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  • Language-independent sources on collision detection

    - by Phazyck
    While making a Pong clone with a friend, we had to implement some collision detection. For research purposes, my friend dug up a book called "AdvancED Game Design with Flash" by Rex Van Der Spuy. This book was clearly targeted at implementing collision detection in ActionScript, and I also have some problems with how the concepts are presented, e.g. presenting one method as better than another, without explaining that decision. Can anyone recommend some good material on collision detection? I'd prefer it if kept the implementation details as language-independent as possible, e.g. by implementing the concepts in pseudo-code. Language-specific materials are not completely unwelcome though, though I'd prefer those to be in either Java, C#, F# or Python or similar languages, as those are the ones I'm most familiar with. :-) Lastly, is there perhaps widely known and used book on collision detection that most people should know about, like a 'the book on collision detection'?

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  • Does approaching SICP in clojure have a high chance of success? [on hold]

    - by ironicaldiction
    I am a third year bachelor student in a software engineering program, and I brought up the idea of reading SICP to an adviser to gain a deeper and more fundamental understanding of the principles behind all this software we engineer. He suggested not to learn scheme to complete the book (because it's not as common as modern dialects of lisp) but to do the exercises in clojure instead. My worry is that completing exercises in clojure instead of scheme will make an already difficult book tortuous. If I do attempt the book's exercises in the more modern clojure, will it be difficult to succeed (for example, because I can't find any real solutions, the syntax they teach for scheme is different, etc.), or do you think approaching the book in clojure could be just as successful as approaching it in scheme? I'm really not knowledgeable enough about either clojure or scheme to make an argument about this, so I wanted to know if I should bring it up or not.

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  • My Only Gripe With Programming

    - by David Espejo
    Is that im having trouble practicing problems. Even if I decide to practice the problems from my C++ book, they dont give any idea of the way the solution(program) should look like, so that I may compare to see if my program is similar in anyway. My book gives me to many generic "Write a program to do "this" " projects without really showing a concrete example of what "this" really is. In other words How Do I Know That I did "that". One problem in my book said to write a program that calculates the sales tax on a given item????? First of all slase tax differs on state(whats the state,) whats the item(a house, a dog,) How can I check this to see if im right. Programming books dont have answer keys! I know that there is no ABSOLUTE answer, thats just silly, programs can be written in many ways, but a sample of what one would look like based of the difficulty of the problem would really help! Is there a solution to this, maby a book that has worked out examples for the problems they give , or online sources that do something similar.(is there such thing as a programming book with an answer key?)

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  • Books library organizers for Ubuntu 12.04

    - by el10780
    I would like to ask if there is any good program for ubuntu 12.04 to organize a library of books.I have to mention that I have books written on my native language (Greek) and I have books written in other languages like English,French,etc....So basically I need an application which can fetch information from databases for Greek books.For example add a Greek (ISBN) book database source and when I type the ISBN of the book in the program to find the book from that database/es.Do you know if this is possible?I have already tried Tellico and GCstar but they were unable to find books with Greek ISBN.I tried to add a Greek book source but my wasn't successful.

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  • How I start a process to run logcat on Android?

    - by tangjie
    I want to read Android system level log file.So I use the following code: Process mLogcatProc = null; BufferedReader reader = null; try { mLogcatProc = Runtime.getRuntime().exec( new String[] { "logcat", "-d", "AndroidRuntime:E [Your Log Tag Here]:V *:S" }); reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(mLogcatProc .getInputStream())); String line; final StringBuilder log = new StringBuilder(); String separator = System.getProperty("line.separator"); while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) { log.append(line); log.append(separator); } } catch (IOException e) {} finally { if (reader != null) try { reader.close(); } catch (IOException e) {} } I also used in AndroidManifest.xml. But I can't read any line. The StringBuilder log is empty. And the method mLogcatProc.waitFor return 0. So how can I read the log ?

