Whatever

ildasm

2012-03-03T07:55:00.000-08:00

...is a tool for viewing the contents of an assembly. http://www.dotnetuncle.com/Framework/39_assembly_ILDASM.aspx

If you get "Cannot redirect after HTTP headers have been sent" from a Response.Redirect it means that a different Response.Redirect has happened upstream in code.

2012-03-02T22:12:00.002-08:00

See: This!

allow for the passing of HTML in form fields with ASP.NET MVC projects

2012-03-02T21:19:00.002-08:00

This post I found suggests putting this in the system.web section of a Web.config file:

...in the name of allowing one to send HTML in form fields in C# 4.0 MVC projects. That said, you will still also need to color methods which return ActionResults that would process such requests with:

[ValidateInput(false)]

JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet

2012-03-02T20:13:00.002-08:00

http://forums.asp.net/t/1483387.aspx explains that in order to allow GET Json requests in MVC 2 or greater that one needs to add JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet to Action calls like so:

return Json(new { isAdmin = isVerifiedAdministrator() }, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);

SQL Server Express Local Connection String

2012-03-02T18:47:00.000-08:00

server=.\sqlexpress;database=NAMEOFYOURDATABASE;Integrated Security=true;

read from the App_Data folder

2012-03-02T15:02:00.002-08:00

AttachDBFilename=|DataDirectory|Whatever.MDF is the bit of a connection string that will allow for reading a .MDF in the App_Data folder.

localStorage

2012-03-01T19:29:00.001-08:00

This posting suggests that one may interface with HTML localStorage like so via jQuery:

localStorage.setItem("name", "Hello World!");

document.write(localStorage.getItem("name"));

localStorage.removeItem("name");

I went to the geek lunch today and part of the conversation at my table had to do with localStorage. One may keep cookies in localStorage and one may rely on localStorage in the event of a loss of connectivity in an SOAesque failover sort of way.

a nonclustered index in MSSQL

2012-03-01T19:10:00.000-08:00

I took the SQL I wrote here and put a nonclustered index (an index that does NOT require unique values) on the Name column in the Person table like so:

CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX myindex ON [Person] ( [Name] ASC ) ON [PRIMARY]

I could then use it like so:

SELECT * FROM Person WITH (INDEX (myindex))

I could eventually wash my hands of it like this:

DROP INDEX myindex ON [Person]

Some helpful links:

finally

2012-02-29T15:10:00.002-08:00

try {

}

catch {

}

finally {

}

Remember the finally. This is a good place to close that SqlConnection you opened.

classes, delegates, and interfaces are reference types

2012-02-29T09:44:00.001-08:00

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/490f96s2(v=vs.80).aspx

I wish I still had my "Udi Dahan" notes.

2012-02-28T23:09:00.004-08:00

In 2008 I took an SOA training taught by Udi Dahan. I wish I could find my notes. I think they are sitting on a server Headspring has probably gotten rid of. :(

Udi's NServiceBus wraps MSMQ (Microsoft Message Queuing) and takes the pain out of using it. I say that having never used NServiceBus myself.

Here I found a link to here listing the 8 fallacies of distributed computing:

The network is reliable.
Latency is zero.
Bandwidth is infinite.
The network is secure.
Topology doesn't change.
There is one administrator.
Transport cost is zero.
The network is homogeneous.

This goes into the five types of coupling:

Afferent (if X depends on Y, Y is afferently coupled to X)
Efferent (if X depends on Y, X is efferently coupled to Y)
Platform
Temporal
Spatial

searching folders in Windows 7

2012-02-28T22:35:00.002-08:00

This touches on searching folders in Windows 7 and in particular suggests that you go to:

Organize > Folder and search options > Search

...from the Orgainize button on the file view for a given folder to tweak search settings.

more of mutable, immutable, stack, and heap

2012-02-28T07:47:00.003-08:00

Again: Value types are immutable (they cannot change) while reference types are mutable, and value types go on the stack and reference types go on the heap.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/79923/what-and-where-are-the-stack-and-heap asserts:

THE STACK is the memory set aside as scratch space for a thread of execution. When a function is called, a block is reserved on the top of the stack for local variables and some bookkeeping data.
THE HEAP is memory set aside for dynamic allocation. Unlike the stack, there's no enforced pattern to the allocation and deallocation of blocks from the heap; you can allocate a block at any time and free it at any time.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/yz2be5wk.aspx goes into boxing and unboxing which has to do with converting a value type to an object or, in the case of unboxing, an object back to a value type. An example of boxing:

int i = 123;

object o = i;

...of unboxing:

o = 123;

i = (int)o;

This image shows how another piece of memory is allocated in the boxing process. Hence, there are some performance issues with boxing as a value type on the stack gets copied to the heap as it is boxed. (That said, you are very likely better off worrying about how to optimize database integration in the name of reducing lag instead of having angst over boxing and unboxing.)

Value objects are not always just simple types:

http://tom-jaeschke.blogspot.com/2011/12/entities-have-both-state-and-lifecycle.html has my notes from when I saw Paul Rayner speak on DDD. He suggested that Eric Evans suggests that objects which are not entities (and thus do not have a lifecycle) should be (if not DTOs) value types. Examples given of value domain objects that one might speak about in ubiquitous language were:

Warranty (no lifecycle, once it's set its dates and conditions are not going to change)
Terms & Conditions (same thing)

mutable, immutable, stack, and heap

2012-02-27T15:42:00.000-08:00

value types are immutable (they cannot change) while reference types are mutable

value types go on the stack and reference types go on the heap

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/79923/what-and-where-are-the-stack-and-heap

of architecture

2012-02-27T15:29:00.000-08:00

Jake Folio knows CSS3

2012-02-26T18:42:00.002-08:00

http://speakerdeck.com/u/jakefolio/p/css-selectors-the-next-generation is the slide deck from a very informative talk.

http://www.w3schools.com/html5/html5_intro.asp

2012-02-26T18:33:00.001-08:00

http://www.w3schools.com/html5/html5_intro.asp is the w3schools.com overview of HTML 5. As modern as this may be, it still comes with an .asp extension!

