I'm just revising chapter 4 of C# in Depth which deals with nullable types, and I'm adding a section about using the "as" operator, which allows you to write: ...

For example, I have: 19 Answers 19 ...

I've been reading up on STL containers in my book on C++, specifically the section on the STL and its containers. Now I do understand each and every one of them have their own specific properties, and I'm close to memorizing all of them... But what I do not yet grasp is in which scenario each of the...

I see a lot of talk on here about functional languages and stuff. Why would you use one over a "traditional" language? What do they do better? What are they worse at? What's the ideal functional programming application? ...

I saw this keyword for the first time and I was wondering if someone could explain to me what it does. 13 Answers ...

I'd like to have all of the menu items that don't fit into the ActionBar go into the overflow menu (the one that is reached from the Action Bar not the menu button) even on devices that do have a Menu button . This seems much more intuitive for users than throwing them into a separate menu list th...

I keep finding both on here and Google people having troubles going from long to int and not the other way around. Yet I'm sure I'm not the only one that has run into this scenario before going from int to Long . ...

I'm trying to get the absolute screen pixel coordinates of the top left corner of a view. However, all methods I can find such as getLeft() and getRight() don't work as they all seem to be relative to the parent of the view, thus giving me 0 . What is the proper way to do this? ...

I need to merge multiple dictionaries, here's what I have for instance: 29 Answers 29 ...

I need to include a header graphic in all of my activities/views. The file with the header is called header.xml: 8 Answers ...