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Welcome to Software Development on Codidact!

Will you help us build our independent community of developers helping developers? We're small and trying to grow. We welcome questions about all aspects of software development, from design to code to QA and more. Got questions? Got answers? Got code you'd like someone to review? Please join us.

Posts by Alexei‭

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Meta Schrödinger's tag - appears in view mode, but not in edit

After removing two tags and adding another one for this question I have noticed that the tag list is not the same between view mode and edit: View mode: stack-memory + heap-memory + ram + memory-m...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A How to use LazyCache library with Unity Container?

For LazyCache version 2.1.2 (maybe even earlier) UnityContainer must be instructed to call the default LazyCache constructor which probably relies on MemoryCache (default). container.RegisterType&l...

posted 3y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A How to use LazyCache library with Unity Container?

I want to use LazyCache and UnityContainer together in an ASP.NET classic application (.NET framework 4.6.1+). Namely, to be able to inject IAppCache in various services. For ASP.NET Core and its d...

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

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Meta Renaming sheets to the more specific google-sheets?

sheets tag sounds a little bit too generic and I feel that it should be replaced with the more specific [google-sheets]. I know that we should avoid using company names as much as possible, but in ...

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

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Meta Should we rename urlrewrite tag to url-rewriting?

How do I get IIS UrlRewrite to handle CSS-delivered woff files appropriately? is the only question currently using urlrewrite tag. However, for future questions I would like to have a more general ...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭

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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 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Alexei‭

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Code Reviews Cache data using Redis Cache in an ASP.NET Core 3.1 project

This is an unanswered code review request of mine from Code Review Stack Exchange. Overview I have developed a small ASP.NET Core 3.1 Web API that provides information that is rarely changed (sever...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y 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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Q&A How to calculate how much data is stored in a MySQL column?

The reference indicated by ‭jcsahnwaldt‭ indeed specifies the space required by VARCHAR columns, namely (L = string length): L + 1 bytes if column values require 0 − 255 bytes, L + 2 bytes if valu...

posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Alexei‭

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Meta Site scope - draft proposal

Based on this proposal, I have created a designated section within the Help section: What type of questions can I ask here? This can evolve over time based on feedback provided by the community.

posted 3y ago by Alexei‭

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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 3y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A What is the rationale of having Cascade as a DeleteAction in EntityFramework.Core?

After toying a little more with Delete actions for referentials, I think the rational of having the CASCADE DELETE as default is the following: having to DELETE the children before the parent is ...

posted 3y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A What is the rationale of having Cascade as a DeleteAction in EntityFramework.Core?

I have noticed some time ago that Entity Framework assumes a CASCADE behaviour (implicit value, if not specified) for referential constraints (FKs) when deleting items. This means that by default, ...

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

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Meta Should we have a Code Review Section / category?

I would definitely allow code review questions (requests) as they are an important part of any professional software developer. A special category might make sense, although a designated special ta...

posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 3y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Implementing impersonation in an ASP.NET Core Web application

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...

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Meta Are questions about web browsers on topic on Software Applications?

I have recently posted this question on Web Application SE and I am wondering if such a question would be on-topic here. The questions deals with understanding a feature of Google Chrome Developer ...

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

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Q&A In MySQL, is it possible to disable triggers for only certain queries or users?

First of all, it seems that Mysql does not allow to disable triggers. One way would be to set a session variable which can be checked in each trigger. This still incurs some overhead (trigger is st...

posted 3y ago by Alexei‭

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Meta Adding a parent to a tag crashes on the server side (500)

Cross posted to Meta: https://meta.codidact.com/questions/278198 If I try to provide a parent to a tag, it crashes with 500. Error Id = 6bd06f30-539d-4b88-8743-eca32a8465cd Tag to edit = htt...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A In a stored procedure, is it possible to get the total number or rows updated by different statements?

One rather complicated way to get what you want (may be extended to multiple calls of statements and/or procedures) is through usage of MySQL Row-Based Binary Logs as explained here. This allows fo...

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Q&A How to perform LINQ joins with multiple fields in a single join?

The quickest way is to make an equal join on two anonymous objects: var result = from x in entity join y in entity2 on new { x.field1, x.field2 } equals new { y.field1, y.field2 } Ano...

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Q&A How to perform LINQ joins with multiple fields in a single join?

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...

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

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Q&A How can I reduce the size of .svn folder?

svn cleanup --vacuum-pristines can be used to clean up the pristine copies that might take a lot of space (version 1.10+). In Windows, TortoiseSVN client has the option Vacuum pristine copies to ge...

posted 3y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A How can I reduce the size of .svn folder?

Note: This question and its answer are an aggregate of the most up to date information about this topic from here. I have noticed that .svn folder has grown a lot and I want to reduce it. How can ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 3y ago by r~~‭

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Meta How can I fill in tag information?

I have noticed that most tags lack any usage information and moreover a more detailed wiki: I would like to add the information for some of these tags, but I do not see how. I assume there is so...

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

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Meta Strategy to migrate meaningful content from Stack Overflow

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...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Mithical‭