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ServiceStack.Redis: "Unable to Connect: sPort: 0" and Unable to cast object of type 'System.Byte[]' to type 'System.Object[]'

I have a test harness that repeatedly gets and sets DateTime objects so we can test fail-over of our new Redis Sentinel deployment. I have added my license key to the static constructor of the calli...

Why is EF generating SQL queries with unnecessary null-checks?

I came across an issue with EF creating terrible queries when searching on a string field. Its produced a query in the style of lazy programmers to encompass null checking which forces the whole index...

18 Jul at 12:20

Why does upcasting IDictionary<TKey, TValue> to IEnumerable<object> fail?

See the following code snippet: ``` (IEnumerable<object>)new Dictionary<string, string>() ``` The above cast will throw an invalid cast exception. Actually, `IDictionary<TKey, TValue>` also indire...

18 Jul at 15:8

Toggle switch control in Windows Forms

I am designing a control using `CheckBox`, but currently my control only draws a circle. How can I draw round shapes like the below image and how can I change the location of the circle based on the ...

How to retrieve a single value from the database using Dapper

I'm using Dapper and trying to retrieve a short from the database and would like to do this without grabbing it from a collection. I've got the following code, which doesn't work because `QueryAsync<...

18 Jul at 07:3

Difference between forward slash (/) and backslash (\) in file path

I was wondering about the difference between `\` and `/` in file paths. I have noticed that sometimes a path contains `/`and sometimes it is with `\`. It would be great if anyone can explain when to ...

2 Jul at 20:52

Setting selected option in laravel form

I need to give selected value like this html: ``` <select name="myselect" id="myselect"> <option value="1">Item 1</option> <option value="2" selected='selected'>Item 2</option> ``` how can I ac...

29 Jul at 12:23

React - Component Full Screen (with height 100%)

I'm stuck with displaying a React component named "home" that take 100% of the height of my screen. Whatever I use CSS or React inline style it doesn't work. In the example below, , and are set to ...

22 Jan at 08:38

How to measure Code Coverage in ASP.NET Core projects in Visual Studio?

I want to measure the Code Coverage of my XUnit-Tests in an ASP.NET Core application. The Tooling for .NET Core in Visual Studio 2015 is preview 2 and code coverage does not work so far. The blog po...

What is the difference between Task.Run() and Task.Factory.StartNew()

I have Method : ``` private static void Method() { Console.WriteLine("Method() started"); for (var i = 0; i < 20; i++) { Console.WriteLine("Method() Counter = " + i); Th...

Syntax for an If statement using a boolean

I just recently joined the python3 HypeTrain. However I just wondered how you can use an if statement onto a boolean. Example: ``` RandomBool = True # and now how can I check this in an if statemen...

List of apps/products using ServiceStack?

ServiceStack authors/community: you have done impressive job! Outside of SO, I was wondering if there is an up to date list of products/apps using ServiceStack? Or maybe ServiceStack app/architect...

17 Jul at 13:29

Visual Studio code(using C#): While putting debugger point then showing me "No Symbol loaded for this document"

I am using `Visual studio Code` (Stable Version) with `.Net Core 1.0 RTM`. I also Installed `C#` extension for Visual studio Code & .Net Core . Now I am developing `Web api` and application running f...

Catching FULL exception message

Consider: ``` Invoke-WebRequest $sumoApiURL -Headers @{"Content-Type"= "application/json"} -Credential $cred -WebSession $webRequestSession -Method post -Body $sumojson -ErrorAction Stop ``` This t...

6 Nov at 20:2

React Native fetch() Network Request Failed

When I create a brand new project using `react-native init` (RN version 0.29.1) and put a fetch in the render method to the public facebook demo movie API, it throws a `Network Request Failed`. There ...

20 Aug at 23:39

C# Update bitmap in picturebox

I'm working on a screen sharing project ,and i recieve a small blocks of image from a `Socket` constantly and need to update them on a certain initial dekstop bitmap i have. Basically i constantly re...

31 Jul at 09:40

Produces Data Annotation

I've been learning about Web API recently, and making plans to increase the scalability of my MVC apps, using it. When I finally got into creating a Web API controller, though, I discovered a `[Produc...

HttpContext and TelemetryInitializer

I want to attach the user's "client_id" claim as a property to every request sent to Application Insights. From what I've read, I should be implementing `ITelemetryInitializer` but I need the `HttpCo...

6 Aug at 14:7

anaconda/conda - install a specific package version

I want to install the 'rope' package in my current active environment using conda. Currently, the following 'rope' versions are available: ``` (data_downloader)user@user-ThinkPad ~/code/data_download...

16 Jul at 13:57

Compare two objects using serialization C#

Why it is not a good practice to compare two objects by serializing them and then compare the strings like in the following example? ``` public class Obj { public int Prop1 { get; set; } publ...

Could not load file or assembly "System.Net.Http, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"

I've copied my project to a clean Windows 10 machine with only Visual Studio 2015 Community and SQL Server 2016 Express installed. There are no other framework versions installed apart from those inst...

22 Jul at 21:33

How to get list of all timezones in javascript

I am developing an application with react/redux, and I started using library [react-intl](https://github.com/yahoo/react-intl) for formatting messages and dates. I have already been able to show in a...

23 Oct at 13:47

How do I declare a model class in my Angular 2 component using TypeScript?

I am new to Angular 2 and TypeScript and I'm trying to follow best practices. Instead of using a simple JavaScript model ({ }), I'm attempting to create a TypeScript class. However, Angular 2 doesn'...

15 Jul at 15:52

Access from class library to appsetting.json in Asp.net-core

I am trying to access `appsetting.json` file from a class library. So far the solution that I found is to create a configuration class implementing interface `IConfiguration` from `Microsoft.Extensio...

Get JSON key name

I have the following JSON data: `{"success":"You are welcome"}` that I have named `json` in my JavaScript code. When I want to alert `You are welcome` I do `json.success`. So now the problem I am fac...

15 Jul at 13:57