Does session.Load<T>(new string[0]) hit Raven? - ravendb

If I call
session.Load<MyDocumentClass>(ids);
Where ids is actually an empty string array, is any call to the database actually made? Or any other resource set / up consumed, like a connection or something?

If ids is an empty list, it won't query the database.
Note that this isn't a good behavior to rely on, why are you calling this with an empty list?

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Show all variables and their values in VBA during runtime

In my current project in Access VBA, I created a window which works like a console and now I am trying to add a possibility to display any public variable. It should work like:
Show_var [variable_name]
So it should be like in the direct window where i can type:
? pVar.variable_A
I found out that using
Application.VBE.ActiveVBProject.VBComponents(11).CodeModule.CountOfLines
I can display the number of lines within a module or form so I thought perhaps I could somehow find the variables there, cycle through them and when the correct one is found, its value can be shown. OFC I could make a Select Case Statement where all variables are included but that is not the way I want to do it because it is complicated and must be changed every time update my public variable list.
There are so many problems that I think you are out of luck. Let me just list some of them:
There is no way to get a list of all variables - that would mean you would need access to the internal symbol table.
As a consequence, you would have to read the code (CodeModule lets you read the code of a module), and write an own parser to fetch all declarations (hopefully you use Option Explicit)
AFAIK, the is no method that can access the content of a variable via it's name.
Even if there would be any such method: What would you do with different data types, arrays and especially with objects.
If a user runs into problems, often it is a runtime error. If you don't handle that errors with some kind of error handler, the only option if a user cannot enter the debugger is to press "End" - which would destroy the content of all variables.
You have to deal with scope of variables, you can have several variables with the same name and you will likely have lots of variables that are out of scope in the moment you want to dump them.

Invalid Iterator Fix

So, looking for advice on how to fix a situation or maybe a better way to program it.
I'm using iteration to build a complicated string from key:value pairs in an unordered_map. To make this work, I'm iterating through the map to find specific items, then sending a search term to an outside function to create the string. The outside function uses its own iterator to search the same unordered_map for the passed search term, then creates the string, then erases the entries that it referenced. The problem, I believe, is that although the outside function's iterator is still valid because it called the erase function, the iterators in the main function are now invalidated and throwing an out of range error. Is there a way to reset the iterators or send them to the next valid key:value pair when they become invalidated in order to avoid the error?
The code is a mess (mostly because I'm still discovering C++) and it might be possible to use recursion to accomplish this, but I wasn't able to get recursion to work correctly.
I can post the code, but without understanding the inputs and required outputs, it's likely not going to help explain anything, so for now, I'll just leave the question as-is: is there a way to "re-validate" invalidated iterators?
I was able to resolve the issue by redefining each of the iterators once the scope of control returned back to them. For the last iterator (in the outside function) that deleted individual key:value pairs from the unordered_map, I used:
if (it != map.end()) it = map.erase(it);
This forces the iterator to move to the next valid key:value pair after the erasure.
That worked for the end of the line, but didn't work once control was returned to each of the previous iterators. In those case, the iterators were invalidated when the outside function erased a key:value pair. So as control returned to an iterator, I included the following line before it looped back for increment:
if (it != map.end()) it = map.begin();
It seems to have resolved all of the issues, though I'm sure there's a better way to handle it.

