It’s useful to include a version in DLLs that you deploy, to make it easy to check what code is actually being used where. We build our projects using TeamCity, and it’s possible to write build scripts that grab the version from an environment variable that TeamCity sets in order…
I had an issue recently when using the NServiceBus.Testing library (version 2.6.0.1504, which is a bit outdated now, but the problem is still interesting). The NServiceBus.Testing library comes with the popular Rhino Mocks framework built in, so by adding a reference to NServiceBus.Testing you automatically end up with the Rhino.Mocks…
There’s a great post here detailing how to add nested elements within a custom NAnt task. I was writing a task to create IIS websites, and wanted to be able to specify multiple bindings, for example: <IIS.Website.Create name=”MySite” physicalPath=”path”> <bindings> <binding type=”http” ip=”1.2.3.4″ port=”8080″ host=”domain.com” /> <binding type=”net.msmq” host=”localhost” /> </bindings> </IIS.Website.Create>…
I’ve just spent the day getting ANTLR set up to work within a Visual Studio 2010 solution, which wasn’t without pain. While there is quite a lot of (mostly useful) documentation, finding exactly what you want can be difficult, and the examples don’t necessarily work, which is always frustrating! Hopefully…
When you want to access nested properties on an object, e.g. Person.Address.Postcode, it’s annoying and bloated having to write this as a series of variable assignments and null checks at each stage if the properties are nullable. The set of extensions below allows the following example: public string GetSomething(A myClass)…
using System; namespace Extensions { public static class DateTimeExtensions { public static int Age(this DateTime birthDate) { return Age(birthDate, DateTime.Today); } public static int Age(this DateTime birthDateTime, DateTime atDateTime) { var birthDate = birthDateTime.Date; var atDate = atDateTime.Date; var age = atDate.Year – birthDate.Year; if (birthDate.AddYears(age) > atDate) { age–;…
Simple, but a few non-obvious things required: 1. Add a reference to System.Windows.Forms 2. Add a [STAThread] attribute above the Main method (see here for more information) 3. Now you’re ready to use the methods on Clipboard to write to the clipboard: … using System.Windows.Forms; namespace MyNamespace { public class…
Whereas ELMAH used to work pretty much straight out of the box, with MVC 3, a change to the global.asax.cs template means that ELMAH won’t automatically catch all errors, since MVC 3 has some built in error handling when custom errors are enabled. To remove this and let ELMAH catch…