It uses the C# 4.0 dynamic feature. It achieves the same goal as viewdata and should be avoided in favor of using strongly typed view models (the same way as viewdata should be avoided). So basically it replaces magic strings: ViewData[“Foo”] with magic properties: ViewBag.Foo for which you have no compile time safety. I continue … Read more
Some of these fall into the category of general NLog (or logging) tips rather than strictly configuration suggestions. Here are some general logging links from here at SO (you might have seen some or all of these already): log4net vs. Nlog Logging best practices What’s the point of a logging facade? Why do loggers recommend … Read more
What’s new in .NET Framework 4 Client Profile RTM explains many of the differences: When to use NET4 Client Profile and when to use NET4 Full Framework? NET4 Client Profile: Always target NET4 Client Profile for all your client desktop applications (including Windows Forms and WPF apps). NET4 Full framework: Target NET4 Full only if … Read more
Also take a look at ILSpy by SharpDevelop. It’s in early stages of development and they just made a release on the 24th of February. That in itself works pretty good for me. From their website: ILSpy is the open-source .NET assembly browser and decompiler. Development started after Red Gate announced that the free version … Read more
Because Stage is required, all one-to-many relationships where Stage is involved will have cascading delete enabled by default. It means, if you delete a Stage entity the delete will cascade directly to Side the delete will cascade directly to Card and because Card and Side have a required one-to-many relationship with cascading delete enabled by … Read more
CurrentCulture is the .NET representation of the default user locale of the system. This controls default number and date formatting and the like. CurrentUICulture refers to the default user interface language, a setting introduced in Windows 2000. This is primarily regarding the UI localization/translation part of your app. Whatever regional options the system is configured … Read more
F8 (and Shift+F8 to go backwards). Or at least that’s what it is in my keyboard profile – you can go to tools\options\environment\keyboard and check out Edit.GoToNextLocation. Note If you configured Visual Studio using VB keyboard settings, no key has been assigned to this function. You need to pick your own and assign them.
Open web.config file and find the System.Web.Mvc assembly definition: assembly=”System.Web.Mvc, Version=3.0.0.0 …” It’s an MVC3 as you see. Via web you can use MvcDiagnostics which is similar to phpinfo() functionality in PHP.
The COM threading model is called an “apartment” model, where the execution context of initialized COM objects is associated with either a single thread (Single Thread Apartment) or many threads (Multi Thread Apartment). In this model, a COM object, once initialized in an apartment, is part of that apartment for the duration of its runtime. … Read more