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How to dynamically change panel of ItemsControl?

Let's say I have some collection of data. My goal is to provide different kind of view of ItemsControl depending on user`s preference. For simplicity, we can assume that user can select only betwe...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by FoggyFinder‭  ·  edited 3y ago by FoggyFinder‭

c# .net mvvm avalonia
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Transferring files from a legacy project to an existing one as varbinary

Our team is currently transferring all functionality (+ some changes) from small and very old project A (almost code freeze) to project B (actively developed). As part of the data migration, there ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Derek Elkins‭

sql-server data-migration file-handling
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Behavior of Pointer Arithmetic on the Stack

Consider the following code: #include <stdio.h> int main() { int a = 5; int b; ++*(&b + 1); printf("%d\n", a); return 0; } The output is as expected: 6 ...

4 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Josh Hyatt‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Alexei‭

c undefined-behavior stack-memory unspecified-behavior
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Regarding the heap sort algorithm.

I get the concept of the heap sort algorithm and its like first you have a heap(ordered binary tree) then we have the Max heap which has the highest element value in the array at the top of the tre...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by hamburgersarecool‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Alexei‭

c heap-memory sorting
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iframe tag is vertically scrollable although I would expect it to vertically stretch 100%

I have an iframe tag to which I didn't set height so it has a default height which is 150px (at least in Google Chrome). As a consequence, the iframe appears partially in such a way that constant ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 3y ago by deleted user

javascript css iframe
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width="100%" for an iframe, breaks responsiveness CSS directives

In a MediaWiki website I embed a PHP file containing a contact form via <iframe> with the following attribute pattern: width="100%" frameBorder="0" My problem I need the iframe to stre...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 3y ago by deleted user

html css size iframe attribute
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How to clear the contents of a file?

How to clear the contents of a file using C?

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by dumplings‭  ·  edited 3y ago by hkotsubo‭

c file-handling
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Data structure implementation with Linked lists.

Could someone explain this part of the coding for data structures & linked list? I actually got this code from a textbook but no matter how I read the textbook, I still don't get the concept &a...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by hamburgersarecool‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Alexei‭

c data-structures linked-list struct
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Ajax pattern to send email with a backend file to store an email address

I use the following backend (PHP) pattern to send email. I consider to start sending email by Ajax but I would still need to store my email address in some backend file (say, a PHP file) so it won...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 3y ago by deleted user

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Uncaught TypeError: Failed to construct 'FormData' [closed]

I am trying to submit a form with Ajax from a well-configured shared hosting environment. Emails don't arrive to my email client although I have already sent emails without Ajax from this environm...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  closed 3y ago by Alexei‭

javascript contact-form
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Handling high frequency requests with cancellations in an ASP.NET Core application

Issue I have recently discussed with a friend a performance issue he and his colleagues have encountered in an ASP.NET Core 5 application (a checkout app, microservices architecture). The problem...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Derek Elkins‭

asp.net-core cancellation-token performance asp.net-core-5.0 cancellation
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Disable import of Android SDK/Support Libraries

I am trying to re-build an unpacked apk, because it was unpacked the required libraries are already included, deleting the prepacked libraries would be feasible if it weren't for the fact that some...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Aidan‭

android android-studio gradle
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How can I delete a book from the collection by a particular title from my library file?

I would like to delete a book from the collection by a particular title from my library if the user enters 2 as input for my switch statement. How can I do that with my current code? #include<...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by hamburgersarecool‭  ·  edited 3y ago by hamburgersarecool‭

c data-structures file-format linked-list filestream
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Dealing with GETs with long query strings in ASP.NET Core

One of the recent business requirements is to be able to search through a list of entities using a bunch of filters. Most of these filters allow multiple values and the user might theoretically pro...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Derek Elkins‭

rest query-string get
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How to submit form data with Ajax?

I need to apply backend behavior (PHP directives in my case) to an HTML <form>. The backend behavior I wish to apply to the form is in this pattern (behavior.php): <?php $name = $_POST...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 3y ago by r~~‭

javascript contact-form
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How can you modify your server code to make it accept any port numbers instead of just one which is the one you predefined?

Is there any way where I can modify the original server code so that it accepts any port number instead of the predefined one (i.e., port number 8989)? Port number will be entered in the command li...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by hamburgersarecool‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Alexei‭

c sockets port winsock2
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What does the greater than 0 indicate in the case of this statement 'if (compare(A[j], A[j+1]) > 0)' ? Thank you.

