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  • need thoughts on my interview question - .net, c#

    - by uno
    One of the questions I was asked was that I have a database table with following columns pid - unique identifier orderid - varchar(20) documentid - int documentpath - varchar(250) currentLocation - varchar(250) newlocation - varchar(250) status - varchar(15) I have to write a c# app to move the files from currentlocation to newlocation and update status column as either 'SUCCESS' or 'FAILURE'. This was my answer Create a List of all the records using linq Create a command object which would be perform moving files using foreach, invoke a delegate to move the files - use endinvoke to capture any exception and update the db accordingly I was told that command pattern and delegate did not fit the bill here - i was aksed to think and implement a more favorable GoF pattern. Not sure what they were looking for - In this day and age, do candidates keep a lot of info on head as one always has google to find any answer and come up with solution.

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  • In what areas might the use of F# be more appropriate than C#?

    - by Peter McGrattan
    Over the last few years F# has evolved into one of Microsoft's fully supported languages employing many ideas incubated in OCaml, ML and Haskell. Over the last several years C# has extended it's general purpose features by introducing more and more functional language features: LINQ (list comprehension), Lamdas, Closures, Anonymous Delegates and more... Given C#'s adoption of these functional features and F#'s taxonomy as an impure functional language (it allows YOU to access framework libraries or change shared state when a function is called if you want to) there is a strong similarity between the two languages although each has it's own polar opposite primary emphasis. I'm interested in any successful models employing these two languages in your production polyglot programs and also the areas within production software (web apps, client apps, server apps) you have written in F# in the past year or so that you would previously have written in C#. EDIT: Edited based on feedback from close votes with the intent of reducing perceived ambiguity.

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  • Rx: Piecing together multiple IObservable web requests

    - by McLovin
    Hello, I'm creating multiple asynchronous web requests using IObservables and reactive extensions. So this creates observable for "GET" web request: var tweetObservalue = from request in WebRequestExtensions.CreateWebRequest(outUrl + querystring, method) from response in request.GetResponseAsync() let responseStream = response.GetResponseStream() let reader = new StreamReader(responseStream) select reader.ReadToEnd(); And I can do tweetObservable.Subscribe(response => dosomethingwithresponse(response)); What is the correct way of executing multiple asynchronous web requests with IObservables and LINQ that have to wait until other requests have been finished? For example first I would like to verify user info: create userInfoObservable, then if user info is correct I want to update stats so I get updateStatusObservable then if status is updated I would like create friendshipObservable and so on. Also bonus question, there is a case where I would like to execute web calls simultaneously and when all are finished execute another observable which will until other calls are finished. Thank you.

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  • Connecting to SQL Server with Visual Studio Express Editions

    - by tlianza
    I find it odd that in Visual C# 2008 Express edition, when you use the database explorer, your options are: 1) Microsoft Access 2) SQL Server Compact 3.5, and 3) SQL Server Database File. BUT if you use Visual Web Developer 2008 Express, you can connect to a regular SQL Server, Oracle, ODBC, etc. For people developing command-line or other C# apps that need to talk to a SQL Server database, do you really need to build your LINQ/Data Access code with one IDE (Visual Web Developer) and your program in another (Visual C#)? It's not a hard workaround, but it seems weird. If Microsoft wanted to force you to upgrade to Visual Studio to connect to SQL Server, why would they include that feature in one of their free IDEs but not the other? I feel like I might be missing something (like how to do it all in Visual C#). Thanks! Tom

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  • C# Active Directory Group Querying

    - by user1073912
    I am trying the code found here. I am getting the following compile time error: The name 'p' does not exist in the current context Here is my code...can someone help? Thanks. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.DirectoryServices; using System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement; public static List<string> GetGroups() { using (PrincipalContext ctx = new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Domain)) { using (p = Principal.FindByIdentity(ctx, "yourUserName")) { var groups = p.GetGroups(); using (groups) { foreach (Principal group in groups) { Console.WriteLine(group.SamAccountName + "-" + group.DisplayName); } } } } }

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  • Can't update textbox in TinyMCE

