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In a stored procedure, when is #Temptable created in SQL Server 2005? When creating the query execution plan or when executing the stored procedure? if (@x = 1) begin select 1 as Text into #Temptable end else begin select 2 as Text into #Temptable end
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I'd like to build a pretty simple plug-in for Visual Studio, but I don't really know how this has to be done. Is this doable in (non-managed) C++? I'd like to know what resources you'd recommend me.
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I have a weird problem with a dropdownbox selectedIndex always being set to 0 upon postback. I'm not accidentally rebinding it in my code. In fact I've placed a breakpoint at the very first line of the page_load event and the value is already set to zero. The dropdown is in the master page of my project, I don't know i...
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Ok, here's the breakdown of my project: I have a web project with a "Scripts" subfolder. That folder contains a few javascript files and a copy of JSMin.exe along with a batch file that runs the JSMin.exe on a few of the files. I tried to set up a post build step of 'call "$(ProjectDir)Scripts\jsmin.bat"'. When I p...
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I know there have been a few threads on this before, but I have tried absolutely everything suggested (that I could find) and nothing has worked for me thus far... With that in mind, here is what I'm trying to do: First, I want to allow users to publish pages and give them each a subdomain of their choice (ex: user.exa...
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We have 18 databases that should have identical schemas, but don't. In certain scenarios, a table was added to one, but not the rest. Or, certain stored procedures were required in a handful of databases, but not the others. Or, our DBA forgot to run a script to add views on all of the databases. What is the best wa...
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In a Windows Form with a Resizing Frame, the frame border draws with a raised 3-D look. I'd like it to draw with a flat single pixel border in a color of my choosing. Is this possible without having to owner draw the whole form?
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I've worked with folks who are chatting online with their peers, constantly batting around ideas. I've also worked with folks who adamantly refuse and think it's a waste of time. Are online live chatting forums of particular use to you? Why or why not? Internal to your company, or external and world-wide? Does your em...
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Is there a quick way to join paths like the Join-Path function in Powershell? For example, I have two parts of a path "C:\foo" and a subdirectory "bar". Join-Path will join these and take care of the backslash delimiters. Is there a built-in method for this in .NET, or do I need to handle this myself?
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What's the proper way to convert from a scientific notation string such as "1.234567E-06" to a floating point variable using C#?
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I have a Windows executable (whoami) which is crashing every so often. It's called from another process to get details about the current user and domain. I'd like to know what parameters are passed when it fails. Does anyone know of an appropriate way to wrap the process and write it's command line arguments to log w...
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I got this síngleton cache object and it exposes an IEnumerable property which just returns a private IEnumerable variable. I have a static method on my singleton object that updates this member variable (that exists on the single 'Instance' instance of this cache object). Let's say some thread is currently iterating ...
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When uploading a file (jpeg) via a form in IE7 I am seeing a mime-type of "image/pjpeg" instead of "image/jpeg" (as I see in Firefox or similar). It's easy enough to work around this problem, but I'm just wondering why IE7 is behaving differently in this case?
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Currently, I am developing a product that does fairly intensive calculations using MS SQL Server 2005. At a high level, the architecture of my product is based on the concept of "runs" where each time I do some analytics it gets stored in a series of run tables (~100 tables per run). The problem I'm having is that whe...
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How much traffic can one web server handle? What's the best way to see if we're beyond that? I have an ASP.Net application that has a couple hundred users. Aspects of it are fairly processor intensive, but thus far we have done fine with only one server to run both SqlServer and the site. It's running Windows Server 20...
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The easiest way to think of my question is to think of a single, simple unix command (albeit, this is for windows) and I need progmatic access to run it. I have a single command-line based executable that performs some unit of work. I want to call that executable with the .net process library, as I can do with any oth...
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Ok - a bit of a mouthful. So the problem I have is this - I need to store a Date for expiry where only the date part is required and I don't want any timezone conversion. So for example if I have an expiry set to "08 March 2008" I want that value to be returned to any client - no matter what their timezone is. The pro...
