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Q&A How to perform LEFT JOIN using LINQ method call notation?

I am interested in performing a LEFT JOIN using LINQ-2-SQL when working with method call notation. This answer suggests a way that relies on GroupJoin but it is more verbose than expected: var le...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A How to perform LEFT JOIN using LINQ method call notation?

Note: this was tested in a .NET Framework 4.6.2 project. This answer provides an extension method that greatly simplifies (and makes it more intuitive) the written code: public static IQueryable&...

posted 4y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A How to make Microsoft.Build.Evaluation.Project use same base properties as Visual Studio?

By forking MSBuildLocator and basically just removing the #ifdef it's straightforward to list the available VS instances. It even works to register one, although if you want the same application to...

posted 4y ago by Peter Taylor‭

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Q&A In PHP what is the use case for include instead of require when including PHP scripts?

The use case for require statements is fairly obvious. It can be used to include code from other PHP files into the current file. This allows you to split your code across multiple files. There ar...

posted 4y ago by Marijn‭

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Meta Multiple code blocks have the code in different colors

On this question https://software.codidact.com/questions/279097 there are two code blocks, but the color of the text is different. I directly copied and pasted the code so I don't see why some o...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A How much memory is allocated for a MySQL VARCHAR variable in a stored procedure?

The example variable will use 101 bytes, independently of whether any data was already assigned to it. This holds regardless of whether you are using InnoDB or MyISAM which otherwise differ in how...

posted 4y ago by Jirka Hanika‭

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Q&A Search paths where all nodes are in a relationship with same node

Using the below graph as an example: I am trying to determine all Persons which are_sons of Persons all born in the same country. Is there an elegant way to achieve this with Cypher?

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Guilherme Costa‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by r~~‭

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Q&A Jenkins failed to delete a file - why? How to prevent?

I think you have the answer to your question within your own question, but let me make it a bit more explicit. You said: The problem is, sometimes downloading from Perforce fails If P4 fails ...

posted 4y ago by ghost-in-the-zsh‭

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Q&A pod 0.1.0-dev not accepted for required version 0.1.0 (without -dev suffix)

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 ...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Someone‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Someone‭

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Q&A How can I assign the result of an operation from within a function to the global environment?

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...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A Conditionally format a pair of columns

First, such formatting is conditional, so there is no need for the IF functions here (nor, normally, in general for Conditional Formatting [CF]). Formatting is triggered when the response to a form...

posted 4y ago by pnuts‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A What's the difference between null pointers and NULL?

Someone told me that I shouldn't write "NULL pointer" with capital letters, because a null pointer and NULL are different terms. And that NULL is a "null pointer constant". What's the meaning of th...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by EJP‭

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Meta How will you balance demanding high quality questions with maximising the number of users?

One aspect that helps with having a good balance is to have an enough number of users that help newbies ask good (or at least decent) questions. This is something reachable within rather small comm...

posted 4y ago by Alexei‭

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Code Reviews Measure ASP.NET Core 3.1 Web API action execution times

This is basically an unanswered code review request of mine from CodeReview Stack Exchange. I want to be able to log as accurately as possible, the time spent by a certain Web API action in an ASP....

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Code Reviews Setting the authentication token in an Angular application for generated API clients

This is a post of mine from Code Review Stack Exchange which did not get an answer yet. I am developing an Angular application that consumes an external REST API. I am using OpenAPI generator (Typ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A Trigger Conditional Formatting by Check Box

Assuming Check Box Form Controls in ColumnD, yes in OpenOffice Calc 4.1.4, though for some the process may be too tedious and entering say an x instead may be preferred. Unlike in Google Sheets for...

posted 4y ago by pnuts‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A A function to round negative numbers towards 0

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by pnuts‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A In a column, set populated cells to 1 and empty cells to 0

An easy way (in LibreOffice Calc 5.4.3.2) is not to attempt directly to overwrite what is already present but to create the desired results with a formula in a different column, then replace the co...

posted 4y ago by pnuts‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A dig -6 works but dig -4 does not

From the further details you added, it does indeed sound like you have some stale connection state on your system. The fact that you can get DNS replies when you query a DNS server by IPv4 address,...

posted 4y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Will my implementation of a Spring Boot app work after being deployed on the Internet?

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by sonofel‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Will my implementation of a Spring Boot app work after being deployed on the Internet?

Now of course this will directly work only within my network. But if I upload this project to Heroku or something similar, would it still work as intended? I'll assume that you actually have the ...

posted 4y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Highlight the maximum value per row across multiple columns

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...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by pnuts‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by pnuts‭

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Q&A Combine the first character of a cell with another cell

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by pnuts‭  ·  edited 1y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A How can I assign the result of an operation from within a function to the global environment?

In order to assign a variable to the global environment from within a function, there are two ways to proceed: either using the assign operator <<- or using assign(). <<- comes with the...

posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭

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Meta Initial List of Tags

A good start would be the most popular tags from Stack Overflow. Another approach is to start from scratch and search for tags on Stack Overflow whenever needed. Those tags are already curated and ...

posted 4y ago by Alexei‭

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