    - by Michael Tot Korsgaard
    I'm using TinyMCE, the text area is replaced with a TextBox, but when I try to update the database with the new text from my textbox, it wont update. Can anyone help me? My code looks like this <%@ Page Title="" Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Main.Master" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="default.aspx.cs" Inherits="Test_TinyMCE._default" ValidateRequest="false" %> <asp:Content ID="Content1" ContentPlaceHolderID="head" runat="server"> <script src="JavaScript/tiny_mce/tiny_mce.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> tinyMCE.init({ // General options mode: "textareas", theme: "advanced", plugins: "pagebreak,style,layer,table,save,advhr,advimage,advlink,emotions,iespell,insertdatetime,pre view,media,searchreplace,print,contextmenu,paste,directionality,fullscreen,noneditable,visualchars,no nbreaking,xhtmlxtras,template,wordcount,advlist,autosave", // Theme options theme_advanced_buttons1: "save,newdocument,|,bold,italic,underline,strikethrough,|,justifyleft,justifycenter,justifyright,justifyfull,styleselect,formatselect,fontselect,fontsizeselect", theme_advanced_buttons2: "cut,copy,paste,pastetext,pasteword,|,search,replace,|,bullist,numlist,|,outdent,indent,blockquote,|,undo,redo,|,link,unlink,anchor,image,cleanup,help,code,|,insertdate,inserttime,preview,|,forecolor,backcolor", theme_advanced_buttons3: "tablecontrols,|,hr,removeformat,visualaid,|,sub,sup,|,charmap,emotions,iespell,media,advhr,|,print,|,ltr,rtl,|,fullscreen", theme_advanced_buttons4: "insertlayer,moveforward,movebackward,absolute,|,styleprops,|,cite,abbr,acronym,del,ins,attribs,|,visualchars,nonbreaking,template,pagebreak,restoredraft", theme_advanced_toolbar_location: "top", theme_advanced_toolbar_align: "left", theme_advanced_statusbar_location: "bottom", theme_advanced_resizing: true, // Example content CSS (should be your site CSS) // using false to ensure that the default browser settings are used for best Accessibility // ACCESSIBILITY SETTINGS content_css: false, // Use browser preferred colors for dialogs. browser_preferred_colors: true, detect_highcontrast: true, // Drop lists for link/image/media/template dialogs template_external_list_url: "lists/template_list.js", external_link_list_url: "lists/link_list.js", external_image_list_url: "lists/image_list.js", media_external_list_url: "lists/media_list.js", // Style formats style_formats: [ { title: 'Bold text', inline: 'b' }, { title: 'Red text', inline: 'span', styles: { color: '#ff0000'} }, { title: 'Red header', block: 'h1', styles: { color: '#ff0000'} }, { title: 'Example 1', inline: 'span', classes: 'example1' }, { title: 'Example 2', inline: 'span', classes: 'example2' }, { title: 'Table styles' }, { title: 'Table row 1', selector: 'tr', classes: 'tablerow1' } ], // Replace values for the template plugin template_replace_values: { username: "Some User", staffid: "991234" } }); </script> </asp:Content> <asp:Content ID="Content2" ContentPlaceHolderID="ContentPlaceHolder1" runat="server"> <div> <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server" TextMode="MultiLine"></asp:TextBox> <br /> <asp:LinkButton ID="LinkButton1" runat="server" onclick="LinkButton1_Click">Update</asp:LinkButton> </div> </asp:Content> My codebhind looks like this using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Web; using System.Web.UI; using System.Web.UI.WebControls; namespace Test_TinyMCE { public partial class _default : System.Web.UI.Page { protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { TextBox1.Text = Database.GetFirst().Text; } protected void LinkButton1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { Database.Update(Database.GetFirst().ID, TextBox1.Text); TextBox1.Text = Database.GetFirst().Text; } } } And finally the "Database" class im using looks like this using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Web; using System.Configuration; using System.Data.SqlClient; namespace Test_TinyMCE { public class Database { public int ID { get; set; } public string Text { get; set; } public static void Update(int ID, string Text) { SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["DatabaseConnection"]); connection.Open(); try { SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand("Update Text set Text=@text where ID=@id"); command.Connection = connection; command.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("id", ID)); command.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("text", Text)); command.ExecuteNonQuery(); } finally { connection.Close(); } } public static Database GetFirst() { SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["DatabaseConnection"]); connection.Open(); try { SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand("Select Top 1 ID, Text from Text order by ID asc"); command.Connection = connection; SqlDataReader reader = command.ExecuteReader(); if (reader.Read()) { Database item = new Database(); item.ID = reader.GetInt32(0); item.Text = reader.GetString(1); return item; } else { return null; } } finally { connection.Close(); } } } } I really hope that someone out there can help me

