Comments by Brian C Hart (Top 30 by date)

Can people stop bullying me? This question is so old, that I don't even give a crap about answers to this question any more.

Hi Richard,

Thanks for reminding me. I've gone onto my server and opened up the permissions. The links to the images should now work.

Brian Hart

I am mystified as to how to get around this, since i see GetData as nothing more than a black box. Do you have any ideas as to how to test for the proper sequence?

I wrote the code below for the answer to this test, and the hiring manager said I was wrong because I was making assumptions:

‘ This code is assuming that GetData() always returns 512 until the very
‘ last data block is read; only then is 512 or less returned.
Sub Main()
Dim buffer As Char() = New Char(512) {}
Dim count As Integer = 0
While (InlineAssignHelper(count, GetData(buffer))) <> 0
PutData(buffer, count)
End While
End Sub

‘ This method is only here to ensure we can assign the result of
‘ GetData to count with each iteration of the while loop, while
‘ at the same time, detect whether zero bytes have been returned.
Private Function InlineAssignHelper(Of T)(ByRef target As T, ByVal value As T) As T
target = value
Return value
End Function

You are excatly right. This is a mindless "programming test" question. Don't you hate those? I am trying to use "phone a friend."

I sort of kind of suspected that, but I guess what I am still asking is, then, is there another property of "Request" that I can use to get the raw, un altered URL that the user has typed in the browser bar, without any alterations?

I would also do

list = list.ConvertAll<string>(x => x.EndsWith("LT") ? x.Replace("LT", "") : x);


however this is another process of O(n) complexity that replaces my list with a whole new list, identical to the old except for the changed items. digimanus's answer is close; i just was hoping that i wouldn't have to declare an int i outside the ForEach call. It's almost as gradeschool as the OP.

OK, I was not looking for a Ph.D. in Math doctoral dissertation though :) Also, the size formats are all specified by internationally-published standards and I cannot change the formats since the company is too large for me to foist them on the company. so I have to make do with the data as it comes. It comes out of a SQL server database table. The list of sizes is not able to be specified by me and I always know the entire contents of the list before I sit down and split it up.

And you are absolutely right in that the DB design is terrible. The entire size string is in just one DB column, it really should be broken up into three DB columns to begin with.

You should try adjusting your browsers proxy, because it is coming up fine for me. I've set the images to display to anyone who clicks the links.

Try them now. I reenabled permissions so that everyone can view those images.

Just assign each box (i.e., color) a number and the do the swaps per the appropriate Numerical Recipes algo. As far as Win32 application, there is plenty of boilerplate living on the net.

It's called Google.

Whatever. I think the first part of what I said is true. This is such an elementary question it really smells of cheating attempt to me.

See my comment on the below post. For this particular project, I will know a priori if it's Base64. I've been told by the client the file is guaranteed to either be in Base64 or plaintext. I just needed to brainstorm about what the best method was to automate detecting which I have is.

Actually there is no theoretical about it...I've been told by the client that either the values will be in Base64 or they won't. So technically all I really need to do is an Int32.Parse and if it throws a FormatException then I "know" the value is really in Base64.

@Orc_Orc_Orc and @Sandeep: yeah everything is set correctly.

I've checked the project Property Pages,
The .cs file everything and all names are matching. That's why I am so confused.

lol

Nope. runat="server" is not a required attribute for that tag

Typing something doesn't fire the event

And yes, the AutoEventWireup is set to TRUE

Yes it's a form

By the way, my Ph.D. is not in ASP.NET as you may have guessed so be nice :)

Here is a snippet of the ASP:

<div class="row">
<div class="column phone">
<label>
Phone Number</label><span id="rfvPhone" class="colorred" style="color:Red;display:none;">*</span>
<p>
<asp:TextBox runat="server" maxlength="15" id="txtPhone" /></p>
</div>
<div class="column zip">
<label>
Zip Code</label><span id="rfvZip" class="colorred" style="color:Red;display:none;">*</span>
<p>
<asp:TextBox runat="server" maxlength="10" id="txtZip" /></p>
</div>
<div class="column property">
<label style="margin-left: 10px;">
Property Type</label>
<p>
<asp:RadioButton runat="server" value="0" groupname="rbHB" id="rbHome" checked="true" /><label for="rbHome">Home</label><br />
<asp:RadioButton runat="server" value="1" groupname="rbHB" id="rbBusiness" /><label for="rbBusiness">Business</label>
</p>
</div>
</div>

Here is a snippet of my CSS:

form {
float:left;
width:317px;
height:400px;
padding:40px 20px 0;
background:url(../images/form-bg.gif) no-repeat;
margin-right:25px;
}

form {color:#fff;font-size:12px;}
form p {margin-bottom:10px;}
form label {display:inline;}
form .row {overflow:hidden;position:relative;clear:both;}
form .row p {margin-bottom:5px;}
form span {color:red;padding-left:3px;}
form input[type="text"] {width:300px;padding:5px;font-size:12px;}
form .customer p {float:left;margin-right:10px;}
form .column {float:left;margin-right:7px;}
form .column input {width:75px;}
form .state input {width:50px;}
form .zip {margin:0;}
form .zip input {width:60px;}
form .property {margin-left: 6px;}
form .phone input {width:100px;}
form .email {margin:0;}
form .email input {width:154px;}
form .submit input {float:right;position:relative;right:-3px;margin-top:7px;}

My hunch is that this sounds a lot like a homework assignment. In my view, it's nothing that the docs can't help you out with.

That's a good point, however I am using VS2008 Express Edition. Is there a way to turn off Overflow Checking with VS2008 Express?