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Posts by Alexei
Already good answers, but I can provide a slightly different perspective here: always use braces if there is a risk of getting into a pitfall. Examples (from C#, but the language is less relevant)...
Yes I would allow UI/UX questions with some limitations. Examples: on topic - UI/UX questions related to an interface that also involves some programming (e.g. web interfaces) offtopic -...
I am wondering if it makes sense to define a template for questions. This would act as a guideline rather than a strict template to be followed. I have seen this being used for GitHub issues and I...
Another reason could be to allow to perform the merge without auto commit and no fast-forward: git merge the_branch --no-commit --no-ff This allows reviewing the merged changes before they are ...
Stack Overflow has recently announced OverflowAI and I think this video summarises pretty well this. The main drawback is that the users are less incentivized to put effort into answering questions...
A friend is involved in rewriting a distributed software application and while discussing the architecture, we noticed that in many cases the messages had duplication between headers and payload. ...
Note: this is inspired by the comments on this post and especially this one which mentions: We have tags for languages because people have interest or expertise in languages; likewise frameworks...
Context I am currently working on migrating a legacy application to an ASP.NET Core + Angular application. The Web API's main project is based on Jason Taylor's template (clean architecture) and a...
Our team deals with a legacy application that relies on a rather old deployment process and infrastructure: we deploy the application on an environment very similar to the production called Clon...
I haven't worked in WPF for a long time, but you might try setting a new list (clone the old one and add the new element) instead of adding the element to the existing list: _demo.Value++; var ne...
Overflow checking for integral-type arithmetic operations is disabled by default and it can be explicitly enabled by using using checked function or the -checked compiler switch. Since I mainly de...
I have noticed that lots of projects (both in real-world and within online courses) use Automapper to map domain models to view models, API models. The main advantage seems to be convenience by re...
I have not used a database trigger in years in the projects of the teams I have worked in, but I have seen them being used by other teams. Back in 2009, it seemed like a heated debate, but I am wo...
I have recently blown off the dust off my LinkedIn profile and I have realized that I have hundreds of connections. An important fraction of all these connections are into software development and ...
I was thinking about meaningful content that can be migrated (+ improved) from Stack Overflow. These categories pop into my mind: closed questions: we know Stack Overflow is very picky when it co...
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...
I think what you are looking for is Array.GetLength which: gets a 32-bit integer that represents the number of elements in the specified dimension of the Array.
I am not a Java developer, but a C# .NET one, but I guess static concept is very similar between the two. As in many areas, it depends, but for most applications using static should be avoided: ...
Thanks for raising this on meta. Indeed the comment author admitted to making a mistake by accusing of copy-pasting from Wikipedia and I have removed all the comments. However, now my answer is ...
I have finally received access to a trial account on OpenAI and I took it for a spin. My interest is with code generation, so first tried something simple using the playground: Q: generate a stand...
Overview Our development team is currently trying to develop and migrate a Web application that is split in two: legacy: ASP.NET MVC 5, jQuery, old-style JS programming overall "next": Angular...
input type="url" works like this by design: An empty string ("") indicating that the user did not enter a value or that the value was removed. A single properly-formed absolute URL. This doesn'...
I can't say that I fully understood what you did, but I think I got the explanation: removed 1+ columns that were part of the index. The index will be updated to not include that column. If...
I have added Swagger UI for an ASP.NET Core 3.1 application and I have realized that all endpoints requiring Windows Authentication fail. This issue is created by the fact that generated HTTP reque...
I am working at a proof-of-concept for porting an ASP.NET MVC application to an ASP.NET Core API + Angular SPA. One of the features of the existing application is the ability of an admin (typically...
