Manni on DotNet

There are plenty of examples available on the internet that are good introductions into the basics of a Lucene.NET index. They explain how ...

Yes, there are already a few posts out there, and yet I think there is value in providing just a recipe to make it work in your ASP.NET proj...

Yes, you can do wild card searches with Lucene.Net . For example you can search for the term “Mc*” in a database with names it will then ret...

After you have succesfully created your first index with Lucene.Net you might wonder whether the index was actually created as you wanted. ...

Just ran into the following error/failure when updating a service reference to a WCF based service: The challenge I had was that I coul...

I’m probably the last one to notice… And if not, here is the subversion (SVN) repository location of Lucene.NET after it has come out of Ap...

Admittedly MVC (as of writing I use ASP.NET MVC 2) has been designed from the ground up for automated testability ( tutorial video about add...

Just tried to use Microsoft’s online documentation for ModelStateDictionary.AddModelError() . The following picture is a screen shot as of 3...

Ok, this is not a .NET topic at all. Still. This problem got increasingly annoying on my Vista laptop. Upon each reboot, and at least once a...

When you search the net for a solution to formatting source code for your blog there won’t be a shortage of hits. I’ve tried quite a large n...

Sending an email can be tested in many different ways. One option could be setting up an account with an online email provider (Yahoo, Hotma...

In my last two posts I wrote about memory consumption of the VS 2010/Resharper 5 combo. In one of the posts I demonstrated how an average o...

After some discussions with a friend (thank you, Steve!) I have conducted further tests. This time I ran my little experiment with just Visu...

The final word on memory consumption for R# is still not said. It looks as if the jury is till out. But judge for yourself. I ran the foll...

Feature-wise Microsoft’s new Visual Studio 2010 is definitely a big step forward. I spare you the details. In addition a large number of ext...

Sometimes you may want to protect certain functionality from being used by automated tools. One way of preventing this from happening is usi...

I posted in the past about the memory consumption of ReSharper 4.5 with large solutions containing C# but also many C++ projects with over ...

In certain situations empty arrays of a specific type can be handy. Of course you could always use “new MyType[0]” to instantiate such an em...

Ok, I’ve been a bit quiet on csUnit for a while. The reason being that I tried to get a plug-in for ReSharper running. And to some degree I ...

In one of my recent posts I demonstrated how to implement a simple WCF service using Visual Studio 2008. This time I’ll look at how to impl...