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  • APress Deal of the Day - 11/Nov/2011 - Accelerated C# 2010

    - by TATWORTH
    Today's $10 Deal of the day from Apress at http://www.apress.com/9781430225379 is Accelerated C# 2010 "C# 2010 offers powerful new features, and this book is the fastest path to mastering them—and the rest of C#—for both experienced C# programmers moving to C# 2010 and programmers moving to C# from another object-oriented language. " I cannot improve on the description on thew APress web site: "If you're an experienced C# programmer, you need to understand how C# has changed with C# 2010. If you're an experienced object-oriented programmer moving to C#, you want to ramp up quickly in the language while learning the latest features and techniques. In either case, this book is for you. The first three chapters succinctly present C# fundamentals, for those new to or reviewing C#. The rest of the book covers all the major C# features, in great detail, explaining how they work and how best to use them. Whatever your background or need, you’ll treasure this book for as long as you code in C# 2010."   Can't code withoutThe best C# & VB.NET refactoring plugin for Visual Studio

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  • Programming Windows Identity Foundation - ISBN 978-0-7356-2718-5

    - by TATWORTH
    This book introduces a new technology that promises a considerable improvement on the ASP.NET membership system. If you ever had to write an extranet, system you should be aware of the problems in setting up membership for your site. The Windows Identity Foundation promises to be an excellent replacement. Therefore the book Programming Windows Identity Foundation - ISBN 978-0-7356-2718-5 at  http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780735627185, is breaking new ground. I recommend this book to all ASP.NET development teams. You should reckon on 3 to 5 man-days to study it and try out the sample programs and see if it can replace your bespoke solution. Rember this is version 1 of WIF and give yourself adequete time to read this book and familiarise yourself with the new software. Some URLs for more information: WIF home page at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/security/aa570351.aspx The Identity Training Kit at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c3e315fa-94e2-4028-99cb-904369f177c0 The author's blog at http://www.cloudidentity.net/

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  • Apress Deal of the Day - 22/Feb/2010 - Entity Framework 4.0 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

    - by TATWORTH
    Todays $10 deal from Apress at  http://www.apress.com/info/dailydeal is "Entity Framework 4.0 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach" Whilst I am still wary of using the Entity framework and I would caution against its use for updates in financial systems, unless you use a technique such as you can find on pages 509-512 of this book. This book is very impressive as I found the answer to this in about 2 minutes from the time I downloaded the e-book. Entity Framework 4.0 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach With this book, you will learn the core concepts of Entity Framework through a broad range of clear and concise solutions to everyday data access tasks. Armed with this experience, you will be ready to dive deep into Entity Framework, experiment with new approaches, and develop ways to solve even the most difficult data access challenges. $49.99 | Published May 2010 | Larry Tenny

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  • Force IOException during file reading

    - by DixonD
    I have the piece of code that reads data from file. I want to force IOException in this code for testing purpose (I want to check if code throws correct custom exception in this case). Is there a some way to create a file which is protected from being read, for example? Maybe dealing with some security checks can help? Please, note that passing name to not-existent file cannot help, because FileNotFoundException has separate catch clause. Here peace of code for better undestanding of question: BufferedReader reader = null; try { reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(csvFile)); String rawLine; while ((rawLine = reader.readLine()) != null) { // some work is done here } } catch (FileNotFoundException e) { throw new SomeCustomException(); } catch (IOException e) { throw new SomeCustomException(); } finally { // close the input stream if (reader != null) { try { reader.close(); } catch (IOException e) { // ignore } } }

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  • Book/topic recommendations for a programmer returning to programming.

