what's in your .bashrc ?
.bashrc modifications are like nesting for developers. All I have right now is a few aliases and some PATH modifications. What's in yours?...
configuration
ConfigurationManager.AppSettings Performance Concerns
I plan to be storing all my config settings in my application's app.config section (using the ConfigurationManager.AppSettings class). As the user changes settings using the app's UI (clicking checkboxes, choosing radio buttons, etc.), I plan to be writing those changes out to the AppSettings. At the same time, while the program is runni...
Using ConfigurationManager to load config from an arbitrary location
I'm developing a data access component that will be used in a website that contains a mix of classic ASP and ASP.NET pages, and need a good way to manage its configuration settings. I'd like to use a custom ConfigurationSection, and for the ASP.NET pages this works great. But when the component is called via COM interop from a classic AS...
Are there any decent free JAVA data plotting libraries out there?
On a recent JAVA project, we needed a free JAVA based real-time data plotting utility. After much searching, we found this tool called the Scientific Graphics Toolkit or SGT from NOAA. It seemed pretty robust, but we found out that it wasn't terribly configurable. Or at least not configurable enough to meet our needs. We ended up dig...
User authentication on Resin webserver
I'm currently tasked with replacing an Apache + Resin Java web server with a Resin-only configuration. Currently in our apache setup, we use .htaccess and a small user database to provide passwording at a directory level. Does anyone know the equivalent setup when using just Resin as the web server? ...
Enterprise Library CacheFactory.GetCacheManager Throws Null Ref
I'm trying to convert an application using the 1.1 version of the Enterprise Library Caching block over to the 2.0 version. I think where I'm really having a problem is that the configuration for the different EntLib pieces was split out over several files. Apparently, this used to be handled by the ConfigurationManagerSectionHandler, ...
Impersonation in IIS 7.0
I have a website that works correctly under IIS 6.0: It authenticates users with windows credentials, and then when talking to the service that hits the DB, it passes the credentials. In IIS 7.0, the same config settings do not pass the credentials, and the DB gets hit with NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS. Is there something I'm missing? I've t...
How do I run (unit) tests in different folders/projects separately in Visual Studio?
I need some advice as to how I easily can separate test runs for unit tests and integration test in Visual Studio. Often, or always, I structure the solution as presented in the above picture: separate projects for unit tests and integration tests. The unit tests is run very frequently while the integration tests naturally is run when ...
Is there a way to get a System.Configuration.Configuration instance based on arbitrary xml?
I'm trying to unit test a custom ConfigurationSection I've written, and I'd like to load some arbitrary configuration XML into a System.Configuration.Configuration for each test (rather than put the test configuration xml in the Tests.dll.config file. That is, I'd like to do something like this: Configuration testConfig = new Configura...
Programmatically encrypting a config-file in .NET
Could somebody please do a rundown of how to programmatically encrypt a config-file in .NET, preferably in C#. What I would like to do is do some kind of check on an application's startup to see if a section is unprotected, and if it is, then encrypt it. This for both settings and connection-strings. Also if anyone could list the types...
Java configuration framework
I'm in the process of weeding out all hardcoded values in a java library and was wondering what framework would be the best (in terms of zero- or close-to-zero configuration) to handle run-time configuration? I would prefer xml-based config-files, but it's not essential. Please do only reply if you have practical experience with a fram...
Software Deployment in a Virtual Environment
I'm looking for a way to give out preview or demo versions of our software to our customers as easy as possible. The software we are currently developing is a pretty big project. It consists of a client environment, an application server, various databases, web services host etc. The project is developed incrementally and we want to shi...
Convert Web.config from .NET 2.0 to 3.5
What is the minimum I need to add to a .NET 2.0 WebSite's web.config to make it .NET 3.5? Visual Studio adds all the config sections and script handlers, but if you aren't using those are they are really necessary? Is there a command line tool to "upgrade" a .NET 2.0 web.config to 3.5? ...
Apache - how do I build individual and/or all modules as shared modules
On Mac OS X 10.5 I downloaded the latest version of Apache 2.2.9. After the usual configure, make, make install dance I had a build of apache without mod_rewrite. This wasn't statically linked and the module was not built in the /modules folder either. I had to do the following to build Apache and mod_rewrite: ./configure --prefix=/usr...
How do you prevent the IIS default site web.config file being inherited by virtual directories?
I have the following code in a web.config file of the default IIS site. <httpModules> <add type="MDL.BexWebControls.Charts.ChartStreamHandler,Charts" name="ChartStreamHandler"/> </httpModules> Then when I setup and browse to a virtual directory I get this error Could not load file or assembly 'Charts' or one of its dependencies. ...
How to use p4merge as the merge/diff tool for Mercurial?
Does anyone know how to setup Mercurial to use p4merge as the merge/diff tool on OS X 10.5? ...
Override WebClientProtocol.Timeout via web.config
Is it possible to override default value of WebClientProtocol.Timeout property via web.config? <httpRuntime executionTimeout="500" /> <!-- this doesn't help --> ...
Configuring sendmail behind a firewall
I'm setting up a server which is on a network behind a firewall and I want programs on this computer to be able to use sendmail to send emails to any email address. We have an SMTP server running on this network (let's call it mailrelay.example.com) which is how we're supposed to get outgoing emails through the firewall. So how do I co...
How many app.config files are you allowed to have per AppDomain?
I'm hoping there's a way to avoid custom configuration files if an application runs in a single AppDomain. ...
How to change "Generate Method Stub" to throw NotImplementedException in VS?
How can I change default Generate Method Stub behavior in Visaul Studio to generate method with body throw new NotImplementedException(); instead of throw new Exception("The method or operation is not implemented."); ...