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    Gave Reputation to darkagn in Would a Typed Reader be useful?

    Certainly being able to parse file input into something meaningful is always useful. To make it even more generic, why not use a Stream input instead? That way you can …
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    Replied To a Post in Would a Typed Reader be useful?

    Right, good point. The only reason I am using a config object here is that it is a **fixed width** file parser. I am probably not using the correct vocabulary …
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    Created Would a Typed Reader be useful?

    Say hypothetically you had a reader which did something like this... //testing reader, automatically parses strings and converts to the custom type via attributes! using ( FlatFileReader<MyCustomClass> reader = new …
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    Began Watching Would a Typed Reader be useful?

    Say hypothetically you had a reader which did something like this... //testing reader, automatically parses strings and converts to the custom type via attributes! using ( FlatFileReader<MyCustomClass> reader = new …
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    Replied To a Post in infinite recursion

    Indeed, C/C++ has some awesome features like that... lol
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    Began Watching infinite recursion

    I'm getting infinite recursion here. I'm sorry if this is obvious but I don't see what I'm doing wrong here. program() gets called from main, then program() calls declaration_list(), then …
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    Replied To a Post in infinite recursion

    Program calls declaration_list(), declaration_list() calls declaration(), which prints something and returns, then declaration_list() calls declaration_list(), it's self again, which proceeds to call declaration(), then we go back to execute the …
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    Hi, I've recently "inherited" a part built project from a developer who as left our company. He had decided to use Entity Framework but I am finding it to be …
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    Replied To a Post in Best way to remove entity framework from a project

    I don't know, I have been told by some developers that Entity Framework is one of the "new things" in database development only recently (looking up some info on google, …
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    Gave Reputation to Reverend Jim in Why is the Windows Registry and Processes so special?

    Try deleting them and you'll find out.
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    Replied To a Post in Excel VBA - Check each column is empty until last column

    Ok, so I built a writer, here are the code additions... /*Author: overwraith*/ using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Reflection;//for the Missing enumeration using System.Runtime.InteropServices; using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel; …
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    Replied To a Post in Excel VBA - Check each column is empty until last column

    Ok, so I got something working pretty good, I just got to replace this print list function with an actual excel writer which I am going to have to design. …
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    Replied To a Post in Excel VBA - Check each column is empty until last column

    One of the things I have noticed about Excel programs is occasionally Excel thinks that comma separated value text(CSV) files are excel files, so it will automatically open them. You …
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    Gave Reputation to daliahernandez in Debugging in a production environment

    Add more Try/Catch Blocks to the code. Put in more check for null variables and lists Put in more error handling. Do a divide and conquer strategy for this situation. …
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    Gave Reputation to DaveAmour in Debugging in a production environment

    Did they have Source Control?
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    Gave Reputation to jwenting in Debugging in a production environment

    you NEVER debug production code. Rather you analyse the log files (those should of course exist and be designed to have useful information), then try to recreate the scenario on …
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    Gave Reputation to pritaeas in Debugging in a production environment

    > If you are faced with a previous coder who took all sorts of rabbit trails in his code You can use tools like ReSharper to help you identify code …
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    Replied To a Post in Debugging in a production environment

    Calm down everybody, I know you don't debug in a production environment, but the previous programmer did not. I quite literally could not get anything done to remedy the situation …
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    Replied To a Post in Excel VBA - Check each column is empty until last column

    Stop refering to it as the same cell, you're confusing everybody! A 'cell' is one box. A 'row' is one line of boxes left to right. A 'column' is all …
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    Began Watching Excel VBA - Check each column is empty until last column

    Hi everyone, I'm new here. I don't know VBA and have been tasked with a VBA project for whatever reason. We have a recurring bug wherein a report we receive …
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    Replied To a Post in Excel VBA - Check each column is empty until last column

    I wrote an excel program a while back, If I remember correctly the workspace cell bounds should be uniform regaurdless of whether the cell has data in it or not, …
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    Began Watching Best way do this, object comparison

    First off, here is the code I will be referencing: package com.airamerica.dataConversion; import com.airamerica.Airports; import com.airamerica.Person; import com.airamerica.Products.Products; import com.airamerica.Products.Tickets; public class FindObject { public static Airports findAirport(String airportCode, Airports …
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    Replied To a Post in Best way do this, object comparison

    Changing all the methods names to a single pattern/name is actually a good idea. If you do that, and you have access to the classes of Airports, Products, and Persons …
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    Created Debugging in a production environment

    I recently lost a job, pretty much because my previous employer expected miracles from an entry level coder. I was tasked with reading years worth of code developed in a …
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    Began Watching Debugging in a production environment

    I recently lost a job, pretty much because my previous employer expected miracles from an entry level coder. I was tasked with reading years worth of code developed in a …
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    Gave Reputation to deceptikon in How does code porting work?

