Programs & Examples On #Icr

ICR or Intelligent Character Recognition involves the recognition of handwritten text and other irregular glyphs. Reliable ICR is a tough task, as handwritten text inherently has a lot of variation, attributed to the varied styles of writing of different people from different cultures and also the variations in the handwriting of the same person.

Microsoft Advertising SDK doesn't deliverer ads

I only use MicrosoftAdvertising.Mobile and Microsoft.Advertising.Mobile.UI and I am served ads. The SDK should only add the DLLs not reference itself.

Note: You need to explicitly set width and height Make sure the phone dialer, and web browser capabilities are enabled

Followup note: Make sure that after you've removed the SDK DLL, that the xmlns references are not still pointing to it. The best route to take here is

  1. Remove the XAML for the ad
  2. Remove the xmlns declaration (usually at the top of the page, but sometimes will be declared in the ad itself)
  3. Remove the bad DLL (the one ending in .SDK )
  4. Do a Clean and then Build (clean out anything remaining from the DLL)
  5. Add the xmlns reference (actual reference is below)
  6. Add the ad to the page (example below)

Here is the xmlns reference:

xmlns:AdNamepace="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Advertising.Mobile.UI;assembly=Microsoft.Advertising.Mobile.UI" 

Then the ad itself:

<AdNamespace:AdControl x:Name="myAd" Height="80" Width="480"                    AdUnitId="yourAdUnitIdHere" ApplicationId="yourIdHere"/> 

My eclipse won't open, i download the bundle pack it keeps saying error log

Make sure you have the prerequisite, a JVM (http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse/Installation#Install_a_JVM) installed.

This will be a JRE and JDK package.

There are a number of sources which includes: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html.

String method cannot be found in a main class method

It seem like your Resort method doesn't declare a compareTo method. This method typically belongs to the Comparable interface. Make sure your class implements it.

Additionally, the compareTo method is typically implemented as accepting an argument of the same type as the object the method gets invoked on. As such, you shouldn't be passing a String argument, but rather a Resort.

Alternatively, you can compare the names of the resorts. For example

if (resortList[mid].getResortName().compareTo(resortName)>0)  

500 Error on AppHarbor but downloaded build works on my machine

Just a wild guess: (not much to go on) but I have had similar problems when, for example, I was using the IIS rewrite module on my local machine (and it worked fine), but when I uploaded to a host that did not have that add-on module installed, I would get a 500 error with very little to go on - sounds similar. It drove me crazy trying to find it.

So make sure whatever options/addons that you might have and be using locally in IIS are also installed on the host.

Similarly, make sure you understand everything that is being referenced/used in your web.config - that is likely the problem area.

Why powershell does not run Angular commands?

I solved my problem by running below command

Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser

dotnet ef not found in .NET Core 3

EDIT: If you are using a Dockerfile for deployments these are the steps you need to take to resolve this issue.

Change your Dockerfile to include the following:

FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/sdk:3.1 AS build-env
ENV PATH $PATH:/root/.dotnet/tools
RUN dotnet tool install -g dotnet-ef --version 3.1.1

Also change your dotnet ef commands to be dotnet-ef

"Permission Denied" trying to run Python on Windows 10

For me, I tried manage app execution aliases and got an error that python3 is not a command so for that, I used py instead of python3 and it worked

I don't know why this is happening but It worked for me

Error: Java: invalid target release: 11 - IntelliJ IDEA

For me, I was having the same issue but it was with java v8, I am using a different version of java on my machine for my different projects. While importing one of my project I got the same problem. To check the configuration I checked all my SDK related settings whether it is in File->Project->Project Structure / Modules or in the Run/Debug configuration setting. Everything I set to java-8 but still I was getting the same issue. While checking all of the configuration files I found that compiler.xml in .idea is having an entry for the bytecodeTargetLevel which was set to 11. Here if I change it to 8 even though it shows the same compiler output and removing <bytecodeTargetLevel target="11" /> from compiler.xml resolve the issue.

How to setup virtual environment for Python in VS Code?

There is a VSCode extension called "Python Auto Venv" that automatically detects and uses your virtual environment if there is one.

HTTP Error 500.30 - ANCM In-Process Start Failure

In ASP.NET Core 2.2, a new Server/ hosting pattern was released with IIS called IIS InProcess hosting. To enable inprocess hosting, the csproj element AspNetCoreHostingModel is added to set the hostingModel to inprocess in the web.config file. Also, the web.config points to a new module called AspNetCoreModuleV2 which is required for inprocess hosting.

If the target machine you are deploying to doesn't have ANCMV2, you can't use IIS InProcess hosting. If so, the right behavior is to either install the dotnet hosting bundle to the target machine or downgrade to the AspNetCoreModule.

Source: jkotalik (Github)

Try changing the section in csproj (edit with a text editor)

  <PropertyGroup>
    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.2</TargetFramework>
    <AspNetCoreHostingModel>InProcess</AspNetCoreHostingModel>
  </PropertyGroup>

to the following ...

 <PropertyGroup>
    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.2</TargetFramework>
    <AspNetCoreHostingModel>OutOfProcess</AspNetCoreHostingModel>
    <AspNetCoreModuleName>AspNetCoreModule</AspNetCoreModuleName>
 </PropertyGroup>

Source (Github)

I can't install pyaudio on Windows? How to solve "error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required."?

I have got the same error as :

error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required. Get it with "Microsoft Visual C++ Build Tools": https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/

As, said by @Agaline, i download the outside wheel from this Christoph Gohlke.

If your is Python 3.7 then try to PyAudio-0.2.11-cp37-cp37m-win_amd64.whl and use command as, go to the download directroy and:

pip install PyAudio-0.2.11-cp37-cp37m-win_amd64.whl and it works.

git clone: Authentication failed for <URL>

  1. Go to Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Credential Manager and select Generic Credentials.
  2. Remove all the credential with your company domain name.
  3. Git clone repository from git bash terminal once again and it will ask for password and username. Insert it again and you are all set!

Dart/Flutter : Converting timestamp

meh, just use https://github.com/andresaraujo/timeago.dart library; it does all the heavy-lifting for you.

EDIT:

From your question, it seems you wanted relative time conversions, and the timeago library enables you to do this in 1 line of code. Converting Dates isn't something I'd choose to implement myself, as there are a lot of edge cases & it gets fugly quickly, especially if you need to support different locales in the future. More code you write = more you have to test.

import 'package:timeago/timeago.dart' as timeago;

final fifteenAgo = DateTime.now().subtract(new Duration(minutes: 15));
print(timeago.format(fifteenAgo)); // 15 minutes ago
print(timeago.format(fifteenAgo, locale: 'en_short')); // 15m
print(timeago.format(fifteenAgo, locale: 'es'));

// Add a new locale messages
timeago.setLocaleMessages('fr', timeago.FrMessages());

// Override a locale message
timeago.setLocaleMessages('en', CustomMessages());

print(timeago.format(fifteenAgo)); // 15 min ago
print(timeago.format(fifteenAgo, locale: 'fr')); // environ 15 minutes

to convert epochMS to DateTime, just use...

final DateTime timeStamp = DateTime.fromMillisecondsSinceEpoch(1546553448639);

How to make audio autoplay on chrome

You could use <iframe src="link/to/file.mp3" allow="autoplay">, if the origin has an autoplay permission. More info here.

You must add a reference to assembly 'netstandard, Version=2.0.0.0

I think the solution might be this issue on GitHub:

Try add netstandard reference in web.config like this:"

<system.web>
  <compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.7.1" >
    <assemblies>
      <add assembly="netstandard, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, 
            PublicKeyToken=cc7b13ffcd2ddd51"/>
    </assemblies>
  </compilation>
  <httpRuntime targetFramework="4.7.1" />

I realise you're using 4.6.1 but the choice of .NET 4.7.1 is significant as older Framework versions are not fully compatible with .NET Standard 2.0.

I know this from painful experience, when I introduced .NET Standard libraries I had a lot of issues with NUGET packages and references breaking. The other change you need to consider is upgrading to PackageReferences instead of package.config files.

See this guide and you might also want a tool to help the upgrade. It does require a late VS 15.7 version though.

Uncaught (in promise): Error: StaticInjectorError(AppModule)[options]

HttpClientModule needs to be in the imports array, and remove it from providers. That section is for you to tell Angular which services the module has (written by you and not imported from a library).

Flutter does not find android sdk

export ANDROID_HOME=/usr/local/share/android-sdk/tools/bin
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/share/android-sdk/tools/bin

Entity Framework Core: A second operation started on this context before a previous operation completed

The exception means that _context is being used by two threads at the same time; either two threads in the same request, or by two requests.

Is your _context declared static maybe? It should not be.

Or are you calling GetClients multiple times in the same request from somewhere else in your code?

You may already be doing this, but ideally, you'd be using dependency injection for your DbContext, which means you'll be using AddDbContext() in your Startup.cs, and your controller constructor will look something like this:

private readonly MyDbContext _context; //not static

public MyController(MyDbContext context) {
    _context = context;
}

If your code is not like this, show us and maybe we can help further.

No authenticationScheme was specified, and there was no DefaultChallengeScheme found with default authentification and custom authorization

this worked for me

// using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.Cookies;
// using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http;

services.AddAuthentication(CookieAuthenticationDefaults.AuthenticationScheme)
    .AddCookie(CookieAuthenticationDefaults.AuthenticationScheme,
        options =>
        {
            options.LoginPath = new PathString("/auth/login");
            options.AccessDeniedPath = new PathString("/auth/denied");
        });

.net Core 2.0 - Package was restored using .NetFramework 4.6.1 instead of target framework .netCore 2.0. The package may not be fully compatible

The package is not fully compatible with dotnetcore 2.0 for now.

eg, for 'Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Client' it maybe supported in version (5.2.4). See Consume new Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Client.5.2.4 package for details.

You could try the standard Client package as Federico mentioned.

If that still not work, then as a workaround you can only create a Console App (.Net Framework) instead of the .net core 2.0 console app.

Reference this thread: Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Client supported in .NET Core or not?

PYODBC--Data source name not found and no default driver specified

I am also getting same error. Finally i have found the solution.

We can search odbc in our local program and check for version of odbc. In my case i have version 17 and 11 so. i have used 17 in connection string

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'DRIVER={ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server}'

VSCode cannot find module '@angular/core' or any other modules

Occurs when cloning or opening existing projects in Visual Studio Code. In the integrated terminal run the command npm install

CSS Grid Layout not working in IE11 even with prefixes

Michael has given a very comprehensive answer, but I'd like to point out a few things which you can still do to be able to use grids in IE in a nearly painless way.

The repeat functionality is supported

You can still use the repeat functionality, it's just hiding behind a different syntax. Instead of writing repeat(4, 1fr), you have to write (1fr)[4]. That's it. See this series of articles for the current state of affairs: https://css-tricks.com/css-grid-in-ie-debunking-common-ie-grid-misconceptions/

Supporting grid-gap

Grid gaps are supported in all browsers except IE. So you can use the @supports at-rule to set the grid-gaps conditionally for all new browsers:

Example:

.grid {
  display: grid;
}
.item {
  margin-right: 1rem;
  margin-bottom: 1rem;
}
@supports (grid-gap: 1rem) {
  .grid {
    grid-gap: 1rem;
  }
  .item {
    margin-right: 0;
    margin-bottom: 0;
  }
}

It's a little verbose, but on the plus side, you don't have to give up grids altogether just to support IE.

Use Autoprefixer

I can't stress this enough - half the pain of grids is solved just be using autoprefixer in your build step. Write your CSS in a standards-complaint way, and just let autoprefixer do it's job transforming all older spec properties automatically. When you decide you don't want to support IE, just change one line in the browserlist config and you'll have removed all IE-specific code from your built files.

Unable to create migrations after upgrading to ASP.NET Core 2.0

In my case setting the StartUp project in init helps. You can do this by executing

dotnet ef migrations add init -s ../StartUpProjectName

#include errors detected in vscode

In my case I did not need to close the whole VS-Code, closing the opened file (and sometimes even saving it) solved the issue.

Update .NET web service to use TLS 1.2

PowerBI Embedded requires TLS 1.2.

The answer above by Etienne Faucher is your solution. quick link to above answer... quick link to above answer... ( https://stackoverflow.com/a/45442874 )

PowerBI Requires TLS 1.2 June 2020 - This Is your Answer - Consider Forcing your IIS runtime to get up to 4.6 to force the default TLS 1.2 behavior you are looking for from the framework. The above answer gives you a config change only solution.

Symptoms: Forced Closed Rejected TCP/IP Connection to Microsoft PowerBI Embedded that just shows up all of a sudden across your systems.

These PowerBI Calls just stop working with a Hard TCP/IP Close error like a firewall would block a connection. Usually the auth steps work - it is when you hit the service for specific workspace and report id's that it fails.

This is the 2020 note from Microsoft PowerBI about TLS 1.2 required

PowerBIClient

methods that show this problem

GetReportsInGroupAsync GetReportsInGroupAsAdminAsync GetReportsAsync GetReportsAsAdminAsync Microsoft.PowerBI.Api HttpClientHandler Force TLS 1.1 TLS 1.2

Search Error Terms to help people find this: System.Net.Http.HttpRequestException: An error occurred while sending the request System.Net.WebException: The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send. System.IO.IOException: Unable to read data from the transport connection: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.

Pip error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required

I landed on this question after searching for "Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required. Get it with "Microsoft Visual C++ Build Tools". I got this error in Azure DevOps when trying to run pip install to build my own Python package from a source distribution that had C++ extensions. In the end all I had to do was upgrade setuptools before calling pip install:

pip install --upgrade setuptools

So the advice here about updating setuptools when installing from source archives is right after all:). That advice is given here too.

Cannot find control with name: formControlName in angular reactive form

In your HTML code

<form [formGroup]="userForm">
    <input type="text" class="form-control"  [value]="item.UserFirstName" formControlName="UserFirstName">
    <input type="text" class="form-control"  [value]="item.UserLastName" formControlName="UserLastName">
</form>

In your Typescript code

export class UserprofileComponent implements OnInit {
    userForm: FormGroup;
    constructor(){ 
       this.userForm = new FormGroup({
          UserFirstName: new FormControl(),
          UserLastName: new FormControl()
       });
    }
}

This works perfectly, it does not give any error.

How to enable CORS in ASP.net Core WebAPI

For .NET CORE 3.1

In my case, I was using https redirection just before adding cors middleware and able to fix the issue by changing order of them

What i mean is:

change this:

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IWebHostEnvironment env)
    {

      ...
        
        app.UseHttpsRedirection();  

        app.UseCors(x => x
            .AllowAnyOrigin()
            .AllowAnyMethod()
            .AllowAnyHeader());

      ...

     }

to this:

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IWebHostEnvironment env)
    {

      ...
        
        app.UseCors(x => x
            .AllowAnyOrigin()
            .AllowAnyMethod()
            .AllowAnyHeader());

        app.UseHttpsRedirection(); 

      ...

     }

By the way, allowing requests from any origins and methods may not be a good idea for production stage, you should write your own cors policies at production.

How to download Visual Studio Community Edition 2015 (not 2017)

You can use these links to download Visual Studio 2015

Community Edition:

And for anyone in the future who might be looking for the other editions here are the links for them as well:

Professional Edition:

Enterprise Edition:

How to set combobox default value?

You can do something like this:

    public myform()
    {
         InitializeComponent(); // this will be called in ComboBox ComboBox = new System.Windows.Forms.ComboBox();
    }

    private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        // TODO: This line of code loads data into the 'myDataSet.someTable' table. You can move, or remove it, as needed.
        this.myTableAdapter.Fill(this.myDataSet.someTable);
        comboBox1.SelectedItem = null;
        comboBox1.SelectedText = "--select--";           
    }

How to get IP address of running docker container

while read ctr;do
    sudo docker inspect --format "$ctr "'{{.Name}}{{ .NetworkSettings.IPAddress }}' $ctr
done < <(docker ps -a --filter status=running --format '{{.ID}}')

Error: the entity type requires a primary key

When I used the Scaffold-DbContext command, it didn't include the "[key]" annotation in the model files or the "entity.HasKey(..)" entry in the "modelBuilder.Entity" blocks. My solution was to add a line like this in every "modelBuilder.Entity" block in the *Context.cs file:

entity.HasKey(X => x.Id);

I'm not saying this is better, or even the right way. I'm just saying that it worked for me.

How to put a component inside another component in Angular2?

If you remove directives attribute it should work.

@Component({
    selector: 'parent',
    template: `
            <h1>Parent Component</h1>
            <child></child>
        `
    })
    export class ParentComponent{}


@Component({
    selector: 'child',    
    template: `
            <h4>Child Component</h4>
        `
    })
    export class ChildComponent{}

Directives are like components but they are used in attributes. They also have a declarator @Directive. You can read more about directives Structural Directives and Attribute Directives.

There are two other kinds of Angular directives, described extensively elsewhere: (1) components and (2) attribute directives.

A component manages a region of HTML in the manner of a native HTML element. Technically it's a directive with a template.


Also if you are open the glossary you can find that components are also directives.

Directives fall into one of the following categories:

  • Components combine application logic with an HTML template to render application views. Components are usually represented as HTML elements. They are the building blocks of an Angular application.

  • Attribute directives can listen to and modify the behavior of other HTML elements, attributes, properties, and components. They are usually represented as HTML attributes, hence the name.

  • Structural directives are responsible for shaping or reshaping HTML layout, typically by adding, removing, or manipulating elements and their children.


The difference that components have a template. See Angular Architecture overview.

A directive is a class with a @Directive decorator. A component is a directive-with-a-template; a @Component decorator is actually a @Directive decorator extended with template-oriented features.


The @Component metadata doesn't have directives attribute. See Component decorator.

Error message "Linter pylint is not installed"

I had the same problem. Open the cmd and type:

python -m pip install pylint

'Connect-MsolService' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet

This issue can occur if the Azure Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell isn't loaded correctly.

To resolve this issue, follow these steps.
1.Install the Azure Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell on the computer (if it isn't already installed). To install the Azure Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell, go to the following Microsoft website:
Manage Azure AD using Windows PowerShell

2.If the MSOnline module isn't present, use Windows PowerShell to import the MSOnline module.

Import-Module MSOnline 

After it complete, we can use this command to check it.

PS C:\Users> Get-Module -ListAvailable -Name MSOnline*


    Directory: C:\windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules


ModuleType Version    Name                                ExportedCommands
---------- -------    ----                                ----------------
Manifest   1.1.166.0  MSOnline                            {Get-MsolDevice, Remove-MsolDevice, Enable-MsolDevice, Disable-MsolDevice...}
Manifest   1.1.166.0  MSOnlineExtended                    {Get-MsolDevice, Remove-MsolDevice, Enable-MsolDevice, Disable-MsolDevice...}

More information about this issue, please refer to it.


Update:

We should import azure AD powershell to VS 2015, we can add tool and select Azure AD powershell.

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Entity Framework Core: DbContextOptionsBuilder does not contain a definition for 'usesqlserver' and no extension method 'usesqlserver'

For anyone still having this problem: Use NuGet to install: Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Proxies

This problem is related to the use of Castle Proxy with EFCore.

Unit Tests not discovered in Visual Studio 2017

In the case of .NET Framework, in the test project there were formerly references to the following DLLs:

Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestPlatform.TestFramework
Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestPlatform.TestFramework.Extentions

I deleted them and added reference to:

Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.UnitTestFramework

And then all the tests appeared and started working in the same way as before.

I tried almost all of the other suggestions above before, but simply re-referencing the test DLLs worked alright. I posted this answer for those who are in my case.

CORS: credentials mode is 'include'

If you're using .NET Core, you will have to .AllowCredentials() when configuring CORS in Startup.CS.

Inside of ConfigureServices

services.AddCors(o => {
    o.AddPolicy("AllowSetOrigins", options =>
    {
        options.WithOrigins("https://localhost:xxxx");
        options.AllowAnyHeader();
        options.AllowAnyMethod();
        options.AllowCredentials();
    });
});

services.AddMvc();

Then inside of Configure:

app.UseCors("AllowSetOrigins");
app.UseMvc(routes =>
    {
        // Routing code here
    });

For me, it was specifically just missing options.AllowCredentials() that caused the error you mentioned. As a side note in general for others having CORS issues as well, the order matters and AddCors() must be registered before AddMVC() inside of your Startup class.

Visual Studio 2017 errors on standard headers

This problem may also happen if you have a unit test project that has a different C++ version than the project you want to test.

Example:

  • EXE with C++ 17 enabled explicitly
  • Unit Test with C++ version set to "Default"

Solution: change the Unit Test to C++17 as well.

Screenshot

How can I install the VS2017 version of msbuild on a build server without installing the IDE?

The Visual Studio Build tools are a different download than the IDE. They appear to be a pretty small subset, and they're called Build Tools for Visual Studio 2019 (download).

You can use the GUI to do the installation, or you can script the installation of msbuild:

vs_buildtools.exe --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.MSBuildTools --quiet

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.MSBuildTools is a "wrapper" ID for the three subcomponents you need:

  • Microsoft.Component.MSBuild
  • Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.CoreBuildTools
  • Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Roslyn.Compiler

You can find documentation about the other available CLI switches here.

The build tools installation is much quicker than the full IDE. In my test, it took 5-10 seconds. With --quiet there is no progress indicator other than a brief cursor change. If the installation was successful, you should be able to see the build tools in %programfiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\BuildTools\MSBuild\Current\Bin.

If you don't see them there, try running without --quiet to see any error messages that may occur during installation.

Visual Studio 2017 - Git failed with a fatal error

I tried a lot and finally got it working with some modification from what I read in Git - Can't clone remote repository:

  1. Modify Visual Studio 2017 CE installation ? remove Git for windows (installer ? modify ? single components).

  2. Delete everything from C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TeamFoundation\Team Explorer\Git.

  3. Modify Visual Studio 2017 CE installation ? add Git for windows (installer ? modify ? single components)

  4. Install Git on windows (32 or 64 bit version), having Git in system path configured.

Maybe point 2 and 3 are not needed; I didn't try.

Now it works OK on my Gogs.

How to download Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition for offline installation?

  • Saved the "vs_professional.exe" in my user Download directory, didn't work in any other disk or path.
  • Installed the certificate, without the reboot.
  • Executed the customized (2 languages and some workloads) command from administrative Command Prompt window targetting an offline root folder on a secondary disk "E:\vs2017offline".

Never thought MS could distribute this way, I understand that people downloading Visual Studio should have advanced knowledge of computers and OS but this is like a jump in time to 30 years back.

The default XML namespace of the project must be the MSBuild XML namespace

I ran into this issue while opening the Service Fabric GettingStartedApplication in Visual Studio 2015. The original solution was built on .NET Core in VS 2017 and I got the same error when opening in 2015.

Here are the steps I followed to resolve the issue.

  • Right click on (load Failed) project and edit in visual studio.
  • Saw the following line in the Project tag: <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Web" >

  • Followed the instruction shown in the error message to add xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" to this tag

It should now look like:

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Web" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
  • Reloading the project gave me the next error (yours may be different based on what is included in your project)

"Update" element <None> is unrecognized

  • Saw that None element had an update attribute as below:

    <None Update="wwwroot\**\*;Views\**\*;Areas\**\Views">
      <CopyToPublishDirectory>PreserveNewest</CopyToPublishDirectory>
    </None>
    
  • Commented that out as below.

    <!--<None Update="wwwroot\**\*;Views\**\*;Areas\**\Views">
      <CopyToPublishDirectory>PreserveNewest</CopyToPublishDirectory>
    </None>-->
    
  • Onto the next error: Version in Package Reference is unrecognized Version in element <PackageReference> is unrecognized

  • Saw that Version is there in csproj xml as below (Additional PackageReference lines removed for brevity)

  • Stripped the Version attribute

    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.Diagnostics" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc" />
    
  • I now get the following: VS Auto Upgrade

Bingo! The visual Studio One-way upgrade kicked in! Let VS do the magic!

  • The Project loaded but with reference lib errors. enter image description here

  • Fixed the reference lib errors individually, by removing and replacing in NuGet to get the project working!

Hope this helps another code traveler :-D

LogisticRegression: Unknown label type: 'continuous' using sklearn in python

LogisticRegression is not for regression but classification !

The Y variable must be the classification class,

(for example 0 or 1)

And not a continuous variable,

that would be a regression problem.

Consider defining a bean of type 'service' in your configuration [Spring boot]

@SpringBootApplication @ComponentScan(basePackages = {"io.testapi"})

In the main class below springbootapplication annotation i have written componentscan and it worked for me.

MongoDB: Server has startup warnings ''Access control is not enabled for the database''

You need to delete your old db folder and recreate new one. It will resolve your issue.

How to use requirements.txt to install all dependencies in a python project

Python 3:

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Python 2:

pip install -r requirements.txt

To get all the dependencies for the virtual environment or for the whole system:

pip freeze

To push all the dependencies to the requirements.txt (Linux):

pip freeze > requirements.txt

Specifying Font and Size in HTML table

Enclose your code with the html and body tags. Size attribute does not correspond to font-size and it looks like its domain does not go beyond value 7. Furthermore font tag is not supported in HTML5. Consider this code for your case

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<font size="2" face="Courier New" >
<table width="100%">
    <tr>
        <td><b>Client</b></td>
        <td><b>InstanceName</b></td>
        <td><b>dbname</b></td>
        <td><b>Filename</b></td>
        <td><b>KeyName</b></td>
        <td><b>Rotation</b></td>
        <td><b>Path</b></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>NEWDEV6</td>
        <td>EXPRESS2012</td>
        <td>master</td><td>master.mdf</td>
        <td>test_key_16</td><td>0</td>
        <td>d:\Program&nbsp;Files\Microsoft&nbsp;SQL&nbsp;Server\MSSQL11.EXPRESS2012\MSSQL\DATA\master.mdf</td>
    </tr>
</table>
</font>
<font size="5" face="Courier New" >
<table width="100%">
    <tr>
        <td><b>Client</b></td>
        <td><b>InstanceName</b></td>
        <td><b>dbname</b></td>
        <td><b>Filename</b></td>
        <td><b>KeyName</b></td>
        <td><b>Rotation</b></td>
        <td><b>Path</b></td></tr>
    <tr>
        <td>NEWDEV6</td>
        <td>EXPRESS2012</td>
        <td>master</td>
        <td>master.mdf</td>
        <td>test_key_16</td>
        <td>0</td>
        <td>d:\Program&nbsp;Files\Microsoft&nbsp;SQL&nbsp;Server\MSSQL11.EXPRESS2012\MSSQL\DATA\master.mdf</td></tr>
</table></font>
</body>
</html>

How to enable C++17 compiling in Visual Studio?

If bringing existing Visual Studio 2015 solution into Visual Studio 2017 and you want to build it with c++17 native compiler, you should first Retarget the solution/projects to v141 , THEN the dropdown will appear as described above ( Configuration Properties -> C/C++ -> Language -> Language Standard)

Entity Framework Core add unique constraint code-first

The OP is asking about whether it is possible to add an Attribute to an Entity class for a Unique Key. The short answer is that it IS possible, but not an out-of-the-box feature from the EF Core Team. If you'd like to use an Attribute to add Unique Keys to your Entity Framework Core entity classes, you can do what I've posted here

public class Company
{
    [Required]
    [DatabaseGenerated(DatabaseGeneratedOption.Identity)]
    public Guid CompanyId { get; set; }

    [Required]
    [UniqueKey(groupId: "1", order: 0)]
    [StringLength(100, MinimumLength = 1)]
    public string CompanyName { get; set; }

    [Required]
    [UniqueKey(groupId: "1", order: 1)]
    [StringLength(100, MinimumLength = 1)]
    public string CompanyLocation { get; set; }
}

ps1 cannot be loaded because running scripts is disabled on this system

This could be due to the current user having an undefined ExecutionPolicy.

You could try the following:

Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted

ASP.NET Core Dependency Injection error: Unable to resolve service for type while attempting to activate

I had the same issue and found out that my code was using the injection before it was initialized.

services.AddControllers(); // Will cause a problem if you use your IBloggerRepository in there since it's defined after this line.
services.AddScoped<IBloggerRepository, BloggerRepository>();

I know it has nothing to do with the question, but since I was sent to this page, I figure out it my be useful to someone else.

docker cannot start on windows

I too faced error which says

"Access is denied. In the default daemon configuration on Windows, the docker client must be run elevated to connect. This error may also indicate that the docker daemon is not running."

Resolved this by running "powershell" in administrator mode.

This solution will help those who uses two users on one windows machine

'Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.16.0' provider is not registered on the local machine. (System.Data)

For anyone that is still stuck on this issue after trying the above. If you are right-clicking on the database and going to tasks->import, then here is the issue. Go to your start menu and under sql server, find the x64 bit import export wizard and try that. Worked like a charm for me, but it took me FAR too long to find it Microsoft!

Why does C++ code for testing the Collatz conjecture run faster than hand-written assembly?

On a rather unrelated note: more performance hacks!

  • [the first «conjecture» has been finally debunked by @ShreevatsaR; removed]

  • When traversing the sequence, we can only get 3 possible cases in the 2-neighborhood of the current element N (shown first):

    1. [even] [odd]
    2. [odd] [even]
    3. [even] [even]

    To leap past these 2 elements means to compute (N >> 1) + N + 1, ((N << 1) + N + 1) >> 1 and N >> 2, respectively.

    Let`s prove that for both cases (1) and (2) it is possible to use the first formula, (N >> 1) + N + 1.

    Case (1) is obvious. Case (2) implies (N & 1) == 1, so if we assume (without loss of generality) that N is 2-bit long and its bits are ba from most- to least-significant, then a = 1, and the following holds:

    (N << 1) + N + 1:     (N >> 1) + N + 1:
    
            b10                    b1
             b1                     b
           +  1                   + 1
           ----                   ---
           bBb0                   bBb
    

    where B = !b. Right-shifting the first result gives us exactly what we want.

