. We chose it because it looked easy and ... | [
"model-view-controller",
"design-patterns"
] | 47 | 46 | 109,240 | 11 | 0 | 2008-08-25T19:26:39.823000 | 2008-08-25T19:31:57.250000 |
26,706 | 26,707 | wxpython: How do I examine dragged data in OnDragOver? | I'm a bit perplexed by drag and drop in wxPython (but perhaps this questions pertains to drag and drop in other GUI frameworks as well). The frameworks provides a couple of callbacks (OnEnter and OnDragOver) that purportedly allow me to inform the system whether the current mouse position is a valid place to drop whate... | One solution, which is a hack of limited usefulness, is when a drag is initiated, store the dragged data in a global or static reference somewhere. This way, in the OnEnter and OnDragOver handlers, it is possible to get a reference to the data being dragged. This is of course only useful for drags within the same appli... | wxpython: How do I examine dragged data in OnDragOver? I'm a bit perplexed by drag and drop in wxPython (but perhaps this questions pertains to drag and drop in other GUI frameworks as well). The frameworks provides a couple of callbacks (OnEnter and OnDragOver) that purportedly allow me to inform the system whether th... | TITLE:
wxpython: How do I examine dragged data in OnDragOver?
QUESTION:
I'm a bit perplexed by drag and drop in wxPython (but perhaps this questions pertains to drag and drop in other GUI frameworks as well). The frameworks provides a couple of callbacks (OnEnter and OnDragOver) that purportedly allow me to inform the... | [
"python",
"user-interface",
"drag-and-drop",
"wxpython",
"wxwidgets"
] | 6 | 1 | 617 | 2 | 0 | 2008-08-25T19:43:15.960000 | 2008-08-25T19:45:40.977000 |
26,711 | 26,720 | Asp.net Reinstalling a DLL into the GAC | I'm trying to re-install a DLL in the GAC, everything seems to work fine but the web application accessing it still seems to be using the old one. The old DLL is the same version as the new one with only a minor edit, it will be used by 50 different sites so changing the version then changing the reference in the web.c... | AFAIK, you need to restart IIS for it to get a fresh reference to the updated DLL. Your best bet is to perform the reset at a low traffic time. If you are running multiple servers with load balancing, you can prevent new connections from hitting one server until all connections have been closed. Afterwards, update the ... | Asp.net Reinstalling a DLL into the GAC I'm trying to re-install a DLL in the GAC, everything seems to work fine but the web application accessing it still seems to be using the old one. The old DLL is the same version as the new one with only a minor edit, it will be used by 50 different sites so changing the version ... | TITLE:
Asp.net Reinstalling a DLL into the GAC
QUESTION:
I'm trying to re-install a DLL in the GAC, everything seems to work fine but the web application accessing it still seems to be using the old one. The old DLL is the same version as the new one with only a minor edit, it will be used by 50 different sites so cha... | [
"iis",
"dll",
"gac"
] | 3 | 3 | 3,624 | 2 | 0 | 2008-08-25T19:47:42.830000 | 2008-08-25T19:51:47.033000 |
26,715 | 26,741 | asp.net mvc - subfolders | How does the new Microsoft asp.net mvc implementation handle partitioning your application - for example: --index.aspx --about.aspx --contact.aspx --/feature1 --/feature1/subfeature/action --/feature2/subfeature/action I guess what I am trying to say is that it seems everything has to go into the root of the views/cont... | There isn't any issues with organizing your controllers. You just need to setup the routes to take the organization into consideration. The problem you will run into is finding the view for the controller, since you changed the convention. There isn't any built in functionality for it yet, but it is easy to create a wo... | asp.net mvc - subfolders How does the new Microsoft asp.net mvc implementation handle partitioning your application - for example: --index.aspx --about.aspx --contact.aspx --/feature1 --/feature1/subfeature/action --/feature2/subfeature/action I guess what I am trying to say is that it seems everything has to go into t... | TITLE:
