...assOf Use Type.IsAssignableFrom is and as Type.IsSubclassOf As you've already found out, this will not work if the two types are the same, here's a sample LINQPad program that demonstrates: void Main() { typeof(Derived).IsSubclassOf(typeof(Base)).Dump(); typeof(Base).IsSubclassOf(typeof(...

...and transactional stores in non-consistent state. For example, if it has already sent SMS but while storing message error occurred - it can't rollback SMS sending, which means it won't be logged, user balance won't be reduced etc. The real problem here is the user can take advantage of race conditi...

... I wouldn't normally answer a question that already has 16 answers, but all the other answers are wrong, and the right answer is so simple. The question says, "Is there a simple way to delete all tracking branches whose remote equivalent no longer exists?" If "simple" m...

...be reparsed in some versions of IE which will slow down rendering. You can read more about these issues at the MSDN article Best Practice: Get your HEAD in order. Adding the X-UA-Compatible header If you are using .NET and IIS you can add this to the web.config, you could also do this programmat...

I read Scala Functions (part of Another tour of Scala ). In that post he stated: 9 Answers ...

...ly implicit approach of JavaConverters is easier to write, it is harder to read. Current Scala style suggests that it's better to explicitly call methods to perform conversions, which is why JavaConverters are now preferred. – Leif Wickland Sep 5 '13 at 21:32 ...

... @Kokodoko ones that don't need one. But seriously, printers and screen readers don't necessarily have screens. Plus anything else currently or in the future that don't identify as screen such as anything listed in the other media types. – Matthew Green Mar ...

... you can read about this feature in more details here: blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2013/07/11/… – gor Jan 21 '14 at 16:46 ...

... certain attribute names. Such as tagName, and setAttribute -- those are already fields/methods of the Element interface. I don't see anywhere in the W3C document which mentions properties for attributes. – mgiuca Jan 14 '11 at 9:06 ...

...rnal representation before optimizing or executing the query, so the human-readable syntax makes no difference. I also try to evangelize the SQL-92 syntax. Sixteen years after it was approved, it's about time people start using it! And all brands of SQL database now support it, so there's no reas...