    Q.E.D.: (N & 1) == 1 ? (N >> 1) + N + 1 == ((N << 1) + N + 1) >> 1.

    As proven, we can traverse the sequence 2 elements at a time, using a single ternary operation. Another 2× time reduction.

The resulting algorithm looks like this:

uint64_t sequence(uint64_t size, uint64_t *path) {
    uint64_t n, i, c, maxi = 0, maxc = 0;

    for (n = i = (size - 1) | 1; i > 2; n = i -= 2) {
        c = 2;
        while ((n = ((n & 3)? (n >> 1) + n + 1 : (n >> 2))) > 2)
            c += 2;
        if (n == 2)
            c++;
        if (c > maxc) {
            maxi = i;
            maxc = c;
        }
    }
    *path = maxc;
    return maxi;
}

int main() {
    uint64_t maxi, maxc;

    maxi = sequence(1000000, &maxc);
    printf("%llu, %llu\n", maxi, maxc);
    return 0;
}

Here we compare n > 2 because the process may stop at 2 instead of 1 if the total length of the sequence is odd.

[EDIT:]

Let`s translate this into assembly!

MOV RCX, 1000000;



DEC RCX;
AND RCX, -2;
XOR RAX, RAX;
MOV RBX, RAX;

@main:
  XOR RSI, RSI;
  LEA RDI, [RCX + 1];

  @loop:
    ADD RSI, 2;
    LEA RDX, [RDI + RDI*2 + 2];
    SHR RDX, 1;
    SHRD RDI, RDI, 2;    ror rdi,2   would do the same thing
    CMOVL RDI, RDX;      Note that SHRD leaves OF = undefined with count>1, and this doesn't work on all CPUs.
    CMOVS RDI, RDX;
    CMP RDI, 2;
  JA @loop;

  LEA RDX, [RSI + 1];
  CMOVE RSI, RDX;

  CMP RAX, RSI;
  CMOVB RAX, RSI;
  CMOVB RBX, RCX;

  SUB RCX, 2;
JA @main;



MOV RDI, RCX;
ADD RCX, 10;
PUSH RDI;
PUSH RCX;

@itoa:
  XOR RDX, RDX;
  DIV RCX;
  ADD RDX, '0';
  PUSH RDX;
  TEST RAX, RAX;
JNE @itoa;

  PUSH RCX;
  LEA RAX, [RBX + 1];
  TEST RBX, RBX;
  MOV RBX, RDI;
JNE @itoa;

POP RCX;
INC RDI;
MOV RDX, RDI;

@outp:
  MOV RSI, RSP;
  MOV RAX, RDI;
  SYSCALL;
  POP RAX;
  TEST RAX, RAX;
JNE @outp;

LEA RAX, [RDI + 59];
DEC RDI;
SYSCALL;

Use these commands to compile:

nasm -f elf64 file.asm
ld -o file file.o

See the C and an improved/bugfixed version of the asm by Peter Cordes on Godbolt. (editor's note: Sorry for putting my stuff in your answer, but my answer hit the 30k char limit from Godbolt links + text!)

Changing PowerShell's default output encoding to UTF-8

Note: The following applies to Windows PowerShell.
See the next section for the cross-platform PowerShell Core (v6+) edition.

  • On PSv5.1 or higher, where > and >> are effectively aliases of Out-File, you can set the default encoding for > / >> / Out-File via the $PSDefaultParameterValues preference variable:

    • $PSDefaultParameterValues['Out-File:Encoding'] = 'utf8'
  • On PSv5.0 or below, you cannot change the encoding for > / >>, but, on PSv3 or higher, the above technique does work for explicit calls to Out-File.
    (The $PSDefaultParameterValues preference variable was introduced in PSv3.0).

  • On PSv3.0 or higher, if you want to set the default encoding for all cmdlets that support
    an -Encoding parameter
    (which in PSv5.1+ includes > and >>), use:

    • $PSDefaultParameterValues['*:Encoding'] = 'utf8'

If you place this command in your $PROFILE, cmdlets such as Out-File and Set-Content will use UTF-8 encoding by default, but note that this makes it a session-global setting that will affect all commands / scripts that do not explicitly specify an encoding via their -Encoding parameter.

Similarly, be sure to include such commands in your scripts or modules that you want to behave the same way, so that they indeed behave the same even when run by another user or a different machine; however, to avoid a session-global change, use the following form to create a local copy of $PSDefaultParameterValues:

  • $PSDefaultParameterValues = @{ '*:Encoding' = 'utf8' }

Caveat: PowerShell, as of v5.1, invariably creates UTF-8 files _with a (pseudo) BOM_, which is customary only in the Windows world - Unix-based utilities do not recognize this BOM (see bottom); see this post for workarounds that create BOM-less UTF-8 files.

For a summary of the wildly inconsistent default character encoding behavior across many of the Windows PowerShell standard cmdlets, see the bottom section.


The automatic $OutputEncoding variable is unrelated, and only applies to how PowerShell communicates with external programs (what encoding PowerShell uses when sending strings to them) - it has nothing to do with the encoding that the output redirection operators and PowerShell cmdlets use to save to files.


Optional reading: The cross-platform perspective: PowerShell Core:

PowerShell is now cross-platform, via its PowerShell Core edition, whose encoding - sensibly - defaults to BOM-less UTF-8, in line with Unix-like platforms.

  • This means that source-code files without a BOM are assumed to be UTF-8, and using > / Out-File / Set-Content defaults to BOM-less UTF-8; explicit use of the utf8 -Encoding argument too creates BOM-less UTF-8, but you can opt to create files with the pseudo-BOM with the utf8bom value.

  • If you create PowerShell scripts with an editor on a Unix-like platform and nowadays even on Windows with cross-platform editors such as Visual Studio Code and Sublime Text, the resulting *.ps1 file will typically not have a UTF-8 pseudo-BOM:

    • This works fine on PowerShell Core.
    • It may break on Windows PowerShell, if the file contains non-ASCII characters; if you do need to use non-ASCII characters in your scripts, save them as UTF-8 with BOM.
      Without the BOM, Windows PowerShell (mis)interprets your script as being encoded in the legacy "ANSI" codepage (determined by the system locale for pre-Unicode applications; e.g., Windows-1252 on US-English systems).
  • Conversely, files that do have the UTF-8 pseudo-BOM can be problematic on Unix-like platforms, as they cause Unix utilities such as cat, sed, and awk - and even some editors such as gedit - to pass the pseudo-BOM through, i.e., to treat it as data.

    • This may not always be a problem, but definitely can be, such as when you try to read a file into a string in bash with, say, text=$(cat file) or text=$(<file) - the resulting variable will contain the pseudo-BOM as the first 3 bytes.

Inconsistent default encoding behavior in Windows PowerShell:

Regrettably, the default character encoding used in Windows PowerShell is wildly inconsistent; the cross-platform PowerShell Core edition, as discussed in the previous section, has commendably put and end to this.

Note:

  • The following doesn't aspire to cover all standard cmdlets.

  • Googling cmdlet names to find their help topics now shows you the PowerShell Core version of the topics by default; use the version drop-down list above the list of topics on the left to switch to a Windows PowerShell version.

  • As of this writing, the documentation frequently incorrectly claims that ASCII is the default encoding in Windows PowerShell - see this GitHub docs issue.


Cmdlets that write:

Out-File and > / >> create "Unicode" - UTF-16LE - files by default - in which every ASCII-range character (too) is represented by 2 bytes - which notably differs from Set-Content / Add-Content (see next point); New-ModuleManifest and Export-CliXml also create UTF-16LE files.

Set-Content (and Add-Content if the file doesn't yet exist / is empty) uses ANSI encoding (the encoding specified by the active system locale's ANSI legacy code page, which PowerShell calls Default).

Export-Csv indeed creates ASCII files, as documented, but see the notes re -Append below.

Export-PSSession creates UTF-8 files with BOM by default.

New-Item -Type File -Value currently creates BOM-less(!) UTF-8.

The Send-MailMessage help topic also claims that ASCII encoding is the default - I have not personally verified that claim.

Start-Transcript invariably creates UTF-8 files with BOM, but see the notes re -Append below.

Re commands that append to an existing file:

>> / Out-File -Append make no attempt to match the encoding of a file's existing content. That is, they blindly apply their default encoding, unless instructed otherwise with -Encoding, which is not an option with >> (except indirectly in PSv5.1+, via $PSDefaultParameterValues, as shown above). In short: you must know the encoding of an existing file's content and append using that same encoding.

Add-Content is the laudable exception: in the absence of an explicit -Encoding argument, it detects the existing encoding and automatically applies it to the new content.Thanks, js2010. Note that in Windows PowerShell this means that it is ANSI encoding that is applied if the existing content has no BOM, whereas it is UTF-8 in PowerShell Core.

This inconsistency between Out-File -Append / >> and Add-Content, which also affects PowerShell Core, is discussed in this GitHub issue.

Export-Csv -Append partially matches the existing encoding: it blindly appends UTF-8 if the existing file's encoding is any of ASCII/UTF-8/ANSI, but correctly matches UTF-16LE and UTF-16BE.
To put it differently: in the absence of a BOM, Export-Csv -Append assumes UTF-8 is, whereas Add-Content assumes ANSI.

Start-Transcript -Append partially matches the existing encoding: It correctly matches encodings with BOM, but defaults to potentially lossy ASCII encoding in the absence of one.


Cmdlets that read (that is, the encoding used in the absence of a BOM):

Get-Content and Import-PowerShellDataFile default to ANSI (Default), which is consistent with Set-Content.
ANSI is also what the PowerShell engine itself defaults to when it reads source code from files.

By contrast, Import-Csv, Import-CliXml and Select-String assume UTF-8 in the absence of a BOM.

SQL Server® 2016, 2017 and 2019 Express full download

Once you start the web installer there's an option to download media, that being the full installation package. There's even download options for what kind of package to download.

Visual Studio Code: How to show line endings

AFAIK there is no way to visually see line endings in the editor space, but in the bottom-right corner of the window there is an indicator that says "CLRF" or "LF" which will let you set the line endings for a particular file. Clicking on the text will allow you to change the line endings as well.

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Error: Unexpected value 'undefined' imported by the module

For me, this error was caused by just unused import:

import { NgModule, Input } from '@angular/core';

Resulting error:

Input is declared, but it's value never read

Comment it out, and error doesn't occur:

import { NgModule/*, Input*/ } from '@angular/core';

How to read connection string in .NET Core?

The way that I found to resolve this was to use AddJsonFile in a builder at Startup (which allows it to find the configuration stored in the appsettings.json file) and then use that to set a private _config variable

public Startup(IHostingEnvironment env)
    {
        var builder = new ConfigurationBuilder()
            .SetBasePath(env.ContentRootPath)
            .AddJsonFile("appsettings.json", optional: true, reloadOnChange: true)
            .AddJsonFile($"appsettings.{env.EnvironmentName}.json", optional: true)
            .AddEnvironmentVariables();
        _config = builder.Build();
    }

And then I could set the configuration string as follows:

var connectionString = _config.GetConnectionString("DbContextSettings:ConnectionString"); 

This is on dotnet core 1.1

How to upload a file and JSON data in Postman?

Use below code in spring rest side :

@PostMapping(value = Constant.API_INITIAL + "/uploadFile")
    public UploadFileResponse uploadFile(@RequestParam("file") MultipartFile file,String jsonFileVo) {
        FileUploadVo fileUploadVo = null;
        try {
            fileUploadVo = new ObjectMapper().readValue(jsonFileVo, FileUploadVo.class);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

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Where Sticky Notes are saved in Windows 10 1607

It worked for me when HDD with win8.1 crashed and my new HDD has win10. Important to know - Create Legacy folder mentioned in this link. - Remember to rename the StickyNotes.snt to ThresholdNotes.snt. - Restart the app

Find details here https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/4wxfds/transfermigrate_sticky_notes_to_new_anniversary/

How to change the port number for Asp.Net core app?

In Asp.net core 2.0 WebApp, if you are using visual studio search LaunchSettings.json. I am adding my LaunchSettings.json, you can change port no as u can see.

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ASP.NET Core Identity - get current user

If you are using Bearing Token Auth, the above samples do not return an Application User.

Instead, use this:

ClaimsPrincipal currentUser = this.User;
var currentUserName = currentUser.FindFirst(ClaimTypes.NameIdentifier).Value;
ApplicationUser user = await _userManager.FindByNameAsync(currentUserName);

This works in apsnetcore 2.0. Have not tried in earlier versions.

Could not load file or assembly 'Newtonsoft.Json, Version=9.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=30ad4fe6b2a6aeed' or one of its dependencies

I think AutoCAD hijacked mine. The solution which worked for me was to hijack it back. I got this from https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/navisworks-api/could-not-load-file-or-assembly-newtonsoft-json/td-p/7028055?profile.language=en - yeah, the Internet works in mysterious ways.

// in your initilizer ...
AppDomain currentDomain = AppDomain.CurrentDomain;
currentDomain.AssemblyResolve += new ResolveEventHandler(MyResolveEventHandler);

.....

private Assembly MyResolveEventHandler(object sender, ResolveEventArgs args)
{
    if (args.Name.Contains("Newtonsoft.Json"))
    {
        string assemblyFileName = Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location) + "\\Newtonsoft.Json.dll";
        return Assembly.LoadFrom(assemblyFileName);
    }
    else
        return null;
}

Homebrew refusing to link OpenSSL

By default, homebrew gave me OpenSSL version 1.1 and I was looking for version 1.0 instead. This worked for me.

To install version 1.0:

brew install https://github.com/tebelorg/Tump/releases/download/v1.0.0/openssl.rb

Then I tried to symlink my way through it but it gave me the following error:

ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.2t/include/openssl /usr/bin/openssl
ln: /usr/bin/openssl: Operation not permitted

Finally linked openssl to point to 1.0 version using brew switch command:

brew switch openssl 1.0.2t
Cleaning /usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.2t
Opt link created for /usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.2t

How to determine if .NET Core is installed

Look in C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App to see which versions of the runtime have directories there. Source.

A lot of the answers here confuse the SDK with the Runtime, which are different.

iOS 10 - Changes in asking permissions of Camera, microphone and Photo Library causing application to crash

[UPDATED privacy keys list to iOS 13 - see below]

There is a list of all Cocoa Keys that you can specify in your Info.plist file:

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/General/Reference/InfoPlistKeyReference/Articles/CocoaKeys.html

(Xcode: Target -> Info -> Custom iOS Target Properties)

iOS already required permissions to access microphone, camera, and media library earlier (iOS 6, iOS 7), but since iOS 10 app will crash if you don't provide the description why you are asking for the permission (it can't be empty).

Privacy keys with example description: cheatsheet

Source

Alternatively, you can open Info.plist as source code: source code

Source

And add privacy keys like this:

<key>NSLocationAlwaysUsageDescription</key>
<string>${PRODUCT_NAME} always location use</string>

List of all privacy keys: [UPDATED to iOS 13]

NFCReaderUsageDescription
NSAppleMusicUsageDescription
NSBluetoothAlwaysUsageDescription
NSBluetoothPeripheralUsageDescription
NSCalendarsUsageDescription
NSCameraUsageDescription
NSContactsUsageDescription
NSFaceIDUsageDescription
NSHealthShareUsageDescription
NSHealthUpdateUsageDescription
NSHomeKitUsageDescription
NSLocationAlwaysUsageDescription
NSLocationUsageDescription
NSLocationWhenInUseUsageDescription
NSMicrophoneUsageDescription
NSMotionUsageDescription
NSPhotoLibraryAddUsageDescription
NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription
NSRemindersUsageDescription
NSSiriUsageDescription
NSSpeechRecognitionUsageDescription
NSVideoSubscriberAccountUsageDescription

Update 2019:

In the last months, two of my apps were rejected during the review because the camera usage description wasn't specifying what I do with taken photos.

I had to change the description from ${PRODUCT_NAME} need access to the camera to take a photo to ${PRODUCT_NAME} need access to the camera to update your avatar even though the app context was obvious (user tapped on the avatar).

It seems that Apple is now paying even more attention to the privacy usage descriptions, and we should explain in details why we are asking for permission.

How do I get an OAuth 2.0 authentication token in C#

Here is a complete example. Right click on the solution to manage nuget packages and get Newtonsoft and RestSharp:

using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;
using RestSharp;
using System;


namespace TestAPI
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            String id = "xxx";
            String secret = "xxx";

            var client = new RestClient("https://xxx.xxx.com/services/api/oauth2/token");
            var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);
            request.AddHeader("cache-control", "no-cache");
            request.AddHeader("content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
            request.AddParameter("application/x-www-form-urlencoded", "grant_type=client_credentials&scope=all&client_id=" + id + "&client_secret=" + secret, ParameterType.RequestBody);
            IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);

            dynamic resp = JObject.Parse(response.Content);
            String token = resp.access_token;            

            client = new RestClient("https://xxx.xxx.com/services/api/x/users/v1/employees");
            request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
            request.AddHeader("authorization", "Bearer " + token);
            request.AddHeader("cache-control", "no-cache");
            response = client.Execute(request);
        }        
    }
}

Could not load file or assembly "System.Net.Http, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"

If you have multiple projects in your solution, then right-click on the solution icon in Visual Studio and select 'Manage NuGet Packages for Solution', then click on the fourth tab 'Consolidate' to consolidate all your projects to the same version of the DLLs. This will give you a list of referenced assemblies to consolidate. Click on each item in the list, then click install in the tab that appears to the right.

Predefined type 'System.ValueTuple´2´ is not defined or imported

I would not advise adding ValueTuple as a package reference to the .net Framework projects. As you know this assembly is available from 4.7 .NET Framework.

There can be certain situations when your project will try to include at all costs ValueTuple from .NET Framework folder instead of package folder and it can cause some assembly not found errors.

We had this problem today in company. We had solution with 2 projects (I oversimplify that) :

  • Lib
  • Web

Lib was including ValueTuple and Web was using Lib. It turned out that by some unknown reason Web when trying to resolve path to ValueTuple was having HintPath into .NET Framework directory and was taking incorrect version. Our application was crashing because of that. ValueTuple was not defined in .csproj of Web nor HintPath for that assembly. The problem was very weird. Normally it would copy the assembly from package folder. This time was not normal.

For me it is always risk to add System.* package references. They are often like time-bomb. They are fine at start and they can explode in your face in the worst moment. My rule of thumb: Do not use System.* Nuget package for .NET Framework if there is no real need for them.

We resolved our problem by adding manually ValueTuple into .csproj file inside Web project.

'No database provider has been configured for this DbContext' on SignInManager.PasswordSignInAsync

I could resolve it by overriding Configuration in MyContext through adding connection string to the DbContextOptionsBuilder:

protected override void OnConfiguring(DbContextOptionsBuilder optionsBuilder)
    {
        if (!optionsBuilder.IsConfigured)
        {
            IConfigurationRoot configuration = new ConfigurationBuilder()
               .SetBasePath(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory())
               .AddJsonFile("appsettings.json")
               .Build();
            var connectionString = configuration.GetConnectionString("DbCoreConnectionString");
            optionsBuilder.UseSqlServer(connectionString);
        }
    }

How to unapply a migration in ASP.NET Core with EF Core

at first run the following command :

PM>update-database -migration:0

and then run this one :

PM>remove_migration

Finish

The term "Add-Migration" is not recognized

I tried doing all the above and no luck. I downloaded the latest .net core 2.0 package and ran the commands again and it worked.

What's the difference between .NET Core, .NET Framework, and Xamarin?

.NET Core is the current version of .NET that you should be using right now (more features , fixed bugs , etc.)

Xamarin is a platform that provides solutions for cross platform mobile problems coded in C# , so that you don't need to use Swift separately for IOS and the same goes for Android.

Could not load file or assembly 'CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.CommLayer, Version=13.0.2000.0

I had the same error after moving to a new laptop (Windows 10). In addition to setting Copy Local to true as mentioned above, I had to install the Crystal Reports 32-bit runtime engine for .Net Framework, even though everything else is set to run in a 64-bit environment. Hope that helps.

Windows Control Panel - Programs and Features

Send HTTP POST message in ASP.NET Core using HttpClient PostAsJsonAsync

You are right that this has long since been implemented in .NET Core.

At the time of writing (September 2019), the project.json file of NuGet 3.x+ has been superseded by PackageReference (as explained at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/archive/project-json).

To get access to the *Async methods of the HttpClient class, your .csproj file must be correctly configured.

Open your .csproj file in a plain text editor, and make sure the first line is
<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Web">
(as pointed out at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/project-json-to-csproj#the-csproj-format).

To get access to the *Async methods of the HttpClient class, you also need to have the correct package reference in your .csproj file, like so:

<ItemGroup>
    <!-- ... -->
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.App" />
    <!-- ... -->
</ItemGroup>

(See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/consume-packages/package-references-in-project-files#adding-a-packagereference. Also: We recommend applications targeting ASP.NET Core 2.1 and later use the Microsoft.AspNetCore.App metapackage, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/metapackage)

Methods such as PostAsJsonAsync, ReadAsAsync, PutAsJsonAsync and DeleteAsync should now work out of the box. (No using directive needed.)

Update: The PackageReference tag is no longer needed in .NET Core 3.0.

tsc throws `TS2307: Cannot find module` for a local file

Don't use: import UserController from "api/xxxx" Should be: import UserController from "./api/xxxx"

How to check encoding of a CSV file

In Linux systems, you can use file command. It will give the correct encoding

Sample:

file blah.csv

Output:

blah.csv: ISO-8859 text, with very long lines

The instance of entity type cannot be tracked because another instance of this type with the same key is already being tracked

Cant update the DB row. I was facing the same error. Now working with following code:

_context.Entry(_SendGridSetting).CurrentValues.SetValues(vm);
await _context.SaveChangesAsync();

Disable beep of Linux Bash on Windows 10

right click on sound icon (bottom right) >>> open volume mixer >>> mute console window host

How do I pass an object to HttpClient.PostAsync and serialize as a JSON body?

You need to pass your data in the request body as a raw string rather than FormUrlEncodedContent. One way to do so is to serialize it into a JSON string:

var json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(data); // or JsonSerializer.Serialize if using System.Text.Json

Now all you need to do is pass the string to the post method.

var stringContent = new StringContent(json, UnicodeEncoding.UTF8, "application/json"); // use MediaTypeNames.Application.Json in Core 3.0+ and Standard 2.1+

var client = new HttpClient();
var response = await client.PostAsync(uri, stringContent);

Could not autowire field:RestTemplate in Spring boot application

Please make sure two things:

1- Use @Bean annotation with the method.

@Bean
public RestTemplate restTemplate(RestTemplateBuilder builder){
    return builder.build();
}

2- Scope of this method should be public not private.

Complete Example -

@Service
public class MakeHttpsCallImpl implements MakeHttpsCall {

@Autowired
private RestTemplate restTemplate;

@Override
public String makeHttpsCall() {
    return restTemplate.getForObject("https://localhost:8085/onewayssl/v1/test",String.class);
}

@Bean
public RestTemplate restTemplate(RestTemplateBuilder builder){
    return builder.build();
}
}

How can I plot a confusion matrix?

@bninopaul 's answer is not completely for beginners

here is the code you can "copy and run"

import seaborn as sn
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

array = [[13,1,1,0,2,0],
         [3,9,6,0,1,0],
         [0,0,16,2,0,0],
         [0,0,0,13,0,0],
         [0,0,0,0,15,0],
         [0,0,1,0,0,15]]

df_cm = pd.DataFrame(array, range(6), range(6))
# plt.figure(figsize=(10,7))
sn.set(font_scale=1.4) # for label size
sn.heatmap(df_cm, annot=True, annot_kws={"size": 16}) # font size

plt.show()

result

How to use SqlClient in ASP.NET Core?

I think you may have missed this part in the tutorial:

Instead of referencing System.Data and System.Data.SqlClient you need to grab from Nuget:

System.Data.Common and System.Data.SqlClient.

Currently this creates dependency in project.json –> aspnetcore50 section to these two libraries.

"aspnetcore50": {
       "dependencies": {
           "System.Runtime": "4.0.20-beta-22523",
           "System.Data.Common": "4.0.0.0-beta-22605",
           "System.Data.SqlClient": "4.0.0.0-beta-22605"
       }
}

Try getting System.Data.Common and System.Data.SqlClient via Nuget and see if this adds the above dependencies for you, but in a nutshell you are missing System.Runtime.

Edit: As per Mozarts answer, if you are using .NET Core 3+, reference Microsoft.Data.SqlClient instead.

How to edit default dark theme for Visual Studio Code?

The docs now have a whole section about this.

Basically, use npm to install yo, and run the command yo code and you'll get a little text-based wizard -- one of whose options will be to create and edit a copy of the default dark scheme.

Angular 2 router no base href set

Angular 7,8 fix is in app.module.ts

import {APP_BASE_HREF} from '@angular/common';

inside @NgModule add

providers: [{provide: APP_BASE_HREF, useValue: '/'}]

Build error, This project references NuGet

This problem appeared for me when I was creating folders in the filesystem (not in my solution) and moved some projects around.

Turns out that the package paths are relative from the csproj files. So I had to change the "HintPath" of my references:

<Reference Include="EntityFramework, Version=6.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089, processorArchitecture=MSIL">
    <HintPath>..\packages\EntityFramework.6.1.3\lib\net45\EntityFramework.dll</HintPath>
    <Private>True</Private>
</Reference>

To:

<Reference Include="EntityFramework, Version=6.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089, processorArchitecture=MSIL">
    <HintPath>..\..\packages\EntityFramework.6.1.3\lib\net45\EntityFramework.dll</HintPath>
    <Private>True</Private>
</Reference>

Notice the double "..\" in 'HintPath'.

I also had to change my error conditions, for example I had to change:

<Error Condition="!Exists('..\packages\Microsoft.Net.Compilers.1.1.1\build\Microsoft.Net.Compilers.props')" Text="$([System.String]::Format('$(ErrorText)', '..\packages\Microsoft.Net.Compilers.1.1.1\build\Microsoft.Net.Compilers.props'))" />

To:

<Error Condition="!Exists('..\..\packages\Microsoft.Net.Compilers.1.1.1\build\Microsoft.Net.Compilers.props')" Text="$([System.String]::Format('$(ErrorText)', '..\..\packages\Microsoft.Net.Compilers.1.1.1\build\Microsoft.Net.Compilers.props'))" />

Again, notice the double "..\".

A connection was successfully established with the server, but then an error occurred during the login process. (Error Number: 233)

I had to do 2 things: Do what Joseph Wu said and change the authentication to be SQL and Windows. But I also had to go to Server Properties > Advanced and change "Enable Contained Databases" to True.

Stuck while installing Visual Studio 2015 (Update for Microsoft Windows (KB2999226))

Same thing happened to me and I got it working doing this:

  • Do not cancel the installation (using the cancel button), instead force showdown your computer so the process is killed and you get a reboot.
  • After the reboot, just start the install process again.

This worked for me.

Multiple Errors Installing Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition

For me, nothing from this list of answers worked.

What finally did the trick is:

  1. Performing an uninstall of VS by running the installer with the /uninstall /force command-line options (ref. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt720585.aspx)
  2. Manually renaming all VS14 and nuget related folders from the following places:
    • %AppData%/Local and its sub-folders
    • %AppData%/Roaming and its sub-folders
    • %ProgramData% and its sub-folders
    • %ProgramFiles% and its sub-folders
    • %ProgramFiles(x86)% and its sub-folders
    • %ProgramData%/Package Cache itself
  3. Rebooting the machine
  4. Installing again.

Getting "Could not find function xmlCheckVersion in library libxml2. Is libxml2 installed?" when installing lxml through pip

It is not strange for me that none of the solutions above came up, but I saw how the igd installation removed the new version and installed the old one, for the solution I downloaded this archive:https://pypi.org/project/igd/#files

and changed the recommended version of the new version: 'lxml==4.3.0' in setup.py It works!

Connecting to Microsoft SQL server using Python

My version. Hope it helps.


import pandas.io.sql
import pyodbc
import sys

server = 'example'
db = 'NORTHWND'
db2 = 'example'

#Crear la conexión
conn = pyodbc.connect('DRIVER={SQL Server};SERVER=' + server +
                      ';DATABASE=' + db +
                      ';DATABASE=' + db2 +
                      ';Trusted_Connection=yes')
#Query db
sql = """SELECT [EmployeeID]
      ,[LastName]
      ,[FirstName]
      ,[Title]
      ,[TitleOfCourtesy]
      ,[BirthDate]
      ,[HireDate]
      ,[Address]
      ,[City]
      ,[Region]
      ,[PostalCode]
      ,[Country]
      ,[HomePhone]
      ,[Extension]
      ,[Photo]
      ,[Notes]
      ,[ReportsTo]
      ,[PhotoPath]
  FROM [NORTHWND].[dbo].[Employees] """
data_frame = pd.read_sql(sql, conn)
data_frame

Where can I read the Console output in Visual Studio 2015

What may be happening is that your console is closing before you get a chance to see the output. I would add Console.ReadLine(); after your Console.WriteLine("Hello World"); so your code would look something like this:

static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Hello World");
        Console.ReadLine();

    }

This way, the console will display "Hello World" and a blinking cursor underneath. The Console.ReadLine(); is the key here, the program waits for the users input before closing the console window.

AngularJS POST Fails: Response for preflight has invalid HTTP status code 404

Ok so here's how I figured this out. It all has to do with CORS policy. Before the POST request, Chrome was doing a preflight OPTIONS request, which should be handled and acknowledged by the server prior to the actual request. Now this is really not what I wanted for such a simple server. Hence, resetting the headers client side prevents the preflight:

app.config(function ($httpProvider) {
  $httpProvider.defaults.headers.common = {};
  $httpProvider.defaults.headers.post = {};
  $httpProvider.defaults.headers.put = {};
  $httpProvider.defaults.headers.patch = {};
});

The browser will now send a POST directly. Hope this helps a lot of folks out there... My real problem was not understanding CORS enough.