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  • ASP.NET: Enumerating header elements from codebehind

    - by JamesBrownIsDead
    On Page_Load() in the codebehind, I'd like to enumerate all the <link> tags. The purpose being I want want to add a <link> to a CSS file if it isn't specified in the Page's markup. How can I do this? I'm thinking I should be able to use LINQ on the collection of elements in the header, no? Here's my pseudocode: var pageAlreadyContainsCssLink = false; foreach(var control in this.Header.Controls) { if (control.TagName == "link" && control.Attributes["href"] == "my_css_file.css") { pageAlreadyContainsCssLink = true; break; } } if (pageAlreadyContainsCssLink) { // Don't add <link> element return; } // Add the <link> to the CSS this.AddCssLink(...);

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  • Order of imports in C#

    - by BrianK
    How do you like to arrange your "using xxx" imports in C#? I got bored the other day and put them in order from shortest to longest. using System; using System.Web; using System.Data; using System.Linq; using System.Web.UI; using Telerik.Web.UI; using System.Drawing; using System.Collections; using System.Configuration; using System.Web.UI.WebControls; using System.Collections.Generic; Brian

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  • c# login Screen Error

    - by Kumu
    The type or namespace name 'Login' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) This error displays according to the MainMenu of my system. The following code describes the MainMenu source code of my system. Login login; is the error place which system shows, using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Data; using System.Drawing; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Windows.Forms; namespace FootballLeague { public partial class MainMenu : Form { FootballLeagueDatabase footballLeagueDatabase; Game game; Team team; **Login login;** public MainMenu() { InitializeComponent(); changePanel(1); } public MainMenu(FootballLeagueDatabase footballLeagueDatabaseIn) { InitializeComponent(); footballLeagueDatabase = footballLeagueDatabaseIn; } //FootballLeagueDatabase footballLeagueDatabase = new FootballLeagueDatabase(); private void Form_Loaded(object sender, EventArgs e) { } private void gameButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { int option = 0; changePanel(option); } private void scoreboardButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { int option = 1; changePanel(option); } private void changePanel(int optionIn) { gamePanel.Hide(); scoreboardPanel.Hide(); string title = "Football League System"; switch (optionIn) { case 0: gamePanel.Show(); this.Text = title + " - Game Menu"; break; case 1: scoreboardPanel.Show(); this.Text = title + " - Display Menu"; break; } } private void logoutButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { login = new Login(); login.Show(); this.Hide(); } and I have the Form class called Login.cs and the following code displays that class. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Data; using System.Drawing; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Windows.Forms; namespace FootballLeagueSystem { public partial class Login : Form { MainMenu menu; public Login() { InitializeComponent(); } private void administratorLoginButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { string username1 = "08247739"; string password1 = "08247739"; if ((userNameTxt.Text.Length) == 0) MessageBox.Show("Please enter your username!"); else if ((passwordTxt.Text.Length) == 0) MessageBox.Show("Please enter your password!"); else if (userNameTxt.Text.Equals("") || passwordTxt.Text.Equals("")) MessageBox.Show("Invalid Username or Password!"); else { if (this.userNameTxt.Text == username1 && this.passwordTxt.Text == password1) MessageBox.Show("Welcome Administrator!", "Administrator Login"); menu = new MainMenu(); menu.Show(); this.Hide(); } } private void managerLoginButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { { string username2 = "1111"; string password2 = "1111"; if ((userNameTxt.Text.Length) == 0) MessageBox.Show("Please enter your username!"); else if ((passwordTxt.Text.Length) == 0) MessageBox.Show("Please enter your password!"); else if (userNameTxt.Text.Equals("") && passwordTxt.Text.Equals("")) MessageBox.Show("Invalid Username or Password!"); //menu = new MainMenu(); //menu.Hide(); //this.Close(); else { if (this.userNameTxt.Text == username2 && this.passwordTxt.Text == password2) MessageBox.Show("Welcome Manager!", "Manager Login"); menu = new MainMenu(); menu.Show(); //menu.HideTab(); this.Hide(); } } } private void cancelButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { this.Close(); } } } Please can you someone explain me where is the error is?