asp.net mvc - subfolders
QUESTION:
How does the new Microsoft asp.net mvc implementation handle partitioning your application - for example: --index.aspx --about.aspx --contact.aspx --/feature1 --/feature1/subfeature/action --/feature2/subfeature/action I guess what I am trying to say is that it seems everythin... | [
"asp.net-mvc",
"directory-structure"
] | 12 | 11 | 11,728 | 3 | 0 | 2008-08-25T19:50:21.827000 | 2008-08-25T20:02:29.113000 |
26,719 | 28,915 | Internalize Class and Methods in .NET Assembly | I have a set of multiple assemblies (one assembly is to be used as an API and it depends on other assemblies). I would like to merge all assemblies into one single assembly but prevent all assemblies except the API one to be visible from the outside. I will then obfuscate this assembly with Xenocode. From what I have s... | I know Xenocode can merge assemblies into one but I am not sure if it will internalize other non-primary assemblies. I have found the /internalize switch in ILMerge that "internalize" all assemblies except the primary one. Pretty useful! | Internalize Class and Methods in .NET Assembly I have a set of multiple assemblies (one assembly is to be used as an API and it depends on other assemblies). I would like to merge all assemblies into one single assembly but prevent all assemblies except the API one to be visible from the outside. I will then obfuscate ... | TITLE:
Internalize Class and Methods in .NET Assembly
QUESTION:
I have a set of multiple assemblies (one assembly is to be used as an API and it depends on other assemblies). I would like to merge all assemblies into one single assembly but prevent all assemblies except the API one to be visible from the outside. I wi... | [
"c#",
".net",
"vb.net",
"assemblies"
] | 1 | 1 | 1,373 | 4 | 0 | 2008-08-25T19:51:31.260000 | 2008-08-26T19:27:04.167000 |
26,721 | 27,032 | How can I make sure scrollbars don't overlap content? | When creating scrollable user controls with.NET and WinForms I have repeatedly encountered situations where, for example, a vertical scrollbar pops up, overlapping the control's content, causing a horizontal scrollbar to also be needed. Ideally the content would shrink just a bit to make room for the vertical scrollbar... | You will need your controls to resize slightly to accommodate the width of the vertical scroll bar. One way to achieve this achieved through docking. Rather than just dropping controls on the form, you'll have to play a bit with panels, padding, min/max sizing and docking. Here is example code you can place behind a bl... | How can I make sure scrollbars don't overlap content? When creating scrollable user controls with.NET and WinForms I have repeatedly encountered situations where, for example, a vertical scrollbar pops up, overlapping the control's content, causing a horizontal scrollbar to also be needed. Ideally the content would shr... | TITLE:
How can I make sure scrollbars don't overlap content?
QUESTION:
When creating scrollable user controls with.NET and WinForms I have repeatedly encountered situations where, for example, a vertical scrollbar pops up, overlapping the control's content, causing a horizontal scrollbar to also be needed. Ideally the... | [
".net",
"winforms"
] | 2 | 1 | 3,348 | 2 | 0 | 2008-08-25T19:52:07.173000 | 2008-08-25T22:15:50.930000 |
