Comments by Chris Maunder (Top 200 by date)

Your code was a bit messed up. I've tried my best at guessing what it should be so please either come and correct it or close the question if you've moved on and no longer need help. Have you actually tried compiling this with a C compiler? If so, what errors did you get? (if any)

I don't understand what you're asking: Are you looking to list entries that share the same first in/out times?

Works fine for me. Please post a screen shot in https://www.codeproject.com/suggestions.aspx. But first: do you have ad blockers or uBlock installed? They vandalise websites and there's nothing we can do to work around the damage they cause.

It's working for me. In the "What I have tried" bit of your question it would be valuable to add what you expected and what you actually saw.

Unfortunately this isn't a question: It's a request for testing. You may want to post this in the Beta testing forum https://www.codeproject.com/Forums/1651/Collaboration-Beta-Testing.aspx

Interesting. Taking the combined least squares difference of the two lines, one anchored from the start, one at the end, and both terminating at their intersection would certainly give a workable solution. Seems a little brute force, but I'll give it a try.

I was actually working on exactly the same piece of code he worked, had a problem with it, searched, and found this. I figured an extremely late 2c would do wonders to confuse the issue.

It's truly awesome

...and of course there's an article about it! /slaps head. To be fair, the given problem is more general than that article.

Just for that I added BASIC syntax colourising

Son of a...! I should have checked :)

If this becomes something where I have to sit down and fully test each solution, time them, verify their correctness, check for plagiarism and provide a point-by point independently verified set of judging criteria then I'm afraid I'll have to leave it to you guys to come up with the challenges and announce a "winner".

It's for fun. The judging is deliberately random and sometimes wildly biased.

How about we just leave this as a challenge and I forgo any attempt at declaring a winner. I want this to be fun, not something where it could potentially upset participants.

I was just about to ask you "how do we make this more of a spectator sport?".

A sidebar or maybe it's own page, but then we'd also need to promote that page. Lots of noise to fight against. I'm open to ideas and I'd like this to keep going and grow.

There's nothing against multiple solutions. What's needed is more voting to sort them.

This makes me want to add thumbs-up votes to comments ;)

>now i see that coding chalenge has been changed into "How many programming languages you know?".
No - it's not that at all. A single answer is all I'm after. The single most *interesting* answer. The one that provokes the most discussion, the most praise, the most enjoyment. The one that shows someone stretched themselves a little more than the others. That's what it's about.

"With an extremely large input sequence, you could potentially get an OutOfMemoryException" Therein lies the challenge. The simple answer is easy. It's when things get a little crazy that separates the Men from the boys.

Yes.

Since when does a set not allow duplicates? A set of marbles can contain two marbles that are the same.

I said "a set of integers", not "a set of values of type int". I mean integers in the mathematical sense.

Ah - looks like I;ll just have to wave languidly as I fly over on my way down south. Next time!

You're in Melbourne still, right? I'm there in a week if you want a coffee (or maybe something cold)

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Yeah - last minute change of mind + 3hrs sleep = doofus time.

Absolutely

Majestic in its awfulness.

This impressed me so much I added COBOL syntax colouring (missed LOCAL-STORAGE - will add next time)

You get half a point.

+1 for brevity and understandability. -5 for the overabundance of common sense.

That's so awful it's awesome! +1

-2 points for using the dumbest language ever. +4 points for the pain involved.

So easy it's almost cheating!

>I have ignored 'PHB' and 'gotten' as they are simply too trivial.

:) Except they force you to do do the "starts with" and "ends with"

You see how horrible and unnecessary that word is? We're doing the world a favour here.

You should try writing surveys one day ;)

Your answer solves the problem. The point is to make the question a little loose to allow invention, improvement, and most importantly, pointless religious wars.

If I could upvote comments I would.

Nicely done. Lots of string allocations though. Now: does it do "Poophead" -> "P**phead"? This wasn't in the specs, but I don't think it does.

I'm ignoring you.

End of the day? Monday? We're pretty relaxed about it, but there's a limit to our attention span.

Correct, and thanks for pointing that out. Updated

This has been fixed. It'll take a few minutes for caching to catch up.

This isn't a question "How do I" this is a "can you do this for me". Please reframe this request and focus on the parts you are stuck on.

Gotcha. Weird - that will only happen inside markup, and not inside PRE blocks. Time to switch to markdown completely?

Which bug?

Is a comment "This sentence tells that you don't know how to use the debugger" really necessary? Does it help provide an answer? Or is it merely there to make the poster feel bad?

