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I'm trying to read a .doc file into a database so that I can index it's contents. Is there an easy way for PHP on Linux to read .doc files? Failing that is it possible to convert .doc files to rtf, pdf or some other 'open' format that is easy to read? Note, I am not interested in .docx files.
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I am creating the validation dynamically and have hit a 256 character limit. My validation looks something like this: Level 1, Level 2, Level 3, Level 4..... Is there any way to get around the character limit other then pointing at a range? The validation is already being produced in VBA. Increasing the limit is the e...
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Has anybody created a nice wrapper around Yahoo's geo webservice "GeoPlanet" yet?
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Conventional wisdom states that stored procedures are always faster. So, since they're always faster, use them ALL THE TIME. I am pretty sure this is grounded in some historical context where this was once the case. Now, I'm not advocating that Stored Procs are not needed, but I want to know in what cases stored proced...
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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. <asp:UpdatePanel ID="UpdatePanel1" runat="serve...
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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 ...
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I would like to find a way to take JPEG (or GIF/PNG) images and reduce the amount of colors to e.g. 20. Could someone recommend some library or other reference? Also source codes in other languages are welcome.
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I am using the AJAX Control Toolkit Popup Calendar Control in a datagrid. When it is in the footer it looks fine. When it is in the edit side of the datagrid it is inheriting the style from the datagrid and looks completely different (i.e. too big). Is there a way to alter the CSS so that it does not inherit the style...
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I am testing a function called extractions that operates over any list. extractions :: [a] -> [(a,[a])] extractions [] = [] extractions l = extract l [] where extract [] _ = [] extract (x:xs) prev = (x, prev++xs) : extract xs (x : prev) I want to test it, for example, with import Test.QuickCheck.Batch ...
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I have a small application I am working on that at one point needs to update a user's home directory path in AD under the profile tab where it allows you to map a drive letter to a particular path. The code I have put together so far sets the Home Folder Local path portion OK, but I'm trying to figure out the name for...
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How do I call MySQL stored procedures from Perl? Stored procedure functionality is fairly new to MySQL and the MySQL modules for Perl don't seem to have caught up yet.
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I am using SQL Server 2000 and I have two databases that both replicate (transactional push subscription) to a single database. I need to know which database the records came from. So I want to add a fixed column specified in the publication to my table so I can tell which database the row originated from. How do I go...
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I am creating a Windows Service in C# that processes messages from a queue. I want to give ops the flexibility of partitioning the service in production according to properties of the message. For example, they should be able to say that one instance processes web orders from Customer A, another batch orders from Custo...
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I recently started using Rake to build some of my (non-ruby) packages. Rake is nice, but what I found missing is a way to do hierarchical builds (aggregate Rakefiles in subdirectories). Since this is a common feature in most other build tools, I'm wondering if someone more familiar with Rake has a good solution.
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Is there a way to convert a HTML string into a Image .tiff file? I am using C# .NET 3.5. The requirement is to give the user an option to fact a confirmation. The confirmation is created with XML and a XSLT. Typically it is e-mailed. Is there a way I can take the HTML string generated by the transformation HTML strin...
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I'm working with a large (270+ project) VS.Net solution. Yes, I know this is pushing the friendship with VS but it's inherited and blah blah. Anyway, to speed up the solution load and compile time I've removed all projects that I'm not currently working on... which in turn has removed those project references from th...
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Does anyone know of a way to force a nolock hint on all transactions issued by a certain user? I'd like to provide a login for a support team to query the production system, but I want to protect it by forcing a nolock on everything they do. I'm using SQL Server 2005.
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I'm reading lines of text that can come in any order. The problem is that the output can actually be indentical to the previous output. How can I detect this, without sorting the output first? Is there some kind of hash function that can take identical input, but in any order, and still produce the same result?
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Are there any open-source libraries that all programmers should know about? I'm thinking something general, a sort of extension to the standard java.util that contains basic functions that are useful for all kinds of application.
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I read everywhere that business logic belongs in the models and not in controller but where is the limit? I am toying with a personnal accounting application. Account Entry Operation When creating an operation it is only valid if the corresponding entries are created and linked to accounts so that the operation is ba...
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I've just started working on an ASP.NET project which I hope to open source once it gets to a suitable stage. It's basically going to be a library that can be used by existing websites. My preference is to support ASP.NET 2.0 through 3.5, but I wondered how many people I would be leaving out by not supporting ASP.NET 1...
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In php, I often need to map a variable using an array ... but I can not seem to be able to do this in a one liner. c.f. example: // the following results in an error: echo array('a','b','c')[$key]; // this works, using an unnecessary variable: $variable = array('a','b','c'); echo $variable[$key]; This is a minor prob...
