Debug Transaction trouble with Cache Consider the following problem: We have a web app which can send messages between the users that are connected to it. A user can send a message to any number of users. The implementation is simple: When a user sends a message The message
Tips and Tricks Defining Acceptance criteria for mapping conventions in NHibernate Today I'm hosting a post from Leeran Yarhi, one of the developers in my team: Hi guys, I’m Leeran Yarhi, a developer in Yossi’s team. Recently we had a problem while mapping one of our domain entities with Fluent NHibernate. We upgraded
Silverlight Unit testing in Silverlight My team is working on a Silverlight project for the last three months. One of the first issues we encountered was unit testing for the Silverlight libraries. Unfortunately, this issue is not trivial. Current dev tools, including the VSTS do not support running tests
DEV Adding dictionaries for spell checking in Windows Live Writer I'm using live writer since it's beta releases. I currently write in two blogs. Technical blog, in English, and a cooking blog in Hebrew. One of the biggest pains in Windows Live Writer was that the spell check dictionary was installed according to the
Windows 7 Fixing autorun in Windows 7 Lately I notice that every time I insert a DiskOnKey or a disk, the AutoPlay/autorun doesn't appear. I also notice that when I click on the disk drive in My Computer window, I will get directed to the explorer view of the disk
Visual Studio Improving Visual Studio 2010 performance About two months ago, we upgraded our projects to Visual Studio 2010. Since then the developers started to complain about the performance of the IDE. It seems to have degraded in comparison to VS2008. From build times that doubled to stalling in the editor
Deployment Using VBScript to copy files to a folder in a MSI Setup Project Last week I found out that one of our admin apps on the server was not installed currently. It is an app that is installed in ArcMap, and the reason it didn’t work is that ArcMap has been installed on d:\programs files
DEV Free source control for home usage Recently, I’ve started to work on several projects in my free time. After a while, I realized that I couldn’t manage without source control (especially after you do some refactoring on a xaml code and suddenly nothing works…). I started to search,
ArcMap Creating a setup project for ArcGis custom tools In my last post I described how to create extensions to ArcGis products. After we've finished developing to tools and commands we want to deploy them to our clients. In the development computer, the tools are registered to ArcMap when we compile the project.
Ajax UpdatePanelExtender Upgrade In Updating an UpdatePanel in the Client side, I described how I was able to update an UpdatePanel from the client side. The solution was pretty simple: Create an extender which adds an hidden button to the update panel, and performs a click on