Question: There is a list of integers in an array (3,2,1,5,6,4), sort this list in both ASCENDING & DESCENDING order. Create a sort function. #include<stdio.h> #include<stdlib.h> ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by dumplings‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Lundin‭

c pointers function-pointers
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Invalid memory access when trying to dereference a pointer obtained through a function call

Hey, regarding a question on returning pointers as functions, why does my code produce this error & won't print out the sum = 6? #include<stdio.h> #include<stdlib.h> int *A...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by dumplings‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by celtschk‭

c pointers function-pointers dereference
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Hash sign as a path component in a user script's @match command prevents the script from running

I try to exactly match a login page in a website, for a user script manager (USM) script, which I run with Tampermonkey. This pattern didn't work: // @match https://example.com/#/login ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 3y ago by Alexei‭

tampermonkey url-fragment user-script-manager
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Why is this symlink() call returning successfully while apparently failing to create the sym-link?

Summary I'm building an internal system (hardware simulator, using Rust) to help test some Python-based services that talk to hardware. (The services talk to hardware via TTYs.) To trick the Pytho...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by ghost-in-the-zsh‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by ghost-in-the-zsh‭

rust linux
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How to fire the change event for an input field?

I have added some input to an input field element this way: const inputFiled = document.querySelector("#example"); inputField.value = "X"; I want to fire a change event for that field right af...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 3y ago by Alexei‭

javascript event html-input
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Why would a form value inserted with value property won't be effective? [closed]

In a website I didn't build, I want to put a value in an HTML input field element with JavaScript and to also use it as-putted. I can put it with the browser console this way: document.querySelec...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  closed 3y ago by Alexei‭

javascript html-input queryselector
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document.open() and the DOM tree of the loaded (closed) browser window on which it works

If I execute in browser console: document.write("Hello"); A new DOM document with the text Hello appears in the same browser window. From MDN documentation: Note: Because document.write() w...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 3y ago by Alexei‭

javascript dom
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What is the difference between a decoupled, Headless and RESTful content management system?

By means of content management system architecture, Is the implementation of decoupling architecture (backend and frontend separation), headless architecture and Representational State Transfer (R...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 3y ago by Canina‭

terminology content-management-system
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Docutils rst2pseudoxml.py reported error: No role entry for "meth"

docutils's rst2pseudoxml.py is reporting this error: Unknown interpreted text role "meth". even though the build command: sphinx-build -b html -d build/doctrees source build/html runs fine and pro...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by CodeFarmer‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by J-hen‭

python python-3 python-sphinx docutils
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Understanding createTreeWalker method in the context of replacing strings (or parts of them)

I want to ensure I understand the following code; credit to user:m3g4p0p on Sitepoint, for this code: const walker = document.createTreeWalker( document.body, NodeFilter.SHOW_TEXT ) let...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 3y ago by hkotsubo‭

javascript dom replace
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Python looping 300 000 rows

Based on my last question comes new one. How to loop over 300 000 rows and edit each row string one by one? I have a list of 11-digit numbers stored in one single column in Excel, and I need to s...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by sfrow‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by NoahTheDuke‭

python performance loop
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How do I remove the column options menu from an embedded Look?

I have a Looker table look displayed to users using SSO embedding in an iframe. When displayed to users, the users can access the column options menu via a cog-wheel dropdown. In Admin > Platfo...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Sigma‭

embedding looker
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Add single element for multiple keys to map

I have a map and a new item to add to the map and a list of keys I want to attach the new item to: => m1 {:a 1 :b 2} => itm 3 => ks [:c :d :e] => m2 {:a 1 :b 2 :c 3 :d 3 :e 3} ...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by NoahTheDuke‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Alexei‭

clojure dictionary
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Dye all label asterisks Red with vanilla JavaScript

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...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 3y ago by deleted user

javascript html validation contact-form accessibility
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Change font-family with JavaScript

I want to change the font-family of all elements in a document with JavaScript. I have tried this: document.querySelectorAll("body").forEach( (e)=>{ e.style.fontFamily = "arial"; }); ...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 3y ago by deleted user

javascript
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How to grant privileges to a user on a database specifically (i.e. not globally) in PHPMyAdmin?

