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Hello: I have been working on some 10 year old C code at my job this week, and after implementing a few changes, I went to the boss and asked if he needed anything else done. Thats when he …

how do i check if a file is empty in C#? need something like: if (file is empty) { //do stuff } else { //do other stuff }

I have a C++ class that contains a non-copyable handle. The class, however, must have a copy constructor. So, I've implemented one that transfers ownership of the handle to the new object (as below) …

Hi, It's a topic that everyone interests. How can I protect my software against stealing, hacking, reverse engineering? I was thinking: Do my best to protect the program for reverse engineering. …

I assigned a quite simple task to one junior developer today, and he kept pinging me EVERY 5 minutes for HOURS, asking STEP BY STEP, what to do. Whenever something went wrong, he simply …

Hi, i am teaching myself java and i work through the exercises in Thinking in Java. On page 116, exercise 11, you should right-shift an integer through all its binary positions and display each …

Recently I've bumped into the following C++ code: if (a) { f(); } else if (b) { f(); } else if (c) { f(); } Where a, b and c are all different conditions, and they are not very short. I …

Aside from "I've already implemented it in C++", and "You must develop it in C++ for it to run on X", what are some good reasons for developing a basic business application in pure C++?

Possible Duplicate: Math - mapping numbers I have value "x" that can be from 0 to 127 and a value "y" that can be from -1000 to 0. I need to make that if x = 0 than y = -1000 and if x = 127 …

Given that it's valid to write a = b = c = 2; It would also be nice, rather than bool allTwo = a == 2 && b == 2 && c == 2; to instead write bool allTwo = a == b == c == 2; …

Hi, How is it possible to resume code execution after an exception is thrown? For exampel, take the following code: namespace ConsoleApplication1 { class Test { public void s() …

Simple question: is there a character that looks either like Pac-Man, or like the ghost in Pac-Man? With Google's recent Pac-Man logo, everyone should know what these look like, but in case you don't …

Rather than displaying a PNG in the browser window, I'd like the action result to trigger the file download dialogue box (you know the open, save as, etc). I can get this to work with the code below …

instead of checking only the immediate children of an element, i would like to recursively check all children of the element. specifically, something like …

I need to know the referring server for a page on my site. Is there any safe method to check where the user "came" to the page FROM? I tried uploading this to my server, but this wont output …