Link to a great explanation: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/cors/

Kudos to this answer for showing me the way.

What is the reason for the error message "System cannot find the path specified"?

The following worked for me:

  1. Open the Registry Editor (press windows key, type regedit and hit Enter) .
  2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\AutoRun and clear the values.
  3. Also check HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\AutoRun.

The CodeDom provider type "Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform.CSharpCodeProvider" could not be located

If you have recently installed or updated the Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform package, double-check that the versions of that package referenced in your project point to the correct, and same, version of that package:

  • In ProjectName.csproj, ensure that an <Import> tag for Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform is present and points to the correct version.

  • In ProjectName.csproj, ensure that a <Reference> tag for Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform is present, and points to the correct version, both in the Include attribute and the child <HintPath>.

  • In that project's web.config, ensure that the <system.codedom> tag is present, and that its child <compiler> tags have the same version in their type attribute.

For some reason, in my case an upgrade of this package from 1.0.5 to 1.0.8 caused the <Reference> tag in the.csproj to have its Include pointing to the old version 1.0.5.0 (which I had deleted after upgrading the package), but everything else was pointing to the new and correct version 1.0.8.0.

api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll is missing when opening Microsoft Office file

This is old post and I am sorry but even installing of KB2999226 will not help if you don't have April 2014 update rollup for Windows RT 8.1, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2 (2919355) update package. Without it the installation of KB2999226 returns error "The update is not applicable to your computer". Typically you will get this problem if you have some offline envinroment for example dev virtual machines without access to the WSUS or Windows Update services and old ISO images of Windows 8.1, Server 2012 R2.

The type or namespace name 'System' could not be found

Follow these steps :

  1. right click on Solution > Restore NuGet packages
  2. right click on Solution > Clean Solution
  3. right click on Solution > Build Solution
  4. Close Visual Studio and re-open.
  5. Rebuild solution. If these steps don't initially resolve your issue try repeating the steps a second time.

Thats All.

HikariCP - connection is not available

From stack trace:

HikariPool: Timeout failure pool HikariPool-0 stats (total=20, active=20, idle=0, waiting=0) Means pool reached maximum connections limit set in configuration.

The next line: HikariPool-0 - Connection is not available, request timed out after 30000ms. Means pool waited 30000ms for free connection but your application not returned any connection meanwhile.

Mostly it is connection leak (connection is not closed after borrowing from pool), set leakDetectionThreshold to the maximum value that you expect SQL query would take to execute.

otherwise, your maximum connections 'at a time' requirement is higher than 20 !

How to add LocalDB to Visual Studio 2015 Community's SQL Server Object Explorer?

  1. Search "sqlLocalDb" from start menu,
  2. Click on the run command,
  3. Go back to VS 2015 tools/connect to database,
  4. select MSSQL server,
  5. enter (localdb)\MSSQLLocalDB as server name

Select your database and ready to go.

CMake error at CMakeLists.txt:30 (project): No CMAKE_C_COMPILER could be found

I ran into this issue while building libgit2-0.23.4. For me the problem was that C++ compiler & related packages were not installed with VS2015, therefore "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" file was missing and Cmake wasn't able to find the compiler.

I tried manually creating a C++ project in the Visual Studio 2015 GUI (C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe) and while creating the project, I got a prompt to download the C++ & related packages.

After downloading required packages, I could see vcvarsall.bat & Cmake was able to find the compiler & executed successfully with following log:

C:\Users\aksmahaj\Documents\MyLab\fritzing\libgit2\build64>cmake ..
-- Building for: Visual Studio 14 2015
-- The C compiler identification is MSVC 19.0.24210.0
-- Check for working C compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual        
Studio 14.0/VC/bin/cl.exe
-- Check for working C compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual  
Studio 14.0/VC/bin/cl.exe -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Could NOT find PkgConfig (missing:  PKG_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE)
-- Could NOT find ZLIB (missing:  ZLIB_LIBRARY ZLIB_INCLUDE_DIR)
-- zlib was not found; using bundled 3rd-party sources.
-- LIBSSH2 not found. Set CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH if it is installed outside of 
the default search path.
-- Looking for futimens
-- Looking for futimens - not found
-- Looking for qsort_r
-- Looking for qsort_r - not found
-- Looking for qsort_s
-- Looking for qsort_s - found
-- Looking for clock_gettime in rt
-- Looking for clock_gettime in rt - not found
-- Found PythonInterp: C:/csvn/Python25/python.exe (found version "2.7.1")
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to:    
C:/Users/aksmahaj/Documents/MyLab/fritzing/libgit2/build64

How to generate Entity Relationship (ER) Diagram of a database using Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio?

  1. Go to Sql Server Management Studio >
  2. Object Explorer >
  3. Databases >
  4. Choose and expand your Database.
  5. Under your database right click on "Database Diagrams" and select "New Database Diagram".
  6. It will a open a new window. Choose tables to include in ER-Diagram (to select multiple tables press "ctrl" or "shift" button and select tables).
  7. Click add.
  8. Wait for it to complete. Done!

You can save generated diagram for future use.

screenshot

The target principal name is incorrect. Cannot generate SSPI context

Check your clock matches between the client and server.

When I had this error intermittently, none of the above answers worked, then we found the time had drifted on some of our servers, once they were synced again the error went away. Search for w32tm or NTP to see how to automatically sync the time on Windows.

How to remove error about glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff2 not found

For me, the problem was twofold: First, the version of IIS I was dealing with didn't know about the .woff2 MIME type, only about .woff. I fixed that using IIS Manager at the server level, not at the web app level, so the setting wouldn't get overridden with each new app deployment. (Under IIS Manager, I went to MIME types, and added the missing .woff2, then updated .woff.)

Second, and more importantly, I was bundling bootstrap.css along with some other files as "~/bundles/css/site". Meanwhile, my font files were in "~/fonts". bootstrap.css looks for the glyphicon fonts in "../fonts", which translated to "~/bundles/fonts" -- wrong path.

In other words, my bundle path was one directory too deep. I renamed it to "~/bundles/siteCss", and updated all the references to it that I found in my project. Now bootstrap looked in "~/fonts" for the glyphicon files, which worked. Problem solved.

Before I fixed the second problem above, none of the glyphicon font files were loading. The symptom was that all instances of glyphicon glyphs in the project just showed an empty box. However, this symptom only occurred in the deployed versions of the web app, not on my dev machine. I'm still not sure why that was the case.

NuGet Packages are missing

I had this exact frustrating message. What finally worked for me was deleting all files and folders inside /packages and letting VS re-fetch everything the next build.

Visual Studio Community 2015 expiration date

I also get same issue after I repair vs2015, even I click check license online, still fail. Correct action is: 1. Sign out 2. Check License Status, then it will pop-up login window, after login then it able to successfully get the license info.

Change the location of the ~ directory in a Windows install of Git Bash

1.Right click to Gitbash shortcut choose Properties
2.Choose "Shortcut" tab
3.Type your starting directory to "Start in" field
4.Remove "--cd-to-home" part from "Target" field

How to Identify Microsoft Edge browser via CSS?

/* Microsoft Edge Browser 12-18 (All versions before Chromium) */

This one should work:

@supports (-ms-ime-align:auto) {
    .selector {
        property: value;
    }
}

For more see: Browser Strangeness

Visual Studio 2015 doesn't have cl.exe

In Visual Studio 2019 you can find cl.exe inside

32-BIT : C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.20.27508\bin\Hostx86\x86
64-BIT : C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.20.27508\bin\Hostx64\x64

Before trying to compile either run vcvars32 for 32-Bit compilation or vcvars64 for 64-Bit.

32-BIT : "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvars32.bat"
64-BIT : "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvars64.bat"

If you can't find the file or the directory, try going to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC and see if you can find a folder with a version number. If you can't, then you probably haven't installed C++ through the Visual Studio Installation yet.

How to enable CORS in ASP.NET Core

Got this working with .Net Core 3.1 as follows

1.Make sure you place the UseCors code between app.UseRouting(); and app.UseAuthentication();

        app.UseHttpsRedirection();

        app.UseRouting();
        app.UseCors("CorsApi");

        app.UseAuthentication();
        app.UseAuthorization();

        app.UseEndpoints(endpoints => {
            endpoints.MapControllers();
        });

2.Then place this code in the ConfigureServices method

services.AddCors(options =>
        {
            options.AddPolicy("CorsApi",
                builder => builder.WithOrigins("http://localhost:4200", "http://mywebsite.com")
            .AllowAnyHeader()
            .AllowAnyMethod());
        });

3.And above the base controller I placed this

[EnableCors("CorsApi")]
[Route("api/[controller]")]
[ApiController]
public class BaseController : ControllerBase

Now all my controllers will inherit from the BaseController and will have CORS enabled

Visual Studio 2013 error MS8020 Build tools v140 cannot be found

That's the platform toolset for VS2015. You uninstalled it, therefore it is no longer available.

To change your Platform Toolset:

  1. Right click your project, go to Properties.
  2. Under Configuration Properties, go to General.
  3. Change your Platform Toolset to one of the available ones.

Run JavaScript in Visual Studio Code

Well, to simply run the code and show the output on the console you can create a task and execute it, pretty much as @canerbalci mentions.

The downside of this is that you will only get the output and thats it.

What I really like to do is to be able to debug the code, lets say Im trying to solve a small algorithm or trying a new ES6 feature, and I run it and there is something fishy with it, I can debug it inside VSC.

So, instead of creating a task for it, I modified the .vscode/launch.json file in this directory as follows:

{
"version": "0.2.0",
"configurations": [
    {
        "name": "Launch",
        "type": "node",
        "request": "launch",
        "program": "${file}",
        "stopOnEntry": true,
        "args": [],
        "cwd": "${fileDirname}",
        "runtimeExecutable": null,
        "runtimeArgs": [
            "--nolazy"
        ],
        "env": {
            "NODE_ENV": "development"
        },
        "externalConsole": false,
        "sourceMaps": false,
        "outDir": null
    }
]
}

What this does is that it will launch whichever file you are currently on, within the debugger of VSC. Its set to stop on start.

To launch it, press F5 key, in the file you want to debug.

How can I detect Internet Explorer (IE) and Microsoft Edge using JavaScript?

If you just want to give users using a MS browser a warning or something, this code should be good.

HTML:

<p id="IE">You are not using a microsoft browser</p>

Javascript:

using_ms_browser = navigator.appName == 'Microsoft Internet Explorer' || (navigator.appName == "Netscape" && navigator.appVersion.indexOf('Edge') > -1) || (navigator.appName == "Netscape" && navigator.appVersion.indexOf('Trident') > -1);

if (using_ms_browser == true){
    document.getElementById('IE').innerHTML = "You are using a MS browser"
}

Thanks to @GavinoGrifoni

CMake does not find Visual C++ compiler

Because CMake is not able to find your Visual Studio compiler. Start any project which will download the required compilers and CMake must be able to find it then.

Missing Microsoft RDLC Report Designer in Visual Studio

In addition to previous answers, here is a link to the latest SQL Server Data Tools. Note that the download link for Visual Studio 2015 is broken. ISO is available from here, links at the bottom of the page:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt204009.aspx

MSDN Subscriber Downloads do not list the VS 2015 compatible version at the time of writing.

However, even with the latest tools (February 2015), I can't open previous version of .rptproj files.

installing apache: no VCRUNTIME140.dll

Be sure you have C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 RC. Try to download the last version:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=52685

Obs: Credit to parsecer

How do you create a custom AuthorizeAttribute in ASP.NET Core?

If anyone just wants to validate a bearer token in the authorize phase using the current security practices you can,

add this to your Startup/ConfigureServices

    services.AddSingleton<IAuthorizationHandler, BearerAuthorizationHandler>();
    services.AddAuthentication(JwtBearerDefaults.AuthenticationScheme).AddJwtBearer();

    services.AddAuthorization(options => options.AddPolicy("Bearer",
        policy => policy.AddRequirements(new BearerRequirement())
        )
    );

and this in your codebase,

public class BearerRequirement : IAuthorizationRequirement
{
    public async Task<bool> IsTokenValid(SomeValidationContext context, string token)
    {
        // here you can check if the token received is valid 
        return true;
    }
}

public class BearerAuthorizationHandler : AuthorizationHandler<BearerRequirement> 
{

    public BearerAuthorizationHandler(SomeValidationContext thatYouCanInject)
    {
       ...
    }

    protected override async Task HandleRequirementAsync(AuthorizationHandlerContext context, BearerRequirement requirement)
    {
        var authFilterCtx = (Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Filters.AuthorizationFilterContext)context.Resource;
        string authHeader = authFilterCtx.HttpContext.Request.Headers["Authorization"];
        if (authHeader != null && authHeader.Contains("Bearer"))
        {
            var token = authHeader.Replace("Bearer ", string.Empty);
            if (await requirement.IsTokenValid(thatYouCanInject, token))
            {
                context.Succeed(requirement);
            }
        }
    }
}

If the code doesn't reach context.Succeed(...) it will Fail anyway (401).

And then in your controllers you can use

 [Authorize(Policy = "Bearer", AuthenticationSchemes = JwtBearerDefaults.AuthenticationScheme)]

How do I find an array item with TypeScript? (a modern, easier way)

Part One - Polyfill

For browsers that haven't implemented it, a polyfill for array.find. Courtesy of MDN.

if (!Array.prototype.find) {
  Array.prototype.find = function(predicate) {
    if (this == null) {
      throw new TypeError('Array.prototype.find called on null or undefined');
    }
    if (typeof predicate !== 'function') {
      throw new TypeError('predicate must be a function');
    }
    var list = Object(this);
    var length = list.length >>> 0;
    var thisArg = arguments[1];
    var value;

    for (var i = 0; i < length; i++) {
      value = list[i];
      if (predicate.call(thisArg, value, i, list)) {
        return value;
      }
    }
    return undefined;
  };
}

Part Two - Interface

You need to extend the open Array interface to include the find method.

interface Array<T> {
    find(predicate: (search: T) => boolean) : T;
}

When this arrives in TypeScript, you'll get a warning from the compiler that will remind you to delete this.

Part Three - Use it

The variable x will have the expected type... { id: number }

var x = [{ "id": 1 }, { "id": -2 }, { "id": 3 }].find(myObj => myObj.id < 0);

How to compute precision, recall, accuracy and f1-score for the multiclass case with scikit learn?

First of all it's a little bit harder using just counting analysis to tell if your data is unbalanced or not. For example: 1 in 1000 positive observation is just a noise, error or a breakthrough in science? You never know.
So it's always better to use all your available knowledge and choice its status with all wise.

Okay, what if it's really unbalanced?
Once again — look to your data. Sometimes you can find one or two observation multiplied by hundred times. Sometimes it's useful to create this fake one-class-observations.
If all the data is clean next step is to use class weights in prediction model.

So what about multiclass metrics?
In my experience none of your metrics is usually used. There are two main reasons.
First: it's always better to work with probabilities than with solid prediction (because how else could you separate models with 0.9 and 0.6 prediction if they both give you the same class?)
And second: it's much easier to compare your prediction models and build new ones depending on only one good metric.
From my experience I could recommend logloss or MSE (or just mean squared error).

How to fix sklearn warnings?
Just simply (as yangjie noticed) overwrite average parameter with one of these values: 'micro' (calculate metrics globally), 'macro' (calculate metrics for each label) or 'weighted' (same as macro but with auto weights).

f1_score(y_test, prediction, average='weighted')

All your Warnings came after calling metrics functions with default average value 'binary' which is inappropriate for multiclass prediction.
Good luck and have fun with machine learning!

Edit:
I found another answerer recommendation to switch to regression approaches (e.g. SVR) with which I cannot agree. As far as I remember there is no even such a thing as multiclass regression. Yes there is multilabel regression which is far different and yes it's possible in some cases switch between regression and classification (if classes somehow sorted) but it pretty rare.

What I would recommend (in scope of scikit-learn) is to try another very powerful classification tools: gradient boosting, random forest (my favorite), KNeighbors and many more.

After that you can calculate arithmetic or geometric mean between predictions and most of the time you'll get even better result.

final_prediction = (KNNprediction * RFprediction) ** 0.5

Lazy Loading vs Eager Loading

I think it is good to categorize relations like this

When to use eager loading

  1. In "one side" of one-to-many relations that you sure are used every where with main entity. like User property of an Article. Category property of a Product.
  2. Generally When relations are not too much and eager loading will be good practice to reduce further queries on server.

When to use lazy loading

  1. Almost on every "collection side" of one-to-many relations. like Articles of User or Products of a Category
  2. You exactly know that you will not need a property instantly.

Note: like Transcendent said there may be disposal problem with lazy loading.

Ansible date variable

I tried the lookup('pipe,'date') method and got trouble when I push the playbook to the tower. The tower is somehow using UTC timezone. All play executed as early as the + hours of my TZ will give me one day later of the actual date.

For example: if my TZ is Asia/Manila I supposed to have UTC+8. If I execute the playbook earlier than 8:00am in Ansible Tower, the date will follow to what was in UTC+0. It took me a while until I found this case. It let me use the date option '-d \"+8 hours\" +%F'. Now it gives me the exact date that I wanted.

Below is the variable I set in my playbook:

  vars:
    cur_target_wd: "{{ lookup('pipe','date -d \"+8 hours\" +%Y/%m-%b/%d-%a') }}"

That will give me the value of "cur_target_wd = 2020/05-May/28-Thu" even I run it earlier than 8:00am now.

Flask ImportError: No Module Named Flask

this is what worked for me,

sudo -H pip install flask

Or for pip3(python3) use :

sudo -H pip3 install flask

Sidenote

If you're using virtualenv it's a good idea to pip freeze >> requirements.txt to allow for the installed packages to be listed in one place. The sudo command and -H flag. For more on sudo's -H flag, look at Paul's answer. Hope this helps you.

Microsoft.ReportViewer.Common Version=12.0.0.0

Version 12 of the ReportViewer bits is referred to as Microsoft Report Viewer 2015 Runtime and can downloaded for installation from the following link:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=45496

UPDATE:

The ReportViewer bits are also available as a NUGET package: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.ReportViewer.Runtime.Common/12.0.2402.15

Install-Package Microsoft.ReportViewer.Runtime.Common

How to open URL in Microsoft Edge from the command line?

All the other solutions work for Microsoft Edge (legacy) and on Windows 10 only. As of 2020, it will be discontinued and replaced by Microsoft Edge (Chromium based).

The solution that works with the new Edge on Windows 7, 8 and 10 is :

start msedge URL

Source :

Cordova - Error code 1 for command | Command failed for

I have had this problem several times and it can be usually resolved with a clean and rebuild as answered by many before me. But this time this would not fix it.

I use my cordova app to build 2 seperate apps that share majority of the same codebase and it drives off the config.xml. I could not build in end up because i had a space in my id.

com.company AppName

instead of:

com.company.AppName

If anyone is in there config as regular as me. This could be your problem, I also have 3 versions of each app. Live / Demo / Test - These all have different ids.

com.company.AppName.Test

Easy mistake to make, but even easier to overlook. Spent loads of time rebuilding, checking plugins, versioning etc. Where I should have checked my config. First Stop Next Time!

How to get the current logged in user Id in ASP.NET Core

you have to import Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity & System.Security.Claims

// to get current user ID
var userId = User.FindFirstValue(ClaimTypes.NameIdentifier);

// to get current user info
var user = await _userManager.FindByIdAsync(userId);

Authentication failed because remote party has closed the transport stream

I ran into the same error message while using the ChargifyNET.dll to communicate with the Chargify API. Adding chargify.ProtocolType = SecurityProtocolType.Tls12; to the configuration solved the problem for me.

Here is the complete code snippet:

public ChargifyConnect GetChargifyConnect()
{
    var chargify = new ChargifyConnect();
    chargify.apiKey = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["Chargify.apiKey"];
    chargify.Password = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["Chargify.apiPassword"];
    chargify.URL = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["Chargify.url"];

    // Without this an error will be thrown.
    chargify.ProtocolType = SecurityProtocolType.Tls12;

    return chargify;
}

Simple InputBox function

Probably the simplest way is to use the InputBox method of the Microsoft.VisualBasic.Interaction class:

[void][Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName('Microsoft.VisualBasic')

$title = 'Demographics'
$msg   = 'Enter your demographics:'

$text = [Microsoft.VisualBasic.Interaction]::InputBox($msg, $title)

How do I create a local database inside of Microsoft SQL Server 2014?

As per comments, First you need to install an instance of SQL Server if you don't already have one - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143219.aspx

Once this is installed you must connect to this instance (server) and then you can create a database here - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ms186312.aspx

What are the differences between Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio?

For me, Visual Studio on Mac doesn't support Node.js (editing and debugging) whereas Visual Studio Code does this very well.

Plugin org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin:2.5 or one of its dependencies could not be resolved

I faced the same Maven connection timeout issue and resolved by disabling/whitelisting the anti-virus & firewall setting.

The issue got resolved immediately:

org.apache.maven.wagon.providers.http.httpclient.conn.ssl.SSLConnectionSocketFactory.connectSocket(SSLConnectionSocketFactory.java:239)

checking for typeof error in JS

You can use Object.prototype.toString to easily check if an object is an Error, which will work for different frames as well.

function isError(obj){
    return Object.prototype.toString.call(obj) === "[object Error]";
}

_x000D_
_x000D_
function isError(obj){
    return Object.prototype.toString.call(obj) === "[object Error]";
}
console.log("Error:", isError(new Error));
console.log("RangeError:", isError(new RangeError));
console.log("SyntaxError:", isError(new SyntaxError));
console.log("Object:", isError({}));
console.log("Array:", isError([]));
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

This behavior is guaranteed by the ECMAScript Language Specification.

Object.prototype.toString:

When the toString method is called, the following steps are taken:

  1. If the this value is undefined, return "[object Undefined]".
  2. If the this value is null, return "[object Null]".
  3. Let O be the result of calling ToObject passing the this value as the argument.
  4. Let class be the value of the [[Class]] internal property of O.
  5. Return the String value that is the result of concatenating the three Strings "[object ", class, and "]".

Properties of Error Instances:

Error instances inherit properties from the Error prototype object and their [[Class]] internal property value is "Error". Error instances have no special properties.

Does Visual Studio Code have box select/multi-line edit?

The shortcuts I use in Visual Studio for multiline (aka box) select are Shift + Alt + up/down/left/right

To create this in Visual Studio Code you can add these keybindings to the keybindings.json file (menu FilePreferencesKeyboard shortcuts).

{ "key": "shift+alt+down", "command": "editor.action.insertCursorBelow",
                                 "when": "editorTextFocus" },
{ "key": "shift+alt+up", "command": "editor.action.insertCursorAbove",
                                 "when": "editorTextFocus" },
{ "key": "shift+alt+right", "command": "cursorRightSelect",
                                     "when": "editorTextFocus" },
{ "key": "shift+alt+left", "command": "cursorLeftSelect",
                                     "when": "editorTextFocus" }

Find and replace with a newline in Visual Studio Code

Also note, after hitting the regex icon, to actually replace \n text with a newline, I had to use \\n as search and \n as replace.

How do I set up Visual Studio Code to compile C++ code?

There's now a C/C++ language extension from Microsoft. You can install it by going to the "quick open" thing (Ctrl+p) and typing:

ext install cpptools

You can read about it here:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/03/31/cc-extension-for-visual-studio-code/

It's very basic, as of May 2016.

How do I duplicate a line or selection within Visual Studio Code?

If you coming from Sublime Text and do not want to relearn new key binding, you can use this extension for Visual Code Studio.

Sublime Text Keymap for VS Code

This extension ports the most popular Sublime Text keyboard shortcuts to Visual Studio Code. After installing the extension and restarting VS Code your favorite keyboard shortcuts from Sublime Text are now available.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode.sublime-keybindings

How to compile c# in Microsoft's new Visual Studio Code?

Since no one else said it, the short-cut to compile (build) a C# app in Visual Studio Code (VSCode) is SHIFT+CTRL+B.

If you want to see the build errors (because they don't pop-up by default), the shortcut is SHIFT+CTRL+M.

(I know this question was asking for more than just the build shortcut. But I wanted to answer the question in the title, which wasn't directly answered by other answers/comments.)

How do I hide certain files from the sidebar in Visual Studio Code?

You can configure patterns to hide files and folders from the explorer and searches.

  1. Open VS User Settings (Main menu: File > Preferences > Settings). This will open the setting screen.
  2. Search for files:exclude in the search at the top.
  3. Configure the User Setting with new glob patterns as needed. In this case add this pattern node_modules/ then click OK. The pattern syntax is powerful. You can find pattern matching details under the Search Across Files topic.

When you are done it should look something like this: enter image description here

If you want to directly edit the settings file: For example to hide a top level node_modules folder in your workspace:

"files.exclude": {
    "node_modules/": true
}

To hide all files that start with ._ such as ._.DS_Store files found on OSX:

"files.exclude": {
    "**/._*": true
}

You also have the ability to change Workspace Settings (Main menu: File > Preferences > Workspace Settings). Workspace settings will create a .vscode/settings.json file in your current workspace and will only be applied to that workspace. User Settings will be applied globally to any instance of VS Code you open, but they won't override Workspace Settings if present. Read more on customizing User and Workspace Settings.

How to install VS2015 Community Edition offline

It seems there are direct links and anyone could get it with a download manager.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/6/d/16dc7044-cd36-49b4-bdba-30166e07c786/vs2015.2.com_deu.iso

http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/d/c/fdce5d40-87d3-4bd6-9139-2a7638b96174/vs2015.2.com_enu.iso

http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/1/5/415ec933-31ee-443d-8bd6-55268d472331/vs2015.2.com_esn.iso

http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/7/4/77471e13-cfac-43c2-b76e-459238142bd5/vs2015.2.com_fra.iso

http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/9/9/5991bfbe-21d0-430a-ad1c-2aa8328a2d3e/vs2015.2.com_ita.iso

http://download.microsoft.com/download/c/a/1/ca188bdc-fead-4933-a699-4da31a4b04db/vs2015.2.com_rus.iso

http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/4/a/34a0480a-effd-4e12-878b-d243bdbb4d2c/vs2015.2.com_kor.iso

http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/f/8/0f89c8af-9430-4c13-bf6a-d75b7513ac29/vs2015.2.com_chs.iso

http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/2/c/12c9f1b7-71e2-46fc-a07b-e53b2a954c4c/vs2015.2.com_jpn.iso

http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/1/8/7186591d-7877-4461-9b49-7e236846f526/vs2015.2.com_cht.iso

References from here

How can I rebuild indexes and update stats in MySQL innoDB?

To date (mysql 8.0.18) there is no suitable function inside mysql to re-create indexes.
Since mysql 8.0 myisam is slowly phasing into deprecated status, innodb is the current main storage engine.
In most practical cases innodb is the best choice and it's supposed to keep indexes working well.
In most practical cases innodb also does a good job, you do not need to recreate indexes. Almost always.

When it comes to large tables with hundreds of GB data amd rows and a lot of writing the situation changes, indexes can degrade in performance.
In my personal case I've seen performance drop from ~15 minutes for a count(*) using a secondary index to 4300 minutes after 2 months of writing to the table with linear time increase.
After recreating the index the performance goes back to 15 minutes.

To date we have two options to do that:
1) OPTIMIZE TABLE (or ALTER TABLE)
Innodb doesn't support optimization so in both cases the entire table will be read and re-created.
This means you need the storage for the temporary file and depending on the table a lot of time (I've cases where an optimize takes a week to complete). This will compact the data and rebuild all indexes.
Despite not being officially recommended, I highly recommend the OPTIMIZE process on write-heavy tables up to 100GB in size.

2) ALTER TABLE DROP KEY -> ALTER TABLE ADD KEY
You manually drop the key by name, you manually create it again. In a production environment you'll want to create it first, then drop the old version.
The upside: this can be a lot faster than optimize. The downside: you need to manually create the syntax.
"SHOW CREATE TABLE" can be used to quickly see which indexes are available and how they are called.

Appendix:
1) To just update statistics you can use the already mentioned "ANALYZE TABLE".
2) If you experience performance degradation on write-heavy servers you might need to restart mysql. There are a couple of bugs in current mysql (8.0) that can cause significant slowdown without showing up in error log. Eventually those slowdowns lead to a server crash but it can take weeks or even months to build up to the crash, in this process the server gets slower and slower in responses.
3) If you wish to re-create a large table that takes weeks to complete or fails after hours due to internal data integrity problems you should do a CREATE TABLE LIKE, INSERT INTO SELECT *. then 'atomic RENAME' the tables.
4) If INSERT INTO SELECT * takes hours to days to complete on huge tables you can speed up the process by about 20-30 times using a multi-threaded approach. You "partition" the table into chunks and INSERT INTO SELECT * in parallel.

How to view an HTML file in the browser with Visual Studio Code

If you're just on Mac this tasks.json file:

{
    "version": "0.1.0",
    "command": "open",
    "args": ["${file}"],
}

...is all you need to open the current file in Safari, assuming its extension is ".html".

Create tasks.json as described above and invoke it with ?+shift+b.

If you want it to open in Chrome then:

{
    "version": "0.1.0",
    "command": "open",
    "args": ["-a", "Chrome.app", "${file}"],
}

This will do what you want, as in opening in a new tab if the app is already open.

How do I create a shortcut via command-line in Windows?

The best way is to run this batch file. open notepad and type:-

@echo off
echo Set oWS = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") > CreateShortcut.vbs
echo sLinkFile = "GIVETHEPATHOFLINK.lnk" >> CreateShortcut.vbs
echo Set oLink = oWS.CreateShortcut(sLinkFile) >> CreateShortcut.vbs
echo oLink.TargetPath = "GIVETHEPATHOFTARGETFILEYOUWANTTHESHORTCUT" >> CreateShortcut.vbs
echo oLink.Save >> CreateShortcut.vbs
cscript CreateShortcut.vbs
del CreateShortcut.vbs

Save as filename.bat(be careful while saving select all file types) worked well in win XP.