In PHPMyAdmin 5.1.1 I have created a user account and a database with the same name and granted all privileges to the user on that database. I have exported the database to a backup file, deleted ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 3y ago by deleted user

database
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Fixing vertical discrepancies with CSS

I have a "Our menu" webpage automatically created with Drupal 9 Views module which presents a miniature version of each menu dish webpage in that "Our menu" webpage (illustration image below). My ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 3y ago by deleted user

css drupal vertical-alignment
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Separate digits of a number in groups with different sizes

I have a list of 11-digit numbers stored in one single column in Excel, and I need to separate the digits according to this pattern: 2-2-1-3-3. Example: 00002451018 becomes 00 00 2 451 018. How c...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by sfrow‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Alexei‭

python string number-formatting
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How to to make a store tree view cart

I am building an MVC cart system. I have the MERCHANTS table and the PRODUCTS table. A merchant (store) can have one or more products, everything works fine but what I want is to display products b...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Fyoni‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Alexei‭

php mysql pdo treeview
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How to run a remote JavaScript file from GitHub?

I have a JavaScript file in GitHub which I typically run by copy-pasting all its data into different user script managers (USMs) on different web browsers. I need to start executing that remote fi...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 3y ago by chovy‭

javascript github
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How do I support tab completion in a python CLI program?

I spend a lot of time writing CLI tools in Python, and I would like to support tab-completion in a style similar to Git. For example, subcommands should be tab-completable, options should expand ba...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by ajv‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by hkotsubo‭

python shell command-line-interface tab-completion
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What solutions available for a CMS-agnostic contact form?

By principle, I normally work with two different companies for establishing websites for myself: One for domain registration and domain-sole email address One for web application hosting My ...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 3y ago by Alexei‭

php language-agnostic contact-form SaaS
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How to show XML in browser?

Is there possible way to run XML like as HTML? Suppose, I have following code. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <breakfast_menu> <food> <name>Belgian Waffles&l...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Anonymous‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by desbest‭

xml browser
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What is the purpose of `if __name__ == '__main__'`?

I often see the construct if __name__ == '__main__' in Python code. For example, the queens.py demo in the Python repository ends with these two lines: if __name__ == "__main__": main() Ho...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by J-hen‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by hkotsubo‭

python python-module
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Is it dangerous to use json.loads on untrusted data?

I manage a wsgi application that accepts JSON data via POST from potentially untrusted sources. Normally it is treated as a text blob and never parsed, but there is a value in the expected input th...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by ajv‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by hkotsubo‭

python json security
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What are the disadvantages of using SQL Server Replication - Transactional Replication type?

The context A reports related process is directly reading the production operational database once about two hours. This involves reading all the data from some 70 tables which takes a couple minu...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭

sql-server database-replication transactional-replication
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What's the difference between Inheritance and Polymorphism?

I'm using Java code as an example, but this can be answered if you don't know Java. class Bird{ public void sing(){ System.out.println("Testing"); } } class anClass ex...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 3y ago by Alexei‭

java polymorphism oop inheritance
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Is there any justification for having a single tempdb database to be used by all databases on a SQL Server intstances?

Despite the fact that I have programmed against SQL Server for quite a while I did not pay much attention to the tempdb database. This is especially true if application logic is mostly written usin...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Derek Elkins‭

sql-server architecture tempdb
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What must a C compiler do when it finds an error?

What exactly must a C compiler do when it finds a compile-time error? The most obvious kind of errors are language syntax errors, but the C standard also speaks of constraints, which are rules tha...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 3y ago by ghost-in-the-zsh‭

c compiler syntax-error compiler-constraint-violation compiler-errors
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How kill a child process without read() hanging in the parent process?

There is an external program I'm calling from within my C/C++ program, by using fork() and execl(), and redirecting the stdio with dup2() to be able to read the output from the external program. I...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by sktpin‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Lundin‭

c++ linux fork execl child-process
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Retrieve user details from service in Angular

Angular 12; .NET Core 3.1 Following a code-maze tutorial, I have a working authentication (registration/login) service using .NET Core Identity. After login, I would like to add 'username' data ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by mcalex‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by meriton‭

angular angular-services
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How does PathData work?

What is pathData? I was thinking to convert SVG to XML. I found it. In the code, I had seen that android:pathData="M 64 2 C 98.2416544895 2 126 29.7583455105 126 64 C 126 98.2416544895 98.2416544...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Anonymous‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Alexei‭

android xml android-vectordrawable
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Hash sum mismatch (only for openjdk-11-jdk)

I was installing Java yesterday. I had faced lot of problem. I had fixed most of them. But I had changed Hash that's what I think. I don't remember which command I had executed since I had executed...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Anonymous‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Alexei‭

java xubuntu javac openjdk openjdk-11
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&lrm; character jumbles text and this can be confusing when working with many articles

I often work bidirectional text in content management systems and often that text has parenthesis (()) or other textual wrappers flipping after an English text which is preceded in itself by some R...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user

html fonts bidi