This is for &quot;extern aliases&quot;. Suppose you want to use two different types, both of which are called `Foo.Bar` (i.e. `Bar` in a namespace of `Foo`). The two types will be in different assemblies (by definition) - you use the property in VS to associate an alias with each reference, then you can do:

    extern alias FirstAlias;
    extern alias SecondAlias;

    using FirstBar = FirstAlias::Foo.Bar;
    using SecondBar = SecondAlias::Foo.Bar;

and then use `FirstBar` and `SecondBar` in your code.

So basically it&#39;s an extra level of naming - and you shouldn&#39;t use it unless you really, really have to. It will confuse a lot of people. Try to avoid getting into that situation in the first place - but be aware of this solution for those times where you just can&#39;t avoid it.

Search for &quot;[extern alias][1]&quot;; it is a very rarely used feature that is only needed to disambiguate between two dlls that contribute the same types (for example, two different versions of the same assembly, or two assemblies that have a class which shares a fully-qualified-name).

&quot;global&quot; is the default. For example, if you have a class called `Foo.System`, you can unambiguously refer to the main `System` namespace via `global::System`.


  [1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/keywords/extern-alias

I want to get the headers only from a curl request

`curl -I www.google.com`

All grand. Now I want to do that but to pass in post data too:

`curl -I -d&#39;test=test&#39; www.google.com`

But all I get is:

`Warning: You can only select one HTTP request!`

Anyone have any idea how to do this or am I doing something stupid?


Curl post data and headers only

If I have a list like this:

    &lt;ul id=&quot;mylist&quot;&gt;
        &lt;li id=&quot;list-item1&quot;&gt;text 1&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li id=&quot;list-item2&quot;&gt;text 2&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li id=&quot;list-item3&quot;&gt;text 3&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li id=&quot;list-item4&quot;&gt;text 4&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;/ul&gt;

What&#39;s the easiest way to re-arrange the DOM nodes to my preference? (This needs to happen automatically when the page loads, the list-order preference is gained from a cookie)

E.g.


    &lt;ul id=&quot;mylist&quot;&gt;
        &lt;li id=&quot;list-item3&quot;&gt;text 3&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li id=&quot;list-item4&quot;&gt;text 4&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li id=&quot;list-item2&quot;&gt;text 2&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li id=&quot;list-item1&quot;&gt;text 1&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;/ul&gt;



Easiest way to sort DOM nodes?

When I add an assembly reference to a project in Visual Studio 8 the Aliases property, of that reference, is set to &quot;global&quot;.  What is this property good for and why is it set to global?

MSDN tells me that this is a list of aliases for the assembly but not why I might want to use this property or why most are aliased as &quot;global&quot;.

[MSDN reference](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vslangproj80.reference3.aliases.aspx)

What use is the Aliases property of assembly references in Visual Studio 8

When I add an assembly reference to a project in Visual Studio 8 the Aliases property, of that reference, is set to "global". What is this property good for and why is it set to global?
MSDN tells me that this is a list of aliases for the assembly but not why I might want to use this property or why most are aliased as "global".
<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vslangproj80.reference3.aliases.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">MSDN reference</a>

I have snippets of Html stored in a table. *Not entire pages, no &lt;script&gt; tags or the like, just basic formatting.*

I would like to be able to display that Html as text only, *no formatting*, on a given page (actually just the first 30 - 50 characters but that&#39;s the easy bit).

How do I place the &quot;text&quot; within that Html into a string as straight text?

So this piece of code.

    &lt;b&gt;Hello World.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Is there anyone out there?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;

Becomes:

Hello World. Is there anyone out there?



How do you convert Html to plain text?

DataGridView, for example, lets you do this:

    DataGridView dgv = ...;
    DataGridViewCell cell = dgv[1,5];

but for the life of me I can&#39;t find the documentation on the index/square-bracket operator.  What do they call it?  Where is it implemented?  Can it throw?  How can I do the same thing in my own classes?

ETA: Thanks for all the quick answers.  Briefly: the relevant documentation is under the &quot;Item&quot; property; the way to overload is by declaring a property like &lt;code&gt;public object this[int x, int y]{ get{...}; set{...} }&lt;/code&gt;; the indexer for DataGridView does not throw, at least according to the documentation.  It doesn&#39;t mention what happens if you supply invalid coordinates.


