Questions tagged [probing]
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Is it possible to set assembly probing path w/o app.config?
I need to place DLLs for my application inside subfolder. It is possible to set this subfolder via app.config:
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FileLoadException At InitializeComponent or x:Class=
I get a file loader exception (first chance) at the InitializeComponent-method or the debugger breaks at the x:Class attribute of the xaml-root of multiple WPF user controls. Everything works fine despite the fact that the exceptions slow down…

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C# Set probing privatePath without app.config?
I have a C# application, and to organize its files I have some DLL's in a folder called "Data". I want the EXE to check this folder for the DLL's just like how it checks its current directory. If I created a App.Config with this information:

Landin Martens
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What is the goal of somebody probing my aws ec2 instance with apache2?
From access.log I found weird visiting pattern. What would be the purpose of this kind of probing?
219.106.219.16 - - [11/Mar/2016:15:00:14 +0200] "HEAD my.aws.ec2.instance:80/1phpmyadmin/ HTTP/1.1" 404 195 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 Jorgee"
219.106.219.16 -…

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MsBuild does not look in the good directory for custom task's second-level dependencies
I wrote a MsBuild Task : MyTask. In my solution, I have the Task project and others projects. MyTask references a project (say ProjA) which references third assemblies, say (dep1 and dep2).
The projects all builds well and I have the outputs in one…

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What is the difference between chaining and probing in hash tables?
How do they work? What is their major differences? What are their respective trade-offs? What are their types (if any)? When is one preferred to another (if at all)?
PS: I've already gone through Anagrams - Hashing with chaining and probing in C and…

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Using element in app.config
I intend to keep few dll's in a folder other than the bin folder for my .NET 3.5 Windows application. I am unsure of how would I use the codebase element or the probing element to specify the right path. This is what I have in the app.config file…

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Quadratic probing over Linear probing
For a given hash value, the indices generated by linear probing are as follows:
h, h+1, h+2, h+3, etc..
For a given hash value, the indices generated by quadratic probing are as follows:
h, h+1, h+4, h+9, etc..
There will be cluster formed in…

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Limit for quadratic probing a hash table
I was doing a program to compare the average and maximum accesses required for linear probing, quadratic probing and separate chaining in hash table.
I had done the element insertion part for 3 cases. While finding the element from hash table, I…

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Probing the assembly from parent directory of the exe
i have a folder structure as IntegrationClient\SampleClient\Client.Exe. I have created a folder DrawingClient with lot of thirdparty assemblies. For client.exe to find the assembly at runtime , i have used probing path as below and it…

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nunit-agent seems to be failing to load probing privatePath from tests configuration
Previously, when I had only Visual Studio 2010, my unit tests were executing fine.
Basically, my tests are composed of two files: UnitTests.dll and UnitTests.dll.config. Where UniTests.dll.config had a custom probing privatePath (e.g.,…

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Accessing assemblies in directory other than bin from razor view pages
I have a simple ASP.NET MVC 4 Project. I want to load assembly from 'lib' folder in root of my project instead of 'bin' folder.
I add to my web.config. I have custom.dll in 'lib' folder.
Now i can write using…

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Probing every R'th location for hashing
Something I was curious about from my lecture:
Suppose we want to probe every Rth location for the function x mod 10 and R = 2.
Now to hash 4, 14, 114, 1114, and 11114:
4 would go in slot 4.
14 would first try to get into slot 4, but seeing that…

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What is the cost of deleting a value from a hashtable?
Now I have this question where I was asked the cost of deleting a value from a hash table when we used linear probing while the insertion process.
What I could figure out from reading various stuff on the internet is that it has to do something with…

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Can not load managed assembly that is located in the same folder
To recreate my production environment I created the following folder structure:
c:\TEST\tested.dll
c:\TEST\tested\tools.dll
The tested.dll is compiled using the following App.config file:
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