CSS3 drop down menus

2012-02-26T18:17:00.001-08:00

http://www.htmlgoodies.com/html5/tutorials/create-drop-down-menus-with-css3.html#fbid=LCLjK-3H7T9 shows off making drop down menus without the need for JavaScript to hide and unhide things. Use logic like this:

.drop-menu:hover .sub-menu {

display: inline-block;

}

css selectors

2012-02-26T18:11:00.000-08:00

http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200601/css_3_selectors_explained/ is a good cheatsheet on CSS3 selectors.

How to deal with phone number hyperlinks???

2012-02-24T22:53:00.003-08:00

I found this posting on getting rid of phone number hyperlinks. It suggests turning them off like so:

...and on like so:

I have yet to try it.

of hero knowledge

2012-02-23T20:32:00.000-08:00

http://www.rational-scrum.com/2010/02/why-heroes-are-bad/ is a blog posting on why being saved by a hero really isn't a good thing.

Thank you AMD!

2012-02-23T19:57:00.000-08:00

...for six months of wonderful employment. I'm sad that today was my last. I've learned much on our project! :)

use .ContainsKey to check for an existing key in a Dictionary in C#

2012-02-23T15:49:00.002-08:00

This told me about this:

if (!Foo.ContainsKey(person.Id.ToString()))

{

Foo.Add(person.Id.ToString(), person.Name);

}

using .Concat() with .Distinct() to get a list of T from two sources without duplicates

2012-02-23T14:34:00.002-08:00

var allBazes = Foo.GetBazes(qux).Concat(Bar.GetBazes(qux)).Distinct().ToList();

no duplicates in a C# HashSet!

2012-02-23T08:38:00.001-08:00

I added stuff to a HashSet<Guid> and it ignored the duplicates!

phone number hyperlinks irritate me

2012-02-22T19:58:00.001-08:00

http://www.petefreitag.com/item/751.cfm touches on getting rid of the ones imposed by Skype.

hexagons!

2012-02-22T19:26:00.000-08:00

I figured out how to make an endless grid of hexagons spiral outwards from a central point: see: http://www.damisam.com/

web safe fonts

2012-02-22T17:26:00.001-08:00

http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_websafe_fonts.asp is a good cheatsheet.

when ReSharper hot keys stop working...

2012-02-22T11:51:00.001-08:00

If ReSharper isn't working, go to ReSharper > Options... > Visual Studio Integration and make appropriate changes there. Press the "Apply Scheme" changes when finished. In the worst case scenario go to www.jetbrains.com/resharper/ to reinstall ReSharper.

MSSQL Triggers and @@IDENTITY and SCOPE_IDENTITY()

2012-02-21T12:00:00.001-08:00

I took the SQL here and added this to it:

CREATE TRIGGER dbo.AddressTrigger

ON dbo.Address

AFTER INSERT

AS

INSERT INTO Person (PersonId, Name, AddressId)

VALUES (NEWID(),'I need a name','1ba51989-84fb-4a61-8c35-9e6a007bc0fb')

In doing so I created a trigger that will fire whenever a row is inserted into the Address table. The trigger will make a new row in the Person table. I wanted the process to assign the Person the Address of the Address just created, but I find in hard to know what the uniqueidentifier most recently used is. :(

I found this stuff in Googling to figure out the above:

Some of the above touches on @@IDENTITY and SCOPE_IDENTITY() would have been handy for solving the problem above if I were using ints for ids instead of guids.

It's OK to feel conflicted.

2012-02-21T08:09:00.002-08:00

It's very often best to just admit that you're not 100% sure you want what you think you want. If you have a voice inside saying "I think I want that glowy grabme, but I wish I also had a way to change my mind once I put my hands on it" such a thought is not only normal, but healthy. The nature of the Agile process allows one to push big commitments as far down the pipe as possible to allow all parties involved to have some time to chew on whether or not they really want to do a specific thing. In building a jigsaw puzzle, when one picks up a given puzzle piece, rotates it in hand, and chews on if he/she really wants to use it, typically one has the benefit of surveying how all of the other pieces have come together to date and thus the current shape of things effects the decision at hand more than any other factor might. It is good to have all of the information possible to make an informed decision and it is good to a make decisions that will allow you to make such informed decisions. Running a project with an Agile process will allow one to make informed decisions a lot more so than a Waterfall process.

We are just now starting an Agile process. We are fighting our way through some of the pain points, such as not baking enough story points. We are doing better. We are in a second leg of our project.

In the first leg: A liaison (middleman) between our team and the product owners had written a huge functional spec around what he felt the users wanted and we were trying to jam hunks of the Word document into stories and we were... pretending to have an Agile process around the pseudostories.

There is not an Agile process without stakeholder feedback however. We were chipping away at the functional spec in a Waterfall manner.

Eventually the middleman's management style caught up to him and he felt the need to quit. In his absence we started doing things the right way. We are now interfacing directly with the customers that we had been "protected from."

That said, plenty of time has been wasted in going down tangents:

We were to build an autonaming feature for a particular object. We spent time planning for it and debating it. It turns out that the stakeholders didn't want it at all. It was an imposition by the middleman.
We abstracted the name for another object out to a separate database table in the name of... well, I don't understand why we did it. I think it had to do with making sure that no two objects have an identical name. It doesn't really make sense. The middleman wanted it. It was in the functional spec.

I've now seen firsthand, on the same project, the difference between Waterfall and Agile. I wanted to share my tale. The lesson: Don't try to have all of the answers upfront.

It's OK to feel conflicted.

Closures

2012-02-21T07:59:00.001-08:00

My previous understand of Closures is bad.

Derek Greer's is much better.

Some of his code:

var createGreeting = function(greeting) {

   return function (name) {

      document.write(greeting + ', ' + name + '.');

   };

};



helloGreeting = createGreeting("Hello");

howdyGreeting = createGreeting("Howdy");

helloGreeting("John");

helloGreeting("Sally");

howdyGreeting("John");

howdyGreeting("Sally");

// Hello, John.

// Hello, Sally.

// Howdy, John.