If the question is bad, delete it or edit it to make it better.

Forget coding for a moment, have you tried solving this on paper?

Better to post this as a comment, not an "answer"

There's no way we can answer this without seeing the javascript and CSS associated with this HTML

If this is your answer then post this as an answer, not as a question/comment

Are you running any ad-blockers? What country are you in?

There's not enough information to answer this. Without knowing your table structure or the query itself.

Reason for my vote of 2 \n This is a terrible way to test whether a visitor is on a mobile device. Trust me - I use it myself, and it fails more often than not.

New mobile clients are coming on daily and the best way to test for mobile clients is not to test for mobile clients. Test for ability and features. Does the client have touch? What dimensions and resolution is their screen? This (obviously) means client-side testing, but if you combine this with the notion of writing your web apps so they work on any screen size, regardless of whether it's a mobile device or not, then you'll have an app that works for as many people as possible.

We need to move away from fixed lists of mobile clients and accept that the notion is obsolete. Take the Surface Pro, for instance, or any convertible tablet. Are they a tablet? A desktop? Mobile? It depends, and it depends on things that user agent strings can't tell us.

Correct.

gobsmacked.

I've actually just put that on the TODO list: Upvotes for comments in QA.

Reason for my vote of 1 \n First: This isn't a tip - it's a bare-bones walkthrough of a topic that's been covered many times before. This article doesn't explain what it's trying to do - it simply shows code snippets cut and pasted from a larger applications.

Second: NEVER EVER EVER do something as stupid and dangerous as "using (SqlDataAdapter adapter = new SqlDataAdapter(txtSelect.Text, conn))". One can only assume that txtSelect is a text box, and you're injecting text a user enters directly into a SQL query. That's a direct SQL injection vulnerability and is EXTREMELY dangerous.

We can't answer without you providing info on what you've tried

Point taken, but I'm looking for something very basic. I guess what I need is a txt-speak-to-English detector and translator.

Let's start with English ;)

This is too broad a question. What error are you seeing?

You'll need to show some (brief!) code for us to help. You haven't given us anything concrete with which we can help. First, state the exact question you want answered in the title, then post the specific bit you're having a problem with in the body of your question.

Let me address your comments point by point without geting personal and claiming there's something wrong with you.

1. The title of the post says "change bground color of button when mouseover". The poor grammar makes it extremely ambiguous. Does the OP mean "a javascript mouseover event" or do that mean "when the mouse hovers over the button"? As I said, I would like the OP to clarify. My interpretation was that he wanted to change the background colour when the mouse is over the button. My answer addressed this. I would LOVE the OP to clarify his question and if my understanding was wrong, I'll remove my answer.

2. "you gave a misleading answer as it ignores first part of the question.". I updated my answer with clarifictions

3. "And your comment "JavaScript not jQuery" is totally wrong". My full comment was "he posted sample code that attempted to solve this with Javascript, not jQuery." I see some plain Javascript in his code, but I do not see the OP using the jQuery library anywhere in his post.

4. "Finally, it's too hard to agree that "it's up to OP to mark your solution as correct and incorrect"." Why doesn't the OP have the right to decide the correctness of an answer?

5. "As you don't want to admit your mistake" Was my mistake in using CSS, or was my mistake in not taking his javasacript and adapting that to work with more than one button?

6. "I'll vote 1 for your question, sorry. I hope you won't tell me that I cannot do that. :-)"

This is your right. Enjoy.

Your response to the question was not an answer - in the sense it wasn't a solution that would enable the user to solve his problem.

With regards to my answer being incorrect I'm happy to have the original poster respond to my post and clarify. His question was title "change bground color of button when mouseover" and he posted sample code that attempted to solve this with Javascript, not jQuery. He also specifically asked how to make it work for many buttons, which my solution addressed. Nowhere do I mention "how to have two or more buttons of different colors"

It's up to the OP to comment and mark my solution correct or incorrect. I welcome your interpretation, but with respect I feel your intepretation of the question goes a little too far.

...as long as you're happy with a little bit of rounding if you use double.

What technology?

"This is not a quick question. "

Please simply report it as such and move on. Let's encourage the sorts of questions that motivate people to answer instead of encouraging laziness.

Two windows open. One development, one live.

Which do you think I posted the test post on? /slapshead

Your answer is copy and pasted from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ebwdx8yh(v=vs.71).aspx. Further plagiarism will result in your account being cancelled. By all means, quote and reference other sources. However, do not simply cut and paste entire articles posted elsewhere.