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XmlElement.Attributes.Remove* methods are working fine for arbitrary attributes resulting in the removed attributes being removed from XmlDocument.OuterXml property. Xmlns attribute however is different. Here is an example: XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument(); doc.InnerXml = @"<Element1 attr1=""value1"" xmlns=""http://...
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If I use the following code I lose the ability to right click on variables in the code behind and refactor (rename in this case) them <a href='<%# "/Admin/Content/EditResource.aspx?ResourceId=" + Eval("Id").ToString() %>'>Edit</a> I see this practice everywhere but it seems weird to me as I no longer am able to get co...
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I'm doing some Objective-C programming that involves parsing an NSXmlDocument and populating an objects properties from the result. First version looked like this: if([elementName compare:@"companyName"] == 0) [character setCorporationName:currentElementText]; else if([elementName compare:@"corporationID"] == 0) ...
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I have uriscan installed on my Win2003 server and it is blocking an older ColdFusion script. The log entry has the following-- 2008-09-19 00:16:57 66.82.162.13 1416208729 GET /Admin/Uploads/Mountain/Wolf%2520Creek%2520gazeebo.jpg Rejected URL+is+double+escaped URL - - How do I get uriscan to allow submissions like thi...
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On my desktop I have written a small Pylons app that connects to Oracle. I'm now trying to deploy it to my server which is running Win2k3 x64. (My desktop is 32-bit XP) The Oracle installation on the server is also 64-bit. I was getting errors about loading the OCI dll, so I installed the 32 bit client into C:\oracle...
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Suppose we have: interface Foo { bool Func(int x); } class Bar: Foo { bool Func(int x) { return (x>0); } } class Baz: Foo { bool Func(int x) { return (x<0); } } Now we can toss around Bar and Baz as a Foos and call their Func methods. Delegates simplify this a little bit: delegate bool Foo(in...
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using C++Builder 2007, the FindFirstFile and FindNextFile functions doesn't seem to be able to find some files on 64-bit versions of Vista and XP. My test application is 32-bit. If I use them to iterate through the folder C:\Windows\System32\Drivers they only find a handful of files although there are 185 when I issue ...
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I've had a new found interest in building a small, efficient web server in C and have had some trouble parsing POST methods from the HTTP Header. Would anyone have any advice as to how to handle retrieving the name/value pairs from the "posted" data? POST /test HTTP/1.1 Host: test-domain.com:7017 User-Agent: Mozilla/5....
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I am writing a program in dot net that will execute scripts and command line programs using the framework 2.0's Process object. I want to be able to access the screen buffers of the process in my program. I've investigated this and it appears that I need to access console stdout and stderr buffers. Anyone know how this...
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As developers and as professional engineers have you been exposed to the tenants of Extreme Programming as defined in the "version 1" by Kent Beck. Which of those 12 core principles do you feel you have been either allowed to practice or at least be a part of in your current job or others? * Pair programming[5] * Plann...
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Is there a command in classic ASP I can use to tell the browser not to pull the page from it's cache, or, to not cache, or clear the cache of my page?
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I am in the process of designing a .net windows forms application that uses metadata to drive the UI. Apart from finding http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms954610.aspx, I have nothing much to look forward to. Anyone here worked on metadata driven User interfaces? What are the implications of following this metho...
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I have a web page that includes a bunch of images. Sometimes the image isn't available, so a broken image is displayed in the client's browser. How do I use jQuery to get the set of images, filter it to broken images then replace the src? --I thought it would be easier to do this with jQuery, but it turned out much ea...
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Was looking for some approaches to incrementally converting an large existing ASP.NET VB.NET project to C# while still being able to deploy it as a single web application (currently deployed on a weekly basis). My thoughts were to just create a new C# ASP.NET project and slowly move pages over, but I've never attempt...
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I have a list of timesheet entries that show a start and stop time. This is sitting in a MySQL database. I need to create bar charts based on this data with the 24 hours of the day along the bottom and the amount of man-hours worked for each hour of the day. For example, if Alice worked a job from 15:30 to 19:30 and Bo...
