I’m not sure about encryption, but you’ll probably find this link helpful: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171955.aspx As for the rest of it: “Text” and “auto_increment” remind me of Access. SQL Server Compact is supposed to be upgrade compatible to the server editions of SQL Server, in that queries and tables used in your compact database should transfer to … Read more
Usually this happens when the OutputPath property of the project file is blank. Project files are just MSBuild files. To edit in Visual Studio: Right click on the project, pick “Unload project” then right click on the unloaded project and select “Edit …”. Look for the Release-Versionincrement property group. It should look something like <PropertyGroup … Read more
This page may help, it reviews quite a few C++ unit test frameworks: CppUnit Boost.Test CppUnitLite NanoCppUnit Unit++ CxxTest Check out CPPUnitLite or CPPUnitLite2. CPPUnitLite was created by Michael Feathers, who originally ported Java’s JUnit to C++ as CPPUnit (CPPUnit tries mimic the development model of JUnit – but C++ lacks Java’s features [e.g. reflection] … Read more
I have tried the same thing, but it turned out to be because I was hitting Alt+Shift in certain programs, thus triggering the language switch in Windows. Could it be that you accidentally hit Alt+Shift or Ctrl+Shift (British layout) when coding?
Open up the .csproj file for your solution in wordpad or some text editor. Look for the ProjectTypeGuids. They indicate the required supported types for your solutions. Search the internet these GUIDs to find out what they require. For example E53F8FEA-EAE0-44A6-8774-FFD645390401 means it requires “MVC 3.0”
Check out the Fisher-Yates shuffle algorithm here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth_shuffle with a more concise discussion by this site’s chief overlord here: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001015.html There is a simple C# implementation in the blog entry that should be real easy to change to VB.NET
My psychic powers are not great, and it is hard to tell what is going on without actually debugging it. But here’s a guess. The issue I discuss here: Why does this floating-point calculation give different results on different machines? applies not just to “cross machine” but also to “debug vs release”. It is not … Read more
In UNIX the use of the timezone struct is obsolete. I don’t know why you use it. See http://linux.about.com/od/commands/l/blcmdl2_gettime.htm But if you want to use this structure to know about GMT(UTC) diffrence from your local time it will be next: tz_minuteswest is the real diffrence in minutes from GMT(UTC) and a tz_dsttime is a flag … Read more
There was a post VS2008 SP1 hotfix released that solves a number of debugging problems. The KB article is here, the hotfix download is here. UPDATE: the hotfix download location was retired, I don’t know of an alternative download location. Please edit this post if you find one.
As Frederic says, it’s the result of a ‘Not a Number‘ being formatted by an application built with visual studio on windows. John D Cook has an excellent reference: Windows displays a NaN as -1.#IND (“IND” for “indeterminate”) while Linux displays nan. … In short, if you get 1.#INF or inf, look for overflow or … Read more