Does anyone know of a good example of how to expose a WCF service programatically without the use of a configuration file? I know the service object model is much richer now with WCF, so I know it's possible. I just have not seen an example of how to do so. Conversely, I would like to see how consuming without a configuration file is don...
From what I've seen the tag is ignored when hosting a WCF service in IIS. I understand that when self-hosting this is required but is this harmful or even used when operating under IIS? ex. <system.serviceModel> <service blah blah blah> <host> <baseAddresses> <add baseAddress="http://localhost/blah" /> </bas...
Hi, I'm really confused by the various configuration options for .Net configuration of dll's, ASP.net websites etc in .Net v2 - especially when considering the impact of a config file at the UI / end-user end of the chain. So, for example, some of the applications I work with use settings which we access with: string blah = AppLib.Pro...
I was wondering if anybody knew of a method to configure apache to fall back to returning a static HTML page, should it (Apache) be able to determine that PHP has died? This would provide the developer with a elegant solution to displaying an error page and not (worst case scenario) the source code of the PHP page that should have been ...
Would like to programmically change the connecton string for a database which utilizes the membership provider of asp.net within a windows application. The system.configuration namespace allows changes to the user settings, however, we would like to adjust a application setting? Does one need to write a class with utilizes XML to modify ...
I'm setting up a Jabber server for my website. I've already got some user accounts in place in the openfire database, and working IMs between them. I'm now looking to add (some) of the users from my main database ('members' table, with 'login', 'password'[plain text]) and 'allowed_to_IM'[0 or 1] fields) to allow them to communicate bet...
I've troubles setting VIM (7.1.xxx) for editing python files. Identing seems broken (optimal 4 spaces). I've followed some tutorials I found via google. Still no effect :/ Please help. ...
How can I load a python module given its full path? Note that the file can be anywhere in the filesystem, as it is a configuration option. ...
I administrate several Oracle Apps environment, and currently check profile options in lots of environments by loading up forms in each environment, and manually checking each variable, which requires a lot of time. Is there a snippet of code which will list profile options and at what level and who they are applied to? ...
How would one configurably set http-headers to cache files in IIS >= 6? Example: *.cache.* => cache nearly forever *.nocache.* => never cache An example framework using this naming would be the GWT framework. ...
Ok, I've run across my first StackOverflowError since joining this site, I figured this is a must post :-). My environment is Seam 2.0.1.GA, JBoss 4.2.2.GA and I'm using JSF. I am in the process of converting from a facelets view to JSP to take advantage of some existing JSP tags used on our existing site. I changed the faces-config...
I am trying to have Apache follow a symlink to a raid array server that will contain some large data files. I have tried modifying httpd.conf to have an entry like this Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride all Order allow,deny Allow from all to have Apache follow any sym link in the Sites folder. I keep getting an error ret...
I have a set of WCF web services connected to dynamically by a desktop application. My problem is the really detailed config settings that WCF requires to work. Getting SSL to work involves custom settings. Getting MTOM or anything else to work requires more. You want compression? Here we go again... WCF is really powerful - you can us...
Suppose a large composite application built on several foundation components packaged in their own assemblies: (database reading, protocol handlers, etc.). For some deployments, this can include over 20 assemblies. Each of these assemblies has settings or configuration information. Our team tends to like the VS settings editor (and t...
In a WinForms 2.0 C# application, what is the typical method used for saving and restoring form position and size in an application? Related, is it possible to add new User scoped application settings AT RUNTIME? I totally see how to add settings at design time, that's not a problem. But what if I want to create one at runtime? More de...
You might have a set of properties that is used on the developer machine, which varies from developer to developer, another set for a staging environment, and yet another for the production environment. In a Spring application you may also have beans that you want to load in a local environment but not in a production environment, and ...
For ASP.Net application deployment what type of information (if any) are you storing in the machine.config? If you're not using it, how are you managing environment specific configuration settings that may change for each environment? I'm looking for some "best practices" and the benefits/pitfalls of each. We're about to deploy a bran...
We have a suite of interlinked .Net 3.5 applications. Some are web sites, some are web services, and some are windows applications. Each app currently has its own configuration file (app.config or web.config), and currently there are some duplicate keys across the config files (which at the moment are kept in sync manually) as multiple a...
Just bought a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo iMac with 2GB of memory and a 320GB hard drive. I plan on doing some .net development on it using a BootCamp/VMWare combo since VMWare grants access to the bootcamp partition. What is a recommended size for a BootCamp partition and how much memory should I give VMWare? Any pitfalls to watch out for?...
I need to store app specific configuration in rails. But it has to be: reachable in any file (model, view, helpers and controllers environment specified (or not), that means each environment can overwrite the configs specified in environment.rb I've tried to use environment.rb and put something like USE_USER_APP = true that worked...