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What client(s) should be targeted in implementing an ICalendar export for events?

seems to work fine I have to say that I don't use the hourly recurrence feature as really how many people have events that repeat in the same day? I could see if someone however was to schedule when they needed to take a particular medicine at recurr

» development

Date : January 23 2021, 02:43 AM , By : apple

What's the difference in closure style

Hope this helps Both cases will execute the function, the only real difference is what the return value of the expression may be, and what the value of "this" will be inside the function.Basically behaviour of

» javascript

Date : January 23 2021, 02:43 AM , By : user183676

How do you manage databases in development, test, and production?

This might help you There are a couple of good options. I wouldn't use the "restore a backup" strategy.

» mysql

Date : January 23 2021, 02:43 AM , By : Cube_Zombie

How to pass a comma separated list to a stored procedure?

This might help you If you're using Sybase 12.5 or earlier then you can't use functions. A workaround might be to populate a temporary table with the values and read them from there.

» sql

Date : January 23 2021, 02:43 AM , By : kaart

Multiple foreign keys?

help you fix your problem I've got a table that is supposed to track days and costs for shipping product from one vendor to another. We (brilliantly :p) stored both the shipping vendors (FedEx, UPS) with the product handling vendors (Think... Dunder

» sql

Date : January 23 2021, 02:43 AM , By : Joe Sweeney

Haml: how do I set a dynamic class value?

help you fix your problem I have the following html.erb code that I'm looking to move to Haml: , Not sure. Maybe:

» css

Date : January 23 2021, 02:43 AM , By : AJacques

Why are unsigned int's not CLS compliant?

hope this fix your issue Not all languages have the concept of unsigned ints. For example VB 6 had no concept of unsigned ints which I suspect drove the decision of the designers of VB7/7.1 not to implement as well (it's implemented now in VB8).To qu

» chash

Date : January 23 2021, 02:43 AM , By : Rit Li

Why is Array.Length an int, and not an uint

Hope this helps Unsigned int isn't CLS compliant and would therefore restrict usage of the property to those languages that do implement a UInt. See here:

» chash

Date : January 23 2021, 02:43 AM , By : user121350

VS 2008 - Objects disappearing?

I wish this help you I am also having a number of problems with VS 2008. Who would guess that I don't ever need to select multiple controls on a web form...Anyway, a lot has been fixed in Service Pack 1, which is in Beta currently. Might be worth ins

» .net

Date : January 23 2021, 02:43 AM , By : warttack

Eclipse on win64

should help you out I'm using Eclipse with a 64bit VM. However I have to use Java 1.5, because with Java 1.6, even 1.6.0_10ea, Eclipse crashed when changing the .classpath-file. On Linux I had the same problems and could only get the 64bit Eclipse to

» java

Date : January 23 2021, 02:43 AM , By : Janko

E-mail Notifications

this will help From a high level, yes. :D The main thing is some place to store the templates. A database is a great option unless you're not already using one, then file systems work fine.WSIWIG editors (such as fckeditor) work well and give you som

» .net

Date : January 23 2021, 02:43 AM , By : Jµ.

Split a string ignoring quoted sections

This might help you If my language of choice didn't offer a way to do this without thinking then I would initially consider two options as the easy way out:

» language-agnostic

Date : January 23 2021, 02:43 AM , By : sgmichelsen

FF3 WinXP != FF3 Ubuntu - why?

I wish this helpful for you I would first suggesting getting you html and css code validated. If there are any errors in your markup, these can cause errors in the rendering. CSS Validator HTML Validator

» css

Date : January 23 2021, 02:43 AM , By : Lior

Experiences of the Smart Client Software Factory

With these it helps We used SCSF for a real world app with about 10 developers. It was a steep learning curve to set up and develop a pattern of usage, but once it was set up, introducing new developers to the project was VERY easy. Using CAB and SCS

» .net

Date : January 23 2021, 02:43 AM , By : rajiv

How do I make event callbacks into my win forms thread safe?

hop of those help? To simplify Simon's code a bit, you could use the built in generic Action delegate. It saves peppering your code with a bunch of delegate types you don't really need. Also, in .NET 3.5 they added a params parameter to the Invoke me

» chash

Date : January 23 2021, 02:43 AM , By : user186876

Regular expression for parsing links from a webpage?