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'appendChild' of null

If this is happening to you in an AJAX post, you'll want to compare the values that you're sending and the values that the Controller is expecting.

In my case, I had changed a parameter in a serializable class from State to StateID, and then in an AJAX call didn't change the receiving field out 'data'

success: function (data) { MakeAddressForm.formData.StateID = data.State;

Note that the class was changed - it doesn't matter what I call it in the formData.

This created a null reference in the formData which I was trying to post back to the Controller once I'd done the update. Obviously, if someone changed the state (which was the purpose of the form) then they didn't get the error, so it made for a hard one to find.

This also through a 500 error. I'm posting this here in hopes it saves someone else the time I've wasted

How do I open multiple instances of Visual Studio Code?

Use

code -n

when launching the program. This "Opens a new session of Visual Studio Code instead of restoring the previous session." (from here).

The way I used this was by modifying my "Code" shortcut to include the -n parameter:

Visual Studio Code Shortcut

If it does not work, restart VSCode

How to call VS Code Editor from terminal / command line

In linux terminal you can just type:

$ code run

Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 3.4

Unfortunately to be able to use the extension modules provided by others you'll be forced to use the official compiler to compile Python. These are:

Alternatively, you can use MinGw to compile extensions in a way that won't depend on others.

See: https://docs.python.org/2/install/#gnu-c-cygwin-MinGW or https://docs.python.org/3.4/install/#gnu-c-cygwin-mingw

This allows you to have one compiler to build your extensions for both versions of Python, Python 2.x and Python 3.x.

Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required (Unable to find vcvarsall.bat)

Look if the package have an official fork that include the necessary binary wheels.

I needed the package python-Levenshtein, had this error, and find the package python-Levenshtein-wheels instead.

Visual Studio 2015 or 2017 does not discover unit tests

In my case (Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 14.0.25425.01 Update 3, Resharper 2016.2) I just needed to do a clean solution from the Build menu. Rebuilding the solution then cause the test explorer to "wake up" and find all the tests again.

Getting "error": "unsupported_grant_type" when trying to get a JWT by calling an OWIN OAuth secured Web Api via Postman

If you are using AngularJS you need to pass the body params as string:

    factory.getToken = function(person_username) {
    console.log('Getting DI Token');
    var url = diUrl + "/token";

    return $http({
        method: 'POST',
        url: url,
        data: 'grant_type=password&[email protected]&password=mypass',
        responseType:'json',
        headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' }
    });
};

Asp.Net WebApi2 Enable CORS not working with AspNet.WebApi.Cors 5.2.3

In case of CORS request all modern browsers respond with an OPTION verb, and then the actual request follows through. This is supposed to be used to prompt the user for confirmation in case of a CORS request. But in case of an API if you would want to skip this verification process add the following snippet to Global.asax

        protected void Application_BeginRequest(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");
            if (HttpContext.Current.Request.HttpMethod == "OPTIONS")
            {
                HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Methods", "POST, PUT, DELETE");

                HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "Content-Type, Accept");
                HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("Access-Control-Max-Age", "1728000");
                HttpContext.Current.Response.End();
            }
        }

Here we are just by passing the check by checking for OPTIONS verb.

JavaScript Array to Set

If you start out with:

let array = [
    {name: "malcom", dogType: "four-legged"},
    {name: "peabody", dogType: "three-legged"},
    {name: "pablo", dogType: "two-legged"}
];

And you want a set of, say, names, you would do:

let namesSet = new Set(array.map(item => item.name));

How do I check if a PowerShell module is installed?

You can use the Get-InstalledModule

If (-not(Get-InstalledModule SomeModule -ErrorAction silentlycontinue)) {
  Write-Host "Module does not exist"
}
Else {
  Write-Host "Module exists"
}

How to get 'System.Web.Http, Version=5.2.3.0?

One way to fix it is by modifying the assembly redirect in the web.config file.

Modify the following:

<dependentAssembly>
        <assemblyIdentity name="System.Net.Http.Formatting" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" culture="neutral" />
        <bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-4.0.0.0" newVersion="4.0.0.0" />
</dependentAssembly>

to

<dependentAssembly>
        <assemblyIdentity name="System.Net.Http.Formatting" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" culture="neutral" />
        <bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-5.2.3.0" newVersion="4.0.0.0" />
</dependentAssembly>

So the oldVersion attribute should change from "...-4.0.0.0" to "...-5.2.3.0".

Return content with IHttpActionResult for non-OK response

I ended up going with the following solution:

public class HttpActionResult : IHttpActionResult
{
    private readonly string _message;
    private readonly HttpStatusCode _statusCode;

    public HttpActionResult(HttpStatusCode statusCode, string message)
    {
        _statusCode = statusCode;
        _message = message;
    }

    public Task<HttpResponseMessage> ExecuteAsync(CancellationToken cancellationToken)
    {
        HttpResponseMessage response = new HttpResponseMessage(_statusCode)
        {
            Content = new StringContent(_message)
        };
        return Task.FromResult(response);
    }
}

... which can be used like this:

public IHttpActionResult Get()
{
   return new HttpActionResult(HttpStatusCode.InternalServerError, "error message"); // can use any HTTP status code
}

I'm open to suggestions for improvement. :)

How to extend available properties of User.Identity

Check out this great blog post by John Atten: ASP.NET Identity 2.0: Customizing Users and Roles

It has great step-by-step info on the whole process. Go read it : )

Here are some of the basics.

Extend the default ApplicationUser class by adding new properties (i.e.- Address, City, State, etc.):

public class ApplicationUser : IdentityUser
{
    public async Task<ClaimsIdentity> 
    GenerateUserIdentityAsync(UserManager<ApplicationUser> manager)
    {
        var userIdentity = await manager.CreateIdentityAsync(this,  DefaultAuthenticationTypes.ApplicationCookie);
        return userIdentity;
    }
    public string Address { get; set; }
    public string City { get; set; }
    public string State { get; set; }

    // Use a sensible display name for views:
    [Display(Name = "Postal Code")]
    public string PostalCode { get; set; }

    // Concatenate the address info for display in tables and such:
    public string DisplayAddress
    {
        get
        {
            string dspAddress = string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(this.Address) ? "" : this.Address;
            string dspCity = string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(this.City) ? "" : this.City;
            string dspState = string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(this.State) ? "" : this.State;
            string dspPostalCode = string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(this.PostalCode) ? "" : this.PostalCode;

            return string.Format("{0} {1} {2} {3}", dspAddress, dspCity, dspState, dspPostalCode);
        }
    }

Then you add your new properties to your RegisterViewModel.

    // Add the new address properties:
    public string Address { get; set; }
    public string City { get; set; }
    public string State { get; set; }

Then update the Register View to include the new properties.

    <div class="form-group">
        @Html.LabelFor(m => m.Address, new { @class = "col-md-2 control-label" })
        <div class="col-md-10">
            @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.Address, new { @class = "form-control" })
        </div>
    </div>

Then update the Register() method on AccountController with the new properties.

    // Add the Address properties:
    user.Address = model.Address;
    user.City = model.City;
    user.State = model.State;
    user.PostalCode = model.PostalCode;

Default SecurityProtocol in .NET 4.5

The registry change mechanism worked for me after a struggle. Actually my application was running as 32bit. So I had to change the value under path.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft.NETFramework\v4.0.30319

The value type needs to be DWORD and value above 0 .Better use 1.Registry settings to get .Net 4.0 app use TLS 1.2 provided .Net 4.5 is installed in the machine.

Error: Microsoft Visual C++ 10.0 is required (Unable to find vcvarsall.bat) when running Python script

I was able to fix this on Windows 7 64-bit running Python 3.4.3 by running the set command at a command prompt to determine the existing Visual Studio tools environment variable; in my case it was VS140COMNTOOLS for Visual Studio Community 2015.

Then run the following (substituting the variable on the right-hand side if yours has a different name):

set VS100COMNTOOLS=%VS140COMNTOOLS%

This allowed me to install the PyCrypto module that was previously giving me the same error as the OP.

For a more permanent solution, add this environment variable to your Windows environment via Control Panel ("Edit the system environment variables"), though you might need to use the actual path instead of the variable substitution.

Force uninstall of Visual Studio

Microsoft now has this:

https://github.com/Microsoft/VisualStudioUninstaller/releases

I allowed a windows 10 update to go through that completely f****d VS2015 so I am trying this before having to resort to a rebuild. WT*. :-(

https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio-ide/suggestions/3487794-create-a-remove-all-remnants-of-visual-studio-fro

How to call a php script/function on a html button click

the_function() {

$.ajax({url:"demo_test.php",success:function(result){

   alert(result); // will alert 1

 }});

}

// demo_test.php

<?php echo 1; ?>

Notes

  1. Include jquery library for using the jquery Ajax
  2. Keep the demo_test.php file in the same folder where your javascript file resides

Python Pip install Error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat. Tried all solutions

I was getting the same error in python 3.4.3 too and I tried using the solutions mentioned here and elsewhere with no success.

Microsoft makes a compiler available for Python 2.7 but it didn't do me much good since I am on 3.4.3.

Python since 3.3 has transitioned over to 2010 and you can download and install Visual C++ 2010 Express for free here: https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs#d-2010-express

Here is the official blog post talking about the transition to 2010 for 3.3: http://blog.python.org/2012/05/recent-windows-changes-in-python-33.html

Because previous versions gave a different error for vcvarsall.bat I would double check the version you are using with "pip -V"

C:\Users\B>pip -V
pip 6.0.8 from C:\Python34\lib\site-packages (python 3.4)

As a side note, I too tried using the latest version of VC++ (2013) first but it required installing 2010 express.

From that point forward it should work for anyone using the 32 bit version, if you are on the 64 bit version you will then get the ValueError: ['path'] message because VC++ 2010 doesn't have a 64 bit compuler. For that you have to get the Microsoft SDK 7.1. I can't hyperlink the instruction for 64 bit because I am limited to 2 links per post but its at

Python PIP has issues with path for MS Visual Studio 2010 Express for 64-bit install on Windows 7

Microsoft Excel ActiveX Controls Disabled?

Advice in KB and above didn't work for me. I discovered that if one Excel 2007 user (with or without the security update; not sure of exact circumstances that cause this) saves the file, the original error returns.

I discovered that the fastest way to repair the file again is to delete all the VBA code. Save. Then replace the VBA code (copy/paste). Save. Before attempting this, I delete the .EXD files first, because otherwise I get an error on open.

In my case, I cannot upgrade/update all users of my Excel file in various locations. Since the problem comes back after some users save the Excel file, I am going to have to replace the ActiveX control with something else.

No process is on the other end of the pipe (SQL Server 2012)

The server was set to Windows Authentication only by default. There isn't any notification, that the origin of the errors is that, so it's hard to figure it out. The SQL Management studio dont alert, even if you create a user with SQL Authentication only.

So the answer is: Switch from Windows to SQL Authentication:

  1. Right click on the server name and select properties;
  2. Select security tab;
  3. Enable the SQL Server and Windows Authentication mode;
  4. Restart the SQL Server service.

You can now connect with your login/password.

How can I verify if an AD account is locked?

I found also this list of property flags: How to use the UserAccountControl flags

SCRIPT  0x0001  1
ACCOUNTDISABLE  0x0002  2
HOMEDIR_REQUIRED    0x0008  8
LOCKOUT 0x0010  16
PASSWD_NOTREQD  0x0020  32
PASSWD_CANT_CHANGE 0x0040   64
ENCRYPTED_TEXT_PWD_ALLOWED  0x0080  128
TEMP_DUPLICATE_ACCOUNT  0x0100  256
NORMAL_ACCOUNT  0x0200  512
INTERDOMAIN_TRUST_ACCOUNT   0x0800  2048
WORKSTATION_TRUST_ACCOUNT   0x1000  4096
SERVER_TRUST_ACCOUNT    0x2000  8192
DONT_EXPIRE_PASSWORD    0x10000 65536
MNS_LOGON_ACCOUNT   0x20000 131072
SMARTCARD_REQUIRED  0x40000 262144
TRUSTED_FOR_DELEGATION  0x80000 524288
NOT_DELEGATED   0x100000    1048576
USE_DES_KEY_ONLY    0x200000    2097152
DONT_REQ_PREAUTH    0x400000    4194304
PASSWORD_EXPIRED    0x800000    8388608
TRUSTED_TO_AUTH_FOR_DELEGATION  0x1000000   16777216
PARTIAL_SECRETS_ACCOUNT 0x04000000      67108864

You must make a binary-AND of property userAccountControl with 0x002. In order to get all locked (i.e. disabled) accounts you can filter on this:

(&(objectClass=user)(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2))

For operator 1.2.840.113556.1.4.803 see LDAP Matching Rules

Set proxy through windows command line including login parameters

IE can set username and password proxies, so maybe setting it there and import does work

reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings" /v ProxyEnable /t REG_DWORD /d 1
reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings" /v ProxyServer /t REG_SZ /d name:port
reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings" /v ProxyUser /t REG_SZ /d username
reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings" /v ProxyPass /t REG_SZ /d password
netsh winhttp import proxy source=ie

What is ".NET Core"?

It is a sub-set of the .NET Framework, started with the Compact Framework edition. It progressed into Silverlight, Windows Store and Windows Phone. It focused on keeping the deployment small, suitable for quick downloads and devices with limited storage capabilities. And it is easier to bring up on non-Windows platforms, and surely this was the reason it was chosen as the open sourced edition. The "difficult" and "expensive" parts of the CLR and the base class libraries are omitted.

Otherwise, it is always easy to recognize when you target such a framework version, because lots of goodies will be missing. You'll be using a distinct set of reference assemblies that only expose what is supported by the runtime. It is stored on your machine in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETCore directory.


Update: after the .NET Core 2.0 release I've seen some representative numbers that gives a decent insight. They have been hard at work back-porting framework APIs to .NET Core over the past two years. .NET Core 1.0 originally supported 13,000 APIs. .NET Core 2.0 added 20,000 APIs, bringing the total to 32,000 and allowing about 70% of existing NuGet packages to be ported. There are a set of APIs that are too heavily wedded to Windows to be easy to port to Linux and MacOS. Covered by the recently released Windows Compatibility Pack, it adds another 20,000 APIs.

mysql-python install error: Cannot open include file 'config-win.h'

well this worked for me:

pip install mysqlclient

this is for python 3.x in window 7 i am not sure about other windows os versions

Installing NumPy and SciPy on 64-bit Windows (with Pip)

Best solution for this is to download and install VCforPython2.7 from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44266

Then try pip install numpy

System.web.mvc missing

Easiest way to solve this problem is install ASP.NET MVC 3 from Web Platforms installer.

enter image description here

http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/

Or by using Nuget command

Install-Package Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc -Version 3.0.50813.1

Disable SSL fallback and use only TLS for outbound connections in .NET? (Poodle mitigation)

I found the simplest solution is to add two registry entries as follows (run this in a command prompt with admin privileges):

reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\.NETFramework\v4.0.30319 /v SchUseStrongCrypto /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /reg:32

reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\.NETFramework\v4.0.30319 /v SchUseStrongCrypto /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /reg:64

These entries seem to affect how the .NET CLR chooses a protocol when making a secure connection as a client.

There is more information about this registry entry here:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/SecurityAdvisories/2015/2960358#suggested-actions

Not only is this simpler, but assuming it works for your case, far more robust than a code-based solution, which requires developers to track protocol and development and update all their relevant code. Hopefully, similar environment changes can be made for TLS 1.3 and beyond, as long as .NET remains dumb enough to not automatically choose the highest available protocol.

NOTE: Even though, according to the article above, this is only supposed to disable RC4, and one would not think this would change whether the .NET client is allowed to use TLS1.2+ or not, for some reason it does have this effect.

NOTE: As noted by @Jordan Rieger in the comments, this is not a solution for POODLE, since it does not disable the older protocols a -- it merely allows the client to work with newer protocols e.g. when a patched server has disabled the older protocols. However, with a MITM attack, obviously a compromised server will offer the client an older protocol, which the client will then happily use.

TODO: Try to disable client-side use of TLS1.0 and TLS1.1 with these registry entries, however I don't know if the .NET http client libraries respect these settings or not:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/security/tls/tls-registry-settings#tls-10

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/security/tls/tls-registry-settings#tls-11

The database cannot be opened because it is version 782. This server supports version 706 and earlier. A downgrade path is not supported

Try to change the compatibility level, worked for me.

Verify what level it is

USE VJ_DATABASE;
GO
SELECT compatibility_level
FROM sys.databases WHERE name = 'VJ_DATABASE';
GO

Then make it compatible with the older version

ALTER DATABASE VJ_DATABASE
SET COMPATIBILITY_LEVEL = 110;   
GO
  • 100 = Sql Server 2008
  • 110 = Sql Server 2012
  • 120 = Sql Server 2014

By default, Sql Server 2014 will change the db versions compatibility to only 2014, using the @@ version you should be able to tell, which version Sql Server is.

Then run the command above to change it the version you have.

Additional step: Ensure you look at the accessibility of the DB is not reset, do this by right clicking on properties of the folder and the database. (make sure you have rights so you don't get an access denied)

Error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'stdafx.h'

Add #include "afxwin.h" in your source file. It will solve your issue.

The OLE DB provider "Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0" for linked server "(null)"

http://www.aspsnippets.com/Articles/The-OLE-DB-provider-Microsoft.Ace.OLEDB.12.0-for-linked-server-null.aspx

This solves the issue. For some reason SQL Server does not like the default MSSQLSERVER account. Switching it to a local user account resolves the issue.

The given key was not present in the dictionary. Which key?

You can try this code

Dictionary<string,string> AllFields = new Dictionary<string,string>();  
string value = (AllFields.TryGetValue(key, out index) ? AllFields[key] : null);

If the key is not present, it simply returns a null value.

Uses for the '&quot;' entity in HTML

Reason #1

There was a point where buggy/lazy implementations of HTML/XHTML renderers were more common than those that got it right. Many years ago, I regularly encountered rendering problems in mainstream browsers resulting from the use of unencoded quote chars in regular text content of HTML/XHTML documents. Though the HTML spec has never disallowed use of these chars in text content, it became fairly standard practice to encode them anyway, so that non-spec-compliant browsers and other processors would handle them more gracefully. As a result, many "old-timers" may still do this reflexively. It is not incorrect, though it is now probably unnecessary, unless you're targeting some very archaic platforms.

Reason #2

When HTML content is generated dynamically, for example, by populating an HTML template with simple string values from a database, it's necessary to encode each value before embedding it in the generated content. Some common server-side languages provided a single function for this purpose, which simply encoded all chars that might be invalid in some context within an HTML document. Notably, PHP's htmlspecialchars() function is one such example. Though there are optional arguments to htmlspecialchars() that will cause it to ignore quotes, those arguments were (and are) rarely used by authors of basic template-driven systems. The result is that all "special chars" are encoded everywhere they occur in the generated HTML, without regard for the context in which they occur. Again, this is not incorrect, it's simply unnecessary.

Azure SQL Database "DTU percentage" metric

Still not cool enough to comment, but regarding @vladislav's comment the original article was fairly old. Here is an update document regarding DTU's, which would help answer the OP's question.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/sql-database-what-is-a-dtu

How do I use Join-Path to combine more than two strings into a file path?

The following approach is more concise than piping Join-Path statements:

$p = "a"; "b", "c", "d" | ForEach-Object -Process { $p = Join-Path $p $_ }

$p then holds the concatenated path 'a\b\c\d'.

(I just noticed that this is the exact same approach as Mike Fair's, sorry.)

NuGet: 'X' already has a dependency defined for 'Y'

I was getting the issue 'Newtonsoft.Json' already has a dependency defined for 'Microsoft.CSharp' on the TeamCity build server. I changed the "Update Mode" of the Nuget Installer build step from solution file to packages.config and NuGet.exe to the latest version (I had 3.5.0) and it worked !!

How to create a service running a .exe file on Windows 2012 Server?

You can just do that too, it seems to work well too. sc create "Servicename" binPath= "Path\To\your\App.exe" DisplayName= "My Custom Service"

You can open the registry and add a string named Description in your service's registry key to add a little more descriptive information about it. It will be shown in services.msc.

Spring Boot + JPA : Column name annotation ignored

teteArg, thank you so much. Just an added information so, everyone bumping into this question will be able to understand why.

What teteArg said is indicated on the Spring Boot Common Properties: http://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/common-application-properties.html

Apparently, spring.jpa.hibernate.naming.strategy is not a supported property for Spring JPA implementation using Hibernate 5.

SQL Server Service not available in service list after installation of SQL Server Management Studio

You need to start the SQL Server manually. Press

windows + R

type

sqlservermanager12.msc

right click ->Start

Service configuration does not display SQL Server?

After installing SQL Server 2014 Express can't find local db

Just download and install LocalDB 64BIT\SqlLocalDB.msi can also solve this problem. You don't really need to uninstall and reinstall SQL Server 2014 Express with Advanced Services.

Using a PagedList with a ViewModel ASP.Net MVC

I modified the code as follow:

ViewModel

using System.Collections.Generic;
using ContosoUniversity.Models;

namespace ContosoUniversity.ViewModels
{
    public class InstructorIndexData
    {
     public PagedList.IPagedList<Instructor> Instructors { get; set; }
     public PagedList.IPagedList<Course> Courses { get; set; }
     public PagedList.IPagedList<Enrollment> Enrollments { get; set; }
    }
}

Controller

public ActionResult Index(int? id, int? courseID,int? InstructorPage,int? CoursePage,int? EnrollmentPage)
{
 int instructPageNumber = (InstructorPage?? 1);
 int CoursePageNumber = (CoursePage?? 1);
 int EnrollmentPageNumber = (EnrollmentPage?? 1);
 var viewModel = new InstructorIndexData();
 viewModel.Instructors = db.Instructors
    .Include(i => i.OfficeAssignment)
    .Include(i => i.Courses.Select(c => c.Department))
    .OrderBy(i => i.LastName).ToPagedList(instructPageNumber,5);

 if (id != null)
 {
    ViewBag.InstructorID = id.Value;
    viewModel.Courses = viewModel.Instructors.Where(
        i => i.ID == id.Value).Single().Courses.ToPagedList(CoursePageNumber,5);
 }

 if (courseID != null)
 {
    ViewBag.CourseID = courseID.Value;
    viewModel.Enrollments = viewModel.Courses.Where(
        x => x.CourseID == courseID).Single().Enrollments.ToPagedList(EnrollmentPageNumber,5);
 }

 return View(viewModel);
}

View

<div>
   Page @(Model.Instructors.PageCount < Model.Instructors.PageNumber ? 0 : Model.Instructors.PageNumber) of @Model.Instructors.PageCount

   @Html.PagedListPager(Model.Instructors, page => Url.Action("Index", new {InstructorPage=page}))

</div>

I hope this would help you!!

Replacing a 32-bit loop counter with 64-bit introduces crazy performance deviations with _mm_popcnt_u64 on Intel CPUs

I can't give an authoritative answer, but provide an overview of a likely cause. This reference shows pretty clearly that for the instructions in the body of your loop there is a 3:1 ratio between latency and throughput. It also shows the effects of multiple dispatch. Since there are (give-or-take) three integer units in modern x86 processors, it's generally possible to dispatch three instructions per cycle.

So between peak pipeline and multiple dispatch performance and failure of these mechanisms, we have a factor of six in performance. It's pretty well known that the complexity of the x86 instruction set makes it quite easy for quirky breakage to occur. The document above has a great example:

The Pentium 4 performance for 64-bit right shifts is really poor. 64-bit left shift as well as all 32-bit shifts have acceptable performance. It appears that the data path from the upper 32 bits to the lower 32 bit of the ALU is not well designed.

I personally ran into a strange case where a hot loop ran considerably slower on a specific core of a four-core chip (AMD if I recall). We actually got better performance on a map-reduce calculation by turning that core off.

Here my guess is contention for integer units: that the popcnt, loop counter, and address calculations can all just barely run at full speed with the 32-bit wide counter, but the 64-bit counter causes contention and pipeline stalls. Since there are only about 12 cycles total, potentially 4 cycles with multiple dispatch, per loop body execution, a single stall could reasonably affect run time by a factor of 2.

The change induced by using a static variable, which I'm guessing just causes a minor reordering of instructions, is another clue that the 32-bit code is at some tipping point for contention.

I know this is not a rigorous analysis, but it is a plausible explanation.

Running CMD command in PowerShell

You must use the Invoke-Command cmdlet to launch this external program. Normally it works without an effort.

If you need more than one command you should use the Invoke-Expression cmdlet with the -scriptblock option.

Why am I getting a "401 Unauthorized" error in Maven?

I was dealing with this running Artifactory version 5.8.4. The "Set Me Up" function would generate settings.xml as follows:

<servers>
    <server>
      <username>${security.getCurrentUsername()}</username>
      <password>${security.getEscapedEncryptedPassword()!"AP56eMPz8L12T5u4J6rWdqWqyhQ"}</password>
      <id>central</id>
    </server>
    <server>
      <username>${security.getCurrentUsername()}</username>
      <password>${security.getEscapedEncryptedPassword()!"AP56eMPz8L12T5u4J6rWdqWqyhQ"}</password>
      <id>snapshots</id>
    </server>
</servers>

After using the mvn deploy -e -X switch, I noticed the credentials were not accurate. I removed the ${security.getCurrentUsername()} and replaced it with my username and removed ${security.getEscapedEncryptedPassword()!""} and just put my encrypted password which worked for me:

<servers>
    <server>
      <username>username</username>
      <password>AP56eMPz8L12T5u4J6rWdqWqyhQ</password>
      <id>central</id>
    </server>
    <server>
      <username>username</username>
      <password>AP56eMPz8L12T5u4J6rWdqWqyhQ</password>
      <id>snapshots</id>
    </server>
</servers>

Hope this helps!

What is an "index out of range" exception, and how do I fix it?

Why does this error occur?

Because you tried to access an element in a collection, using a numeric index that exceeds the collection's boundaries.

The first element in a collection is generally located at index 0. The last element is at index n-1, where n is the Size of the collection (the number of elements it contains). If you attempt to use a negative number as an index, or a number that is larger than Size-1, you're going to get an error.

How indexing arrays works

When you declare an array like this:

var array = new int[6]

The first and last elements in the array are

var firstElement = array[0];
var lastElement = array[5];

So when you write:

var element = array[5];

you are retrieving the sixth element in the array, not the fifth one.

Typically, you would loop over an array like this:

for (int index = 0; index < array.Length; index++)
{
    Console.WriteLine(array[index]);
}

This works, because the loop starts at zero, and ends at Length-1 because index is no longer less than Length.

This, however, will throw an exception:

for (int index = 0; index <= array.Length; index++)
{
    Console.WriteLine(array[index]);
}

Notice the <= there? index will now be out of range in the last loop iteration, because the loop thinks that Length is a valid index, but it is not.

How other collections work

Lists work the same way, except that you generally use Count instead of Length. They still start at zero, and end at Count - 1.

for (int index = 0; i < list.Count; index++)
{
    Console.WriteLine(list[index]);
} 

However, you can also iterate through a list using foreach, avoiding the whole problem of indexing entirely:

foreach (var element in list)
{
    Console.WriteLine(element.ToString());
}

You cannot index an element that hasn't been added to a collection yet.

var list = new List<string>();
list.Add("Zero");
list.Add("One");
list.Add("Two");
Console.WriteLine(list[3]);  // Throws exception.

Found conflicts between different versions of the same dependent assembly that could not be resolved

Obviously there's a lot of different causes and thus a lot of solutions for this problem. To throw mine into the mix, we upgraded an assembly (System.Net.Http) that was previously directly referenced in our Web project to a version managed by NuGet. This removed the direct reference within that project, but our Test project still contained the direct reference. Upgrading both projects to use the NuGet-managed assembly resolved the issue.

Why is it that "No HTTP resource was found that matches the request URI" here?

If it is a GET service, then you need to use it with a GET method, not a POST method. Your problem is a type mismatch. A different example of type mismatch (to put severity into perspective) is trying to assign a string to an integer variable.

notifyDataSetChanged not working on RecyclerView

In my case, force run #notifyDataSetChanged in main ui thread will fix

public void refresh() {
        clearSelection();
        // notifyDataSetChanged must run in main ui thread, if run in not ui thread, it will not update until manually scroll recyclerview
        ((Activity) ctx).runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
            }
        });
    }

Step out of current function with GDB

You can use the finish command.

finish: Continue running until just after function in the selected stack frame returns. Print the returned value (if any). This command can be abbreviated as fin.

(See 5.2 Continuing and Stepping.)

Can't start Tomcat as Windows Service

"Windows could not start the Apache Tomcat 6 on Local Computer. For more information, review the System Event Log. If this is a non-Microsoft service, contact the service vendor, and refer to service-specific error code 0"

When an error of this sort come. please go to start -> configure tomcat -> startup -> Mode -> java similarly start -> configure tomcat -> shutdown -> Mode -> java

How to update a claim in ASP.NET Identity?

I get that exception too and cleared things up like this

var identity = User.Identity as ClaimsIdentity;
var newIdentity = new ClaimsIdentity(identity.AuthenticationType, identity.NameClaimType, identity.RoleClaimType);
newIdentity.AddClaims(identity.Claims.Where(c => false == (c.Type == claim.Type && c.Value == claim.Value)));
// the claim has been removed, you can add it with a new value now if desired
AuthenticationManager.SignOut(identity.AuthenticationType);
AuthenticationManager.SignIn(new AuthenticationProperties() { IsPersistent = isPersistent }, newIdentity);

PowerShell The term is not recognized as cmdlet function script file or operable program

Yet another way this error message can occur...

If PowerShell is open in a directory other than the target file, e.g.:

If someScript.ps1 is located here: C:\SlowLearner\some_missing_path\someScript.ps1, then C:\SlowLearner>. ./someScript.ps1 wont work.