    - by Jason Tan
    I used to be a developer in Java, PHP, perl and C/C++ (the C++ bit badly - the others not too badly, I hope). This was back in the Java 1.3/1.4 days. We used raw JDBC, swing, servlets, JSP and ant (sometimes even make). Eclipse was new. Then I joined a deployment team and became a deployment engineer and then after the deployment engineer work became a full time sys admin.You get the idea - my experience is a generation or two old in programming terms - maybe older. I'm interested in getting back into Java and perhaps Ruby development, but feel I will be waaaaay behind the technological 8 ball. Can you folks suggest some books (or sites) that would be worth reading to catch up with the last 5-10 years of the development world. I.e. what should I read to try and catch up with where development is now? I see lots of stuff on the web, but what are people in the fabled "real world" using? (are lots of people being SOA based apps? Are they using XP methodology) The sorts of things I'm interested in finding out about/catching up on are: Methodologies Design patterns APIs/Frameworks/Technologies Other stuff you deem current/interesting/relevant. So if you have any thoughts or can recommend any books (especially new classics - you know the 's equivalent to K&R C or "The mythical man month"). Thanks for any thoughts you might share.

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  • How to move the mouse

    - by GroundZero
    I'm making a little bot in C#. At the moment it works pretty well, it can load text from a file and type it for you. But for now, I need to manualy click the textfield to put the focus on it, remaximize my form and then click the Type-button. After the typing, I need to manualy slide the scorebar and press submit. I'd like to know how I can move my mouse with C# and if possible, if possible I'd like to load the mouse positions from a xml-file. I need to move to the textfield, click in it to focus on it, start the type script, move to the slider, hold the mouse down on it while dragging, releasing it on the correct position & clicking on the submitbutton This is what I have for now: To load in the variables, I'm using this script: private void Initialize() { XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader(Application.StartupPath + @"..\..\..\CursorPositions.xml"); while (reader.Read()) { switch (reader.NodeType) { case XmlNodeType.Element: // The node is an element. element = reader.Value; break; case XmlNodeType.Text: //Display the text in each element. switch (element) { case "Textbox-X": textX = int.Parse(reader.Value); break; case "Textbox-Y": textY = int.Parse(reader.Value); break; case "SliderBegin-X": sliderX = int.Parse(reader.Value); break; case "SliderBegin-Y": sliderY = int.Parse(reader.Value); break; case "SubmitButton-X": submitX = int.Parse(reader.Value); break; case "SubmitButton-Y": submitY = int.Parse(reader.Value); break; } break; } } This is the xml-file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <CursorPositions> <Textbox-X>430</Textbox-X> <Textbox-Y>270</Textbox-Y> <SliderBegin-X>430</SliderBegin-X> <SliderBegin-Y>470</SliderBegin-Y> <SubmitButton-X>860</SubmitButton-X> <SubmitButton-Y>365</SubmitButton-Y> </CursorPositions> To move the mouse I'm using this piece of code: public partial class FrmMain : Form { [System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport("user32.dll")] public static extern void mouse_event(int dwFlags, int dx, int dy, int cButtons, int dwExtraInfo); public const int MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTDOWN = 0x0002; public const int MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTUP = 0x0004; public const int MOUSEEVENTF_RIGHTDOWN = 0x0008; public const int MOUSEEVENTF_RIGHTUP = 0x0010; ... private void btnStart_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { // start button (de)activates loop if (!running) { btnStart.Text = "Stop"; btnStart.Cursor = Cursors.No; running = true; } else { btnStart.Text = "Start"; btnStart.Cursor = Cursors.AppStarting; running = false; } while (running) { // move to textbox & type Cursor.Position = new Point(textX, textY); mouse_event(MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTDOWN, textX, textY, 0, 0); mouse_event(MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTUP, textX, textY, 0, 0); Type(); // wait 90 seconds till slider available Thread.Sleep(90 * 1000); // move to slider & slide according to score Cursor.Position = new Point(sliderX, sliderY); mouse_event(MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTDOWN, sliderX, sliderY, 0, 0); Cursor.Position = new Point(sliderX + 345 / 10 * score, sliderY); mouse_event(MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTUP, sliderX + 345 / 10 * score, sliderY, 0, 0); // submit Cursor.Position = new Point(submitX, submitY); mouse_event(MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTDOWN, submitX, submitY, 0, 0); mouse_event(MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTUP, submitX, submitY, 0, 0); // wait 10 sec to be sure it's submitted Thread.Sleep(10 * 1000); // refresh page SendKeys.SendWait("{F5}"); // get new text NewText(); // wait 10 sec to refresh and load song Thread.Sleep(10 * 1000); } } } PS: I get the coordinates via my form. I've got 2 labels that show my X & Y coordinates. To capture them outside the form, I press and hold my Left Mouse Button and 'drag' it outside the form to the correct place. This way I get the coordinates of my mouse outside the form