To fix the issue you can do I'm looking for a .NET regular expression extract all the URLs from a webpage but haven't found one to be comprehensive enough to cover all the different ways you can specify a link.

» .net

Date : January 23 2021, 02:43 AM , By : Gilmar Souza Jr.

How do I edit work items in the Visual Studio 2008 xml editor?

Hope that helps I don't have TFS but I know in regular VS there is an Open With... option in most items' contextual menu that even let you change the default editor. Very useful when you are tired of the Designer opening instead of the Code file on W

» windows

Date : January 23 2021, 02:43 AM , By : user103892

How do you kill all Linux processes that are older than a certain age?

it helps some times I have a problem with some zombie-like processes on a certain server that need to be killed every now and then. How can I best identify the ones that have run for longer than an hour or so? , If they just need to be killed:

» linux

Date : January 23 2021, 02:43 AM , By : Kristian Hofslaeter

Repair SVN Checksum

it helps some times The file in the .svn directory that keeps track of what you have checked out, when, what revision, and from where, has gotten corrupted somehow, for that particular file.This is no more dangerous or critical than the normal odd fi

» svn

Date : January 23 2021, 02:43 AM , By : ravibits

How do you handle huge if-conditions?

will be helpful for those in need Separate the condition in several booleans and then use a master boolean as the condition.

» language-agnostic

Date : January 23 2021, 02:43 AM , By : codelurker

What is the best way to store connection string in .NET DLLs?

I hope this helps you . I'm not certain, but I believe you can put it in a config file and encrypt the config file.Update: See Jon Galloway's post here.

» .net

Date : January 22 2021, 07:23 PM , By : Willem van Schevikho

Normalizing a Table with Low Integrity

Any of those help Please update the question, do you have a list of CompanyNames available to you? I ask because you maybe able to use Levenshtein algo to find a relationship between your list of CompanyNames and LocationNames.

» database

Date : January 22 2021, 07:23 PM , By : user143729

Gathering OS and tool version numbers for build archive purposes

With these it helps Sorry, but what could lead for a need to replicated the exact same build in the future?In my experience, either you keep your product installers safe or start a new build from scratch.

» development

Date : January 22 2021, 07:23 PM , By : foxthrot

What to use for login ID?

this one helps. We are in the early design stages of a major rewrite of our product. Right now our customers are mostly businesses. We manage accounts. User names for an account are each on their own namespace but it means that we can't move assets b

» authentication

Date : January 22 2021, 07:23 PM , By : Nulq

Default Form Button in FireFox

like below fixes the issue I am building a server control that will search our db and return results. The server control is contains an ASP:Panel. I have set the default button on the panel equal to my button id and have set the form default button e

» asp.net

Date : January 22 2021, 07:23 PM , By : David B

How do you deal with configuration files in source control?

I hope this helps . What I've done in the past is to have a default config file which is checked in to source control. Then, each developer has their own override config file which is excluded from source control. The app first loads the default, and

» svn

Date : January 22 2021, 07:23 PM , By : Nigel

Log4Net configuring log level

this one helps. Within the definition of the appender, I believe you can do something like this:

» development

Date : January 22 2021, 07:23 PM , By : Neuromaster

Should I provide accessor methods / Getter Setters for public/protected components on a form?

I hope this helps you . "However, the VS designer doesn't seem to implement such Getters/Setters for those public objects that are components on a form (and therefore does not comply with good programming practice)."If you mean the controls you're dr

» .net

Date : January 22 2021, 07:23 PM , By : Topher Cyll

Best way to abstract season/show/episode data

it should still fix some issue OK, what you need is classobj from new module. That would allow you to construct exception classes dynamically (classobj takes a string as an argument for the class name).

