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I'm about to perform a bunch of folder moving operations in StarTeam (including some new nesting levels) and I would like to set a label so that I can roll back in case of issues. I figured out how to set a label on a folder and all its children, but I couldn't figure out how to get the version of that folder correspo...
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I have an internal enterprise app that currently consumes 10 different web services. They're consumed via old style "Web References" instead of using WCF. The problem I'm having is trying to work with the other teams in the company who are authoring the services I'm consuming. I found I needed to capture the exact SOAP...
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Is there a security limit to the number of Ajax XMLHttpRequest objects you can create on a single page? If so, does this vary from one browser to another?
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I'm working on an editor for files that are used by an important internal testing tool we use. The tool itself is large, complicated, and refactoring or rewriting would take more resources than we are able to devote to it for the forseeable future, so my hands are tied when it comes to large modifications. I must use...
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I am writing a program to simulate the actual polling data companies like Gallup or Rasmussen publish daily: www.gallup.com and www.rassmussenreports.com I'm using a brute force method, where the computer generates some random daily polling data and then calculates three day averages to see if the average of the random...
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I have a web page that I have hooked up to a stored procedure. In this SQL data source, I have a parameter that I'm passing back to the stored procedure of type int. ASP.NET seems to want to default to int32, but the number won't get higher than 6. Is it ok to override the ASP.NET default and put in 16 or will there...
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Is there a way to get at the ItemContaner of a selected item in a listbox? In Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 I could, but the container is hidden in Beta 2 of Silverlight 2.0. I'm trying to resize the listbox item when it is unselected to a specific size and when selected to a variable size. I also want to get the relative ...
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Is there any way to create a ODBC DSN with C#? Maybe a P/invoke?
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My Web Application is split up in a WebGui and an WebService. The WebService is responsible for Business Logic and Database handling. From Javascript in the Browser I request data depending on a date and time that is an input from the Browser. This request gous to an .asmx Url in the WebGui and inside this function the...
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What is the best way to issue a http get in VB.net? I want to get the result of a request like http://api.hostip.info/?ip=68.180.206.184
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I've been asked to write a Windows service in C# to periodically monitor an email inbox and insert the details of any messages received into a database table. My instinct is to do this via POP3 and sure enough, Googling for ".NET POP3 component" produces countless (ok, 146,000) results. Has anybody done anything simila...
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I asked a couple of coworkers about AnkhSVN and neither one of them was happy with it. One of them went as far as saying that AnkhSVN has messed up his devenv several times. What's your experience with AnkhSVN? I really miss having an IDE integrated source control tool.
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In Microsoft IL, to call a method on a value type you need an indirect reference. Lets say we have an ILGenerator named "il" and that currently we have a Nullable on top of the stack, if we want to check whether it has a value then we could emit the following: var local = il.DeclareLocal(typeof(Nullable<int>)); il.Emit...
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I have multiple users running attachemate on a Windows 2003 server. I want to kill attachemate.exe started by user_1 without killing attachemate.exe started by user_2. I want to use VBScript.
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I am trying to install the ibm_db gem so that I can access DB2 from Ruby. When I try: sudo gem install ibm_db I get the following request for clarification: Select which gem to install for your platform (i486-linux) 1. ibm_db 0.10.0 (ruby) 2. ibm_db 0.10.0 (mswin32) 3. ibm_db 0.9.5 (mswin32) 4. ibm_db 0.9.5 (rub...
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I want to store the current URL in a session variable to reference the previous visited page. If I store every URL (via a before_filter on ApplicationController), also actions which end in a redirect (create, update, etc) are considered as last visited page. Is there a way to tell Rails only to execute a function if a ...
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Based on "Split a string by spaces in Python", which uses shlex.split to split a string with quotes smartly, I would be interested in hearing about other common tasks solved by non-obvious standard library functions. If this turns into Module of The Week, that's fine too.
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I have an AST derived from the ANTLR Parser Generator for Java. What I want to do is somehow construct a control flow graph of the source code, where each statement or expression is a unique Node. I understand there must be some recursiveness to this identification, I was wondering what you would suggest as the best op...
