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Required properties (NOT NULL)

By using the .IsRequired() method, properties can be specified as mandatory, which means that the column will have a NOT NULL constraint. using System.Data.Entity; // .. public class PersonContext : DbContext { // .. protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelB...

Entity Framework • Code First - Fluent API

Sending a POST Request with arguments using NSURLSession in Objective-C

There are two common ways to encode a POST request body: URL encoding (application/x-www-form-urlencoded) and form data (multipart/form-data). Much of the code is similar, but the way you construct the body data is different. Sending a request using URL encoding Be it you have a server for your s...

iOS • NSURLSession

Expressions

In GSP the <%= %> syntax is rarely used due to the support for GSP expressions. A GSP expression is similar to a JSP EL expression or a Groovy GString and takes the form ${expr}: <html> <body> Hello ${params.name} </body> </html> However, unlike JSP EL ...

grails • GSP

Using fflush on an input stream

The POSIX and C standards explicitly state that using fflush on an input stream is undefined behavior. The fflush is defined only for output streams. #include <stdio.h> int main() { int i; char input[4096]; scanf("%i", &i); fflush(stdin); // <-- unde...

C Language • Undefined behavior

Child Pseudo Class

"The :nth-child(an+b) CSS pseudo-class matches an element that has an+b-1 siblings before it in the document tree, for a given positive or zero value for n" - MDN :nth-child pseudo-selector12345678910:first-child✔:nth-child(3)✔:nth-child(n+3)✔✔✔✔✔✔✔✔:nth-child(3n)✔✔✔:nth-child(3n+1)...

CSS • Selectors

Create child process and wait until it exits

This program demonstrates how to run another process using fork() and wait its termination using waitpid(): fork() creates an identical copy of the current process. The original process is the parent process, while the newly created one is the child process. Both processes continue exactly afte...

POSIX • Processes

Implicits in the REPL

To view all the implicits in-scope during a REPL session: scala> :implicits To also include implicit conversions defined in Predef.scala: scala> :implicits -v If one has an expression and wishes to view the effect of all rewrite rules that apply to it (including implicits): scala> ...

Scala Language • Implicits

Ranges of numeric types

The ranges of the integer types are implementation-defined. The header <limits> provides the std::numeric_limits<T> template which provides the minimum and maximum values of all fundamental types. The values satisfy guarantees provided by the C standard through the <climits> and (&...

C++ • Implementation-defined behavior

Multiple non-identical definitions (the One Definition Rule)

If a class, enum, inline function, template, or member of a template has external linkage and is defined in multiple translation units, all definitions must be identical or the behavior is undefined according to the One Definition Rule (ODR). foo.h: class Foo { public: double x; private...

C++ • Undefined Behavior

Multiple Stylesheets

It's possible to load multiple stylesheets: <head> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="general.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="specific.css"> </head> Note that later files a...

HTML • Using HTML with CSS

Android Step 1: Layout, Initialization, and Handling Server Response

The complete sample code for this application (Android + Node server) is available in the PayPal Developer Github repository. The first stage of creating the Android portion of our application is to set up a basic layout and handle responses that come back from the server that we'll set up in Node....

PayPal • Mobile Future Payments (End to End App)

Android Step 2: Async Server Request

The complete sample code for this application (Android + Node server) is available in the PayPal Developer Github repository. At this point the PayPal future payments button has been clicked, we have an auth code and metadata ID from the PayPal SDK, and we need to pass those on to our server to com...

PayPal • Mobile Future Payments (End to End App)

Android Step 3: Node Server to Get Access Token & Process Payment

The complete sample code for this application (Android + Node server) is available in the PayPal Developer Github repository. From step 2, an async request has been made to our server at the /fpstore endpoint, passing along the auth code and metadata ID. We now need to exchange those for a token in...

PayPal • Mobile Future Payments (End to End App)

Generating Java code from simple XSD file

XSD schema (schema.xsd) The following xml schema (xsd) defines a list of users with attributes name and reputation. <?xml version="1.0"?> <xs:schema version="1.0" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:ns="http://www...

Java Language • XJC

Creating Object and setting properties using reflection

Lets say we have a class Classy that has property Propertua public class Classy { public string Propertua {get; set;} } to set Propertua using reflection: var typeOfClassy = typeof (Classy); var classy = new Classy(); var prop = typeOfClassy.GetProperty("Propertua"); prop.Se...

.NET Framework • Reflection

Navigating to the beginning of a specific word

When editing text, a common task is to navigate to a particular word on the screen. In these examples we explore how we can navigate to the word updated. For the sake of consistency across the examples, we aim to land on the first letter of the word. Mid-screen jump M$B This approach is quick...

vim • Movement

Multiple Version Tables

For some tags it makes sense to have multiple version tables. There might be different subsets of a programming language or framework available, say for different device types as in this example. The different tables should be prefaced with a heading. This markup: ## desktop development kit ## ...

Documentation • Versions

Versions of a Topic

A topic might only apply to certain versions. When creating a new topic, the appropriate versions can be chosen in the title section of the topic. In the following example .NET 2.0, 4.0, 4.5.1; Compact Framework 3.7 and Micro Framework 4.2 are selected. This selection will show up next to the to...

Documentation • Versions

Versions of an Example (single version table)

An example cannot be associated with a version number directly. Parts of it can however be declared to apply only for certain versions.  This content is for Java SE 1.3

Documentation • Versions

Versions of an Example (multiple version tables)

If there are many version tables, the title of the desired one has to be included in angle brackets.  This content is for Micro Framework 4.4

Documentation • Versions