Moving My Blog
I changed my web hoster over the weekend, and when ran into a few snags migrating dasBlog to the new Windows Server 2008 / IIS7 environment. While shoveling and wiring and taping, I found BlogEngine.NET. Super cool. It's a very simple and extensible .NET blogging platform. To make a long story short, my blog is now running on BlogEngine. I also changed the address to be a little easier on the eyes. It's now www.teamjohnston.net/b...
SQLCE Error 26100: The table name is not valid
If you're using LINQ to SQL with SQLCE and use the DataContext.CreateDatabase() method, you may encounter this error. If you used the LINQ to SQL class designer to generate the classes from a different database provider (such as SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server Express), the table source names may be prefixed with "dbo." Just remove the prefix, and CreateDatabase() will succeed.
FatalExecutionEngineError returning from WPF PageFunction
I'm posting this for future reference. If you invoke a PageFunction and add an event handler to the PageFunction's Return event, the event handler must be an instance method of the calling page. No other method will do. If the event handler doesn't meet this criteria, you'll see the FatalExecutionEngineError thrown when you return from the PageFunction. Sorry, no separation of concerns allowed.
ClickOnce Error after upgrading to VS 2008
We recently upgraded to VS 2008 RTM at work, and shortly after discovered that a new build of our ClickOnce-deployed WinForms application failed to install correctly! During the download process, a message box would display, and the log details revealed an InvalidDeploymentException (RefDefValidation) in System.Deployment.Application.DownloadManager.ProcessDownloadedFile(). Let me just say that days of fruitless investigation followed. ...
Service Locator in Code?
Phil Haack posed a question today about dependency injection frameworks: Normally, I would just specify a type to instantiate as another PluginFamily entry. But what I really want to happen in this case is for StructureMap to call a method or delegate and use the value returned as the constructor argument. ... Does anyone know if something like this is possible with any of the Dependency Injection frameworks out there? Whether via code or ...