In that case, navigate to the path: cd some_missing_path then this would work:

C:\SlowLearner\some_missing_path>. ./someScript.ps1

Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0 is not registered

There is a alter way. Open the excel file in Microsoft office Excel, and save it as "Excel 97-2003 Workbook". Then, use the new saved excel file in your file connection.

Register .NET Framework 4.5 in IIS 7.5

I got into this mess twice and after searching long and hard and following what others did absolutely nothing worked for me but to uninstall and install IIS back once on Windows 7 machine and then on Windows server 2012 R2.

CodeIgniter - return only one row?

class receipt_model extends CI_Model {

   public function index(){

      $this->db->select('*');

      $this->db->from('donor_details');

      $this->db->order_by('donor_id','desc');

      $query=$this->db->get();

      $row=$query->row();

      return $row;
 }

}

Select a dummy column with a dummy value in SQL?

If you meant just ABC as simple value, answer above is the one that works fine.

If you meant concatenation of values of rows that are not selected by your main query, you will need to use a subquery.

Something like this may work:

SELECT t1.col1, 
t1.col2, 
(SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(col2 SEPARATOR '') FROM  Table1 t2 WHERE t2.col1 != 0) as col3 
FROM Table1 t1
WHERE t1.col1 = 0;

Actual syntax maybe a bit off though

Suppress/ print without b' prefix for bytes in Python 3

you can use this code for showing or print :

<byte_object>.decode("utf-8")

and you can use this for encode or saving :

<str_object>.encode('utf-8')

CSS vertical-align: text-bottom;

To use vertical-align properly, you should do it on table tag. But there is a way to make other html tags to behave as a table by assigning them a css of display:table to your parent, and display:table-cell on your child. Then vertical-align:bottom will work on that child.

HTML:

??????<div class="parent">
    <div class="child">
        This text is vertically aligned to bottom.    
    </div>
</div>????????????????????????

CSS:

?.parent {
    width: 300px;
    height: 50px;
    display:? table;
    border: 1px solid red;
}
.child { 
    display: table-cell;
    vertical-align: bottom;
}?

Here is a live example: link demo

Sublime Text 3, convert spaces to tabs

As you might already know, you can customize your indention settings in Preferences.sublime-settings, for example:

"detect_indentation": true,
"tab_size": 4,
"translate_tabs_to_spaces": false

This will set your editor to use tabs that are 4 spaces wide and will override the default behavior that causes Sublime to match the indention of whatever file you're editing. With these settings, re-indenting the file will cause any spaces to be replaced with tabs.

As far as automatically re-indenting when opening a file, that's not quite as easy (but probably isn't a great idea since whitespace changes wreak havoc on file diffs). What might be a better course of action: you can map a shortcut for re-indention and just trigger that when you open a new file that needs fixing.

Parsing domain from a URL

From http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.parse-url.php#93983

for some odd reason, parse_url returns the host (ex. example.com) as the path when no scheme is provided in the input url. So I've written a quick function to get the real host:

function getHost($Address) { 
   $parseUrl = parse_url(trim($Address)); 
   return trim($parseUrl['host'] ? $parseUrl['host'] : array_shift(explode('/', $parseUrl['path'], 2))); 
} 

getHost("example.com"); // Gives example.com 
getHost("http://example.com"); // Gives example.com 
getHost("www.example.com"); // Gives www.example.com 
getHost("http://example.com/xyz"); // Gives example.com 

C# Sort and OrderBy comparison

Why not measure it:

class Program
{
    class NameComparer : IComparer<string>
    {
        public int Compare(string x, string y)
        {
            return string.Compare(x, y, true);
        }
    }

    class Person
    {
        public Person(string id, string name)
        {
            Id = id;
            Name = name;
        }
        public string Id { get; set; }
        public string Name { get; set; }
    }

    static void Main()
    {
        List<Person> persons = new List<Person>();
        persons.Add(new Person("P005", "Janson"));
        persons.Add(new Person("P002", "Aravind"));
        persons.Add(new Person("P007", "Kazhal"));

        Sort(persons);
        OrderBy(persons);

        const int COUNT = 1000000;
        Stopwatch watch = Stopwatch.StartNew();
        for (int i = 0; i < COUNT; i++)
        {
            Sort(persons);
        }
        watch.Stop();
        Console.WriteLine("Sort: {0}ms", watch.ElapsedMilliseconds);

        watch = Stopwatch.StartNew();
        for (int i = 0; i < COUNT; i++)
        {
            OrderBy(persons);
        }
        watch.Stop();
        Console.WriteLine("OrderBy: {0}ms", watch.ElapsedMilliseconds);
    }

    static void Sort(List<Person> list)
    {
        list.Sort((p1, p2) => string.Compare(p1.Name, p2.Name, true));
    }

    static void OrderBy(List<Person> list)
    {
        var result = list.OrderBy(n => n.Name, new NameComparer()).ToArray();
    }
}

On my computer when compiled in Release mode this program prints:

Sort: 1162ms
OrderBy: 1269ms

UPDATE:

As suggested by @Stefan here are the results of sorting a big list fewer times:

List<Person> persons = new List<Person>();
for (int i = 0; i < 100000; i++)
{
    persons.Add(new Person("P" + i.ToString(), "Janson" + i.ToString()));
}

Sort(persons);
OrderBy(persons);

const int COUNT = 30;
Stopwatch watch = Stopwatch.StartNew();
for (int i = 0; i < COUNT; i++)
{
    Sort(persons);
}
watch.Stop();
Console.WriteLine("Sort: {0}ms", watch.ElapsedMilliseconds);

watch = Stopwatch.StartNew();
for (int i = 0; i < COUNT; i++)
{
    OrderBy(persons);
}
watch.Stop();
Console.WriteLine("OrderBy: {0}ms", watch.ElapsedMilliseconds);

Prints:

Sort: 8965ms
OrderBy: 8460ms

In this scenario it looks like OrderBy performs better.


UPDATE2:

And using random names:

List<Person> persons = new List<Person>();
for (int i = 0; i < 100000; i++)
{
    persons.Add(new Person("P" + i.ToString(), RandomString(5, true)));
}

Where:

private static Random randomSeed = new Random();
public static string RandomString(int size, bool lowerCase)
{
    var sb = new StringBuilder(size);
    int start = (lowerCase) ? 97 : 65;
    for (int i = 0; i < size; i++)
    {
        sb.Append((char)(26 * randomSeed.NextDouble() + start));
    }
    return sb.ToString();
}

Yields:

Sort: 8968ms
OrderBy: 8728ms

Still OrderBy is faster

JQuery: if div is visible

You can use .is(':visible')

Selects all elements that are visible.

For example:

if($('#selectDiv').is(':visible')){

Also, you can get the div which is visible by:

$('div:visible').callYourFunction();

Live example:

_x000D_
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console.log($('#selectDiv').is(':visible'));_x000D_
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CodeIgniter removing index.php from url

Only three steps are require to remove index.php from url in Codeigniter

1) Create .htacess file in parallel to application holder and just copy past the following code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /CodeIgniter/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]

2) Change $config['index_page'] to blank in config.php in application folder as below:

$config['index_page'] = '';

3) Enable “rewrite_module” of apache.

Restart your apache and its done.

Details : http://sforsuresh.in/removing-index-php-from-url-of-codeigniter-in-wamp/

Find (and kill) process locking port 3000 on Mac

If you want a code free way - open activity manager and force kill node :)

Angular: Can't find Promise, Map, Set and Iterator

When having Typescript >= 2 the "lib" option in tsconfig.json will do the job. No need for Typings. https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/compiler-options.html

{
    "compilerOptions": {
        "target": "es5",
        "lib": ["es2016", "dom"] //or es6 instead of es2016(es7)
    }
}

Is there a way to specify a max height or width for an image?

You can try this one

img{
    max-height:500px;
    max-width:500px;
    height:auto;
    width:auto;
}

This keeps the aspect ratio of the image and prevents either the two dimensions exceed 500px

You can check this post

How to select a column name with a space in MySQL

If double quotes does not work , try including the string within square brackets.

For eg:

SELECT "Business Name","Other Name" FROM your_Table

can be changed as

SELECT [Business Name],[Other Name] FROM your_Table

How can I view an old version of a file with Git?

Helper to fetch multiple files from a given revision

When trying to resolve merge conflicts, this helper is very useful:

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import argparse
import os
import subprocess

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('revision')
parser.add_argument('files', nargs='+')
args = parser.parse_args()
toplevel = subprocess.check_output(['git', 'rev-parse', '--show-toplevel']).rstrip().decode()
for path in args.files:
    file_relative = os.path.relpath(os.path.abspath(path), toplevel)
    base, ext = os.path.splitext(path)
    new_path = base + '.old' + ext
    with open(new_path, 'w') as f:
        subprocess.call(['git', 'show', '{}:./{}'.format(args.revision, path)], stdout=f)

GitHub upstream.

Usage:

git-show-save other-branch file1.c path/to/file2.cpp

Outcome: the following contain the alternate versions of the files:

file1.old.c
path/to/file2.old.cpp

This way, you keep the file extension so your editor won't complain, and can easily find the old file just next to the newer one.

Data was not saved: object references an unsaved transient instance - save the transient instance before flushing

Well if you have given

@ManyToOne ()
   @JoinColumn (name = "countryId")
   private Country country;

then object of that class i mean Country need to be save first.

because it will only allow User to get saved into the database if there is key available for the Country of that user for the same. means it will allow user to be saved if and only if that country is exist into the Country table.

So for that you need to save that Country first into the table.

Getting rid of all the rounded corners in Twitter Bootstrap

Bootstrap has it's own classes for borders including .rounded-0 to get rid of rounded corners on any element including buttons

https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.4/utilities/borders/#border-radius

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Hex colors: Numeric representation for "transparent"?

The alpha channel defines the transparency value of a color, so any color is 100% transparent as long as the alpha value is 0. Typically this four-channel color type is known as RGBA.

You can specify RGBA in CSS like so:

div {
    background: rgba(200, 54, 54, 0.5); /* 50% transparent */
}

Note that not all browsers support RGBA, in which case you can specify a fallback:

div {
    background: rgb(200, 54, 54); /* fallback */
    background: rgba(200, 54, 54, 0.5); /* 50% transparent */
}

More information regarding browser support and workarounds can be found here.

Error - is not marked as serializable

Leaving my specific solution of this for prosperity, as it's a tricky version of this problem:

Type 'System.Linq.Enumerable+WhereSelectArrayIterator[T...] was not marked as serializable

Due to a class with an attribute IEnumerable<int> eg:

[Serializable]
class MySessionData{
    public int ID;
    public IEnumerable<int> RelatedIDs; //This can be an issue
}

Originally the problem instance of MySessionData was set from a non-serializable list:

MySessionData instance = new MySessionData(){ 
    ID = 123,
    RelatedIDs = nonSerizableList.Select<int>(item => item.ID)
};

The cause here is the concrete class that the Select<int>(...) returns, has type data that's not serializable, and you need to copy the id's to a fresh List<int> to resolve it.

RelatedIDs = nonSerizableList.Select<int>(item => item.ID).ToList();

Display last git commit comment

git show

is the fastest to type, but shows you the diff as well.

git log -1

is fast and simple.

git log -1 --pretty=%B

if you need just the commit message and nothing else.

Giving height to table and row in Bootstrap

CSS:

tr {
width: 100%;
display: inline-table;
height:60px;                // <-- the rows height 
}

table{
 height:300px;              // <-- Select the height of the table
 display: -moz-groupbox;    // For firefox bad effect
}
tbody{
  overflow-y: scroll;      
  height: 200px;            //  <-- Select the height of the body
  width: 100%;
  position: absolute;
}

Bootply : http://www.bootply.com/AgI8LpDugl

Check whether a request is GET or POST

Better use $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']:

if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] === 'POST') {
    // …
}

DISTINCT clause with WHERE

simple query this query select all record from table where email is unique:

select distinct email,* from table_name

Does Java read integers in little endian or big endian?

There are no unsigned integers in Java. All integers are signed and in big endian.

On the C side the each byte has tne LSB at the start is on the left and the MSB at the end.

It sounds like you are using LSB as Least significant bit, are you? LSB usually stands for least significant byte. Endianness is not bit based but byte based.

To convert from unsigned byte to a Java integer:

int i = (int) b & 0xFF;

To convert from unsigned 32-bit little-endian in byte[] to Java long (from the top of my head, not tested):

long l = (long)b[0] & 0xFF;
l += ((long)b[1] & 0xFF) << 8;
l += ((long)b[2] & 0xFF) << 16;
l += ((long)b[3] & 0xFF) << 24;

how to print json data in console.log

Object

input_data: Object price-row_122: " 35.1 " quantity-row_122: "1" success: true

Remove Rows From Data Frame where a Row matches a String

You can use the dplyr package to easily remove those particular rows.

library(dplyr)
df <- filter(df, C != "Foo")

Saving numpy array to txt file row wise

import numpy
a = numpy.array([1,2,3])

with open(r'test.txt', 'w') as f:
    f.write(" ".join(map(str, a)))

passing 2 $index values within nested ng-repeat

What about using this syntax (take a look in this plunker). I just discovered this and it's pretty awesome.

ng-repeat="(key,value) in data"

Example:

<div ng-repeat="(indexX,object) in data">
    <div ng-repeat="(indexY,value) in object">
       {{indexX}} - {{indexY}} - {{value}}
    </div>
</div>

With this syntax you can give your own name to $index and differentiate the two indexes.

Storage permission error in Marshmallow

You should be checking if the user has granted permission of external storage by using:

if (checkSelfPermission(android.Manifest.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE) == PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED) {
    Log.v(TAG,"Permission is granted");
    //File write logic here
    return true;
}

If not, you need to ask the user to grant your app a permission:

ActivityCompat.requestPermissions(this, new String[]{Manifest.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE}, REQUEST_CODE);

Of course these are for marshmallow devices only so you need to check if your app is running on Marshmallow:

 if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 23) {
      //do your check here
 }

Be also sure that your activity implements OnRequestPermissionResult

The entire permission looks like this:

public  boolean isStoragePermissionGranted() {
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.M) {
        if (checkSelfPermission(android.Manifest.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE)
                == PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED) {
            Log.v(TAG,"Permission is granted");
            return true;
        } else {

            Log.v(TAG,"Permission is revoked");
            ActivityCompat.requestPermissions(this, new String[]{Manifest.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE}, 1);
            return false;
        }
    }
    else { //permission is automatically granted on sdk<23 upon installation
        Log.v(TAG,"Permission is granted");
        return true;
    }
}

Permission result callback:

@Override
public void onRequestPermissionsResult(int requestCode, String[] permissions, int[] grantResults) {
    super.onRequestPermissionsResult(requestCode, permissions, grantResults);
    if(grantResults.length > 0 && grantResults[0] == PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED){
        Log.v(TAG,"Permission: "+permissions[0]+ "was "+grantResults[0]);
        //resume tasks needing this permission
    }
}

matplotlib: how to change data points color based on some variable

If you want to plot lines instead of points, see this example, modified here to plot good/bad points representing a function as a black/red as appropriate:

def plot(xx, yy, good):
    """Plot data

    Good parts are plotted as black, bad parts as red.

    Parameters
    ----------
    xx, yy : 1D arrays
        Data to plot.
    good : `numpy.ndarray`, boolean
        Boolean array indicating if point is good.
    """
    import numpy as np
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
    fig, ax = plt.subplots()
    from matplotlib.colors import from_levels_and_colors
    from matplotlib.collections import LineCollection
    cmap, norm = from_levels_and_colors([0.0, 0.5, 1.5], ['red', 'black'])
    points = np.array([xx, yy]).T.reshape(-1, 1, 2)
    segments = np.concatenate([points[:-1], points[1:]], axis=1)
    lines = LineCollection(segments, cmap=cmap, norm=norm)
    lines.set_array(good.astype(int))
    ax.add_collection(lines)
    plt.show()

How to declare a constant in Java

  1. You can use an enum type in Java 5 and onwards for the purpose you have described. It is type safe.
  2. A is an instance variable. (If it has the static modifier, then it becomes a static variable.) Constants just means the value doesn't change.
  3. Instance variables are data members belonging to the object and not the class. Instance variable = Instance field.

If you are talking about the difference between instance variable and class variable, instance variable exist per object created. While class variable has only one copy per class loader regardless of the number of objects created.

Java 5 and up enum type

public enum Color{
 RED("Red"), GREEN("Green");

 private Color(String color){
    this.color = color;
  }

  private String color;

  public String getColor(){
    return this.color;
  }

  public String toString(){
    return this.color;
  }
}

If you wish to change the value of the enum you have created, provide a mutator method.

public enum Color{
 RED("Red"), GREEN("Green");

 private Color(String color){
    this.color = color;
  }

  private String color;

  public String getColor(){
    return this.color;
  }

  public void setColor(String color){
    this.color = color;
  }

  public String toString(){
    return this.color;
  }
}

Example of accessing:

public static void main(String args[]){
  System.out.println(Color.RED.getColor());

  // or

  System.out.println(Color.GREEN);
}

Determine whether an array contains a value

If you have access to ECMA 5 you can use the some method.

MDN SOME Method Link

arrValues = ["Sam","Great", "Sample", "High"];

function namePresent(name){
  return name === this.toString();
}
// Note:
// namePresent requires .toString() method to coerce primitive value
// i.e. String {0: "S", 1: "a", 2: "m", length: 3, [[PrimitiveValue]]: "Sam"}
// into
// "Sam"

arrValues.some(namePresent, 'Sam');
=> true;

If you have access to ECMA 6 you can use the includes method.

MDN INCLUDES Method Link

arrValues = ["Sam","Great", "Sample", "High"];

arrValues.includes('Sam');
=> true;

Getting all names in an enum as a String[]

You can put enum values to list of strings and convert to array:

    List<String> stateList = new ArrayList<>();

            for (State state: State.values()) {
                stateList.add(state.toString());
            }

    String[] stateArray = new String[stateList.size()];
    stateArray = stateList.toArray(stateArray);

How do you test running time of VBA code?

The Timer function in VBA gives you the number of seconds elapsed since midnight, to 1/100 of a second.

Dim t as single
t = Timer
'code
MsgBox Timer - t

What is a "thread" (really)?

A thread is a set of (CPU)instructions which can be executed.

But in order to better understand the thread we have to have some knowledge about how the CPU and RAM works.

A computer follows instructions and manipulates data. RAM is the place where those instructions and data on which the CPU will operate on, are saved. Within the CPU some memory cells called registers exist. Those registers contain numbers on which the CPU performs simple mathematical operations. An example can be the following: “Add the number in register #3 to the number in register #1.”.

The collection of all operations a CPU can do is called instruction set. Each operation in the instruction set is assigned a number, so computer code is essentially a sequence of numbers representing CPU operations. These operations are stored as numbers in the RAM.

The CPU works in a never-ending loop, always fetching and executing an instruction from memory. At the core of this cycle is the PC register, or Program Counter. It's a special register that stores the memory address of the next instruction to be executed.

The CPU will:  

  1. Fetch the instruction at the memory address given by the PC,
  2. Increment the PC by 1,
  3. Execute the instruction,
  4. Go back to step 1.

The CPU can be instructed to write a new value to the PC, causing the execution to branch, or "jump" to somewhere else in the memory. And this branching can be conditional. For instance, a CPU instruction could say: "set PC to address #200 if register #1 equals zero". This allows computers to execute stuff like this:

if  x = 0
    compute_this()
else
    compute_that()

Resources taken from Computer Science Distilled were used.

How to check whether an object is a date?

An approach using a try/catch

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Border around specific rows in a table?

Group rows together using the <tbody> tag and then apply style.

<table>
  <tr><td>No Style here</td></tr>
  <tbody class="red-outline">
    <tr><td>Style me</td></tr>
    <tr><td>And me</td></tr>
  </tbody>
  <tr><td>No Style here</td></tr>
</table>  

And the css in style.css

.red-outline {
  outline: 1px solid red;
}

How to target only IE (any version) within a stylesheet?

After experiencing issues with sites breaking on Edge when using High Contrast Mode, I came across the following work by Jeff Clayton:

https://browserstrangeness.github.io/css_hacks.html

It's a crazy, weird media query, but those are easier to use in Sass:

@media screen and (min-width:0\0) and (min-resolution:+72dpi), \0screen\,screen\9 {
   .selector { rule: value };
}

This targets IE versions expect for IE8.

Or you can use:

@media screen\0 {
  .selector { rule: value };
}

Which targets IE8-11, but also triggers FireFox 1.x (which for my use case, doesn't matter).

Right now I'm testing with print support, and this seems to be working okay:

@media all\0 {
  .selector { rule: value };
}

Is it worth using Python's re.compile?

Regular Expressions are compiled before being used when using the second version. If you are going to executing it many times it is definatly better to compile it first. If not compiling every time you match for one off's is fine.

Multiple file upload in php

Nice link on:

PHP Single File Uploading with vary basic explanation.

PHP file uploading with the Validation

PHP Multiple Files Upload With Validation Click here to download source code

PHP/jQuery Multiple Files Upload With The ProgressBar And Validation (Click here to download source code)

How To Upload Files In PHP And Store In MySql Database (Click here to download source code)

extract($_POST);
    $error=array();
    $extension=array("jpeg","jpg","png","gif");
    foreach($_FILES["files"]["tmp_name"] as $key=>$tmp_name)
            {
                $file_name=$_FILES["files"]["name"][$key];
                $file_tmp=$_FILES["files"]["tmp_name"][$key];
                $ext=pathinfo($file_name,PATHINFO_EXTENSION);
                if(in_array($ext,$extension))
                {
                    if(!file_exists("photo_gallery/".$txtGalleryName."/".$file_name))
                    {
                        move_uploaded_file($file_tmp=$_FILES["files"]["tmp_name"][$key],"photo_gallery/".$txtGalleryName."/".$file_name);
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        $filename=basename($file_name,$ext);
                        $newFileName=$filename.time().".".$ext;
                        move_uploaded_file($file_tmp=$_FILES["files"]["tmp_name"][$key],"photo_gallery/".$txtGalleryName."/".$newFileName);
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    array_push($error,"$file_name, ");
                }
            }

and you must check your HTML code

<form action="create_photo_gallery.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
    <table width="100%">
        <tr>
            <td>Select Photo (one or multiple):</td>
            <td><input type="file" name="files[]" multiple/></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td colspan="2" align="center">Note: Supported image format: .jpeg, .jpg, .png, .gif</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td colspan="2" align="center"><input type="submit" value="Create Gallery" id="selectedButton"/></td>
        </tr>
    </table>
</form>

Nice link on:

PHP Single File Uploading with vary basic explanation.

PHP file uploading with the Validation

PHP Multiple Files Upload With Validation Click here to download source code

PHP/jQuery Multiple Files Upload With The ProgressBar And Validation (Click here to download source code)

How To Upload Files In PHP And Store In MySql Database (Click here to download source code)

Issue with background color and Google Chrome

I am not sure 100%, but try to replace selector with "html, body":

html, body 
{
   background: black;
   color: white;
   font-family: Chaparral Pro, lucida grande, verdana, sans-serif;
}

Get specific line from text file using just shell script

sed:

sed '5!d' file

awk:

awk 'NR==5' file

How to run python script on terminal (ubuntu)?

Save your python file in a spot where you will be able to find it again. Then navigate to that spot using the command line (cd /home/[profile]/spot/you/saved/file) or go to that location with the file browser. If you use the latter, right click and select "Open In Terminal." When the terminal opens, type "sudo chmod +x Yourfilename." After entering your password, type "python ./Yourfilename" which will open your python file in the command line. Hope this helps!

Running Linux Mint

Access to file download dialog in Firefox

I didnt unserstood your objective, Do you wanted your test to automatically download file when test is getting executed, if yes, then You need to use custom Firefox profile in your test execution.

In the custom profile, for first time execute test manually and if download dialog comes, the set it Save it to Disk, also check Always perform this action checkbox which will ensure that file automatically get downloaded next time you run your test.

efficient way to implement paging

The approach that I am giving is the fastest pagination that SQL server can achieve. I have tested this on 5 million records. This approach is far better than "OFFSET 10 ROWS FETCH NEXT 10 ROWS ONLY" provided by SQL Server.

-- The below given code computes the page numbers and the max row of previous page
-- Replace <<>> with the correct table data.
-- Eg. <<IdentityColumn of Table>> can be EmployeeId and <<Table>> will be dbo.Employees

DECLARE @PageNumber int=1; --1st/2nd/nth page. In stored proc take this as input param.
DECLARE @NoOfRecordsPerPage int=1000;

 DECLARE @PageDetails TABLE
       (
        <<IdentityColumn of Table>> int,
        rownum int,
        [PageNumber] int
       )           
       INSERT INTO @PageDetails values(0, 0, 0)
       ;WITH CTE AS
       (
       SELECT <<IdentityColumn of Table>>, ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY <<IdentityColumn of Table>>) rownum FROM <<Table>>
       )
       Insert into @PageDetails 
       SELECT <<IdentityColumn of Table>>, CTE.rownum, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY rownum) as [PageNumber] FROM CTE WHERE CTE.rownum%@NoOfRecordsPerPage=0


--SELECT * FROM @PageDetails 

-- Actual pagination
SELECT TOP (@NoOfRecordsPerPage)
FROM <<Table>> AS <<Table>>
WHERE <<IdentityColumn of Table>> > (SELECT <<IdentityColumn of Table>> FROM 
@PageDetails WHERE PageNumber=@PageNumber)
ORDER BY <<Identity Column of Table>>

What does the "+" (plus sign) CSS selector mean?

p+p{
//styling the code
}

p+p{
} simply mean find all the adjacent/sibling paragraphs with respect to first paragraph in DOM body.

    <div>
    <input type="text" placeholder="something">
    <p>This is first paragraph</p>
    <button>Button </button>
    <p> This is second paragraph</p>
    <p>This is third paragraph</p>
    </div>

    Styling part 
    <style type="text/css">
        p+p{
            color: red;
            font-weight: bolder;
        }
    </style>

   It will style all sibling paragraph with red color.

final output look like this

enter image description here

Problem in running .net framework 4.0 website on iis 7.0

Try changing the AppPool Manged Pipeline Mode from "Integration" to "Classic".

Can I exclude some concrete urls from <url-pattern> inside <filter-mapping>?

I don't think you can, the only other configuration alternative is to enumerate the paths that you want to be filtered, so instead of /* you could add some for /this/* and /that/* etc, but that won't lead to a sufficient solution when you have alot of those paths.

What you can do is add a parameter to the filter providing an expression (like a regular expression) which is used to skip the filter functionality for the paths matched. The servlet container will still call your filter for those url's but you will have better control over the configuration.

Edit

Now that you mention you have no control over the filter, what you could do is either inherit from that filter calling super methods in its methods except when the url path you want to skip is present and follow the filter chain like @BalusC proposed, or build a filter which instantiates your filter and delegates under the same circumstances. In both cases the filter parameters would include both the expression parameter you add and those of the filter you inherit from or delegate to.

The advantage of building a delegating filter (a wrapper) is that you can add the filter class of the wrapped filter as parameter and reuse it in other situations like this one.

How can I completely remove TFS Bindings

If anyone needs to do this outside the context of the Visual Studio application - via command-line for example, I wrote a small tool which will strip the source control bindings from Solution And Project files. The source is available here: https://github.com/saveenr/VS_unbind_source_control

How can I use optional parameters in a T-SQL stored procedure?

Dynamically changing searches based on the given parameters is a complicated subject and doing it one way over another, even with only a very slight difference, can have massive performance implications. The key is to use an index, ignore compact code, ignore worrying about repeating code, you must make a good query execution plan (use an index).

Read this and consider all the methods. Your best method will depend on your parameters, your data, your schema, and your actual usage:

Dynamic Search Conditions in T-SQL by by Erland Sommarskog

The Curse and Blessings of Dynamic SQL by Erland Sommarskog

If you have the proper SQL Server 2008 version (SQL 2008 SP1 CU5 (10.0.2746) and later), you can use this little trick to actually use an index:

Add OPTION (RECOMPILE) onto your query, see Erland's article, and SQL Server will resolve the OR from within (@LastName IS NULL OR LastName= @LastName) before the query plan is created based on the runtime values of the local variables, and an index can be used.

This will work for any SQL Server version (return proper results), but only include the OPTION(RECOMPILE) if you are on SQL 2008 SP1 CU5 (10.0.2746) and later. The OPTION(RECOMPILE) will recompile your query, only the verison listed will recompile it based on the current run time values of the local variables, which will give you the best performance. If not on that version of SQL Server 2008, just leave that line off.

CREATE PROCEDURE spDoSearch
    @FirstName varchar(25) = null,
    @LastName varchar(25) = null,
    @Title varchar(25) = null
AS
    BEGIN
        SELECT ID, FirstName, LastName, Title
        FROM tblUsers
        WHERE
                (@FirstName IS NULL OR (FirstName = @FirstName))
            AND (@LastName  IS NULL OR (LastName  = @LastName ))
            AND (@Title     IS NULL OR (Title     = @Title    ))
        OPTION (RECOMPILE) ---<<<<use if on for SQL 2008 SP1 CU5 (10.0.2746) and later
    END

Real escape string and PDO

You should use PDO Prepare

From the link:

Calling PDO::prepare() and PDOStatement::execute() for statements that will be issued multiple times with different parameter values optimizes the performance of your application by allowing the driver to negotiate client and/or server side caching of the query plan and meta information, and helps to prevent SQL injection attacks by eliminating the need to manually quote the parameters.

How to work with complex numbers in C?

Complex types are in the C language since C99 standard (-std=c99 option of GCC). Some compilers may implement complex types even in more earlier modes, but this is non-standard and non-portable extension (e.g. IBM XL, GCC, may be intel,... ).

You can start from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex.h - it gives a description of functions from complex.h

This manual http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009604499/basedefs/complex.h.html also gives some info about macros.