26,732 | 26,744 | java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid <url-pattern> in servlet mapping | myservlet workflow.WDispatcher 2 myservlet *NEXTEVENT* Above is the snippet from Tomcat's web.xml. The URL pattern *NEXTEVENT* on start up throws java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid in servlet mapping It will be greatly appreciated if someone can hint at the error. | *NEXTEVENT* The URL pattern is not valid. It can either end in an asterisk or start with one (to denote a file extension mapping). The url-pattern specification: A string beginning with a ‘/’ character and ending with a ‘/*’ suffix is used for path mapping. A string beginning with a ‘*.’ prefix is used as an extension ... | java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid <url-pattern> in servlet mapping myservlet workflow.WDispatcher 2 myservlet *NEXTEVENT* Above is the snippet from Tomcat's web.xml. The URL pattern *NEXTEVENT* on start up throws java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid in servlet mapping It will be greatly appreciated if ... | TITLE:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid <url-pattern> in servlet mapping
QUESTION:
myservlet workflow.WDispatcher 2 myservlet *NEXTEVENT* Above is the snippet from Tomcat's web.xml. The URL pattern *NEXTEVENT* on start up throws java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid in servlet mapping It will be great... | [
"tomcat",
"servlets",
"web.xml",
"illegalargumentexception",
"servlet-mapping"
] | 45 | 103 | 92,273 | 2 | 0 | 2008-08-25T19:56:38.470000 | 2008-08-25T20:04:47.157000 |
26,733 | 26,750 | Getting all types that implement an interface | Using reflection, how can I get all types that implement an interface with C# 3.0/.NET 3.5 with the least code, and minimizing iterations? This is what I want to re-write: foreach (Type t in this.GetType().Assembly.GetTypes()) if (t is IMyInterface); //do stuff | Mine would be this in c# 3.0:) var type = typeof(IMyInterface); var types = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies().SelectMany(s => s.GetTypes()).Where(p => type.IsAssignableFrom(p)); Basically, the least amount of iterations will always be: loop assemblies loop types see if implemented. | Getting all types that implement an interface Using reflection, how can I get all types that implement an interface with C# 3.0/.NET 3.5 with the least code, and minimizing iterations? This is what I want to re-write: foreach (Type t in this.GetType().Assembly.GetTypes()) if (t is IMyInterface); //do stuff | TITLE:
Getting all types that implement an interface
QUESTION:
Using reflection, how can I get all types that implement an interface with C# 3.0/.NET 3.5 with the least code, and minimizing iterations? This is what I want to re-write: foreach (Type t in this.GetType().Assembly.GetTypes()) if (t is IMyInterface); //do ... | [
"c#",
"optimization",
"reflection",
"lambda",
"c#-3.0"
] | 663 | 946 | 393,294 | 19 | 0 | 2008-08-25T19:57:21.903000 | 2008-08-25T20:11:21.243000 |
26,760 | 26,769 | Parse string to TimeSpan | I have some strings of xxh:yym format where xx is hours and yy is minutes like "05h:30m". What is an elegant way to convert a string of this type to TimeSpan? | This seems to work, though it is a bit hackish: TimeSpan span;
if (TimeSpan.TryParse("05h:30m".Replace("m","").Replace("h",""), out span)) MessageBox.Show(span.ToString()); | Parse string to TimeSpan I have some strings of xxh:yym format where xx is hours and yy is minutes like "05h:30m". What is an elegant way to convert a string of this type to TimeSpan? | TITLE:
Parse string to TimeSpan
QUESTION:
I have some strings of xxh:yym format where xx is hours and yy is minutes like "05h:30m". What is an elegant way to convert a string of this type to TimeSpan?
