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Headers may be used to declare globally used read-only resources, like string tables for example. Declare those in a separate header which gets included by any file ("Translation Unit") which wants to make use of them. It's handy to use the same header to declare a related enumeration to ...

If classes share common functionality you can group this in a base or abstract class. Abstract classes can contain partial or no implementation at all and allow the derived type to override the base implementation. Abstract classes within VisualBasic.NET must be declared as MustInherit and cannot ...

C++14 In C++14, this is easily done by std::mismatch which returns the first mismatching pair from two ranges: std::string prefix = "foo"; std::string string = "foobar"; bool isPrefix = std::mismatch(prefix.begin(), prefix.end(), string.begin(), string.end()).first == ...

When a user press F1 on a control or click on Help button of form (?) and then clicks on a control the HelpRequested event will be raised. You can handle this event to provide custom action when user requests help for controls or form. The HelpRequested supports bubble up mechanism. It fires for y...

If you have a Form with MinimizeBox and MaximizeBox set to true, then you can not show Help button on title-bar of Form and will lose the feature of click on help button to convert it to help cursor to be able to click on controls to show help. You can make a menu item on MenuStrip act like standar...

std::ostringstream can be used to convert any streamable type to a string representation, by inserting the object into a std::ostringstream object (with the stream insertion operator <<) and then converting the whole std::ostringstream to a std::string. For int for instance: #include <sst...

Below is a recursive code to reverse a string /** * Just a snippet to explain the idea of recursion * **/ public class Reverse { public static void main (String args[]) { String string = "hello world"; System.out.println(reverse(string)); //prints dlrow oll...

Custom Fonts for UI components from storyboard can be easily achieved with User Defined Runtime Attributes in storyboard and Categories. The advantages are like, No need to define outlets for the ui element No need to set font for elements programatically. Steps to follow Font File: A...

Before we download and install Composer, we need to make sure our server has all dependencies installed. First, update the package manager cache by running: sudo apt-get update Now, let's install the dependencies. We'll need curl in order to download Composer and php5-cli for installing and run...

Here we will simply use the installer. This is the easiest way to get Composer set up on your machine. Download and run Composer-Setup.exe. It will install the latest composer version and set up your PATH so that you can just call composer from any directory in your command line. Note: Close your...

First make utility class or use this method in class needed public class UIUtils { public static BitmapImageViewTarget getRoundedImageTarget(@NonNull final Context context, @NonNull final ImageView imageView, final float radius) { retur...

Warning: The functions atoi, atol, atoll and atof are inherently unsafe, because: If the value of the result cannot be represented, the behavior is undefined. (7.20.1p1) #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> int main(int argc, char** argv) { int val; if (argc < 2) ...

The contents of files and network messages may represent encoded characters. They often need to be converted to unicode for proper display. In Python 2, you may need to convert str data to Unicode characters. The default ('', "", etc.) is an ASCII string, with any values outside of ASCII ...

Before we start... In terms of application layers your ViewModel is a class containing all the business logic and rules making the app do what it should according to the requirements. It's also important to make it as much independent as possible reducing references to UI, data layer, native featur...

UI testing tools Two main tools that are nowadays mostly used for UI testing are Appium and Espresso. AppiumEspressoblackbox testwhite/gray box testingwhat you see is what you can testcan change inner workings of the app and prepare it for testing, e.g. save some data to database or sharedpreferen...

From Autohotkey Site Documentation Go to the AutoHotkey Homepage. Click Download, once downloaded run the executable. During installation of AutoHotkey, you will be asked to choose from UNICODE or ANSI. In short, you would probably want to choose UNICODE. It has support for non-English letters ...

This command: :s/foo/bar/g substitutes each occurrence of foo with bar on the current line. fool around with a foodie becomes barl around with a bardie If you leave off the last /g, it will only replace the first occurence on the line. For example, :s/foo/bar On the previous line wou...

The easiest way to use Processing is by downloading the Processing editor from the Processing download page. That comes as a zip file. Unzip that file anywhere, and you'll have a directory that contains an executable (on Windows, that's processing.exe). Running that executable opens up the Process...

Use a HashMap to store the parameters that should be sent to the server through POST parameters: HashMap<String, String> params; Once the params HashMap is populated, create the StringBuilder that will be used to send them to the server: StringBuilder sbParams = new StringBuilder(); ...

VBA is compiled in run-time, which has a huge negative impact on it's performance, everything built-in will be faster, try to use them. As an example I'm comparing SUM and COUNTIF functions, but you can use if for anything you can solve with WorkSheetFunctions. A first attempt for those would be t...