» python

Date : January 22 2021, 07:23 PM , By : Grant

What's your opinion on using UUIDs as database row identifiers, particularly in web apps?

will help you I can't say about the web side of your question. But uuids are great for n-tier applications. PK generation can be decentralized: each client generates it's own pk without risk of collision. And the speed difference is generally small.M

» database

Date : January 22 2021, 07:23 PM , By : Tony Siu

Always Commit the same file with SVN

hop of those help? If you have TortoiseSVN installed, you also have the SubWCRev tool available. Use that tool to get the revision instead of misusing the $REV$ keyword.

» svn

Date : January 22 2021, 07:23 PM , By : Ben Humphrys

API Yahoo India Maps

I wish this help you Hrm. I don't know about yahoo, but there is another mapping website that provides an API for India.http://biz.mapmyindia.com/APIs.html

» development

Date : January 22 2021, 07:23 PM , By : Hadley

How do you feel about code folding?

Does that help 9 out of 10 times, code folding means that you have failed to use the SoC principle for what its worth.I more or less feel the same thing about partial classes. If you have a piece of code you think is too big you need to chop it up in

» visual-studio

Date : January 22 2021, 07:23 PM , By : Jack

Getting the text from a drop-down box

it helps some times Based on your example HTML code, here's one way to get the displayed text of the currently selected option:

» javascript

Date : January 22 2021, 07:23 PM , By : Bharath

Get size of a file before downloading in Python

will help you I'm downloading an entire directory from a web server. It works OK, but I can't figure how to get the file size before download to compare if it was updated on the server or not. Can this be done as if I was downloading the file from a

» python

Date : January 22 2021, 07:23 PM , By : Denis Chaykovskiy

User access log to SQL Server

Does that help In SQL Server 2005, go to tree view on the left and select Server (name of the actual server) > Management > Activity Monitor. Hope this helps.

» sql-server

Date : January 22 2021, 07:23 PM , By : Chris Hanley

Genealogy Tree Control

wish helps you Geni is probably what your looking for.

» chash

Date : January 22 2021, 07:23 PM , By : eferro

Link issues (VC6)

Hope this helps One possibility lies with Win32 ANSI/Unicode "name-mangling", which turns the symbol GetMessage into either GetMessageA or GetMessageW. There are three possibilities:

» cpp

Date : January 22 2021, 07:23 PM , By : pacorro2000

Are there any negative reasons to use an N-Tier solution?

it fixes the issue I guess a fairly big downside is that the extra volume of code that you have to write, manage and maintain for a small project may just be overkill.It's all down to what's appropriate for the size of the project, the expected life

» development

Date : January 22 2021, 07:23 PM , By : Nick Pegg

Making a production build of a PHP project with Subversion

seems to work fine If you use TortoiseSVN, you can use the export feature to automatically strip out all of the .svn files. I think other svn things have the same feature.Right click the root project folder, then select TortoiseSVN > Export, and tell

» php

Date : January 22 2021, 07:23 PM , By : vasil

WCF Service - Backward compatibility issue

With these it helps OK, we needed to resolve this issue in the short term, and so we came up with the idea of a "interop", or compatibility layer.Baiscally, all we did was added a traditional ASMX web service to the project, and called the WCF servic

» chash

Date : January 22 2021, 07:23 PM , By : Hadley

mailto link for large bodies

it should still fix some issue By putting the data into a form, I was able to make the body around 1800 characters long before the form stopped working.The code looked like this:

» development

Date : January 22 2021, 07:23 PM , By : Ivan Kitanovski

Automate builds for Java RCP for deployment with JNLP

wish helps you I haven't done this before, but I found this site on the web giving an explanation.

» java

Date : January 22 2021, 07:23 PM , By : Kirks

Add 1 to a field

it helps some times How do I turn the following 2 queries into 1 query , I get downmodded for this?

» php

Date : January 22 2021, 07:23 PM , By : alexandruz

Issues using MS Access as a front-end to a MySQL database back-end?

