Comments for in two places at once

Comment on the other thing about “using” blocks by DCam

DCam — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:19:23 +0000

@Teevus: You’re right. I try to speak to anonymous scopes in the very last example, but yes, they can be free standing as well. I wouldn’t want to use a “using” statement only to produce a scope, because an anonymous scope would do the same job more simply. Even when I am tempted to use an anonymous scope to limit some variable, I try to think up a good name for the scope and turn it in to a method.

Comment on the other thing about “using” blocks by Teevus

Teevus — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 08:51:06 +0000

Or you can just enclose the variable declaration and usage in a pair of curly brases (also works for non-IDisposable variables):

{
var f = File.OpenText(“/path/ro/file”);
contents = f.ReadToEnd();
}
f.ReadToEnd(); // Unknown identifier at compile time

Comment on the other thing about “using” blocks by ross

ross — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 05:13:49 +0000

good point.

Comment on remote desktop connection to localhost: a regression in Windows 7? by Eric

Eric — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:25:25 +0000

Confirming, you do not need to enable “Local ports accept connections from other hosts”. Just change the IP as above to 127.0.0.2 and continue to use as normal.

Very happy, thanks for this!

Comment on remote desktop connection to localhost: a regression in Windows 7? by Fred

Fred — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:13:44 +0000

Thank you! Very helpful indeed.

Comment on remote desktop connection to localhost: a regression in Windows 7? by John R

John R — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 03:25:15 +0000

Thanks for sharing! Nice to see I wasn’t the only one having this problem and happy you took the time to post the solution. Great job!

Comment on restoring recovered files identity by DCam

DCam — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 14:35:24 +0000

@Adam: Does TestDisk recover the filenames too?

Comment on objective-c test doubles on the cheap with brutal cast by DCam

DCam — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 14:09:01 +0000

I like the “id” syntax. It is much cleaner than using a cast.

Unfortunately, the code base I was using this on was configured so that any use of id was a compile time error. We had to use casts there. On other code bases I’ll use id.

Comment on objective-c test doubles on the cheap with brutal cast by Giles

Giles — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:19:06 +0000

Personally, I try to avoid casts wherever possible. The C syntax for them is really hard to search for if you ever decide to change something. In this case you can use the Obj-C id type to avoid the need for the cast:

id stubLogger = [[[PretendLogger alloc] init] autorelease];

id can be used as a reference to any Obj-C type, and can be used wherever any Obj-C type is required.

Comment on restoring recovered files identity by DCam

DCam — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 02:39:24 +0000

@Bill: Unfortunately I’m grepping the output of a command — the file command. I don’t think there’s a way to use -H or -n in this case.

@Andy: I moved to HFS+ right after this happened. I use mediafour’s MacDrive to read the drives from Windows. At the time I wasn’t that confident in the open-source NTFS drivers. I don’t remember exactly how I converted the filesystem over, but I think I used Coriolis’s iPartition to resize partitions during the process.