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I have an application for Tomcat which needs to offer/consume web services. Since Java web services are a nightmare (xml, code generation, etc.) compared with what is possible in Python, I would like to learn from your experience using jython instead of java for offerring/consuming web services. What I have done so far...
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Simple question, how do you list the primary key of a table with T-SQL? I know how to get indexes on a table, but can't remember how to get the PK.
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I always believe they did, but seeing some answers here make me doubt... Can I access private fields/properties/methods from outside a class through reflection?
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I'm trying to upgrade a package using yum on Fedora 8. The package is elfutils. Here's what I have installed locally: $ yum info elfutils Installed Packages Name : elfutils Arch : x86_64 Version: 0.130 Release: 3.fc8 Size : 436 k Repo : installed Summary: A collection of utilities and DSOs to handle compiled ob...
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I'm inserting multiple records into a table A from another table B. Is there a way to get the identity value of table A record and update table b record with out doing a cursor? Create Table A (id int identity, Fname nvarchar(50), Lname nvarchar(50)) Create Table B (Fname nvarchar(50), Lname nvarchar(50), NewId int) ...
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How do I convert a datetime string in local time to a string in UTC time? I'm sure I've done this before, but can't find it and SO will hopefully help me (and others) do that in future. Clarification: For example, if I have 2008-09-17 14:02:00 in my local timezone (+10), I'd like to generate a string with the equivale...
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I have some Python code that creates a Calendar object based on parsed VEvent objects from and iCalendar file. The calendar object just has a method that adds events as they get parsed. Now I want to create a factory function that creates a calendar from a file object, path, or URL. I've been using the iCalendar python...
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I'm developing an application based on Eclipse's Rich Client Platform that relies heavily on the use of tables for showing and editing data. I'm currently using the SWT implementations of Table and TableViewer. My users are forever complaining that it "doesn't work like in excel". Most notably, I can't select a single...
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Let's say I have two models, Classes and People. A Class might have one or two People as instructors, and twenty people as students. So, I need to have multiple relationships between the models -- one where it's 1->M for instructors, and one where it's 1->M for students. Edit: Instructors and Students must be the same;...
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A friend of mine was explaining how they do ping-pong pairing with TDD at his workplace and he said that they take an "adversarial" approach. That is, when the test writing person hands the keyboard over to the implementer, the implementer tries to do the bare simplest (and sometimes wrong thing) to make the test pass....
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For example, given a type param method i'm looking for something like the part in bold void MyMethod< T >() { if ( typeof(T).Implements( IMyInterface ) ) { //Do something else //Do something else } Anwers using C# 3.0 are also welcome, but first drop the .NET 2.0 ones please ;)
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In C#.NET I am trying to programmatically change the color of the border in a group box. Update: This question was asked when I was working on a winforms system before we switched to .NET.
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I'd like to create a module in DNN that, similar to the Announcements control, offers a template that the portal admin can modify for formatting. I have a control that currently uses a Repeater control with templates. Is there a way to override the contents of the repeater ItemTemplate, HeaderTemplate, and FooterTemp...
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I am confused between the term file modification time and file changed time. Can anyone help to make it clearer?
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Using Vim I often want to replace a block of code with a block that I just yanked. But when I delete the block of code that is to be replaced, that block itself goes into the register which erases the block I just yanked. So I've got in the habit of yanking, then inserting, then deleting what I didn't want, but with la...
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Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but parsing a yyyy/MM/dd (or other specific formats) dates in C# should be as easy as DateTime.ParseExact(theDate, "yyyy/MM/dd"); but no, C# forces you to create an IFormatProvider. Is there an app.config friendly way of setting this so I don't need to do this each time? DateTi...
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I have an interface that I have defined in C++ which now needs to be implemented in C#. What is the best way to go about this? I don't want to use COM at all in my interface definition. The way I have solved this right now is to to have two interface definitions, one in C++ and one in C#. I then expose the C# interface...
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I have an ASP.Net page that will be hosted on a couple different servers, and I want to get the URL of the page (or even better: the site where the page is hosted) as a string for use in the code-behind. Any ideas?