To declare a complex variable, use

  double _Complex  a;        // use c* functions without suffix

or

  float _Complex   b;        // use c*f functions - with f suffix
  long double _Complex c;    // use c*l functions - with l suffix

To give a value into complex, use _Complex_I macro from complex.h:

  float _Complex d = 2.0f + 2.0f*_Complex_I;

(actually there can be some problems here with (0,-0i) numbers and NaNs in single half of complex)

Module is cabs(a)/cabsl(c)/cabsf(b); Real part is creal(a), Imaginary is cimag(a). carg(a) is for complex argument.

To directly access (read/write) real an imag part you may use this unportable GCC-extension:

 __real__ a = 1.4;
 __imag__ a = 2.0;
 float b = __real__ a;

The import javax.persistence cannot be resolved

If you are using Hibernate as a JPA implementation and you are not using Maven/Gradle, the easier way is to download whole bundle instead of jar file one by one.

Go http://hibernate.org/orm/downloads/ and download the latest library, extract the jar from the required folder.

Get current clipboard content?

Use the new clipboard API, via navigator.clipboard. It can be used like this:

navigator.clipboard.readText()
  .then(text => {
    console.log('Pasted content: ', text);
  })
  .catch(err => {
    console.error('Failed to read clipboard contents: ', err);
  });

Or with async syntax:

const text = await navigator.clipboard.readText();

Keep in mind that this will prompt the user with a permission request dialog box, so no funny business possible.

The above code will not work if called from the console. It only works when you run the code in an active tab. To run the code from your console you can set a timeout and click in the website window quickly:

setTimeout(async () => {
  const text = await navigator.clipboard.readText();
  console.log(text);
}, 2000);

Read more on the API and usage in the Google developer docs.

Spec

Time comparison

import java.util.Calendar;

Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
int currentHour = cal.get(Calendar.HOUR);
if (currentHour > 10 && currentHour < 18) {
    //then rock on
}

How to hide navigation bar permanently in android activity?

I think this code will resolve your issue. Copy and paste this code on your MainActivity.java

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {                          
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    View decorView = getWindow().getDecorView();
    decorView.setOnSystemUiVisibilityChangeListener
    (new View.OnSystemUiVisibilityChangeListener() {
        @Override
        public void onSystemUiVisibilityChange(int visibility) {

            if ((visibility & View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_FULLSCREEN) == 0) {
                hideNavigationBar();
            } 
        }
    });
}



private void hideNavigationBar() {
   getWindow().getDecorView().setSystemUiVisibility(
        View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_HIDE_NAVIGATION|
        View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_IMMERSIVE_STICKY);
}

It will works on Android-10. I hope it will helps.

Html.EditorFor Set Default Value

Its not right to set default value in View. The View should perform display work, not more. This action breaks ideology of MVC pattern. So the right place to set defaults - create method of controller class.

Set space between divs

You need a gutter between two div gutter can be made as following

margin(gutter) = width - gutter size E.g margin = calc(70% - 2em)

<body bgcolor="gray">
<section id="main">
        <div id="left">
            Something here     
        </div>
        <div id="right">
                Someone there
        </div>
</section>
</body>
<style>
body{
    font-size: 10px;
}

#main div{
    float: left;
    background-color:#ffffff;
    width: calc(50% - 1.5em);
    margin-left: 1.5em;
}
</style>

Initialize a string variable in Python: "" or None?

Another way to initialize an empty string is by using the built-in str() function with no arguments.

str(object='')

Return a string containing a nicely printable representation of an object.

...

If no argument is given, returns the empty string, ''.

In the original example, that would look like this:

def __init__(self, mystr=str())
   self.mystr = mystr

Personally, I believe that this better conveys your intentions.

Notice by the way that str() itself sets a default parameter value of ''.

How to split a string and assign it to variables

As a side note, you can include the separators while splitting the string in Go. To do so, use strings.SplitAfter as in the example below.

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "strings"
)

func main() {
    fmt.Printf("%q\n", strings.SplitAfter("z,o,r,r,o", ","))
}

Jquery submit form

You don't really need to do it all in jQuery to do that smoothly. Do it like this:

$(".nextbutton").click(function() { 
   document.forms["form1"].submit();
});

Convert a String of Hex into ASCII in Java

Just use a for loop to go through each couple of characters in the string, convert them to a character and then whack the character on the end of a string builder:

String hex = "75546f7272656e745c436f6d706c657465645c6e667375635f6f73745f62795f6d757374616e675c50656e64756c756d2d392c303030204d696c65732e6d7033006d7033006d7033004472756d202620426173730050656e64756c756d00496e2053696c69636f00496e2053696c69636f2a3b2a0050656e64756c756d0050656e64756c756d496e2053696c69636f303038004472756d2026204261737350656e64756c756d496e2053696c69636f30303800392c303030204d696c6573203c4d757374616e673e50656e64756c756d496e2053696c69636f3030380050656e64756c756d50656e64756c756d496e2053696c69636f303038004d50330000";
StringBuilder output = new StringBuilder();
for (int i = 0; i < hex.length(); i+=2) {
    String str = hex.substring(i, i+2);
    output.append((char)Integer.parseInt(str, 16));
}
System.out.println(output);

Or (Java 8+) if you're feeling particularly uncouth, use the infamous "fixed width string split" hack to enable you to do a one-liner with streams instead:

System.out.println(Arrays
        .stream(hex.split("(?<=\\G..)")) //https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2297347/splitting-a-string-at-every-n-th-character
        .map(s -> Character.toString((char)Integer.parseInt(s, 16)))
        .collect(Collectors.joining()));

Either way, this gives a few lines starting with the following:

uTorrent\Completed\nfsuc_ost_by_mustang\Pendulum-9,000 Miles.mp3

Hmmm... :-)

How to set placeholder value using CSS?

Some type of input hasn't got the :after or :before pseudo-element, so you can use a background-image with an SVG text element:

    input {
       background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' version='1.1' height='50px' width='120px'><text x='0' y='15' fill='gray' font-size='15'>Type Something...</text></svg>");
       background-repeat: no-repeat;
    }

    input:focus {
       background-image: none;
    }

My codepen: https://codepen.io/Scario/pen/BaagbeZ

Can VS Code run on Android?

There is a browser-based implementation of VSC that allows you to run it on a browser on your Android (or any other) device. Check it out here:

https://stackblitz.com/

What is this date format? 2011-08-12T20:17:46.384Z

@John-Skeet gave me the clue to fix my own issue around this. As a younger programmer this small issue is easy to miss and hard to diagnose. So Im sharing it in the hopes it will help someone.

My issue was that I wanted to parse the following string contraining a time stamp from a JSON I have no influence over and put it in more useful variables. But I kept getting errors.

So given the following (pay attention to the string parameter inside ofPattern();

String str = "20190927T182730.000Z"

LocalDateTime fin;
fin = LocalDateTime.parse( str, DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyyMMdd'T'HHmmss.SSSZ") );

Error:

Exception in thread "main" java.time.format.DateTimeParseException: Text 
'20190927T182730.000Z' could not be parsed at index 19

The problem? The Z at the end of the Pattern needs to be wrapped in 'Z' just like the 'T' is. Change "yyyyMMdd'T'HHmmss.SSSZ" to "yyyyMMdd'T'HHmmss.SSS'Z'" and it works.

Removing the Z from the pattern alltogether also led to errors.

Frankly, I'd expect a Java class to have anticipated this.

How do I get my solution in Visual Studio back online in TFS?

(Additional step from solution above for if you are missing the AutoReconnect or Offline registry value)

For Visual Studio 2015, Version 14

  1. Turn off all VS instances
  2. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\TeamFoundation\Instances{YourServerName}\Collections{TheCollectionName} (To get to this directory on Windows, hit the Windows + R key and search for "regedit")
  3. Set both the Offline and AutoReconnect values to 0.
  4. If you are missing one of those attributes (in my case I was missing AutoReconnect), right click and and create a new DWORD(32-bit) value with the desired missing name, AutoReconnect or Offline.
  5. Again, make sure both values are set to zero.
  6. Restart your solution

Additional info: blog MSDN - When and how does my solution go offline?

How to convert a pymongo.cursor.Cursor into a dict?

The find method returns a Cursor instance, which allows you to iterate over all matching documents.

To get the first document that matches the given criteria you need to use find_one. The result of find_one is a dictionary.

You can always use the list constructor to return a list of all the documents in the collection but bear in mind that this will load all the data in memory and may not be what you want.

You should do that if you need to reuse the cursor and have a good reason not to use rewind()


Demo using find:

>>> import pymongo
>>> conn = pymongo.MongoClient()
>>> db = conn.test #test is my database
>>> col = db.spam #Here spam is my collection
>>> cur = col.find()  
>>> cur
<pymongo.cursor.Cursor object at 0xb6d447ec>
>>> for doc in cur:
...     print(doc)  # or do something with the document
... 
{'a': 1, '_id': ObjectId('54ff30faadd8f30feb90268f'), 'b': 2}
{'a': 1, 'c': 3, '_id': ObjectId('54ff32a2add8f30feb902690'), 'b': 2}

Demo using find_one:

>>> col.find_one()
{'a': 1, '_id': ObjectId('54ff30faadd8f30feb90268f'), 'b': 2}

Android fastboot waiting for devices

try to use compiler generated fastboot when this happes. the file path is out/host/linux(or other)/bin/fastboot and sudo is also needed. it works in most of the time.

Open a PDF using VBA in Excel

WOW... In appreciation, I add a bit of code that I use to find the path to ADOBE

Private Declare Function FindExecutable Lib "shell32.dll" Alias "FindExecutableA" _
    (ByVal lpFile As String, _
     ByVal lpDirectory As String, _
     ByVal lpResult As String) As Long

and call this to find the applicable program name

Public Function GetFileAssociation(ByVal sFilepath As String) As String
Dim i               As Long
Dim E               As String
    GetFileAssociation = "File not found!"
    If Dir(sFilepath) = vbNullString Or sFilepath = vbNullString Then Exit Function
    GetFileAssociation = "No association found!"
    E = String(260, Chr(0))
    i = FindExecutable(sFilepath, vbNullString, E)
    If i > 32 Then GetFileAssociation = Left(E, InStr(E, Chr(0)) - 1)
End Function

Thank you for your code, which isn't EXACTLY what I wanted, but can be adapted for me.

Move SQL data from one table to another

You should be able to with a subquery in the INSERT statement.

INSERT INTO table1(column1, column2) SELECT column1, column2 FROM table2 WHERE ...;

followed by deleting from table1.

Remember to run it as a single transaction so that if anything goes wrong you can roll the entire operation back.

How to remove origin from git repository

Fairly straightforward:

git remote rm origin

As for the filter-branch question - just add --prune-empty to your filter branch command and it'll remove any revision that doesn't actually contain any changes in your resulting repo:

git filter-branch --prune-empty --subdirectory-filter path/to/subtree HEAD

Java: Check the date format of current string is according to required format or not

Here's a simple method:

public static boolean checkDatePattern(String padrao, String data) {
    try {
        SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat(padrao, LocaleUtils.DEFAULT_LOCALE);
        format.parse(data);
        return true;
    } catch (ParseException e) {
        return false;
    }
}

"python" not recognized as a command

Just another clarification for those starting out. When you add C:\PythonXX to your path, make sure there are NO SPACES between variables e.g.

This:

SomeOtherDirectory;C:\Python27

Not this:

SomeOtherDirectory; C:\Python27

That took me a good 15 minutes of headache to figure out (I'm on windows 7, might be OS dependent). Happy coding.

ActionBarActivity is deprecated

Since the version 22.1.0, the class ActionBarActivity is deprecated. You should use AppCompatActivity.

Read here and here for more information.

How to get first 5 characters from string

Use substr():

$result = substr($myStr, 0, 5);

What is the use of style="clear:both"?

Just to add to RichieHindle's answer, check out Floatutorial, which walks you through how CSS floating and clearing works.

GitHub - List commits by author

If the author has a GitHub account, just click the author's username from anywhere in the commit history, and the commits you can see will be filtered down to those by that author:

Screenshot showing where to click to filter down commits

You can also click the 'n commits' link below their name on the repo's "contributors" page:

Another screenshot

Alternatively, you can directly append ?author=<theusername> or ?author=<emailaddress> to the URL. For example, https://github.com/jquery/jquery/commits/master?author=dmethvin or https://github.com/jquery/jquery/commits/[email protected] both give me:

Screenshot with only Dave Methvin's commits

For authors without a GitHub account, only filtering by email address will work, and you will need to manually add ?author=<emailaddress> to the URL - the author's name will not be clickable from the commits list.


You can also get the list of commits by a particular author from the command line using

git log --author=[your git name]

Example:

git log --author=Prem

An unhandled exception of type 'System.TypeInitializationException' occurred in EntityFramework.dll

Just go to Web.Config from Main folder, not the one in Views Folder:

configSections

section name="entityFramework" type="System.Data. .....,Version=" <strong>5</strong>.0.0.0"..

<..>

ADJUST THE VERSION OF EntityFramework you have installed, ex. like Version 6.0.0.0"

Connect to Amazon EC2 file directory using Filezilla and SFTP

If anyone is following all the steps and having no success, make sure that you are using the correct user. I was attempting to use "ec2-user" but I needed to use "ubuntu."

How to navigate a few folders up?

The following method searches a file beginning with the application startup path (*.exe folder). If the file is not found there, the parent folders are searched until either the file is found or the root folder has been reached. null is returned if the file was not found.

public static FileInfo FindApplicationFile(string fileName)
{
    string startPath = Path.Combine(Application.StartupPath, fileName);
    FileInfo file = new FileInfo(startPath);
    while (!file.Exists) {
        if (file.Directory.Parent == null) {
            return null;
        }
        DirectoryInfo parentDir = file.Directory.Parent;
        file = new FileInfo(Path.Combine(parentDir.FullName, file.Name));
    }
    return file;
}

Note: Application.StartupPath is usually used in WinForms applications, but it works in console applications as well; however, you will have to set a reference to the System.Windows.Forms assembly. You can replace Application.StartupPath by
Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location) if you prefer.

Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA with multiple DataSources

thanks to the answers of Steve Park and Rafal Borowiec I got my code working, however, I had one issue: the DriverManagerDataSource is a "simple" implementation and does NOT give you a ConnectionPool (check http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/javadoc-api/org/springframework/jdbc/datasource/DriverManagerDataSource.html).

Hence, I replaced the functions which returns the DataSource for the secondDB to.

public DataSource <secondaryDB>DataSource() {
    // use DataSourceBuilder and NOT DriverManagerDataSource 
    // as this would NOT give you ConnectionPool
    DataSourceBuilder dataSourceBuilder = DataSourceBuilder.create();
    dataSourceBuilder.url(databaseUrl);
    dataSourceBuilder.username(username);
    dataSourceBuilder.password(password);
    dataSourceBuilder.driverClassName(driverClassName);
    return dataSourceBuilder.build();
}

Also, if do you not need the EntityManager as such, you can remove both the entityManager() and the @Bean annotation.

Plus, you may want to remove the basePackages annotation of your configuration class: maintaining it with the factoryBean.setPackagesToScan() call is sufficient.

addEventListener, "change" and option selection

You need a click listener which calls addActivityItem if less than 2 options exist:

var activities = document.getElementById("activitySelector");

activities.addEventListener("click", function() {
    var options = activities.querySelectorAll("option");
    var count = options.length;
    if(typeof(count) === "undefined" || count < 2)
    {
        addActivityItem();
    }
});

activities.addEventListener("change", function() {
    if(activities.value == "addNew")
    {
        addActivityItem();
    }
});

function addActivityItem() {
    // ... Code to add item here
}

A live demo is here on JSfiddle.

Using DISTINCT and COUNT together in a MySQL Query

I would do something like this:

Select count(*), productid
from products
where keyword = '$keyword'
group by productid

that will give you a list like

count(*)    productid  
----------------------
 5           12345   
 3           93884   
 9           93493    

This allows you to see how many of each distinct productid ID is associated with the keyword.

How to share my Docker-Image without using the Docker-Hub?

[Update]

More recently, there is Amazon AWS ECR (Elastic Container Registry), which provides a Docker image registry to which you can control access by means of the AWS IAM access management service. ECR can also run a CVE (vulnerabilities) check on your image when you push it.

Once you create your ECR, and obtain the "URL" you can push and pull as required, subject to the permissions you create: hence making it private or public as you wish.

Pricing is by amount of data stored, and data transfer costs.

https://aws.amazon.com/ecr/

[Original answer]

If you do not want to use the Docker Hub itself, you can host your own Docker repository under Artifactory by JFrog:

https://www.jfrog.com/confluence/display/RTF/Docker+Repositories

which will then run on your own server(s).

Other hosting suppliers are available, eg CoreOS:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/30/coreos_enterprise_registry/

which bought quay.io

Share variables between files in Node.js?

Save any variable that want to be shared as one object. Then pass it to loaded module so it could access the variable through object reference..

// main.js
var myModule = require('./module.js');
var shares = {value:123};

// Initialize module and pass the shareable object
myModule.init(shares);

// The value was changed from init2 on the other file
console.log(shares.value); // 789

On the other file..

// module.js
var shared = null;

function init2(){
    console.log(shared.value); // 123
    shared.value = 789;
}

module.exports = {
    init:function(obj){
        // Save the shared object on current module
        shared = obj;

        // Call something outside
        init2();
    }
}

How to fit in an image inside span tag?

Try using a div tag and block for span!

<div>
  <span style="padding-right:3px; padding-top: 3px; display:block;">
    <img class="manImg" src="images/ico_mandatory.gif"></img>
  </span>
</div>

How can I disable a tab inside a TabControl?

Assume that you have these controls:

TabControl with name tcExemple.

TabPages with names tpEx1 and tpEx2.

Try it:

Set DrawMode of your TabPage to OwnerDrawFixed; After InitializeComponent(), make sure that tpEx2 is not enable by adding this code:

((Control)tcExemple.TabPages["tpEx2").Enabled = false;

Add to Selection tcExemple event the code below:

private void tcExemple_Selecting(object sender, TabControlCancelEventArgs e)
    {
        if (!((Control)e.TabPage).Enabled)
        {
            e.Cancel = true;
        }
    }

Attach to DrawItem event of tcExemple this code:

private void tcExemple_DrawItem(object sender, DrawItemEventArgs e)
    {
        TabPage page = tcExemple.TabPages[e.Index];
        if (!((Control)page).Enabled)
        {
            using (SolidBrush brush = new SolidBrush(SystemColors.GrayText))
            {
                e.Graphics.DrawString(page.Text, page.Font, brush, e.Bounds);
            }
        }
        else
        {
            using (SolidBrush brush = new SolidBrush(page.ForeColor))
            {
                e.Graphics.DrawString(page.Text, page.Font, brush, e.Bounds);
            }
        }
    }

It will make the second tab non-clickable.

Center text in table cell

How about simply (Please note, come up with a better name for the class name this is simply an example):

.centerText{
   text-align: center;
}


<div>
   <table style="width:100%">
   <tbody>
   <tr>
      <td class="centerText">Cell 1</td>
      <td>Cell 2</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td class="centerText">Cell 3</td>
      <td>Cell 4</td>
    </tr>
    </tbody>
    </table>
</div>

Example here

You can place the css in a separate file, which is recommended. In my example, I created a file called styles.css and placed my css rules in it. Then include it in the html document in the <head> section as follows:

<head>
    <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>

The alternative, not creating a seperate css file, not recommended at all... Create <style> block in your <head> in the html document. Then just place your rules there.

<head>
 <style type="text/css">
   .centerText{
       text-align: center;
    }
 </style>
</head>

How do I make my ArrayList Thread-Safe? Another approach to problem in Java?

CopyOnWriteArrayList

Use CopyOnWriteArrayList class. This is the thread safe version of ArrayList.

showDialog deprecated. What's the alternative?

From http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity.html

public final void showDialog (int id) Added in API level 1

This method was deprecated in API level 13. Use the new DialogFragment class with FragmentManager instead; this is also available on older platforms through the Android compatibility package.

Simple version of showDialog(int, Bundle) that does not take any arguments. Simply calls showDialog(int, Bundle) with null arguments.

Why

  • A fragment that displays a dialog window, floating on top of its activity's window. This fragment contains a Dialog object, which it displays as appropriate based on the fragment's state. Control of the dialog (deciding when to show, hide, dismiss it) should be done through the API here, not with direct calls on the dialog.
  • Here is a nice discussion Android DialogFragment vs Dialog
  • Another nice discussion DialogFragment advantages over AlertDialog

How to solve?

More

Android: keep Service running when app is killed

In your service, add the following code.

@Override
public void onTaskRemoved(Intent rootIntent){
    Intent restartServiceIntent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), this.getClass());
    restartServiceIntent.setPackage(getPackageName());

    PendingIntent restartServicePendingIntent = PendingIntent.getService(getApplicationContext(), 1, restartServiceIntent, PendingIntent.FLAG_ONE_SHOT);
    AlarmManager alarmService = (AlarmManager) getApplicationContext().getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE);
    alarmService.set(
    AlarmManager.ELAPSED_REALTIME,
    SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() + 1000,
    restartServicePendingIntent);

    super.onTaskRemoved(rootIntent);
 }

Directory Chooser in HTML page

Try this, I think it will work for you:

<input type="file" webkitdirectory directory multiple/>

You can find the demo of this at https://plus.google.com/+AddyOsmani/posts/Dk5UhZ6zfF3 , and if you need further information you can find it here.

Is it possible to install both 32bit and 64bit Java on Windows 7?

As stated by pnt you can have multiple versions of both 32bit and 64bit Java installed at the same time on the same machine.

Taking it further from there: Here's how it might be possible to set any runtime parameters for each of those installations:

You can run javacpl.exe or javacpl.cpl of the respective Java-version itself (bin-folder). The specific control panel opens fine. Adding parameters there is possible.

Is there a command to restart computer into safe mode?

My first answer!

This will set the safemode switch:

bcdedit /set {current} safeboot minimal 

with networking:

bcdedit /set {current} safeboot network

then reboot the machine with

shutdown /r

to put back in normal mode via dos:

bcdedit /deletevalue {current} safeboot

Python multiprocessing PicklingError: Can't pickle <type 'function'>

Here is a list of what can be pickled. In particular, functions are only picklable if they are defined at the top-level of a module.

This piece of code:

import multiprocessing as mp

class Foo():
    @staticmethod
    def work(self):
        pass

if __name__ == '__main__':   
    pool = mp.Pool()
    foo = Foo()
    pool.apply_async(foo.work)
    pool.close()
    pool.join()

yields an error almost identical to the one you posted:

Exception in thread Thread-2:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 552, in __bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 505, in run
    self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/multiprocessing/pool.py", line 315, in _handle_tasks
    put(task)
PicklingError: Can't pickle <type 'function'>: attribute lookup __builtin__.function failed

The problem is that the pool methods all use a mp.SimpleQueue to pass tasks to the worker processes. Everything that goes through the mp.SimpleQueue must be pickable, and foo.work is not picklable since it is not defined at the top level of the module.

It can be fixed by defining a function at the top level, which calls foo.work():

def work(foo):
    foo.work()

pool.apply_async(work,args=(foo,))

Notice that foo is pickable, since Foo is defined at the top level and foo.__dict__ is picklable.

"date(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings..."

If these are not your options

  • Modifying php.ini.
  • Adding date_default_timezone call.

Instead of date you could use gmdate.

I have used gmdate( "Y" ) when I needed a year for a copyright snipplet.

Swapping pointers in C (char, int)

void intSwap (int *pa, int *pb){
    int temp = *pa;
    *pa = *pb;
    *pb = temp;
}

You need to know the following -

int a = 5; // an integer, contains value
int *p; // an integer pointer, contains address
p = &a; // &a means address of a
a = *p; // *p means value stored in that address, here 5

void charSwap(char* a, char* b){
    char temp = *a;
    *a = *b;
    *b = temp;
}

So, when you swap like this. Only the value will be swapped. So, for a char* only their first char will swap.

Now, if you understand char* (string) clearly, then you should know that, you only need to exchange the pointer. It'll be easier to understand if you think it as an array instead of string.

void stringSwap(char** a, char** b){
    char *temp = *a;
    *a = *b;
    *b = temp;
}

So, here you are passing double pointer because starting of an array itself is a pointer.

What is the difference between HTTP status code 200 (cache) vs status code 304?

For your last question, why ? I'll try to explain with what I know

A brief explanation of those three status codes in layman's terms.

  • 200 - success (browser requests and get file from server)

If caching is enabled in the server

  • 200 (from memory cache) - file found in browser, so browser is not going request from server
  • 304 - browser request a file but it is rejected by server

For some files browser is deciding to request from server and for some it's deciding to read from stored (cached) files. Why is this ? Every files has an expiry date, so

If a file is not expired then the browser will use from cache (200 cache).

If file is expired, browser requests server for a file. Server check file in both places (browser and server). If same file found, server refuses the request. As per protocol browser uses existing file.

look at this nginx configuration

location / {
    add_header Cache-Control must-revalidate;
    expires     60;
    etag on;

    ...
}

Here the expiry is set to 60 seconds, so all static files are cached for 60 seconds. So if u request a file again within 60 seconds browser will read from memory (200 memory). If u request after 60 seconds browser will request server (304).

I assumed that the file is not changed after 60 seconds, in that case you would get 200 (ie, updated file will be fetched from server).

So, if the servers are configured with different expiring and caching headers (policies), the status may differ.

In your case you are using cdn, the main purpose of cdn is high availability and fast delivery. Therefore they use multiple servers. Even though it seems like files are in same directory, cdn might use multiple servers to provide u content, if those servers have different configurations. Then these status can change. Hope it helps.

jQuery UI Dialog OnBeforeUnload

this works for me

$(window).bind('beforeunload', function() {
      return 'Do you really want to leave?' ;
});

Node.js Generate html

Although @yanick-rochon answer is correct, the simplest way to achieve your goal (if it's to serve a dynamically generated html) is:

var http = require('http');
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
  res.write('<html><head></head><body>');
  res.write('<p>Write your HTML content here</p>');
  res.end('</body></html>');
}).listen(1337);

This way when you browse at http://localhost:1337 you'll get your html page.

FPDF utf-8 encoding (HOW-TO)

How do I create PDF's in FPDF that support Chinese, Japanese, Russian, etc.?

(snapshots of code in use below)

I'd like to provide: a summary of the problem, the solution, a github project with the working code, and an online example with the expected, resultant PDF.

The Problem :

  1. As stated by Tarsis, swap FPDF to TFPDF.
  2. You actually need a font that supports the UTF-8 characters you are using.

    I.E., merely using Helvetica and trying to display Japanese will not work. If you use Font Forge, or some other font tool, you can scroll to the Chinese characters of the font, and see that they are blank.

    Google has a font (Noto font) that contains all languages, and it is 20mb, which is usually several factors the size of your text. So, you can see why many fonts simply won't cover every single language.

The Solution :

I'm using rounded-mgenplus-20140828.ttf and ZCOOL_QingKe_HuangYou.ttf font packs for Japanese and Chinese, which are open source and can be found in many open source projects. In tFPDF itself, or a new inheriting class of it, like class HTMLtoPDF extends tFPDF {...}, you'll do this...

$this->AddFont('japanese', '', 'rounded-mgenplus-20140828.ttf', true);
$this->SetFont('japanese', '', 14);
$this->Write(14, '???');

Should be nothing more to it!

Code Package on GitHub :

https://github.com/HoldOffHunger/php-html-to-pdf

Working, Online Demo of Japanese :

https://www.earthfluent.com/privacy.pdf?language=ja

Unable to create Genymotion Virtual Device

We had the same issues, it was because we had wrong version of Oracle VM Virtual Box. Make sure you uninstall wrong version and re-install Compatible Oracle VM Virtual Box.

How do I force Maven to use my local repository rather than going out to remote repos to retrieve artifacts?

The dependency has a snapshot version. For snapshots, Maven will check the local repository and if the artifact found in the local repository is too old, it will attempt to find an updated one in the remote repositories. That is probably what you are seeing.

Note that this behavior is controlled by the updatePolicy directive in the repository configuration (which is daily by default for snapshot repositories).

Passing a variable from one php include file to another: global vs. not

This is all you have to do:

In front.inc

global $name;
$name = 'james';

CSS Box Shadow Bottom Only

try this to get the box-shadow under your full control.

    <html>

    <head>
        <style> 
            div {
                width:300px;
                height:100px;
                background-color:yellow;
                box-shadow: 0 10px black inset,0 -10px red inset, -10px 0 blue inset, 10px 0 green inset;
           }
        </style>
    </head>
    <body>
        <div>
        </div>
    </body>

    </html>

this would apply to outer box-shadow as well.

How to check if a file exists from inside a batch file

if exist <insert file name here> (
    rem file exists
) else (
    rem file doesn't exist
)

Or on a single line (if only a single action needs to occur):

if exist <insert file name here> <action>

for example, this opens notepad on autoexec.bat, if the file exists:

if exist c:\autoexec.bat notepad c:\autoexec.bat

Warning message: In `...` : invalid factor level, NA generated

Here is a flexible approach, it can be used in all cases, in particular:

  1. to affect only one column, or
  2. the dataframe has been obtained from applying previous operations (e.g. not immediately opening a file, or creating a new data frame).

First, un-factorize a string using the as.character function, and, then, re-factorize with the as.factor (or simply factor) function:

fixed <- data.frame("Type" = character(3), "Amount" = numeric(3))

# Un-factorize (as.numeric can be use for numeric values)
#              (as.vector  can be use for objects - not tested)
fixed$Type <- as.character(fixed$Type)
fixed[1, ] <- c("lunch", 100)

# Re-factorize with the as.factor function or simple factor(fixed$Type)
fixed$Type <- as.factor(fixed$Type)

How to send/receive SOAP request and response using C#?

The urls are different.

  • http://localhost/AccountSvc/DataInquiry.asmx

vs.