// Howdy, Sally

hand in settings for options in "newing up" a jasmine-jquery widget

2012-02-20T06:04:00.001-08:00

$(document).ready(function () {

   var target = $('#portletwrapper');

   var widget = target.Portlet({

      foo: "bar",

      baz: "qux"

   });

});

wire a click event to a child element within a jasmine-jquery widget

2012-02-20T05:15:00.001-08:00

setup: function (defaultStateIsOpen) {

   self.options.stateIsOpen = defaultStateIsOpen;

   self.options.container = self.element;

   self.definePortletHeader(self.options.container.children(":nth-child(1)"));

   self.definePortletContent(self.options.container.children(":nth-child(2)"));

   self.alterAppearanceBasedOnOpenState();

   self.options.portletHeader.click(function () {

      self.toggle();

   });

   self.reveal();

},

using options with jasmine-jquery widgets

2012-02-20T04:07:00.001-08:00

setup: function (defaultStateIsOpen) {

   var self = this;

   self.options.stateIsOpen = defaultStateIsOpen;

   self.options.container = self.element;

   self.definePortletHeader(self.options.container.children(":nth-child(1)"));

   self.definePortletContent(self.options.container.children(":nth-child(2)"));

   self.alterAppearanceBasedOnOpenState();

   self.reveal();

},

alterAppearanceBasedOnOpenState: function () {

   var self = this;

   if (self.options.stateIsOpen) {

      self.options.portletHeader.children("span").removeClass('ui-icon-plusthick');

      self.options.portletHeader.children("span").addClass('ui-icon-minusthick');

      self.options.portletContent.removeClass('hide');

   } else {

      self.options.portletHeader.children("span").addClass('ui-icon-plusthick');

      self.options.portletHeader.children("span").removeClass('ui-icon-minusthick');

      self.options.portletContent.addClass('hide');

   }

},

options: {

   stateIsOpen: false, //REQUIRED

   stateIsPersisted: false

}

a better posting on method calling with jasmine-jquery

2012-02-20T02:58:00.000-08:00

This post on jasmine-jquery method calling was a little confusing for me when I tried to use it for my own reference. So, instead see the following:

var target = $('#portletwrapper');

var widget = target.Portlet();

var act = widget.Portlet('setup', false);

That calls this method:

setup: function (defaultStateIsOpen) {

var self = this;

more code here...

},

test to see if a class exists in a jasmine-jquery widget

2012-02-19T14:32:00.000-08:00

https://github.com/velesin/jasmine-jquery offers that one may use this trick to see if an element has a class or not:

expect($('#foo')).not.toHaveClass('hide');

latch onto the first two divs within a div in a jasmine-jquery widget using jQUery's nth-child

2012-02-19T14:09:00.001-08:00

self.options.container = container;

self.definePortletHeader(self.options.container.children(":nth-child(1)"));

self.definePortletContent(self.options.container.children(":nth-child(2)"));

noolog.com

2012-02-19T13:38:00.001-08:00

...will allow you to cast a url to sort of a barcode image and Google Googles will allow you to get it back into url format.

What is long polling?

2012-02-17T06:08:00.001-08:00

I fished the following out of here:

In web programming, it is an emulation of pushing data, implemented by repeated polling with delayed response.For instance, data may be "pushed" to an HTTP client by using a long-standing HTTP request with protracted response, hence the term "long poll". A true push data model is not otherwise available to the client because it cannot receive incoming HTTP connections.

at startup

2012-02-16T12:17:00.001-08:00

Try to get around the problem in which an inappropriate project defaults to be the starup project in a solution with:

Tools > Options... > Environment > Startup > At startup:

FOUC

2012-02-16T08:28:00.001-08:00

...stands for flash of unstyled content

http://pastie.org/

2012-02-15T11:59:00.001-08:00

...seems cool

jQuery width

2012-02-15T07:51:00.001-08:00

outerWidth(true) is wider than outerWidth is wider than innerWidth is wider than width

Widths are gagued without regard to whitespace. One has to use the   hack to account for whitespace.

Craig suggests...

2012-02-15T07:33:00.001-08:00

If you desire a new build to run, you don't need change code to make this happen. Go to the "Team Explorer" and select builds and "Queue Build".

Chosen JavaScript plugin

2012-02-15T07:31:00.001-08:00

http://harvesthq.github.com/chosen/

default in C#

2012-02-15T06:46:00.001-08:00

default(Foo) gives the default configuration for the type of Foo. I don't understand it yet.

http://weblogs.asp.net/avnerk/archive/2006/05/21/Non_2D00_generic-default-values-in-C_23003F00_-Why-not_3F002100_.aspx

Joel suggests...

2012-02-15T05:21:00.001-08:00

Serializing using a stream should side step any default string size limitations. You can do it like this:

var serializer = new Newtonsoft.Json.JsonSerializer();

var writer = new StringWriter();

serializer.Serialize(writer, obj);

writer.Flush();

string serializedObject = writer.GetStringBuilder().ToString();

how to find something in an .edmx without scrolling around in hopes of stumbling upon it

2012-02-14T16:02:00.001-08:00

double-clicking on the .edmx in the Solution Explorer should open the .edmx in the Model Browser
expand the Entity Types folder
right-click on the desired entity and select "Show in Designer"

call stack

2012-02-14T14:14:00.001-08:00

Open call stack (while debugging) from: Debug > Windows > Call Stack

Use it to see what method is invoking the method which is failing.

Green Arrow

2012-02-14T11:37:00.001-08:00

When one sets a breakpoint in Visual Studio and one reaches the breakpoint in executing code, one will notice a green arrow within the breakpoint. The arrow may be dragged upwards to lines of code above the breakpoint and from the green arrow one may step back through code previously run again.

I monkey with Func

2012-02-10T07:43:00.000-08:00

I wrote this class:

using System;

namespace FuncExperiment.Models

{

   public class SomethingFunky

   {

      private Func<string> _whatever;

      private Func<Int16> _flapdoodle;



      public SomethingFunky()

      {

         _whatever = () => "just getting started";

         _flapdoodle = () => 7;

      }



      public string SprayFunc()

      {

         return _whatever();

      }



      public void PushInStringValue(string value)

      {

         _whatever = () => value;

      }



      public void PushInIntegerValue(Int16 digit)

      {

         _flapdoodle = () => digit;

      }



      public void MakeStringFromInteger()

      {

         _whatever = () => TryToGiveGermanNameForSingleDigit(_flapdoodle());

      }



      private static string TryToGiveGermanNameForSingleDigit(Int16 digit)

      {

         //follow this link to see the guts of this method

...and got it under test like so:

using FuncExperiment.Models;

using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;

namespace FuncExperiment.Tests

{

   [TestClass]

   public class TestsForSomethingFunky

   {

      [TestMethod]

      public void test_constructor()

