cleanup

Shutting down a windows service that has threads

I have a windows service written in .NET 3.5 (c#) with a System.Threading.Timer that spawns several Threads in each callback. These are just normal threads (no Thread Pool) and I've set the IsBackground = true on each thread since I'm only going to be running managed code. When a user stops the service, what happens to all the threads? ...

Clean up XML using netbeans

Is it possible to clean up XML using only Netbeans IDE? For example the indentation is not as it supposed to be. ...

ASP.NET 'Session.Remove(key)' v/s 'Session(key) = nothing'

I've seen developers use two approaches when they are done with a session object. 1) Session.Remove(key) 2) Session(key) = nothing What is the better approach of the two above? Does Session.Remove dispose the object stored automatically? Does the second approach depend on the garbage collector to actually free up the memory? EDIT: ...

Disable reformatting code when saving files

I made a small change to an old java file in IntelliJ and when I save the file the IDE automatically reformats all the code. Normally this would be preferable, however it seems almost every line has unnecessary white space that gets cleaned up. Now it appears the entire file was modified even though I only made a small fix. This will mak...

What the best WYSIWYG editor for html?

Possible Duplicates: Looking for WYSIWYG HTML editor Which HTML WYSIWYG tool do you recommend? I need easy to use files upload and MS Word cleanup ability. ...

Tortoise - cannot delete / ignore folder - keeps telling me I need to clean up

Hi all I have decided to remove the bin folder from one of my web apps from Source Control. It contains only external dlls which are stored in another folder anyway. I right click and choose 'Delete and add to ignore list' but the error message below: Directory 'C:\Kctc\Trunk\Moose\Bin\de is missing Directory 'C:\Kctc\Trunk\Moose\Bin\...

MPMoviePlayerViewController cleanup resources

Hi! Im using MPMoviePlayerViewController now instead of MPMoviePlayerController because of the bug in iOS4. Im not sure though how to clean resources of MPMoviePlayerViewController, when video playback is finished. I clearly have an issue because right after playing video I try to start a song using AudioStreamer (which uses audio queu...

What best practices for cleaning up event handler references?

Often I find myself writing code like this: if (Session != null) { Session.KillAllProcesses(); Session.AllUnitsReady -= Session_AllUnitsReady; Session.AllUnitsResultsPublished -= Session_AllUnitsResultsPublished; Session.UnitFailed -= Session_UnitFailed; Session...

in Twisted, wait until connection closed cleanly

I want to disconnect cleanly, and then stop the reactor. If I do this, however: controller.connection.disconnect() reactor.stop() then I get a "connection was lost in a non-clean fashion" message. If I insert a time.sleep(1) in between them, the connection closes cleanly. How can I wait until the connection is really closed? ...

Clean up after external Java library

I'm using some external, i.e. jar, library in my application which unfortunately does not properly clean up after itself, i.e. the second time I create an object from this library it does not work as expected. I suspect that it is because the library creates some threads which keep running, but I'm not sure. Is there any way to force a ...

How do I cleanup .NET stuff when a C++/CLI DLL unloads?

I'm new to C++/CLI, so please bear with me... I'm working on a mixed C++/CLI DLL, which should act as a bridge between a Win32 process and a .NET assembly. In the DLL, I need some .NET stuff to be present during the lifespan of the DLL. Initializing is not that big a problem, but I couldn't figure out when can I safely cleanup the .NET ...

return statements inside a function

I was wondering how people handle return statements in a function. I have a method that allocates some memory but has a return false; statement when a function goes wrong. this statement is located about half way through the function so my memory is leaked if that function fails. This isn't the only return ...; statement I have in this f...

How to remove Ruby Gems which have failed to install properly

Is there a prescribed way to "clean up" Ruby Gems which have native extensions that have failed to build. There are directories/files left in the gems directory, however gem list --local does not list them as being installed. e.g. sqlite3-ruby, linecache, mongo ...

What happens to the event of method scoped variable?

Consider the following code: public class Bar { Foo foo; void Go() { foo = new Foo(); foo.Send(...); foo.Dispose(); foo = null; } } public class Foo : IDisposable { public void Send(byte[] bytes) { SocketAsyncEventArgs args = new SocketAsyncEventArgs(); args.SetBuffer(byt...

Cleanup Strategies after Building Source Code using eg. Git

I (mostly) use git to download and compile various projects from their source code, keeping my source in /usr/local/src and installing the binaries in /usr/local/bin. Following the building procedure, usually with ./configure && make && make install, I'm left with a lot of cruft that ends up as 'new' files in my local git repository. T...

Daily SQL Task to delete contents from a table

Hey I was wondering how I could set up a clean up task on a particular table to delete contents thats lets say a week old. I am using SQL Server 2005 ...

Freeing up space in my SVN repository

I have an SVN repository hosted on a freemium site with a maximum repository size. As I approach this capacity I am aware of files I've checked in that I know I can remove permanently to free up disk space. How do I tell SVN that a file can not only be deleted, but it's history as well? ...