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Throw/do-not-throw an exception based on a parameter - why is this not a good idea?

I was digging around in MSDN and found this article which had one interesting bit of advice: Do not have public members that can either throw or not throw exceptions based on some option. For example: Uri ParseUri(string uriValue, bool throwOnError) Now of course I can see that in 99% of cases this would be horrible, but is its occas...

Option Parsers for c/c++?

I've done some looking and there are a whole lot of libraries for command line option parsing, but it is difficult to differentiate between them. Does anyone have any experience with any of them? Is one harder/better/faster/easier/whatever than any of the others? Or should I just grow my own? ...

How to bypass Safari option re-ordering in a select ?

Hello everybody! Im writing a admin panel for a customer's sites, and at few places, i need to put a list of country. He want's to get Canada and US in first place, because his market are mainly US and Canada. So, i write something like that : <select name="customerCoutry"> <option value="US">United States</option> <option ...

Remove repair option screen from MSI installer

I have created an standard MSI installer for P&D of my application which is using following components: A WCF Service hosted as Windows service. A GUI application that communicates with that service. A Shell extension Dll. Installer is working very good and without any issue. The issue occurs when user try to install application again ...

How do I query the value of a server option in Sybase?

For example, if I wanted to know the current value of the quoted_identifier server option, is there a query that can give me this information? ...

Auto-selection of <option> based on input field, with some caveats

I have a SELECT element in which I need to auto-select the appropriate option based on the first half of a postcode entered in a text field. British postcodes are of the form AB12 3CD, where the first section consists of 1-2 letters representing the county and a number representing the area within the county. The last 3 characters are ir...

django select box size option

I have three drop down select boxes, which I have to expand for web visibility reasons with the size='' option. If I select one from each box I receive no errors, but if I leave one or more boxes without a selection I receive an error. {% for pathology in pathology_list %} {{ pathology.pathology }} {% endfor %} ...

correct way to get selected option in jquery from an object

hi. I've seen on StackOverflow and googling around that the most used way to get the selected text from a <SELECT> element with jquery is like this $("#cboId :selected").text() what I have is not the id, but an object. I have an object, say var myCombo= $("#cboId"); coming from an earlier piece of code. I've done like this to get ...

Creating the ASP.NET MVC Controller in Visual Studio 2008

I was running through the Movie Database MVC example on ASP.net. For some reason, when I right click the controller folder in Visual Studio solution explorer, I don't get the controller option from the add menu. I have Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and using .net 3.5. Any ideas why the controller option is missing? ...

How to set option: selected in multiple selects

After some struggle, I got upto the following code for my problem. However it still does not add selected to a chosen option. You can find my original question below. Improved code, but it still does not work. var $index = $('.drop').index(this) // find drop index... var $indexofmonth = $index + 1; //alert($indexofmonth); // this works ...

What values can appear in the "selected" attribute of the "option" tag?

I have some markup similar to the following: <select> <option selected="selected">Apple</option> <option selected="">Orange</option> </select> In this case, "Orange" shows as the selected item. I would have expected making the selected attribute blank would undo its effects. Is there a way to write this without simply leaving th...

jQuery: Showing a div if a specific a <select> option is selected?

I'm working on the address page for a shopping cart. There are 2 <select> boxes, one for Country, one for Region. There are 6 standard countries available, or else the user has to select "Other Country". The <option> elements all have a numeric value - Other Country is 241. What I need to do is hide the Region <select> if the user sele...

To understand the practical use of Grep's option -H in different situations

This question is based on this answer. Why do you get the same output from the both commands? Command A $sudo grep muel * /tmp masi:muel Command B $sudo grep -H muel * /tmp masi:muel Rob's comment suggests me that ...

Passing hidden input fields in HTML Select option

Hello, does anyone know if it's possible to pass HTML vlaues in with a form page? So for example if the user selected foo from a list of say 10 options, I would want to pass a hidden value in and retrieve that as a request parameter, e.g. so I could then retrieve the values "foo" and "bar" from the request. Thanks Andrew ...

Bold part of an option in a drop down list

Is there a way to bold only part of the text in a drop down list option or is this not possible? I know that you can style the entire option with CSS, but that is not what I am looking for. And HTML inside of an option tag does not render. Here would be an example of a drop down list item: SomeID - Description of ID ...

Is there an easy way to create a C# .NET file dialog with encoding dialog box?

I'm trying to let the user select the file encoding when they load or save a file in C# and VS2008. Notepad's dialog boxes have an encoding drop down option at the bottom. There is a way to do it as described in here: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/getsavefilename.aspx. However, I'm wondering if there is any easier way to do this. Wi...

No global garbage collection in 4 days verboseLog

On analyzing my 4 days log of verbose, I get this Number of Global Garbage Collection: 0 Number of Scavenger Garbage Collection: 492 that's all? My tenured area is continuously full and memory leak is occurring. No GC attempt has been made to clear the memory Nursery area is always almost free/ empty (reason for low scavenger calls) ...

Create <option> on the fly with jQuery

Hello, I'd like to build s on the fly in a box based on an AJAX response; i.e. if the responseText is 3, I'd like to build 3 options: <option value="1">1</option> <option value="2">2</option> <option value="3">3</option> The following piece of code is working: $("#PAG_PLACEMENT").change(function(){ $.ajax({ t...

Inconsistency in jQuery's attribute manipulation

$('<option selected="selected">something</option>') .removeAttr('selected') .wrap('<p></p>').parent().html(); results in <option>something</option> which is expected. But if I put back the 'selected' attribute after removing it (or to an <option> tag without 'selected' attribute), I get the same output. $('<option selected="selecte...

jQuery select option image

Hi All, I want to display an image in the options of select box. How can i do it in javascript/jquery in CHROME. image text ...