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  • Table and Column names causing problems

    - by craig
    I have an issue when the T4 linq templates generate the classes for my MySql db using subsonic 3. It looks like one of our table names "operator" is causing problems in the Context.cs generated class. In the following line of code in Context.cs Visual Studio sees <operator> as a c# operator and generates a compilation error of "Type expected" public Query<operator> operators { get; set; } Is there anyway I can work around this without having to rename my database table and column names? For example hard coding something in Settings.ttinclude to use or map different names to specific db tables and columns?

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  • C# Lambda Expression Speed

    - by Nathan
    I have not used many lambda expressions before and I ran into a case where I thought I could make slick use of one. I have a custom list of ~19,000 records and I need to find out if a record exists or not in the list so instead of writing a bunch of loops or using linq to go through the list I decided to try this: for (int i = MinX; i <= MaxX; ++i) { tempY = MinY; while (tempY <= MaxY) { bool exists = myList.Exists(item => item.XCoord == i && item.YCoord == tempY); ++tempY; } } Only problem is it take ~9 - 11 seconds to execute. Am I doing something wrong is this just a case of where I shouldn't be using an expression like this? Thanks.

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  • How to create a custom ADO Multi Dimensional Catalog with no database

    - by Alan Clark
    Does anyone know of an example of how to dynamically define and build ADO MD (ActiveX Data Objects Multidimensional) catalogs and cube definitions with a set of data other than a database? Background: we have a huge amount of data in our application that we export to a database and then query using the usual SQL joins, groups, sums etc to produce reports. The data in the application is originally in objects and arrays. The problem is the amount of data is so large the export can take 2 hours. So I am trying to figure out a good way of querying the objects in memory, either by a custom OLAP algorithm or library, or ADO MD. But I haven't been able to find an example of using ADO MD without a database behind it. We are using Delphi 2010 so would use ADO ActiveX but I imagine the ADO.NET MD is similar. I realize that if the application data was already stored in a database the problem would solve itself. Also if Delphi had LINQ capability I could query the objects and arrays that way.

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  • mvc2 validation problem (ambiguous reference between model and models)

    - by ile
    I followed instructions for mvc validation but I can't manage to solve this problem.... This is linq to sql model: I set Entity namespace to be CMS.Model If I try to declare partial class Article in Portal.Models namespace: public partial class Article { .... } Then, after using Article article somewhere in code I get following error: 'Article' is an ambiguous reference between 'Portal.Models.Article' and 'CMS.Model.Article' Portal is project name and CMS is area.... I followed these instructions I aslo created NerdDinner from scratch and in that example validation works. I can't figure out what am I doing wrong... someone noticed my mistake? Is it related with giving name to Entity namespace (in tutorial they used default one) Thanks in advance! PS I'd like to note that I'm c# newbie so I'm not really familiar with these partial classes

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  • Finding parents where child collection does not contain an item with a specific property value

    - by Colin Bowern
    I am trying to get a list of parents where the child collection does not contain an item of a specific type. The LINQ equivalent would be something like: dataset.Where(x => x.Items.FirstOrDefault(y => y.Type.Code == "ABC") == null) The object model is Parent Child (Items) Type Code If Parent is my aggregate root, how would I model this in NHibernate criteria/query? Here's my first attempt: var results = session.CreateCriteria<Parent>() .CreateCriteria("Items") .CreateCriteria("Type") .Add(Restrictions.Not(Restrictions.Eq("Code", "ABC"))) .SetResultTransformer(Transformers.DistinctRootEntity) .List<Parent>(); This doesn't seem to return the right entities - it just returns them all.

