Debugging a WCF service on Windows 7 and IIS 7
I created and deployed a WCF service, created with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, to IIS 7 on Windows 7 and I got the error message: Unable to start debugging on the web server. Could not…
Month: September 2009
Show all encodings and codepages on a Windows server in C#
If you want to show all encodings of a Windows server in C# in sorted order, use the code: // Get all encodings know on this server EncodingInfo[] encodings = Encoding.GetEncodings(); // Sort EncodingInfo array…
You should use System.Security.SecurityElement.Escape in C# to escape special characters in XML and not System.Web.HttpUtility.HtmlEncode
You should use the function System.Security.SecurityElement.Escape and not the function System.Web.HttpUtility.HtmlEncode to escape special characters in XML if you don’t want the characters like éûÉ to be converted to éûÉ which is permit able but…
Create custom eventlog during setup, by reading log4net configuration file.
If you want to create a customeventlog during setup, in a custom action. You can open a App.config file containing the log4net configuration and read the settings from that file at runtime. You also can…
Adding a folder to the .NET assembly search path, to prevent the error Could not load file or assembly 'log4net, Version=1.2.10.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=1b44e1d426115821' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
If you use the XmlConfigurator.Configure() . log4net function in a setup custom action to initialize the log4net logging, you can get the error: Could not load file or assembly 'log4net, Version=1.2.10.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=1b44e1d426115821' or one…
Debug you’re Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 setup project output msi with Debugger.break()
If you want to start the debugger after installation of you’re product with a Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 setup msi package, use a Installer class and custom actions and then add a Debugger.Break() on the…
How to convert a string containing XML to XDocument
If you want to convert a string containing XML to a XDocument object, use: var document = XDocument.Parse(@"<?xml version=""1.0""?><root></root>"); For converting XmlDocument to XDocument and vice versa, see: http://blogs.msdn.com/marcelolr/archive/2009/03/13/fast-way-to-convert-xmldocument-into-xdocument.aspx
How to convert a unicode string to an ASCII string
To convert a unicode string to an ASCII string, use: public void ConvertUnicodeStringToAsciiString() { // Create two different encodings. Encoding ascii = Encoding.ASCII; Encoding unicode = Encoding.Unicode; // Convert the string into a byte[]. byte[]…
Export images from SQL Server database with C# 3.5
If you want to export images from a SQL Server database you could use the following code: public void ExportImagesFromDatabase() { var exportPath = @"C:\Temp"; if (!Directory.Exists(exportPath)) { Directory.CreateDirectory(exportPath); } var imagesTable = GetImagesFromDatabase("select [ImageColumn]…
ASP .NET – Get page filename from request url
If you want to get the page filename from the current request url in ASP .NET you can use: string page = Path.GetFileName(Request.Url.LocalPath).ToLower(); This can be used to switch logica in de master page.