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What is the most proper way to sending email of minimal 1000 or more in PHP? Any reliable email queuing technique that is capable to handle that? ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­
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Programmatic solution of course...
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Is there available any tool for PHP which can be used to generate code for consuming a web service based on its WSDL? Something comparable to clicking "Add Web Reference" in Visual Studio or the Eclipse plugin which does the same thing for Java.
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Typical way of creating a CSV string (pseudocode): Create a CSV container object (like a StringBuilder in C#). Loop through the strings you want to add appending a comma after each one. After the loop, remove that last superfluous comma. Code sample: public string ReturnAsCSV(ContactList contactList) { StringBuil...
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I'd like to execute JavaScript code from within a C# assembly and have the results of the JavaScript code returned to the calling C# code. It's easier to define things that I'm not trying to do: I'm not trying to call a JavaScript function on a web page from my code behind. I'm not trying to load a WebBrowser control....
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I have a service contract that defines a method with a parameter of type System.Object (xs:anyType in the WSDL). I want to be able to pass simple types as well as complex types in this parameter. Simple types work fine, but when I try to pass a complex type that is defined in my WSDL, I get this error: Element 'http:...
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While working between a Windows MySQL server and a Debian MySQL server, I noticed that warnings were fatal on Windows, but silently ignored on Debian. I'd like to make the warnings fatal on both servers while I'm doing development, but I wasn't able to find a setting that effected this behavior. Anyone have any ideas?
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I'm using MediaTemple's Grid Server (shared/grid hosting) to run some MySQL/PHP sites I'm writing and noticed that I wasn't closing one of my MySQL connections, which caused my site to error out: "Too Many Connections" I can't log in anywhere to close the connections manually. Is that any way to close open connectio...
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I am trying to create a subclass of WebPart that will act as a parent to any WebParts we create. If I create an empty class in the same project, I am able to inherit from it as one would expect. However, if I try to place it in another assembly -- one that I've been able to reference and use classes from -- I get the f...
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How to create new PCL file similar to existing MS doc. I have MS doc template and replacing it with actual data. I need to achieve same for PCL format (Create PCL file as template and replacing it with actual value from database and send it to fax).
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I have written some code in my VB.NET application to send an HTML e-mail (in this case, a lost password reminder). When I test the e-mail, it gets eaten by my spam filter. One of the things that it's scoring badly on is because of the following problem: MIME_QP_LONG_LINE RAW: Quoted-printable line longer than 76 char...
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In an Outlook 2003 macro; Is there a way to move a message between folders without changing the ReceivedTime-header? I currently use the method MailItem.Move. But that automatically sets the ReceivedTime property to the current time, which isn't really what I want.
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How do I take a set of polygons which contain arbitrary values and create a corresponding bitmap where each pixel contains the value of the polygon at that location? To put the question into context, my polygons contain information about the average number of people per square kilometre within the polygon. I need to cr...
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I am writing some software to identify tracking numbers (in the same way that Google identifies FedEx or UPS numbers when you search for them). Most couriers use a system, such as a "weighted average mod system" which can be used to identify if a number is a valid tracking number. Does anyone know if TNT consignment nu...
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I've got a collection that implements an interface that extends both IList<T> and List. public Interface IMySpecialCollection : IList<MyObject>, IList { ... } That means I have two versions of the indexer. I wish the generic implementation to be used, so I implement that one normally: public MyObject this[int index...
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I have a table with a 'filename' column. I recently performed an insert into this column but in my haste forgot to append the file extension to all the filenames entered. Fortunately they are all '.jpg' images. How can I easily update the 'filename' column of these inserted fields (assuming I can select the recent row...
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I've googled around for this, but I still have trouble relating to what Django defines as "apps". Should I create a new app for each piece of functionality in a site, even though it uses models from the main project? Do you guys have good rule of thumb of when to split off a new app, and when to keep functionality to...
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I know how to tell Castle Windsor to resolve a reference from a factory's method using XML, but can I do it programmatically via the Container.AddComponent() interface? If not is there any other way to do it from code? EDIT: There seems to be some confusion so let me clarify, I am looking for a way to do the followin...
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I started an application in Google App Engine right when it came out, to play with the technology and work on a pet project that I had been thinking about for a long time but never gotten around to starting. The result is BowlSK. However, as it has grown, and features have been added, it has gotten really difficult t...
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I'm writing a mobile phone game using j2me. In this game, I am using multiple Canvas objects. For example, the game menu is a Canvas object, and the actual game is a Canvas object too. I've noticed that, on some devices, when I switch from one Canvas to another, e.g from the main menu to the game, the screen momentaril...