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How can I get a full call stack for a c++ application developed with Visual Studio 2005? I would like to have a full call stack including the code in the system libraries. Do I have to change some settings in Visual Studio, or do I have to install additional software?
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Which is the best way to store a 2D array in c# in order to optimize performance when performing lots of arithmetic on the elements in the array? We have large (approx 1.5G) arrays, which for example we want to multiply with each other element by element. Performance is critical. The context in which this is done is in...
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I'm running Eclipse Europa (3.3). I leave the "Build Automatically" setting, under the Project menu, on all the time. Once in awhile my code isn't compiling, and I puzzle over it and then pull down the Project menu ... lo and behold, it's not set anymore. What gives? Is this a bug, or is there something else I'm do...
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I'm using python and CherryPy to create a simple internal website that about 2 people use. I use the built in webserver with CherryPy.quickstart and never messed with the config files. I recently changed machines so I installed the latest Python and cherrypy and when I run the site I can access it from localhost:8080 b...
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I have the feeling that is easy to find samples, tutorials and simple examples on Flex. It seems harder to find tips and good practices based on real-life projects. Any tips on how to : How to write maintainable actionscript code How to ensure a clean separation of concern. Has anybody used an MVC framework such as ca...
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For a developer in the Java eco-system, there is a handful of choices when it comes to UI design. The best known are: Swing (preferred when used with Netbeans and its GUI builder) Eclipse's SWT (mostly preferred for Eclipse plug-ins) Now, are there any frameworks or design alternatives to this which target JRuby / Gr...
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I'm working on the creation of an ActiveX EXE using VB6, and the only example I got is all written in Delphi. Reading the example code, I noticed there are some functions whose signatures are followed by the safecall keyword. Here's an example: function AddSymbol(ASymbol: OleVariant): WordBool; safecall; What is the ...
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I wrote an application in Java and when it runs on one customer's computer running OS X The Save and Export buttons are disabled. (Everything else works in the application.) Both of these buttons open up a standard save file dialog. Any ideas?
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I'd like a short smallest possible javascript routine that when a mousedown occurs on a button it first responds just like a mouseclick and then if the user keeps the button pressed it responds as if the user was continously sending mouseclicks and after a while with the button held down acts as if the user was acceler...
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I have huge 3D arrays of numbers in my .NET application. I need to convert them to a 1D array to pass it to a COM library. Is there a way to convert the array without making a copy of all the data? I can do the conversion like this, but then I use twice the ammount of memory which is an issue in my application: doubl...
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I've got a custom handler applied to a class (using the Policy Injection Application Block in entlib 4) and I would like to know whether the input method is a property when Invoke is called. Following is what my handler looks like. [ConfigurationElementType(typeof(MyCustomHandlerData))] public class MyCustomHandler : ...
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I'm coding the shutdown of a multithreaded server.If everything goes as it should all the threads exit by their own, but there's a small chance that a thread gets stuck.In this case it would be convenient to have a non-blocking join so I could do. Is there a way of doing a non-blocking pthread_join? Some sort of timed ...
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I have an editable DataGridView with SelectionMode set to FullRowSelect (so the whole row is highlighted when the user clicks on any cell). However I would like the cell that currently has focus to be highlighted with a different back color (so the user can clearly see what cell they are about to edit). How can I do th...
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Suppose I want to store many small configuration objects in XML, and I don't care too much about the format. The XMLDecoder class built into the JDK would work, and from what I hear, XStream works in a similar way. What are the advantages to each library?
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I'm trying to incorporate some JavaScript unit testing into my automated build process. Currently JSUnit works well with JUnit, but it seems to be abandonware and lacks good support for Ajax, debugging, and timeouts. Has anyone had any luck automating (with Ant) a unit testing library such as YUI test, jQuery's QUnit, ...
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It's my understanding that nulls are not indexable in DB2, so assuming we have a huge table (Sales) with a date column (sold_on) which is normally a date, but is occasionally (10% of the time) null. Furthermore, let's assume that it's a legacy application that we can't change, so those nulls are staying there and mean ...
