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When creating a code-first solution in dot net core using Visual Studio, you manipulate the database by changing model classes and migrating the changes. I can set the schema for tables that I cre...
I want to dye all label asterisks Red with vanilla JavaScript. CSS isn't good for this because it would dye both asterisks and colons (:) instead just the asterisks: .labelWithColonAndAsterisk:af...
I'm used to working in Python, but my current project is in C#/.NET and uses log4net for logging. Out of the box, log4net uses an XML file for configuration. I dislike XML and want to use something...
I am fairly new to working with @ngrx pattern in Angular which is a state management pattern relying on Reactive Extensions. One of the convenient structures is @ngrx/entity which helps with manag...
In the example.xsd file I have an import to an external xsd file that looks like this: <schema xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" targetNamespace="http://test.example.com" ...
I am writing a spoof of the fs module; the actual storage mechanism is not the the filesystem but rather a database. Overall, however, the api will function exactly like fs. So far my code is compa...
On a Linux server, if you leave the .git folder unprotected in the public_html folder, its possible that someone could download the folder and then gain access to your files. There are two ways I h...
Note: this is an aggregate of the answer provided for this question. I want to get the LINQ equivalent of the following from SQL: SELECT .. FROM entity1 e1 JOIN entity2 e2 ON e1.field1 = e2.fie...
Almost every table in my DB has triggers that fire on INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE and write the changes to a separate read only DB. This makes it possible to track changes and undo things well after the...
I have a function that which does some calculations. I would like to assign the result of the function to the global environment from within the function, how do I proceed? A minimal example: meanF...
A Q on Stack Exchange from a very long time ago included: I have first names in one column and second names in another, I want to create a third column that contains the first character from the...
Say I want to implement a very basic group chat application. I use the H2 database, a user class, a controller, and a text file in the Resources folder that stores the chat texts. All texts would b...
An as yet unanswered OpenOffice Calc - Highlighting the higest value in multiple columns posted by Rui on Super User from early this year asked whether a condition was possible to: fill with a c...
Some while ago a user of Web Applications asked after a function to avoid "an if/else just to handle negative numbers properly". Clarification provided was: Presently it round based on absolute...
I have following setup: flutter plugin with an example app the plugin depends on a native library (flutter_plugin.podspec contains s.dependency 'native-lib', '0.1.0') for local development I pull ...
Can a Go package name validly contain a hyphen and/or an underscore? The godocs say that By convention, packages are given lower case, single-word names; there should be no need for underscores or...
I am using tf.keras.preprocessing.image_dataset_from_directory. According to the documentation, the related image_size parameter is the Size to resize images to after they are read from disk. How...
All the ways I know of to mutate a DOM are JavaScript. Just for broadening general knowledge I want to know if there is any common way to mutate the DOM via HTML itself, without involving any Java...
Context Our product owner has realized that some entities are duplicated from time to time and that a merge is required. This should clean up existing duplicates and also allow special users to me...
I'm new to D and am planning to use it for golfing. I want to make a ROT13 converter and I want to determine the length of an inputted string. Is there a function for this? If not, what ways can I...
from tkinter import * from tkinter import messagebox, filedialog import pyttsx3 import PyPDF2 import os import webbrowser root = Tk() # root.geometry("500x500") root.title("Audio Book") ...
What's the better way to store base64 in SQLite Database? I was thinking to put base64 as TEXT since base64 has lots of chars. CREATE TABLE name (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT, image TEXT)...
I am stumped at Maven exec plugin. Running mvn exec:exec -Dexec.executable="curl" (or "echo") works. But when running mvn exec:exec or mvn exec:exec@b (or @a) it fails saying The parameter 'exe...
Is there a way to add support for "move symbol" in Python code for VS Codium? PyCharm can do this, but I am looking for a VSC solution. PyLance can do this, but PyLance itself is closed source, a...
I want to pass a variable to TeamCity (on prem) to choose between deployment environments (there are 14 of 'em - don't ask) when running a TC deployment configuration build which uses a PowerShell ...