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I am trying to achieve better performance for my Java SWT application, and I just found out it is possible to use OpenGL in SWT. It seems there are more than one Java binding for OpenGL. Which one do you prefer? Note that I have never used OpenGL before, and that the application needs to work on Windows, Linux and Mac ...
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How can I call a BizTalk Orchestration dynamically knowing the Orchestration name? The call Orchestration shapes need to know the name and parameters of Orchestrations at design time. I've tried using 'call' XLang keyword but it also required Orchestration name as Design Time like in expression shape, we can write as ...
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The page Protecting Your Cookies: HttpOnly explains why making HttpOnly cookies is a good idea. How do I set this property in Ruby on Rails?
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I would like to write a small program in C# which goes through my jpeg photos and, for example, sorts them into dated folders (using MY dating conventions, dammit...). Does anyone know a relatively easy way to get at the EXIF data such as Date And Time or Exposure programatically? Thanks!
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I'm using an identical call to "CryptUnprotectData" (exposed from Crypt32.dll) between XP and Vista. Works fine in XP. I get the following exception when I run in Vista: "Decryption failed. Key not valid for use in specified state." As expected, the versions of crypt32.dll are different between XP and Vista (w/XP actu...
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Has anyone got Sys::Syslog to work on Solaris? (I'm running Sys::Syslog 0.05 on Perl v5.8.4 on SunOS 5.10 on SPARC). Here's what doesn't work for me: openlog "myprog", "pid", "user" or die; syslog "crit", "%s", "Test from $0" or die; closelog() or warn "Can't close: $!"; system "tail /var/adm/messages"; Whatever I d...
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Despite the documentation, NetworkStream.Write does not appear to wait until the data has been sent. Instead, it waits until the data has been copied to a buffer and then returns. That buffer is transmitted in the background. This is the code I have at the moment. Whether I use ns.Write or ns.BeginWrite doesn't matter ...
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I want to create a custom control in C#. But every time I have to fully redraw my control, it flickers, even if I use double buffering (drawing to an Image first, and blitting that). How do I eliminate flicker when I have to fully redraw?
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Is there any way in IIS to map requests to a particular URL with no extension to a given application. For example, in trying to port something from a Java servlet, you might have a URL like this... http://[server]/MyApp/HomePage?some=parameter Ideally I'd like to be able to map everything under MyApp to a particular ap...
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I want to ran the following script on text files that are being committed: # Send the commands H and w to ed # ed will append newline if the file does not end in one printf "%s\n" H w | ed -s $1 # Strip trailing whitespace sed -i 's/[ \t]*$//g' $1 # Convert tabs to 4 spaces sed -i -r "s/\t/ /g" $1 I see subversio...
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I am working on a Customer Server Control that extends another control. There is no problem with attaching to other controls on the form. in vb.net: Parent.FindControl(TargetControlName) I would like to pass a method to the control in the ASPX markup. for example: <c:MyCustomerControl runat=server InitializeStuffCal...
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Does anybody know of any sample databases I could download, preferably in CSV or some similar easy to import format so that I could get more practice in working with different types of data sets? I know that the Canadian Department of Environment has historical weather data that you can download. However, it's not i...
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Currently I am using NetTiers to generate my data access layer and service layer. I have been using NetTiers for over 2 years and have found it to be very useful. At some point I need to look at LINQ so my questions are... Has anyone else gone from NetTiers to LINQ To SQL? Was this switch over a good or bad thing? Is ...
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For most GUI's I've used, when a control that contains text gets the focus, the entire contents of the control are selected. This means if you just start typing, you completely replace the former contents. Example: You have spin control that is initialized with the value zero. You tab to it and type "1" The value i...
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I want to convert various location/date/times in history from GMT to local time. It seems that SystemTimeToTzSpecificLocalTime is better than FileTimeToLocalFileTime. When the date/time pairs also include various locations, the conversion gets hairy. I've found a data set at ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases — was ftp://...
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I want to extend an existing application I made to make it set mixer volume by wheel-scrolling over it's notification area icon. As far as I know, the notification area doesn't receive any WM_MOUSEWHEEL messages, but still I found an application that does exactly what I want to achieve (http://www.actualsolution.com/po...
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I want to encrypt few files using python what is the best way I can use gpg/pgp using any standard/famous python libraries?
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I'd like to experiment with burn-down and planning game with the team I'm on. People on my team are interested in making it happen, however I'm sure someone has done this before and has learned some lessons we hopefully don't have to repeat. Does anyone know of an example Excel (or other tool) template available for ...
