Manni on DotNet

Working on some code I ran into a FluentConfigurationException when trying create the session factory. With (much) more experience I probabl...

We are in the process of migrating our code base from Visual Studio 2008 to Visual Studio 2010. To give you an indication for the size of th...

Whenever you are tempted to write “” as a string somewhere in your C# code use String.Empty instead. What is the difference? Technically one...

Today I tried to set up a web server connected to my wireless router. The objective was to be able to test a web site I’m working on. I have...

Scott Hanselman discussed in his blog some time ago the challenge with deploying MVC 3 applications where MVC is not installed on the serve...

In PostgreSQL identifiers for tables, columns, etc. are case sensitive. The problem is, though, that when you access PostgreSQL through the...

Creating an index in PostgreSQL can be achieved by executing the following SQL command: CREATE UNIQUE INDEX "<indexName>" ...

I just added another entry to the “Suggested Links” section. There are quite a few sites about agile approaches in particular for software d...

Embarrassing but I still would like to share this in case it drives you nuts ... well I even re-installed Visual Studio to resolve this. Wha...

I just added another entry to the “Interesting Links” section. There are quite a few sites about agile approaches in particular for software...

While experimenting with ASP.NET MVC 2 – I’m working through “Professional ASP.NET MVC 2” - I also took a lock at some of the generated code...

In an ASP.NET application if you want to manipulate the HTML code after it has been rendered but before it is being sent back to the client,...

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...