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What do you do to keep learning?

- by tvanfosson

When my children tell me that they hate school, I often tell them that they need to get used to continuous learning because they live in a generation in which constant learning will be required. How do I know -- because I live in a generation and work in an occupation in which continual learning is imperative. Do you agree with this sentiment? …

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What's the point of indicating AllowMultiple=false on an abstract Attribute class?

- by tvanfosson

On a recent question about MVC attributes, someone asked whether using HttpPost and HttpDelete attributes on an action method would result in either request type being allowed or no requests being allowed (since it can't be both a Post and a Delete at the same time). I noticed that ActionMethodSelectorAttribute, from which HttpPostAttribute and…

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Linq: How to calculate the sales Total price and group them by product

- by Daoming Yang

I have a order list and I want to generate and rank the product with its total sales and quantity. With @tvanfosson's help, I can bring the grouped product detail with the following code, but how can I calculate and add up the total sales and quantity into each productListResult's object? Can anyone help me with this? Many thanks. var…

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C# rounding DateTime objects

- by grenade

I want to round dates/times to the nearest interval for a charting application. I'd like an extension method signature like follows so that the rounding can be acheived for any level of accuracy: static DateTime Round(this DateTime date, TimeSpan span); The idea is that if I pass in a timespan of ten minutes, it will round to the…

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jQuery Validation plugin: checkbox groups and error message issues

- by boomturn

I've put together a form using the jQuery Validation plugin, and all inputs are fine with working validation and error messages – except for checkboxes. I have two checkbox problems. The first is that the Validation plugin API doesn't seem to handle checkboxes in grouped contexts (I'm using fieldsets for grouping). Found several…

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