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  • I need help understanding what Exercise 5-12 is asking for in the C Programming Language book.

    - by marsol0x
    K&R C Programming Language: pg. 105 Extend entab and detab to accept the shorthand entab -m +n to mean tab stops every n columns, starting at column m. entab replaces a number of spaces with a tab character and detab does the opposite. The question I have concerns the tab stops and entab. I figure that for detab it's pretty easy to determine the number of spaces needed to reach the next tab stop, so no worries there. With entab, replacing spaces with tabs is slightly more difficult since I cannot for sure know how large the tab character goes to its own tab stop (unless there is a way to know for sure). Am I even thinking about this thing properly?

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  • Over 300 "NetBeans Platform for Beginners" Sold

    - by Geertjan
    I've noticed that the authors of "NetBeans Platform for Beginners" have started exposing the number of sales they have achieved. Below, notice the '304' (which will probably change quite quickly) at the lower left end of this screenshot: That's pretty good since the book has only existed for a few months and developers tend to share books they buy in PDF format. That probably means there are 300 teams of software developers around the world who are using the book, which is pretty awesome. (Though it would help the authors significantly, I'm sure, if individual developers on teams would buy the book, rather than sharing one between them. Come on, let's support these great authors so that they'll write more books like this.) Also note that there is a set of reviewer comments on the page above: Plus, the book is updated at the end of each month, so it continues to grow and improve from month to month, for free for everyone who has bought it. If you've read the book and want to contribute a review like the above, contact walternyland @ yahoo dot com. Great work, guys! For anyone out there who hasn't got it yet: https://leanpub.com/nbp4beginners

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  • Language-independent sources on 2D collision detection [on hold]

    - by Phazyck
    While making a Pong clone with a friend, we had to implement some 2D collision detection. For research purposes, my friend dug up a book called "AdvancED Game Design with Flash" by Rex Van Der Spuy. This book was clearly targeted at implementing 2D collision detection in ActionScript, and I also have some problems with how the concepts are presented, e.g. presenting one method as better than another, without explaining that decision. Can anyone recommend some good material on 2D collision detection? I'd prefer it if it kept the implementation details as language-independent as possible, e.g. by implementing the concepts in pseudo-code. Language-specific materials are not completely unwelcome though, though I'd prefer those to be in either Java, C#, F# or Python or similar languages, as those are the ones I'm most familiar with. :-) Lastly, is there perhaps widely known and used book on collision detection that most people should know about, like a 'the book on 2D collision detection'?

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  • Windows Communication Foundation 4 - ISBN - Initial Comments

    - by TATWORTH
    Windows Communication Foundation 4 - ISBN 978-0-7356-4556-1 is one of the Microsoft Step-By-Step books. I will be studying this book over the comming weeks. What I have seen so far impresses me. One very practical item that more books of the type should have was the "Finding your best starting point". There is one feature about this book that I hope Microsoft Press will provide on more books and that is to also provide the book electronically via Safari. Included in this is getting the book as a PDF!

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  • HELP!! Implementing a search to match the specified author and displaying a book by the specified publisher

    - by Brian
    Hey guys! So i'm having problems with my assignment. I successfully got it to run multiple last names by the author, but now, I need to find all books by author, which means searching the collection for all books that match the specified author and I also need to find all books by publisher, which displays a list of books by the specified publisher. How would I implement this? Would I use string or vector? Any help will be much appreciated!