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  • C# - Accesing to items for a collection inherited from List<string>

    - by Salvador
    I am trying to implement a new class inherited from List<string>, to load the contents from a text file to the items. using System.Collections.Generic; using System.IO; using System.Linq; public class ListExt: List<string> { string baseDirectory; public LoadFromFile(string FileName) { this._items = File.ReadAllLines(FileName).ToList();//does not work because _list is private } } but i dont knew how to load the lines into the _items property because is private. any suggestions?

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  • Multiple join query in eSql

    - by Syma
    Hi guys, This is my first question in stackoverflow but really not the first time to get solution here. I am struggling with multiple join in entity framework 4. I have three tables (Accounts, Users and AccountUsers) that am finding difficult to query. What I want is to get all the users for the provided accountId including the account creator. I can get all the account users with no problem but the hard side for me is getting the account creator since it's not added to AccountUsers table. below is a quick preview how the tables are related. Accounts AccountId UserId (account creator) ...other columns Users UserId ...other columns AccountUsers AccountId UserId I would prefer the query to be esql, but Linq to Entities will do. I trust you guys on stackoverflow, so I know this won't take long to get the 'Answer' mark. Thanks for even reading.

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  • Why does an event handler never get called if it's added within a loop on an ienumerable?

    - by André Carvalho
    Why does an event handler never get called if it's added within a loop on an ienumerable? For instance: IEnumerable<MyType> list = someCollection.Select(i => new MyType(i)); foreach (var item in list) item.PropertyChanged += item_PropertyChanged; <-- this never gets called Bu if list is assigned like list = someCollection.Select(i => new MyType(i)).ToArray(); the event handler does get called.. Why? (I imagine it has something to do with the fact that a LINQ query is lazy, but the fact of looping through the result isn't enough?)

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  • How to select the first row for each group in MySQL?

    - by Jader Dias
    In C# it would be like this: table .GroupBy(row => row.SomeColumn) .Select(group => group .OrderBy(row => row.AnotherColumn) .First() ) Linq-To-Sql translates it to the following T-SQL code: SELECT [t3].[AnotherColumn], [t3].[SomeColumn] FROM ( SELECT [t0].[SomeColumn] FROM [Table] AS [t0] GROUP BY [t0].[SomeColumn] ) AS [t1] OUTER APPLY ( SELECT TOP (1) [t2].[AnotherColumn], [t2].[SomeColumn] FROM [Table] AS [t2] WHERE (([t1].[SomeColumn] IS NULL) AND ([t2].[SomeColumn] IS NULL)) OR (([t1].[SomeColumn] IS NOT NULL) AND ([t2].[SomeColumn] IS NOT NULL) AND ([t1].[SomeColumn] = [t2].[SomeColumn])) ORDER BY [t2].[AnotherColumn] ) AS [t3] ORDER BY [t3].[AnotherColumn] But it is uncompatible with MySQL.

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  • How can i query for null values in entity framework?

    - by AZ
    I want to execute a query like this var result = from entry in table where entry.something == null select entry; and get an IS NULL generated. Edited: After the first two answers i feel the need to clarify that I'm using Entity Framework and not Linq to SQL. The object.Equals() method does not seem to work in EF. Edit no.2: The above query works as intended. It correctly generates IS NULL. My production code however was var value = null; var result = from entry in table where entry.something == value select entry; and the generated SQL was something = @p; @p = NULL. It seems that EF correctly translates the constant expression but if a variable is involved it treats it just like a normal comparison. Makes sense actually. I'll close this question

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  • Cloned Cached item has memory issues

    - by ioWint
    Hi there, we are having values stored in Cache-Enterprise library Caching Block. The accessors of the cached item, which is a List, modify the values. We didnt want the Cached Items to get affected. Hence first we returned a new List(IEnumerator of the CachedItem) This made sure accessors adding and removing items had little effect on the original Cached item. But we found, all the instances of the List we returned to accessors were ALIVE! Object relational Graph showed a relationship between this list and the EnterpriseLibrary.CacheItem. So we changed the return to be a newly cloned List. For this we used a LINQ say (from item in Data select new DataClass(item) ).ToList() even when you do as above, the ORG shows there is a relationship between this list and the CacheItem. Cant we do anything to create a CLONE of the List item which is present in the Enterprise library cache, which DOESNT have ANY relationship with CACHE?!