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Whenever I use a macro in Visual Studio I get an annoying tip balloon in the system tray and an accompanying "pop" sound. It says: Visual Studio .NET macros To stop the macro from running, double-click the spinning cassette. Click here to not show this balloon again. I have trouble clicking the balloon because my m...
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I'm a beginner at rails programming, attempting to show many images on a page. Some images are to lay on top of others. To make it simple, say I want a blue square, with a red square in the upper right corner of the blue square (but not tight in the corner). I am trying to avoid compositing (with ImageMagick and sim...
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We're replicating a database between London and Hong Kong using SQL Server 2005 Merge replication. The replication is set to synchronise every one minute and it works just fine. There is however the option to set the synchronisation to be "Continuous". Is there any real difference between replication every one minute a...
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I'm looking for a technique or tool which we can use to obfuscate or somehow secure our compiled c# code. The goal is not for user/data security but to hinder reverse engineering of some of the technology in our software. This is not for use on the web, but for a desktop application. So, do you know of any tools avail...
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How do I get the path of the directory in which a Bash script is located, inside that script? I want to use a Bash script as a launcher for another application. I want to change the working directory to the one where the Bash script is located, so I can operate on the files in that directory, like so: $ ./application
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I have a page that uses $(id).show("highlight", {}, 2000); to highlight an element when I start a ajax request, that might fail so that I want to use something like $(id).show("highlight", {color: "#FF0000"}, 2000); in the error handler. The problem is that if the first highlight haven't finished, the second is plac...
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I have a shell script that executes a number of commands. How do I make the shell script exit if any of the commands exit with a non-zero exit code?
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I have some experience making multiplayer turn-based games using sockets, but I've never attempted a realtime action game. What kind of extra issues would I have to deal with? Do I need to keep a history of player actions in case lagged players do something in the past? Do I really need to use UDP packets or will TCP s...
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I'm looking for an LDAP libracy in C or C++ that allows me to specify a list of LDAP hostnames instead of a single hostname. The library should then use the first one it can connect to in case one or more of the servers is/are down. I'm sure it'd be easy to wrap an existing library to create this, but why reinvent the ...
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In vxWorks, I can issue the "i" command in the shell, and I get the list of tasks in my system along with some information like the following example: NAME ENTRY TID PRI STATUS PC SP ERRNO DELAY ---------- ------------ -------- --- ---------- -------- -------- ------- ----- tJobTa...
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If I add 3-400 databases to a single SQL Server instance will I encounter scaling issues introduced by the large number of databases?
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I have some code with multiple functions very similar to each other to look up an item in a list based on the contents of one field in a structure. The only difference between the functions is the type of the structure that the look up is occurring in. If I could pass in the type, I could remove all the code duplicat...
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I'm looking for a multiline regex that will match occurrences after a blank line. For example, given a sample email below, I'd like to match "From: Alex". ^From:\s*(.*)$ works to match any From line, but I want it to be restricted to lines in the body (anything after the first blank line). Received: from a server Da...
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It seems that everybody is jumping on the dynamic, non-compiled bandwagon lately. I've mostly only worked in compiled, static typed languages (C, Java, .Net). The experience I have with dynamic languages is stuff like ASP (Vb Script), JavaScript, and PHP. Using these technologies has left a bad taste in my mouth whe...
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In one of my applications I have a 1gb database table that is used for reference data. It has a huge amounts of reads coming off that table but there are no writes ever. I was wondering if there's any way that data could be loaded into RAM so that it doesn't have to be accessed from disk? I'm using SQL Server 2005
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Does anyone have experience using the URL Rewrite Module (see here)? Can it be used to do reverse proxy?
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We create new sites in IIS 6 (Windows Server 2003) using IIS Manager. When these sites are created in IIS 6, the ASP.NET version defaults to ASP.NET 1.1. We would like it to default to ASP.NET 2.0. The reason this is a problem for us is that when you take any site on the server and switch the ASP.NET version from AS...
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I would like to debug my separately running JSP/Struts/Tomcat/Hibernate application stack using the Eclipse IDE debugger. How do I setup the java JVM and eclipse so that I can set breakpoints, monitor variable values, and see the code that is currently executing?
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Let's say I have a list of categories for navigation on a web app. Rather than selecting from the database for every user, should I add a function call in the application_onStart of the global.asax to fetch that data into an array or collection that is re-used over and over. If my data does not change at all - (Edit ...
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How can you cascade filter the attributes of more dimensions in a SSAS cube, viewed in Excel 2007. For example, if we have a cube Sales with the dimension Time and dimension Client, once the dimension Time is filtered to show only the sales from a particular date, if "Client.ClientName" is chosen as a filter in the fil...