    > The problems I guess would be navigating from a language with a certain feature to a language without a certain feature That's one problem, yes. Another would be choosing …
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    Replied To a Post in How does code porting work?

    So I have done some googling on this, sometimes they are called transcompilers, other times they are called source to source compilers. They have actually been used a lot more …
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    Gave Reputation to jwenting in How does code porting work?

    porting usually means getting something to work on a different operating system and/or hardware. This is largely a manual process (though I'm sure there are tools that can help identify …
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    Gave Reputation to マーズ maazu in How does code porting work?

    You try to emulate the original with what system resource you have. Also need to reverse engineer/intelligent guesses to what the intent of certain parts of the code does.
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    Gave Reputation to stultuske in How does code porting work?

    Sure there are tools out there to "translate" from (for instance) Java to Javascript (basically, the GWT framework generates javascript to run on the client's machine based on the Java …
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    Began Watching Creating Network Sniffer using C#

    Hello All, I really want to create a network sniffer. What kind of topics do I need to understand to create a simple one? Thanks
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    Replied To a Post in Creating Network Sniffer using C#

    Yes, don't create multiple threads on the same topic. What I would do is look into a packet sniffing library like libnet, or pcap, etc. The wireshark one would be …
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    Created How does code porting work?

    So, I have heard about code porting, basically where you take existing code from one language, and translate it to another language. What I want to know is how does …
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    Began Watching How does code porting work?

    So, I have heard about code porting, basically where you take existing code from one language, and translate it to another language. What I want to know is how does …
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    Began Watching C# or Visual Basic?

    In real life, what is the difference between C# and Visual Basic?. I want to make an application to handle data from a database and I was told that C# …
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    Replied To a Post in C# or Visual Basic?

    Visual Basic is harder to read than C#... Sorry about the dig VB coders, but you know what I am referring to, Dim'ing variables instead of simply declairing "int num …
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    Began Watching Network Sniffer using C#

    Hello All, Recently, I have been thinking of creating a software that will detect network packets and then develop it as I go along. Can you help me point to …
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    Replied To a Post in Network Sniffer using C#

    Unless you learn how to do Arp Cache poisoning... ;) Don't know if there is any windows specific Arp Cache poisoning software available for you though, I think most of …
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    Created Sandcastle like software

    So I was thinking, what is the best software for reading xml comments embedded in source code(C#)? Are there alternatives, or is sandcastle the only one? If there are alternatives, …
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    Began Watching Sandcastle like software

    So I was thinking, what is the best software for reading xml comments embedded in source code(C#)? Are there alternatives, or is sandcastle the only one? If there are alternatives, …
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    Gave Reputation to Dani in Are discussions hard to follow?

    We now use the tagging system instead of forums. There is no more C# forum. You can find all C# related articles at: https://www.daniweb.com/tags/c%23 You can arrive there by typing …
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    Began Watching Are discussions hard to follow?

    With the new design, are you finding discussions hard to follow? In other words, is the area with the member signatures too big that it becomes confusing or requires effort …
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    Replied To a Post in Are discussions hard to follow?

    I can't find the C# forum! Where's the link? I don't want to browse all languages, just the ones I am interested in...
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    *Story happens in imaginary universe, but I'm using current time "relativation".* vmWare Player type of application (but for free). I consider adding it to Open Source because everybody is saying …
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    Replied To a Post in Is OpenSource really that secure?

    I am glad deceptikon touched on security through obscurity. While reading through a crypto book I heard about the concept as well. As it is described in the crypto book, …
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    Began Watching Using Two Different Systems with the same keyboard and mouse.

    Hi All, I work for a college and I use their systems, which I have access to a whole host of software that for Data protection reasons that cant be …
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    Replied To a Post in Using Two Different Systems with the same keyboard and mouse.

    Lots of people use Remote Desktop Protocol programs to access another computer via another. Some of the programs support dragging and dropping files between desktops (not folders, zip it first). …
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    I remember this example! Frustrated the hell out of me too back in the day! Am thinking to myself would probably be easy now, to just make an array of …
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    Began Watching Server with C#

    hi guys, how do i create a simple server that ships alongside my windows app during installation which will be used as local server to host web pages that ships …

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