ETA Again: OK, even though the documentation makes no mention of it (naughty Microsoft!), it turns out that the indexer for DataGridView will in fact throw an ArgumentOutOfRangeException if you supply it with invalid coordinates.  Fair warning.

How do I overload the square-bracket operator in C#?

If I create a UserControl and add some objects to it, how can I grab the HTML it would render?

ex.

    UserControl myControl = new UserControl();
    myControl.Controls.Add(new TextBox());

    // ...something happens
    
    return strHTMLofControl;

I&#39;d like to just convert a newly built UserControl to a string of HTML.

How do I get the HTML output of a UserControl in .NET (C#)?

I have a form that excepts a file upload in ASP.NET. I need to increase the max upload size to above the 4 MB default.

I have found in certain places referencing the below code at [msdn][1]. 

    [ConfigurationPropertyAttribute(&quot;maxRequestLength&quot;, DefaultValue = )]

None of the references actually describe how to use it, and I have tried several things with no success. I only want to modify this attribute for certain pages that are asking for file upload.

Is this the correct route to take? And how do I use this?


  [1]: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.configuration.httpruntimesection.maxrequestlength.aspx

How to increase the max upload file size in ASP.NET?

For instance, does the compiler know to translate

    string s = &quot;test &quot; + &quot;this &quot; + &quot;function&quot;;

to

    string s = &quot;test this function&quot;;

and thus avoid the performance hit with the string concatenation?

Does C# optimize the concatenation of string literals?

In Visual Studio I can type e.g. 

  &gt; for &lt;kbd&gt;TAB&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;TAB&lt;/kbd&gt;

and a code snippet pops in. 

Are there built-in code snippets for private, public, etc. methods as well?


Code snippets for methods in Visual Studio

It there any way to show two editing windows in visual studio? I would like to look at two source files at the same time but I must be missing the option to do that.  

Split edit window in Visual Studio

When you hit F5, the browser windows pops up, how do you set which browser the debugger users in Visual Studio 2008?

**Update 1**  
I have looked for the &#39;Browse with&#39; option and not found it.  
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79954/visual-studio-opens-default-browser-instead-of-ie  

**Update 2**   
If you are already debugging you dont have the &#39;Browse with&#39; option.  

 - *Stop debugging and then its there!*

**Update 3**  
The accepted answer below is also relevant to changing the default browser to debug with in Visual Studio 2010.

How to change the default browser to debug with in Visual Studio 2008?

I&#39;m developing a C++ command-line application in Visual Studio and need to debug it with command-line arguments. At the moment I just run the generated EXE file with the arguments I need (like this `program.exe -file.txt`) , but this way I can&#39;t debug. Is there somewhere I can specify the arguments for debugging?

Debugging with command-line parameters in Visual Studio

I heard that Visual Studio came with an Image Library, but I can&#39;t find it anywhere. Does anyone know where it is?

Where are the Icons included with Visual Studio?

What&#39;s the difference between [`java.lang.ref.WeakReference`](https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/ref/WeakReference.html) and [`java.lang.ref.SoftReference`](https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/ref/SoftReference.html) ?

What&#39;s the difference between SoftReference and WeakReference in Java?

Can someone explain the main benefits of different types of references in C#?

 -  Weak references
 -  Soft references
 -  Phantom references
 -  Strong references.

We have an application that is consuming a lot of memory and we are trying to determine if this is an area to focus on.

Weak reference benefits

I&#39;m creating a function where I need to pass an object so that it can be modified by the function. What is the difference between:

    public void myFunction(ref MyClass someClass)

and

    public void myFunction(out MyClass someClass)

Which should I use and why?

What&#39;s the difference between the &#39;ref&#39; and &#39;out&#39; keywords?

I do not quite understand the difference between a C# reference and a pointer. They both point to a place in memory don&#39;t they? The only difference I can figure out is that pointers are not as clever, cannot point to anything on the heap, are exempt from garbage collection, and can only reference structs or base types.

One of the reasons I ask is that there is a perception that people need to understand pointers well (from C, I guess) to be a good programmer. A lot of people who learn higher level languages miss this out and therefore have this weakness.

