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  1. Re: Pros, Cons and opinions of Background processing.

    personallyi don't think the user should be able to interact with the database until it's done updating. What if the user tries to sell something that the price hasn't updated yet? The price would...
  2. Thread: ChatGPT

    by Lord Orwell
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    Re: ChatGPT

    I haven't managed to get anything resembling accurate c# code out of it, and i've gotten wrong api endpoints out of it. When i asked it, it said it was guessing based on other unrelated apis. I...
  3. Re: VB6 Compiler Question: Do subroutines slow execution?

    These answers are all correct. The takeaway is subroutines do "technically" require some processing, but they are less intensive than poorly written code, and they are absolutely necessary if you...
  4. Thread: Chatgpt

    by Lord Orwell
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    Re: Chatgpt

    it's absolutely got problems. I asked it to tell me the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow, and it did but then said "this is a reference to monty python where the king asks the bridge tender...
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    Re: Stuff to watch

    yeah there's a lot of stuff wrong with that. I saw a bollywood movie where the protagonist went full-speed at a flatbed trailer on a horse, then slid the horse, on its side, under the trailer (while...
  6. Re: Change the source code of the .Net4.8 framework from C# to VB.NET

    the two languages, at the beginning, were basically identical, in that they all had equivalent functions, methods, variables to each other. This is why the online converters were able to swap back...
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    Re: Current Russia Ukraine tensions

    He also said "and we will defend our interests and i'm not joking" and that got reported as "Putin says he will nuke people who fight back". smh.
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    Re: Enhanced Control Panel

    ah the old "super-user" folder trick. Never gets old.
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    Re: Does VB6 work in Windows 11? YES

    that's impractical in some cases. We build for windows server but don't have any local machines running it. You really just need to make sure that MSBuild can compile your program on the other...
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    VS 2017 Re: Problem porting JS function to VB.NET

    Couple of notes here: You're evidently ripping javascript that's been minified. For the love of God, give those variables descriptive names. Secondly you evidently didn't try changing the datatype...
  11. Re: [RESOLVED] read/write to file binary unreadable

    You've got some options for obfuscation. I just discovered (through decompiling) that a specific website API I'm reverse-engineering GZipped then base-64 encoded a json array, apparently just to...
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    Re: what happened to RobDog888

    in general, but the implementation has diverged in the two languages. You can make most code translate but some stuff you simply can't. C# has more features now.

    And yes a c# programmer may know...
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    Re: W11 idiotic.

    It can't be done. I can't legitimately assume because code is "open source" (and btw no linux distro truly is if the include compiled binaries of any kind) that someone else will ever review it. ...
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    Re: what happened to RobDog888

    I got locked out somehow. I had to convince a moderator to merge a new account i created because i didn't have access to the reset email since the provider i originally had no longer exists. I was...
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    Re: US college enrollment is declining

    except you don't have to work it off in the military. That's one of the qualifying "forgive all of your debt" jobs, a category that simply shouldn't exist, especially since the military already has...
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    what happened to RobDog888

    He hasn't been on for a year...
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    VS 2022 Re: Migrating to VS2022 from VS2015

    You're going to be creeped out by vs2022. The code completion is so good that it many times will know in advance the entire line of code you are about to type and will suggest it.
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    Re: C# XNA: Wormipede Port

    XNA has been deprecated but Mono is basically the exact same thing since it was designed as an open-source replacement. This project will mostly work as-is with mono added, but you'll have to do the...
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    Re: Is this justice???

    The thing that really bugged me about this case is that i've seen the body cam footage. Immediately after she shot him, she said "omg I'm going to jail". Not "i took someone's life" or something...
  20. Re: [RESOLVED] Get the version number of an installed program

    well that would complicate things. If you're just trying to read your own app, that's easier.
  21. Re: [RESOLVED] Get the version number of an installed program

    I believe you went way overkill on this. You can easily pull a file's version like this:
    System.Diagnostics.FileVersionInfo fvi =...
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    Re: [RESOLVED] Find string in string[]

    array.findindex is your best choice here. It is basically doing exactly what your first option was doing: looping through internally and looking for a match. It returns the index of the found...
  23. Re: Any difference with parenthesis?

    well... c# coding standards put the opening curly bracket on a new line.
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    Re: Getting a new machine

    i believe (and you will want to confirm) the surface pro they currently sell runs on an arm chip. It's also, for the price, slow. People have ran windows 10 on a new m1 macintosh in a vm and it...
  25. Re: IDE0031 "Null check can be simplified", but can it?

    They've added some useful shortcuts like this. Another one we use constantly is ??. If the value to the left is null, it returns the one to the right.
    example:

    object?.property ?? 5

    Also the...
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    Re: Desktop "seizure"

    are you running any vmWare? They were causing this issue until a recent update.
  27. Re: So how exactly is Adobe going to diisable Flash?

    Well, i mean, if you want your computer infected... There's a reason it's had updates you know. Most of them are fixing giant glaring security holes, and flash is just not necessary anymore. Html5...
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    Contest 14 - DND Dice Roller - LordOrwell

    I know this is super-late but it seemed like a fun contest so i went ahead and did it. Here's my fiddle. https://dotnetfiddle.net/MFNZn6
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    Re: Contest 14 - DnD Dice Roller

    ok i know the contest is over but it seemed like a fun project to try so i threw something together while waiting for SNL to start. Here's my fiddle. https://dotnetfiddle.net/MFNZn6

    Note that...
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    Re: Contest 14 - DnD Dice Roller

    I'm sorry i missed this one. I think i may add a submission anyway as this seems like something fun to code in c# .net console.
  31. Re: How to remove a section in the middle of a video?

    windows movie maker is still available as a free download. It's designed to split and combine movie parts.
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    Re: Remove the title bar from a Form

    You're fighting standard styling. The thin area at the top is there so the user can move the form. It's put there by the OS in vista and above. You should have realized this when running your app...
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    Re: My screen shakes so heavily. Please help

    well, i would still try the monitor on a different computer. It's *possible* that your refresh rate got screwed up somehow. That definitely sounds like an issue with vertical sync. Plus, if your...
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    VS 2013 Re: How to Compare 9 Digits

    I did just recently come across an issue where i had to convert an integer array into a list because .contains wouldn't work in a linq query with it. Good info. I would have said something similar...
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    Re: Problem with USB keyboard

    having the benefit of knowing what the hell i'm talking about, i can tell you it's not a mac problem. The hub is the problem. It has its own controller chip in it and circuitry. There is something...
  36. Re: Is it possible to stuff an Ajax text search with characters from a link?

    I'm not totally sure i understand what you're asking, but an ajax query in "get" mode is functionally identical to a query string on the end of a url, and is passed that way.
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    Re: Windows 8.1 Question

    the registry actually got its start in windows 3.1 It's possible in later versions of windows to put a policy in place to stop a user from editing the registry, if you're having problems accessing...
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    Re: Re-Install VS2019

    In theory you shouldn't have to even do this. It would be helpful to know exactly what kinds of problems you are having, but VS is designed in such a way that new versions are able to be installed...
  39. Re: who buy amd 3990x for Program Development

    is that 50,000 yuan? There are other factors to consider as well. Since that's a server processor, it requires a server motherboard.

    anyway if you are actually developing in vb6, how...
  40. Re: who buy amd 3990x for Program Development

    it may be "easy" but it's not stable. vb6 container is single-threaded. as a side note, i misread the title. I thought it was a 3950x. A 3990 x is a threadripper and that's a server processor.
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