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I'm wandering myself what component is the best for displaying fast search results in swing. I want to create something like this, make a text field where user can enter some text, during his entering I'll improve in back end fast search on database, and I want to show data bellow the text box, and he will be able to b...
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I've got two SVN branches (eg development and stable) and want to switch from one to another... In every tutorial there is command like: rootOfLocalSvnCopy:>svn switch urlToNewBranch . But it leads in error in my case: svn: REPORT request failed on '/svn/rootOfLocalSvnCopy/!svn/vcc/default'<br/> svn: Cannot replace a d...
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Using the method Application.Restart() in C# should restart the current application: but it seems that this is not always working. Is there a reason for this Issue, can somebody tell me, why it doesn't work all the time?
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I've been doing code review (mostly using tools like FindBugs) of one of our pet projects and FindBugs marked following code as erroneous (pseudocode): Connection conn = dataSource.getConnection(); try{ PreparedStatement stmt = conn.prepareStatement(); //initialize the statement stmt.execute(); ResultS...
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Which reporting technology would fit for the best situation/type of product? I am now thinking of 3 technologies: Embedded Reports (Crystal Reports;MS Reporting services) Server reports (MS Reporting Services) OLAP Databases (MS Analysis Services) Which report technology would you use for an off the shelf product? ...
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I'm trying to write a bzr post-commit hook for my private bugtracker, but I'm stuck at the function signature of post_commit(local, master, old_revno, old_revid, new_revno, mew_revid) How can I extract the commit message for the branch from this with bzrlib in Python?
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I want to compare 2 arrays of objects in JavaScript code. The objects have 8 total properties, but each object will not have a value for each, and the arrays are never going to be any larger than 8 items each, so maybe the brute force method of traversing each and then looking at the values of the 8 properties is the ...
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My JavaScript is pretty nominal, so when I saw this construction, I was kind of baffled: var shareProxiesPref = document.getElementById("network.proxy.share_proxy_settings"); shareProxiesPref.disabled = proxyTypePref.value != 1; Isn't it better to do an if on proxyTypePref.value, and then declare the var inside the re...
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I've implemented a custom item renderer that I'm using with a combobox on a flex project I'm working on. It displays and icon and some text for each item. The only problem is that when the text is long the width of the menu is not being adjusted properly and the text is being truncated when displayed. I've tried tweaki...
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I do most of my development in Common Lisp, but there are some moments when I want to switch to Scheme (while reading Lisp in Small Pieces, when I want to play with continuations, or when I want to do some scripting in Gauche, for example). In such situations, my main source of discomfort is that I don't have Slime (ye...
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Are there any IQueriable implementaions for linq-to-objects that perform better than the default O(n) linear search performance that you get when calling myEnumerable.AsQueriable()? I've had a look at http://www.codeplex.com/i4o/ which has better performance, but seems to rely on using extension methods on IndexedColle...
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In a WinForms 2.0 C# application, what is the typical method used for saving and restoring form position and size in an application? Related, is it possible to add new User scoped application settings AT RUNTIME? I totally see how to add settings at design time, that's not a problem. But what if I want to create one at...
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I'm just getting started with learning about Unit testing (and TDD in general). My question is does the latest version of NUnit support working in VS2008 with .NET 3.5? I've looked at the documentation pages at NUnit and they don't mention it. If anyone has worked with it in 3.5 are there any limitations or features...
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This seems to be an overlooked area that could really use some insight. What are your best practices for: making an upgrade procedure backing out in case of errors syncing code and database changes testing prior to deployment mechanics of modifying the table etc...
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I'm looking for something that will show me the size of each folder within my main folder recursively. This is a LAMP server with a CGI-Bin so most any PHP script should work or anything that will work in the CGI-Bin. My hosting company does not provide an interface for me to see which folders are consuming the most am...
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I have some domain logic implemented in a number of POJOs. I want to write a Swing user interface to allow the user to initiate and see the results of various domain actions. What's the best pattern/framework/library for communications between the UI and the domain? This boils down into: the UI being able to convert a...
