I think you are fighting the framework. The data going into your views should be created at the Last Possible Minute (LPM). Thinking this way, a SelectList is a type to feed the DropDownList HTML helper. It is NOT a place to store data while you decide how to process it. A better solution would … Read more
After troubleshooting this for hours and sitting on the phone with my hosting group they discovered that there was a problem with their networking configuration. The solution was made clearer when during my testing one of the VM’s suddenly couldn’t find the domain, and a simple ‘ping’ to the IP of each box from the … Read more
First you add a property in the class that extends Section: [ConfigurationProperty(“pages”, IsDefaultCollection = false)] [ConfigurationCollection(typeof(PageCollection), AddItemName = “add”)] public PageCollection Pages { get { return (PageCollection) this[“pages”]; } } Then you need to make a PageCollection class. All the examples I’ve seen are pretty much identical so just copy this one and rename “NamedService” … Read more
Application entry points should be the composition root, as per Mark Seemann’s excellent book on Dependency Injection. Here, the issue is more about Dependency Inversion, whereby both client and implementation should both depend on abstractions. What that diagram doesn’t show, but hopefully other parts of the book make clear, is that the entry point will … Read more
The AssemblyName class can parse the assembly name for you, just pass in the string to its constructor. If you have an assembly qualified type name, I think you’ll have to strip of the type part of the string first (ie everything up to the first comma).
Depends on the project, but I’ve got the following for a Silverlight + WPF project in my .gitignore: # Visual Studio left-overs *.suo # ‘user’ settings like ‘which file is open in Visual Studio’ *.ncb # Used for debugging *.user *.ccscc # Used for versioning *.cache # Editor left-overs *~ # (x)emacs *.bak # Windows … Read more
This is a permissions problem – you should give the running user permission to read the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\EventLog Alternaitvely you can bypas the CreateEventSource removing the need to access this registry key. Both solutions are explained in more detail in the following thread – How do I create an Event Log source under … Read more
You’re looking for App.Current.Exit()
Explanation For a sample scenario let’s say we have project X, assembly A, and assembly B. Assembly A references assembly B, so project X includes a reference to both A and B. Also, project X includes code that references assembly A (e.g. A.SomeFunction()). Now, you create a new project Y which references project X. So … Read more
Take a look at DotNetZip (@AFract supplied a new link to GitHub in the comments) It has got pretty geat documentation and it also allow you to load the dll at runtime as an embeded file.