      {

         SomethingFunky skunk = new SomethingFunky();

         Assert.AreEqual(skunk.SprayFunc(), "just getting started");

      }



      [TestMethod]

      public void test_changing_string()

      {

         SomethingFunky skunk = new SomethingFunky();

         skunk.PushInStringValue("this is new");

         Assert.AreEqual(skunk.SprayFunc(), "this is new");

      }



      [TestMethod]

      public void test_goofy_German_translation()

      {

         SomethingFunky skunk = new SomethingFunky();

         skunk.PushInIntegerValue(2);

         skunk.MakeStringFromInteger();

         Assert.AreEqual(skunk.SprayFunc(), "zwei");

      }



      [TestMethod]

      public void must_explicity_call_integer_to_string_translation()

      {

         SomethingFunky skunk = new SomethingFunky();

         skunk.PushInIntegerValue(2);

         Assert.AreNotEqual(skunk.SprayFunc(), "zwei");

      }

   }

}

I'm not going to change my last blog posting (don't have time) but I realize I've botched the name of the class in it.

2012-02-09T16:05:00.000-08:00

Should not have "Summation" in the name. This was appropriate only before I started refactoring. :P

testing private methods in C# with reflection

2012-02-09T15:55:00.001-08:00

I wrote this class...

namespace PrivateMethodTesting.Models

{

   public class SummationScienceExperiment

   {

      public int DependentVariable { get; private set; }

      public int IndependentVariable { get; private set; }

      public double? DivisionCalculation { get; private set; }



      public SummationScienceExperiment(int ofStone, int ofClay)

      {

         DependentVariable = ofStone;

         IndependentVariable = ofClay;

         DivisionCalculation = craftDecimal(ofStone, ofClay);

      }



      public void Update(int ofClay)

      {

         IndependentVariable = ofClay;

         DivisionCalculation = craftDecimal(DependentVariable, ofClay);

      }



      private double? craftDecimal(int ofStone, int ofClay)

      {

         if (ofClay == 0) return null;

         return (double)ofStone/(double)ofClay;

      }

   }

}

...and then I wrote the following four tests around it. The last test uses reflection to test the private method.

using System;

using System.Reflection;

using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;

using PrivateMethodTesting.Models;

namespace PrivateMethodTesting.Tests

{

   [TestClass]

   public class SummationScienceExperimentTests

   {

      [TestMethod]

      public void constructor_should_craft_a_decimal()

      {

         SummationScienceExperiment foo = new SummationScienceExperiment(5,2);

         Assert.AreEqual(5, foo.DependentVariable);

         Assert.AreEqual(2, foo.IndependentVariable);

         Assert.AreEqual(2.5, foo.DivisionCalculation);

      }



      [TestMethod]

      public void update_should_craft_a_decimal()

      {

         SummationScienceExperiment foo = new SummationScienceExperiment(5, 2);

         foo.Update(4);

         Assert.AreEqual(5, foo.DependentVariable);

         Assert.AreEqual(4, foo.IndependentVariable);

         Assert.AreEqual(1.25, foo.DivisionCalculation);

      }



      [TestMethod]

      public void may_divide_zero()

      {

         SummationScienceExperiment foo = new SummationScienceExperiment(0, 2);

         Assert.AreEqual(0, foo.DependentVariable);

         Assert.AreEqual(2, foo.IndependentVariable);

         Assert.AreEqual(0, foo.DivisionCalculation);

      }



      [TestMethod]

      public void may_not_divide_by_zero()

      {

         Type type = typeof(SummationScienceExperiment);

         var infos = type.GetMethods(BindingFlags.NonPublic|BindingFlags.Instance);

         MethodInfo info = infos[3];

         SummationScienceExperiment foo = new SummationScienceExperiment(5, 2);

         Assert.AreEqual(info.Invoke(foo, new object[] { foo.DependentVariable, 0 }),null);

      }

   }

}

.Except

2012-02-09T12:01:00.001-08:00

I stole the following from here.

double[] numbers1 = { 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5 };

double[] numbers2 = { 2.2 };

IEnumerable<double> onlyInFirstSet = numbers1.Except(numbers2);

Tuple

2012-02-09T08:34:00.000-08:00

...is a general purpose data shape in ASP.NET (http://www.dotnetperls.com/tuple)

Joel's definition of snake case

2012-02-08T15:13:00.001-08:00

Snake case: punctuation is removed and spaces are replaced by single underscores. Normally the letters share the same case (either UPPER_CASE_EMBEDDED_UNDERSCORE or lower_case_embedded_underscore) but the case can be mixed.

cast string to enum

2012-02-08T12:29:00.001-08:00

Colors colorValue = (Colors) Enum.Parse(typeof(Colors), colorString);

what to do when a file is not associated with Team Foundation Server

2012-02-08T08:17:00.001-08:00

right-click on the file in the Soultion Explorer and select "Exclude From Project"
right-click on the file in the Soultion Explorer and select "Include In Project" (if the file does not appear in the Solution Explorer to select: try using the "Show All Files" toggle, an icon, at the top of the Solution Explorer)

Joel's DynamicCommandInvoker magic to empower wormholes

2012-02-07T10:34:00.001-08:00

using System;

using System.Dynamic;

using System.Diagnostics;

using System.Linq;

using OurApp.Core.Repositories;

using OurApp.Core.Services;

namespace OurApp.Web.UI.CommandProcessing

{

   [DebuggerStepThrough]

   public class DynamicCommandInvoker: DynamicObject, IDynamicCommandInvoker

   {

      private readonly string CommandsNamespace = "";



      public DynamicCommandInvoker(string commandNamespace = "")

      {

         this.CommandsNamespace = commandNamespace;

      }



      public override bool TryInvokeMember(InvokeMemberBinder binder, object[] args,

            out object result)

      {

         result = default(object);



         var processorName = BuildCommandProcessorName(binder.Name);

         var type = Type.GetType(processorName);



         //ensure processor type exists and is present in local assembly

         if (type == null) throw new Exception(string.Format("please make sure your

               command processor class exists and is in the {0} namespace)",

               CommandsNamespace));



         var processor = Activator.CreateInstance(type, args);



         ResolveDependencies(processor);



         //ensure processor is an ActionCommand

         if (processor == null || !(processor is CommandBase)) throw new Exception("please

               make sure your command processor inherits from ActionCommand");



         result = ((CommandBase)processor).Process();



         return true;

