Manni on DotNet

When you use the automapping feature of Fluent NHibernate you will very quickly encounter a class called DefaultAutomappingConfiguration. T...

Please note that the following may be a corner case or an isolated case. If not then something is not quite right with running NUnit based t...

DirectoryInfo.Delete() will fail with UnauthorizedAccessException if that directory or any of its subdirectories contains a file that is rea...

Today I ran into a small issue as ReSharper was not willing to execute my tests. Generally it does but today it was different. Let me explai...

A question at stack overflow whether NHibernate and migratordotnet play nicely together caught my interest. So I started a little experi...

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...