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What is the best way to pick a random brush from the System.Drawing.Brushes collection in C#?
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I’ve run into the problem a few times now: How to pre-authenticate .NET WebRequest calls doing an HTTP call to the server – essentially send authentication credentials on the very first request instead of waiting for a server challenge first? At first glance this sound like it should be easy:…
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Man I can't believe this. I'm still mucking around with OFX servers and it drives me absolutely crazy how some these servers are just so unbelievably misconfigured. I've recently hit three different 3 major brokerages which fail HTTP validation with bad or corrupt certificates at least according to…
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The dynamic type in C# 4.0 is a welcome addition to the language. One thing I’ve been doing a lot with it is to remove explicit Reflection code that’s often necessary when you ‘dynamically’ need to walk and object hierarchy. In the past I’ve had a number of ReflectionUtils that used string based expressions…
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I’ve written quite a bit about Visual FoxPro interoperating with .NET in the past both for ASP.NET interacting with Visual FoxPro COM objects as well as Visual FoxPro calling into .NET code via COM Interop. COM Interop with Visual FoxPro has a number of problems but one of them at least got a lot…
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Here’s a nice and simple path utility that I’ve needed in a number of applications: I need to find a relative path based on a base path. So if I’m working in a folder called c:\temp\templates\ and I want to find a relative path for c:\temp\templates\subdir\test.txt I want to receive back subdir\test…
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Hi I am trying to use a HTML select box with 'multiple' select options and size to 1 as below
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<SELECT NAME="toppings" MULTIPLE SIZE=5>
<OPTION VALUE="mushrooms">mushrooms
<OPTION VALUE="greenpeppers">green peppers
</SELECT>
When the size is set to 1 small scrollbar appears…
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I noticed something strange while executing a select from 2 tables:
SELECT * FROM table_1 WHERE id IN (
SELECT id_element FROM table_2 WHERE column_2=3103);
This query took approximatively 242 seconds.
But when I executed the subquery
SELECT id_element FROM table_2 WHERE column_2=3103
it…
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Few days ago I wrote article about SQL SERVER – Stored Procedure Optimization Tips – Best Practices. I received lots of comments on particular blog article. In fact, almost all the comments are very interesting. If you have not read all the comments, I strongly suggest to read them. Click here to…
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var numbers = new int[] { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 };
var contacts = from c in context.Contacts
where c.ContactID == numbers.Max() | c.ContactID == numbers.FirstOrDefault()
select c;
foreach (var item in contacts) Console.WriteLine(item.ContactID);
Linq-to-Entities…
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As the title suggests, I get an error running Play 2.0.1 Tests using a FakeApplication w/ H2 in memory.
I set up a basic unit test:
public class ModelTest {
@Test
public void checkThatIndustriesExist() {
running(fakeApplication(inMemoryDatabase()), new Runnable() {
public…
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