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The company has the traditional complex organizational structure, defining the amount of levels using the letter 'n' rather than an actual number. I will try and express the structure I'm trying to achieve in mono-spaced font: Alice ,--------|-------,------,------, Bob Fred Jack Kim Lucy | ...
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I want to get started on HMM's, but don't know how to go about it. Can people here, give me some basic pointers, where to look? More than just the theory, I like to do a lot of hands-on. So, would prefer resources, where I can write small code snippets to check my learning, rather than just dry text.
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I've been unsuccessful in getting Emacs to switch from 8 space tabs to 4 space tabs when pressing the TAB in buffers with the major mode text-mode. I've added the following to my .emacs: (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil) (setq-default tab-width 4) ;;; And I have tried (setq indent-tabs-mode nil) (setq tab-width 4) ...
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Convert.ToString() only allows base values of 2, 8, 10, and 16 for some odd reason; is there some obscure way of providing any base between 2 and 16?
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Is there a Vim shortcut for jumping to the argument list of the current function? I often find myself needing to mess with the argument list of a function, and it's kind of annoying to have to do ?def or ?function or 10k or what-have-you until I finally get to it, then /( or t( or 5e to get to the right position in th...
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I have a long running process in VB6 that I want to finish before executing the next line of code. How can I do that? Built-in function? Can I control how long to wait? Trivial example: Call ExternalLongRunningProcess Call DoOtherStuff How do I delay 'DoOtherStuff'?
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I am having problems submitting forms which contain UTF-8 strings with Ajax. I am developing a Struts web application which runs in a Tomcat server. This is the environment I set up to work with UTF-8: I have added the attributes URIEncoding="UTF-8" useBodyEncodingForURI="true" into the Connector tag to Tomcat's conf/...
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I have a self referencing Categories table. Each Category has a CategoryID, ParentCategoryID, CategoryName, etc. And each category can have any number of sub categories, and each of those sub categories can have any number of sub categories, and so and and so forth. So basically the tree can be X levels deep. Then Prod...
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I've got a utility that outputs a list of files required by a game. How can I run that utility within a C program and grab its output so I can act on it within the same program? UPDATE: Good call on the lack of information. The utility spits out a series of strings, and this is supposed to be portable across Mac/Wind...
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Is it possible for items in a WIn32 TreeView control to have variable heights when using NM_CUSTOMDRAW? Right now, I can successfully select variable sized fonts in the dc in NM_CUSTOMDRAW, but the item texts get clipped.
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Is there any way to create C# 3.0 anonymous object via Reflection at runtime in .NET 3.5? I'd like to support them in my serialization scheme, so I need a way to manipulate them programmatically. edited later to clarify the use case An extra constraint is that I will be running all of it inside a Silverlight app, so ex...
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How do I get the current size of a matrix stack (GL_MODELVIEW, GL_PROJECTION, GL_TEXTURE) in OpenGL? I want this so that I can do some error checking to ensure that in certain parts of the code I can check that the matrix stacks have been left in the original condition.
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I'm just wondering if there's a better way of doing this in SQL Server 2005. Effectively, I'm taking an originator_id (a number between 0 and 99) and a 'next_element' (it's really just a sequential counter between 1 and 999,999). We are trying to create a 6-character 'code' from them. The originator_id is multiplied u...
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A sysadmin teacher told me one day that I should learn to use "make" because I could use it for a lot of other things that just triggering complilations. I never got the chance to talk longer about it. Do you have any good example ? As a bonus, isn't it this tool deprecated, and what are modern alternatives (for the co...
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I was trying to add the XML schema to an existing EJB project. JAXB is used to bind the XML-Schema to a Java class. As we are going to use the search engine to crawl through DTO when EJB is in session. I could not find any direct approach as to map entity class file to XML-Schema. The only way we could achieve so far ...
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I'm working on an installer (using Wise Installer, older version from like 1999). I'm creating a shortcut in the Programs group to an EXE. I'm also creating a shortcut on the Desktop. If the install is run from an Admin account, then I create the shortcut on the Common Desktop and Common Program Group (i.e., read from ...
