I had enough of acronyms in the military, thank you very much. if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }

I was assuming that if the application can deduce which controller and action to route an http request to when a request is received that the reverse was also possible. I guess that it isn't possible after all. It would appear that a controller cannot know where it's located in the website hierarchy until after it's called. Since the default routing basically follows the file system and/or namespaces I thought that there might be a way provided to backtrack up the structure to get a controller's absolute URL at runtime. Sigh, back to peppering my controller and filter code with string literals. if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }

The ledger is distributed so you could theoretically have a million set of books but you need to shrink that down if you want to make money off of blockchain. My idea was to start up a "Blockchain Federation" of companies to offer Blockchain as a Service. The federation could maintain any number of discrete blockchains for any kind of business relationship and their network would act as the distributed ledger. This way you don't have to share your ledger with the entire world but you still get the benefit of blockchain's robust, decentralized nature. There's no way I could afford to build it so I posted the idea here. if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }

Foothill wrote: That's $30 USD a pack!! :OMG: They don't even pay that much in New York. The misses is going to make you bankrupt at those prices. Then I better not mention the gambling problem that's been going on for 22 years. Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004

void ValidateForXml(ref string value)... I do not like the idea so much, though it is syntactically correct. That function is meant to encode some data, so I'd declare it accordingly, i.e. with a return type: string EncodeForXml(string input): now its purpose is clear. By the way, I'd look for some library for that purpose instead of trying to invent my own library - are you sure can enumerate all the special cases you have to take care of when doing it your self? Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!

That makes no cents.

It's a good excuse to learn it. Ubuntu is ridiculously easy to install these days (especially in a VM), and installing Pi-hole itself is just a few trivial commands that are explained well enough, even for a newbie.

I found that one. Works like a charm. Thanks for your help on this one. I had never even looked at Action Filters before this. if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); } Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016

Yes! One of the things I love about this case is it's easily customizable after you buy the thing with these little kits. System.ItDidntWorkException: Something didn't work as expected. A guide to posting questions on CodeProject Click this: Asking questions is a skill. Seriously, do it. Dave Kreskowiak

Yep. It's been sitting at the bottom of that list for 20 months now. ;P Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012

Java is to JavaScript as Ham is to Hamster

Richard Deeming wrote: So ten versions later, the bug is still present. Alternatively they can then dismiss it by (correctly) stating that this bug has already been reported before. The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart. "I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.

OriginalGriff wrote: Yes! At last - ManBearPig lives! Or better yet... Huge mutated cupcakes![^] On the other hand, you have different fingers. - Steven Wright

My first reaction was to delete the stuff, get rid of it. After that, I had no evidence and would have had to leave the country after losing my job! I also had all the other employees to think about. - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

Very good :thumbsup:

Hmm, the wheels are turning. You could make one nice little physical MS SQL database server with a couple of those and a mini ITX motherboard and server tower. With just one PCIe slot and no need for graphics you could put the Log and Temp files on two M.2 sticks in the PCI slot, data goes in a hot-swapable Raid 5 SATA SSD x4 array, with C: and backups on plain old spinning disks. It's not data-center grade but it would be quite respectable for under $800. if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); } Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016

Notifying the CC for travel is very important. I've not had any trouble having any charges reversed. It's just annoying as hell to change all of the bill payment to use the next card. I actually had one card call me: them: "Hello, we're discover, and we're curious, are you shopping in xxxx?" me: "No, I'm in yyy at the moment." them: "Okay, we'll decline the charges, but we're sending you a new card." :) I only get annoyed when their semi-AI scanning rejects my insurance payments (that have been made for years). Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759

If the base class constructor is doing too much, or allocates a lot of memory, this could prevent that work from taking place if the argument isn't valid. If you move the throw into the Derived constructor, the base class constructor has already run by the time the argument is validated. It would definitely be cleaner with the validation code extracted to a real method - possibly in a separate class, if it's the sort of thing you use a lot: public static class Requires { public static string NotNullOrEmpty(string value, string parameterName) { if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(value)) throw new ArgumentNullException(parameterName); return value; } } public class Derived { public Derived(string val) : base(Requires.NotNullOrEmpty(val, nameof(val))) { } } System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: val at TestingApp.Requires.NotNullOrEmpty(String value, String parameterName) at TestingApp.Derived..ctor(String val) at TestingApp.Program.Main(String[] args) With C# 7, I believe you'll be able to do something like this: public class Derived { public Derived(string value) : base(string.IsNullOrEmpty(val) ? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(val)) : val) { } } C# 7 Additions – Throw Expressions – Structured Sight[^] I'm not sure if that makes it any more readable, though. :) "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

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