Browse questions answered by Jon Skeet

JodaTime: Get DateTimeZone with offset xyz compared to utc

I want to use org.joda.time.DateTime. It need the following params: DateTime(int year, int monthOfYear, int dayOfMonth, int hourOfDay, int minuteOfHour, int secondOfMinute, int...

If you know the offset, you can use DateTimeZone.forOffsetMillis to create a fixed-offset time zone. That won't necessarily be the real time zone, but the offset alone isn't enough information to tell you the real time zone. more 11/25/2014 12:58:18 PM

Parsing with XPath a xml document. Why add a <xml tag as a header> in the result?

I searched on google first and I found many result about how to parse with xpath a xml document. I have parse it but a want to convert a NODELIST in String and I have created a...

You can configure the transformer not to output the XML declaration, before you call transform: serializer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "yes"); more 11/25/2014 11:45:35 AM

c# mock object with private constructor, initialized via a static factory method

I am testing the following controller: public class MyController : ApiController { private readonly IUserManager _users; private int num = 0; public...

You don't need to mock User - you can use the real User class. You only need to mock (or fake) IUserManager. Your mock/fake IUserManager can use User.CreateUser to create the User objects to be returned to your controller. Unless the User... more 11/25/2014 10:09:15 AM

How do I check if a value is assigned to an int in c#?

int x might not have an assignment. How do I detect that? What value does int hold when it is unassigned? This gives me a warning in Visual Studio: public SomeMethod(int x) { ...

int x might not have an assignment. That's simply not true. In your case, x is a parameter - it's "definitely assigned" from the start of the method, in specification terminology. When someone calls the method, they have to provide a... more 11/25/2014 9:05:48 AM

Password encryption deycrption UTF8 Encoding String conversion doesn't work

I wanna save a password encrypted in a local database (on windows phone). For that I first have to encrypt the password with this. byte[] passwordInByte =...

Just don't do this: return UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetString(protectedPasswordByte, 0, protectedPasswordByte.Length); Firstly, I'd strongly advise using Encoding.UTF8 instead of UTF8Encoding.UTF8, for clarity. That won't fix the problem, but... more 11/25/2014 7:25:20 AM

What's wrong with my use of C# generics?

My code gives me error "cannot convert implicitly between int and T" public class Vector3D<T> { public T x; public T y; public T z; Vector3D() { ...

There's no implicit conversion available from the literal 0 to T. For example, T could be string, or TextField... You may well want to limit your vector to struct types: public class Vector3D<T> where T : struct ... but even so,... more 11/25/2014 7:15:38 AM

Using for loops with deleting elements from array

Hi I'm creating a program that holds three arrays one for the persons last name, one for the points scored and one for the player number, now I've got all the arrays and...

I would strongly suggest that you revisit your design entirely: Avoid multiple "parallel" collections like this. Instead, have a single collection of type Player, where Player is a new class consisting of a player number, a last name,... more 11/25/2014 6:54:45 AM