I have a database, and I need to know the default encoding for the database. I want to get it from the command line. 6 Answ...

How could I refresh my context? I have entities based on views from my Database and when I made an update over one table Entity that has navigation properties to views, the entity is update but the view don't refresh accord the new updates...just want to get again from the Db the data. Thanks! ...

So i have this code that should change the nav bar title font, but it doenst 18 Answers ...

In a metro app, I need to execute a number of WCF calls. There are a significant number of calls to be made, so I need to do them in a parallel loop. The problem is that the parallel loop exits before the WCF calls are all complete. ...

Do properties in Objective-C 2.0 require a corresponding instance variable to be declared? For example, I'm used to doing something like this: ...

I am often ending up with a function producing output for which I don't understand the output data type. I'm expecting a list and it ends up being a list of lists or a data frame or something else. What's a good method or workflow for figuring out the output data type when first using a function? ...

I'm currently creating a right-click context menu by instantiating a new JMenu on right click and setting its location to that of the mouse's position... Is there a better way? ...

I have written a Windows service that spawns a separate process. This process creates a COM object. If the service runs under the 'Local System' account everything works fine, but if the service runs under the 'Network Service' account, the external process starts up but it fails to create the COM o...

I just installed Cygwin, and it looks like the home directory in the bash prompt is on my Z: drive. That's not where I want it. ...

I have a codebase where developers decided to use AND and OR instead of && and || . 10 Answers ...