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  • wcf rest service 400 error : There might be a typing error in the address

    - by Lokesh Kondapalli
    I am trying to invoke wcf rest service from url but its showing error like this Error : Most likely causes: •There might be a typing error in the address. •If you clicked on a link, it may be out of date. ** I need JSON responce Here my code : Iservice.cs using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Runtime.Serialization; using System.ServiceModel; using System.ServiceModel.Web; using System.Text; namespace SampleRestSample { interface name "IService1" in both code and config file together. [ServiceContract] public interface IService1 { [OperationContract] [WebInvoke(Method = "GET", UriTemplate = "Book/{id}", BodyStyle = WebMessageBodyStyle.Wrapped, ResponseFormat = WebMessageFormat.Json)] List<Prasad> GetBookById(string id); } [DataContract] public class Prasad { [DataMember] public string Name { get; set; } [DataMember] public string Age { get; set; } } } Service1.svc.cs using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Runtime.Serialization; using System.ServiceModel; using System.ServiceModel.Web; using System.Text; namespace LoginRestSample { // NOTE: You can use the "Rename" command on the "Refactor" menu to change the class name "Service1" in code, svc and config file together. public class Service1 : SampleRestSample { List<Prasad> list = new List<Prasad>(); public List<Prasad> GetBookById(string id) { try { Prasad cls = new Prasad(); cls.Age = "24"; cls.Name = "prasad"; list.Add(cls); //int bookId = Convert.ToInt32(id); //using (SampleDbEntities entities = new SampleDbEntities()) //{ // return entities.Books.SingleOrDefault(book => book.ID == bookId); //} } catch { throw new FaultException("Something went wrong"); } return list; } } } web.config <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <configuration> <system.web> <compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0"> <assemblies> <add assembly="System.Data.Entity, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" /> </assemblies> </compilation> </system.web> <system.serviceModel> <services> <service name="WcfRestSample.SampleRestSample"> <endpoint address="" behaviorConfiguration="restfulBehavior" binding="webHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="" contract="WcfRestSample.ISampleRestSample" /> <host> <baseAddresses> <add baseAddress="http://localhost/SampleRestSample" /> </baseAddresses> </host> </service> </services> <behaviors> <endpointBehaviors> <behavior name="restfulBehavior"> <webHttp automaticFormatSelectionEnabled="true" /> </behavior> </endpointBehaviors> <serviceBehaviors> <behavior name=""> <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true" /> <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="false" /> </behavior> </serviceBehaviors> </behaviors> <serviceHostingEnvironment multipleSiteBindingsEnabled="true" /> </system.serviceModel> <system.webServer> <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true" /> </system.webServer> </configuration> Any solutions? Thank you in advance.

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  • How should I model the database for this problem? And which ORM can handle it?

