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The following example demonstrates the use of a BackgroundWorker to update a WinForms ProgressBar. The backgroundWorker will update the value of the progress bar without blocking the UI thread, thus showing a reactive UI while work is done in the background. namespace BgWorkerExample { public...

application-name Giving the name of the Web application that the page represents. <meta name="application-name" content="OpenStreetMap"> If it’s not a Web application, the application-name meta tag must not be used. author Set the author of the page: <meta name=&...

The foreach package brings the power of parallel processing to R. But before you want to use multi core CPUs you have to assign a multi core cluster. The doSNOW package is one possibility. A simple use of the foreach loop is to calculate the sum of the square root and the square of all numbers from...

Properties can be added with categories using associated objects, a feature of the Objective-C runtime. Note that the property declaration of retain, nonatomic matches the last argument to objc_setAssociatedObject. See Attach object to another existing object for explanations. #import <objc/run...

Extension methods are useful to extend the behaviour of libraries we don't own. They are used similar to instance methods thanks to the compiler's syntactic sugar: Sub Main() Dim stringBuilder = new StringBuilder() 'Extension called directly on the object. stringBuilder.AppendIf(t...

A good use of extension method is to make the language more functional Sub Main() Dim strings = { "One", "Two", "Three" } strings.Join(Environment.NewLine).Print() End Sub <Extension> Public Function Join(strings As IEnumerable(Of String), separa...

A namespace is a URI, but to avoid verbosity, prefixes are used as a proxy. In the following example, the prefix my-prefix is bound to the namespace http://www.example.com/my-namespace by using the special attribute xmlns:my-prefix (my-prefix can be replaced with any other prefix): <?xml versio...

In XML, element and attribute names live in namespaces. By default, they are in no namespace: <?xml version="1.0"?> <foo attr="value"> <!-- the foo element is in no namespace, neither is the attr attribute --> </foo>

These two documents are semantically equivalement, as namespaces matter, not prefixes. <?xml version="1.0"?> <myns:foo xmlns:myns="http://www.example.com/my-namespace"> </myns:foo> <?xml version="1.0"?> <ns:foo xmlns:ns="http://www...

First, add relevant dependencies into the build.gradle file. dependencies { .... compile 'com.squareup.retrofit2:retrofit:2.3.0' compile 'com.squareup.retrofit2:converter-gson:2.3.0' compile 'com.squareup.retrofit2:adapter-rxjava:2.3.0' .... } Then create the model you ...

Installing linq-to-sql: Right-click the App_Code folder and then click Add New Item. The Add New Item dialog box is displayed. Under Visual Studio installed templates, select the LINQ to SQL Classes template and rename the file Tasks.dbml. Click Add. OR: Under VS2102, in your solution explorer, r...

Single line comments are preceded by --, and go until the end of the line: SELECT * FROM Employees -- this is a comment WHERE FName = 'John'

Multi-line code comments are wrapped in /* ... */: /* This query returns all employees */ SELECT * FROM Employees It is also possible to insert such a comment into the middle of a line: SELECT /* all columns: */ * FROM Employees

Imports System.Reflection Public Class PropertyExample Public Function GetMyProperties() As PropertyInfo() Dim objProperties As PropertyInfo() objProperties = Me.GetType.GetProperties(BindingFlags.Public Or BindingFlags.Instance) Return objProperties End Fun...

As Handlers are used to send Messages and Runnables to a Thread's message queue it's easy to implement event based communication between multiple Threads. Every Thread that has a Looper is able to receive and process messages. A HandlerThread is a Thread that implements such a Looper, for example th...

Naming Convention Notifications are identified by global NSString objects whose names are composed in this way: Name of associated class + Did | Will + UniquePartOfName + Notification For example: NSApplicationDidBecomeActiveNotification NSWindowDidMiniaturizeNotification NSTextViewDidChange...

Swift 2.3 //Remove observer for single notification NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().removeObserver(self, name: "TestNotification", object: nil) //Remove observer for all notifications NotificationCenter.defaultCenter().removeObserver(self) Swift 3 //Remove observer for s...

Swift NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().postNotificationName("TestNotification", object: self) Objective-C [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] postNotificationName:@"TestNotification" object:nil];

Swift let userInfo: [String: AnyObject] = ["someKey": myObject] NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().postNotificationName("TestNotification", object: self, userInfo: userInfo) Objective-C NSDictionary *userInfo = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:myObject forKey:@"som...

Swift func testNotification(notification: NSNotification) { let userInfo = notification.userInfo let myObject: MyObject = userInfo["someKey"] } Objective-C - (void)testNotification:(NSNotification *)notification { NSDictionary *userInfo = notification.userInfo; My...