Mike Askew

There has been a noticeable increase in people asking where to start C# recently. So I have been across a couple of forums and pulled together a list of some useful links and resources. # Web Tutorials # [Home and Learn Tutorial](http://www.homeandlearn.co.uk/csharp/csharp.html) [CodeProject Tutorial P1](http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/219869/Object-Oriented-Programming-in-Csharp-NET) [CodeProject Tutorial P2](http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/222295/Object-Oriented-Programming-in-Csharp-NET-Part-2) [CodeProject Tutorial …

The Hobbit - Desolation Of Smaug. Would recommend.

I am currently creating a product lookup system for a project of mine, however from reading around it has come to my attention that an OLEDB connection will not handle the SQL query below as it will not handle more than a simple "SELECT, FROM". Table: tbl_ProductInformation Field: Product_Name CurrentEntry …

> I am not using the sdk provided by the vendor There is your first issue. You will need to use it and write seperate classes depending on which scanner is plugged in. You would be better off developing for one specific type though as even by avoiding using the …

Howdy I have a timespan that contain in excess of 24 hours. For the example lets use a value of 1 day 6 hours and 32 minutes. I would like to get this into a string that displays "30:32". Have so far tried something along the lines of `string.Format("{0}:{1}", TimeSpan.TotalHours, …

A man who has impacted generation's childhood's. A developer and CEO. Some of his developmental achievements are damn impressive. A sad day :(

There are multiple topics on this in both languages you have posted this under on codeproject which I found in about 10 seconds using Google. Why do you want to use OpenCV over some of the other libraries available?

I'm not sure what you are trying to do?

Using code from StackOverflow: HttpWebRequest webRequest; void StartWebRequest() { webRequest.BeginGetResponse(new AsyncCallback(FinishWebRequest), null); } void FinishWebRequest(IAsyncResult result) { webRequest.EndGetResponse(result); } How do you access the response to the request?

As Suzie said, seeing the code would help here.

Can you not just restrict access to the folder holding your backups via user permissions on the OS?

Hi So I have a silverlight 5 front end and some PDF generating code that is not silverlight compatible and so needs to sit server side and is called via WCF. I am struggling to work out how to return the PDF data back to the silverlight application and effectively …

I can't figure out why but at the minute I have no instant emails about thread updates etc. Have I got any settings wrong or is something else amiss under the hood?

Ok time for the 2nd dumb question of the day that I should probably already know the answer too.. I have `string.Format(" {0, -22} | {1, 5} of {2, -5} | {3, 5}% | ` where `{3}` is a double that is being used for a percentage. The longest allowed …

So I have recently come across `string.Format("{0, x}", "Word")` for aligning strings, with demonstration code that works fine in the CMD. Does this also function correctly when pumping text to a label? I am finding that it does not behave as expected and instead misaligns the text. Using an example …

I've inherited some code utilising the bootstrap framework. I'm currently seeing some odd behaviour where no matter what date was last picked, the date picker always seems to open showing the month of July. Is there any particular places in the code I should be looking to see if anything …

> There is only one station on the London Underground that does not have any letters from the Word Mackerel in it. I'll give you a few hours to find it.... Took me 15 mins and a bit of C# :)

Howdy So I have a set of data coming back from a process with five different pieces of data per entry in the set. Are there any fancy ways you can generate some kind of look-a-like report on the fly in WCF, else what would be the best way to …

I have the following $subUsername = trim($_POST["user"]); $sql = "SELECT userID, username, password FROM user WHERE username = ':user')"; $q = $conn->prepare($sql); $q->bindParam(':user', $subUsername); $q->execute(); $result = $q->fetch(PDO::FETCHASSOC); print_r($result); echo "</p>"; print_r($subUsername); echo "</p>"; print_r($subPassword); However `$result` is always just an empty array, if I run the SQL on the …

Me again... So now I am confused... I have a form: <form action="addanimal_submit.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" style="padding-left:10px"> <p>Name: <input type="text" name="name"></p> <p>Date of Birth: <input type="text" name="dateofbirth"></p> <p>Description: <input type="text" name="description"></p> <p>Available For Adoption? <select type="text" name="available"> <option value="1" selected>Yes</option> <option value="0">No</option> </select> </p> <p>Image Of Animal:</p> <p><input type="file" name="fileToUpload"></p> <input …

So I currently have a listbox which dynamically generates its members from the database. It has name and id set to "availablePets". When one of the items in the list is clicked I want to populate some other fields on the screen by quering the database for the rest of …

Why don't you allow the user to enter the entire number in one go, and then convert it to a `Char[]` You can then look at the `Char[].Length` to see how many they have entered?

Think I am going mad here.. So I have a working website setup in IIS. This was all configured by a previous developer. We have a set of reports that you can browse to by going to localhost/Reports/ReportName, the underlying directory structure in IIS is actually Reports/Views/ReportName/index.cshtml. I have added …

One of the best threads on here in a while.

Hi All We are having an issue where a WSDL is loading another WSDL into it when we call it. This call takes a while on the first call which normally causes failures across the application during testing. One option we are looking into is pre-caching the WSDL in IIS …

I like it! But from a readability perspective in my opinion the for-loop is better. Can't skim read over the given extension example and know what it does too easily.

Works fine for me in VS2013 Ultimate running .Net 4.5 console application. I can access the `matches` variable and it contains fox as expected... odd.

Hi Sorry for the delayed reply. Is there the option to edit the layout of your Lookup file to start with? It could be improved in terms of how you structure it for clarity of querying.

... but I can't for the life of me figure it out. I have an object that comes from an application which has a Status property, and within that property is Name and Key. So I can do things like `object.Status.Name = x`. I have created another of these objects …