      }



      private void ResolveDependencies(object command)

      {

         var type = command.GetType();

         var props = type.GetProperties(System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Public |

               System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Instance).Where(prop => prop.CanWrite &&

               prop.PropertyType.GetInterfaces().Any(iface => iface == typeof(IRepository) ||

               iface == typeof(IService)));

         props.ForEach(prop =>

            {

               var value = ServiceLocator.Get(prop.PropertyType);

               if (value != null) prop.SetValue(command, value, null);

            });

      }



      private string BuildCommandProcessorName(string methodName)

      {

         string formatString = CommandsNamespace + ".{0}Command";

         return string.Format(formatString, methodName);

      }

   }



   public interface IDynamicCommandInvoker

   {

   }

}

change the title tag of a page with JavaScript

2012-02-07T06:53:00.000-08:00

document.title = "The new title goes here.";

casting strings to integers or decimals with JavaScript

2012-02-06T11:49:00.000-08:00

http://www.javascripter.net/faq/convert2.htm touches on casting strings to both decimal and integer values with JavaScript. parseFloat(string) and parseInt(string) do the needed.

JavaScript redirect

2012-02-06T09:54:00.001-08:00

window.location = "/home/unsupportedbrowser/";

how to sniff browser specifications with jQuery

2012-02-06T09:41:00.001-08:00

My last blog posting is terrible. Use this instead:

<div id="badbrowserspecifications"></div>

<script src="/Scripts/jquery-latest.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">

   var ua = $.browser;

   var txt = "<p>The browser you are using: ";

   if (ua.mozilla) {

      txt += "Firefox";

   } else {

      if (ua.msie) {

         txt += "Internet Explorer";

      } else {

         if (ua.safari) {

            ua.chrome = /chrome/.test(navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase());

            if (ua.chrome) {

               txt += "Chrome";

            } else {

               txt += "Safari";

            }

         } else {

            if (ua.opera) {

               txt += "Opera";

            } else {

               txt += "not Firefox, IE, Safari, Chrome, or Opera";

            }

         }

      }

   }

   txt += "<br />...versioned at: " + jQuery.browser.version + "</br>";

   txt += "......is insufficient for our application.</p>";

   document.getElementById("badbrowserspecifications").innerHTML = txt;

</script>

Sources for my change of heart:

how to sniff browser specifications with JavaScript

2012-02-06T08:53:00.001-08:00

http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_browser.asp taught me that I may sniff my browser's specifications with JavaScript like so:

<div id="badbrowserspecifications"></div>

<script type="text/javascript">

   var txt = "<p>The browser you are using: " + navigator.appName + "<br />";

   txt += "...codenamed " + navigator.appCodeName;

   txt += " and versioned at: " + navigator.appVersion + "</br>";

   txt += "......is insufficient for our application.</p>";

   document.getElementById("badbrowserspecifications").innerHTML = txt;

</script>

how to get rid of the influence of the master page in a Razor view

2012-02-06T08:27:00.000-08:00

@{

ViewBag.Title = "Unsupported Browser";

Layout = null;

}

<h1>@ViewBag.Title</h1>

Request.UserAgent

2012-02-06T08:05:00.001-08:00

It looks like you may sniff what browser you are using on the C# side with Request.UserAgent.

what is this thing called?

2012-02-03T15:07:00.001-08:00

I wish I understood the = () => operator one uses with Func in C#. I don't even know what it is called. It seems that you may prep a Func within a class (in this case DateHelper) like so:

public static Func<DateTime> Now = () => DateTime.UtcNow;

...and then sort of override it by way of a monkey patch like so in another situation (in this case in a test):

DateHelper.Now = () => new DateTime(2000, 1, 1);

boilerplate for command processor command tests

2012-02-03T14:09:00.001-08:00

using System;

using System.Web.Mvc;

using OurApp.Core.Entities;

using OurApp.Web.UI.CommandProcessing;

using OurApp.Web.UI.CommandProcessing.Commands;

using OurApp.Web.UI.Models.InputModels.Orders;

using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;



namespace OurApp.Tests.Unit.UI.CommandProcessing.Commands

{

   [TestClass]

   public class OrderCommandTestsTemplate : CommandTestBase

   {

      [TestMethod]

      public void boiler_plate_testing_skeleton_sample()

      {

         //input model

         var inputModel = new OrderInputModel();



         //output model

         var order = new Order();



         //mock your behaviors

         MocksRegistry.OrderRepositoryMock.Setup(x => x.Save(order));



         Func<ActionResult> success = () => new ViewResult();

         Func<ActionResult> fail = () => new ViewResult();



         //build target

         var command = new EditOrderCommand(inputModel,

               new Actions(null).OnSuccess(success).OnFailure(fail));



         //excersise sut

         command.Process();



         //expectations

         Assert.IsFalse(inputModel.Processed);

      }

   }

}

dive into a wormhole

2012-02-03T10:42:00.001-08:00

This is how you would call our Command Processor from a controller action and dive into a wormhole:

[HttpPost]

public ActionResult Edit(OrderInputModel inputModel)

{

   return CommandProcessor.EditOrder(inputModel, Actions

      .OnSuccess(() => RedirectToAction("Index"))

      .OnFailure(() => View("Edit", BuildSelectListsForModel(inputModel))));

}

forbidden URL characters

2012-02-03T07:44:00.001-08:00

# % & * { } \ : < > ? / + are not too healthy for URLs.

Quartz.NET

2012-02-02T21:39:00.001-08:00

Joel mentioned today that Quartz.NET is an enterprise job scheduling engine that we will start to use for, amongst other things, sending out notifications. Apparently it can do things like send out periodic notifications in a manner such that the notification rate will exponentially decay.

