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Reading AppSettings from ConfigurationManager in .NET 2.0 and later

The ConfigurationManager class supports the AppSettings property, which allows you to continue reading settings from the appSettings section of a configuration file the same way as .NET 1.x supported. app.config <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <configuration&gt...

.NET Framework • Settings

C# 6.0: Initialize an Auto-Implemented Property

Create a property with getter and/or setter and initialize all in one line: public string Foobar { get; set; } = "xyz";

C# Language • Initializing Properties

Match a single digit character using [0-9] or \d (Java)

[0-9] and \d are equivalent patterns (unless your Regex engine is unicode-aware and \d also matches things like ②). They will both match a single digit character so you can use whichever notation you find more readable. Create a string of the pattern you wish to match. If using the \d notation, you...

Regular Expressions • Matching Simple Patterns

Error code 1064: Syntax error

select LastName, FirstName, from Person Returns message: Error Code: 1064. You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'from Person' at line 2. Getting a "1064 error" message from MySQL mean...

MySQL • Error codes

Installation of SharePoint 2016 for Single Server Farm

Introduction SharePoint 2016 is the version 16 release of the SharePoint product family. It was released on May 4, 2016. This example covers the installation of SharePoint 2016 using the Single Server Farm configuration. This configuration covers the basics of setting up a SharePoint farm without t...

sharepoint • Getting started with sharepoint

HTML 4.01 Doctypes

The HTML 4.01 specification provides several different types of doctypes that allow different types of elements to be specified within the document. HTML 4.01 Strict <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> Includes all...

HTML • Doctypes

jQuery 3.0

Notation As of jQuery 3.0, only this form is recommended: jQuery(function($) { // Run when document is ready // $ (first argument) will be internal reference to jQuery // Never rely on $ being a reference to jQuery in the global namespace }); All other document-ready handlers are depr...

jQuery • document-ready event

Random number between 0 and 1

Math.random(); produces an evenly distributed random number between 0 (inclusive) and 1 (exclusive) Example output: 0.22282187035307288 0.3948539895936847 0.9987191134132445

ActionScript 3 • Random Value Generation

Android 6.0 multiple permissions

This example shows how to check permissions at runtime in Android 6 and later. public static final int MULTIPLE_PERMISSIONS = 10; // code you want. String[] permissions = new String[] { Manifest.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, Manifest.permission.CAMERA, Manifest.permission.ACC...

Android • Runtime Permissions in API-23 +

50 State Maps and Advanced Choropleths with Google Viz

A common question is how to juxtapose (combine) physically separate geographical regions on the same map, such as in the case of a choropleth describing all 50 American states (The mainland with Alaska and Hawaii juxtaposed). Creating an attractive 50 state map is simple when leveraging Google Maps...

R Language • Introduction to Geographical Maps

#if 0 to block out code sections

If there are sections of code that you are considering removing or want to temporarily disable, you can comment it out with a block comment. /* Block comment around whole function to keep it from getting used. * What's even the purpose of this function? int myUnusedFunction(void) { int i =...

C Language • Preprocessor and Macros

Return a 404 response

404 responses are returned when a resource is not found on the server, in Symfony this status can be created by throwing a NotFoundHttpException exception. To avoid an extra use statement inside a controller use the createNotFoundException() provided by the Controller class <?php namespace Bu...

symfony2 • Routing

Porting lambda functions to C++03 using functors

Lambda functions in C++ are syntactic sugar that provide a very concise syntax for writing functors. As such, equivalent functionality can be obtained in C++03 (albeit much more verbose) by converting the lambda function into a functor: // Some dummy types: struct T1 {int dummy;}; struct T2 {int ...

C++ • Lambdas

Since C# 6.0

6.0 Since C# 6.0 it is possible to use string interpolation in place of String.Format. string name = "John"; string lastname = "Doe"; Console.WriteLine($"Hello {name} {lastname}!"); Hello John Doe! More examples for this under the topic C# 6.0 features: Stri...

C# Language • String.Format

Get the number of milliseconds elapsed since 1 January 1970 00:00:00 UTC

The static method Date.now returns the number of milliseconds that have elapsed since 1 January 1970 00:00:00 UTC. To get the number of milliseconds that have elapsed since that time using an instance of a Date object, use its getTime method. // get milliseconds using static method now of Date co...

JavaScript • Date

Error handling of specific HTTP response codes (such as 404 Not Found)

using System.Net; ... string serverResponse; try { // Call a method that performs an HTTP request (per the above examples). serverResponse = PerformHttpRequest(); } catch (WebException ex) { if (ex.Status == WebExceptionStatus.ProtocolError) { HttpWebResponse...

C# Language • Performing HTTP requests

ConcurrentDictionary (from .NET 4.0)

Represents a thread-safe collection of key/value pairs that can be accessed by multiple threads concurrently. Creating an instance Creating an instance works pretty much the same way as with Dictionary<TKey, TValue>, e.g.: var dict = new ConcurrentDictionary<int, string>(); Ad...

.NET Framework • Dictionaries

Parsing an arbitrary ISO 8601 timestamp with minimal libraries

Python has only limited support for parsing ISO 8601 timestamps. For strptime you need to know exactly what format it is in. As a complication the stringification of a datetime is an ISO 8601 timestamp, with space as a separator and 6 digit fraction: str(datetime.datetime(2016, 7, 22, 9, 25, 59, 55...

Python Language • Date and Time

404 when record not found

Rescue from record not found error instead of showing an exception or white page: class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base # ... your other stuff here rescue_from ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound do |exception| redirect_to root_path, 404, alert: 'Record not found' en...

Ruby on Rails • ActionController

Swift 2.0 and later

if #available(iOS 9, *) { // iOS 9 } else { // iOS 8 or earlier }

iOS • Checking iOS version