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Settings may refer to the tweaking which can be used to help improve the user-experience or performance etc.

Settings may refer to the tweaking which can be used to help improve the user-experience or performance etc. Settings typically represent a set of options which a user can choose from adjust the interface or controls of a certain application to their preferences.

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ConfigurationManager.AppSettings - How to modify and save?

It might sound too trival to ask and I do the same thing as suggested in articles, yet it doesn't work as expected. Hope someone can point me to the right direction. I would like to save the usersettings per AppSettings. Once the Winform is closed I…
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maven "cannot find symbol" message unhelpful

This is a really simple question, and it's probably a setting somewhere I don't know about, but Google is being particularly unhelpful for this question, giving results about compilation errors, not how to change compilation error messages. When I…
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C# - approach for saving user settings in a WPF application?

What approach do you recommend for persisting user settings in a WPF windows (desktop) application? Note that the idea is that the user can change their settings at run time, and then can close down the application, then when starting up the…
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Make Visual Studio use VS code shortcut keys / key bindings

I've been using VSCode a lot lately and have gotten used to the keys-shortcuts/key-bindings (Ctrl+D, Ctrl+P, Alt+leftArrow, etc). However I've recently had some work where I needed to use regular Visual Studio (Microsoft Visual Studio Enterprise…
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How do you change background color in the settings of JetBrain's IDE?

What are the settings to change the background color in JetBrains' IDE? Project explorer pane Console pane Code editor Other Panes I'm running v12.1.6 Ultimate Version. Are there major differences between different versions of the software?
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Error: Module not specified (IntelliJ IDEA)

I was trying to execute a simple program in IntelliJ IDEA as a static web project. I'm newbie and I'm learning web development with Node.js. I took help from the official website of IntelliJ IDEA, but the error was same. Though, I configured the…
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iOS Launching Settings -> Restrictions URL Scheme

I've recently discovered the awesome iOS5 custom Settings URL Scheme, which can be explained in detail at this great website. I've found this to work, directing the user to the Settings app from my application: [[UIApplication sharedApplication]…
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Disable click and drag cut and paste in IntelliJ Idea IDE

In my IntelliJ Idea 13.1.2 IDE I keep running into situations where I'm selecting on a click and drag via my laptop touch pad. I keep accidentally clicking and dragging text and cutting lines. I've searched the options and settings panels for the…
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Creating a simple configuration file and parser in C++

I am trying to create a simple configuration file that looks like this url = http://mysite.com file = main.exe true = 0 when the program runs, I would like it to load the configuration settings into the programs variables listed below. string url,…
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Django Local Settings

I'm trying to use local_setting in Django 1.2, but it's not working for me. At the moment I'm just adding local_settings.py to my project. settings.py DATABASES = { 'default': { 'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql', # Add…
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How can I export/import settings of Sublime Text 3 from one PC to another using Windows?

I use Sublime Text 3 in my company and I want to export all the settings, including packages and whatever, to use the same configurations in Sublime Text 3 I have at home. How can I do this? PS.: I use Windows 8
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Storing the secrets (passwords) in a separate file

What's the simplest way to store the application secrets (passwords, access tokens) for a Python script? I thought it'd be a *.yml file like in Ruby but surprisingly I found that it wasn't the case. So what is it then? What are the most simplest…
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What is the difference between app.config file and XYZ.settings file?

I am actually in the learning phase of .NET related stuff and I was exploring how to save the application. I ended up writing my own class which saves the settings in an XML file and then I found that .NET itself supports saving application…
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avoid string printed to console getting truncated (in RStudio)

I want to print a long string to the RStudio console so that it does not get truncated. > paste(1:300, letters, collapse=" ") [1] "1 a 2 b 3 c 4 d 5 e 6 f 7 g 8 h 9 i ... 181 y 182 z 183 a 184 b... I supposed this should be fairly…
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Stop default Autocomplete behavior when hitting spacebar

NOTE The keyword here is "default". I know I can hit escape and the default behavior gets aborted. I don't want to hit the escape key every time the IDE thinks it knows what I want. I didn't have to do this in 2013. ADDENDUM 2 It seems I'm still…
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