1. the original was

DECLARE @Query VARCHAR(MAX)
SET @Query = @Query + ...

So @Query has not been initialised.

2. Yeah, I was being lazy. Break out DECLARE @Query VARCHAR(MAX) = '' into

DECLARE @Query VARCHAR(MAX)
SET @Query = ''

It's probably an issue with the stored proc you're calling. Please update your question and add the code for the sproc so we can help

Report the questions and move on :). It's a community effort to keep things focussed.

Report removed.

I've closed this question. Partly because it's a repost, and partly because you're treating members who are trying to help you like they are your staff.

Everyone here helps each other for no other reason than they like to help others. I understand you're frustrated, but show some consideration.

Simpler simply to edit harish85's answer and update with links.

Report the question as a bad question and move on. No need to insult.

What have you tried?

My apologies - I did not take note of the "it will provide thread safety". You are absolutely correct in that thread safety is not provided by default and will have to be accounted for.

I'm looking for the "Sainthood" button on Christian's posts. I think I need to add one.

No, it's not a lie. You can create background threads in ASP.NET and in some (rare) situations it's a very effective tool. We do it ourselves.

I've updated the example to show you.

I was guessing, but "window based EXE" to me means a normal windows-based application.

Please SA - not everyone has English as their first language, nor are we, as developers, renowned for our spelling. Vote, report, or even better, use your abililty to edit posts to correct it so that others can read it more easily. Making someone feel bad helps no one.

Please read the docs for the DateTime structure: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.datetime.aspx. DateTime.Day, DateTime.Month are what you're after.

Some code would help. Can you please post a small snippet?

The question was "How do I do it in ASP.NET".

What does the markup look like? Specifically, what is "lblTotal"?

Totally agree.

You guys have the power to flag and close questions. If 5 of you flag a question it's gone. Just 5 people. The quality of the forum questions would rise considerably. Do your bit, we'll do ours.

Point well made, but an even better way to make the point is to use the reporting mechanism, flag it as an incomplete question, and move on.

I would much, MUCH rather everyone simply used the voting mechanisms we have in place rather than making others feel stupid and embarrassed.

Why can't you use any subquery, joins, unions, etc?

So vote the question as "Not a question" then.

Who are you directing this to?

Can I suggest, please, that you don't.

It never turns out to be a good idea. Ever.

What have you tried and what, through debugging, is being shown as the bottleneck? Help us to help you.

Not a question. Removing

Encrypting passwords is a bad idea. The poster was asking about hashing. Two very different beasts.

It was a bit of an off-the-cuff answer since we use it that way and I can't recall experiencing the same issue recently. Obviously there's more to the story.

Please post the question at the forum on http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/WPFDiagramDesigner_Part1.aspx, not here.

I think he means the text-to-html ratio of text within an HTML document.

Maybe.

Show us the code for GetDataUser. That's where the error is. Have you checked your connection strings?

Christian - please post this as a comment, not as an answer. Better yet: report and close the question and move on to a question where you feel the author can best make use of what you can offer.

What's the error? You're not helping us help you.

Add the smallest snippet of code you can to your question and we might be able to help. Please edit the original question: don't post the info as an answer or comment.

From Steve: Still makes me say hmmm.... All of the other menu properties carry across the postback. Turns out on a postback, I was not resetting the properties for anything. All stayed except for RenderingMode. Moved RenderingMode before the bail on the postback, solved annoying problem

Post this as a comment, please, not an answer. It's just adding to the debris. (Deleting)

We can't answer if you haven't told us what you've tried and where your error is. Closing the question.

We can't answer if you haven't told us what you've tried and where your error is. Closing the question.

We can't answer if you haven't told us what you've tried and where your error is. Closing the question.

Why use a hammer?

Deleting since this is too open and has no context.

Which is best? A hammer or a screwdriver?

This is a completely pointless comment. Let me know when you get it and I'll remove it.

What have you tried?

You haven't asked a question, you've just stated a problem. Ask a specific question and you may get some help

What have you tried?

How is client side scripting going to help with extremely large datasets on the server side?

What, specifically, isn't working? You need to be precise.

What's the question? We need more than that to help you

What type is "lboxStudentIDs.SelectedValue" and what type is "SchoolIDS"? You can't just cast between different types and expect it to work

What's your question?

But maybe Google is...

Ask a sepcific question. We won't do your homework.