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• How to determine event subscriptions at runtime

  I’ve been wanting to know this for years, and finally discovered it the other day when looking inside the Microsoft Composite Application Blocks class in Microsoft.Practices.CompositeUI.BuilderStrategies. CommandStrategy. There’s some code in this class Read More... Posted 02 February 2011 09:58 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: C#, .NET, .NET 2.0, code, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, Howto, .NET4.0

• DataTable serialization in .NET

  using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using System.Data; using System.IO; namespace DataSetSerializer { class Program { static void Main( string [] args) { //Serialize a data table to a string DataTable dataTable = new DataTable Read More... Posted 29 October 2009 16:10 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, C#, .NET, .NET 2.0, C# 2.0, code, ASP.NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5

• How to rhino mock a WCF service

  See this article here... http://kashfarooq.wordpress.com/2008/11/29/mocking-wcf-services-with-rhinomocks/ Read More... Posted 11 August 2009 16:35 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: C#, .NET, C# 2.0, WCF, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5

• WCF Error: Large amounts of data from client gives error: The remote server returned an unexpected response: (400) Bad Request

  The remote server returned an unexpected response: (400) Bad Request. Server stack trace: at System.ServiceModel.Channels.HttpChannelUtilities.ValidateRequestReplyResponse(HttpWebRequest request, HttpWebResponse response, HttpChannelFactory factory, WebException Read More... Posted 02 July 2009 09:40 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, C# 2.0, WCF, .NET 3.0, Gotcha

• Hacking visual studio to use greater than 2GB of memory

  See here http://stevenharman.net/blog/archive/2008/04/29/hacking-visual-studio-to-use-more-than-2gigabytes-of-memory.aspx Read More... Posted 13 June 2008 15:15 by merrick.chaffer | 1 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, C#, .NET, .NET 2.0, Visual Studio, .NET 3.0, Gotcha, .NET 3.5

• Code coverage in Visual Studio 2008 using Test driven .NET and Team Coverage

  A colleague of mine this week showed me his code coverage as being over 94% for his production code, which impressed me so much, it spurred me on to ensure that all code paths in my code from now on go blue instead of red when testing with Team coverage, Read More... Posted 13 June 2008 14:55 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Team System, C#, .NET, .NET 2.0, Visual Studio, code, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5

• WCF System.Net.WebException: The underlying connection was closed: The connection was closed unexpectedly

  WCF System.Net.WebException: The underlying connection was closed: The connection was closed unexpectedly If you get the above error when trying to return large numbers of items in a List<T> from a WCF service, then ensure you have set the following Read More... Posted 19 September 2007 09:24 by merrick.chaffer | 1 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, C# 2.0, WCF, .NET 3.0, Gotcha

• How to uninstall / install a guidance package using InstallUtil.exe

  C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\InstallUtil.exe /DesignMode /u /ShowCallStack /Configuration="C:\Data\Merrick\Projects\Data Access Guidance Package\Data Access Guidance Package\Data Access Guidance Package\bin\Debug\\Data Access Guidance Read More... Posted 02 May 2007 15:49 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, C#, .NET, .NET 2.0, C# 2.0, Visual Studio, .NET 3.0, Guidance Automation Extensions

• Windows Workflow SqlWorkflowPersistenceService configuration using app.config

  I was reading the other day from the microsoft msdn ( http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa349366.aspx ) that you can add the SqlWorkflowPersistence service to your WorkflowRuntime instance via the app.config. It says the following… Adding Read More... Posted 25 April 2007 11:43 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, .NET 3.0, Windows Workflow

• Passing Enum values into WCF Service operations

  24/01/2012 - Have added an update at the bottom of this article today, as it turns out that for Simple Enumerations this is not required by the DataContractSerializer. In order to pass Enum values around to your WCF service operations, then you must put Read More... Posted 03 April 2007 15:35 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: C#, .NET 2.0, Visual Studio, code, WCF, .NET 3.0