Earlier this week, about the same time that I was playing with health monitoring. I found out after a while that log4net isn't working on Vista RC1. Now I don't know about you but log4net seemed like the obvious choice for logging for me.  Now I was forced to have a look around what else is there. And castle supports also nlog. I took a closer look at nlog and I like it a lot. It has much better integration with visual studio 2005 than log4net has. The configuration was much easier. I wrote a "...

It's been pretty quiet on my blog the last couple of days. But I had something cooking :) I think logging is a pretty important part of an application. I like to know what's going on when for errors etc. Asp.NET has a health monitoring service that does just that. With a couple of lines in the web.config you're good to go. I use base4 for my dataaccess and i want do do all my data access through base4. From the asp.net services I use Membership, roleManager, profiles and health monitoring. This...

I've been playing with castle all day yesterday and I can say the more I work with it the more I like it and start to see the full power of the framework. My previous post was more about my frustrations when using the webforms model. One of castle's strengths is the Inversion of Control pattern, an introduction to IoC can be found on the Joy of code partI, partII.  In castle they apply it via the windsor container An introduction to castle can be found on the codeproject : Introducing castle pa...

Yesterday I had a discussion with Alex about asp.NET where I vented some of the frustrations I have building a CRM application on one form with multiple user controls that have enough functionality in them that other people would create separate pages for it. I don't like the fact that you loose information about something you're working on because you need to change a small piece of a bigger whole. Anyway my problem is that to do something that is more complex than just simply displaying one fo...

On myspace there is a page dedicated to a song Underwear goes inside the pants by Lazy Boy I got to this page via the blog of a friend of mine,Miel Van Opstal  It's worth a listen definitely. An excerpt of the lyrics would be: There are homeless people everywhere.This homeless guy asked me for money the other day.I was about to give it to him and then I thought he was going to use it on drugs or alcohol.And then I thought, that’s what I’m going to use it on.Why am I judging this poor bastar...

Yesterday I got to meet an Argentinian guy who joined the NBlogr He showed me a couple of really cool sites that I thought would be a good idea to share. An open-source resource oriented project management system : Open Workbench An open-source search engine (finds open source programs built on Lucence) : Krugle  And last but not least an article on the codeproject : This article describes a "script engine" for the C# language. Here are some of the key features of the presented scripting syst...

It may or may not be a surprise to people that read my blog but I do web development and really like it.  But lately I feel constricted in my programming environment so I want to add another language. But let me share some of my history first. I started programming as a young boy and wrote my first menu system for my pc when I was 8 I think. It was nothing really complicated a series of batch scripts so that my mother could easily navigate the pc. She has been having problems with a computer fo...

Flight center has posted a comment on the post that dealt with flight center. It's quite lengthy so I'll just reblog it in a proper post.   Hi Ivan, Here's our response to Craig, let me know if you have any more questions: Hi Craig, Your matter has now been discussed at length within our organisation, and while I can’t offer you the answer you want, I can certainly explain exactly how we have reached our conclusions, and offer further explanations to some of the questions you have posed. I ha...

While I was looking for something completely unrelated. I came across this picture. It's a detailed graph on the page life cycle with the controls covering both asp.net 1.1 and 2.0 http://pointerx.net/photos/screenshots/images/852/......