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I am using 3D maths in my application extensively. How much speed-up can I achieve by converting my vector/matrix library to SSE, AltiVec or a similar SIMD code?
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I'm looking for a tool like Atlassian's FishEye. The alternatives I've found so far (like StatCVS, ViewCVS or Bonsai) are either lacking in features or are quite a pain to install and maintain. So before staying with one of these tools, I'd like to be sure I did not miss any other good, easy to install, open-source (pr...
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When a customer logs in to my site, I need to know their account id and their menu id. This lets me know what data they can see on a page and what menu they get. I don't want to have to read this data over and over. Should I store this in a session variable or customize the membership user and membership provider to...
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What's the best way to calculate percentile rankings (e.g. the 90th percentile or the median score) in MSSQL 2005? I'd like to be able to select the 25th, median, and 75th percentiles for a single column of scores (preferably in a single record so I can combine with average, max, and min). So for example, table output...
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How do you get all the classes in a namespace through reflection in C#?
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What are the cases where you'd use a modal popup ? Does it interrupt the user's flow, if it all of a sudden opens up in his face ? Would you avoid modal popups in general ? or when should one be careful of using them ? Edit: To be a bit more specific, the situation here is this : I have a menu on the right, (VisualSt...
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I'm accessing an Ubuntu machine using PuTTY, and using gcc. The default LANG environment variable on this machine is set to en_NZ.UTF-8, which causes GCC to think PuTTY is capable of displaying UTF-8 text, which it doesn't seem to be. Maybe it's my font, I don't know - it does this: foo.c:1: error: expected â=â, â,â, ...
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public static IList<T> LoadObjectListAll<T>() { ISession session = CheckForExistingSession(); var cfg = new NHibernate.Cfg.Configuration().Configure(); var returnList = session.CreateCriteria(typeof(T)); var list = returnList.List(); var castList = list.Cast<typeof(T)>(); return castList; } So,...
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Seems like there are so many different ways of automating one's build/deployment that it becomes difficult to parse through all the different scenarios that people support in tutorials on the web. So I wanted to present the question to the stackoverflow crowd ... what would be the best way to set up an automated build...
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I am getting the below error and call stack at the same time everyday after several hours of application use. Can anyone shed some light on what is happening? System.InvalidOperationException: BufferedGraphicsContext cannot be disposed of because a buffer operation is currently in progress. at System.Drawing.BufferedG...
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On a small embedded system project we have some code which we would like to run in a thread so we are electing to build in top of an embedded RTOS (eCos). Previously, we have used a cyclic executive in main() that drove tasks each implemented as a state machine. For some tasks we encountered problems where the task wo...
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I'm using the following code to query a database from my jsp, but I'd like to know more about what's happening behind the scenes. These are my two primary questions. Does the tag access the ResultSet directly, or is the query result being stored in a datastructure in memory? When is the connection closed? <%@ taglib pr...
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Say that you're developing code which needs to compile and run on multiple hosts (say Linux and Windows), how would you go about doing that in the most efficient manner given that: You have full access to hardware for each host you're compiling for (in my case a Linux host and a Windows host standing on my desk) Build...
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I'm a CompSci student, and fairly new at C#, and I was doing a "Josephus Problem" program for a class, and I created an Exit button that calls Application.Exit() to exit at anytime, but if C# is still working on painting and the button is pressed it throws an ObjectDisposedExeception for the Graphics object. Is there a...
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What is the best way of dynamically writing LINQ queries and Lambda expressions? I am thinking of applications where the end user can design business logic rules, which then must be executed. I am sorry if this is a newbie question, but it would be great to get best practices out of experience.
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oOo a highly exciting build issue. Compact framework occasionally goes funny when building. Usually when messing with xmta files but this is the first time i've seen it go awry in this scenario. I created a abstract base class with an abstract method. Placed this in one of my core dlls. This was fine. I then, in a "lat...