I am all new with using Redux Toolkit, I followed the official documentation to setup the store: // store.ts import { configureStore, ThunkAction, Action, combineReducers } from '@reduxjs/toolkit...
I like using NATURAL JOIN in Snowflake, because I find it more elegant than explicit join clauses. However, it appears that the natural join behaves similar to an inner join, in that null values o...
Flutter supports packaging a SQLite instance with a Flutter app using the Sqflite plugin. I do not like the speed of SQLite or the fact that it does not enforce column datatypes and want to use som...
I installed Node.js using NVS to manage my node installations. This works great, except that I haven't been able to figure out how to debug using VS Code. When trying to launch, I receive this err...
I am migrating an application from Log4j1 to Log4j2 using the API bridge jar. All references to the log4j1.jar have already been removed. I set the system property in Websphere as a JVM argument -...
We have done a reverse proxy to forward blog.example.com to example.com/blog. As I think it gives great help in getting the “link juice” to the root domain. However, I am concerned about any possi...
I'm looking at the behaviour of Chrome and my test framework and trying to understand what the correct behaviour should be before raising an issue/ticket on one or the other (or revisiting how my t...
Suppose I have some variables like: >>> count = 8 >>> status = 'off' I want to combine them with some hard-coded text, to get a single string like 'I have 8 cans of Spam®; b...
We have a console application using the Azure WebJob SDK. The WebJob relies on a WCF service using SOAP, which it accesses through a DLL we wrote that wraps the auto-generated WCF types in somethin...
MWE import random import pandas as pd from itertools import product random.seed(12345) dies = [1, 2] cells = list(range(10)) currents = [100, 200, 300] dcc = list(product(dies, ce...
Hi, I'm trying to use the JSON Generator to create data with nested repeating values. I want to create 100 objects with an ID, Name, and Code. The Id is incremented from 0 to 99, but the Code (pr...
I've been trying to get Amazon SQS working with the v3 JS client. I've gotten to the point where I can successfully create a queue using the frontend, but the issue starts when I try and send/recei...
I am working with VS 2022 and trying to make a WPF MVVM application. The application updates the items displayed in the datagrid, persisting the changes to the database upon save. However, adding a...
I am using linq/EF core to retrieve data via an API call. How do I sort the collection of related data for each retrieved entity? Assume the following structure: an Order is made on a certain da...
I have some code connecting to an active directory via ldap. Something like this: public Response add(User user) { try { LDAPConnectionPool ldapPool = ldapConnectionPool.getPool();...
I found a form I wanted to duplicate on a roof construction website. All my input boxes are centered except the last one that's a bit off and I cannot figure out why. Here is my code: HTML <...
I was tasked with an assignment where I should get a box to move to the 4 corners of the viewport by hovering on a button. Most of the code is already finished except for figuring out how to get th...
Sometimes code needs to assign (or otherwise use) a value that depends on some condition. The naive approach is to use explicit branching, which in Python would look like: if some_condition(): ...
I'm trying to build a proper understanding of what an OLAP[1] datastore vs an OLAP data engine is. I tend to put too much value on keywords like "engine" vs "data store." If it has "engine," I thin...
I believe when you sign in with Google, the web application running in your browser calls a command to request the Google Sign In page, and includes a “callback URL” as a parameter in that HTTP req...
I wish to add a property with the date of the current Git commit to the assembly info. From my .csproj: <Exec Command="git -C "$(ProjectDir)." log -1 --pretty=format:%ad" ...
What I would like to do: Set a cell value. Check with a program if cell values conform to data validation rules. I could extract all the information needed to create a validation function, b...
SAML service provider (and other types as well) metadata XMLs are full of prefixes like md: and ds:. What do these mean? To illustrate my point, here's a sample metadata file from Wikipedia (CC-BY...
Are any of the popular Excel .NET projects have a functionality similar to Apache POI's DataValidationEvaluator class?
This question is inspired by If I have a char array containing strings with a null byte (\0) terminating each string, how would I add another string onto the end? on Stack Overflow. Suppose I have...
