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Can anyone recommend a merge tool that's specifically designed for merging C# code? The features I'm after:
Can identify code constructs (classes, methods, ...)
Can detect reorders of those constructs
Ignore reorder-only differences
3-way merge
Compilation errors highlighted on-the-fly in the result pane.
Basically, I'm looking for a tool that's much more specific than classic file merge tools like Winmerge. The problem with general-purpose merge tools is that they detect changes line by line which makes it extremely hard to identify blocks of code that has been moved around but that are still perfectly valid, and more importantly, to identify compilation errors in the result.
What about Code Compare?
The features you asked for are in the Pro Edition (see feature comparison) which is 49.90$.
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Closed 10 years ago.
I would like to know what would be the best programming languages to develop an open source that can work on mainly windows and mac.
any person should be able to change the source code if he/she wanted to without the need to recompile it. this is to allow further development and bug fixing.
The application does not require a massive computational resources and it would have a GUI.
what would you recommend?
the only thing i have in mind is to do the application using matLab. any other choice?
Many thanks for your feedback,
Python. There are many IDEs available, and the code is extremely readable. The community also maintains excellent documentation. I would advise against using Matlab to develop Open Source Software because Matlab itself is not an open source program. Maybe since you are talking about something mathematical, an open source alternative could be Octave? But I don’t really know what you mean by an application. Hope anything I suggested helped.
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I am very interested in machine learning. i have an idea to develop a program which can generate a source code according to a given standards. for example if i have trained the system to how to write something to console and the standard way of using variables then it should be able to generate a source code for anything which i ask to print something to the console, likewise. Is there any resources source codes or existing open source projects?
You might be interested in Genetic Programming. It's a genetic algorithm that operates directly on programs.
The demo I saw used Lisp (Common Lisp, I think), which is a natural fit, but any language with eval should be decently easy to use.
The Wikipedia page lists a whole pile of implementations, many of them open source, so you should be able to start there.
This sounds like this is would be a Constraint Satisfaction [CSPs] or Search Problem, these approaches would probably be your best bet:
Genetic Algorithm
Some sort of goal seaking heuristic [with negative/positive reenforcements]
The algorithms that are under the CSP category.
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If I want to use a traditional approval type workflow in a regular asp.net system, for example
an order that needs an approval before order is placed. Rather than having the traditional
enum for OrderStatus, can I benefit from using microsoft WF4 (Workflow version 4) for this
or will I just generate more complexity and more code for no added benefit?
Any time you have a long running operation like this WF4 is a good possibility. The fact that the graphical designer allows you to show the actual running process, not a Visio copy of it, is also a huge benefit.
There is however a learning curve to WF4 and there are times you have to do things the WF4 way instead of the C#/VB way you did before. That said there is certainly a benefit, thinks like an approval request not being handled in, lets say, 14 days is very easy to do in WF4.
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Does anyone know of a real good SSMS Add-In that beautifies T/SQL, isn't too expensive and also does things around best practices for T/SQL formatting?
I'm well aware of Red Gate's tool, but ~$300 is quite a killer amount.
http://www.red-gate.com/products/SQL_Refactor/index.htm
I've seen this Add-In, but it's purely about indentation.
http://www.wangz.net/sqlpp/ssmsaddin.html
Neither solution addresses the commenting and header best practices.
I came across this tool:
http://www.apexsql.com/sql_tools_refactor.asp
It's pretty good for a free product. Nothing beats the Red Gate tools however.
Have you tried SQL Enlight?
These ones have some basic features
http://www.sqlinform.com/free_online_sw.html
http://www.dpriver.com/pp/sqlformat.htm
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The Emacs Wiki lists several modes for supporting mercurial inside of Emacs, including the built-in VC mode. Is it worth exploring any of the other modes, such as the one distributed with mercurial itself?
I would suggest DVC. It supports other distributed version control systems (notably git), it's easy to configure and it works as much like the default VC mode as reasonable. It also seems to have a larger user-base than the mercurial mode.
This depends on which other DVCS you using. If you using several, then DVC could be good choice.
If you want to get native support of mercurial, then you can use either mercurial.el (described in my article), either aHg package, that has some advantages over mercurial.el. I plan to update my article with description of this package, but i don't know when it will be done :-(