Category Development

Call stored procedure via DBContext

Tried to call a SP via Entity framework (DBContext) but got a exception that parameter is not supplied. My call looked like: context.Database.ExecuteSqlCommand(“NameOfSP”, new SqlParameter(“@param1”, 1), new SqlParameter(“@param2”, DateTime.Now), new SqlParameter(“@param3”, “test”)); The right call should look like: context.Database.ExecuteSqlCommand(“NameOfSP @p1,…

Font in Windows 10 (Chrome)

I’ve upgraded to Windows 10 for about a month ago. After the update the Arial font seems really strange in some Windows forms and browsers. I.e in Chrome it looks like this:   This problem isn’t existing in Firefox so…

Background image opacity with hover CSS

Create a menu option with background image with only css. On hover change opacity for the background image. Without affecting the text color. .mainMenu .option { width: 374px; height: 248px; display: inline-block; border: 1px solid #d0d0d0; vertical-align: top; margin: 2px…

Android SDK Manager on update access denied

Got message access denied when trying to get new updates in Android SDK Manager. Solution was to navigate to the android-sdk folder (default on my computer was C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk) right click on “SDK Manager.exe” and choose Run as Administrator and…

Html changes are not updating

Did a silly mistake when I updated a MVC website the other day. I did some css and html changes but that didn’t seem to be updated when I hit F5 in the browser. It only become updated when I…

Comparison async, sync and delegates

Made a time execution comparison between a usual syncronous, asynchronous and a threaded method call with delegates. //Declare delegate public delegate void DelGetList(List<int> lista, string tName); //Create delegate handler DelGetList delReporter = ReportList; //Init method private void Init() { TestThreads();…

Set default Color parameter value

public void Test(Color foreColor = Color.Black) doesn’t work (error message Default parameter value for ‘parameter’ must be a compile-time constant) beacause Color.Black isn’t a constant value (Color is a struct). Solution: public void Test(Color? foreColor = null)