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Given a controller method like: def show @model = Model.find(params[:id]) respond_to do |format| format.html # show.html.erb format.xml { render :xml => model } end end What's the best way to write an integration test that asserts that the return has the expected XML?
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Erasing programs such as Eraser recommend overwriting data maybe 36 times. As I understand it all data is stored on a hard drive as 1s or 0s. If an overwrite of random 1s and 0s is carried out once over the whole file then why isn't that enough to remove all traces of the original file?
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I realize that CHAR is recommended if all my values are fixed-width. But, so what? Why not just pick VARCHAR for all text fields just to be safe.
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I have subclassed Form to include some extra functionality, which boils down to a List<Image> which displays in a set of predefined spots on the form. I have the following: public class ButtonForm : Form { public class TitleButton { public TitleButton() { /* does stuff here */ } // there's othe...
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I have create a WCF service and am utilising netMsmqBinding binding. This is a simple service that passes a Dto to my service method and does not expect a response. The message is placed in an MSMQ, and once picked up inserted into a database. What is the best method to make sure no data is being lost. I have tried the...
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I want to use a WSDL SOAP based web service in Python. I have looked at the Dive Into Python code but the SOAPpy module does not work under Python 2.5. I have tried using suds which works partly, but breaks with certain types (suds.TypeNotFound: Type not found: 'item'). I have also looked at Client but this does not ap...
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I've got a problem here with an MSI deployment that I'm working on (using InstallShield). We have a program running in the background that needs to run per-user, and it needs to start automatically without user intervention. The problem is with Group Policy Object/Active Directory (GPO/AD) deployment the application is...
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I'm using C# and connecting to a WebService via an auto-generated C# proxy object. The method I'm calling can be long running, and sometimes times out. I get different errors back, sometimes I get a System.Net.WebException or a System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException. These exceptions have properties I can interrog...
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Can anyone recommend a good repository viewer for Git, similar to gitk, that works on Mac OS X Leopard? (I'm not saying gitk doesn't work) Of course I would like a native Mac application, but as I haven't found any, what are the best options to gitk? I know about gitview, but I'm looking forward to evaluate as many alt...
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I'm looking for a way to give out preview or demo versions of our software to our customers as easy as possible. The software we are currently developing is a pretty big project. It consists of a client environment, an application server, various databases, web services host etc. The project is developed incrementally ...
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I have the following class public class Car { public Name {get; set;} } and I want to bind this programmatically to a text box. How do I do that? Shooting in the dark: ... Car car = new Car(); TextEdit editBox = new TextEdit(); editBox.DataBinding.Add("Name", car, "Car - Name"); ... I get the following error "C...
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I have a solution in Visual Studio 2005(professional Edition) which in turn has 8 projects.I am facing a problem that even after i set the Command Arguments in the Project settings of the relevant project, it doesnt accept those command line arguments and it shows argc = 1, inspite of me giving more than 1 command argu...
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I use my mobile phone for connection to the internet on my laptop, I also have a wired connection to a LAN which doesn't have internet conectivity, it just has our TFS server on it. The problem is that I can't use the internet (from the phone) with the LAN cable plugged in. Is there a way to set the default route to my...
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As a novice, I've spent time learning a smattering of C and a fair bit of PHP. I've looked at writing desktop applications for Windows, but there seems to be a fair barrier to entry due to complexity of APIs. Is it worth learning this, or will native applications become less common in the future? The way I see it, the ...
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I have a project with a bunch of external sounds to a SWF. I want to play them, but any time I attempt load a new URL into the sound object it fails with either, Error #2068: Invalid Sound or raises an ioError with Error #2032 Stream Error // Tried with path prefixed with "http://.." "file://.." "//.." and "..") ...
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I have a table y Which has two columns a and b Entries are: a b 1 2 1 3 1 4 0 5 0 2 0 4 I want to get 2,3,4 if I search column a for 1, and 5,2,4 if I search column a. So, if I search A for something that is in A, (1) I get those rows, and if there are no entries A for given value, give me the 'Def...
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What are the strategies for versioning of a web application/ website? I notice that here in the Beta there is an svn revision number in the footer and that's ideal for an application that uses svn over one repository. But what if you use externals or a different source control application that versions separate files...
