Recently at work we were coding a particular feature that required us to extend properties with some functionality. We ended up extending type system with ExtendedPreoprty<T>. , where T was property type. This lead to a lot of ugly code, such as: Person p = new Person(); p.Name.Value = “John”; I remembered from a long …
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I have been working on many application during my career. Many if not all had some searching capabilities. The more complex the search got, the harder it was to control its performance and impact on database transactions. If you also would like to support full text search, your problems become larger. We could use Full …
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Today I was testing something with third party assemblies in our web site and saw a familiar error: Could not load file or assembly ‘XXXX.DLL’ or one of its dependencies. The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log or use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool for …
Recently I have been researching the ability to have Outlook style recurrence pattern calculations in .NET. Since I could not find anything, I just wrote one myself. It took a bit of time, but now the project is published on GitHub and NuGet. Library written for .NET that perform Outlook style recurrence calculations. The key …
As I was working on a build server, I ran into an issue importing pfx (assembly signing) files. I kept getting an error – “Failed to install key pair–Object already exists” trying to run the following command: sn –I myfile.pfx VS_KEY_XXXXXX Of course, I have to import my files on build machine in order to …
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As many other .NET developers I have been using Reflector for many years. As many others I was taken aback a bit when Red Gate decided to start charging for future versions of Reflector. I was probably not quite as upset as other folks primarily because at heart I am a pragmatist. I know that …
As I am working on my Entity Framework extras project, I found myself needing to determine table name in the database based on class name used with DbSet in my context. I was unable to find a way to query entity framework for this information, so I resorted to brute force approach, having to query …
I returned from Build conference Friday night. It was a really exciting conference in my opinion with a lot of new ideas revealed. Microsoft had kept a very tight lid on upcoming changes for many months, and none really knew what was going to be announced at the event. There were a number of speculations, …
Something I was pondering about today. Say, I have a class and I would like to subscribe to an event it raises, handle it once, and unsubscribe. Pretty easy scenario, and the code is just as simple. Here is my simple class with event arguments: using System; namespace EventsDemo { public class EventProvider { …