PUT with REST

2012-02-02T21:35:00.001-08:00

Joel mentioned today that the appropriate way to do rest is via the PUT verb and that ASP.NET MVC does not approach REST in this manner. To use PUT in ASP.NET MVC you have to either empower it at IIS or Web.config.

comet

2012-02-02T21:33:00.001-08:00

Joel mentioned today that comet is the code name for asynchronous http requests and that such an approach will eventually become depreciated once web sockets become more prevalent.

wormholes

2012-02-02T21:23:00.001-08:00

Joel Holder hosted an informative meeting today on an approach to architecture that he has put together with Rafael Torres. Wormholes are key term in the new vision for the objects to come in our app. The way that CRUD around objects has materialized in our application has been unsophisticated so far and has come with a lot of problems. Going forward, as we start to build out the richer objects with lifecycles (the sort of objects that Eric Evans would consider entities) we want to get things right, and in particular we want to make things easier to test. Joel, pictured here, started the meeting by explaining why it was painful to have controllers interact directly with repositories in the DAL (Data Access Layer) within a Palermo Onion.

This is the traditional way to build an ASP.NET MVC app, but it is proving hard to test. Controllers are making calls to repositories and handing repository references down into models. Testing a controller requires going on a spelunking expedition for the things one needs to mock just in the name of getting a would-be test to the point where it fails instead of throwing an exception. Instead, Joel feels that controllers should have no collaborators that are managed objects (no repository references). He models his MVC approach on what he sees as a growing trend away from having controller do more than routing and he mentioned that in the node.js framework called Express that controllers were eventually renamed to be "routers" in a wise move. He feels a layer for Command Processors (light circles below) should sit between the rest of our onion and the Controllers (darker circles below) and that communication should occur through wormholes (red item below).

The Command Processors will in turn "talk" to service layers in our onion which will "talk" to the DAL and back. The wormholes make our Command Processors different than the Command Processors of Headspring which were baked before the dynamic objects of C# 4.0. The wormhole analogy suggests putting something into a tunnel and knowing that it will emerge from the tunnel somewhere, but not being able to see where from the entry point. Using the dynamic feature of C# 4.0, Joel has empowered the ability to call a method of any name on a Command Processor's DynamicCommandInvoker. If one calls .EditOrder for example, our app will try to find a file dubbed "EditOrderCommand.cs" to find an appropriate class for the "method" called, but to the controller doing the calling calls .EditOrder blind to as much. The controller calling .EditOrder basically asserts a desire to:

invoke action x
with model y
and then redirect to z

ProcessCommand(), shown above, is the method inside any one particular command file that will do the deed and will be the one method to really test, test, test.

TempData is for redirects, and redirects only.

2012-02-02T12:07:00.001-08:00

TempData["foo"] = "bar";

...is not going to linger as long as...

Session["foo"] = "bar";

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1500402/when-to-use-tempdata-vs-session-in-asp-net-mvc suggests it is "for redirects, and redirects only."

things that don't suck

2012-02-02T08:30:00.001-08:00

I wish there was a better way to see if a ViewBag variable existed in ASP.NET MVC 3 and 4 beyond a null check.

2012-02-01T15:05:00.000-08:00

@if (ViewBag.ShouldShowSuccessMessage != null)

{

   ViewBag.ShouldShowSuccessMessage = null;

   <script type="text/javascript">

      showSuccess("Your changes have been saved!");

   </script>

}

It startled me to see a class in our app with numerous constructor signatures today.

2012-02-01T10:55:00.000-08:00

I have not seen that in some time.

{ get; private set; } sabotages MVC model bindings

2012-02-01T09:01:00.001-08:00

getting used to AutoMapper

2012-02-01T06:23:00.001-08:00

AutoMapper really helps makes the classes it maps to light and thus easy to test. Whenever I make a method in a class and then struggle to test it due to the fact that I cannot bridge the constructor in the class without mocking 101 things it is really frustrating. This is the sort of noise that does not make me want to write tests. AutoMapper helps alleviate this problem. That said, I wonder if I really should be placing a method inside of a DTO and then marveling at how easy it is to test. I probably should do the same work in a .ResolveUsing rule and just set a get-setter at the DTO, huh? I'll pick Rafael's brain when he gets in...

using .ResolveUsing with AutoMapper

2012-01-31T12:22:00.001-08:00

If you had an AutoMapper map like so:

Mapper.CreateMap<Person, PersonInputModel>().ForMember(personInputModel => personInputModel.FullName, person => person.ResolveUsing<PersonNameResolver>());

.ResolveUsing would allow you to reach out to another method to undertake a tricky translation.

using System.Linq;

using OurApp.Core.Entities;

using AutoMapper;

namespace OurApp.Web.UI.Config.AutoMapper.Resolvers

{

   public class OrderStatusReasonResolver : ValueResolver<Person, string>

   {

      protected override string ResolveCore(Person source)

      {

         var fullName = source.FirstName + " " + source.LastName;

         return fullName.Trim();

      }

   }

}

sabotage the ability to tab to a control with tabindex="-1"

2012-01-30T14:33:00.000-08:00

If you are doing something hacky and you need an "invisible" HTML input that is:

not a hidden input type
not hidden by a style of display: none;

You can always move the control off the page's edge with a style of margin-left:-9999px;

...but, yes, the control is accessible by way of tabbing unless you take steps to sabotage the ability to tab to the control with: tabindex="-1"

only show something in a Razor view if debugging

2012-01-30T08:19:00.001-08:00

@if (Context.IsDebuggingEnabled)

{

whatever

}

data-whatever

2012-01-29T18:19:00.000-08:00

http://html5doctor.com/html5-custom-data-attributes/ is a article on using data-anythingyoudlike parameters in HTML5.

Here is some interesting AJAX we started to roll and then abandoned today!

2012-01-27T15:23:00.001-08:00

This controller action...

public RenderJsonResult Foo(Guid id)

{

   var program = ProgramRepository.GetById(id);

   var ppMap = new Dictionary<ProgramPlan, string>();

   program.ProgramPlans.ForEach(pp =>

      {

         ppMap.Add(pp, pp.NameStaticAttribute.GetSelectedValue(pp.Id).ToString());

      });

   var result = ppMap.Keys.Select(pp => new

   {

      Id = pp.Id,

      Name = ppMap[pp],

      Offerings = pp.ProgramOfferings.Select(po => new { po.Id, po.Name })

   });

   return RenderJson(result);

}

...made some new objects and returned them as JSON which kind of looked like this:

{\"PreventCyclicRedundancy\":false,\"Result\":[{\"Plan\":{\"Id\":\"01583ab6-3b8a-4af7-ac68-9fe500ec99a0\",\"Name\":\"alpha\",\"Offerings\":[{\"Id\":\"2660ce9a-73b2-406a-9ff6-9fe500ee6617\",\"Name\":\"one\"},{\"Id\":\"294eac05-83d2-42a6-9cdf-9fe500ee9f17\",\"Name\":\"two\"},{\"Id\":\"80c4ac8b-b2b8-4043-8207-9fe500eef13d\",\"Name\":\"three\"}]}},{\"Plan\":{\"Id\":\"bdf3d257-573d-4685-88d5-9fe500ecaffc\",\"Name\":\"beta\",\"Offerings\":[]}},{\"Plan\":{\"Id\":\"926cf94f-c546-4ec4-a860-9fe500ed8e9a\",\"Name\":\"gamma\",\"Offerings\":[{\"Id\":\"4e729423-3ff9-4abc-bb3c-9fe500ef8ffc\",\"Name\":\"four\"},{\"Id\":\"c3879ef4-80ed-40f9-8a7d-9fe500efc899\",\"Name\":\"five\"}]}}]}

There was a Razor view like this...