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I have a client who wants a solution to allow delivery people to text (SMS messaging) in that they have completed a pick up at a particular location. What I'm looking for is Code to read an imbound SMS message or a SMS component if appropiate. This would allow me to create a windows service to read the message and upd...
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I know the colours are changed in Environment > Fonts and Colors but I haven't found out which Display Item the object is. Can someone please tell how I can colour the following code: lblMessage.Text = "You have successfully answered my question!" I have the string coloured pink, I would like the lblMessage purple an...
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I am in charge of about 100+ documents (word document, not source code) that needs revision by different people in my department. Currently all the documents are in a shared folder where they will retrieve, revise and save back into the folder. What I am doing now is looking up the "date modified" in the shared folder...
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I am receiving the expcetion CGI::Session::CookieStore::TamperedWithCookie after changing the config.action_controller.session.secret setting on an app (as part of preparation to full deployment. Am I right in assuming that changing the secret while testers have cookies set is the cause of this, and what other cause c...
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Can you please clarify the folowing query? I am not sure if the way I am trying to code is correct. Kindly advise me if I am moving in the right/wrong direction. I am trying to develop an automation framework using QuickTest Professional, a testing tool. There is an Excel sheet from which the data is being taken for e...
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We have a program that produces several SWF files, some CSS and XML files, all of which need to be deployed for the thing to work. Is there a program or technique out there for wrapping all these files together into a single SWF file?
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From the Displays pane in System Preferences, I can manually change the main monitor by dragging the menu bar from one display to the other. I'd like to automate this and make it part of an AppleScript.
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Using the svnmerge.py tool it is possible to merge between branches, up and down. It is hard to find the details for doing this. Hopefully, v1.5 will have a neat method for doing this without using svnmerge.py - details requested!
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I am using Java 1.4 with Log4J. Some of my code involves serializing and deserializing value objects (POJOs). Each of my POJOs declares a logger with private final Logger log = Logger.getLogger(getClass()); The serializer complains of org.apache.log4j.Logger not being Serializable. Should I use private final transie...
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My guess is that class variables ("class var") are truly global in storage (that is, one instance for the entire application). But I am wondering whether this is the case, or whether they are thread in storage (eg similar to a "threadvar") - once instance per thread. Anyone know? Edit: changed "scope" to "storage" as t...
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I feel that my shop has a hole because we don't have a solid process in place for versioning our database schema changes. We do a lot of backups so we're more or less covered, but it's bad practice to rely on your last line of defense in this way. Surprisingly, this seems to be a common thread. Many shops I have spoke...
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What's needed to succesfully make a crossdomain call from Silverlight?
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In Java, say you have a class that wraps an ArrayList (or any collection) of objects. How would you return one of those objects such that the caller will not see any future changes to the object made in the ArrayList? i.e. you want to return a deep copy of the object, but you don't know if it is cloneable.
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I've just coded a 700 line class. Awful. I hang my head in shame. It's as opposite to DRY as a British summer. It's full of cut and paste with minor tweaks here and there. This makes it's a prime candidate for refactoring. Before I embark on this, I'd thought I'd ask when you have lots of repetition, what are the fi...
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Is there a tool to detect unneeded jar-files? For instance say that I have myapp.jar, which I can launch with a classpath containing hibernate.jar, junit.jar and easymock.jar. But actually it will work fine using only hibernate.jar, since the code that calls junit.jar is not reachable. I realize that reflection might c...
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In my SWT Java app I often want to return information from inside a Display.syncExec() call. The best way I've found so far to do this is: final ArrayList<Integer> result = new ArrayList<Integer>(); GUI.display().syncExec(new Runnable(){ public void run() { MessageBox mb = /* ... */; /* set up messagebox */ ...
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I'm currently using Wordpress to run my website. However, with each new release I become more concerned with software bloat and the convoluted table structures used to store my data. Maybe this is a fruitless pursuit. Features are always added to blogging software until it claims to be a CMS--and at that point your ...
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