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NVARCHAR sizes in SQL Server 2005

In SQL Server 2005 (not 7.0), is there any reason to use NVARCHAR(255) instead of 256 or some other number? Is there any optimal size, and is there any reason to use powers of two? (I will be storing Unicode data, so I have to use NVARCHAR) ...

CSS Creating a menu-div-box ?

Hi I am trying to create some simple menu links. I tried something like this: <style type="text/css"> div.menulinkboxaround { height: 25px; } a.menulinkbox { font-family: Verdana, Helvetica; padding-left: 50px; padding-left: 50px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px...

How do I get the size of an Iphone context

I have; CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext(); Now I want to know the width/height of the the context (in pixels); any way to do this? ...

C# check silverlight object size at runtime

How can I find the size of particular object such as Rectangle, Canvas or Glyphs objects in my silverlight application? can I use memprofiler or antz profiler on silverlight runtime? ...

Setting Max Message and buffer size for WCF webhttp

Hello, I currently have a WCF service with webHttp bindings, im attempting to increase the max size that can be inputted to the service by overriding the default settings in config, i have tried doing something like <system.serviceModel> <bindings> <webHttpBinding> <binding name="webHttp" > <security mode="Transport"> <tra...

saving the Maximized and form size on a Delphi TForm

This question seems easy but for some reason I have trouble finding the answer. I have an application that saves the form's size and position on an INI file. That's all an well, however when you close the application when maximized it will save the size and position of the form maximized but not its state. What I mean is that on the n...

.net calendar control dimensions under vista

I'm developing a desktop application in Visual Studio 2008, and I've made the delightful discovery that evidently under Vista, the Calendar control is 45 pixels wider than the same control in XP. Naturally, this ruins the layout of my from, and I don't have space to give. If I tinker with the dimension attributes of the calendar in Vista...

Finding the size of .net hashtable

Finding the size of .net hashtable when deserialzing If I read from a stream and get a hashtable out. Is their a good way to know how large the hashtable would be. Ie, if I look the file in a binary editor how many of the bytes represent this hashtable? How does the Deserialize mehthod know what goes into the hash? IFormatt...

Java - size of compression output-byteArray

When using the deflate-method of java.util.zip.Deflater, a byte[] has to be supplied as the argument, how big should that byte[] be initialized to? I've read there's no guarantee the compressed data will even be smaller that the uncompressed data. Is there a certain % of the input I should go with? Currently I make it twice as big as the...

WPF: System.Windows.Int32Rect ---> System.Windows.Int32Point?

You know how System.Drawing.Rectangle was replaced by System.Windows.Int32Rect? (As far as non-floating-point shapes are concerned ...) Is there a similar new object for an integer point or size? If not, I'll just use System.Drawing - but that kinda seems like a minor mix of two platforms that ought not to me mixed. Anyway, what do...

[PHP] - Don't allow > 2mb images

HI! How do i check if the users are trying to upload bigger than 2mb files? I would like to deny that and put an error message to the user who is trying to do that. I know it is something like this, but what shall i change the 50000 to to become 2mb? if ($_FILES['imagefile']['size'] > 50000 ) { die ("ERROR: Large File Size"); } ...

How to get the size of an embedded image / swf?

Normally if you were loading an image from a URL you would do the following: m_image = new Image(); m_image.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, image_completeHandler, false, 0, true); m_image.source = "http://www.example.com/image.jpg"; private function image_completeHandler(event:Event):void { // Image content has now loaded, we need...

What does font size -2 mean here?

I see this from source code of a web site: <font size="-2">@2009 </font> What does it mean when size is negative? ...

C18 compiler typedef enum data size

I'm trying to port code over to compile using Microchip's C18 compiler for a PIC microcontroller. The code includes enums with large values assigned (>8-bit). They are not working properly, indicating that, for example, 0x02 is the same as 0x2002. How can I force the enumerated values to be referenced as 16-bit values? ...

Marshalling an unknown Array size

You have a structure that takes a byte array byte[] however, the size of that array depends on the image you are submitting (widthxheight) So... how do you do [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.ByValArray, SizeConst = ???)] public Byte[] ImageData; Is the sizeconst a MUST HAVE when working with byte arrays being passed from C# to C dlls? ...

Swing's BasicHTML.createHTMLView metrics usage

I'm doing some graphics processing and HTML is a perfect choice for styling the displayed content. I'm trying to reuse swing's built in html support, and it works perfectly if I hard code the height passed to View.paint, but I can't figure out how to determine how tall the bounds of the rendered content would be at runtime given a specif...

Database size is huge

I have the following problem. We have a database that stores binaries in the database. We know the size of the database can be big so we removed all the binaries from the database and used the task "shrink" on it. This way we hoped that the database would be much smaller. These are the results: before removal size was: 20 gigabyte after...

What size to pick for a (n)varchar column?

In a slightly heated discussion on TDWTF a question arose about the size of varchar columns in a DB. For example, take a field that contains the name of a person (just name, no surname). It's quite easy to see that it will not be very long. Most people have names with less than 10 characters, and few are those above 20. If you would mak...

How to get the current view size for an image in Delphi 2009

I wish to get the current size for an image being displayed with TImage, this object has the Proportional property set to True and is aligned to Client with main form. So, when resizing the form I wanna get the current size for that image, not canvas size neither real size for that image. Getting the current size I can show what's the pe...

Changing height of an object in wxPython

How to change only hight of an object in wxPython, leaving its width automatic? In my case it's a TextCtrl. How to make the height of the window available for change and lock the width? ...