In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, the performance of software applications can make or break a business. Whether it’s an e-commerce platform handling thousands of concurrent users during a holiday sale or a banking application processing millions of transactions daily, the need for reliable and scalable performance testing has never been more critical. This is […]
Enhancing Code Quality with AI-Powered Static Analysis
The confluence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with static code analysis heralds a new chapter in software development, characterized by enhanced precision and efficiency. AI’s integration into static code analysis tools has the transformative potential to revolutionize how developers approach code quality and security. This synergy enables the detection of subtle, complex issues that traditional methods […]
Get the clicked button of a MessageBox using DialogResult
The MessageBox dialog can contain several buttons: OK, Cancel, Yes, No, Retry and so on. The question is how do you figure out which of the buttons was clicked? If OK was clicked, you want to take a different action than if Cancel was clicked. The solution is to use the DialogResult object: DialogResult dlgResult = MessageBox.Show(“Do you want to continue?”, “Continue?”, MessageBoxButtons.YesNo, MessageBoxIcon.Question);if […]
Prevent Web Browser Caching
How to make use of HTTP headers to control the caching of Web pages in ASP and IIS, known to work with Internet Explorer.
How to use #ifdef and #ifndef to check if an identifier has been defined
#ifdef, #ifndef and #endif are preprocessor directives which allow us to check wether or not a value has already been defined using the #define directive. This can be useful when you’re including files that may already have the same value defined using #define. Here’s an example that defines the value Whidbey only if it wasn’t defined before: #ifndef Whidbey#define Whidbey#endif Similarly, what’s between #ifdef and #endif is compiled […]
AutoPostBack – How to submit (PostBack) page when a DropDownList item is selected
Thanks to the AutoPostBack attribute, you can easily submit the form when the user selects an item from a DropDownList. All you need to do is set the AutoPostBack attribute to true inside the DropDownList tag, as seen in the following example:
How to convert C++ variables to other data types using casting
There are several ways to convert C++ variables.Here is one method of converting an integer variable to a bool (boolean) variable: int MyInteger = 0;bool MyBool = (bool)MyInteger; And here is another way: int MyInteger = 0;bool MyBool = static_cast<bool>(MyInteger); In both cases, after the casting has been made, MyBool will contain the value false (since MyInteger was 0). If MyInteger was 1 or any other number […]
How to convert a variable from double to float
A variable of type double can easily be converted to float or any other similar data type, in C#:
Using AI to Detect Anti-Patterns in Code
In the intricate ballet of software development, anti-patterns represent the missteps — the common yet ineffective solutions to recurring design and programming problems. Unlike patterns, which are best practices that developers follow to create maintainable, scalable, and efficient software, anti-patterns are pitfalls that may seem to provide a quick fix but ultimately lead to additional […]
How to detect if the visitor of a website is running Windows Vista
Different languages have different ways of getting information about the visitors. However, most languages can get the User Agent, which provides us, the webmasters, with information about the visitor’s browser, plugins and operating system. For example if the user agent of a visitor is: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Windows […]