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  • Databinding in combo box

    - by muralekarthick
    Hi I have two forms, and a class, queries return in Stored procedure. Stored Procedure: ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[Payment_Join] @reference nvarchar(20) AS BEGIN -- SET NOCOUNT ON added to prevent extra result sets from -- interfering with SELECT statements. SET NOCOUNT ON; -- Insert statements for procedure here SELECT p.iPaymentID,p.nvReference,pt.nvPaymentType,p.iAmount,m.nvMethod,u.nvUsers,p.tUpdateTime FROM Payment p, tblPaymentType pt, tblPaymentMethod m, tblUsers u WHERE p.nvReference = @reference and p.iPaymentTypeID = pt.iPaymentTypeID and p.iMethodID = m.iMethodID and p.iUsersID = u.iUsersID END payment.cs using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Data; using System.Data.SqlClient; using System.Windows.Forms; namespace Finance { class payment { string connection = global::Finance.Properties.Settings.Default.PaymentConnectionString; #region Fields int _paymentid = 0; string _reference = string.Empty; string _paymenttype; double _amount = 0; string _paymentmethod; string _employeename; DateTime _updatetime = DateTime.Now; #endregion #region Properties public int paymentid { get { return _paymentid; } set { _paymentid = value; } } public string reference { get { return _reference; } set { _reference = value; } } public string paymenttype { get { return _paymenttype; } set { _paymenttype = value; } } public string paymentmethod { get { return _paymentmethod; } set { _paymentmethod = value; } } public double amount { get { return _amount;} set { _amount = value; } } public string employeename { get { return _employeename; } set { _employeename = value; } } public DateTime updatetime { get { return _updatetime; } set { _updatetime = value; } } #endregion #region Constructor public payment() { } public payment(string refer) { reference = refer; } public payment(int paymentID, string Reference, string Paymenttype, double Amount, string Paymentmethod, string Employeename, DateTime Time) { paymentid = paymentID; reference = Reference; paymenttype = Paymenttype; amount = Amount; paymentmethod = Paymentmethod; employeename = Employeename; updatetime = Time; } #endregion #region Methods public void Save() { try { SqlConnection connect = new SqlConnection(connection); SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand("payment_create", connect); command.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure; command.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@reference", reference)); command.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@paymenttype", paymenttype)); command.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@amount", amount)); command.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@paymentmethod", paymentmethod)); command.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@employeename", employeename)); command.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@updatetime", updatetime)); connect.Open(); command.ExecuteScalar(); connect.Close(); } catch { } } public void Load(string reference) { try { SqlConnection connect = new SqlConnection(connection); SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand("Payment_Join", connect); command.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure; command.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@Reference", reference)); //MessageBox.Show("ref = " + reference); connect.Open(); SqlDataReader reader = command.ExecuteReader(); while (reader.Read()) { this.reference = Convert.ToString(reader["nvReference"]); // MessageBox.Show(reference); // MessageBox.Show("here"); // MessageBox.Show("payment type id = " + reader["nvPaymentType"]); // MessageBox.Show("here1"); this.paymenttype = Convert.ToString(reader["nvPaymentType"]); // MessageBox.Show(paymenttype.ToString()); this.amount = Convert.ToDouble(reader["iAmount"]); this.paymentmethod = Convert.ToString(reader["nvMethod"]); this.employeename = Convert.ToString(reader["nvUsers"]); this.updatetime = Convert.ToDateTime(reader["tUpdateTime"]); } reader.Close(); } catch (Exception ex) { MessageBox.Show("Check it again" + ex); } } #endregion } } i have already binded the combo box items through designer, When i run the application i just get the reference populated in form 2 and combo box just populated not the particular value which is fetched. New to c# so help me to get familiar