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In php, how can I get the number of apache children that are currently available (status = SERVER_READY in the apache scoreboard)? I'm really hoping there is a simple way to do this in php that I am missing.
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I'm working on an application that needs to quickly render simple 3D scenes on the server, and then return them as a JPEG via HTTP. Basically, I want to be able to simply include a dynamic 3D scene in an HTML page, by doing something like: <img src="http://www.myserver.com/renderimage?scene=1&x=123&y=123&z=123"> My qu...
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Does emacs have something like vi's “set number”, so that each line starts with its line number?
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There are so many different options coming out of microsoft for data access. Which one is the best for scalable apps? Linq Should we be using Linq? It certainly seems easy but if you know your SQL does it really help. Also I hear that you can't run Async queries in ASP.NET using Linq. Therefore I wonder if it is really...
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Using VBA, how can I: test whether a file exists, and if so, delete it?
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I work on quite a few DotNetNuke sites, and occasionally (I haven't figured out the common factor yet), when I use the Database Publishing Wizard from Microsoft to create scripts for the site I've created on my Dev server, after running the scripts at the host (usually GoDaddy.com), and uploading the site files, I get ...
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I'm really interested in speech-to-text algorithms, but I'm not sure where to start studying up on them. A bunch of searching around led me to this, but it's from 1996 and I'm fairly certain that there have been improvements since then. Does anyone who has any experience with this sort of stuff have any recommendations...
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What is the best solution for converting WAV files to WMA (and vice versa) in C#? I have actually implemented this once already using the Windows Media Encoder SDK, but having to distribute Windows Media Encoder with my application is cumbersome to say the least. The Windows Media Format SDK has large sections of the A...
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The design for the website I am working on calls for a custom image on lists instead of a bullet. Using the image is fine, but I have been having difficulties ensuring that it is centered against the text of the list item across all browsers. Does anyone know of a standard solution for this?
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I'm not sure I'm using all the correct terminology here so be forgiving. I just put up a site with a contact form that sends an email using the PHP mail() function. Simple enough. However the live site doesn't actually send the email, the test site does. So it's not my code. It's a shared host and we have another site...
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Ok, so, my visual studio is broken. I say this NOT prematurely, as it was my first response to see where I had messed up in my code. When I add controls to the page I can't reference all of them in the code behind. Some of them I can, it seems that the first few I put on a page work, then it just stops. I first though...
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Our EPOS system copies data by compressing the database into a zip file, and manually copying to each till, using shared directories. Each branched is liked to the main location, using VPN which can be problematic, but is required for the file sharing to work correctly. Since our database system currently does not sup...
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I want to write a front-end to an application written in C/C++. I use Solaris 10 and plan to port the application to some other architectures (Windows first).
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I've read time and time again that TDD/test first is more difficult with MSTest than it is with other testing frameworks such as nUnit, MBUnit, etc... What are some suggested manual workarounds and/or 3rd party bits that you suggest when MSTest is the only option due to infrastructure policy? I'm mainly wondering about...
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This might be on the "discussy" side, but I would really like to hear your view on this. Previously I have often written data access classes that handled both reading and writing, which often led to poor naming, like FooIoHandler etc. The rule of thumb that classes that are hard to name probably are poorly designed sug...
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I use the Boost Test framework for my C++ code but there are two problems with it that are probably common to all C++ test frameworks: There is no way to create automatic test stubs (by extracting public functions from selected classes for example). You cannot run a single test - you have to run the entire 'suite' of ...
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All I want is to update an ListViewItem's text whithout seeing any flickering. This is my code for updating (called several times): listView.BeginUpdate(); listViewItem.SubItems[0].Text = state.ToString(); // update the state listViewItem.SubItems[1].Text = progress.ToString(); // update the progress listView.EndUpd...
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Transactional programming is, in this day and age, a staple in modern development. Concurrency and fault-tolerance are critical to an applications longevity and, rightly so, transactional logic has become easy to implement. As applications grow though, it seems that transactional code tends to become more and more burd...
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On a quest to migrate some new UI into Managed/C# land, I have recently turned on Common Language Runtime Support (/clr) on a large legacy project, which uses MFC in a Shared DLL and relies on about a dozen other projects within our overall solution. This project is the core of our application, and would drive any mana...
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I'm tired of adding ten link libraries into my project, or requiring eight of them to use my own. I'd like to take existing libraries like libpng.a, libz.a, libjpeg.a, and combine them into one single .a library. Is that possible? How about combining .lib libraries?
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