  • /acctinqsvc/portfolioinquiry.asmx

Resolve this issue first, as if the web server cannot resolve the URL you are attempting to POST to, you won't even begin to process the actions described by your request.

You should only need to create the WebRequest to the ASMX root URL, ie: http://localhost/AccountSvc/DataInquiry.asmx, and specify the desired method/operation in the SOAPAction header.

The SOAPAction header values are different.

  • http://localhost/AccountSvc/DataInquiry.asmx/ + methodName

vs.

  • http://tempuri.org/GetMyName

You should be able to determine the correct SOAPAction by going to the correct ASMX URL and appending ?wsdl

There should be a <soap:operation> tag underneath the <wsdl:operation> tag that matches the operation you are attempting to execute, which appears to be GetMyName.

There is no XML declaration in the request body that includes your SOAP XML.

You specify text/xml in the ContentType of your HttpRequest and no charset. Perhaps these default to us-ascii, but there's no telling if you aren't specifying them!

The SoapUI created XML includes an XML declaration that specifies an encoding of utf-8, which also matches the Content-Type provided to the HTTP request which is: text/xml; charset=utf-8

Hope that helps!

How do I toggle an ng-show in AngularJS based on a boolean?

It's worth noting that if you have a button in Controller A and the element you want to show in Controller B, you may need to use dot notation to access the scope variable across controllers.

For example, this will not work:

<div ng-controller="ControllerA">
  <a ng-click="isReplyFormOpen = !isReplyFormOpen">Reply</a>

  <div ng-controller="ControllerB">
    <div ng-show="isReplyFormOpen" id="replyForm">
    </div>
  </div>

</div>

To solve this, create a global variable (ie. in Controller A or your main Controller):

.controller('ControllerA', function ($scope) {
  $scope.global = {};
}

Then add a 'global' prefix to your click and show variables:

<div ng-controller="ControllerA">
  <a ng-click="global.isReplyFormOpen = !global.isReplyFormOpen">Reply</a>

  <div ng-controller="ControllerB">
    <div ng-show="global.isReplyFormOpen" id="replyForm">
    </div>
  </div>

</div>

For more detail, check out the Nested States & Nested Views in the Angular-UI documentation, watch a video, or read understanding scopes.

env: node: No such file or directory in mac

I solved it this way:

$ brew uninstall --force node
$ brew uninstall --force npm

after it

$ brew install node

which suggested me to overwrite simlinks

Error: The `brew link` step did not complete successfully
The formula built, but is not symlinked into /usr/local
Could not symlink share/doc/node/gdbinit
Target /usr/local/share/doc/node/gdbinit
already exists. You may want to remove it:
  rm '/usr/local/share/doc/node/gdbinit'

To force the link and overwrite all conflicting files:
  brew link --overwrite node

after executing

$ brew link --overwrite node

everything worked again.

Apache: client denied by server configuration

This code worked for me..

 <Location />
Allow from all
Order Deny,Allow
</Location> 

Hope this helps others

disable horizontal scroll on mobile web

I know this is an old question but it's worth noting that BlackBerry doesn't support overflow-x or overflow-y.

See my post here

Delete from two tables in one query

You should either create a FOREIGN KEY with ON DELETE CASCADE:

ALTER TABLE usersmessages
ADD CONSTRAINT fk_usermessages_messageid
FOREIGN KEY (messageid)
REFERENCES messages (messageid)
ON DELETE CASCADE

, or do it using two queries in a transaction:

START TRANSACTION;;

DELETE
FROM    usermessages
WHERE   messageid = 1

DELETE
FROM    messages
WHERE   messageid = 1;

COMMIT;

Transaction affects only InnoDB tables, though.

Xcode 4 - build output directory

If you use the new Xcode4 Workspaces, you can change the Derived Data Location under File -> Workspace settings...

How to reverse an animation on mouse out after hover

Would you be better off having just the one animation, but having it reverse?

animation-direction: reverse

Spring Boot application.properties value not populating

The user "geoand" is right in pointing out the reasons here and giving a solution. But a better approach is to encapsulate your configuration into a separate class, say SystemContiguration java class and then inject this class into what ever services you want to use those fields.

Your current way(@grahamrb) of reading config values directly into services is error prone and would cause refactoring headaches if config setting name is changed.

How to open mail app from Swift

In the view controller from where you want your mail-app to open on the tap.

  • At the top of the file do, import MessageUI.
  • Put this function inside your Controller.

    func showMailComposer(){
    
      guard MFMailComposeViewController.canSendMail() else {
           return
      }
      let composer = MFMailComposeViewController()
      composer.mailComposeDelegate = self
      composer.setToRecipients(["[email protected]"]) // email id of the recipient
      composer.setSubject("testing!!!")
      composer.setMessageBody("this is a test mail.", isHTML: false)
      present(composer, animated: true, completion: nil)
     }
    
  • Extend your View Controller and conform to the MFMailComposeViewControllerDelegate.

  • Put this method and handle the failure, sending of your mails.

    func mailComposeController(_ controller: MFMailComposeViewController, didFinishWith result: MFMailComposeResult, error: Error?) {
      if let _ = error {
          controller.dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil)
          return
      }
      controller.dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil)
    }
    

How to make inline plots in Jupyter Notebook larger?

If you only want the image of your figure to appear larger without changing the general appearance of your figure increase the figure resolution. Changing the figure size as suggested in most other answers will change the appearance since font sizes do not scale accordingly.

import matplotlib.pylab as plt
plt.rcParams['figure.dpi'] = 200

Python - Check If Word Is In A String

What about to split the string and strip words punctuation?

w in [ws.strip(',.?!') for ws in p.split()]

Or working the case:

w.lower() in [ws.strip(',.?!') for ws in p.lower().split()]

Maybe that way:

def wsearch(word, phrase):
    # Attention about punctuation and about split characters
    punctuation = ',.?!'
    return word.lower() in [words.strip(punctuation) for words in phrase.lower().split()]

Sample:

print(wsearch('CAr', 'I own a caR.'))

I didn't check performance...

How can I troubleshoot Python "Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>"

I had this issue while using Python installed with sudo make altinstall on Opensuse linux. It seems that the compiled libraries are installed in /usr/local/lib64 but Python is looking for them in /usr/local/lib.

I solved it by creating a dynamic link to the relevant directory in /usr/local/lib

sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib64/python3.8/lib-dynload/ /usr/local/lib/python3.8/lib-dynload

I suspect the better thing to do would be to specify libdir as an argument to configure (at the start of the build process) but I haven't tested it that way.

How do I use sudo to redirect output to a location I don't have permission to write to?

Maybe you been given sudo access to only some programs/paths? Then there is no way to do what you want. (unless you will hack it somehow)

If it is not the case then maybe you can write bash script:

cat > myscript.sh
#!/bin/sh
ls -hal /root/ > /root/test.out 

Press ctrl + d :

chmod a+x myscript.sh
sudo myscript.sh

Hope it help.

What is a Python egg?

The .egg file is a distribution format for Python packages. It’s just an alternative to a source code distribution or Windows exe. But note that for pure Python, the .egg file is completely cross-platform.

The .egg file itself is essentially a .zip file. If you change the extension to “zip”, you can see that it will have folders inside the archive.

Also, if you have an .egg file, you can install it as a package using easy_install

Example: To create an .egg file for a directory say mymath which itself may have several python scripts, do the following step:

# setup.py
from setuptools import setup, find_packages
setup(
    name = "mymath",
    version = "0.1",
    packages = find_packages()
    )

Then, from the terminal do:

 $ python setup.py bdist_egg

This will generate lot of outputs, but when it’s completed you’ll see that you have three new folders: build, dist, and mymath.egg-info. The only folder that we care about is the dist folder where you'll find your .egg file, mymath-0.1-py3.5.egg with your default python (installation) version number(mine here: 3.5)

Source: Python library blog

What Java ORM do you prefer, and why?

Eclipse Link, for many reasons, but notably I feel like it has less bloat than other main stream solutions (at least less in-your-face bloat).

Oh and Eclipse Link has been chosen to be the reference implementation for JPA 2.0

Pass parameter to controller from @Html.ActionLink MVC 4

The problem must be with the value Model.Id which is null. You can confirm by assigning a value, e.g

@{         
     var blogPostId = 1;          
 }

If the error disappers, then u need to make sure that your model Id has a value before passing it to the view

How can I delete all Git branches which have been merged?

The simplest way I found to do it removing only local branches, not remote ones:

$ git branch --merged | grep -v master | xargs -n 1 git branch -D

This command will delete only branches already merged in your master one. Be careful if you don't want to delete other branches, such as a staging.

How to open the terminal in Atom?

In current versions of Mac Catalina

  1. go to packages tab --> Settings View ---> Install Packages/Themes ---> +Install button --> add "platformio-ide-terminal"

  2. control ~ to get the terminal

DirectX SDK (June 2010) Installation Problems: Error Code S1023

I have encounter this issue too. And I'm running in XP SP3.

The following website http://www.docin.com/p-60410380.html# pointing out the solution. But it's simplified Chinese.

I translated its main idea into English here.

run regedit; open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\DirectX Then you must change the following two items: Item 1: Name: Version, Type:REG_SZ, The value should be a rather little number to make the installation success.

Item 2: Name: SDKVersion. But in your machine, the name can be different, for example, it can be ManagedDirectXVersion. But the type should be REG_SZ. Type:REG_SZ, The value should be a rather little number to make the installation success.

In fact, you can refer to the DirectX.lgo file to find the exact version number.

It works for me.

What is the difference between "long", "long long", "long int", and "long long int" in C++?

Long and long int are at least 32 bits.

long long and long long int are at least 64 bits. You must be using a c99 compiler or better.

long doubles are a bit odd. Look them up on Wikipedia for details.

Conda command not found

Sometimes, if you don't restart your terminal after you have installed anaconda also, it gives this error.

Close your terminal window and restart it.

It worked for me now!

How do I add PHP code/file to HTML(.html) files?

If you only have php code in one html file but have multiple other files that only contain html code, you can add the following to your .htaccess file so it will only serve that particular file as php.

<Files yourpage.html>
AddType application/x-httpd-php .html 
//you may need to use x-httpd-php5 if you are using php 5 or higher
</Files>

This will make the PHP executable ONLY on the "yourpage.html" file and not on all of your html pages which will prevent slowdown on your entire server.

As to why someone might want to serve php via an html file, I use the IMPORTHTML function in google spreadsheets to import JSON data from an external url that must be parsed with php to clean it up and build an html table. So far I haven't found any way to import a .php file into google spreadsheets so it must be saved as an .html file for the function to work. Being able to serve php via an .html file is necessary for that particular use.

How can I use Google's Roboto font on a website?

There are TWO approaches that you can take to use licensed web-fonts on your pages:

  1. Font Hosting Services like Typekit, Fonts.com, Fontdeck, etc., provide an easy interface for designers to manage fonts purchased, and generate a link to a dynamic CSS or JavaScript file that serves up the font. Google even provides this service for free (here is an example for the Roboto font you requested). Typekit is the only service to provide additional font hinting to ensure fonts occupy the same pixels across browsers.

JS font loaders like the one used by Google and Typekit (i.e. WebFont loader) provide CSS classes and callbacks to help manage the FOUT that may occur, or response timeouts when downloading the font.

    <head>
      <!-- get the required files from 3rd party sources -->
      <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>

      <!-- use the font -->
      <style>
        body {
          font-family: 'Roboto', sans-serif;
          font-size: 48px;
        }
      </style>
    </head>
  1. The DIY approach involves getting a font licensed for web use, and (optionally) using a tool like FontSquirrel's generator (or some software) to optimize its file size. Then, a cross-browser implementation of the standard @font-face CSS property is used to enable the font(s).

This approach can provides better load performance since you have a more granular control over the characters to include and hence the file-size.

    /* get the required local files */
    @font-face {
      font-family: 'Roboto';
      src: url('roboto.eot'); /* IE9 Compat Modes */
      src: url('roboto.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'), /* IE6-IE8 */
      url('roboto.woff') format('woff'), /* Modern Browsers */
      url('roboto.ttf')  format('truetype'), /* Safari, Android, iOS */
      url('roboto.svg#svgFontName') format('svg'); /* Legacy iOS */
    }
    
    /* use the font */
    body {
      font-family: 'Roboto', sans-serif;
      font-size: 48px;
    }

Long story short:

Using font hosting services along with @font-face declaration gives best output with respect to overall performance, compatibility and availability.

Source: https://www.artzstudio.com/2012/02/web-font-performance-weighing-fontface-options-and-alternatives/


UPDATE

Roboto: Google’s signature font is now open source

You can now manually generate the Roboto fonts using instructions that can be found here.

Excel VBA, How to select rows based on data in a column?

Yes using Option Explicit is a good habit. Using .Select however is not :) it reduces the speed of the code. Also fully justify sheet names else the code will always run for the Activesheet which might not be what you actually wanted.

Is this what you are trying?

Option Explicit

Sub Sample()
    Dim lastRow As Long, i As Long
    Dim CopyRange As Range

    '~~> Change Sheet1 to relevant sheet name
    With Sheets("Sheet1")
        lastRow = .Range("A" & .Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row

        For i = 2 To lastRow
            If Len(Trim(.Range("A" & i).Value)) <> 0 Then
                If CopyRange Is Nothing Then
                    Set CopyRange = .Rows(i)
                Else
                    Set CopyRange = Union(CopyRange, .Rows(i))
                End If
            Else
                Exit For
            End If
        Next

        If Not CopyRange Is Nothing Then
            '~~> Change Sheet2 to relevant sheet name
            CopyRange.Copy Sheets("Sheet2").Rows(1)
        End If
    End With
End Sub

NOTE

If if you have data from Row 2 till Row 10 and row 11 is blank and then you have data again from Row 12 then the above code will only copy data from Row 2 till Row 10

If you want to copy all rows which have data then use this code.

Option Explicit

Sub Sample()
    Dim lastRow As Long, i As Long
    Dim CopyRange As Range

    '~~> Change Sheet1 to relevant sheet name
    With Sheets("Sheet1")
        lastRow = .Range("A" & .Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row

        For i = 2 To lastRow
            If Len(Trim(.Range("A" & i).Value)) <> 0 Then
                If CopyRange Is Nothing Then
                    Set CopyRange = .Rows(i)
                Else
                    Set CopyRange = Union(CopyRange, .Rows(i))
                End If
            End If
        Next

        If Not CopyRange Is Nothing Then
            '~~> Change Sheet2 to relevant sheet name
            CopyRange.Copy Sheets("Sheet2").Rows(1)
        End If
    End With
End Sub

Hope this is what you wanted?

Sid

Replace negative values in an numpy array

Try numpy.clip:

>>> import numpy
>>> a = numpy.arange(-10, 10)
>>> a
array([-10,  -9,  -8,  -7,  -6,  -5,  -4,  -3,  -2,  -1,   0,   1,   2,
         3,   4,   5,   6,   7,   8,   9])
>>> a.clip(0, 10)
array([0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9])

You can clip only the bottom half with clip(0).

>>> a = numpy.array([1, 2, 3, -4, 5])
>>> a.clip(0)
array([1, 2, 3, 0, 5])

You can clip only the top half with clip(max=n). (This is much better than my previous suggestion, which involved passing NaN to the first parameter and using out to coerce the type.):

>>> a.clip(max=2)
array([ 1,  2,  2, -4,  2])

Another interesting approach is to use where:

>>> numpy.where(a <= 2, a, 2)
array([ 1,  2,  2, -4,  2])

Finally, consider aix's answer. I prefer clip for simple operations because it's self-documenting, but his answer is preferable for more complex operations.

SecurityError: The operation is insecure - window.history.pushState()

I solved it by switching tohttp protocol from the file protocol.

  • you can use "live-server" extension in VS code,
  • or, on node, use live-server [dirPath]

Is this a good way to clone an object in ES6?

We can do that with two way:
1- First create a new object and replicate the structure of the existing one by iterating 
 over its properties and copying them on the primitive level.

let user = {
     name: "John",
     age: 30
    };

    let clone = {}; // the new empty object

    // let's copy all user properties into it
    for (let key in user) {
      clone[key] = user[key];
    }

    // now clone is a fully independant clone
    clone.name = "Pete"; // changed the data in it

    alert( user.name ); // still John in the original object

2- Second we can use the method Object.assign for that 
    let user = { name: "John" };
    let permissions1 = { canView: true };
    let permissions2 = { canEdit: true };

    // copies all properties from permissions1 and permissions2 into user
    Object.assign(user, permissions1, permissions2);

  -Another example

    let user = {
      name: "John",
      age: 30
    };

    let clone = Object.assign({}, user);
It copies all properties of user into the empty object and returns it. Actually, the same as the loop, but shorter.

But Object.assign() not create a deep clone

let user = {
  name: "John",
  sizes: {
    height: 182,
    width: 50
  }
};

let clone = Object.assign({}, user);

alert( user.sizes === clone.sizes ); // true, same object

// user and clone share sizes
user.sizes.width++;       // change a property from one place
alert(clone.sizes.width); // 51, see the result from the other one

To fix that, we should use the cloning loop that examines each value of user[key] and, if it’s an object, then replicate its structure as well. That is called a “deep cloning”.

There’s a standard algorithm for deep cloning that handles the case above and more complex cases, called the Structured cloning algorithm. In order not to reinvent the wheel, we can use a working implementation of it from the JavaScript library lodash the method is called _.cloneDeep(obj).

Submit form using a button outside the <form> tag

Similar to another solution here, with minor modification:

<form method="METHOD" id="FORMID">
   <!-- ...your inputs -->
</form>
<button type="submit" form="FORMID" value="Submit">Submit</button>

https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_form.asp

Assigning default values to shell variables with a single command in bash

If the variable is same, then

: "${VARIABLE:=DEFAULT_VALUE}"

assigns DEFAULT_VALUE to VARIABLE if not defined. The double quotes prevent globbing and word splitting.

Also see Section 3.5.3, Shell Parameter Expansion, in the Bash manual.

Authorize attribute in ASP.NET MVC

Real power comes with understanding and implementation membership provider together with role provider. You can assign users into roles and according to that restriction you can apply different access roles for different user to controller actions or controller itself.

 [Authorize(Users = "Betty, Johnny")]
 public ActionResult SpecificUserOnly()
 {
     return View();
 }

or you can restrict according to group

[Authorize(Roles = "Admin, Super User")]
public ActionResult AdministratorsOnly()
{
    return View();
}

How do I navigate to a parent route from a child route?

None of this worked for me ... Here is my code with the back function :

import { Router } from '@angular/router';
...
constructor(private router: Router) {}
...
back() {
   this.router.navigate([this.router.url.substring(0, this.router.url.lastIndexOf('/'))]);
}

this.router.url.substring(0, this.router.url.lastIndexOf('/') --> get the last part of the current url after the "/" --> get the current route.

Removing body margin in CSS

The issue is with the h1 header margin. You need to try this:

h1 {
 margin-top:0;
}

Eclipse No tests found using JUnit 5 caused by NoClassDefFoundError for LauncherFactory

you should change

@Test
public static void testmethod(){}

to

@Test
public void testmethod(){}

the @Test is unsupport static method

Removing white space around a saved image in matplotlib

A much simpler approach I found is to use plt.imsave :

    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
    arr = plt.imread(path)
    plt.imsave('test.png', arr)

How do I select child elements of any depth using XPath?

Also, you can do it with css selectors:

form#myform input[type='submit']

space beween elements in css elector means searching input[type='submit'] that elements at any depth of parent form#myform element

Internet Explorer 11 detection

Okay try this, simple and for IE11 and IE below 11 version

browserIsIE = navigator.userAgent.toUpperCase().indexOf("TRIDENT/") != -1 || navigator.userAgent.toUpperCase().indexOf("MSIE") != -1;

navigator.userAgent.toUpperCase().indexOf("TRIDENT/") != -1 for IE 11 version navigator.userAgent.toUpperCase().indexOf("MSIE") != -1 for IE below 11 version

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console.log('Is IE Browser : '+ browserIsIE)
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How to make html <select> element look like "disabled", but pass values?

Wow, I had the same problem, but a line of code resolved my problem. I wrote

$last_child_topic.find( "*" ).prop( "disabled", true );
$last_child_topic.find( "option" ).prop( "disabled", false );   //This seems to work on mine

I send the form to a php script then it prints the correct value for each options while it was "null" before.

Tell me if this works out. I wonder if this only works on mine somehow.

Installation of VB6 on Windows 7 / 8 / 10

VB6 Installs just fine on Windows 7 (and Windows 8 / Windows 10) with a few caveats.

Here is how to install it:

  • Before proceeding with the installation process below, create a zero-byte file in C:\Windows called MSJAVA.DLL. The setup process will look for this file, and if it doesn't find it, will force an installation of old, old Java, and require a reboot. By creating the zero-byte file, the installation of moldy Java is bypassed, and no reboot will be required.
  • Turn off UAC.
  • Insert Visual Studio 6 CD.
  • Exit from the Autorun setup.
  • Browse to the root folder of the VS6 CD.
  • Right-click SETUP.EXE, select Run As Administrator.
  • On this and other Program Compatibility Assistant warnings, click Run Program.
  • Click Next.
  • Click "I accept agreement", then Next.
  • Enter name and company information, click Next.
  • Select Custom Setup, click Next.
  • Click Continue, then Ok.
  • Setup will "think to itself" for about 2 minutes. Processing can be verified by starting Task Manager, and checking the CPU usage of ACMSETUP.EXE.
  • On the options list, select the following:
    • Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0
    • ActiveX
    • Data Access
    • Graphics
    • All other options should be unchecked.
  • Click Continue, setup will continue.
  • Finally, a successful completion dialog will appear, at which click Ok. At this point, Visual Basic 6 is installed.
  • If you do not have the MSDN CD, clear the checkbox on the next dialog, and click next. You'll be warned of the lack of MSDN, but just click Yes to accept.
  • Click Next to skip the installation of Installshield. This is a really old version you don't want anyway.
  • Click Next again to skip the installation of BackOffice, VSS, and SNA Server. Not needed!
  • On the next dialog, clear the checkbox for "Register Now", and click Finish.
  • The wizard will exit, and you're done. You can find VB6 under Start, All Programs, Microsoft Visual Studio 6. Enjoy!
  • Turn On UAC again

  • You might notice after successfully installing VB6 on Windows 7 that working in the IDE is a bit, well, sluggish. For example, resizing objects on a form is a real pain.
  • After installing VB6, you'll want to change the compatibility settings for the IDE executable.
  • Using Windows Explorer, browse the location where you installed VB6. By default, the path is C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VB98\
  • Right click the VB6.exe program file, and select properties from the context menu.
  • Click on the Compatibility tab.
  • Place a check in each of these checkboxes:
  • Run this program in compatibility mode for Windows XP (Service Pack 3)
    • Disable Visual Themes
    • Disable Desktop Composition
    • Disable display scaling on high DPI settings
    • If you have UAC turned on, it is probably advisable to check the 'Run this program as an Administrator' box

After changing these settings, fire up the IDE, and things should be back to normal, and the IDE is no longer sluggish.

Edit: Updated dead link to point to a different page with the same instructions

Edit: Updated the answer with the actual instructions in the post as the link kept dying

How can I convert String[] to ArrayList<String>

Like this :

String[] words = {"000", "aaa", "bbb", "ccc", "ddd"};
List<String> wordList = new ArrayList<String>(Arrays.asList(words));

or

List myList = new ArrayList();
String[] words = {"000", "aaa", "bbb", "ccc", "ddd"};
Collections.addAll(myList, words);

How to calculate the running time of my program?

At the beginning of your main method, add this line of code :

final long startTime = System.nanoTime();

And then, at the last line of your main method, you can add :

final long duration = System.nanoTime() - startTime;

duration now contains the time in nanoseconds that your program ran. You can for example print this value like this:

System.out.println(duration);

If you want to show duration time in seconds, you must divide the value by 1'000'000'000. Or if you want a Date object: Date myTime = new Date(duration / 1000); You can then access the various methods of Date to print number of minutes, hours, etc.

Python: Differentiating between row and column vectors

The vector you are creating is neither row nor column. It actually has 1 dimension only. You can verify that by

  • checking the number of dimensions myvector.ndim which is 1
  • checking the myvector.shape, which is (3,) (a tuple with one element only). For a row vector is should be (1, 3), and for a column (3, 1)

Two ways to handle this

  • create an actual row or column vector
  • reshape your current one

You can explicitly create a row or column

row = np.array([    # one row with 3 elements
   [1, 2, 3]
]
column = np.array([  # 3 rows, with 1 element each
    [1],
    [2],
    [3]
])

or, with a shortcut

row = np.r_['r', [1,2,3]]     # shape: (1, 3)
column = np.r_['c', [1,2,3]]  # shape: (3,1)

Alternatively, you can reshape it to (1, n) for row, or (n, 1) for column

row = my_vector.reshape(1, -1)
column = my_vector.reshape(-1, 1)

where the -1 automatically finds the value of n.

Show values from a MySQL database table inside a HTML table on a webpage

Object-Oriented with PHP/5.6.25 and MySQL/5.7.17 using MySQLi [Dynamic]

Learn more about PHP and the MySQLi Library at PHP.net.

First, start a connection to the database. Do this by making all the string variables needed in order to connect, adjust them to fit your environment, then create a new connection object with new mysqli() and initialize it with the previously made variables as its parameters. Now, check the connection for errors and display a message whether any were found or not. Like this:

<?php
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "root";
$password = "yourPassword";
$database = "world";
mysqli_report(MYSQLI_REPORT_ERROR | MYSQLI_REPORT_STRICT);
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $database);
echo "Connected successfully<br>";
?>

Next, make a variable that will hold the query as a string, in this case its a select statement with a limit of 100 records to keep the list small. Then, we can execute it by calling the mysqli::query() function from our connection object. Now, it's time to display some data. Start by opening up a <table> tag through echo, then fetch one row at a time in the form of a numerical array with mysqli::fetch_row() which can then be displayed with a simple for loop. mysqli::field_count should be self explanatory. Don't forget to use <td></td> for each value, and also to open and close each row with echo"<tr>" and echo"</tr>. Finally we close the table, and the connection as well with mysqli::close().

<?php
$query = "select * from city limit 100;";
$queryResult = $conn->query($query);
echo "<table>";
while ($queryRow = $queryResult->fetch_row()) {
    echo "<tr>";
    for($i = 0; $i < $queryResult->field_count; $i++){
        echo "<td>$queryRow[$i]</td>";
    }
    echo "</tr>";
}
echo "</table>";
$conn->close();
?>

Regular Expression For Duplicate Words

Use this in case you want case-insensitive checking for duplicate words.

(?i)\\b(\\w+)\\s+\\1\\b

how to toggle attr() in jquery

For what it's worth.

$('.js-toggle-edit').on('click', function (e) {
    var bool = $('.js-editable').prop('readonly');
    $('.js-editable').prop('readonly', ! bool);
})

Keep in mind you can pass a closure to .prop(), and do a per element check. But in this case it doesn't matter, it's just a mass toggle.

Pylint "unresolved import" error in Visual Studio Code

None of the previous answers worked for me. Adding both of the lines below to my settings.json file did, however.

"python.analysis.disabled": [
    "unresolved-import"
],
"python.linting.pylintArgs": ["--load-plugin","pylint_protobuf"]

The first line really just hides the linting error. Certainly not a permanent solution, but de-clutters the screen.

This answer gave me the second line: VS Code PyLint Error E0602 (undefined variable) with ProtoBuf compiled Python Structure

Maybe someone who understands Python more than me can explain that one more.

wait until all threads finish their work in java

Although not relevant to OP's problem, if you are interested in synchronization (more precisely, a rendez-vous) with exactly one thread, you may use an Exchanger

In my case, I needed to pause the parent thread until the child thread did something, e.g. completed its initialization. A CountDownLatch also works well.

Nullable DateTime conversion

You might want to do it like this:

DateTime? lastPostDate =  (DateTime?)(reader.IsDbNull(3) ? null : reader[3]); 

The problem you are having is that the ternary operator wants a viable cast between the left and right sides. And null can't be cast to DateTime.

Note the above works because both sides of the ternary are object's. The object is explicitly cast to DateTime? which works: as long as reader[3] is in fact a date.

What are the differences between the different saving methods in Hibernate?

This link explains in good manner :

http://www.stevideter.com/2008/12/07/saveorupdate-versus-merge-in-hibernate/

We all have those problems that we encounter just infrequently enough that when we see them again, we know we’ve solved this, but can’t remember how.

The NonUniqueObjectException thrown when using Session.saveOrUpdate() in Hibernate is one of mine. I’ll be adding new functionality to a complex application. All my unit tests work fine. Then in testing the UI, trying to save an object, I start getting an exception with the message “a different object with the same identifier value was already associated with the session.” Here’s some example code from Java Persistence with Hibernate.

            Session session = sessionFactory1.openSession();
            Transaction tx = session.beginTransaction();
            Item item = (Item) session.get(Item.class, new Long(1234));
            tx.commit();
            session.close(); // end of first session, item is detached

            item.getId(); // The database identity is "1234"
            item.setDescription("my new description");
            Session session2 = sessionFactory.openSession();
            Transaction tx2 = session2.beginTransaction();
            Item item2 = (Item) session2.get(Item.class, new Long(1234));
            session2.update(item); // Throws NonUniqueObjectException
            tx2.commit();
            session2.close();

To understand the cause of this exception, it’s important to understand detached objects and what happens when you call saveOrUpdate() (or just update()) on a detached object.

When we close an individual Hibernate Session, the persistent objects we are working with are detached. This means the data is still in the application’s memory, but Hibernate is no longer responsible for tracking changes to the objects.

If we then modify our detached object and want to update it, we have to reattach the object. During that reattachment process, Hibernate will check to see if there are any other copies of the same object. If it finds any, it has to tell us it doesn’t know what the “real” copy is any more. Perhaps other changes were made to those other copies that we expect to be saved, but Hibernate doesn’t know about them, because it wasn’t managing them at the time.