Moving messages with VBA Outlook

What is the difference between these two lines?
Set MyMsg = MyMsg.Move(MyFolder2)
MyMsg.Move(MyFolder2)
The first one works just fine.
The second one usually gives an "Outlook is not responding" error.
The MailItem.Move method returns the MailItem that has been moved. Usually, properties return values and methods don't return anything. But for several methods, the designers decided it would be handy to have a return value, so they made them return a value (or object).
When you assign a method to a variable, any arguments must be in parentheses or you'll get a syntax error. If you call a method without assigning it to a variable (because you don't care what the method returns or it's one of the methods that doesn't return a value), then the arguments must not be in parentheses (kind of).
Parentheses, when used in places that the compiler does not require them, are the equivalent of saying "evaluate this before doing anything else". It's like how you use parentheses in order of operations so you can say "evaluate this addition operation before you do this multiplication even though that's not the normal order".
The (kind of) remark above is because most of the time when you "incorrectly" put parentheses around something, it doesn't matter.
Application.CreateItem 0
and
Application.CreateItem (0)
are the same. The second one evaluates the argument before it passes it to CreateItem, but evaluating a single integer takes no time and has no ill effects. The parentheses aren't necessary because we're not assigning the results to a variable, but they're not really hurting anything either.
In your second example, you're telling the compiler to evaluate the folder, then send it to the Move method. I don't know what evaluating a folder means, but I gather it's not good. It probably does something like create an array of all the objects in that folder, or something equally intensive. When Outlook is not responding, it means you gave it such a big job that it hasn't checked back in with the operating system in a timely fashion.
So: Use parentheses for arguments when it's on the right side of an equal sign. Don't use them when it's not. There are a few exceptions to that rule, but you may never need to know them.
There is no difference between the two (you just ignore the function result) unless you actually use the MyMsg variable afterwards - after the message is moved, you cannot access it anymore.
Use the first version.

Signalr-objc getting Return value

I am using signalr-objc currently and trying to make an app that interacts with another web app. The hub has been written so that it returns values and the javascript is able to get these and perform certain actions depending on the return.
I want to try and do the same with in objective-c but I am not sure how to write it. I use this line to join a group.
[myhub invoke:#"joinGroup" withArgs:joinParam];
and something like
int join = [myhub invoke:#"joinGroup" withArgs:joinParam];
does not seem right. So is there some way of doing this??
Since -invoke:withArgs: returns no value, you're not doing the right thing trying to assign a value to join.
If you need to determine if there was a server response, you'd be better off using the alternate -invoke:withArgs:continueWith:. The block you provide to the latter argument receives an object (a reply from the server); at the very least, you could check it inside that block to be sure it's not nil.

Linq Update Problem

I'm having some problems updating the database using Linq...
Public Shared Function Save(ByRef appointment As MyLinq.Appointment, ByRef db As MyEntities) As Boolean
If appointment.id = 0 Then
db.AddToAppointments(appointment)
Else
db.AttachTo("Appointments", appointment)
'db.ApplyPropertyChanges("Appointments", appointment)
End If
Return db.SaveChanges() > 0
End Function
So Insert works fine, i have tryed both lines of code for the update with no sucesss... The first one goes ok but no update is performed, the second one throws an exception...
Can someone point out what i am missing?
EDIT:
Sorry for the late reply... I had some internet connection problems...
I had to "make it work", so now my update code is fecthing the record from the database, updating and then executing "SaveChanges" method. It works but I am not happy having to query the database to perform an Update... If you have any idea how I could do this without an update I would appreciate :)
Chris: It was a nice try, but my refresh method only allows me to choose "RefreshMode.ClientWins" or "RefreshMode.StoreWins" I tried with ClientWins with no success...
Razzie: I am sorry but i did not save the exception and it no longer occurs... It was saying that my record did not have a key associated (or something similar)
Jon Skeet: In Vb.Net we have to specify if the parameter goes ByVal or ByRef, we can't omit like in C#
The code you have doesn't look exactly like what I'm used to (linq to sql), but it does look a little similar; Is this Entity Framework?
I know with Linq to SQL, simply attaching an object to the data context isn't enough, you also have to make sure that the data context knows what the original values are so it knows which columns to update. In Linq to SQL that can be achieved like this:
db.Refresh(RefreshMode.KeepCurrentValues, appointment)
Maybe look around and see if you can achieve something similar in whatever framework you are using.
The ApplyPropertyChanges() call is important otherwise the item you are attaching is assumed to be in an unchanged state. However... for ApplyPropertyChanges to work properly the original object must exist in the ObjectContext which means either querying for it again (which I think you are now doing) or using the same object context that you originally pulled the item from.
Some more info here - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.objects.objectcontext.applypropertychanges.aspx