<div class="contentBlock" id="qux">

</div>

<script src="/whatever.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">

   var programId = '@Model.Program.Id';

   var planLinksContainerSelector = 'qux';

   bar(programId, planLinksContainerSelector);

</script>

...which reached out to a .js file which called on the Controller Action:

demystify NuGet error messages

2012-01-26T21:10:00.001-08:00

Today Jorge and I encountered this really vague NuGet error in Visual Studio:

Error 7 The command ""C:\AMD\trunk\src\Tools\nuget" update -self
"C:\AMD\trunk\src\Tools\nuget" install "C:\AMD\trunk\src\AMD.Avalanche.Web.UI\packages.config" -o "C:\AMD\trunk\src\Packages" -source file://BUILDS/nuget-lib" exited with code 1. AMD.Avalanche.Web.UI

Jorge suggested I open a command window and paste in the contents of the outer most quotes, namely:

"C:\AMD\trunk\src\Tools\nuget" update -self
"C:\AMD\trunk\src\Tools\nuget" install "C:\AMD\trunk\src\AMD.Avalanche.Web.UI\packages.config" -o "C:\AMD\trunk\src\Packages" -source file://BUILDS/nuget-lib

This revealed better error messages:

I'm not that in love with NuGet. I would prefer just keeping the needed .dlls in the lib folder. Rafael did mention that, when installing some .dlls, that NuGet will doctor up a Web.config file as is appropriate to be accommodating. I guess that is one thing in favor of the automation. I'm mostly turned off however. :(

of what bubbles up from repositories

2012-01-26T16:38:00.001-08:00

The beauty of the typical repository pattern is you know if something has been "popped off" (forgive my injection of SMTP slang) when you encounter it in another layer. For example consider going into a method and finding:

var bars = foo.Bars;

If foo is handed in from another method and Bars is a collection of Bar objects on foo, how can we know if the Bars have been lazy loaded by NHibernate yet or not. We can't. We have to start walking upstream to see if there is any place previously in code where foo.Bars was used. Grrr. If there is a policy in which everything that comes over from repositories has already been loaded, then this isn't a problem. A variation of this problem can happen with IQueryable too. When IQueryables are allowed into other layers from the repositories, one does not know, when looking at many spots in code, if an IQueryable had been popped off to a list or not somewhere upstream of the line of code at hand. To counter this pattern, it is probably best to only have objects already cast to lists come over the wall from repositories.

keep ids unique with Razor

2012-01-26T12:46:00.001-08:00

<div class="contentBlock" id="@{<text>PlansFor</text>@Model.Program.Id}">

...makes...

see all files that have changed in a changeset in TFS

2012-01-26T08:15:00.001-08:00

in Visual Studio go to Team Explorer and click on Source Control
in Source Control Explorer right-click on the trunk and select View History
right-click on a changeset to see any one file that has changed

uninstall and reinstall NuGet

2012-01-26T07:29:00.001-08:00

At Tools > Extension Manager... in Visual Studio, you should be able to see Nuget and uninstall it.

Go right back to the Extension Manager to reinstall NuGet. Go to the "Online Gallery" and "Sort by" the highest ranked.

Restart Visual Studio after an install or uninstall

some CSS3

2012-01-25T13:23:00.001-08:00

For every even table row in the table body of a table with an id of "listingTable" make the background color #eaf0f7 unless the "detail" class is applied to the row.

table#listingTable tbody tr:nth-child(even):not(.detail) {

background-color:#eaf0f7;

}

For every input in "foo" that is not a checkbox, radio button, or a file control, add a pixel of padding to the top and bottom.

#foo input:not([type="checkbox"]):not([type="radio"]):not([type="file"])

{

padding-top:1px;

padding-bottom:1px;

}

event.which == 13

2012-01-25T12:31:00.001-08:00

$(".submitButton").keydown(function (event) {
   if (event.which == 13) {
      window.location = "/program/Edit?id=@Model.Program.Id";
   }
});

pull in the HTML from an ASP.NET MVC partial into a view by way of jQuery AJAX

2012-01-25T05:50:00.001-08:00

What if I had a controller like this?

using System.Web.Mvc;

namespace GenericPartialScrappingTest.Controllers

{

   public class LambController : Controller

   {

      public ActionResult Index()

      {

         return View();

      }



      public ActionResult _TwelveCells()

      {

         return PartialView();

      }

   }

}

The Index view looks like this:

<h2>Lamb Page</h2>

<p>This is a page with a partial:</p>

@Html.Partial("_TwelveCells")

The Index view pulls in this partial:

In a different view, summoned by a different controller, I may pull in the partial by way of jQuery AJAX:

<h2>Home Page</h2>

<p>The div below should be filled by way of AJAX.</p>

<div id="whatever"></div>

<script type="text/javascript">

   var actionURL = '@Url.Action("_TwelveCells", "Lamb")';

   $.ajax({

      type: "POST",

      url: actionURL,

      data: "",

      success: function (r) {

         $("#whatever").html(r);

      },

      complete: function () {



      },

      error: function (req, status, error) {

         $("#whatever").html(error);

      }

   });

</script>

display a partial in Razor

2012-01-24T14:49:00.001-08:00

@Html.Partial("_Whatever")

