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Pulling all instances for a base type out of StructureMap

*** There may be a better way to do this with StructureMap, but this is the way I was able to get this to work *** Today I decided I wanted to move all my route mapping for Dimecasts out of the Global.asax file and into each of the various Controllers...

Published 12-05-2008 7:31 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, StructureMap, HowTo, ASP.Net MVC

"Operation could destabilize the runtime" from Casting from Concrete to Interfaces with Linq

In all my years of doing .Net I have to say that I finally came across the exception message that takes the cake. Today while trying to do some refactoring on the DimeCasts.net code base I received this exception. Operation could destabilize the runtime...

Published 11-29-2008 10:19 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, HowTo

Upgrading DimeCasts.net to MVC Preview 4

Today I decided to sit down and upgrade the Dimecasts.net code to run on MVC preview 4. To be honest I did not know exactly what to expect, and I have to say, it was kinda painful but not too bad. Let me first start off by saying this. Anyone that decides...

Published 07-26-2008 1:30 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, HowTo, ASP.Net MVC, DimeCasts.Net

How to have a Single Config File for multiple developers

In my last post I talked about how you can share a single config file among multiple project in a solution. One of the feedback comments I got was how to have a single config file for multiple developers or even multiple environments. So,...

Published 04-16-2008 8:13 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, .Net IDE, .Net, HowTo

Sorting List's the .Net 3.5 Way

This post is another in the recent string of How-to's. But it is just so hard to resist. .Net 3.5 has so many cool features, it is just fun to explore them all. Ok, so here is the issue we are going to solve today. We have a list of entities and we...

Published 03-28-2008 9:09 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, .Net, Opinion, HowTo, Linq, Lambda

Using System.ComponentModel Attributes to your advantage

The System.ComponentModel namespace (more information here ) in .Net contains an array of various attributes that every .Net developer should know about. These attributes provide a way for the developer to implement design-time and run-time behavior...

Published 01-30-2008 7:03 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, .Net IDE, .Net, UI, WinForms, HowTo

Using Anonymous Delegates to handle Async Web Service Calls

I just thought I would share a little trick I used today to back in Async web service calls into existing code using anonymous delegates. Here was my problem: I have a library that makes use of an existing web service that I do not control (so I cannot...

Published 10-15-2007 8:27 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, .Net, HowTo, Featured

MOSS Development: Getting your environment up and running.

I thought I would post a quick 'Getting-Started' guide for MOSS development. This post comes from my experience learning how to develop for MOSS. This post is a quick listing of what is needed to get your environment up and running. As you may...

Published 09-22-2007 4:29 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, .Net, asp.net, HowTo, SharePoint

Updating List Information in SharePoint via Web Services

In my continued learning on SharePoint and how to manipulate the data stored in SharePoint I thought I would post on how to perform updates on existing data inside a document library. When performing an update on data inside of SharePoint there are a...

Published 09-19-2007 7:49 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, HowTo, SharePoint, Featured

Hacking the GAC, How to enable standard directory browsing

Have you ever wanted to or needed to view the actual contents of the GAC? Not just what is in the GAC, but actually grab the assemblies that are there? I know I have. You may be asking WHY did you want to grab an assembly that is in the GAC. 2 reasons...

Published 08-30-2007 7:04 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, Fun Code, HowTo

Using XPath when there is Namespace information in the XML document

If you have ever worked with XML, you know that XPath is your friend. Today I working with an XML document that was generated via MSWord and the generated document was well formed and included namespaces. Now, I have worked with namespaces in XML in the...

Published 08-03-2007 12:28 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, .Net, HowTo

Using Sharepoint's Web Services to QueryDocuments.

For the latest thing I am doing at work I need to be able to grab some data from Sharepoint. I have chosen to do this by consuming SPServices.asmx server that is available. Because I was not able to find a decent post on the net on how to use/consume...

Published 07-21-2007 9:30 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, .Net, HowTo, SharePoint

C# 3.0 Extension Methods, a Simple HowTo#

I finally got around to installing Orcas on my laptop this weekend. You are probably asking yourself, what took so long? Simple, my laptop did not have the spare 14gigs needed in order to get it up and running. It took some pretty major house cleaning...

Published 07-08-2007 10:11 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, .Net, HowTo

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