The real value of a forum like Daniweb is in how it helps the people who search for problems in the future. The needs of the OP are immaterial.

The reason it exists is because somebody put it there. Supporting the marking of threads as solved is like supporting the death penalty: innocent people will get executed, and threads with bad...

Obviously I wasn't talking about his code example because the methods there were not marked abstract.

Either that or the methods were abstract.

Bah, I meant to uprep this post with "complete win" while downrepping the first, but forgot you could only rep somebody once per day. :(

Static methods are just global functions that could very well have nothing to do with the class you've put them in. Methods that are not static are merely functions that, in their definition,...

There's no such thing as a 'blank space.' An array with 64 elements will contain 64 elements. Some of them will be null, because that's what they were initialized with -- but that's no different...

The "second" file from the list? Are you saying you're expecting Sort to look at the elements of the list in some particular order?

If File y is null, what do you expect to happen? What is y.fsPos supposed to do when y is null? (Hint: it throws an exception.)

Apologies for the snark.

You should modify your Compare method...

A Taylor series isn't really a good way to compute this function unless you're looking for asymptotic accuracy around a particular point, rather than general accuracy along the whole thing. Also,...

First of all, again, you should be iterating i from 0 to 2, not from 1 to 3.

Second, how do you know (at the time this code runs) that gemData has been written to? If you were getting an index...

Use private static Random random = new Random(); so that the same random number generator is used across different instances of Coin.

For this specific mechanism, you could make a function that converts your ArrayList to a byte[] and then passes that through an MD5 or SHA1 algorithm or whatnot. See...

Do your own homework.

You have two problems with this method. One is that there is no proof that T : IEnumerable. You need to use a where clause to specify that. The other problem is that not all control paths lead to...

I would use a List<> instead of an array, because you can create a List<> and then add new elements to it.


string[] someArray = new[] { "Alpha", "Bacta", "Cata", "Dooku", "Ephem" };...

Huh? MSBuild, NAnt, ....

It uses the function System.Linq.Enumerable.Where, which takes an IEnumerable<T> and a function of type Func<T, Bool> and returns an IEnumerable<T> that contains all the values for which the function...

Whoops, I meant path.Split(new[] { '\\' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries).

And if you wanted to filter the empty entries manually, you'd probably do

path.Split('\\').Where(s => s.Length...

All the fields of a class are allocated in the same place, right next to one another. That means variables whose type is some value type are allocated in the same place as variables whose type is...

Just use path.Split('\\', StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries).

You need using System.Linq; at the top of your file.

Except when doing joins, I prefer to avoid the LINQ syntax and just use the Enumerable extension methods directly. It makes the behavior more clear, sometimes.

If you want things grouped by X and...

It should work for List<Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Rectangle>, which implements IEquatable<Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Rectangle>. Maybe you're expecting the code to modify the original list object. It...

You can and should use v.Last() instead of v.ElementAt(v.Count()-1). Using v.Last() also only iterates through the collection once, which is sometimes something to be aware of (and sometimes a...

Blah blah blah, why don't you answer the question instead of linking to some reference site.

linkpraveen: if you use a List<Invoice>, for example, it's impossible to have anything in that list...

Instead of keeping variables first_address, second_address, and third_address, and so on, make an array of addresses and walk through the array until one succeeds or until they all have failed.

answered in identical thread.

ISingleResult<T> : IEnumerable<T>, so just use System.Linq.Enumerable.ToList.

byte is an unsigned 8-bit integer whose values range from 0 to 255.

char is a 16-bit unicode character type. If you want to represent raw streams of bytes, you'll use bytes. You could also parse...

What do you mean, the "SQL end"? Or "the application end"? I don't understand those terms.

For starters, replace [1-9]+ with [1-9][0-9]*

When you use a preceding @ sign in C#, that means escape characters won't work. You can then write backslashes freely.

For example, @"C:\Documents...

Yes, they use databases.

When we install software on a client we have some huge SQL files that create all the tables, indexes, and restrictions that we need.

A lookup table as in something that contains a small set of standard board positions and tells you what to do in those cases.

You can implement it by programming.

You can define your own...

It's a much simpler and better solution just to have a lookup table of all the nonobvious board positions modulo rotation and reflection.

What's stopping you from making one?

Yes, I can. Why can't you?

Huh? I did not say that at all.

Well, define "very nice." The niceness of a UI depends on the developer. How is VS 2008 stopping you from making a nice UI?

Suppose the datatype you're using to hold an IP address is called IPAddress. Then you would want to use a List<IPAddress> to hold your IP addresses. If the datatype you're using is string, you'd...