I just don&#39;t get what is so complex about a pointer? It is basically just a reference to a place in memory is it not? It can return its location and interact with the object in that location directly?

Have I missed a massive point?

What is the difference between a C# Reference and a Pointer?

Why is it impossible to have a reference to void? The only thing I found in the C++ Standard is this line, at **8.3.2.1**

&gt; A declarator that specifies the type &quot;reference to *cv* void&quot; is ill-formed.

Why is it that way? Why can&#39;t I write a &quot;generic&quot; function that accept a `void&amp;`? 

Just to be clear, I have no useful application in mind where using a reference-to-void could be better than using templates, but I&#39;m just curious about the rationale for forbidding this construct.

---

To clarify a little, I understand that using a reference-to-void &quot;as is&quot; would be as meaningless as dereferencing a pointer-to-void. However, I could cast it to a reference-to-*sometype* in order to use it, couldn&#39;t I? In fact, I don&#39;t see why the following snippet can work...

    void foo(void *data)
    {
        int *i = reinterpret_cast&lt;int*&gt;(data);
        // do something with i
    }
...while this one cannot:

    void foo(void &amp;data)
    {
        int &amp;i = reinterpret_cast&lt;int&amp;&gt;(data);
        // do something with i
    }

Why is it impossible to have a reference-to-void?

How is

    &lt;None Include=&quot;C:\foo.bar&quot; /&gt;

different from

    &lt;Content Include=&quot;C:\foo.bar&quot; /&gt;

?

In a .csproj file, what is &lt;None Include=&quot;...&quot;&gt; for?

I have a C# project say MyProject.csproj located at &quot;C:\Projects\MyProject\&quot;. I also have files that I want copied into the output directory of this project. But, the files are at the location &quot;C:\MyContentFiles\&quot;, i.e. they are NOT within the project cone. This directory has sub-directories as well. The contents of the directory is not managed. Hence I have to include all what is under it.

When I include them as &#39;Content&#39; in the project, they are copied, but the directory structure is lost. I did something like this:-

    &lt;Content Include=&quot;..\..\MyContentFiles\**&quot;&gt;
      &lt;CopyToOutputDirectory&gt;PreserveNewest&lt;/CopyToOutputDirectory&gt;
    &lt;/Content&gt;

How do I copy these files/directories recursively into the output directory of the project with the directory structure preserved?

Including content files in .csproj that are outside the project cone

Anyone see this before?  I have a large Visual Studio project that keeps adding `[Subtype]Designer[/Subtype]` to my `.vcproj` then removing it on the next open and close of the project.  There is only one class defined in `StoredImageControl.cs`. Anyone know how to shut this off as it is really messing up my revision control.  

This is before:

    &lt;EmbeddedResource Include=&quot;StoredImageControl.resx&quot;&gt;
      &lt;DependentUpon&gt;StoredImageControl.cs&lt;/DependentUpon&gt;
    &lt;/EmbeddedResource&gt;

This is after

    &lt;EmbeddedResource Include=&quot;StoredImageControl.resx&quot;&gt;
      &lt;DependentUpon&gt;StoredImageControl.cs&lt;/DependentUpon&gt;
      &lt;SubType&gt;Designer&lt;/SubType&gt;
    &lt;/EmbeddedResource&gt;


&lt;Subtype&gt;Designer&lt;/Subtype&gt; Added then removed by Visual Studio on load/unload

I&#39;m frequently adding a lot of content files (mostly images and js)  to my ASP.NET project. I&#39;m using VS publish system, and on publish, new files are not published until I include them in the project. I would like to auto include all files in specified directory. Is there a way to specify which directories should be auto-included in csproj file or anywhere else?

Is there a way to automatically include content files into asp.net project file?

When I am compiling my .csproj file using .NET Framework 4.0 MSBUILD.EXE file, I am getting an error: &quot;lable01&quot; not found in the current context of &quot;website01.csproj&quot;.

Actually, I need to add every ASP.NET page with its code-behind file&#39;s reference. I&#39;ve done it, it&#39;s working fine, but the above error is pending.

I hope it means that I need to add form name &quot;LABLE01&quot; in that .csproj file, but I do not know the syntax. Anybody please do provide me with the syntax to add form name in .csproj file.

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