ANSWER:
This seems to work, though it is a bit hackish: TimeSpan span;
if (TimeSpan.TryParse("05h:30m".Replace("m","... | [
"c#",
"timespan"
] | 30 | 27 | 60,924 | 5 | 0 | 2008-08-25T20:16:26.990000 | 2008-08-25T20:20:22.953000 |
26,762 | 26,785 | Perforce in a Microsoft Shop | Our dev shop currently uses Visual SourceSafe. We all know how that could end up (badly), so we're investigating other systems. First up is Perforce. Does anyone have experience with using it and its integration into Visual Studio (2003/2005/2008)? Is it as good as any other, or is it pretty solid with good features, c... | I used Perforce at my last 3 jobs (my current job I'm using Subversion, which I don't like nearly as much.) I'm a big fan of Perforce, and moving from SourceSafe it will seem like Nirvana. Just getting atomic checkin will be a big boost for your company. Otherwise, Perforce is fast, it has good tools, and the workflow ... | Perforce in a Microsoft Shop Our dev shop currently uses Visual SourceSafe. We all know how that could end up (badly), so we're investigating other systems. First up is Perforce. Does anyone have experience with using it and its integration into Visual Studio (2003/2005/2008)? Is it as good as any other, or is it prett... | TITLE:
Perforce in a Microsoft Shop
QUESTION:
Our dev shop currently uses Visual SourceSafe. We all know how that could end up (badly), so we're investigating other systems. First up is Perforce. Does anyone have experience with using it and its integration into Visual Studio (2003/2005/2008)? Is it as good as any oth... | [
"version-control",
"visual-sourcesafe",
"perforce"
] | 6 | 12 | 1,620 | 9 | 0 | 2008-08-25T20:17:10.293000 | 2008-08-25T20:26:40.023000 |
26,771 | 26,852 | Rewarding code projects for *complete* beginners | Courses for people who are being introduced to programming very often include a code project, which I think is a nice way to learn. However, such projects often feel too artificial, and are thus not very rewarding to work on. What are your ideas of rewarding code projects? (Preferably easy to begin, and extendable at w... | As has been stated a few times, what you are trying to teach the beginner is very important to the project. My advice to you for planning something like this: 1) Avoid making a computer game A computer game, while fun to build, doesn't reward the programmer with results early on (it's very complex). You want to concent... | Rewarding code projects for *complete* beginners Courses for people who are being introduced to programming very often include a code project, which I think is a nice way to learn. However, such projects often feel too artificial, and are thus not very rewarding to work on. What are your ideas of rewarding code project... | TITLE:
Rewarding code projects for *complete* beginners
QUESTION:
Courses for people who are being introduced to programming very often include a code project, which I think is a nice way to learn. However, such projects often feel too artificial, and are thus not very rewarding to work on. What are your ideas of rewa... | [
"language-agnostic"
] | 9 | 4 | 4,914 | 7 | 0 | 2008-08-25T20:21:18.257000 | 2008-08-25T20:47:34.450000 |
26,799 | 26,858 | How do you back up your development machine? | How do you back up your development machine so that in the event of a catastrophic hardware malfunction, you are up and running in the least amount of time possible? | There's an important distinction between backing up your development machine and backing up your work. For a development machine your best bet is an imaging solution that offers as near a "one-click-restore" process as possible. TimeMachine (Mac) and Windows Home Server (Windows) are both excellent for this purpose. No... | How do you back up your development machine? How do you back up your development machine so that in the event of a catastrophic hardware malfunction, you are up and running in the least amount of time possible? | TITLE:
How do you back up your development machine?
QUESTION:
How do you back up your development machine so that in the event of a catastrophic hardware malfunction, you are up and running in the least amount of time possible?
ANSWER:
There's an important distinction between backing up your development machine and b... | [
"backup",
"hardware",
"installation"
] | 40 | 45 | 7,140 | 26 | 0 | 2008-08-25T20:32:33.767000 | 2008-08-25T20:49:56.253000 |
26,800 | 26,805 | XPath and Selecting a single node | I'm using XPath in.NET to parse an XML document, along the lines of: XmlNodeList lotsOStuff = doc.SelectNodes("//stuff");