Rather than save possibly bad data, Hibernate tells us about the problem via the NonUniqueObjectException.

So what are we to do? In Hibernate 3, we have merge() (in Hibernate 2, use saveOrUpdateCopy()). This method will force Hibernate to copy any changes from other detached instances onto the instance you want to save, and thus merges all the changes in memory before the save.

        Session session = sessionFactory1.openSession();
        Transaction tx = session.beginTransaction();
        Item item = (Item) session.get(Item.class, new Long(1234));
        tx.commit();
        session.close(); // end of first session, item is detached

        item.getId(); // The database identity is "1234"
        item.setDescription("my new description");
        Session session2 = sessionFactory.openSession();
        Transaction tx2 = session2.beginTransaction();
        Item item2 = (Item) session2.get(Item.class, new Long(1234));
        Item item3 = session2.merge(item); // Success!
        tx2.commit();
        session2.close();

It’s important to note that merge returns a reference to the newly updated version of the instance. It isn’t reattaching item to the Session. If you test for instance equality (item == item3), you’ll find it returns false in this case. You will probably want to work with item3 from this point forward.

It’s also important to note that the Java Persistence API (JPA) doesn’t have a concept of detached and reattached objects, and uses EntityManager.persist() and EntityManager.merge().

I’ve found in general that when using Hibernate, saveOrUpdate() is usually sufficient for my needs. I usually only need to use merge when I have objects that can have references to objects of the same type. Most recently, the cause of the exception was in the code validating that the reference wasn’t recursive. I was loading the same object into my session as part of the validation, causing the error.

Where have you encountered this problem? Did merge work for you or did you need another solution? Do you prefer to always use merge, or prefer to use it only as needed for specific cases

Detect page change on DataTable

This works form me to scroll to when I click next

$('#myTable').on('draw.dt', function() {
    document.body.scrollTop = 0;
    document.documentElement.scrollTop = 0;
});

PHP Get Highest Value from Array

// assuming positive numbers

$highest_key;
$highest_value = 0;
foreach ($array as $key => $value) {
    if ($value > $highest_value) {
        $highest_key = $key;
    }
}

// $highest_key holds the highest value

Redirect to new Page in AngularJS using $location

It might help you!

AngularJs Code-sample

var app = angular.module('urlApp', []);
app.controller('urlCtrl', function ($scope, $log, $window) {
    $scope.ClickMeToRedirect = function () {
        var url = "http://" + $window.location.host + "/Account/Login";
        $log.log(url);
        $window.location.href = url;
    };
});

HTML Code-sample

<div ng-app="urlApp">
    <div ng-controller="urlCtrl">
        Redirect to <a href="#" ng-click="ClickMeToRedirect()">Click Me!</a>
    </div>
</div>

How to get browser width using JavaScript code?

Why nobody mentions matchMedia?

if (window.matchMedia("(min-width: 400px)").matches) {
  /* the viewport is at least 400 pixels wide */
} else {
  /* the viewport is less than 400 pixels wide */
}

Did not test that much, but tested with android default and android chrome browsers, desktop chrome, so far it looks like it works well.

Of course it does not return number value, but returns boolean - if matches or not, so might not exactly fit the question but that's what we want anyway and probably the author of question wants.

How do I generate a SALT in Java for Salted-Hash?

Here's my solution, i would love anyone's opinion on this, it's simple for beginners

import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
import java.security.SecureRandom;
import java.security.spec.InvalidKeySpecException;
import java.security.spec.KeySpec;
import java.util.Base64;
import java.util.Base64.Encoder;
import java.util.Scanner;
import javax.crypto.SecretKeyFactory;
import javax.crypto.spec.PBEKeySpec;

public class Cryptography {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, InvalidKeySpecException {
        Encoder encoder = Base64.getUrlEncoder().withoutPadding();
        System.out.print("Password: ");
        String strPassword = new Scanner(System.in).nextLine();
        byte[] bSalt = Salt();
        String strSalt = encoder.encodeToString(bSalt); // Byte to String
        System.out.println("Salt: " + strSalt);
        System.out.println("String to be hashed: " + strPassword + strSalt);
        String strHash = encoder.encodeToString(Hash(strPassword, bSalt)); // Byte to String
        System.out.println("Hashed value (Password + Salt value): " + strHash);
    }

    private static byte[] Salt() {
        SecureRandom random = new SecureRandom();
        byte salt[] = new byte[6];
        random.nextBytes(salt);
        return salt;
    }

    private static byte[] Hash(String password, byte[] salt) throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, InvalidKeySpecException {
        KeySpec spec = new PBEKeySpec(password.toCharArray(), salt, 65536, 128);
        SecretKeyFactory factory = SecretKeyFactory.getInstance("PBKDF2WithHmacSHA1");
        byte[] hash = factory.generateSecret(spec).getEncoded();
        return hash;
    }

}

You can validate by just decoding the strSalt and using the same hash method:

public static void main(String[] args) throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, InvalidKeySpecException {
        Encoder encoder = Base64.getUrlEncoder().withoutPadding();
        Decoder decoder = Base64.getUrlDecoder();
        System.out.print("Password: ");
        String strPassword = new Scanner(System.in).nextLine();
        String strSalt = "Your Salt String Here";
        byte[] bSalt = decoder.decode(strSalt); // String to Byte
        System.out.println("Salt: " + strSalt);
        System.out.println("String to be hashed: " + strPassword + strSalt);
        String strHash = encoder.encodeToString(Hash(strPassword, bSalt)); // Byte to String
        System.out.println("Hashed value (Password + Salt value): " + strHash);
    }

How can I get a vertical scrollbar in my ListBox?

I added a "Height" to my ListBox and it added the scrollbar nicely.

What is a file with extension .a?

.a files are static libraries typically generated by the archive tool. You usually include the header files associated with that static library and then link to the library when you are compiling.

ImportError: No module named six

You probably don't have the six Python module installed. You can find it on pypi.

To install it:

$ easy_install six

(if you have pip installed, use pip install six instead)

asp.net mvc @Html.CheckBoxFor

CheckBoxFor takes a bool, you're passing a List<CheckBoxes> to it. You'd need to do:

@for (int i = 0; i < Model.EmploymentType.Count; i++)
{
    @Html.CheckBoxFor(m => m.EmploymentType[i].Checked, new { id = "employmentType_" + i })
    @Html.HiddenFor(m => m.EmploymentType[i].Text)
    @Html.DisplayFor(m => m.EmploymentType[i].Text)
}

Notice I've added a HiddenFor for the Text property too, otherwise you'd lose that when you posted the form, so you wouldn't know which items you'd checked.

Edit, as shown in your comments, your EmploymentType list is null when the view is served. You'll need to populate that too, by doing this in your action method:

public ActionResult YourActionMethod()
{
    CareerForm model = new CareerForm();

    model.EmploymentType = new List<CheckBox>
    {
        new CheckBox { Text = "Fulltime" },
        new CheckBox { Text = "Partly" },
        new CheckBox { Text = "Contract" }
    };

    return View(model);
}

Getting request URL in a servlet

The getRequestURL() omits the port when it is 80 while the scheme is http, or when it is 443 while the scheme is https.

So, just use getRequestURL() if all you want is obtaining the entire URL. This does however not include the GET query string. You may want to construct it as follows then:

StringBuffer requestURL = request.getRequestURL();
if (request.getQueryString() != null) {
    requestURL.append("?").append(request.getQueryString());
}
String completeURL = requestURL.toString();

Reliable method to get machine's MAC address in C#

This method will determine the MAC address of the Network Interface used to connect to the specified url and port.

All the answers here are not capable of achieving this goal.

I wrote this answer years ago (in 2014). So I decided to give it a little "face lift". Please look at the updates section

    /// <summary>
    /// Get the MAC of the Netowrk Interface used to connect to the specified url.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="allowedURL">URL to connect to.</param>
    /// <param name="port">The port to use. Default is 80.</param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    private static PhysicalAddress GetCurrentMAC(string allowedURL, int port = 80)
    {
        //create tcp client
        var client = new TcpClient();

        //start connection
        client.Client.Connect(new IPEndPoint(Dns.GetHostAddresses(allowedURL)[0], port));

        //wai while connection is established
        while(!client.Connected)
        {
            Thread.Sleep(500);
        }

        //get the ip address from the connected endpoint
        var ipAddress = ((IPEndPoint)client.Client.LocalEndPoint).Address;

        //if the ip is ipv4 mapped to ipv6 then convert to ipv4
        if(ipAddress.IsIPv4MappedToIPv6)
            ipAddress = ipAddress.MapToIPv4();        

        Debug.WriteLine(ipAddress);

        //disconnect the client and free the socket
        client.Client.Disconnect(false);
        
        //this will dispose the client and close the connection if needed
        client.Close();

        var allNetworkInterfaces = NetworkInterface.GetAllNetworkInterfaces();

        //return early if no network interfaces found
        if(!(allNetworkInterfaces?.Length > 0))
            return null;

        foreach(var networkInterface in allNetworkInterfaces)
        {
            //get the unicast address of the network interface
            var unicastAddresses = networkInterface.GetIPProperties().UnicastAddresses;
           
            //skip if no unicast address found
            if(!(unicastAddresses?.Count > 0))
                continue;

            //compare the unicast addresses to see 
            //if any match the ip address used to connect over the network
            for(var i = 0; i < unicastAddresses.Count; i++)
            {
                var unicastAddress = unicastAddresses[i];

                //this is unlikely but if it is null just skip
                if(unicastAddress.Address == null)
                    continue;
                
                var ipAddressToCompare = unicastAddress.Address;

                Debug.WriteLine(ipAddressToCompare);

                //if the ip is ipv4 mapped to ipv6 then convert to ipv4
                if(ipAddressToCompare.IsIPv4MappedToIPv6)
                    ipAddressToCompare = ipAddressToCompare.MapToIPv4();

                Debug.WriteLine(ipAddressToCompare);

                //skip if the ip does not match
                if(!ipAddressToCompare.Equals(ipAddress))
                    continue;

                //return the mac address if the ip matches
                return networkInterface.GetPhysicalAddress();
            }
              
        }

        //not found so return null
        return null;
    }

To call it you need to pass a URL to connect to like this:

var mac = GetCurrentMAC("www.google.com");

You can also specify a port number. If not specified default is 80.

UPDATES:

2020

  • Added comments to explain the code.
  • Corrected to be used with newer operating systems that use IPV4 mapped to IPV6 ( like windows 10 ).
  • Reduced nesting.
  • Upgraded the code use "var".

What is boilerplate code?

Boilerplate in software development can mean different things to different people but generally means the block of code that is used over and over again.

In MEAN stack development, this term refers to code generation through use of template. It's easier than hand coding the entire application from scratch and it gives the code block consistency and fewer bugs as it is clean, tested and proven code and it's open source so it is constantly getting updated or fixed therefore it saves a lot of time as using framework or code generator. For more information about MEAN stack, click here.

how to change text in Android TextView

:) Your using the thread in a wrong way. Just do the following:

private void runthread()
{

splashTread = new Thread() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                try {
                    synchronized(this){

                        //wait 5 sec
                        wait(_splashTime);
                    }

                } catch(InterruptedException e) {}
                finally {
                    //call the handler to set the text
                }
            }
        };

        splashTread.start(); 
}

That's it.

php mail setup in xampp

XAMPP should have come with a "fake" sendmail program. In that case, you can use sendmail as well:

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/smtp
;SMTP = localhost
; http://php.net/smtp-port
;smtp_port = 25

; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/sendmail-from
;sendmail_from = [email protected]

; For Unix only.  You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
; http://php.net/sendmail-path
sendmail_path = "C:/xampp/sendmail/sendmail.exe -t -i"

Sendmail should have a sendmail.ini with it; it should be configured as so:

# Example for a user configuration file

# Set default values for all following accounts.
defaults
logfile "C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.log"

# Mercury
#account Mercury
#host localhost
#from postmaster@localhost
#auth off

# A freemail service example
account ACCOUNTNAME_HERE
tls on
tls_certcheck off
host smtp.gmail.com
from EMAIL_HERE
auth on
user EMAIL_HERE
password PASSWORD_HERE

# Set a default account
account default : ACCOUNTNAME_HERE

Of course, replace ACCOUNTNAME_HERE with an arbitrary account name, replace EMAIL_HERE with a valid email (such as a Gmail or Hotmail), and replace PASSWORD_HERE with the password to your email. Now, you should be able to send mail. Remember to restart Apache (from the control panel or the batch files) to allow the changes to PHP to work.

How to avoid 'cannot read property of undefined' errors?

Update:

  • If you use JavaScript according to ECMAScript 2020 or later, see optional chaining.
  • TypeScript has added support for optional chaining in version 3.7.
// use it like this
obj?.a?.lot?.of?.properties

Solution for JavaScript before ECMASCript 2020 or TypeScript older than version 3.7:

A quick workaround is using a try/catch helper function with ES6 arrow function:

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function getSafe(fn, defaultVal) {
  try {
    return fn();
  } catch (e) {
    return defaultVal;
  }
}

// use it like this
console.log(getSafe(() => obj.a.lot.of.properties));

// or add an optional default value
console.log(getSafe(() => obj.a.lot.of.properties, 'nothing'));
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Java - sending HTTP parameters via POST method easily

I took Boann's answer and used it to create a more flexible query string builder that supports lists and arrays, just like php's http_build_query method:

public static byte[] httpBuildQueryString(Map<String, Object> postsData) throws UnsupportedEncodingException {
    StringBuilder postData = new StringBuilder();
    for (Map.Entry<String,Object> param : postsData.entrySet()) {
        if (postData.length() != 0) postData.append('&');

        Object value = param.getValue();
        String key = param.getKey();

        if(value instanceof Object[] || value instanceof List<?>)
        {
            int size = value instanceof Object[] ? ((Object[])value).length : ((List<?>)value).size();
            for(int i = 0; i < size; i++)
            {
                Object val = value instanceof Object[] ? ((Object[])value)[i] : ((List<?>)value).get(i);
                if(i>0) postData.append('&');
                postData.append(URLEncoder.encode(key + "[" + i + "]", "UTF-8"));
                postData.append('=');            
                postData.append(URLEncoder.encode(String.valueOf(val), "UTF-8"));
            }
        }
        else
        {
            postData.append(URLEncoder.encode(key, "UTF-8"));
            postData.append('=');            
            postData.append(URLEncoder.encode(String.valueOf(value), "UTF-8"));
        }
    }
    return postData.toString().getBytes("UTF-8");
}

How do I refresh the page in ASP.NET? (Let it reload itself by code)

I personally need to ensure the page keeps state, so all the text boxes and other input fields retain their values. by doing meta refresh it's like a new post, IsPostBack is always false so all your controls are in the initialized state again. To retain state put this at the end of your Page_Load(). create a hidden button on the page with an event hooked up, something like butRefresh with event butRefresh_Click(...). This code sets a timer on the page to fire a postback just like a user clicked the refresh button themselves. all state and session is retained. Enjoy! (P.S. you may need to put the directive in the @Page header EnableEventValidation="false" if you receive an error on postback.

//tell the browser to post back again in 5 seconds while keeping state of all controls
ClientScript.RegisterClientScriptBlock(this.GetType(), "refresh", "<script>setTimeout(function(){ " + ClientScript.GetPostBackClientHyperlink(butRefresh, "refresh") + " },5000);</script>");

jQuery Event Keypress: Which key was pressed?

Use event.key and modern JS!

No number codes anymore. You can check key directly. For example "Enter", "LeftArrow", "r", or "R".

const input = document.getElementById("searchbox");
input.addEventListener("keypress", function onEvent(event) {
    if (event.key === "Enter") {
        // Submit
    }
    else if (event.key === "Q") {
        // Play quacking duck sound, maybe...
    }
});

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Supported Browsers

CodeIgniter htaccess and URL rewrite issues

There are 3 steps to remove index.php.

  1. Make below changes in application/config.php file

    $config['base_url'] = 'http://'.$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].'/Your Ci folder_name';
    $config['index_page'] = '';
    $config['uri_protocol'] = 'AUTO';
    
  2. Make .htaccess file in your root directory using below code

    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|resources|robots\.txt)
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L,QSA]
    
  3. Enable the rewrite engine (if not already enabled)

    i. First, initiate it with the following command:

    a2enmod rewrite
    

    ii. Edit the file /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default

    Change all AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All.

    Note: In latest version you need to change in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf file

    iii. Restart your server with the following command:

    sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
    

How to convert / cast long to String?

See the reference documentation for the String class: String s = String.valueOf(date);

If your Long might be null and you don't want to get a 4-letter "null" string, you might use Objects.toString, like: String s = Objects.toString(date, null);


EDIT:

You reverse it using Long l = Long.valueOf(s); but in this direction you need to catch NumberFormatException

How to change environment's font size?

You can Zoom In and Zoom Out the entire user interface from the View menu.

Right now i'm using version 1.21.1 and there in view menu you can get the Zoom in and Zoom out option which are the 2nd and 3rd last options. You can do it by using Ctrl + + and Ctrl + -.

You can reset the zoom at any time by selecting Reset Zoom option.

How to justify navbar-nav in Bootstrap 3

I know this is an old post but I would like share my solution. I spent several hours trying to make a justified navigation menu. You do not really need to modify anything in bootstrap css. Just need to add the correct class in the html.

   <nav class="nav navbar-default navbar-fixed-top">
        <div class="navbar-header">
            <button type="button" class="navbar-toggle collapsed" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#collapsable-1" aria-expanded="false">
                <span class="sr-only">Toggle navigation</span>
                <span class="icon-bar"></span>
                <span class="icon-bar"></span>
                <span class="icon-bar"></span>
            </button>
            <a class="navbar-brand" href="#top">Brand Name</a>
        </div>
        <div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="collapsable-1">
            <ul class="nav nav-justified">
                <li><a href="#about-me">About Me</a></li>
                <li><a href="#skills">Skills</a></li>
                <li><a href="#projects">Projects</a></li>
                <li><a href="#contact-me">Contact Me</a></li>
            </ul>
        </div>
    </nav>

This CSS code will simply remove the navbar-brand class when the screen reaches 768px.

media@(min-width: 768px){
   .navbar-brand{
        display: none;
    }
}

How to calculate UILabel height dynamically?

This is the extension I use for calculating multiline UILabel heights, it's an adjusted snippet from a previous stack overflow post:

extension UILabel {
    func estimatedHeight(forWidth: CGFloat, text: String, ofSize: CGFloat) -> CGFloat {

        let size = CGSize(width: forWidth, height: CGFloat(MAXFLOAT))

        let options = NSStringDrawingOptions.usesFontLeading.union(.usesLineFragmentOrigin)

        let attributes = [NSFontAttributeName: UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: ofSize)]

        let rectangleHeight = String(text).boundingRect(with: size, options: options, attributes: attributes, context: nil).height

        return ceil(rectangleHeight)
    }
}

RuntimeWarning: invalid value encountered in divide

I think your code is trying to "divide by zero" or "divide by NaN". If you are aware of that and don't want it to bother you, then you can try:

import numpy as np
np.seterr(divide='ignore', invalid='ignore')

For more details see:

VHDL - How should I create a clock in a testbench?

If multiple clock are generated with different frequencies, then clock generation can be simplified if a procedure is called as concurrent procedure call. The time resolution issue, mentioned by Martin Thompson, may be mitigated a little by using different high and low time in the procedure. The test bench with procedure for clock generation is:

library ieee;
use ieee.std_logic_1164.all;

entity tb is
end entity;

architecture sim of tb is

  -- Procedure for clock generation
  procedure clk_gen(signal clk : out std_logic; constant FREQ : real) is
    constant PERIOD    : time := 1 sec / FREQ;        -- Full period
    constant HIGH_TIME : time := PERIOD / 2;          -- High time
    constant LOW_TIME  : time := PERIOD - HIGH_TIME;  -- Low time; always >= HIGH_TIME
  begin
    -- Check the arguments
    assert (HIGH_TIME /= 0 fs) report "clk_plain: High time is zero; time resolution to large for frequency" severity FAILURE;
    -- Generate a clock cycle
    loop
      clk <= '1';
      wait for HIGH_TIME;
      clk <= '0';
      wait for LOW_TIME;
    end loop;
  end procedure;

  -- Clock frequency and signal
  signal clk_166 : std_logic;
  signal clk_125 : std_logic;

begin

  -- Clock generation with concurrent procedure call
  clk_gen(clk_166, 166.667E6);  -- 166.667 MHz clock
  clk_gen(clk_125, 125.000E6);  -- 125.000 MHz clock

  -- Time resolution show
  assert FALSE report "Time resolution: " & time'image(time'succ(0 fs)) severity NOTE;

end architecture;

The time resolution is printed on the terminal for information, using the concurrent assert last in the test bench.

If the clk_gen procedure is placed in a separate package, then reuse from test bench to test bench becomes straight forward.

Waveform for clocks are shown in figure below.

Waveforms for clk_166 and clk_125

An more advanced clock generator can also be created in the procedure, which can adjust the period over time to match the requested frequency despite the limitation by time resolution. This is shown here:

-- Advanced procedure for clock generation, with period adjust to match frequency over time, and run control by signal
procedure clk_gen(signal clk : out std_logic; constant FREQ : real; PHASE : time := 0 fs; signal run : std_logic) is
  constant HIGH_TIME   : time := 0.5 sec / FREQ;  -- High time as fixed value
  variable low_time_v  : time;                    -- Low time calculated per cycle; always >= HIGH_TIME
  variable cycles_v    : real := 0.0;             -- Number of cycles
  variable freq_time_v : time := 0 fs;            -- Time used for generation of cycles
begin
  -- Check the arguments
  assert (HIGH_TIME /= 0 fs) report "clk_gen: High time is zero; time resolution to large for frequency" severity FAILURE;
  -- Initial phase shift
  clk <= '0';
  wait for PHASE;
  -- Generate cycles
  loop
    -- Only high pulse if run is '1' or 'H'
    if (run = '1') or (run = 'H') then
      clk <= run;
    end if;
    wait for HIGH_TIME;
    -- Low part of cycle
    clk <= '0';
    low_time_v := 1 sec * ((cycles_v + 1.0) / FREQ) - freq_time_v - HIGH_TIME;  -- + 1.0 for cycle after current
    wait for low_time_v;
    -- Cycle counter and time passed update
    cycles_v := cycles_v + 1.0;
    freq_time_v := freq_time_v + HIGH_TIME + low_time_v;
  end loop;
end procedure;

Again reuse through a package will be nice.

How to create a sticky left sidebar menu using bootstrap 3?

You can also try to use a Polyfill like Fixed-Sticky. Especially when you are using Bootstrap4 the affix component is no longer included:

Dropped the Affix jQuery plugin. We recommend using a position: sticky polyfill instead.

X-UA-Compatible is set to IE=edge, but it still doesn't stop Compatibility Mode

When your browser opens with Compatibility Modes, even you remove and turn off all compability modes configuration from your web browser and Local Group Policy Editor, you can try to disable from register key.

This also happen to me on using domain and sub-domain to connect server side. The machine is restricted to open in compability mode for all sub-domain.

DISABLE COMPABILITY MODE FOR INTRANET

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE - SOFTWARE - Policies - Microsoft - Internet Explorer - BrowserEmulation -> IntranetCompalityMode Value should be 0 (zero). And also remove existing domain name from PolicyList.

Otherwise, you can add a new value (DWORD) that contain 0 (zero) value data.

How to SELECT by MAX(date)?

This should do it:

SELECT report_id, computer_id, date_entered
FROM reports AS a
WHERE date_entered = (
    SELECT MAX(date_entered)
    FROM reports AS b
    WHERE a.report_id = b.report_id
      AND a.computer_id = b.computer_id
)

How to check if string input is a number?

I also ran into problems this morning with users being able to enter non-integer responses to my specific request for an integer.

This was the solution that ended up working well for me to force an answer I wanted:

player_number = 0
while player_number != 1 and player_number !=2:
    player_number = raw_input("Are you Player 1 or 2? ")
    try:
        player_number = int(player_number)
    except ValueError:
        print "Please enter '1' or '2'..."

I would get exceptions before even reaching the try: statement when I used

player_number = int(raw_input("Are you Player 1 or 2? ") 

and the user entered "J" or any other non-integer character. It worked out best to take it as raw input, check to see if that raw input could be converted to an integer, and then convert it afterward.

Java: get all variable names in a class

You can use any of the two based on your need:

Field[] fields = ClassName.class.getFields(); // returns inherited members but not private members.
Field[] fields = ClassName.class.getDeclaredFields(); // returns all members including private members but not inherited members.

To filter only the public fields from the above list (based on requirement) use below code:

List<Field> fieldList = Arrays.asList(fields).stream().filter(field -> Modifier.isPublic(field.getModifiers())).collect(
    Collectors.toList());

C compile error: Id returned 1 exit status

I may guess, the old instance of your program is still running. Windows does not allow to change the files which are currently "in use" and your linker cannot write the new .exe on the top of the running one. Try stopping/killing your program.

Algorithm to convert RGB to HSV and HSV to RGB in range 0-255 for both

Here's a C implementation based on Agoston's Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling: Implementation and Algorithms p. 304, with H ? [0, 360] and S,V ? [0, 1].

#include <math.h>

typedef struct {
    double r;       // ? [0, 1]
    double g;       // ? [0, 1]
    double b;       // ? [0, 1]
} rgb;

typedef struct {
    double h;       // ? [0, 360]
    double s;       // ? [0, 1]
    double v;       // ? [0, 1]
} hsv;

rgb hsv2rgb(hsv HSV)
{
    rgb RGB;
    double H = HSV.h, S = HSV.s, V = HSV.v,
            P, Q, T,
            fract;

    (H == 360.)?(H = 0.):(H /= 60.);
    fract = H - floor(H);

    P = V*(1. - S);
    Q = V*(1. - S*fract);
    T = V*(1. - S*(1. - fract));

    if      (0. <= H && H < 1.)
        RGB = (rgb){.r = V, .g = T, .b = P};
    else if (1. <= H && H < 2.)
        RGB = (rgb){.r = Q, .g = V, .b = P};
    else if (2. <= H && H < 3.)
        RGB = (rgb){.r = P, .g = V, .b = T};
    else if (3. <= H && H < 4.)
        RGB = (rgb){.r = P, .g = Q, .b = V};
    else if (4. <= H && H < 5.)
        RGB = (rgb){.r = T, .g = P, .b = V};
    else if (5. <= H && H < 6.)
        RGB = (rgb){.r = V, .g = P, .b = Q};
    else
        RGB = (rgb){.r = 0., .g = 0., .b = 0.};

    return RGB;
}

TypeError("'bool' object is not iterable",) when trying to return a Boolean

Look at the traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\bottle.py", line 821, in _cast
    out = iter(out)
TypeError: 'bool' object is not iterable

Your code isn't iterating the value, but the code receiving it is.

The solution is: return an iterable. I suggest that you either convert the bool to a string (str(False)) or enclose it in a tuple ((False,)).

Always read the traceback: it's correct, and it's helpful.

Apply function to all elements of collection through LINQ

For collections that do not support ForEach you can use static ForEach method in Parallel class:

var options = new ParallelOptions() { MaxDegreeOfParallelism = 1 };
Parallel.ForEach(_your_collection_, options, x => x._Your_Method_());

OR, AND Operator

There is a distinction between the conditional operators && and || and the boolean operators & and |. Mainly it is a difference of precendence (which operators get evaluated first) and also the && and || are 'escaping'. This means that is a sequence such as...

cond1 && cond2 && cond3

If cond1 is false, neither cond2 or cond3 are evaluated as the code rightly assumes that no matter what their value, the expression cannot be true. Likewise...

cond1 || cond2 || cond3

If cond1 is true, neither cond2 or cond3 are evaluated as the expression must be true no matter what their value is.

The bitwise counterparts, & and | are not escaping.

Hope that helps.

Cheap way to search a large text file for a string

I'm surprised no one mentioned mapping the file into memory: mmap

With this you can access the file as if it were already loaded into memory and the OS will take care of mapping it in and out as possible. Also, if you do this from 2 independent processes and they map the file "shared", they will share the underlying memory.

Once mapped, it will behave like a bytearray. You can use regular expressions, find or any of the other common methods.

Beware that this approach is a little OS specific. It will not be automatically portable.

release Selenium chromedriver.exe from memory

I came here initially thinking surely this would have been answered/resolved but after reading all the answers I was a bit surprised no one tried to call all three methods together:

try
{
    blah
}
catch
{
    blah
}
finally
{
    driver.Close(); // Close the chrome window
    driver.Quit(); // Close the console app that was used to kick off the chrome window
    driver.Dispose(); // Close the chromedriver.exe
}

I was only here to look for answers and didn't intend to provide one. So the above solution is based on my experience only. I was using chrome driver in a C# console app and I was able to clean up the lingering processes only after calling all three methods together.

Visual Studio 2013 error MS8020 Build tools v140 cannot be found

@bku_drytt's solution didn't do it for me.

I solved it by additionally changing every occurence of 14.0 to 12.0 and v140 to v120 manually in the .vcxproj files.

Then it compiled!

How to start MySQL with --skip-grant-tables?

Edit my.ini file and add skip-grant-tables and restart your mysql server :

[mysqld]
port= 3306
socket = "C:/xampp/mysql/mysql.sock"
basedir = "C:/xampp/mysql" 
tmpdir = "C:/xampp/tmp" 
datadir = "C:/xampp/mysql/data"
pid_file = "mysql.pid"
# enable-named-pipe
key_buffer = 16M
max_allowed_packet = 1M
sort_buffer_size = 512K
net_buffer_length = 8K
read_buffer_size = 256K
read_rnd_buffer_size = 512K
myisam_sort_buffer_size = 8M
log_error = "mysql_error.log"
skip-grant-tables
# Change here for bind listening
# bind-address="127.0.0.1" 
# bind-address = ::1