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  • Getting column info from db with C#

    - by lYriCAlsSH
    In PHP I am able to retrieve information from a db like so: <?php $sql = "SELECT * FROM users"; $result = mysql_query($sql); $data = array(); while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) { $data[] = $row; } I am trying to acomplish the same thing in C#: OdbcCommand cmd = new OdbcCommand("SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = @id"); cmd.Parameters.Add("@id", id); OdbcDataReader reader = cmd.ExecuteReader(); Dictionary<string, string> data = new Dictionary<string, string>(); while (reader.Read()) { data.Add("id", reader.GetString(0)); data.Add("username", reader.GetString(1)); data.Add("firstName", reader.GetString(2)); } return data; Is it possible to reference the column in the table by name without going through all this trouble?

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  • xslt to show most number of copies in catalog.xml file

    - by SANJAY RAO
    In this catalog.xml file i have two books who have the same inventory i.e 20 . I want to write a xsl file that will display the most number of copies of a book in a catalog .if there are two or more books of the same inventory then they have to be displayed . <?xml version="1.0"?> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="catalog3.xsl"?> <!DOCTYPE catalog SYSTEM "catalog.dtd"> <catalog> <Book> <sku>12345</sku> <title>Beauty Secrets</title> <condition>New</condition> <current_inventory>20</current_inventory> <price>99.99</price> </Book> <Book> <sku>54321</sku> <title>Picturescapes</title> <current_inventory>20</current_inventory> <condition>New</condition> <price>50.00</price> </Book> <Book> <sku>33333</sku> <title>Tourist Perspectives</title> <condition>New</condition> <current_inventory>0</current_inventory> <price>75.00</price> </Book> <Book> <sku>10001</sku> <title>Fire in the Sky</title> <condition>Used</condition> <current_inventory>0</current_inventory> <price>10.00</price> </Book> below is my catalog3.xsl file which is able to display only one out of the two books <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:variable name="max"/> <xsl:template match="/"> <html> <body> <h2>Titles of Books for which Most Copies are Available</h2> <table border="2"> <tr bgcolor="#9acd32"> <th>Title</th> <th>No of Copies</th> </tr> <xsl:apply-templates/> </table> </body> </html> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="catalog"> <xsl:for-each select="Book"> <xsl:sort select="current_inventory" data-type="number" order="descending"/> <tr> <xsl:if test="position()= 1"> <p><xsl:value-of select="$max = "/></p> <td><xsl:value-of select="title"/></td> <td><xsl:value-of select="current_inventory"/></td> </xsl:if> </tr> could anybody correct me to achieve my goal of displaying all the copies having the same maximum inventory in the catalog . Thanks .

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  • SQL use comma-separated values with IN clause

    - by user342944
    I am developing an ASP.NET application and passing a string value like "1,2,3,4" into a procedure to select those values which are IN (1,2,3,4) but its saying "Conversion failed when converting the varchar value '1,2,3,4' to data type int." Here is the aspx code: private void fillRoles() { /*Read in User Profile Data from database */ Database db = DatabaseFactory.CreateDatabase(); DbCommand cmd = db.GetStoredProcCommand("sp_getUserRoles"); db.AddInParameter(cmd, "@pGroupIDs", System.Data.DbType.String); db.SetParameterValue(cmd, "@pGroupIDs", "1,2,3,4"); IDataReader reader = db.ExecuteReader(cmd); DropDownListRole.DataTextField = "Group"; DropDownListRole.DataValueField = "ID"; while (reader.Read()) { DropDownListRole.Items.Add((new ListItem(reader[1].ToString(), reader[0].ToString()))); } reader.Close(); } Here is my procedure: CREATE Procedure [dbo].[sp_getUserRoles](@pGroupIDs varchar(50)) AS BEGIN SELECT * FROM CheckList_Groups Where id in (@pGroupIDs) END

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