foreach (XmlNode stuff in lotsOStuff) { XmlNode stuffChild = stuff.SelectSingleNode("//stuffChild"); //... etc } The issue is that the XPath Query for stuffChild is always returning the child of th... | // at the beginning of an XPath expression starts from the document root. Try ".//stuffChild".. is shorthand for self::node(), which will set the context for the search, and // is shorthand for the descendant axis. So you have: XmlNode stuffChild = stuff.SelectSingleNode(".//stuffChild"); which translates to: xmlNode s... | XPath and Selecting a single node I'm using XPath in.NET to parse an XML document, along the lines of: XmlNodeList lotsOStuff = doc.SelectNodes("//stuff");
foreach (XmlNode stuff in lotsOStuff) { XmlNode stuffChild = stuff.SelectSingleNode("//stuffChild"); //... etc } The issue is that the XPath Query for stuffChild i... | TITLE:
XPath and Selecting a single node
QUESTION:
I'm using XPath in.NET to parse an XML document, along the lines of: XmlNodeList lotsOStuff = doc.SelectNodes("//stuff");
foreach (XmlNode stuff in lotsOStuff) { XmlNode stuffChild = stuff.SelectSingleNode("//stuffChild"); //... etc } The issue is that the XPath Quer... | [
".net",
"xpath"
] | 12 | 10 | 10,218 | 4 | 0 | 2008-08-25T20:32:36.170000 | 2008-08-25T20:35:29.003000 |
26,809 | 26,832 | What is the best way to deal with DBNull's | I frequently have problems dealing with DataRows returned from SqlDataAdapters. When I try to fill in an object using code like this: DataRow row = ds.Tables[0].Rows[0]; string value = (string)row; What is the best way to deal with DBNull's in this type of situation. | Nullable types are good, but only for types that are not nullable to begin with. To make a type "nullable" append a question mark to the type, for example: int? value = 5; I would also recommend using the " as " keyword instead of casting. You can only use the "as" keyword on nullable types, so make sure you're casting... | What is the best way to deal with DBNull's I frequently have problems dealing with DataRows returned from SqlDataAdapters. When I try to fill in an object using code like this: DataRow row = ds.Tables[0].Rows[0]; string value = (string)row; What is the best way to deal with DBNull's in this type of situation. | TITLE:
What is the best way to deal with DBNull's
QUESTION:
I frequently have problems dealing with DataRows returned from SqlDataAdapters. When I try to fill in an object using code like this: DataRow row = ds.Tables[0].Rows[0]; string value = (string)row; What is the best way to deal with DBNull's in this type of si... | [
"c#",
".net",
"sql-server"
] | 47 | 37 | 62,164 | 14 | 0 | 2008-08-25T20:36:30.840000 | 2008-08-25T20:41:24.323000 |
26,816 | 26,830 | How to abort threads created with ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem | is there a way to abort threads created with QueueUserWorkItem? Or maybe I don't need to? What happens if the main application exits? Are all thread created from it aborted automatically? | You don't need to abort them. When your application exits,.NET will kill any threads with IsBackground = true. The.NET threadpool has all its threads set to IsBackground = true, so you don't have to worry about it. Now if you're creating threads by newing up the Thread class, then you'll either need to abort them or se... | How to abort threads created with ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem is there a way to abort threads created with QueueUserWorkItem? Or maybe I don't need to? What happens if the main application exits? Are all thread created from it aborted automatically? | TITLE:
How to abort threads created with ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem
QUESTION:
is there a way to abort threads created with QueueUserWorkItem? Or maybe I don't need to? What happens if the main application exits? Are all thread created from it aborted automatically?
ANSWER:
You don't need to abort them. When your ap... | [
"c#",
"multithreading"
] | 19 | 15 | 21,988 | 6 | 0 | 2008-08-25T20:38:09.370000 | 2008-08-25T20:41:02.233000 |
26,825 | 26,912 | Uncollapsible CollapsiblePanelExtender | I have a CollapsiblePanelExtender that will not collapse. I have "collapsed" set to true and all the ControlID set correctly. I try to collapse and it goes through the animation but then expands almost instantly. This is in an User Control with the following structure....Stuff... | I am sorry I do not have time to trouble-shoot your code, so this is from the hip. There is a good chance that this a client-side action that is failing. Make certain that your page has the correct doctype tag if you took it out of your page or masterPage. Furthermore, attempt to set the ClientState as well: DDE.Client... | Uncollapsible CollapsiblePanelExtender I have a CollapsiblePanelExtender that will not collapse. I have "collapsed" set to true and all the ControlID set correctly. I try to collapse and it goes through the animation but then expands almost instantly. This is in an User Control with the following structure....Stuff... | TITLE:
