Performance problems are generally difficult to find the root cause of and fix. There are so many ‘touch points’ that where to start looking much less finding the root cause while the issue is happening, can be a challenge. I found these 4 Compression settings very interesting and a system administrator should review them and […]
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The Professional Microsoft IIS 8 book is now available, check it out. I had the opportunity to contribute a few chapters to it. What an awesome experience! There are lots of examples, experiences, discussions and reviews of the new features found in IIS 8. You can get an inside look at the contents on Amazon […]
Read More →If you have ever used a tool that allows you to view the request and response headers, you certainly know that there is some information being passed back and forth between the client and the server that is not simply visible. An example of possible fields can be found here or here. New in IIS […]
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In all of my NHibernate implementations I serialize the startup. It saves a noticeable amount of time. We know that without it, NHibernate validates all the mapping files each time we start the program. If we only have 1 or 2 simple files it is not a problem, however, if you have a large implementation, […]
Read More →The following error is generally caused when there is a misspelling or case miss match between the class file and the mapping file. Review the contents of both and confirm spelling and case are the same so that the ‘Could not compile the mapping document: hbm.xml’ error can be avoided. The inner exception is something […]
Read More →The newest release is as BETA 1 when writing this blog an it contains some new and nice features. One of my favorite is that as a programmer we no longer need to configure a proxy. It was always a little confusing knowing which one to choose, I.e. looking in the Required_For_LazyLoading directory and deciding […]
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I have been working hard learning the new features of ASP.NET 4.5, specifically using the following methods: HttpResponse.BeginFlush HttpResponse.EndFlush Stream.ReadAsync HttpRequest.GetBufferedInputStream HttpRequest.GetBefferlessInputStream Stream.BeginRead Stream.EndRead All of which need to be implemented using either a handler or module, if you want to use them in IIS. Can’t say that I did this a lot in the […]
Read More →This is unfortunately more of a hack than a solution, but I thought I would share it any way. I had the situation where I needed to validate the entered time into a masked textbox. The masked textbox is a Windows Form control, but I hosted it within a WPF window using the WIndowsFormsHost element. […]
Read More →The equivalent to LIKE via the LINQ to NHibernate provider is Contains. An example of a LINQ to NHibernate that will return a result set matching a search like parameter is below. IQueryable<Classname> linqLIKE = (from m in session.Query<Classname>() where m.Code.Contains(“%dex%”) orderby m.CreateDate select m); IList<Classname> ListLIKE = linqLIKE.ToList(); The above […]
Read More →Firstly, let me say that there is nothing special about this upgrade. The instructions which I wrote here will still work with an 11g database. The issue I had was more with, what is the difference between a SID and a SERVICE_NAME which is used to identify the data instance to connection to. The SID […]
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