    - by Kristof Claes
    I need to build some sort of a custom CMS for a client of ours. These are some of the functional requirements: Must be able to manage the list of Pages in the site Each Page can contain a number of ColumnGroups A ColumnGroup is nothing more than a list of Columns in a certain ColumnGroupLayout. For example: "one column taking up the entire width of the page", "two columns each taking up half of the width", ... Each Column can contain a number ContentBlocks Examples of a ContentBlock are: TextBlock, NewsBlock, PictureBlock, ... ContentBlocks can be given a certain sorting within a Column A ContentBlock can be put in different Columns so that content can be reused without having to be duplicated. My first quick draft of how this could look like in C# code (we're using ASP.NET 4.0 to develop the CMS) can be found at the bottom of my question. One of the technical requirements is that it must be as easy as possible to add new types of ContentBlocks to the CMS. So I would like model everything as flexible as possible. Unfortunately, I'm already stuck at trying to figure out how the database should look like. One of the problems I'm having has to do with sorting different types of ContentBlocks in a Column. I guess each type of ContentBlock (like TextBlock, NewsBlock, PictureBlock, ...) should have it's own table in the database because each has it's own different fields. A TextBlock might only have a field called Text whereas a NewsBlock might have fields for the Text, the Summary, the PublicationDate, ... Since one Column can have ContentBlocks located in different tables, I guess I'll have to create a many-to-many association for each type of ContentBlock. For example: ColumnTextBlocks, ColumnNewsBlocks and ColumnPictureBlocks. The problem I have with this setup is the sorting of the different ContentBlocks in a column. This could be something like this: TextBlock NewsBlock TextBlock TextBlock PictureBlock Where do I store the sorting number? If I store them in the associaton tables, I'll have to update a lot of tables when changing the sorting order of ContentBlocks in a Column. Is this a good approach to the problem? Basically, my question is: What is the best way to model this keeping in mind that it should be easy to add new types of ContentBlocks? My next question is: What ORM can deal with that kind of modeling? To be honest, we are ORM-virgins at work. I have been reading a bit about Linq-to-SQL and NHibernate, but we have no experience with them. Because of the IList in the Column class (see code below) I think we can rule out Linq-to-SQL, right? Can NHibernate handle the mapping of data from many different tables to one IList? Also keep in mind that this is just a very small portion of the domain. Other parts are Users belonging to a certain UserGroup having certain Permissions on Pages, ColumnGroups, Columns and ContentBlocks. The code (just a quick first draft): public class Page { public int PageID { get; set; } public string Title { get; set; } public string Description { get; set; } public string Keywords { get; set; } public IList<ColumnGroup> ColumnGroups { get; set; } } public class ColumnGroup { public enum ColumnGroupLayout { OneColumn, HalfHalf, NarrowWide, WideNarrow } public int ColumnGroupID { get; set; } public ColumnGroupLayout Layout { get; set; } public IList<Column> Columns { get; set; } } public class Column { public int ColumnID { get; set; } public IList<IContentBlock> ContentBlocks { get; set; } } public interface IContentBlock { string GetSummary(); } public class TextBlock : IContentBlock { public string GetSummary() { return "I am a piece of text."; } } public class NewsBlock : IContentBlock { public string GetSummary() { return "I am a news item."; } }

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  • C# to VB question

    - by Jim
    Hi, I can achieve in VB what the following C# snippet does but it seems very clunky since I perform a Linq query to obtain the events for the relevant user. Is there a neat way? ctx.FetchEventsForWhichCurrentUserIsRegistered((op) => { if (!op.HasError) { var items = op.Value; _currentUserRegisteredEventIds = new HashSet<int>(items); UpdateRegistrationButtons(); } }, null); } else { _currentUserRegisteredEventIds = null; UpdateRegistrationButtons(); }

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  • Looking for a .NET 3.5 / J2EE architecture concept comparison article/chart

    - by Edward Tanguay
    We are thinking about combining .NET technology with Java technology (WCF, JBoss/ESB, MOM, WPF, WF) and I need to have a high-level idea of what are the apples and oranges in the .NET 3.5 and Java worlds. Does anyone know of a good, clear article or better yet a simple chart which answers questions such as: WCF in the Java world is __ the equivalent of WPF in the Java world is _ the closes thing to JBoss in the .NET world is _ the JVM and CLR are essentially the same except for these differences: .... in the Java world you don't have the concept of WF/WCF/WPF, instead you have .... there is no "LINQ" in the Java world yet, but you can use ___ the closest you get to ADO.NET Data Services in the Java world is .... I'm not looking to debate this so I'm not looking for "fighting points", I just need a neutral what-is-what chart comparing the two worlds.

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  • Visual Studio: Add necessary using directives with macro

    - by Kiril
    Hello guys, I am trying to do the following. Imagine you are reading some LINQ article and you decide to copy/paste some code from the article to a newly created project. In most cases, if you directly compile you will probably get an error for missing a using directives or assembly reference. I am trying to optimize the process where I have to go each keyword, click on it with the mouse and hit Shift + Alt + F10 to add the using directive. I know that it is not that much pain, but for the sake of optimization, is it possible and at what cost? Best Regards, Kiril

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