Today I’ve started learning about Windows Workflow v4.0, I’m hoping that it will help out with a current project. The original requirement was for mapping real-world business processes to what would normally be complex long-running computer tasks. Whilst investigating what it could do I’m beginning to think there could be real value using it for…
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…
When writing or using an implementation of IComparer.Compare(x,y) you encounter the following error message: Unable to sort because the IComparer.Compare() method returns inconsistent results. Either a value does not compare equal to itself, or one value repeatedly compared to another value yields different results It is highly likely that the code within the “Compare” statement…
In Part 1 of this series, we started with a basic Data-Reader / SQL Connection/Command pattern and illustrated how it is possible to abstract the parsing of the Data Reader into a standalone object that can be fully unit tested in isolation of the calling code. In Part two of the series, we will highlight…
Recently we’ve been looking at improving our unit test code coverage and reducing the amount of duplicated code around our bespoke data access layer. Where possible we have moved over to NHibernate but certain parts of the data access must still be written using the standard ADO.NET connection/command pattern. Typically hidden right in the middle…
I’ve just installed MVC3.0 on a fresh PC using the new web installer application and was surprised at how long it seemed to be taking. Digging around a bit deeper I remembered that in the options I’d selected to use IIS rather than IIS Express and taking a quick look at the service panel highlighted…
Whilst working with VS2010 projects it can be really frustrating if you accidentally create your unit testing projects as class libraries (or migrate an existing class library into a unit testing library mainly because the context-sensitive “Add New” menu no longer contains the “New Test” option. This can be easily fixed by directly amending the…
Or better titled I’ve just registered my DLL in the GAC, why does it not appear in Visual Studio’s “Find Reference” dialog. It’s probably the first thing people notice after they’ve started using the GAC for the first time. You’ve managed to register your DLL and you’ve confirmed it is in the GAC, but it…
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…
One of the most commonly encountered issues when developing websites that must support both HTTP and HTTPS pages is the warning that a secure page “contains both secure and unsecured content”. In a nutshell, this is when a page that is being displayed via the HTTPS protocol contains one or more references to additional resources…