I like AJAX... and it is getting easier :P

2012-01-24T06:35:00.003-08:00

$.ajax({

   url: '/SiliconSampleDefinition/GetLinkableDefinitions',

   type: "POST",

   dataType: "json",

   data: { id: '@(Model.SiliconSampleDefinition.Id)', query: request.term },

   success: function (data) {

      response($.map(data, function (item) {

         return {

            id: item.Id,

            label: item.DisplayName,

            firstShipDate: item.FirstShipDate,

            firstExternalShipDate: item.FirstExternalShipDate,

            lastShipDate: item.LastShipDate

         };

      }));

   }

});

the better POST fix

2012-01-23T14:25:00.001-08:00

The POST AJAX implementation here should really be like the following. The problem with what I had before was that I was STILL passing too much gunk in the URL line. Duh.

var url = "@ViewBag.WhereAmI";

url = url + "/home/validate";

var data = "value=" + content;

data = data + "&isRequired=true";

data = data + "&maxSize=5000";

var message = $.ajax({

   type: "POST",

   url: url,

   data: data,

   async: false

}).responseText;

break up a big GET AJAX call into chunks

2012-01-23T08:41:00.001-08:00

Here is another solution for the problem described here. In this approach I am breaking a GET AJAX call up into chunks. Hmmm. I'm realizing that I went about my POST AJAX call the wrong way as I was still crafting a URL line. Ah, but I digress. Does it seem silly to even use an AJAX call to an MVC action? For this code, it sure does. I'm assuming that the code that my friend is working does more sanity checking than I am doing and that the action call by way of AJAX is just needed, but then there is an old joke about the word assume.

<form id="SubmissionFacilitator" method="POST"

      action="/home/successfulsubmission/">

   <textarea name="BlobOfCopy"></textarea>

   <div id="ErrorHint" style="color: #CC0000;"></div>

   <input type="submit" value="submit"/>

</form>

<script type="text/javascript">

   $(function () {

      var wrapper = $('#SubmissionFacilitator');

      var textarea = wrapper.find('textarea[name=BlobOfCopy]');

      $(textarea).keyup(function () {

         var junkbool = assesssanityconcerns($.trim(textarea.val()));

      });

      $('#SubmissionFacilitator').submit(function () {

         return assesssanityconcerns($.trim(textarea.val()));

      });

   });

   function assesssanityconcerns(content) {

      var maxsize = 5000;

      if (content.length > maxsize) {

         var gap = content.length - maxsize;

         var error = "There are " + gap + " too many characters.";

         $('#ErrorHint').html(error);

         return false;

      } else {

         if (content.length > 1000) {

            var one = "";

            var two = "";

            var three = "";

            var four = "";

            var five = "";

            for (i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {

               one = one + content.charAt(i);

            }

            for (i = 1000; i < 2000; i++) {

               if (i < content.length) {

                  two = two + content.charAt(i);

               }

            }

            if (content.length > 2000) {

               for (i = 2000; i < 3000; i++) {

                  if (i < content.length) {

                     three = three + content.charAt(i);

                  }

               }

            }

            if (content.length > 3000) {

               for (i = 3000; i < 4000; i++) {

                  if (i < content.length) {

                     four = four + content.charAt(i);

                  }

               }

            }

            if (content.length > 4000) {

               for (i = 4000; i < 5000; i++) {

                  if (i < content.length) {

                     five = five + content.charAt(i);

                  }

               }

            }

            var url = "@ViewBag.WhereAmI";

            url = url + "/home/validate?value=" + one;

            url = url + "&isRequired=true";

            url = url + "&maxSize=" + maxsize;

            var message = $.ajax({

               url: url,

               async: false

            }).responseText;

            url = "@ViewBag.WhereAmI";

            url = url + "/home/validate?value=" + two;

            url = url + "&isRequired=true";

            url = url + "&maxSize=" + maxsize;

            var messagealt = $.ajax({

               url: url,

               async: false

            }).responseText;

            if (message != messagealt) {

               if (message == "good") {

                  message = messagealt;

               }

            }

            if (three != "") {

               url = "@ViewBag.WhereAmI";

               url = url + "/home/validate?value=" + three;

               url = url + "&isRequired=true";

               url = url + "&maxSize=" + maxsize;

               messagealt = $.ajax({

                  url: url,

                  async: false

               }).responseText;

               if (message != messagealt) {

                  if (message == "good") {

                     message = messagealt;

                  }

               }

            }

            if (four != "") {

               url = "@ViewBag.WhereAmI";

               url = url + "/home/validate?value=" + four;

               url = url + "&isRequired=true";

               url = url + "&maxSize=" + maxsize;

               messagealt = $.ajax({

                  url: url,

                  async: false

               }).responseText;

               if (message != messagealt) {

                  if (message == "good") {

                     message = messagealt;

                  }

               }

            }

            if (five != "") {

               url = "@ViewBag.WhereAmI";

               url = url + "/home/validate?value=" + five;

               url = url + "&isRequired=true";

               url = url + "&maxSize=" + maxsize;

               messagealt = $.ajax({

                  url: url,

                  async: false

               }).responseText;

               if (message != messagealt) {

                  if (message == "good") {

                     message = messagealt;

                  }

               }

            }

            if (message == "good") {

               $('#ErrorHint').html("");

               return true;

            } else {

               $('#ErrorHint').html(message);

               return false;

            }

         } else {

            var url = "@ViewBag.WhereAmI";

            url = url + "/home/validate?value=" + content;

            url = url + "&isRequired=true";

            url = url + "&maxSize=" + maxsize;

            var message = $.ajax({

               url: url,

               async: false

            }).responseText;

            if (message == "good") {

               $('#ErrorHint').html("");

               return true;

            } else {

               $('#ErrorHint').html(message);

               return false;

            }

         }

      }

   }

</script>

another example of a POST .ajax call

2012-01-22T17:57:00.001-08:00

$.ajax({

   type: "POST",

   url: '/session/set',

   context: self,

   data: "key=" + id + "&payload=" + sobj,

   success: dfr.resolve,

   error: function (a, b, c) {

      debugger;

      alert(b);

   }

});

the POST fix

2012-01-22T17:46:00.001-08:00

It seems that one potential solution for the problem described here is to make the AJAX call use POST instead of GET. I'm not sure if it will work or not. I am having trouble reproducing the environment my friend has. I can't get IE to fail in Cassini and in IIS environments IIS itself seems to have a problem with the length of the call before IE specifically does. Maybe my theory is wrong. Code for a potential fix: