Manni on DotNet

When working with Azure you’ll eventually work with storage (blob, table, …). Wouldn’t it be nice if you had a simple way to browse through ...

I was implementing a view using ASP.NET MVC, MVC 4 in this case but I suspect the version is irrelevant. I received a NullReferenceException...

Assume that in your ASP.NET application you need to access a file that is part of the deployed web site. On the other hand you would like to...

In the course of working on an ASP.NET MVC 3 based project I updated jQuery via NuGet. This worked as expected, except for one view where th...

Just noticed an interesting behavior of a solution that contains about 20 projects and one WiX project. It would fail when using “Rebuild Al...

Some time ago I blogged about how to implement a WCF client in C# using VS2008. In particular I mentioned that implementing the client side...

In case you need to compare language features of VB.NET and C#, you might find the following URL helpful. It contains a quite detailed comp...

Version 6.x of ReSharper appears to have a tendency to forget about some tests in a solution once a while (at least once a day in my case). ...

While implementing an aspect using Ninject along with its Ninject.Extensions.Interception I found that it wouldn’t work with arguments (par...

In a details view for creating a new model object I wanted to replace the Cancel link with a Cancel button. I wanted both to be buttons as I...

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...