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I've had a lot of trouble trying to come up with the best way to properly follow TDD principles while developing UI in JavaScript. What's the best way to go about this? Is it best to separate the visual from the functional? Do you develop the visual elements first, and then write tests and then code for functionality...
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Is there a way in Ruby to find the version of a file, specifically a .dll file?
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I have a file saved as UCS-2 Little Endian I want to change the encoding so I ran the following code: cat tmp.log -encoding UTF8 > new.log The resulting file is still in UCS-2 Little Endian. Is this because the pipeline is always in that format? Is there an easy way to pipe this to a new file as UTF8?
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I have the handle of process 'A' on a Pocket PC 2003 device. I need to determine if that process is still running from process 'B'. Process 'B' is written in Embedded Visual C++ 4.0.
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Can't find anything relevant about Entity Framework/MySQL on Google so I'm hoping someone knows about it.
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I'm working with an mpeg stream that uses a IBBP... GOP sequence. The (DTS,PTS) values returned for the first 4 AVPackets are as follows: I=(0,3) B=(1,1) B=(2,2) P=(3,6) The PTS on the I frame looks like it is legit, but then the PTS on the B frames cannot be right, since the B frames shouldn't be displayed before the ...
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I got a call from a tester about a machine that was failing our software. When I examined the problem machine, I quickly realized the problem was fairly low level: Inbound network traffic works fine. Basic outbound command like ping and ssh are working fine, but anything involving the connect() call is failing with "No...
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I'm currently modifying a Java script in Rational Functional Tester and I'm trying to tell RFT to wait for an object with a specified set of properties to appear. Specifically, I want to wait until a table with X number of rows appear. The only way I have been able to do it so far is to add a verification point that ju...
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What is the preferred way to open a URL from a thick client application on Windows using C# and the .NET framework? I want it to use the default browser.
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Many beginning programmers write code like this: sub copy_file ($$) { my $from = shift; my $to = shift; `cp $from $to`; } Is this bad, and why? Should backticks ever be used? If so, how?
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I have been trying to produce a statically linked "single binary" version of my game for windows. I want to link with sdl, sdl_image and sdl_mixer which in turn pull in a few support libraries. Unfortunately I haven't found a way to get them all to compile and link using cygwin/mingw/gcc. As far as I can tell all exist...
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Shell ("explorer.exe www.google.com") is how I'm currently opening my products ad page after successful install. However I think it would look much nicer if I could do it more like Avira does, or even a popup where there are no address bar links etc. Doing this via an inbrowser link is easy enough <a href="http://pag...
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I have uncovered another problem in the effort that we are making to port several hundreds of ksh scripts from AIX, Solaris and HPUX to Linux. See here for the previous problem. This code: #!/bin/ksh if [ -a k* ]; then echo "Oh yeah!" else echo "No way!" fi exit 0 (when run in a directory with several files wh...
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When doing small icons, header graphics and the like for websites, is it better to use GIFs or PNGs? Obviously if transparency effects are required, then PNGs are definitely the way to go, and for larger, more photographic images I'd use JPEGs - but for normal web "furniture", which would you recommend and why? It may...
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There are lots of people out there asking "why shouldn't we use tables for structuring our HTML" and while a lot of answers come in, I rarely see anyone being converted to the world of semantics. That said, I've yet to see any convincing rebuttals to support the rationale for why we should (or might) use tables. Anyone...
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My machine is seriously underpowered, and I think I need to start conserving every spare cycle. I know that my Gnome environment seems to underperform compared to my coworkers' KDE setups. But if I'm going to make that big of a switch, I might as well consider running something even lighter. Is it possible to survive...
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I have an application that uploads an Excel .xls file to the file system, opens the file with an oledbconnection object using the .open() method on the object instance and then stores the data in a database. The upload and writing of the file to the file system works fine but I get an error when trying to open the fil...
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Is anyone aware of a multi-format file viewer, capable of displaying common image formats, as well as MS Office document formats (at least Word and Excel), and PDFs? I've seen several image viewers available, but none besides Outside In from Oracle. I'm looking for viewer technology that can be imbedded in a .net appl...
