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Opening old Visual Studio project with 2019, throws tons of errors with provided libraries

You're probably better off installing the version of Visual Studio that the project was created in. MS still lets you download versions as old as VS 2010: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/older-downloads/ I'm somewhat rusty on C++ in Windows, but I don't think that MS makes any guarantees...
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- Post #7
- Oct 6, 2019
- Forum: Programming
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Question Dan'sGaming is Worth How Much?

I would say it's actual money that they've been paid. I sometimes watch another streamer, CohhCarnage, who's a bit more popular than Dan. Don't know about net worth, but the last I heard Cohh had upwards of 15k subscribers - that's upwards of $500 grand in yearly income just from subscribers...
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- Post #11
- Jan 21, 2019
- Forum: PC Games
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News Natural Language Programming -- English and/or Español

Most of the people who frequent this section of the forums (including myself) already participated in the large discussion several years ago that Gerry linked in his post. It doesn't seem like anything has changed, other than him adding support for Spanish. I started to reply to this topic...
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- Post #3
- Jan 20, 2019
- Forum: Programming
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Can you give Practical Advice on how to apply SOLID principals of OOP to N Tier Data Driven Web Apps

Don't build it in WebForms. It's a dead-end technology for a reason. The nature of WebForms (IME anyway) tends to lead to tightly coupled and messy code. The way it tries to coerce the web into behaving like a desktop application ultimately makes life more difficult for devs and again leads...
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- Post #6
- Oct 18, 2018
- Forum: Programming
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C#, Mysql Transaction, and unexpected shutdown/crash?

Poor phrasing. Obviously he had to have "foreign key" columns, but he wouldn't actually declare a foreign key constraint on them. In his mind enforcing referential integrity was a business rule that belonged in the application.
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- Post #16
- Sep 30, 2018
- Forum: Programming
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C#, Mysql Transaction, and unexpected shutdown/crash?

Have we worked together? I had a former co worker who liked to say the same thing, and took it so far that if left to his own devices he wouldn't even put foreign keys in his DBs. :eek:
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- Post #14
- Sep 29, 2018
- Forum: Programming
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Need help with Unit Testing C# with Microsoft Fakes

You're approaching the problem from the wrong direction. You need to push the API call behind an interface or abstract class, which you then pass into the constructor and whose behavior you can easily mock. If you use the common C# REST libraries that I'm familiar with (Refit, RestEase), this...
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- Post #4
- Sep 1, 2018
- Forum: Programming
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Numerous religious groups condemn the child detainment policy, including session's church

I grew up in the UMC and get kept up to date on it by my parents who are very active in their church. While the UMC as an organization is pretty moderate, even liberal on many issues, you will find many, many UMC congregations that are Southern Baptist in all but name. It's pretty likely that...
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- Post #10
- Jun 19, 2018
- Forum: Politics and News
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Battletech

RNGesus in this game is a harsh god, but it does seem like he’s equally cruel to all of his children. Not long after I got the Highlander its gauss rifle blew off two heads in one mission. The worst for me so far was having the head punched off of my PC’s Thunderbolt in the ammo crate mission...
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- Post #191
- Jun 4, 2018
- Forum: PC Games
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Battletech

I think there's a good chance they built & balanced the game around skirmishes, then tacked the campaign onto that. In a 4v4 match having a scout might be a viable choice, but it just doesn't work in campaign missions where you're routinely outnumbered 2 to 1 or worse. I just finished a 4...
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- Post #179
- May 27, 2018
- Forum: PC Games
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Battletech

I just got the Highlander today. It’s basically stock, I just dropped the LRM20 for a LRM15 so I could max out the support slots with small lasers, add armor, and a TTS to help with gauss rifle sniping. Wish the game didn’t bias so heavily towards close range brawls.
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- Post #175
- May 26, 2018
- Forum: PC Games
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Battletech

My heavies appeared really quickly. For the longest time my A-Team lance was a Shadow Hawk, Vindicator, Centurion, and Firestarter. I did run a Dragon for a few missions, then added a Thunderbolt, and then pretty quickly (in just a few missions, it felt like) my main lance went to Orion...
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- Post #172
- May 25, 2018
- Forum: PC Games
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Battletech

Opponents in most missions are semi-random (not sure about story missions) and a mission's true difficulty may be higher or lower than what you're told. There isn't a great job communicating it, but mission descriptions often contain some hints about having unreliable intel or enemy forces...
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- Post #136
- May 13, 2018
- Forum: PC Games
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Battletech

That mission is rough. I went in a with a heavy lance (Orion, Thunderbolt, Dragon, Shadow Hawk) and finished on the first try taking heavy damage. Lost the Thunderbolt, it was just starting to take internal damage when it got its head punched off by a Griffin that was otherwise crippled (ugh)...
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- Post #132
- May 13, 2018
- Forum: PC Games
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Battletech

As much as I love the game (already played 40+ hours I think) some things are seriously out of whack. I’ve been using a Centurion as my missile boat and finally got a Trebuchet. Well, crap. The Centurion in game is a better missile boat in EVERY way than the Treb. The only thing going for the...
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- Post #112
- May 4, 2018
- Forum: PC Games

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