Does that help I had an application that worked likewise: an MS Access frontend to a MySQL backend. It was such a huge pain that I ended up writing a Win32 frontend instead. From the top of my head, I encountered the following problems: Development o

» mysql

Date : January 22 2021, 07:23 PM , By : Pancilobak

Binary patch-generation in C#

seems to work fine Sorry I couldn't be more help. I would definately keep looking at xdelta because I have used it a number of times to produce quality diffs on 600MB+ ISO files we have generated for distributing our products and it performs very wel

» chash

Date : January 22 2021, 07:23 PM , By : Matt Logan

SQL Server Escape an Underscore

this will help T-SQL Reference for LIKE for SQL Server 2000:

» sql-server

Date : January 22 2021, 07:23 PM , By : tjh0001

Inheritance in database?

around this issue There is no such thing as inheritance between tables in SQL Server 2005, and as noted by the others, you can get as far as getting help adding the necessary columns to the tables when you create them, but it won't be inheritance as

» sql

Date : January 22 2021, 07:23 PM , By : MrSparky

IsNothing versus Is Nothing

hope this fix your issue If you take a look at the MSIL as it's being executed you'll see that it doesn't compile down to the exact same code. When you use IsNothing() it actually makes a call to that method as opposed to just evaluating the expressi

» vb.net

Date : January 22 2021, 07:23 PM , By : JackIT

Tab Escape Character?

hop of those help? Easy one! "\t"Edit: In fact, here's something official: Escape Sequences

» chash

Date : January 22 2021, 07:23 PM , By : bdurbin

Title=

With these it helps In both Visual Basic 6.0 and VB.NET you would use: Exit For to break from For loop Wend to break from While loop Exit Do to break from Do loop

» vb.net

Date : January 22 2021, 07:23 PM , By : vferman

What is a good plotting library for .Net?

wish helps you There's a good post about this here and here. I have also used NPlot in our last project since it's easier to use.

» .net

Date : January 22 2021, 07:23 PM , By : lamberms

What are the barriers to understanding pointers and what can be done to overcome them?

this will help Pointers is a concept that for many can be confusing at first, in particular when it comes to copying pointer values around and still referencing the same memory block.I've found that the best analogy is to consider the pointer as a pi

» cpp

Date : January 22 2021, 07:23 PM , By : moss

Better windows command line shells

To fix the issue you can do Take Command does support Copy/Cut/Paste from the keyboard and the mouse. It's pretty handy if you do a lot of work from a command prompt. It also supports: Command and folder history, with popup windows to select prior co

» windows

Date : January 22 2021, 07:23 PM , By : Justin Bowers

When do Request.Params and Request.Form differ?

With these it helps Request.Form only includes variables posted through a form, while Request.Params includes both posted form variables and get variables specified as URL parameters.

» chash

Date : January 22 2021, 07:23 PM , By : Ryuken

$The imported project "C:\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" was not found$

The imported project "C:\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" was not found

Hope that helps I got this error today when trying to open a Visual Studio 2008 project in Visual Studio 2005: , Open your csproj file in notepad (or notepad++) Find the line:

» chash

Date : January 22 2021, 07:23 PM , By : Sumedh

MVC Preview 4 - No route in the route table matches the supplied values

wish help you to fix your issue What type is selectedYear? A DateTime? If so then you might need to convert to a string.

» asp.net-mvc

Date : January 22 2021, 07:23 PM , By : Adam May

Is it just me, or are characters being rendered incorrectly more lately?

To fix the issue you can do It appears that for this particular author, the text was edited in some editor that assumed it wasn't UTF8, and then re-wrote it out in UTF8. I'm basing this off the fact that if I tell my browser to interpret the page as

» development

Date : January 22 2021, 07:23 PM , By : Mare Astra

How do I create an HTML anchor in a FogBugz wiki page?

wish helps you As of this writing, this feature is now supported -- just edit the wiki page's html directly (via the button).See this support question for details. Use html anchor tags as you would in a typical html doc. (Note that I did have issues

» development

Date : January 22 2021, 07:23 PM , By : 22.

Sleep from within an Informix SPL procedure

To fix the issue you can do There must be some good reason you're not wanting the obvious answer: SYSTEM "sleep 5". If all you're wanting is for the SPL to pause while you check various values etc, here are a couple of thoughts (all of which are utte

» development

Date : January 22 2021, 07:23 PM , By : Sumedh