Uncollapsible CollapsiblePanelExtender
QUESTION:
I have a CollapsiblePanelExtender that will not collapse. I have "collapsed" set to true and all the ControlID set correctly. I try to collapse and it goes through the animation but then expands almost instantly. This is in an User Control with the following stru... | [
"asp.net"
] | 2 | 3 | 4,634 | 4 | 0 | 2008-08-25T20:39:24.593000 | 2008-08-25T21:12:24.797000 |
26,826 | 26,838 | Modifying SharePoint System Files | What is the general feeling amongst developers regarding the changing of files in the 12 hive. For example if you were asked to remove the sign is a different user menu item, you would need to modify the relevent user control on the filesystem. Now if you just go and modify it via notepad or copy over and then if you g... | I have done a bit of SharePoint development, and I must tell you that messing with the 12-hive is a ticket to a world of pain if you ever want to move the app. I'd rather hack up some javascript to hide it, at least that can be bound to the master page, which is much more portable. And remember, you never know when the... | Modifying SharePoint System Files What is the general feeling amongst developers regarding the changing of files in the 12 hive. For example if you were asked to remove the sign is a different user menu item, you would need to modify the relevent user control on the filesystem. Now if you just go and modify it via note... | TITLE:
Modifying SharePoint System Files
QUESTION:
What is the general feeling amongst developers regarding the changing of files in the 12 hive. For example if you were asked to remove the sign is a different user menu item, you would need to modify the relevent user control on the filesystem. Now if you just go and ... | [
"sharepoint"
] | 3 | 2 | 627 | 7 | 0 | 2008-08-25T20:40:46.120000 | 2008-08-25T20:44:09.480000 |
26,834 | 26,996 | How to represent cross-model information in MVC? | I have an application, built using MVC, that produces a view which delivers summary information across a number of models. Further to that, some calculations are performed across the different sets of data. There's no clear single model (that maps to a table at least) that seems to make sense as the starting point for ... | As Brian said, you can create another model that marshals out the work that needs doing. There is a great Railscast on how to do this type of thing. HTH | How to represent cross-model information in MVC? I have an application, built using MVC, that produces a view which delivers summary information across a number of models. Further to that, some calculations are performed across the different sets of data. There's no clear single model (that maps to a table at least) th... | TITLE:
How to represent cross-model information in MVC?
QUESTION:
I have an application, built using MVC, that produces a view which delivers summary information across a number of models. Further to that, some calculations are performed across the different sets of data. There's no clear single model (that maps to a ... | [
"ruby-on-rails",
"model-view-controller",
"design-patterns"
] | 3 | 3 | 992 | 5 | 0 | 2008-08-25T20:42:40.077000 | 2008-08-25T21:53:18.987000 |
26,842 | 30,538 | Why can't I connect to my CAS server with Perl's AuthCAS? | I'm attempting to use an existing CAS server to authenticate login for a Perl CGI web script and am using the AuthCAS Perl module (v 1.3.1). I can connect to the CAS server to get the service ticket but when I try to connect to validate the ticket my script returns with the following error from the IO::Socket::SSL modu... | As usually happens when I post questions like this, I found the problem. It turns out the Crypt::SSLeay module was not installed or at least not up to date. Of course the error messages didn't give me any clues. Updating it and all the problems go away and things are working fine now. | Why can't I connect to my CAS server with Perl's AuthCAS? I'm attempting to use an existing CAS server to authenticate login for a Perl CGI web script and am using the AuthCAS Perl module (v 1.3.1). I can connect to the CAS server to get the service ticket but when I try to connect to validate the ticket my script retu... | TITLE:
Why can't I connect to my CAS server with Perl's AuthCAS?
QUESTION:
I'm attempting to use an existing CAS server to authenticate login for a Perl CGI web script and am using the AuthCAS Perl module (v 1.3.1). I can connect to the CAS server to get the service ticket but when I try to connect to validate the tic... | [
"perl",
"apache",
"authentication",
"ssl",
"cgi"
] | 2 | 3 | 2,049 | 2 | 0 | 2008-08-25T20:45:32.927000 | 2008-08-27T16:01:30.737000 |
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