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Visual Studio appears to randomly adopt American keyboard layout

Gah! This is really causing me hassle today. Suddenly without warning '@' (at symbol) and '"' (double quote) are trading places on my keyboard but ONLY in Visual Studio 2008! I can't seem to find anything in help or online to explain/remedy this.…
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WPF StringFormat={0:C} showing as dollars

Why does this line of code Output the result as $xx.xx when all my regional settings are set to UK. I expect it to output it as £xx.xx. Any ideas? I have tried different variations of the…
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Android Developer Dashboard national/regional version

As many of you may know, Google has provided us with a nice Dashboard that shows us the current distribution of active Android devices along certain characteristics, such as platform version or screen size. It would be nice to have some similar…
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How to get the target domain name of a custom domain for Regional AWS API Gateway in Cloudformation?

I'm trying to create a multi-region serverless application on AWS. I've followed the instructions given here. I'm using Serverless framework, which uses Cloudformation scripts for creating all the resources on AWS. I want to create a custom domain…
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Convert string with commas to float

Is there a built-in Delphi function which would convert a string such as '3,232.00' to float? StrToFloat raises an exception because of the comma. Or is the only way to strip out the comma first and then do StrToFloat? Thanks.
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Detect whether iPhone is displaying time in 12-Hour or 24-Hour Mode?

How can you detect whether iPhone is displaying time in 12-Hour or 24-Hour Mode? I currently monitor the current region for changes, however that's not the only setting that affects how times are displayed. The 24-hour toggle in the date & time…
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Does DateTime.ToString("s") return always same format?

According to MSDN on DateTime.ToString ToString("s") should always return string in the format of the sortable XML Schema style formatting, e.g.: 2008-10-01T17:04:32.0000000 In Reflector I came to this pattern inside DateTimeFormatInfo. public…
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Accessing "Measurement System" unit names (kg/lb, m/in, etc) in C#

Windows allows configuration of Measurement system to Metric or U.S. Is there a way to use this setting to read (abbreviated) unit names in C#? e.g. when displaying a weight in Metric I want to show kg but in U.S. I want to show lb. Similarly for…
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Is it possible to create a keyboard layout that is identical to the keyboard used?

If I need to generate a keyboard layout for customization to the user that looks like his/her keyboard, how can I do it? For instance something like this: French, Swedish, English, Canadian, etc will have different layouts, right. Is this a lot of…
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Detecting regional settings (List Separator) from web

After having the unpleasant surprise that Comma Seperated Value (CSV) files are not necessarily comma-separated, I'm trying to find out if there is any way to detect what the regional settings list separator value is on the client machine from http…
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How to read 'List separator' from OS in Java?

I am writing a CSV exporter in Java that should respect the user's custom settings, especially the "List separator" to use as a delimiter. In Windows, one can set this List separator in Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options -> Regional…
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A python regex that matches the regional indicator character class

I am using python 2.7.10 on a Mac. Flags in emoji are indicated by a pair of Regional Indicator Symbols. I would like to write a python regex to insert spaces between a string of emoji flags. For example, this string is two Brazilian…
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How do you change your apparent country of origin to test a site?

I want to be able to set my country of origin - does this involve testing through a proxy, or is there something that can be set else where?
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What's the best way to push kafka messages from my edge nodes?

I have a worker in the primary region (US-East) that computes data on traffic at our edge locations. I want to push the data from an edge region to our primary kafka region. An example is Poland, Australia, US-West. I want to push all these stats…
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Date format broken in .net 4.0 for uk format

I'm in the process of converting a couple of sites up to .net 4.0 and I seem to have a problem with regionalisaion of dates. This code: Date.Today.AddDays((Date.Today.DayOfWeek - 1) * -1).ToString() In .net 3.5 produces: '19/04/2010 00:00:00' but…
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