I’ve been trying to find workflow resources on Twitter but unlike some other technologies, there doesn’t seem to be much regular traffic. The hashtag #WF4 does seem to be used and I’ve started a twitter list of people I find regularly talking about WF4.0 on-line.
Something that appears to be missing from many logging frameworks is the ability to log/report the “data” collection of any thrown exceptions. I originally encountered this issue with log4net, and have recently found nLog appears to be lacking the same desired functionality. As our current project looks like it will be switching to using nLog…
GACUTIL.EXE is no longer supplied/installed along with Visual Studio, instead, it has been moved into the Windows SDK v7.1. So to install a DLL into the GAC for .NET 4.0 (or anything after v1.1 I believe) you must first download and install the SDK. Once you have done this you must locate the relevant version…
I guess the obvious answer is “yes” as there is always notepad and command line compilation, but if you want to use Visual Studio or do anything with IIS, Message Queues, etc. then the answer quickly becomes a frustrating no! This hasn’t usually been a problem, but having just started in a new job which…
I’ve just spent a good couple of hours trying to debug what appeared to be a corrupt session in NHibernate. The unit tests would work, isolating the NHibernate code causing the problem worked, but within the application when calling Session.Save() the code always complained about a corrupt session. Finally, after much investigation and head-scratching, the…
In this post, we will extend the query functionality to handle stored procedures with parameters. To do this we need to create a new query type interface with an example implementation: [code language=”csharp”] public interface IDefineAStoredProcedureQuery : IQuery { string StoredProcName { get; } IList<SqlParameter> Parameters { get; } } public class GetCustomersByFirstName : IDefineAStoredProcedureQuery…
If you’re using WIX and you’re adding components to the product file by hand then you’ve probably found yourself creating and cutting/pasting a lot of GUIDs which can be a real pain and productivity killer. There is the “Create GUID” menu option under tools but that still requires calling and then cutting / pasting. The…