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I have a small gallery of thumbnails. When I place my mouse pointer over a thumbnail image I'd like to have a full size image pop up in a div in the top right of the screen. I've seen this done using just CSS and I'd like to go down that route rather than use javascript if possible.
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I am trying to figure out how to click a button on a web page programmatically. Specifically, I have a WinForm with a WebBrowser control. Once it navigates to the target ASP.NET login page I'm trying to work with, in the DocumentCompleted event handler I have the following coded: HtmlDocument doc = webBrowser1.Documen...
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Is it possible to use chapters in videos for the iPhone in an application? For example: I have a 3 minutes video to play. I have chapter 1 starting at 0s, chapter 2 at 50s, chapter 3 at 95s. Can I start plating the video at 50s (chapter 2) until the end? Can I make it play just the chapter 2 from 50s to 95s? My questio...
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You're building a web application. You need to store the state for a shopping cart like object during a user's session. Some notes: This is not exactly a shopping cart, but more like an itinerary that the user is building... but we'll use the word cart for now b/c ppl relate to it. You do not care about "abandoned" ca...
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I'm attempting to convert a home-grown login system to the standard asp.net login control included in .net. I want all communication on the website for a user not logged in to be in clear text, but lock everything in SSL once the user logs in - including the transmission of the username and password. I had this workin...
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I am having a frequent problems with my web hosting (its shared) I am not able to delete or change permission for a particular directory. The response is, Cannot delete. Directory may not be empty I checked the permissions and it looks OK. There are 100's of files in this folder which I don't want. I contacted my sup...
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We use SAX to parse XML because it does not require the entire XML document to be read into memory in order to parse a single value. I read many articles that insisted SAX can only be used to parse/decode XML and not create it. Is this true?
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Basically I would like to find a way to ddo something like: <asp:Label ID="lID" runat="server" AssociatedControlID="txtId" Text="<%# MyProperty %>"></asp:Label> I know I could set it from code behind (writing lId.Text = MyProperty), but I'd prefer doing it in the markup and I just can't seem to find the solution. (MyP...
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I believe the question says it all ... (I'll update if needed)
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The C preprocessor is justifiably feared and shunned by the C++ community. In-lined functions, consts and templates are usually a safer and superior alternative to a #define. The following macro: #define SUCCEEDED(hr) ((HRESULT)(hr) >= 0) is in no way superior to the type safe: inline bool succeeded(int hr) { retur...
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The situation is this: You have a Hibernate context with an object graph that has some lazy loading defined. You want to use the Hibernate objects in your UI as is without having to copy the data somewhere. There are different UI contexts that require different amounts of data. The data is too big to just eager ...
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I am looking into an image processing problem for semi-real time detection of certain scenarios. My goal is to have the live video arrive as Motion JPEG frames in my Java code somehow. I am familiar with the Java Media Framework and, sadly, I think we can consider that an effectively dead API. I am also familiar wi...
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What is the best approach to define additional data for typedef enums in C? Example: typedef enum { kVizsla = 0, kTerrier = 3, kYellowLab = 10 } DogType; Now I would like to define names for each, for example kVizsla should be "vizsla". I currently use a function that returns a string using a large switch block....
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I'm working on an email solution in SQL Server ONLY that will use Database Mail to send out HTML formatted emails. The catch is that the images in the HTML need to be embedded in the outgoing email. This wouldn't be a problem if I were using a .net app to generate & send the emails but, unfortunately, all I have is SQ...
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When writing manual SQL its pretty easy to estimate the size and shape of data returned by a query. I'm increasingly finding it hard to do this with LINQ to SQL queries. Sometimes I find WAY more data than I was expecting - which can really slow down a remote client that is accessing a database directly. I'd like to be...
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Can anyone point to libraries that can be used for Printing from Compact .Net Framework 1.0? Criteria: I need to be able to print Text and Bar codes. The library should preferably be upgradable to .Net 2.0 or above with minimal disruption. Can be either Open Source [that can be distributed as part of Commercial appli...
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